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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1884
Page
4
The week shows temperatures fluctuating from the mid sixties to mid seventies with readings listed for morning noon and evening. The chart notes Friday as the latest press day and includes weekend highlights.
Forp returns from Minnesota. J M Stevenson arrives this week. Rare Boren and Geo Probs visit Evansville last Friday. Fair preparations include track scraping and ticket sales. A Grand excursion by the P D & KE railroad to Evansville on Sunday costs 80 cents round trip. Grand band tournament at Salt Well Park with train at 10 40 A M.
Andy Wheeler died from a 32 caliber gunshot after a quarrel with Jack Brown in Phillipstown. Brown shot Wheeler in the chest at close range after Wheeler assaulted Brown and took a revolver from Silas Wheeler. Brown remained at the scene to aid Wheeler, who had lived on Fox Island and had a history of drunken trouble.
Joan Watzz responds to a August loth issue communication about the Harmony Society allowing the Republican Club to meet in the Institute Lecture Room. She cites a contract misunderstanding, defends public access, recalls past building work, and denounces alleged slander and demagoguery by Mr Dransfield.
A notice from New Harmony Inc dated Aug 23 1884 explains Rita Ducuos was excused from the club only on grounds of flirting and asserts nothing defamatory about her character. Immense stock of shirts and underwear offered at Henry Brown's Metropolitan Clothing House. The Evansville Journal article on the circuit judgeship is questioned as possibly misattributed to Hon. Brcent Dale Owan. Lone Stars beat Grayville Independent 32 to 18 at the fair grounds.
The item mix notes local campaigns and social updates in Harmony with mentions of the Democratic county committee lineup, actors in Boston and Evansville, repairs at a Harmony school, clothing store ads, piano sales, and probate notices. Recurring names include George W Curtis Frank D Bolton J F Brydon Henry Demberger T J Showers S Jett Williams Charles Getting Theodore Raben Thos R David David H Greathouse Harry Robinson and O W Stephens. Public notices involve the Wheeler estate Posey Circuit Court and administrator Edward Homer.
Notice details a series of real estate parcels in New Harmony Indiana for sale by sale administrator William Read along with terms of payment including cash on purchase and installments. It also covers final settlement of John L Wheeler estate and an administrator sale of Leander Stallings estate with dates, locations, and itemized property descriptions.
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