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New Athens to Get a Bank and Other Local Proposals
Items from our exchange table note New Athens will have a bank while Raymond gains a coat factory. Vandalia seeks water works and Troy electric lights. Beardstown to host a furniture factory started by a local enterprise. Girard schools closed for diphtheria. Chester plans brick sidewalks this spring. Litchfield area wheat largely destroyed. County jail holds 29 prisoners and hospital 145 destitutes. Vandalia charity ball nets 88 for distributions. Lard shipment 140000 lbs from Belleville to St Louis. Belleville Distillery ships 110 barrels of whiskey to Louisville. tax 5367. About 200 gypsies near Germantown appeal for aid. Bunker Hill man to build tandem bicycle factory. An eagle killed near Carlyle. six-foot wingspan. calls for bounty on eagle heads. A Northern Kansas wagon carries irrigation ditty criticizing stagnation and populism. Illinois prefers irrigation-free speculation.