Catlin News Items

Newspaper clipping by Hannah Mariah from Danville Daily News, Danville, Illinois, dated 18 November 1886, page 4, column 3.

Catlin Clack.

Corn husking is almost over in this vicinity.

Amos Wilson is off for the Grand Lodge of the I. O. O. F. at Springfield this week.

The literary exercises of the school on last Friday were very interesting. Good order prevailed.

Mr. Graham of Georgetown met his daughters from Taylorville, Ill., here last Friday and drove home in a buggy.

A. Gregg has shipped from this station since the first of July, 42,000 bushels of oats and 9,000 bushels of wheat. Wm. Gurling has charge of the business.

Several persons from here attended the Emmet entertainment at Danville last Monday evening. They came home delighted.

The great philanthropic heart of Catlin still pulsates. On last Friday the citizens gathered Scott Wolf's corn, he being afflicted with rheumatism, and on next Thursday a like kindness will be performed for T. H. Hazlerig, who is laid up with cancer in the face.

Last Thursday James L. White and Nellie E. Reed of Georgetown presented themselves at the residence of Rev. S. Hodges, who in a few well chosen words granted them the privilege of living and eating together, and immediately the reed turned white.

As a reader of the NEWS I wish to thank Miss Ruth Rees for her interesting letter and hope she may give us more of them.

The festival for the benefit of the public school happened on an inclement evening; however a bright, pleasant crowd was in attendance. The plan of distributing baskets was entirely new. The teachers by their kindness, unrestrained sociability and pleasing manners made their patrons feel that Catlin had gained much by their presence among us. A museum upstairs contained many curiosities, both ancient and modern--curiosities selected from every department of science, every corner of the earth, and from every tinge of the imagination. The music was furnished by two Feejee Islanders. This was presided over by C. C. Tilton and afforded much amusement.

Rev. Hornbeck will deliver a sermon appropriate to the occasion at the M. E. Church at half past ten o'clock on Thanksgiving day. We expect an attendance from the village and country such as Catlin has never witnessed before on a similar occasion. Let us lay aside our work, our troubles, our prejudices, our two-faced, double-tongued, contemptible, every day cussedness, ane for one day on a higher plane draw near to Him who showers blessings upon us with a bountiful hand.

Charles Wooley, our section foreman, receives letters from Jacksonville, written by a sister who was born blind. She never saw a letter in her life, yet she writes a beautiful hand. How strange it is.

Married, by Esq. J. F. Crosby, at the residence of the bride's parents on Sunday evening, Nov. 14th, Mr. John Todd and Miss Mildred Lynn. They will soon be at home in Mr. L. C. Kiger's house in the second precinct.

The visitors we have been able to note this week are, S. Matier and wife of Iowa, Miss Johnson and a son of Wm. Meadows of Kentucky, and C. Ross of Muncie. There were others but we could not get their names.

Nov. 17th, 1886.

HANNAH MARIAH.