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~New dry goods at Campbell's. ~Will. H. Martin has taken advant age of the absence of bis better half to imake some excellent improvements on his residence on West Main street. Before entering his barn now John C. Albert applies his optics to a crack and makes a curvey of the interior, to see whether or not that sheep “holds the fort.” —The hotels at the Springs are rap idly filling up with guests. There were fourteen new arrivals at French Lick Monday. The boom will begin in earn est after the Fourth. —James Banta and Frank Taylor got tired of pounding rock on the streets one day last week and concluded to pound each other a while. No serious damage done. An editorial excursion will leave Indianapolis Aug. 7th for the West, go ing as far out as Pike’s Peak, and per haps down into New Mexico. The trip will occupy about twenty days. We'll go, or send a hand. —Byrum F. Roberts, of Jackson town ship, recently found a hen’s egg that is a curiosity. It was an egg within an egg, the outer one being soft, without a shell, while a perfect egg, with a hard shell, was inclosed therein. Those young gentlemen who souped the M. E. Church bell last Saturday are known and will be remembered They ought to be taken across their mother’s Japa and spanked until they couldn't sit down for a month. Is it not about time the premium lists for our county fair were printed and distributed, in order that the people may know what premiums are offered, and to give them time to prepare to compete for them? This matter should not be delayed any longer. —Children who wish to attend the picnic at the Cool Spring and not pro vided with conveyances, will meet at the Court House from to 8 o'clock Friday morning, as conveyance will be there to take them to the grounds and return them in the evening. We would call the attention of those of our Greenback friends hereabouts, who have been abusing Gen. Tom Ew ing, Democratic candidate for Gover nor of Ohio, to the letter from Peter Cooper, written to the Toledo Conven tion and published elsewhere. —H. K. Wells has added a fox squir rel to his menagerie, and has also se cured the services of a celebrated Hin doo snake-charmer, who modestly de sires to remain incoy until the menag erie takes the road. In deference to his wishes we withhold his name for the present. We call the attention of our readers to the law card of Gen. Wo. T. Spice ley, which will be found in another column. All business untrusted to him will be promptly attended to. Pension ers would do well to give him a call as he is very successful in prosecuting such claims before the departments. Hiram Lindley, of Bloomington, last week erected in our cemetery, over the grave of his wife and children, one of the handsomest monuments we have ever seen. It is of the rustic pattern, representing a broken tree, and is about ten feet high. It is a splendid piece of workmanship and will well repay a walk to the cemetery to see. —That unsightly burnt district is an eyesore. Isn't there capital and en terprise enough in our town to rebuild ? Let's organize a builders’ associa tion. It has been done in other places, with gratifying results all around. Men of Paoli, you of capital, take hold of this matter, and put money in your pockets, besides improving the town. Who will take the lead in this matter? —Having disposed of his drug store, Dr. Jas. H. Sherrod has resumed the active practice of his profession and respectfully asks a share of public pat ronage. Persons desiring his services can find him at all hours, when not professionally engaged, at his residence and office, in the northwest corner of the public square. He also desires a speedy settlement, either by cash or note, of all his outstanding claims. Parties indebted to him will please call and set tle at as early a date as possible.
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Paoli Weekly News
Paoli, Indiana, US
Wed, Jul 02, 1879
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