G. Wilse Tilton Scrapbook, page 14, newspaper clipping by Hannah Mariah from Danville Daily News, Danville, Illinois, dated 7 March 1888, page 3, column 4.
Catlin Clack.
Miss Lena Newlon is confined by fever.
Charlie V. Tilton, of Fairmount, spent a half day at Catlin last week.
R. McIntyre and son John went to Huntington, Ind., this week on a visit.
Orange Gilliland, an ex-Catlin school teacher, is spending vacation here.
Lee Skeen, the celebrated veterinary surgeon of Hume, Ill., was here last week.
George Horner and wife start today to look for a location in some southern climate.
A case of scarlet fever is reported three miles south, in the family of Matt Nelson.
T. B. Graham, Wm. Sandusky and G. W. Tilton went among the hills of the little Vermilion last week to partition an estate.
Frank Gloyd, from Ripley county, Ind., will work for Reece Cook this summer. He is good looking and of susceptible age.
"Swartz" says this climate is terrible, on account of its sudden changes -- winter complaint one day and summer complaint the next.
Mr. J. Mathes, our former hardware man, left today for Sidell, where he will open a business. He is a good workman and a very clever man.
A lingering remnant of the Mount Vernon cyclone struck A. Snell, a trade emporium clerk, while on the excursion last week. He has been sick ever since.
The Sunday school will give an Easter musical concert when the time arrives. An effort will be made to bring all the musical talent of the village to the front.
Mr. Wilson Pemberton was smoking the boys today on account of his late embarkment on the sea of matrimony with Miss Lucy Guthrie, a Potomac lady. Everybody had a good word for him as they ought to have.
The "Woodmen" went to Fairmount last Saturday night to organize a camp at that place, but the required number of charter members not being found, they returned without doing the work.
Elma Perkins, of Clark county, Ohio, will live with Thomas Gowings the present summer. There have also arrived Mr. Curtis Valentine and family and Thomas Martens of Lancaster, O., and M. C. Matts, of Circleville, O. All will become citizens of this township.
Mrs. Hiram Nelson, at a very advanced age, departed this life last Wednesday. Herself and husband lived in a small hut north of Catlin and were receiving support from the county. She was buried at Oak Ridge cemetery, Rev. S. Hodges, officiating. Mr. Nelson is eighty-eight years old.
