G. Wilse Tilton Scrapbook, page 12, newspaper clipping by Hannah Mariah from Danville Daily News, Danville, Illinois, dated 9 November 1887, page 2, column 5.
Catlin Clack
The public school will give an entertainment on the evening of Thanksgiving day.
Quarterly meeting was held here last Sabbath. Elder Webster delivered a find discourse.
A load of hay belonging to the Brady boys upset on Sandusky street near the railroad crossing one day last week.
An overcoat belonging to Prof. Starks was stolen from the school room in District No. 5 a few nights ago, the thief entering through the window.
Vacant seats in the M.E. church during the hour of Sunday school are becoming quite scarce.
On last Saturday afternoon several of our citizens went to Fairmount to assist in the coal shaft blowout. In the evening a few found their way to Georgetown to a flag presentation.
Last Friday the fortieth anniversary of the marriage of Rev. and Mrs. Hedges was celebrated by a company of neighbors and friends, who with a good store of refreshments paid them a visit about high twelve. The writer was at their marriage "back yonder," and is ready to remark that they are better looking now than they were then, or at least they are not so bashful. She was crowned with a wreath of orange blossoms, and he was made to wear an immense bouquet of the same material. They looked awful good and were as good as they looked. The guests left a large hanging lamp as a memorial of their visit.
With feelings of sadness we note the death of Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Wolf, wife of George W. Wolf, Sr., who was released from suffering Nov. 3rd, at 3 o’clock p.m. She had been sick for near eight weeks. A short funeral service was conducted by Rev. A. Cummings, after which a large train of mourning friends and relatives proceeded to Oakridge cemetery where her remains were carefully laid away. Mrs. Wolf was a sister of Mr. Charles Caraway and was born Oct. 18, 1836, within one mile of the place where she died and where she was buried. She was married Oct. 22, 1854 and was fifty-one years and fifteen days old at the time of her death. She was the mother of six children, two of whom preceded her in death. The eldest died in infancy, the other, John M., whose death was noticed in these items, died about two months ago in the prime of his manhood. She was for thirty-five years a member of the Presbyterian church and lived as she died, a true follower of her Savior. She was a devoted wife and kind mother, and among the sick and suffering was always found ready and willing to give all the assistance in her power. The sympathies of the community are deeply enlisted for the bereaved family. Henry Wolf and wife of Raton, N.M., did not arrive until after she was buried.
