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Catin News Items
Catlin Calligraphy H. C. Gilliland has a position on the C. & E. I. as brakeman. J. H. Palmer and family, of Danville, visited with A. G. Olmsted last Friday. D. H. Terpening lost a valuable horse last week by congestion of the stomach. William H. Runyon, of Chicago, is visiting with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Runyon. Miss Lulu Donaldson, of Perrysville, Ind., is visiting with A. H. Ewing and wife. Albert H. Parker and wife spent last Sunday at Newton with Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Kyger. Peter Baldwin and family, of Tilton, were guests of Henry Lash and wife, a few days. Miss Sarah Church has been staying in the village with her brother, J. A. Church, for a few days. Clint Parker will embark in the restaurant business at Newman as soon as his room is completed. Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Kable and Miss Allie Henderson of near St. Louis, are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. George Wolf, jr. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Riley Martin a twelve pound boy, and to Mr. and Mrs. George Standing, a fine girl. All are doing well. Little Mary, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Lash [Tash], died last Friday morning and was interred at Oakridge cemetery. William Newlon, while stacking straw one day last week was overcome with the heat and had to be carried to the house where he laid unconscious for quite a while, but is better and around again now. Allen Douglas lost a pocketbook last Saturday afternoon which contained valuables. In the evening it was found by Miss Anna McDonald and returned to the owner. Jesse, the 4-year-old son of Mrs. Clara Lesher, died last Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock after a short illness of brain fever. The body was embalmed and laid in state until Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, when the funeral services were conducted by Rev. Williams, of Fairmount, after which a large coterie of relatives and friends followed the white hearse to Oakridge cemetery where the body was laid to rest. At her home at 4 a.m., last Thursday Mrs. George W. Vandersteen, aged 74 years, after a long illness passed quietly away. She came with her husband to this country from England at an early day and settled about three miles north of Catlin, where she has lived ever since, a happy, quiet life. She was the mother of four children: George, a prominent musical instructor, formerly in Danville years ago, now in Dakota; Ellen, wife of Rev. Phetteplace; William, now connected with Benjamin's Temple of Music in Danville; Mary, the wife of Charles Church living near Catlin. She also adopted a daughter, Miss Nellie Faulds, who has always been a comfort to her in her reclining years. The funeral services were conducted at the house by Rev. Clearwater at 10 o'clock Thursday morning. Mrs. Elsie McGregor, Miss Kate Runyon and Albert and George Olmsted, of Catlin, were present and assisted in singing appropriate hymns which were selected by the deceased. The remains were laid to rest at Oakridge cemetery. Mac
This is the headstone in Oakridge Cemetery for two daughters of John Tash -- Katie, who died in 1895, and Mary, who died in 1894. Both were less than a year old. Second brief death notice for Mary Tash.
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