Catlin News Items

Newspaper clipping by Hannah Mariah from The Danville Daily News, Danville, Illinois, dated 6 September 1882.

Catlin Clack.

Correspondence of The Danville News.

CATLIN, Sept. 5, 1882.

Wm. Shaver is off for school at Danville, Ind.

Mrs. Miley, of Georgetown, has been visiting the family of Rev. F. Campbell.

James Sandusky and daughter, of Brownsburg, Ind., and John Litten, of Paris, Ky., are visiting Aunt Betty Sandusky.

H. Lloyd's fine black mare is dead.

Mrs. Keeton received severe injuries by a fall last Sunday.

Dogs have been depopulating A. G. Olmstead's sheepfold.

Frank Crawford celebrated his wooden wedding last Thursday. Thirty-four persons were present. Speeches were made by S. Hodges and R. Crawford. They report a pleasant time.

We will bet in an esthetical way ten thousand dollars that Esquire Franklin has the largest and most productive sunflower in Vermilion county. The stalk is 12 1/2 inches in circumference, and has on it 205 blossoms.

Mrs. J. W. Newlon and Mrs. R. C. Smith are visiting Mrs. Joseph Ashby, daughter of David Shafer, and a dressmaker of Waynetown, Ind.

The new Presbyterian church will be dedicated on Sunday, September 17th, by Rev. Mr. Eichelbarger, of Danville.

Grandma Douglas and Miss Belle Olmstead are visiting at Plano, Ill.

The basket meeting at the fair ground last Sabbath was well attended. Two sermons were delivered by Elder Wood, of Danville. A young brother by the name of Lamb, from the southern part of the State, also made some remarks, and at night preached in the church.

A merchant by the name of Payton, from Springfield, Mo., with J. McBroom and J. Harvey, was looking Catlin over yesterday.

"Uncle Billy" Vanderstein died at the residence of his brother last Tuesday. He was seventy-one years old, had no family, or at least none in this country. He was an Englishman, and formerly a resident of London.

Eli Shepherd is sick.

Considerable excitement was occasioned this morning by the running away of C. T. Caraway's team. It started from McGregor's blacksmith shop on Commercial street, ran to Sandusky street, thence north two blocks to Vermilion street, which they wished to follow, but failed in making the turn. They were brought up in Rev. T. Campbell's door yard, where the runaways are nearly all caught. One wheel of the buggy was broken. J. Buckingham's team, hitched on Sandusky street, also became frightened and broke the tongue of his buggy. Mr. Campbell's fence is badly damaged.

Two buggies collided west of the fair ground on last Sunday evening injuring a wheel on each and stripping one horse of his harness. The parties were unknown to each other.

Now, that both parties have their candidates in the field, fun commences. We like it.

HANNAH MARIAH