Public Press 24 Jun 1884 p3 c2:
Purely Personal Paragraphs
Prof. J. L. Campbell of Crawfordsville College was in the city the other
day. About the 1st of July he will resume work on the geodetic survey. He
will camp at six mile switch. Prof. Campbell has many friends in New Albany
and Vicinity.
The Lafayette Sunday Leader says: Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Armstrong of New
Albany were in the city last week. Mr. A. is the gentleman who was so badly
injured some years ago on the Wabash Road, being paralized from the hips
down. He is now able to get around by the aid of a crutch. He attributes
his present improved condition to the personal care and interest of Dr.
Frank F. O'Farrell, who stuck to him like a brother.
J. Steele Davis and wife, who were here visiting the family of John T.
Creed have returned to their home in Danville, Ill.
W. S. Culbertson, wife and daughter, Blanche, are expected home from Europe
some time in July.
W. A. barker writes to the Public Press from Cairo that his son Worden, who
fell from a building and was seriously hurt, is getting along well and will
be able to set up within a week or so.
J. T. Wright, Superintendent of the Forge works with his wife have returned
from a pleasant visit east. While at Creighton, PA., Mr. and Mrs. Wright
visited the city. Mr. Wright reports that Capt. Ford and wife, and Edward
and Emory Ford and families are pleasantly situated and are doing a thriving
and profitable business in the manufacture of glass. Their immense works,
much larger than in this city, are run by gas, the premises are lighted by
gas and their homes are heated by gas. It is as free as the air and only
needs striking a match to run the largest glass works in the country, and
then there is much power wasted. There is no coal, no ashes, no dust.
Capt. Ford has created a great excitement and waked up the natives. Capt.
Ford and his sons are making money rapidly and it will not be long until
they are millionaires.
Thanks to Charles Norman of DePauw University for a copy of the Evening
DePauw published at Greencastle. Mr. Norman is a son of John B. Norman,
deceased.
Charles W. Poutch has purchased a fine Shetland mare and colt.
Mrs. D. C. Axline is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Emma Redfield at
Englewood, a suburb of Chicago.
The Indianapolis Journal says: Mr. Crittenden A. Cox, of New Albany, who
made so strong a race for the State auditorship left the city yesterday.
Under the circumstances, the vote he received was both a surprise and a high
compliment. . .
Miss Ella Perette is home for the summer vacation from the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum at Indianpolis.
Emory L. Ford, of the Plate Glass Works, Creighton, Penn., is in the city,
the guest of Dr. Neat.
Miss Eva Logue has returned from the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, to spend the
summer vacation with her father, William Logue, Sen.
Ben F. Smith of Sullivan is here visiting relatives.
George W. Tuley was home last week visiting his daughter and friends.
John H. McKonkey is here visiting relatives. He is 81 years of age and
lived here nearly all his life. His present home is St. Louis.
Charles Pl Gwin of Carlisle is visiting relatives here.
Mm/M J. A. Lowry are occupying their new cottage on upper Poplar street.