Catlin News Item

G. Wilse Tilton Scrapbook, newspaper clipping dated 1887, p. 4

Catlin Clack.

Alvin Dougherty, a merchant of Logan, Kan., is visiting relatives in this vicinity. Siegle Miller, a railroad employee, has just returned from the hospital at Springfield. He had measles.

Miss Nora Champion is visiting in Chicago.

S. T. Ellsworth opened the campaign here this morning by singing a Harrison song that was used in the campaign of 1840.

The Catlin cornet band is employed by the old settles for the 3d and 4th at Danville.

A dispatch to Dennis Rouse today states that James Olehy died Monday evening at 7 o'clock in Kansas, and that his remains will arrive at Danville on the 28th.

Miss Ellen Burroughs, sister of Marion and Lee Burroughs, is here on a visit. She lives in Kansas, but was once a school girl in Catlin.

Thomas Collier, one girl on the 21st.

Oakwood cemetery is being thoroughly drained. The tile is being place six feet from the surface.

Arthur Tarrant and wife of Fairmount, were here with his parents last Sunday.

A boy fight on the street a few evenings ago caused a slight flow of claret.

Elder Leffingwell, a Sunday school evangelist, sent out by the Christian denomination, is delivering a series of lectures here.

Quite a number of Masons will go to Fairmount tomorrow to witness the work of some of the grand lecturers of that fraternity.

HANNAH MARIAH.