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Newspaper
Salem Press
Location
Salem, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1880
Page
4
The Salem Press editor urges Washington county readers and local merchants to support an enlarged Breas dry edition next week. It explains rising expenses and calls merchants to advertise, noting subscription prices and holiday advertising practices of Indianapolis Journal.
Meyers of the Sixth district questions General Grant’s pay for two years totaling $10,000. He asks what services were rendered and argues the balance owes a large sum to the country.
President Hayes believes the public debt could be fully paid in eighteen years, ending annual interest obligations of seventy million dollars. Opponents argue war costs should be shared with posterity.
Senator Wil Ams of Kentucky champions the pension bill for a Mexican War veteran. He served as an officer and distinguished himself at Cerro Gordo, earning lasting recognition in the record.
Governor designate Porter plans marriage to Miss Stone of New York State on January 5. His inauguration is set for January 10. Subscribe for the Press.
Martinsburg reports a quiet Christmas with light snow and New Year wishes. Local deaths noted in the neighborhood. The Priss expansion is set for next week. Windly Rider buys India goods and hatchets. Residents visited friends in recent days. Joseph Zink of Illinois and Dawson Zink of Salem stopped by recently. Dec. 28.
The item notes longer days and sleighing, visits by Butterfield and family, and a Pekin shooting-match. It mentions a Greenbriar area horse taming, a Big Spring trip mishap, Christmas gatherings, and Mt. Washington school discipline. It urges Republican press support and recalls small Democratic voter counts in 1864.
Sam Bush returned from Illinois last week and George O Mara left for Illinois last Friday. Eld Janes Rudder closed a two day meeting here last night. A child of John Lowery recovered from a sore throat. Neighborhood Christmas dinners were held with all items remembered. Breston Mavity, former Fredericksburg student, visits many friends over the holiday vacation.
The column notes healthy school conditions and praises two teachers, Mr. Thomas Voyles and Miss Clara Batt who were married last week. A brief political jab urges Washington county to fund a Frese project and oppose the Democratic majority.
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