Catlin News Items

G. Wilse Tilton Scrapbook, p. 4, from Danville News, [1887?]

Catlin Clack.

Correspondence Danville News

Our visitors are Mr. Geo. Cummings of Indianapolis, Mr. A. Parker, wife and father of Pilot, Rev. A. Cummings of Fairmount, Miss Mary McCabe of Ridge Farm, Mr. R. E. Rodgers of Hoopeston and Miss Lizzie Fleming of Elrod, Ind.

F. Sherman, Mrs. Lenon, Mrs. Gilliland, Mrs. Hazlerig and a little child of Mrs. Blakeney's are sick.

A large assemblage of friends were called together on the 19th at the residence of Wm. Hawkins to witness the marriage of his daughter Nora to Thomas Church. It was a pleasant event. The Trade Emporium boys were remembered with a bountiful supply of cake, for which they wish to express thanks.

The wind on last Saturday blew off the chimney of the school building and filled the rooms with soot -- not full. It also blew a car off the switch onto the main track and kept it going at the rate of twenty miles an hour. The agent sent a telegram ahead to the next station where it was stopped by blocking up the track. It went sailing.

Leander Shaver, after a three years absence, visited his old home last week. Everybody was glad to meet him. He is running a business college in Eau Claire, Wis.

Once more we make the semi-annual announcement that the Tiltons of Catlin, Fairmount, Palermo and Potomac are in Cincinnati purchasing the usual carload of substantials. Mr. Kiger of Pilot joins them, in fact he is one of the gang. These fellows are not bulldozers nor are they extraordinarily smart, but some way or other they usually lead the procession.

The streets of Catlin have been thoroughly tiled this spring.

Swartz says he has a desire

To get into the office of squire;

   For he claims to be able

   To sit by a table

And decide which lawyer's a liar.

HANNAH MARIAH.