BUTLERVILLE ~ ~ October 20, 1890 Candidates are in our midst. Dud Andrews is at home on a visit. O. P. Sprong is clerking for James Heath. A grand ball is talked of for the near future. Frank Allee is working in J. E. Murphy's livery stable. J. H. McIlroy is having a new engine placed in his saw mill. Miss Kate Helmich returned Thursday from a short visit in Tennessee. The Sons of Veterans are preparing for an entertainment to be held sometime next month. Little Georgie Miles died at his home here the 12th inst. of typhoid fever. Remains were interred at Brush Creek. ____________________________________ CHERRY PARK ~ ~ October 20, 1890 Jim and Ed Fields visited their sister, Mrs. H. C. Patrick, Sunday. Dr. Will Richardson and wife visited her father, Wm. Burkit, Sunday. Miss Nellie Patrick is on an extended visit to relatives in Ripley county. Miss Lizzie Spencer, of Vernon, was the guest of her brother, Fountain, last Sunday. S. Daubenheyer and wife, of Ripley county, were guests of Mrs. Miles Patrick Monday. Protracted meeting commences at Ebenezer Monday night, Oct. 20. Let everybody attend. Mrs. Miles Patrick returned home last week after a pleasant visit with relatives in Ripley county. Miss Ora Jordan returned home from Cincinnati on Thursday after a six weeks' sojourn with friends. ___________________________________ PARIS CROSSING ~ ~ October 17, 1890 Tom Kay is preparing to build a new residence. Several children in this vicinity have scarlet fever. W. S. Leeds is attending dental college at Cincinnati. Clifford Fish, of Indianapolis, is visiting relatives here. Miss Emma Stewart will go to North Carolina for her health. Sol Deputy, jr., has sold out here and moved to Marion township. W. F. McGuire has moved on the farm Wm. Lilly purchased of Solomon Deputy. Morgan Jolly and wife have returned to their home in Arkansas after a visit to friends here. Charles Wykoff, a prominent young man of Bear Creek, died of typhoid fever on Tuesday. Rev. Powell, Miss Ella Nelson and Mrs. Lotta Forberer attended the Baptist State Convention at Muncie last week. The schools of this township opened last Monday with the following corps of teachers. Miss Vinnie Shepherd, Miss Cora Taulman, James Lewis, Grant Lewis, A. M. T. James, A. S. Deputy and J. H. McGuire. __________________________________ CENTERVILLE ~ October 21, 1890 Mrs. Millie Young is improving slowly at this writing. Ed Jordan is at home on a visit from Horrace, Ind. Katie Billou visited Hattie Wetzel a few days last week. Bert Jordan went to Lett's Corner last Saturday to work this coming winter. Lizzie Ochs and Birdie Dawson visited Phoebie and Lizzie Gahn, Saturday and Sunday. Misses Maggie Wilson, Anna Jordan, and Hattie Wetzell visited Anna Simpson last Sabbath. Byron Green who has been visiting at this place, returned to his home at Elnora, Ind., last Thursday. E. S. Wetzel is progressing nicely in building his residence. The carpenters are Mr. Fisher and Sam Reed. There was a surprise birthday dinner last Monday at the residence of Marion Spencer, it being Mrs. Spencer's fifty-fifth birthday. A number of relatives and friends assembled and a pleasant day was spent. After they partook of their dinner they all returned to their homes feeling that a social and happy day had been spent, and wishing Mrs. Spencer many more happy birthdays in the future. Died. ~ ~ On Monday morning, October 20th, 1890, at his home one mile east of this place of typhoid fever, after a brief illness, Mr. George Tweedy. In his death we have lost one of our estimable young men, one who was well known and highly respected by all. We hope our loss will be heavens gain. He leaves behind him an aged father, mother, four brothers and two sisters and numerous other friends and relatives to mourn his departure. __________________________________ SAN JACINTO ~ ~ October 20, 1890 Mrs. Joseph Ralston has purchased an organ. One of Mrs. Stanley's hogs went mad last week. Miss Ethel Hand is very sick with typhoid fever. Sam Anderson has purchased a fine span of mules. James Giddings is plastering Thomas Bland's house. F. J. Wright made a business trip to Vernon last Saturday. Ed Thomas has bought the Dr. Spencer property at this place. Miss Jennie Cox is teaching a very successful school at Fairview. John F. Hayden is in Kansas looking for a suitable location to move. Ed Thomas purchased a span of mules of Fransaco Mason, of Needmore. John F. Hayden has sold his farm and store to a Rexville gentleman. N. DeVeray of Vernon was in this neighborhood quail hunting last week. Wm. Stanley has gone to Tennessee to look after the interests of his large farm there. Sam Sullivan was accidentally shot while quail hunting last Friday. Not seriously hurt. Valentine Hess, Henry Hinchman and Mr. Redmond were in this vicinity viewing a road last week. Wm. D. Morris, Esq., one of Jennings county's old and respected citizens, died very suddenly of heart trouble on Sunday morning at 6 o'clock in the 66th year of his age. He was well known by a large number of people in every part of the county. A family reunion, with a sprinkling of outsiders, gotten up as a surprise party, assembled at the residence of George Hand last Sunday, the same being the 34th anniversary of his wife's birth. A most sumptuous dinner prepared by the guests was partaken of, over fifty persons being present at the feast. Mrs. Jesse Hand made herself useful as well as ornamental, rapidly and dexterously waiting on the guests, not a rattle of a spoon or a tapping of a plate escaping her observation, while Mrs. George Hand made it her special business to see that no one left the table with a capacity for another mouthful. She was the recipient of many valuable presents, after which all departed for their respective homes.