Thanks for the neat posting....F.L. Tilley is a relative!
---Patricia Tilley Beasley
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From: Sharon <rzgrdn(a)rapidnet.com>
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Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: More Newspaper Tidbits from 1898
Thanks for the tidbits Judy! No names I recognize, but love reading
them!
Sharon
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From: "Judy" <judygemm(a)yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 2:46 PM
Subject: More Newspaper Tidbits from 1898
> Posted on: Clay County, In Query Forum
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>
> Surname: Smith, Greenough, Sherwood, Pierce, Morgan, Warner, Gring,
Tilley
> -------------------------
>
> These were from the Clay County Enterprise, Thursday, April 17, 1898.
>
> Lillie E. Smith attempted suicide at the residence of Mrs. Greenough on
> west Jackson street, Friday night by taking poison, supposed to be
caused
> by unrequited love. A doctor was called and pumped her out, but
for
several
> hours her life hung in the balance. Her home is in Greencastle (Putnam
> County), and it is said she belongs to a respectable family.
>
> Recently State Consul Sherwood, of Indianapolis, sent out a circular to
> the wheelmen of the state stating that he had offered to raise 250 fast
> riders in Indiana for the government, to be used in the bicycle corps in
> case of war with Spain. Five riders from this city have offered their
services
> to the government. They are: Elmer Pierce, Algy Morgan, Nim Warner,
Horace
> Gring and F.L. Tilley.
>
>
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