Newspaper clipping of 5 April 1888

 

Catlin News Items

G. Wilse Tilton Scrapbook, page 9, newspaper clipping by Hannah Mariah from Danville Daily News, Danville, Illinois, dated 5 April 1888, page 3, column 3.

Catlin Clack

This morning with the rising of the sun the yeomanry of our township took up their march toward Catlin, its favorite shire town. The day was fine, the attendance good and the people were on their very best behavior. Not a rough word was heard spoken nor a darkening frown observed among the people who, for the most part, spent the day in the village shaking hands and cracking jokes. Our voting population numbers about four hundred and fifty of which there were polled three hundred and sixteen. The average republican majority on the ticket is thirty-eight. In the primary J. W. Newlon received a magnificent home endorsement.

An election of officers of Oak Ridge Cemetery Association was also held today, making G. W. Wolf, sr., president; G. Wilse Tilton, secretary and treasurer, and C. T. Caraway, W. A. Church and G. W. Wolf, jr., directors.

Geo. Harner and wife have just returned from an extended trip through the south. At Prairie Grove, Ark., he picked up a bullet on the battlefield and has it in his possession. He also saw the house in which our Gen. Black lay when wounded and talked with the man who carried him milk on that occasion. He was then but a lad.

Uncle Eph Burroughs could never have been coroner had not the republican party lost its "Wad."

Mrs. Wass, of Atwood, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Hazelrig.

The Easter concert was a grand success and demonstrated the fact that our village is brim full of musical talent. None ever regret an evening spent with the Catlin Sunday school.

Miss Lizzie Moore, of Springfield, O., will follow dressmaking at the residence of Thos. Gowings. She is said to have much experience in cutting and fitting.

Rev. J. C. Steele of Kansas, Ill., will begin a series of meetings at the Christian church April 4th. He is said to be a fine speaker.

New sidewalks have been laid on all the principal streets during the last few weeks.

T. A. Taylor has just returned from Presbytery at Newman. Next year it will be held at Sharon, near Georgetown.

"Greenbacker," of the Commercial, a few days ago presented her husband, Mr. Lorenzo Jeffreys, with a bright sparkling new boy. Lorenzo, who is a native of Virginia, bowed to the little stranger, passed to the left and with an agility unlooked for in a man of his age, executed several figures of the "the Virginia reel."

Mrs. Melinda Boggess, made a mistep on the cellar stairs a few days ago and has been laid up since. No bones were broken.

Miss Mary McCabe of Danville, spent last Sabbath in Catlin.

Mrs. Jane Sandusky, of Fairmount, was here on a visit last week.

Wm. Burnside and family and his son-in-law, George Clausmeyer and family started yesterday for a future home in Oregon. "Burney," as he was familiarly called, was a wit and wag, and leaves a vacancy here that will never be filled. The rythmic screeches of his old fiddle will be heard here no more, but we can say with certainty that if he lives to get to Oregon it will be resigned afresh and attuned for the benefit of those who meet him on the other shore. We wish the colony well.

A few republican tickets were discovered here this evening with a "sticker" on them. When traced to its origin, however, it was found that none of the candidates had anything to do with it. None of the tickets were voted.

HANNAH MARIAH