___________________________________ GRAYFORD ~ ~ October 20, 1890 Miss Mattie Grimes visited at Mrs. Jane Ale's last Friday. Emma Held visited friends in this neighborhood Sunday. A. D. Hamrick went to Madison on business last Thursday. Miss Maude Stewart visited her parents at this place Friday. Miss Lillie Rogers was the guest of Miss Nellie King last Sunday. Mr. Ziegler lost a fine horse last Monday week by falling into a well. Willie Rogers started for Kansas City last Wednesday, where he will remain the coming winter. Rev. McCoy filled his regular appointments at Freedom church Saturday and Sunday. George Lockley is thinking seriously of having a patent fastening put on his pocket so his pocket book won't escape. Several of this neighborhood are attending the singing at Rush Branch conducted by Prof. Whitsett and are progressing finely. _____________________________________ BREWERSVILLE ~ ~ October 21, 1890 Mr. and Mrs. Hobson are visiting at Mapleton. G. R. Davis went to Elizabethtown last Sunday. We can feel winter with his chilly blasts approaching. S. I. Stearns and family were visiting at Hartsville last week. Quite a number of our young folks were out cart riding last Sunday. Mr. Malcomb thinks he will get into his new home by the 1st of November. Chase Vincent is trying to regain possession of his place which he sold recently. All voters interested in the political questions of the day should come out and hear them ably discussed by Mr. Rebuck, next Friday night. Republicans that are thinking of scratching their tickets ought to bear in mind that not one, (nay not half a one) Democrat will scratch a single man from his ticket. Treat your party like they treat theirs. _____________________________________ BENVILLE ~ ~ October 20, 1890 BORN ~ ~ To Ike Perkins and wife ~ ~ a fine boy. Sam Ryker has his house about completed. Ike Perkins has moved on the McCammon farm. John F. Hayden has gone to Kansas to look for a new location. Henry Holton has returned to Kansas after visiting relatives here for several weeks. There will be preaching at Bethel on Saturday and Sunday by Rev. J. M. Swarthout of Hayden. Sam Richardson has returned to Ripley county from Nebraska, where he has been for several years. Mrs. Eliza Haines and son William have gone to Oregon, on a visit to her son Grant, who recently married. John F. Hayden has sold his farm to William Alfrey of Ripley county, for $2,000. We hate to lose Mr. Hayden. ___________________________________ QUEENSVILLE ~ ~ October 20, 1890 Walter Carson is teaching the school at this place. Esquire Buchanan holds court now regularly every week. Rev. McCallum held baptismal sercices at Scipio last Monday. J. W. Corya has taken his oath of office as postmaster of Queensville. Miss Dillie McNicholson has gone to Seymour to make her future home. The quail hunters of Cincinnati killed most of the birds hereabouts on Thursday and Friday. Rev. H. A. Tritt, of Columbus, will preach here Thursday night, October 23d, in the interest of the Christian Foreign Missionary Society. J. C. Curtis, G. P. Campbell and J. B. Smith attended the Seymour fair. Mr. Campbell had his trotting colt entered in three classes and took three premiums. Lovers of fine stock should remember the sale of 78 head of the best horses Jennings county ever produced, to be at the Fair Grounds October 28th, the property of the late J. B. Curtis. _____________________________________ FIELDEN LETT. The subject of this sketch, Mr. Fielden Lett, is now before the voters of Jennings and Scott counties as a candidate for Joint Representative at the ensuing election in November next. Said voters may well ask as to his antecedents as a man of business and as a citizen. He was born September 25th, 1817, in Owen county, Ky. At the age of ten years he removed, with his father's family, to Jennings county, Indiana, and located on a tract of land which is now a part of his farm. Daniel Lett furnished his son Fielden with a suit of buckskin clothing and a grubbing hoe, and he was kept busy for the next nine years helping to clear and cultivate the farm. Fielden, by his father's permission, then commenced working on the Madison and Indianapolis railroad, then in course of construction, which was 1836. With the money earned at this work, he entered forty acres of land, which he still owns to-day. This purchase was the last thing he did before his father's death. By his good management and industry he soon acquired another eighty acre tract, making in all 120 acres in his possession before he was 21 years of age. He then married and moved onto his farm which was the basis of his future business operations. In time this small farm was increased by subsequent purchases until Mr. Lett was the owner of two thousand acres of land, but of course these lands were not in one body or farm. In conjunction with his farming he introduced into this county mule raising, and realized handsomely from it, as well as those who subsequently engaged in it. As a boy he was fascinated with the art of veterinary surgery, and in manhood his practice in this art caused him to visit the farms of his neighbors, those of other counties, and later, as his fame spread, he had frequent calls to adjoining States to practice the art. He being a profound thinker and very close observer, his mind was every day being cultivated in business interests pertaining to farms, farming, stock and stock raising of all kinds. His efforts toward bringing Jennings county to the front in the way of raising fine stock has been untiring, and to this fact the people of the county, and of the State, can point with pride. ____________________________________