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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1884
Page
4
Daily train schedule for New Harmony to Evansville, local weather snippets, political chatter and upcoming events. Reports on candidates for town trustees, foggy London weather, groundhog sign, and questions about spring campaigns. Social notes on visits, theater prizes, and a mass of local announcements including a masquerade ball, paper dress rewrite, and a note on Mrs Hinkley’s death.
A well attended M E church lecture featured Prof H H Harrin speaking on Florence Nightingale and her relief work for the sick. He praised Nightingale as a model for today’s women while noting the audience’s restrained applause due to custom. Also reports on beer prices, a strange Cass County creature, a murder in Mexico, an Montreal ice carnival, and various current events.
Justice of the Peace reports Douglas Williams died from a limb striking him during tree felling on Cut-off Island near New Harmony. The 25-year-old, 5'10" dark complexioned man wore light brown overalls black vest and blue wool shirt. no valuables found. Terms of sale: one third cash, balance in six and twelve months with mortgage security and 5 percent attorney fee. Sale begins at 10 AM.
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