125 years ago

march 13, 1885

The Mud Creek Literary Society held their last meeting of the season last evening and the Cottonwood Society will give their last next Tuesday night.

Blue grass is beginning to show up and Bluebirds, sure harbingers of spring, have put in an appearance.

Miss Hattie Spooner, of Illinois, is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Tom Daniels. She is an excellent musician, and is getting up a class.

We neglected, last week, to call attention to Demoney & Bowen’s advertisement in another column, which parties desiring stone or have houses to move should read.

Messrs. Greely Kyle and Tom Daniels can’t agree which has the nicest boy, but Uncle Charlie Hardcastle thinks they’re both about as nice as can be.

A railroad strike of considerable magnitude has been agitating people along the Pacific company’s lines in Missouri and Kansas, for several days. Capt. Doster received orders from Adjutant General Campbell, Tuesday, to hold his company of Militia in readiness for duty at a moment’s notice, and so the boys, rigged in their blue, have been lying on their arms, figuratively speaking, for several days. If our boys are called to a scene of trouble, the strikers had better strike for the woods as fast as their legs will carry them.

Prof. Potter and wife, of Peabody, have gone to swell the crowd of Marion County visitors at the New Orleans Exposition, as we learn from the Gazette.

Will Hannaford has had bills printed at this office announcing a sale of farming utensils and stock at his father’s place four miles southwest of Marion on Wednesday, March 18th.