May 2, 1872 John W., son of Gen. William Grose, died Sunday evening last. "Mrs. Colby will deliver Mrs. Robinson's funeral sermon at the Christian church in Knightstown next May 5." Elder J.B. Ludwig new minister of New Castle Christian Church. W.F. Shelly sold lot at east end of Broad Street to Catholics for church. Mrs. Lee Harvey, daughter of Clement Murphey, died Tuesday evening last "after a short and distressing illness." Sheriff's sale: Samuel Kessinger et al v. Reuben Kessinger, sale of undivided interest of Reuben and Catherine Kessinger in 80 acres, east half of southeast quarter of section 34 township 18 range 11 east, except mill race that runs through northwest corner. "'Squire Albaugh is the most enthusiastic Liberal Republican in New Castle." John T. McCollum agent for the Republican at Circleville; Abraham Frazier at Cowan. Riley Runyan starting a Republican newspaper at Knightsville, Clay County. "J.B. Benbow of Sulphur Springs, the trustee for Jefferson Township, recently 'lit out' very largely indebted to the school and other township funds. It had been a matter of remark for some time that John insisted on the largest kind of tax levies, while it was notorious that he had on his hands a large surplus-the largest, in fact, of any trustee in the county." G.L. Koons head of the New Castle IOOF lodge; S. Burley, secretary. "Wm. Peed's new livery stable, the foundation for which is completed, is indeed a mammoth concern. It will be 160 feet in length and 100 feet of the north part will be 58 feet in width, while the front is 29 feet in width and two stories high. The whole contains an area considerably larger than the Court House." "There have been some high priced horses sold in this neighborhood recently. Peter Shafer sold a four-year-old trotting mare for $700 each, two weeks ago Saturday. Last Saturday he sold a good family horse for $250. Jesse Mendenhall sold a four-year-old English draft gelding for $250." Samuel W. Stewart, died Dublin, April 26, of paralysis, aged 73 years, 9 months, "long an honored citizen of this county." Boston items: "Nathan Millikan is building him a very handsome and commodious home. Reas. Harter has moved on his farm bought of John Foster (formerly the Luke Wiles farm) and is stirring things about right. Reas. knows how to farm. Ben. Replogle is building him a tobacco house. L.B. John is still agent for the Dorsey reaper. Lit is a good farmer, too. Snodgrass & Foster are doing a good business at Ashland. P. Loer is doing a heap of clearing. He knows how to work. Moses Brown is our principal horse doctor. Grandpap Bond and Grandpap Holaday let other people's business alone, consequently, they don't get into any fusses. Grandpap Gebhart stops blood and finds water, but he don't 'exactly know' who it is that 'hooks' his church wine when he hain't at home. Everybody 'wasn't axed' to the party at Billy Holaday's. . . . Friends Scripture School commenced last Sunday, 41 scholars present. The teachers were all children and grandchildren of Grand-pap Brown. Grand-pap calculates to be a 'regular' scholar." Luray items: "The Protestant Methodist Quarterly Meeting in progress, and everybody slicked up. . . .Ulric & Ditch are happy, for we have, as all know, one of the best flouring mills in the county. John A. Powers swings his sledge to the satisfaction of all his customers. Peacock still fires up occasionally at his old stand. Ed West is our wagon and plough man. C.C. Johnson in the shoe and boot business is up to his eyes in work. James and Elias Bailey are our coopers; J. Luellen, harness maker. Sol. and Robert Robe, on the Muncie road, are fencing in new fields. Luray will not die. We have eighteen families-enough to support a good school. At present we send to Miss Caroline Stewart, who is teaching at the Peterson school house. Miss Peterson is teaching us a good school." Summit items: "Our new church will be dedicated in June. A new schoolhouse will be built here this season. . . .Our band is improving daily. . . . Frank Smith teaches a singing school; the class meets twice a week. Frank is very successful as a teacher. Prof. Rudy, we learn, will leave is soon for Baltimore. Mr. Rudy has done much for us, and we will sadly miss him. Lina Shively is teaching our spring and summer school. Her school is well attended, and bids fair to prove a success. Ice & Williamson are driving a good trade in the dry goods line. Charlie Hickman has everything in the drug line you want." Buck Creek items: "Buck Creek forks on J.H. Powers' farm about one mile east of Martin Ulrich's mill dam, one prong running southeast, the other northeast. The northeast fork heads on Benjamin Bowman's and Henry Swoveland's farms. There is good soil in this vicinity as any of your preceding scribblers can describe, although we do not think we havethe enterprise that some others can boast of. Still, we have some good citizens here, men who make money, but not noted like those some of your correspondents write about. Our best farmers are John Roads, Henry Swoveland, Levi Himes, A.J. Current & boys. J.L. and A.J. Current have bought the Col. Thomson farm, for which they pay $6,000, and it is not supposed that Daniel and John will be trouble on their account as they were for Bill, as they sold the farm to them instead of being their sureties, and there will be no discount on the pay for they will scratch it up in time." Buck Creek: "The noted circumstance that has occurred in this vicinity of a slanderous epistle being mysteriously dropped in the hands of a neighbor, notifying him of a private injury being threatened him, he taking counsel and concluded to show it to the opposite party, which resulted in hard words, they accusing each other of writing it for a fuss, and possibly both parties being innocent of committing the offensive deed, and the perpetrator of the transaction got his intended design to make a disturbance between fellow neighbors and members of the same family, and play sneak out themselves and laugh in their sleeves by seeing them act the fool with one another. There is grit to the backbone on both sides, and there will be no forgiving on either side without coaxing. They neither will coax nor be coaxed. The majority of the family is all but one and they will not yield whatever to him. But we hope for better between them."

May 9, 1872 Married, May 1, Parker Bogue & Miss Mollie Madison, "both for some time residents of Spiceland Township." Married, May 2, at the residence of Edwin Swaim, the bride's father, John B. Antrim to Miss Lizzie Swaim. "The newly wedded couple have our special good wishes, and we take this occasion to compliment the Spiceland Cornet Band upon the exquisite serenade improvised on the occasion of the homecoming." Divorce petition, Phoebe A. Weeks v. Jehu Weeks. Samuel Kessinger et al., vs. Reuben Kessinger et al., to sell undivided interest of Reuben and Catherine Kessinger in east half of southeast quarter of Section 34 Township 18 north Range 11 East. Rogersville items: "Our school taught by Miss Luellen is giving good satisfaction. This is her first school, and the way her scholars are pleased shows that she has the gift of the teacher. Sunday school lively; well attended; Ed Duke all right in the harness; and everybody well pleased. Dr. Kerr's practice grows larger as he grows older. He is doing at present a great deal of riding. . . . Charley Clark will revive the tanning business this spring. Charley's motto is 'Work.' I never saw him idle in my life. How is that for a minister? Marion Davis runs the saw mill. He reads up on Sunday. Replogle & Working run the flouring mill situated near the mouth of the Lyle. Several years ago the Macy boys tried to run another branch of the Big Blue up to the mill, but it proved to be an uphill business. Replogle & Working run the mill by water power when water is plentiful, and when their stock of water is scarce, they convert it into steam and run the mill by steam power." Circleville items: "The nice young men go to John Moore's for musk. John says that ten days from this date he will double the price. The skunk peeler has not been patented. . . . David Corey, one of our neatest and best farmers, thinks the money lays in corn and hogs; he is right provided the farmer works as he does. Thomas Sears. . . will build a barn this season. Jesse Hobson is building a plank fence around his new clearning. He will plant 950 fence posts. He don't aim to raise fence posts, however. The funeral of Ellis Hodson will be preached the first Sunday in June." Buck Creek items: "We notice notes from Buck Creek in your last week's paper, and a partial description it is. Some person unknown to me is not giving men of enterprise justice. . . . We wish to have it understood there is as much enterprise in the agricultural line of business on the head of Buck Creek as there is in any part of the county, but we do not put on the same romantic style as the Mt. Summit, Spiceland, and other gents do. But money earned and saved by our farmers is excelled by no other neighborhood in the county. Those farmers mentioned are all good men, but he did not mention the good old Chris [Acker], who settled on the county line when this part was in the wild woods, and made him a nice farm, built him a house of which I will not give a description, but its length and breadth covers nine acres. Chris is a common appearing man, intelligent, peaceable, ever ready to help the needy, poor, and distressed. Benjamin Bowman has a nice brick house. He and his wife are ever welcome visitors wherever they go, and their kindness toward each other, and entertainment they give to their friends when there on visits proves an enterprise that should be an example for all who know them, and their kindness and good feeling toward their neighbors and friends." Lyle schoolhouse: dispute between James Mellette of New Castle and Thomas and Reuben Marshall of Delaware County over horse.

May 16, 1872 Sunday School organized at Boston Schoolhouse, Liberty Township: Superintendent, J.H. Hewit; Assistant Superintendent, Charles Beall; Secretary, James Wimmer & David Young. Robert Gordon of Spiceland is photographer. Young men congregate outside Flat Rock Meetinghouse and disturb worship by talking Henry Goudy, son of James of Liberty Township, killed in hunting accident on May 15, his 20th birthday. Spiceland: E.L. Woolen buried here yesterday by the IOOF. Spiceland items: L.A. Williams returns to his school at Noblesville. Eli Ratliff and Jacob Taylor are repairing their houses. "Jonas E. Hodson is on a four-weeks leave of absence to Iowa. Frank White, who has been on the sick list for two or three weeks is now convalescent under the skillful nursing of O.H. Nixon." Spiceland town election: "The entire Republican ticket was elected. The Trustees from the different wards are: 1st, Lewis Wood; 2nd, Jacob Taylor; 3rd, Joseph Unthank; 4th, Wm. R. Fowler; 5th Milton Taylor; Marshal, J.B. Antrim; Treasurer, Wm. Dawson; Clerk, C.W. Ratliff, Assessor, Jesse Bond." Sheriff's sale: Seth S. Symons v. Moses H. Thurman, 3 acres, part of east half of southwest quarter of section 8, township 16 north, range 10 east. Lyle: "Through the work of Mrs. Narcissa Kerr and others a Sabbath school was organized at this place last Sabbath. J.M. Smith in the chair, J.W. Shockley secretary pro tem. The following officers were then chosen: James L. Waters, superintendent, J.M. Smith, assistant superintendent, J.W. Shockley, secretary, W.H. Bouslog, treasurer. . . . A Sabbath School is much needed here, and it is hoped that all will take this subject into serious consideration and conduct it from a high plane. Many of our country Sabbath Schools are nothing more than a two or three hours' weekly wrangle over some points of doctrine about which no child cares, or can hear with patience." Little Blue item: "James Koons is fitting him up a mansion for the remainder of his days. Success to him and his illustrious family."

May 23, 1872 "J.W. Crowley and lady, formerly citizens of Greensboro, are reasonably and well and prospering. Mr. Crowley is one of the substantial men of Kokomo and he made it principally right there by liberal and fair dealing." "We had a call last week from our old friend Richard Gordon, of Marion, Grant County, formerly of this county. He has been spending about 6 months in North Carolina revisiting the scenes of his youth." Memorial resolutions by Spiceland IOOF Lodge for E.L. Woolen, died May 9, 1872, in 36th year, of pulmonary consumption. Left wife and children. Signed: J.B. Antrim, O.H. Nixon, L.M. Copeland. Memorial resolutions by Knightstown IOOF Lodge, May 14, for John Goodnoe, past Grand Master. Signed: John A. Deem, W.F. Ballard, J.B. Edwards. Circleville items: "T.G. Wright made a new pailing fence all around his garden and truck-patches of about two acres. David Cory has just completed a new frame building with a solid stone wall for the foundation. Thomas Sears has made more pailing and plank fence than T.G. Wright. Edwin Reynolds has got all his possessions pailed in with the exception of two short strings. John T. McCollum will complete his extensive mansion this summer. The dimensions are 60 x 64, and he would build larger if he had the land to build on. . . . . E. Reynolds means business. The turnpikes have been lined with wagons and teams this week with car loads of the best ash lumber." E.D. Baker of Montpelior injured last Friday on work train two miles from new Castle. "George Hazzard has sold the Taylor House to J.S. Hoover who will be 'mine host' on and after June 1. Hazzard takes Hoover's boot and shoe establishment. This is one of the largest trades of the season, the consideration being about $18,000." "L.L. Burr commenced laying the foundation for a $4,500 dwelling on North Main Street last Monday." "Mr. Cummins has the handsomest cornice on his new building in town. The whole front will present a very handsome appearance when completed." C.C. Powell constructing new business building next to M.L. Powell's tin shop. Lyle items: "Sabbath School bids fair to be a success; the Goose Creekers of course want it named the Goose Creek Sabbath School. We put the thing to a vote, and Lyle came out all right. The men who voted for Goose Creek were G.W. Duke, George Messick, G.W. Koons, Miles Pierce, Aaron Haines, and perhaps one or two others."

May 30, 1872 Rogersville items: "Ed Duke's corn is big enough to plow"; "Jesse Luellen, who has got all the stumps pulled up out of his field, does not like to burn them. He would feel lost if he could not plow around the same old fellows." Spiceland Literary Society picnic. Held in Thomas Cook's grove north of town. Organ music by Mr. Smith, singing by Messrs. Mitchell & Barnard, Miss Josie Nixon and others. Prof. Davis gave history of picnics; Prof. Cammack ascended in balloon, and Dunreith band performed. Spiceland: "Thomas Evans, of the firm of Evans & Johnson, has sold his interest in the above to Horace Johnson, a brother of his former partner. They have moved their stock to Lewisville, Ind. . . . C.W. & J.E. Bogue and Bogue & Stubbs are the two remaining dry goods firms left in town." George Hully died May 24, 1872, Rush County, in 27th year. Died suddenly, married less than one year. "Miss Louise Coffin sends us another of her fine articles, descriptive of her California experiences. This will be read with much interest by her friends in this county. She professes to be very much attached to California, and is teaching school where the children are all so good that she fears they will die young." William Duke agent for Singer sewing machines. "The frame building that has done duty for Nixon & Son druggists lo these many years, weighed anchor last Monday, and now lies moored on east Broad street, the property of J.N. Reichart on the lot recently occupied by his shoe shop, just east of Gough's smith shop. Mr. Reichart proposes to fix it up for a business house, and some of these fine mornings it will open with a first class 'grocery store.'" C.C. Hinshaw appointed administrator of estate of John Martin, decd., late of Henry Co. Sale of personal property not taken by widow at residence in Greensboro June 15. Includes blacksmith tools and anvils. Firm of Bedford & Hoover now Bedford & Hazzard. Mrs. Jackson conducting singing school in New Castle.

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