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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1889
Page
4
General town notices report farmers urged to try burnt corn for hog cholera and remind residents to pay taxes by the first Monday in November. Local names include Jacon Broker as pew posts master at Wadeaville and reports of a runaway in the 5th ward.
Nearly twenty four years ago Eugene S Thrall and Thomas Mumford Jr formed a co partnership to run a family grocery business. They built a larger brick store after a small 15 by 30 foot house, then shifted to drugs jewelry and more after 1882. The surviving partner continued remodeling raising the roof adding a rear story and now operates a vast four room showroom with shelving drawers and showcases. Five clerks including jeweler Wm D Wilmoth support the business famed for constant advertising since RedsTER began nearly twenty three years ago. A pelican captured near Mt Carmel by gigging fishermen is noted as a rare northern sight with wing span and bill details.
Farmers are urged not to leave plows and other tools in fields lanes barns or fence corners so rain and sun cause rot and warp. When not in use implements should be sheltered and stored. If finished with equipment iron parts should be cleaned and painted to preserve wood and value.
A 40 to 50 foot cypress grows on the Fox river north bank about a half mile above the narrows. Fishermen describe its queer foliage and peculiar shape, contrasting with the surrounding rounded forest as the sole such tree in the vicinity.
Luke Wiley joined locals in town last Monday and bought a year's subscription for himself and a friend in Missouri. Pension Agent Wilder sought a guardian for Mrs. Paul at the Indianapolis asylum. Several residents camp at Foote's Pond this week including H P Owen and T Mumford Jr. Other visits span Grayville to Evansville, Mt. Vernon, Elizabethtown, and Indianapolis with multiple names noted in social chatter.
Clarence Beal landed probably the largest onefish seen here. The twelve inch fish was brought to town last Friday evening and shown at Will Mott's store. W O Trethewey displayed a 44 pound bass on his return from Illinois last Saturday morning.
W H Mott offers top school tablets and supplies in the city. Report of John Fillingim’s skiff disappearance and randolph’s escape from a Cairo-bound cart. Hanks, the boy, bound over to circuit court. efforts to elicit information failed. Also notices urging settlement of debts and call for a Democratic county primary on April 7. Baking powder endorsement from Mary L Swarmstedt. OneHopson boy burned by powder explosion last Wednesday.
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