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City and Conant, Items, Wheadon of the Council looks like gas. “Come gentle spring, eternal mild ness, come,” Judge Slack is now holding the Circuit Court in this city. Dr. King, of Miam, has again resumed the practice of medicine. Sol. Jones, of Birmingham, has gone to Philadelphia, P... on a visit. The equinoxial storm lasted near three weeks and we do not know as it is over yet, Tunt Wales, of Xenia, have dis solved partnership, C. W. U Tunt runs the business. Dr. I. B. Williams complains sadly of the distressingly good health of inhabitants of Deedsville. One hundred and ten dollars was, the result of passing the plate last. Sunday at Trinity Church. A lynx is “bobbin’ round” in the timber some two miles east of Bun ker “seeking whom he may devour somebody.” Large numbers of boys have been summoned before the grand jury to testify as to their age and where they played billiards. Elisha Buck, of Deedsville, started on Tuesday last for Northern Michi gan, to view the Government land and locate a homestead. Some of the goods stolen from Noah W. Trissall’s store last fall were found near the railroad last week in a ruined condition. We have Indian summer in the fall after a snap of cold weather. How will the spell we have just en dured pass for Indian Winter? It rained Easter Sunday, and we suppose we must have rain every week for six weeks. So the “sign” says, and of course they never fail. A. McTeely, of Xenia, has sold his grat mill and intends to leave. He sold to one Wm. Frame, of Sommer set, who will move to Xenia with his family. Jonathan Deeds has sold his farm near Deedaville to Thos. Tites, and will hereafter occupy his time in the useful and healthful occupation of sawing logs at his mill. There is a lilac bush in the rear of of our office upon which two weeks ago, the buds had burst and part ly developed into leaves. There it remains in statue quo. There will be a mass temper ance meeting at the Main street Methodist Church on Friday evening next at 74 o'clock poll. Let all attend. Our well known fellow citizen, James G. Goldsmith announces him self as a candidate for City Clerk at the ensuing election. “Jim” is a good, fellow and will, if elected, make a faithful officer. We have been receiving new job type and printing material nearly every week the past winter and this spring. We have now one of the finest job offices in Northern Indiana, and a job printer very hard to beat. At an election of Wardens and Vestry of Trinity Church on Eastern Monday, the following were chosen : A. ©. Fiske, Sr. Warden; M. T. Smith, Jr. Warden, Jos, Kartholl, J. H., Jack and D. Moulton, Vestry men. On Tuesday morning last the Grand Jury came in with a batch of bills their second installment. ‘The court smiled, the clerk smiled, the bar smiled, including the District Attorney, who more than smiled. The bundle was very large. On Friday and Saturday last we had snow storms, covering the earth in every direction with a white man tle. The robbing and wrens and blue birds must have been somewhat astonished, and have considered their almanac very much at fault. The following list of marriage li censes were issued since our last: George Ewing and Belle Hall; Heze kiah Knuli and Catharine Willington ; Michael W. Paxon and Sarah A. Flo ra; Sylvester Nixon and Sarah Ann Stanton; John IT. Ettcheson and Margaret A. Johnson. The wheat crop, from what we hear, will be almost a failure in this county. Bearing in mind that the prospects west of us and in Califor nia are better than for many years, it may become a question if the fields had not better be ploughed up and turned to account with some other crop. On Easter the altar of the Episcopal Church was decorated with flowers. We like the cheerful appearance it gives. This is one of the surroundings with which we are pleased in the Catholic Church. Anything but giving a church the appearance of a tomb, Roy Marine, of Xenia, has been getting up a new kind of hair restor er. Which is said to be of a very ex cellent quality, superior to anything in the market. He offered us a bot tle some time since, but as we had no present use for it, we did not take it away. We have since regretted that we did not accept it and present it to “Scribbler” of the Republican. We have a city ordinance prohibit ing houses of prostitution. We are informed that this city has some of the lowest dens of this kind that can be found anywhere, where the prin ciples of civil rights are carried out, to their fullest extent, for their is no distinction on account of color or, former condition. We call upon the Marshal to enforce the law. Let them be hunted down and no longer remain a disgrace to the city. Miss Mary Neil who addressed our people in the Baptist church one night, and failed at other times of getting a church to speak in, has been astonishing the people of North Grove with a mixture of temperance, and woman’s rights. Miss Neil may be as respectable a woman as ever lived. We know nothing of her eith er way. But this we do know—that the class of women of which she forms a component part, blight all they touch. The school of Lewle Karn at Deedsville, closed on Thursday of last week. The Deedsville band was present. There was not sufficient room in the school house to accom modate all the spectatira. A very fine exhibition was presented at the close. A bounteous repast was, spread and 300 persons partook of the feast. Sixty-two scholars were enrolled, and there had been an av erage attendance of forty-seven. We are informed that Mr. Karn’s school aas been immensely popular.
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Peru Miami County Sentinel
Peru, Indiana, US
Thu, Apr 09, 1874
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