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Newspaper
Salem Press
Location
Salem, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1886
Page
3
Poem-like lines describe winds sweeping through nature. Imagery of blossoms, bees, sheep, and birds fills a barren landscape. The speaker calls winds of Mirch and March to break winter’s hold and awaken spring. The piece ends by urging the winds to reveal where wild flowers grow beyond winter’s tomb.
Ambrose Shrum spent Sunday at Tunnelton and Tom McLighin visited Cincinnati while Sayles Lemon of Claysville joined city crowds. The town touts a thriving future with new outfits from CC Wauger & Co and a boost from local fairs, revivals, and spring stock arrivals at the Famous Lyon's Block. Henry Trapp and Anthony Bare plan Westward departure soon and the Nashville Students appear at the Opera House. Uncle Aaron Anderson dies. Honce Paynter seeks township trustee seat. Republicans hope to carry Washington township.
Report of a revival meeting at the Bedford Baptist church with announcements of items for sale including a second hand sewing machine and a trunk supply. Mentions Warerton leaving for Southwestern Kansas and various local news items including subscriptions, school terms, and spring term plans for Blue River Academy starting March 22. Also notes political candidacy for township trustee and assessor, and a list of local services and advertisements.
A collage of small notices and ads from Wabash Indiana includes remedies for kidney diseases, a Spring shipment from Wisconsin, a drugstore selling in Henderson, a veteran professor named James R. Burcham, a new overcoat, an oil painting agency request, a Bigelow Cough Cure endorsement, a postal note mystery from Parsons Kansas, and a short community toast praising Nashville Students as well behaved, all reflecting a late 19th or early 20th century local page.
The Opera House management guarantees Nash ville students one free performance on Saturday night March 20. Afterward they travel to Louisville for three nights at the Masonic Temple. Local items note Charley Wool's finances and a 100 000 loan advertised in his columns.
The town board faces a dispute over printing charges for water works specifications. James A. Kemp is accused of slurring the board, while the presses defend their six-dollar profit after labor, printing, and notices. The issue includes detailed cost breakdowns and notes community social updates through March.
Community updates mention Rev McCoy hosting evangelistic work on Walnut Ridge and neighbors planning to attend the Normal school in the spring. Five locals return from Ohio and Minnesota visits while others plan travel to the school. A political convention schedule is set for Franklin township with Democrats and Republicans meeting on consecutive Saturdays. Griggs Glycerine Salve advertises cures for various skin ailments.
The remedy’s popularity grows as intelligent users over forty report its effectiveness for colds coughs and pulmonary complaints. Medicinal claims highlight its success as a syvevitic for respiratory ailments.
At a No.7 school meeting Thursday evening T H was chosen again and B Wright tied the knot for I P Wells and Lizzie Meadors on Sunday at 3 pm. Two weddings pending. Tree planters urged to hire a capable young man to drive fence posts for a plank fence. Blueriver school closed last Friday with an excellent exhibition. T J Lee to teach there again. Republican Banner urged township unity and reform in schooling and taxes. March 9. Parent.
Rural column fragment with poems and local notices. Includes political verse urging equality and duty, a note on Kansas State call, and community items from Campbellsburg. Mentions Rev. P. W. Rhoads, baptisms, meetings, school closures, and local businesses. Contains advertisement for Vinegar Bitters and Henderson's Drug Store.
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