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Local notices and gossip from Wakarusa
James Butterfield of Hikhart is very sick. The town reports on flowers in St Clair's garden, Jacob Dell building a new bank barn, measles, wheat prospects, and a school examination. Notes on Squires moving to Auburn Indiana for a drug business, local merchants selling cheaper paints and oils, a new $500 soda fountain, and a shoemaker making spectacles. Several accidents, a horse scene, the editor’s travels, and business moves by C S Eyer and Maxon Parmater. Ida and Gabrielle Greely sail to Europe, P T Barnum touts them, and the Fitch Sherman diamond necklace is stolen in Washington with detectives capturing thieves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Butterfield
Hikhart
St. Clair’s Garden
Hisq. Harrington
Dr. Woolverton
Charles E. Squires
Auburn
Ind
Goshen
David Ramer
Walnut Street
Waterford Street
D. Squires
Chicago
The
Sun
U. S. Grant
John Brubaker
Wakarusa
Henry Kesler
Hunteley
St. Clair
Fitch-Sherman
Washington
Minnie Sherman