DIED.
Tweedy - On Friday night, Sept. 26th, 1890, Mamie Tweedy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben F.
Tweedy, aged about 9 months.
The funeral services were conducted in the Presbyterian church on Sabbath afternoon, by
Rev. S. E. Barr, after which the remains were laid away to rest in the Vernon Cemetery.
CANA.
September 29, 1890
Plenty of rain and frost.
Henry Nolte is up again.
Mrs. Caleb Wilson is on the sick list.
Look out for another wedding. Ask Ben.
Caleb Wilson has been granted a pension of $7 per month.
George W. Mosley and family visited friends at Cana, Sunday.
Chas. Trisler of Retreat was visiting relatives here yesterday.
Simeon Tobias is making sorghum molasses and has no opposition.
Hickory nut gatherers are getting in their work and report a big crop.
Press Bridges of Crothersville was calling on friends here yesterday.
Henry Olberson has improved his premises by putting up a new kitchen.
Widow Lyle sells her personal property Oct. 8. S. B. Robbins, auctioneer.
J. A. Tobias is running a huckster wagon for the farmers and has a big trade.
Miss Leona Rogers was in the land of Cana, Sunday. Another young lady will teach in
Marion.
Arthur, wood and oil costs money. Bring a can of oil next time, and before you begin
teaching help the old man saw wood one day.
Miss Mary Dixon of Paris was calling on Cana friends on Saturday. Miss Dixon is a good
teacher and will teach in Marion this winter.
Griffin Stradley, one of the brave boys who wore the blue, was called home to the bedside
of his sick child. The child is better at this writing.
Fielden Lett says he is the next Representative. Fielden is a good farmer and a solid
Republican and should be elected. What say you Jim?
SLATE.
September 29, 1890.
Most of our farmers are busy sowing wheat.
Mrs. Albert Miller is in very poor health.
James Cox is head-sawing for Elmer Wilson.
Rev. Applegate filled the pulpit at the Marion church Sunday and Sunday night.
Mrs. Frank Holmes of Cincinnati is here on a visit to her mother, Mrs. Jane Olberson.
Mrs. Dicks has moved her beds and bedding to John O. Taulman's and will make that her
home for awhile.
The Democrat candidates have been to see us and now we are ready for our Republican
candidates to give us a shaking up. But shake light boys for our arms are sore.
HEGE.
September 29, 1890.
William Wright and children visited n this vicinity over Sunday.
Several from here attended the State Fair at Indianapolis last week.
Matthew Wright and wife attended a birthday dinner at Columbus the 29th in honor of Phelix
Hart, who is 90 years of age.
ZENAS.
September 27, 1890.
Jonathan Allee thinks of moving into our village soon.
Randolph Daughters thinks of moving to Decatur county soon.
Work will commence upon the fill for the new bridge next Monday.
Adam Mohr is building a large new addition to his house and otherwise improving it.
Flor O'Connor has moved into his new residence. Sam Gloyd now occupies his old one.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Isom Low, on Sept. 25th, a son; weight 8-1/2 pounds. Woods'
scales being out of repair, the father's weight has not yet been ascertained.
Our schools will open on Monday, Oct. 6th, with the teachers located as follows: No 1, R.
E. Little; No. 2, W. S. Matthews; No. 3, Cora Belt; No. 4, Adam Sporleder; No. 5, C. M.
Kroft; No. 6 Selah Belt; No. 7, W. S. Bundy; No. 8, Ora Kroft; No. 9, Carrie Elliott.
The trustee received two new sets of school seats this week. When these are put into
districts Nos. 2 and 6 the whole township will be supplied with new improved sets. A set
of writing charts and a latest edition of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary has also
been furnished each school.
SAN JACINTO.
September 29, 1890.
Farmers are about done sowing their wheat.
Singing school closed at Fairview last Saturday.
Charles Wilson moved into his new house last week.
Sam Sullivan purchased a fine mare of C. P. Cole last week.
Chris Stevenson, of Jeffersonville, visited C. P. Cole last week.
Fairview school opened last Monday with Jennie Cox at the helm.
Messrs. John Hayden and Thomas Griffin sold a fine lot of hogs last week.
Politics are dull in these parts, none of the candidates having yet put in an appearance.
W. V. can make a better speech sitting on the fence than any young man in the country.
Prof. Whitsett has gone to Marble Corner, where he took charge of a singing class last
Monday.
San Jacinto correspondent wishes to let his Democratic friend, W. R., know that he can
take the Banner and that he is not in partnership with the editor of that paper, as he
(W.R.) said he was. So you had better take the Banner, Will.
BARNES.
September 29, 1890
The Mt. Zion church is almost completed.
Wheat sowing has been retarded by recent rains.
T. S. Lett's new house is now ready for occupancy.
N. Kysar of Seymour has moved to his farm near Mt. Zion.
The apple-cutting at Mrs. Hughes' Wednesday night was well attended.
William A. Shuck, the Democratic candidate for Auditor, was in this part of the county
last week.
F. M. Lewis is building a large, three hundred dollar, brick fruit house. Marion is a good
farmer and fruit raiser.
Sylvester Deputy has been visiting his daughters, Miss Alice and Mrs. Luella Dollarhide,
at Indianapolis, the past week.
Some of the boys attended the entertainment at Uniontown, Friday night, and report a good
time. "Ten nights in a barroom" was given by home talent.
Quite a number of the neighbors gathered at Mr. Carpenter's on Wednesday, and
presented his daughter, Mrs. Foster, with many useful articles.
Ralph Lewis visited your town Saturday, we suppose to see how much he knew and will teach
the "young ideas how to shoot" in this township this winter.
SCIPIO.
September 29, 1890
Mrs. I. L. Green was at Indianapolis last week.
G. F. Amick made a trip to Benton county last week.
The Geneva Detective Co. meets on Saturday, Oct. 11th.
Mrs. G. F. Amick and Mrs. Flo Whitcomb were at Indianapolis last week.
Miss Alice Wilkerson last Sunday resigned her position as organist of the Sunday school.
Mrs. Ross Amick has been visiting her father, J. D. Amick, in Jackson county, for several
days past.
J. W. Corya and Miss Lena Amick will be married at the bride's residence in Jackson
county next Wednesday.
There was an auction at Will Coryell's Saturday night. He will sell at auction again
next Saturday evening. N. E. Howe, auctioneer.
Miss Sophrona Powell, who has been visiting at G. F. Amick's for the past 2 weeks, has
returned to her home on Walnut Hills, Cincinnati.
It is rumored that Mrs. N. G. McConnell and Mr. Piethrow, of Seymour, will be married
Wednesday. We can not vouch for the truth of it.
Dr. Phillips, James V. Wright, Bud Clark, Cyrus Amick, James Clark, Joe V. Herron, John E.
Amick and K. F. Clapp attended the State Fair last week.