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Fulton County Indiana Newspaper Excerpts 1874 FULTON COUNTY INDIANA NEWSPAPER EXCERPTS 1874 ROCHESTER UNION-SPY, Thursday, Januarv 1, 1874 TURN PIKE ROADS. -The time for Pike roads has arrived. The mud roads throughout this county, at this season of the year, are, in many places almost impassable. Stock companies shold be organized, and at least a few miles built this coming summer. Nothing would have a greater tendency to increase the value of farms and property through which they pass. Mr. ABNER THOMPSON, of Akron first called our attention to this work, and says he is ready to take stock in this enterprise .... CHRISTMAS DINNER [lengthy report of Christmas dinner served by Mr. and Mrs. Taylor] who are the hospitable owners of a beautiful suburban villa, just north of town .... (Names rientioned) Mr. and Mrs. A. FOOTE, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. ERNSPERGER, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. ELLIOTT, Mr. and Mrs. Dr. HECTOR, Mr. and Mrs. Dr. HILL, Mr. and Mrs. I. CONNOR, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. COWGILL, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. LYON, Mr. and Mrs. R. VAN DEIN, Mrs. COPELAND, Mrs. P. AUSTIN, Mr. and Mrs. S. HEFFLEY, Mr. and Mrs. E. RUSSELL, Mr. and Mrs. P. WEBBER, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. SKINNER, Mr. and Mrs. F. KENDRICK, Mr. and Mrs. A. K. PLANK, Mr. and Mrs. R. P. SMITH, Mr. E. S. BARNES, Mr. and Mrs. T. MAJOR BITTERS. LINCOLN ITEMS ‘Squire ENYART is happy now, and he don't care who knows it. Boy. JOHN GROTE also rejoices. A couple of boys, they say. CHARLEY FARRAR has started a livery stable here: Business. JOHN NEAL and lady, of Rochester, paid our village a flying visit last week. N. D. HUDSON and lady, are visiting friends and relatives at Argos, Indiana. Little BILLY BRAY, the Five Corner "infant" has subscribed for the UNTON-SPY , and declares it an excellent paper. AKRON DOTTINGS, Dec. 29, 1873 F. DILLON's wife has gone to Ohio on a visit; FRANK keeps bachelor's hall ... MARRIED. -And still they will. DAVID BEMENDERFER and MOLLIE PONTIOUS (did) get married, and so did IBEL KISECKER and Miss CORRINA SUTTON... GEORGE ONSTOTT is slowly recovering from his sickness; he came very near passing over. W. W. ANDERSON and A. STRONG know how to stew oysters, and they know how to eat them too ... A. GAST, the shoemaker, pegs away from early dawn to ten and eleven o'clock every night, and he has done so for twenty years. He has pegged out a nice town property, and is now driving a few of the last pegs on a farm one mile east of town. Gast will some day peg his LAST. JAS. CHAPIN and mother passed through Akron, enroute for Silver Lake, Christmas day. SPY REPORTS BILLY KERCHER has been reported as the champion appleeater of Akron. Mr. WHITE, formerly of this place, is spending the holidays at Mr. C. J. STRADLEY'S. J. P. URBIN, a grocer, at Kewanna, called on us Tuesday and renewed for one vear. ABIAL BUSH, of Tiosa, takes two copies, and paid for them in our absence. Thanks. Miss AMANDA MECHLIN will please accept the thanks of ourself and family for kind favors and good things to eat. OSCAR R. DECKER has gone to Anderson, Indiana, to show the inhabitants "what he knows" as a jeweler and engraver. DAVID RADER has in circulation a petition praying for the grading of Plum STREET, from Main street west to the Fair Grounds. At last reports he had $35 subscribed. The residence of JAMES ROBBINS was on last Saturday sold by the Sheriff for a debt of about $500. The property was purchased by Mrs. B. CORY for the sum of $1,000. It is cheap, as the house is almost entirely new. WILLIAM KEEL, Esq., of Green Oak, takes three copies of the UNION-SPY,. JOHN T. KEEL, his son, takes one copy ... J. N. BUTTERFIELD, Esq., of Indianapolis, a Grover & Baker agent, called in to see us Tuesday. He is a brotherin-law to Mr. G. G. LONG, a printer by trade and evidently a good fellow. We knew him seventeen years ago; we were employed together on the Indianapolis JOURNAL. (Notice) is hereby given that I have left my wife for justifiable causes, and warn all persons against selling her goods or crediting on my accounts as I will pay no bills of her contracting. JOHN EWICK. Dec. 25, 1873. NEW TANNERY FIRM. MYERS & NEAL are live enterprising men, and are deserving of success if anybody is. They have rented the ROCHESTER TANNERY and propose to carry on the business with increased vigor. MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT. The musical entertainment given last Friday evening at Balcony Hall, for the benefit of the M.E. Sabbath school, under the direction of Miss MINNIE SHRYOCK and Miss ELLA REX, was a decided success ... (names mentioned): N. G. HUNTER, J. E. CLARK, IDA RANNELLS, MAY COPELAND, CARRIE SHRYOCK, ELLA REX, MINNIE SHRYOCK, DORA ROBBINS, MINNIE BRACKETT, ALLIE RYLAND, A. T. BITTERS, J. E. CLARK. CHINA WEDDING. - Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES JACKSON celebrated their China (twenty years) Wedding, at their residence southwest corner of Pontiac and Columbia streets, last Tuesday evening .... (names mentioned): M. L. ESSICK, Esq., Rev. Mr. SKINNER (each of whom spoke) ... The following is a correct list of... the donors ... : Mrs. E. P. COPELAND, Mrs. S. KEELY, Mrs. S. HEFFLEY, Mrs. I. CONNOR, Mrs. F. K. KENDRICK, Mrs. H. B. BOSWELL, Mrs. T. NEWHOUSE, Mrs. C. C. WOLF, Mrs. J. Q. NEAL, Mrs. E. RUSSELL, Mrs. C. SKINNER, Mrs. C. HECTOR, Mrs. J. S TAYLOR, Mrs. F. B. ERNSPERGER, Mrs. E. E. COIQGILL, Mrs. WM. HILL. One stone China chamber set, donated by Mrs. K. G. SHRYOCK, Mrs. A. C. ELLIOTT, Mrs. A. J. DAVIDSON, Mrs. T. M. BITTERS, Mrs. R. P. SMITH, Mr. H. B. ERNSPERGER, Mrs. E. STURGEON, Mr. C. H. BEERY. (other gifts by) Mrs. E. KIRTLAND, Mrs. N. L. LORD, Mrs. J. M. REITER, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. ERNSPERGER, Prof. W. J. WILLIAMS, H. S. DRAKE, Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM ASHTON, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. ELAM, J. W. DAVIS, Miss BETTIE ELLIS, Dr. C. HECTOR, SAMUEL KEELY, Mrs. A. V. HOUSE DIED. - ELLENOR MOW, widow of DAVID MOW, and daughter of JAMES P. and MARGARET HOLDSTOCK, died near Rochester, Dec. 23, 1873, aged 44 vears, 1 month and 6 days. She was the mother of ten children who live to mourn her loss. In character, she was mild and quiet - pondering her trials in her own heart. In her last sickness she remarked to a friend, "her's had been a hard lot through life but she had not murmured nor complained." She adorned her Christian profession with a well ordered life, and has gone to rest. She lived a widow four years, and leaves her helpless family to the kindness of friends, especially the members of the orders of Odd Fellows and Masons, of which institutions her husband was a worthy member. -C. SKINNER. W. H. MATTINGLY and wife, who have been on a visit to the editor's family for three or four weeks past, left last Friday morning to visit friends in the vicinity of Cleveland, Ohio. - BOURBON MIRROR. ROCHESTER UNION-SPY, Thursday, Januarv 8, 1874 SPY REPORTS W. H. BENEFIEL, of Howard City, Kansas, sent us two dollars for 1874. Somebody stole a bottle of Vinegar Bitters from JOHN BITTERS at Walnut Station. C. S. HORTON, the "Village Blacksmith" of Lincoln gave us a pleasant call last Friday. NEWTON WILEY pays for an extra copy which is sent to a friend in Urbana, Ohio. J. C. WALLACE, of Peru, a heavy livery man, called at our office last Friday evening. He takes the UNION-SPY now. B. C. WILSON has paid his subscription to May 8, 1875 ... RICHLAND ITEMS, Jan. 3, 1874 Mr. ALVIN ROBBINS has just returned from Nebraska... The party at ALBERT DAVIS' would have went off finely had it not been for one or two Bacchanals. Mr. H. BARNHART is very low with pneumonia; he is under the treatment of Dr. CLYMER. At the spelling at Sand Hill ... Mr. JAMES DUDGEON and WILLIAM WRIGHT both claim the honors of spelling them down. They are both pupils of the Sand Hill school. J. H. ROBBINS has rented his farm for two years; he intends moving to Rochester in the spring ... Miss RALSTIN, of whom we spoke in our last as being in a critical condition, is convalescent. The second session of the Henry township INSTITUTE convened at the school building, in Akron, Saturday, January 3, 1874... (names mentioned): Mr. GREEN, C. K. BITTERS, Miss MELISSA FOWLER, D. G. HARTER, Miss JOSIE DAVIDSON, L. NOYER, A. L. SHAFER, R. C. WALLACE, W. BEMENDERFER. KEWANNA GOSSIP, Jan. 3, 1874 Mr. JOHN KILLMER has opened out a grocery and notion store in the west room of his hotel building .... Mr. SAMUEL ODAFFER, who has not been able to do a day's work since last harvest, is now hauling wood to town. On last Tuesday afternoon Mr. CUSTER, of Cass county, suddenly dropped in here and proclaimed that he came for the purpose of organizing a GRANGE; so in the evening nearly everybody met and organized with a membership of 27 males and 16 females members. (names mentioned): C. S. GRAHAM, JOHN F. WILSON, H. H. BENNETT, E. E. TUCKER, L. MOORE, J. COOK, P. S. TROUTMAN, J. A. BARNETT, J. WEARY, Mrs. AL. TUCKER, Mrs. H. H. BENNETT, Miss E. BARNETT, Mrs. J. COOK. Last evening the ODD FELLOWS had a public installation of officers in the Reform Church.
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