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Local News. The city clerk has commenced making out the new tax duplicates for this year. Preaching at Christian church by the pastor, A. J. Frank, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Endeavor meeting at 6:50 p.m. _ A few strawberries made their appear ance in market here this week. They were a second crop, were large and juicy, but not fully ripe. Green peas also ap peared for the second time this season. ‘This has been the hottest week of the year, the thermometer ranging from 97 to 101. Cooler weather has been daily predicted for “tomorrow” by the weather bureau, but “tomorrow” nev er comes, and the cold wave is still in the future. The farmers are about through sowing their wheat. The acreage is the largest ever known in this section. The ex treme heat and breath has not been very encouraging, and there is a prospect that many farmers will have to sow over again. Last Tuesday afternoon one of the employes in Nicolai’s on Main street broke the glass out of one of the windows in the rear of the building. The same night some thief took advantage of the opening, went in and stole all the loose change, amounting to about six dollars. The window has been repaired. A street car conductor named William Yellars was arrested this week on a charge of whipping his wife, for which he was tried. Then his better half charged him with stealing fares from the company, and subsequently he con fessed, implicating others. With rare magnanimity the company refused to prosecute, and the accused was release on Thursday. Probably Zellar’s infor mation to his employers was worth more than his imprisonment would have been. The now famous suit of the Mutual Life Insurance company, of Newark, N. J., ¥ 4 Joseph LH, Blake has been settled. The company dismissed the suit in the circuit court last Tuesday and then ac cepted the defendent’s proposition to settle without the attorney's fees in con troversy, which were the cause of the trouble between Attorneys Harper and Marshall in the Terre Haute. The back down by the company is virtually an acknowledgement that Blake and Har per were right, and will probably end the case against the latter. The colored people of this vicinity celebrated emancipation day last Tues day in an appropriate manner. In the forenoon there was a parade, many busi ness houses along the line of march be ing decorated with flags and banners. At the fair grounds in the afternoon ad dresses were delivered by Messrs. Simon Daniels, 8, M. Huston and Primus Tyler. The exercises were opened with prayer by Rev. Samuel 8. Stone, and the eman cipation proclamation was read by T. M. Anderson. A festival at the A. M. EF. church in the evening closed the pro gramme. Shortly after noon yesterday Dick Hollingsworth, manager for the Terre Haute Produce company, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Trogdon, on south First, of typhoid fever, after an illness of seven weeks. The deceased was born near New Goshen in 1862, was raised on his father’s farm and came to town about seven years ago. During his residence here he has been connect ed with the poultry house, of which he made an excellent manager. He had a large circle of friends, among whom he was deservedly popular. “The funeral will take place from 110 south Fliat street tomorrow morning at half past eight o'clock, and the interment will be in New Goshen cemetery. The Indiana conference of the MEB, church closed at Washington this week, with the following pew assignments of ministers for this district: W. B. Col lins, presiding elder; Alfordsville, A. ‘Conehman; Bicknell, Miles Woods; Braceville, H., H. Allen; Carlisle, W. P. Barnhill; Decker, J. Able; Dover Hill, J H. Strain; Fairbanks, B. A. Johnson; Farmersburg, J. Hixon; Glendale, W. A. Yeager; Graysville, C. W. Woods; Hy mera, F. Denny; Loogootee, T. B. Couch man; Lyonton, B. EB. Long; Merom, P. C. Lisman; New Lebanon, F. A. Lester; Oden, I. B. Johnson; Plainville, J. T. Hartnock; Pratrieton, J. D. Crane; Shoals, J. M. Nash; Sullivan, . J. An derson; Vincennes, T. D., Welker; Wash ington, W. F. Sheridan; Washington circuit, J. B. Smith; Wheatland, W. A. Fox. No change was made in the ehurees in this city.
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Terre Haute Saturday Evening Mail
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Sat, Sep 26, 1891
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