Newspaper clipping by Hannah Mariah from Danville Daily News, Danville, Illinois, dated 7 December 1887, page 2, column 2.
Catlin Clack.
Mr. B. W. Cake and Miss Sausage have formed a partnership and are doing up the town.
The Modern Woodmen will attend a banquet in Danville on Thursday evening of this week.
Geo. Cummings has taken a position as fireman on the Pan Handle road. His address will be Logansport, Ind.
Catlin has a Chautauqua circle of fifteen members that meets bi-weekly and is doing excellent work. They meet this week at the residence of J. W. Newlon.
Prof. Champion is teaching a [ ... ] band at Grape Creek. He gives them two lessons each week [ ... ]
John Collins can now spank his fourth, and should he spank them all at once the music they make will be a male quartette, with the father playing the accompaniment.
The protracted meeting at the Christian church closed on last Sunday night. Four accessions were made to the church. Bro. Hill, the minister, is an earnest man and made many friends here.
The Sunday school will give an entertainment on Christmas eve, as is its usual custom. So far its entertainments have been very interesting, and we know of no reason why the coming one may not be equally as good as any that have gone before.
Guy Sandusky's house is about completed and is by far the best arranged and most elegantly finished house in the township. Its verandas, bay windows, cornices, cellar, rooms and roof are replete in the latest designs of the architect, and its colors are a beauteful contrast of the newest tints of lavender and gold. It also contains a relict of the olden times. The newil post at the foot of the stairway in the hall is richly carved and made of a log taken from a house built in 1837 on the big spring farm near Fairmount fifty years ago. Geo. Watson is the builder and A. F. Nolan, the painter. Each have several hands employed.
A. E. Snell and J. McIntyre have each purchased and are learning to manipulate a bicycle.
