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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1869
Page
3
Posey County Township Assessors are asked to meet at the County Auditor's Office in Mt. Vernon on Monday December 27 1869 to agree on a uniform countywide assessment rate. John B Gardiner County Auditor.
James Bennett died at his son-in-law Dr. D Neat’s residence on Tuesday night aged 55 or 56. He moved to town as a boy and learned printing at the School of Industry. In 1846 he published the New Harmony Western Atlas later renamed the Gleaner and backed democracy in 1848. He taught many, helped in the Atlas office, and last set types for the paper, a coincidence with his early work. He long belonged to the New Harmony Brass Band. He leaves three sons one daughter and nine grandchildren.
The Mobile Weekly Register reports the Grant message to Congress, printed correctly from the Congressional Globe. It notes a blunt, radical tone and suggests readers will be surprised by its strength. Also highlights Packard's Monthly and The Mobile Register's varied content and subscriber appeal.
The publisher pledges improvements for 1870 with a first class staff of writers aimed at pleasing youth. A specimen number is offered free and subscriptions are $1.50 per year from Horace B. Fuuter at 14 Bromfield Street Boston. Ballou's Monthly Magazine January issue arrives with James Franklin Firs as adult serial author and Horatio Alarr Jr for the youth tale, also $1.50 yearly from Eulriott Thomes & Co 63 Congress Street Boston.
In New Harmony on December 13, 1869 Arctic Lodge No. 394 FA M elected James B. Cuyler as Worshipful Master Alfred D. Owen and Julian D. Owen as Senior and Junior Wardens Julius Miller as Treasurer and W A Twigg Sr as Secretary. Dedication ceremonies for Poseyville Lodge No 269 OFF were conducted with Grand Lodge officers and E H Barry delivering the address, followed by a banquet hosted by Poseyville residents.
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