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Newspaper
Salem Press
Location
Salem, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1886
Page
3
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A broad assortment of town news items from Salem covers court adjournment quail season endings, real estate ads, cannon fodder for local commerce, and social calls. Reports include residents traveling, endorsements for candidates, fire scares, and a serial controversy in exchanges. The piece highlights Jamison Craycraft ads, ice and grocery notes, and small-town updates.
The club in session approved a bizarre set of motions including torturous punishment for a weather forecaster and punishing a newspaper editor by mock ritual. Additional actions named the Sata Press as official organ and named Scarce-of-Fat correspondent. fines for tardiness and sock mendings were set, and plans for relic gathering and court house wreckage were debated.
Citizens urged to join a court house gathering to form a building and loan association with capital stock from fifty to one hundred thousand dollars. A share costs 100 dollars with 25 cents weekly payments, allowing most locals to participate and borrow up to 400 dollars by bidding. Borrowers mortgage property to the association and repay one dollar weekly per four shares, at six percent interest, payable quarterly in advance.
A local appeal urges forming a building and loan association to spark cottage construction and lower rents. It cites a widow in Petersburg paying two dollars weekly for a home via the association and notes ongoing town news from schools, sales, travel, and community events.
Mr. Wright of Walnut Ridge bought fur in town last week. John Blankenbaker hauled walnut logs to Anderson's mill. Mail arrives three times weekly on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday. Miss Lizzie Sinex visited relatives and returned to Salem. A Hickory Grove teachers institute had four teachers. next is at South Boston on the second Saturday in February. The Salem Press is recommended as a good Republican paper. Dr. Wm Sinex of Floyd county visited HE W Sinex. Miss Cora Asheberner of Chestnut Hill visited Charley Beeson. Our teacher has thirty nine scholars enrolled on January 12.
Roads were impassable last week reports say Dan Johnson is married Stella Rudder improves in health We have been sick for the past week The New Year s tree was sham Big Spring church not succeeding well Literary at Byerley s Wednesday night The mails failed the past two Saturdays Blue River high and lonesome Saturday None of the hunter wagons appeared last week E J Falk has been lying very low the past two weeks Dr Baker visited some schools a few days since A couple of our young gents are stuck and two hearts strive for one cause
Fragmentary notes indicate Erasmus Nav bhering of Blue River visited Dr. Bakers family last Tuesday. The text also references candidates for Coeney offices with unclear party affiliations and incomplete phrases about Democratic and Republican alignment.
A roundup of visits and events: residents John Huffman recovers from illness. Mrs. Dennie and Miss Jennie Stewart return from Mitchell. Rev. P. W. Rounds preaches at Mt. Horeb. Ed. Evans and wife guests of Joshua Brown. William Pollard visits family. Supt. Snyder and others in town on business. Movements include Brown Factory relocation interest, medical updates on Mrs. Strattan, and a joint teachers institute led by Supt. Snyder with several instructors. revival services led by Rev. Fultz continue.
A fragmented local page reports on Hitchcock and early impressions of a new press. It notes Russell MeFall studying at Salem and Rev Joe Fults teaching at Mt Zion last Sunday. It mentions F E Martin and C R Barrett leading the school and Lew Dennin as a reliable but snowbound hunter. Mt Zion Sunday school begins at 9:80 each Sabbath. Next Sunday at 10:90 Rev Barnhill conducts services at Mt Zion.
A devoted correspondent notes the Press serves a popular readership in the town and beyond. The paper pledges to relay news from the community and invites citizens to contribute items of timely and intriguing nature for CHICKER.
A prolonged meeting continues at Buffalo school house. An oyster supper at Elmer Lesden’s Tuesday night January 12 reports a good time. Miss Addelaine Lusk is sick. A protracted meeting starts Monroe February first Saturday night with all invited. Fayette Burcham’s literary gathering drew many with five members uniting and a penmanship class expected to begin January 18 with Prof. Burcham.
Dawson Standish returns to school after illness despite bad roads and weather. Male Mitchell took his date out riding Saturday in a farm wagon. The question whether women should have equal rights with men will be discussed at the literary meeting next Thursday night. A local young lady boasts of having seventy beau names in her list. William Colglazier has been sitting up for the past week. Fier Niegets ope boar bbe hues of i.
A batch of short items from Little York notes a Scottsboro and Salem court turnout, a west blizzard, Mt Zion meetings likely to last a week or two, a Price's schoolhouse debate, Joe Gos sage returning from Kansas and Nebraska, Ida Garriott holiday visit, Lyda Zaring visiting relatives, a possible engagement to Salem, a lost ear muff in the snow, and a Reading circle planned for No 10 with little detail.
Notice to all persons indebted to the estate of D. M. McMahan to come forward and settle debts promptly. Last appeal. all accounts not settled by February 1 will be turned over to an attorney for collection.
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