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Newspaper
Wakarusa Weekly Sun
Location
Wakarusa, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1876
Page
3
Local market prices list lard Higgs butter and flour with cinnamon notes on crops and weather. The column notes a June 17 picnic and a concert, speaks of road conditions, garden produce ripening, and businesses from Bateman's to Goshen with ads for clothing, prints, reapers, and picnics.
Public notice announces a school year closing picnic on June 17 1876 at Dell Grove near Wakarusa. A basket dinner, croquet and games precede a high school closing program with Banner Bros. Silver Cornet Band under Prof Cooper Miller. Admission about 25 cents. proceeds fund band expenses. all welcome.
Community notes from Locke cover a flourishing merchant scene, a medical case, a weekly grammar school, a planned picnic and a Southwest Kansas rail excursion, local institute reports, church services, and retail reminders. The piece mentions court sessions, a potential Republican nomination, a valued horse in care, and sporadic petty theft.
A monthly eight page paper The Informer published at Elgin Illinois offers health temperance peace agriculture content with editors. The publisher lets a new subscriber receive it free for one year, or if they refer multiple subscribers the paper can be sent to others as well. Send names and money to J H Brubaker Wakarusa Indiana.
All receivers of stave bolts must deliver by the 25th of dune to prepare for this season's trade. No deliveries will be accepted after that date. Wu. & B. Axing, Wakarusa, May 23, 1876. 49-tf.
Notice calls all individuals in debt to the author by note or book account to call on S C Harrington J P and pay promptly to save costs as claims have been ordered issued immediately.
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