Greencastle Star, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 April 1881 — Page 3

VOL. 8.

IIS SEW ME STORE,

INDIANAPOLIS, INI'. SPKCIAIj NOTICE TO '

The

GREENCASTLE, IND.

GRB^L N(:AS TLp

CORRESPONOENCE.

Staf.

APRIL 9, 1881.

NO ;i.

| mothers. The babiog of Putnam county drawn acar a close for the season . . , ha\o been more highly praised than any .. George and Jenny Shilling, of East

!rioili«‘i- better rrom J.

I». « .

We respectfully ask attent'i'H to "iir iip« a:. ooutplete rtork of In Mark um! t'olori* Also, to our super!) lines of SATIN IDE HYON,

AND-

iKO GKAIAX All the Bent Makers* floods.

WlNTEpsKT, 1a.

ko rot; S : \n:

March 30, ’81.

i

Our Large .Stork of S r M M E It S l L K 8

AND-

lll«l«*l< <11141 C*€»l4»l*4*4l »^»*» ills

Is uneouallrd for elioiro styles and

low prices.

1 mOufthkt^ire do Bo^Md* ourBePrei^ewnnta” | ot | ler P* r * of 1,10 population, and it is Grccncastle, have been visiting in Madi ole tor or endorse the opinions of correspond- with pleasure that I reproduce what was gon township, the guests ol Mrs. Sarah give fpaoenTour'corrcspond'ents that the 'ue!.* said of one of them in pioneer times: "It Wood School at No. 3 closed on ! neTghors are.™ Whllt lh ° thou * hls of will stand as the representative of a class April 7. with a good time Alexspondeuce'from Various C pWrts (,f*the*county" 8,1(1 lht «*preS8ion of a genial hope. amlerMrClannhan has gone to Hendricks Send along the news of your neighborhood. Babies are an ordinary piece of house-j county to spend the summer 1 no 1 rrin e . , furniture, as a general thing, that is Uncle Joe Wells has sold his oak timber j

to say. There is not much difference in to Mr. Beecher Smith, of Heelsville. Mr. babies as a mass. But a pioneer baby— James Smith has the contract for sawing the heir to the fortune and fame of a pi- said timber Miss Ella Brown, of oncer, the inheritor of the name and es- Kansas, is visiting relatives in Madison..

I will continue these reminiscences by i a j p 0 f a Bohemian of the wilderness, is J’,. ]•'. Hendricks and mother have atiiig that what now comprises 1 hnton a very different affair. Such a one a week moved to Lafayette... Columbus Wells and Bussell townships was all one town- „],!_ Hack eyed, a hoosier—* baby girl, has been on the sick lint John H. ship until when they were divided a sit nestle- and coos in daimy white, Alspaugh works !»r Han Cole this suminto their presonl boundaries. In rocked in a sugar-trough. Then a baby 1 mer Miss Anna Fountain has' giving the names of some ol the first set- was worth having. We have consulted‘gone to spend the summer near Ketlstlers in Bussell ! may possibly name the prophets, and find that sh was born ville... James Smith says he has caught some that were in Ulinton, as 1 am not 0 f H royal race, and is ie.stined to move the biggest raccoon ever caught in the positive about the dividing line. If there among kings. As the years roll on she townshtp.it measuring feet and ' are any disputes about the dates given, 1 tvill totb-r joyfully along the walks of'inches lulia, wife of James Alsrefer tbo render to E<t]. J. B. Wilson, of infancy, iambic among the Bowers and paugh, is still on the sick list Bussell, to whom I am indebted for many gardens of her girlhood land, tread with (1. C. White is hewing staves for Ely of them. stately mien the house home of woman- lirattain Cristopher Knatior has 1 will speak more fully of Bussell, a- hood, and, crowned with the years of in- gone to I'anville to attend school

BARGAINS!

Iii Dry Cwomls, llress Cilooris,

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Motions and Millim rv, at LAN<JIM>!V!S FANCY ItAZAK, No. 6, South Suit* Square,Greeneatitle, Indiana.

it was then considered one of the best

nocence, she will .•.tand at the altar, pure School at No. I closed on Wednesday of

•All Goods Marked in I'lain Fjgur

townships in 1‘ntnatn county, and wa.v tbo as her bridal robes, to link her forture last woek--Isom Wright, teacher ... . tirst one settled in the northern part of w j(h a king—one of America’s kings, a Elder Williams will preach the funeral

We trg to inform tli« UUie) ir. ami around 1 11,0 count ^‘ 1 ’ at ‘ <1 was consul- sovereign of the land whero all aro equal, of Zona f'ofer, at the Christian Chapel, on wM“ma“ ll freeVt\llir.' r XlT < ime«o}^wmi.lT'': 0rC ' 1 b ’ T thc olJ B ioneers as 1,10 flrst set " No puny, effeminate counter-jumper, no the fifth Suntlay in May Let us ami carefully fill and forward orders however tier. He came in 1820 and built his cabin dandy brainless lawyer shall he be, but | hear from “country woman” again, in eve’ryVape »he same as if the lorehaser eaine 011 what is known as the Swank farm, in a f tr , ne r hoy, whose hands are acquaint-; Binkep. II111..

'To^^feVmiv ?' D ,sto b t?*f h ord , er ,! .,?r'.' , 0. :, l t .? ,lr the north western pai t of the township j ed with holl ' c8t toU and his heart with In that year also caUiO Allot) Elliott, A. honest thought. And in the quiet con* KoitrltdHle.

I*KTTIS. IVEUS iV Co. M I,ueU ,,n ' 1 1 lark '''“tcher. I" 1^‘Jl tent of a western homo shall sheiillthe Wc have several cases of measles in

oaiiK* .lolin Anderson, dohn ^ cstM** | proud duties of an Araerlean wife. From ibis place Mrs. Mat. Leonard is ('hristiaii T.andes, Andrew Robertson, B ,j ie occidental farm shall come sons who going to set up a first-class milliner shop Boscncranz, W ui.Sutherland, John 1-osh* shall guide the Ship of State, orate in the in a fow days... . Mr. Nelson I’riest er, Daniel Steele, Thomas lliompson. National Capitol, and honor their lineage 0 f Ashby’s Mills is going to 1 uild a fine Jacob Berk and others. In this year by ora' s deeds and noble words.” 1 bouse for Wm. Fowler at this place.... John Doresty. Andrew Boyd and John Thus reads the prophesy of the pion- ...Death to wheat ns long as sugar Fosher built their cabins, and moved ■ ,, cr ), a b Vi Who of my readers have not weather lasts A dry goods store their families in Vt'Z'i. In this year came Re( , n ; t fulfilled? For it is among the i„ Carpentersville was broken open on

SUCCESS

Tom. Abrams,

OwinvAu a lar*elv Sincr* a“e<I business.

k:us

nMiaed to

< iroeeries. Provisions.

GEORGE BICKNELL, Manufacturer and Dealer in WAGONS, PLOWS, HARROWS, And Farm Machinery CiJenerallv. » * Iron »n l Stei l. llur-« Shoer and llorfo-Hhor!! Nail*. Ha-- ju^t receiv'd another car-load of the celebrated OLIVEK (HILLED /‘LOWS.

Also the

CASSIDY SULKY BLOW, W arranted to kii e calLfadion, or no sale, after a fair trin I. On’aale aljo

Umpire Richmond Steel Plows, Tin' Celeluatetl I!eil .Jacket Iron Ucnm Steel Plows, Latlow Rolling 11 arrows; Deere & Mansur Rotary Drop Com

Planters, ami the Deere Cultivator with springs.

Agent for the Excelaior Reaper and Mower and Twine Bintiinx Machine, and the Dor.*«y line Binder Reaper and Mower Just arrived, a ear-load of the celebrated Studebaher . ’ v .. . • c „ 11 tv r»i tv ir w o u la . m i 11 . unit t'. r«»a 11 i n ir inu<'Rtnp.4

. . . | ■ , y-a . • | * t ii a j) ... ... ^ Twine UintiiT Ke.'ii>«r and Mower. Jutd arrived, a ear-load of tbo celebrated Rtud**Oaker raoved his nock ol John < Mlllliams, .l«COb FlCkrl and A. H-, farmers that we roust look for our future Hsturdsv nieht » cotliiidcrablo amount of I w icnn^. .'l ie \*ent for (laar A Scott’.-'.team encins*. aaw-milD and threrhina machines. 1 »- ■ 6 ' Havin* secured competent workmen, am prepared to rei'air and repaint boggiea. carnaces,

goods being stolen School taught etc., on reasonable terms—give me a trial.

at No. i dosed on Friday,April i—taught Nortlu’ast corntT Coluuiljiti ituil Intliaiiu rttruets, GroeucastJ**, .v Miss Laura Stewart. Mies Stewart Particular attention to horse-shoeing ami repairing generally. vo good satisfaction, and wc would like , ———

have her '.each the next topui

(J LASS ADUKENSWAKE,

To the large room on the

^oril. *1.1.' ol I’nbli.' 4«|ii:ir«*

Mi. Cummings has moved

land opened a hotel.

to our town,

B<>r. '

Denton. Senators, Congrtssmen, Judges, and men from Ib'J'J to 182.) a great many new t0 (•,)] 0 g icr high jilaces. Judging by the settlers .-amo in, among whom were— farmer of the past, I am satisfied that the Mark Homer, !.. \. Garrett, i homas | gta, e veH] n( n | 0 ok in vain for ? 00< ^ Bago, I. Aldridge, Jacob Stead, Thomas I to fln 1 bese high positions. .7. D. CJ

Norman and many others. In the next —

Nextdoprtothedryeocdv.toreofl.nawki.ro five years the township became consider- , ' onK

where bi? and the public generally will : ably yettlcil. Among the pioneers of that 1 armors, now is the time to «>ow oats,

time wore the Wilsons, Evans’s, Clod- but who is ready .' There is a fellers, McGaughoys, Spencers, Makes, deni of sickness, mostly scarlet to- '

Burketts, Forgeys, and many others wore V( M' 1 hroe of Mr. David Skelton’s .... a'ldcd to tho townnhip. children have died of scarlet fever, and now hfty-horsc power ditching machine.

TOTI AHK \ M»*. The first marriage was that of John another is not expected to live .... U drops the tiling m just tfW (iuilliams to Miss Lydia Fosher, in 1823 One of M. H. Ooddard s children is <lsn- great cutter, and the earth iinmediately

The Uev. Quintet officiated. The first gorously sick ... .Mrs. lamis Alspaugh is closes nicely over it Ir. ames (minister was Daniel Anderson, followed |reported no better Ben Hendrix Forgey made quick work iran.ing a barn by Wm. II. Smith and others of that no- has moved to Lafayette The for Mr. Jefferson Gdl ...... Mr. Sain’l hie baud ol pioneers to whom the people Brunerstown school closed last Tuesday. ,t,lcho J has le«t alarge nmnher ol young are much indebted fnr early formation of ! Charles Gofer and George Stoner lambs during the bad weather... . good society. [contemplate going south to Orleans next ^ lc gentlemen wlui lout a nice 1 ather James Sccrcst was the first merchant week John Alspaugh is going to irlovolm Mr. Joseph Long’s hen-house, He opened a general work for Dan. Cole this spring and sum- "while the stars looked silently down what is now called mor (". W. King claims to be the! from their far-off homes,"’ will please;

owner of the tirsl young colt in Madison C! '^ f® r it at an early date.

HANNA & BLACK,

alwayi find the Monk iarce, nent and clean. | and prices will be found n# low or low-i-r than

elsewhere in Western Indiana.

■<*Kl)4'wi I'rii'v-w I’lli<1 l4»r yi:«i'k«‘t-

mI»|4‘ 4dMinlry Proelure*.

TJEJUEF}

Ruwwe'llvill**.

Ms. Couchman recently purchased a

ing machin behind the

Furniture

this township

The 'itiJerdaned beg)-,eavo t" Inform tho

-Vme of'ibe* 1 11 ‘' !iver r 'variety store at wliat is now

B.lakeshurg in 1823. Noon after Col.

Finest and Latest SI vie of Carnages

>r.-cv. t am well vrei -rc l to furnish car- .lesse Flak'?, e stablished a i for partioa. YreldingH and funerals nu , . . . . notiop, Prireatt' uil the tiiiKK. Ilcrscs which they T-‘in until lV' 1

And UuL r *:i« . ami fi!<e ami donlde driving hordes. I '* ’ * r — J l

riagCHfor pa #>hort notion.

and mules bought and sold.

G R A N I> C E N T II A LIVERY. SALE and FEED STABLE! Northeast Corm-r Bithlic Square Oreencutli*. Ind. JOHN CAWLEY.

James Blake and his brother, the late I township fohn Biown was seen |

seng factory, riding up and down the road with a broad

It gave om-i sinilo on his countenance, and all because; Hut very

l.rnsi.

little farm work

y, /t \ N5/

done yet. i

ployment to all those who cared to on- of a little baby girl at his house.. ' owing to tho late spring.. Farmers , fnage in digging ginsf-ng, fui which lhoy .... Every one seems anxious for Satur- still in the sugar business Geo. i pfiid high prices in cash. J could name i day tocomo. in order to r<ad Iiik t'*:i i n- L uller went to Indianapolis on Monday.

good farms in the county, which were , •'"11 r Si v.; \V X Y j....... Hr. Milligan ' s iu , e , ti>ck tt fu „ aIia COIUl)ltle hue un . arl „ r p llrniturPi i urn j ture .ciiBrob e r8et,-.

Fillmore practice. Rev Brown Will perhaps Dining Hoom and Kitchen Furnitnre v Lounges* Patent Bockersol M I locate in the city.. .. Mel. Thomas will' and Plain Tulde-', Pictures nnd Picture Frain<»«, and In fadt, eTorythihs desirable »n the l’ir

genial friend, M. U. Ib illy no work )or Alfl . ca Ui r , in the stave htist-l DUur0 linf

winter, as lie !.

principally purchased with money made by women and eliildren digging seng, while the more able bands Heated the

("/ A T iT i A T land. For many years, with the exc , -

butlers drug store

REELSVILLE. IND.. 182". John Fosh r estahlishcd a tan-ynrd K»r Drucs. Medicim., rhuinicals. uiD. Yar- there, being the tirst <u th« north part of

Soap*, 11| 10 county

• •ui genial frit nil, M. II. longer heeds tho blasts ol

is safely installed as postmaster under the new administration, his predecessor, M. A. Brann. retiring from tho office, and

ness this 'pi ing.

L. W.

Battle Creek (Mb ft. • Psily Journal.] Upoh being spoken to roncerning St.;

Largest Stock and Lowest Prices. TJXTDERTAISIXTC

also from the drug business, in which ho .,

In all its branch^' 3 , carefally attonded t ). \ full stock of Undertaker*.-! G jods conptant . a

bund. Our Hearso is one of tho lineft in thi« section of tho State.1

ts sncceedetl by Mr. Bodenhamcr. IfcrinVwith'r^umatiatnVand obtained the 1

Tho first schooMiouso in the township aUl ' n ' 1 ‘® '^t?! e “-. rcli , t l f , fr _ 0U -!.. the . , S *;

was built en Mr. Fosher’s land. A school

HANNA & BLACK. 14 and 16 E. Washington St.

Jacob’s Oil. our fellow townsman Mr. ITbeodoie Wakelee said: I had been suf ni.hei, Buint... t)lnf>. I'utty, Fine IVrfumary, Dye ''tuft-i, Sponz*--', Brunhei 1 , mul all articlcii kept at first-class 'lru« stores.

- ■' M Z^Z2 ‘ SArS THE CHICKERING

the office both, we - iggest that li cm- j cob’s Oil. It has also been used in tuy

Alsoa complete sto. i; of Family tlrocerie-

) ml Notion*.

Jiimmry Lth,

I’UINKAS

Issl.

4 41 ^ I

ttot’K im;i.i„

of

n i* r 14»

brought on by n -c vcrfCoM on the lunas.v. tih-h mivht Iih \ <• tmen cnr.'it by 'pin" bottle "I Sinks' tsvnvr oi

Tah. WiU' i’hkruv H"i si>, if taken in time.

Hmlt •

lloA/;-

. the first mill was built by Jacob Beck. . . _ John Guy made the burr stones .or thit V K ,lob,n8on ’ ““renterpnsrog Settlers in Nebraska have bad a rough mill from a boulder which lay near the . VIJI,n K druggist, lias purchased the store- experience this winter. One of them site of the null. Tho next was Swank’s' roora wev ^ d '* <,W0MH * a '^, writes of a neighbor having had a child

will open tip a grocery and general store, 1 die during a violent snow-storm and bewhile the oile r branch is managed by ing unable to bury it for over a week, it uoromonly called being impossible to get through the snow in .ill ere

build the first Church in the township.! ' *; II. Xewnnm. 1 with it. When tho farmers rode to town rrP

tho * im rchant I'lince* of 1 illinorc. has to got the mail or groceries they invariaalso retired from business, and issue- bly took shovels along to dig a way out'

was held on the farm of John Dougherty ! ce ' (1, -’ d 1 ^ t cx ' K, ‘ cor i f •; George Owens, in case their horses got stuck. The early

l who, with his son will sail una«?r arrival of winter took many farmers hy

PI A N O,

mill, ia 1823.

Tho town of llussellvillc wa- laid out i "in 1828, at which time it was arranged to!

It was net completed 1< r some years. The (list Fourth of July celebration

his paitner, William, "Buggy,” .• ones. .. .

THE VTCTOIR.

)t contests, and for the ra.M Fillv--i ven Year* the lAcknowtedyed Stand .rd nf it,* World being copied not only by the makei s of thi- untry. but ol I'nropo will be offered

nt vvndition of tm<|o at

(■rent I Y t lariilMfd Prices.

the firm name of Owens <Y Son

I

’ TT JEt SI A. .1. AON I:NY.

DLAI.HI! IN

\\ ri its. a rr.i. i*>. 16 Wewl Pourl Sin cl. Indinn.'ipoli- . Ucp-

llutil tl. rn., Df’troit.

in 1828. Gen. George K. Steele was! Marshal of the Dar. If space would

permit I would like" to describe that as- " ' ’ J ' r " ' ' U " " jb ‘ nh0, i ' a "' 1 Lo ’ U "^ ht I lelt ,n t! ‘ 0 ,ldJ *’ — ' semldy. Notwitli-lar.ilin - their rough " ont over to ML Meridian and enlight- has since boon had.

1 surprise, and a large quantity ot corn was

which urgent need

re» nt

tiiiK 1 C«>n mi

m iirnnu i.t

» <»., i»» u soliuitnl.

jm2y

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I > •' .

I log- f fII«)MI , >4»>

tnl flmil.t .’f.))!* !U<!4in«a( ui) l leal

•• puir \ il la 1«' 4' •

fllONl’tMIN A lO.. I N.i. •im .Nt. Yr» Wrk.

i vterior, they possessed within th« tu that 'immortal part of roan th&t enabled th"tn

to brave the hard

pioneer life, and lay the foundation of the future prosperity "f the* county. James It. Clark, Copeland and lingers were the first practicing physician# in the township. Dr. Stryker was the first to

settle in

was the lir-t merchant

ened the natives of that rural village on the subject of universal salvation, ami it

All pHr-'-n* wt-himr to purchase

-ANDRETHS

nQi SEEDS’.’: BEST" I I M/I If not in »fhirtown,you I a I ILL. mn * tli»*iu oy mail. LI Vf~ M. u.h tk Curd f<H- (Jutj*. <

and Pn.-* 'Che Oldnt and t/.'eit nirfiiiot Sm#|

. , , . o I

l Card for (

Oldtntandm,

Vr c4"«W# the ( t>ued

I)A) It) I.ANDItmt A NONKJ’diUkU.vJ’x.

The little ones love it, and often cry

for more—what? “Dr. Sellers' Cough! to hinive the hardships and difficulties of '! ’“■d ^ ““O’ efiectually disproved Syrup, which* cures them of coughs '

the doctrine of a hot hereafter that the colds and w hooping-cough.

denizens of that region have abandoned I m,. U iUF. A \ EM I A. I NTEHM IT-' ITQ Fifth AveUUd New York, the hop* of ever having another spell of TENT t’EYEU, C0N8L Ml’TION. |——A __ _ Vt ._

warm weather in this life.. Miss GEXF.IIAL DEBILITY, <bc.,&e. Anna Smith, of Grecncastlc, will give an Havena, Mkixk.-. Co., Mo., May, 1879.

V,' ' i' i. , entertainment at the Methodist Churcli I'lio Follows Medical Manufacturing Co.: Lussc"vjlle. .lecob Umh 9m ■ ^ ^ . n n ^ : G cnte ._. We have used you. Fellows' ‘ ,r, ^ Miss Smith will-rWTj . SyrUl> u MyPophospbite# tdmI on a blacksmith shop, ® i witli gratifying results in our practice, The Writ baby has long b7?n a mattor do,lbt 0nUr * l ‘' n th 0 8C who go to hear and cheerfully recommend it tophysi-

. hear, and we bespeak for her a good i cians and othars, as a reliable and agree

o. doubt. V oting ire# are 1>^«H-rly; hoiir . Mo ;, anon able preparation ,n ague, intermittent! domestic, and 1 will not tiy to settle the St • n v re first and second Ktag>?s of Tulmnndiflioulty, nor flare to attempt any tribute L. ar J Consumption or Anemia or General to their virtue, in view of-the fact that UillllMn Town*>hi|*. Debility. \Ye would recommend it as such a duty lias long since been ably and The wheat crop is badly damaged in I ,l " 'skjnr'l'"" ^J.^Cau.awav, M.D. eloquently performed by their respective! this locality Sugar-making has! ' Jons" L. Gbiplei, M.D.

*

our ware-roomi*.

v*’/ • w{r fited Miir t'ianos in the »IHEAT WiKl.l* v KAlHin LONDON, ivi: at fhfOKBAT I \POSITION Id PARIS. l v -it th IM ER NATION A i« KXPOSJTION in Dhili. ]h7 »; ant! at the L r ran4 Cente .Mial|Kx'bition,Philad«lphia.'Tfw

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