Catlin News Items

G. Wilse Tilton Scrapbook, page 12, newspaper clipping by Hannah Mariah from Danville Daily News, Danville, Illinois, dated 11 January 1888, page 4, column 4.

Catlin Clack.

Milton Hodges has added a new boy to his family.

Henry Wolf has bought and moved to the Wm. Ray farm.

Miss Mary McCabe, a dressmaker from Danville, spent Sunday here.

George Searcy, the veteran ventriloquist and necromancer, of Vandercook, is in town today.

A. Richards is visiting his grandfather at New Albany, Ind. He is nearing the close of a busy life.

Richard Clipson is taking a tour through Iowa, Kansas, and may visit the Pacific coast before his return.

Edward Hough, of St. Louis, cousin of Dr. Runyan, and relative of the Jones and Churches, is here on a visit.

A protracted meeting in the M. E. church was commenced yesterday by Rev. H. Funk, of Danville, assisted by Rev. A. Cummings, of Catlin.

A good old fashioned religious revival is in progress at Glossbrener church with Rev. Clark Phetteplace at the helm. Fifteen conversions are reported.

R. and A. Clipson have shipped dur- in the past year 11,430 hogs, making 149 car loads; 325 cattle, making 25 car loads, and 1,050 sheep, making 10 car loads. They paid for their hogs, $79,400, for the cattle, $25,279, and for the sheep, $4,200; total, $108,879.

Mr. Isaac Wolf, who runs a saw mill at the mouth of Butler Branch, a few days ago was trying to tighten a nut near the saw with a monkey wrench. It slipped and the back of his hand was struck by the saw cutting away the flesh and part of the bone. This is a clear case of "monkeying with a buzz saw."

The price of call boxes in Catlin postoffice for many years has been six and one-fourth cents per quarter. A circular from the First Assistant Postmaster General, dated Nov. 22d, makes it ten cents per quarter beginning Jan. 1, 1888. This has given some dissatisfaction and has brought out the following as the price of call boxes per quarter at other offices: Fairmount is 10 cents; Homer, 15 cents; Georgetown, 15 cents; Sidney, 10 cents; Bement, 20 cents; Danville, 50 cents; Indianola, 5 cents. Two reasons have been assigned for the advance ordered here, one is that the democrats are going to take the tariff off wool; another is that republicans are going to take the tax off tobacco. Either one or both of which would increase the expense of box rent. Some say that neither Cleveland or Blaine had anything to do with it and that the circular is a forgery. One old gentleman said that if the government could afford to gather his mail from the four corners of the earth and bring it here without expense to him, he could afford to furnish a box to put it in even if it did coast something, and so it goes. The boxes are nearly all taken.

HANNAH MARIAH