CUMBERLAND COUNTY
NEWS
27 Aug 1874 Majority Point
Dr. Carpenter kindly furnishes the
following local items:
Ferdinand Duensing threshed 273
bushels of fine wheat from 14 acres of land.
Taylor Young threshed from 7 acres of
land 147 bushels.
Wm. Grosscup threshed from 20 acres
220 bushels.
AJ Payne has 14 head of nice 2 year
old steers of his own raising.
The exreme hot and dry weather has
greatly injured corn crops and will make wheat sowing late.
Information submitted by Debbie.
1875
Inter
Ocean Sep. 2 1875
A Village In Ruins Casey, Ill. Sep. 1
This morning about 1 o'clock a fire
broke out on Main Street at Greenup, Ill. destroying about half the
business houses in the town. the cause of the fire is unknown
.
1876
Neoga
Illinois
Feb 22 1876
Special Correspondence of the
Inter-Ocean Feb 19, 1876
Three men, George Swengel, John
Kimery, and James Wisely, had each a horse stolen her last night. The
animals were tied near the Methodist
Church.
May 08, 1876
The south-bound mail train on the
Illinois Central Saturday was struck by the storm near Neoga and lifted
completely from the track.
Several persons were injured, among them Mr. Doyle, Secretaryof the
State of Wisconsin.
1890
October 5, 1890
Neoga, Illinois
The Rev. G.B. Black preached his
farewell sermon in the Presbyterian Church last Sunday Evening
Mrs. G.W. Monroe and children of
Sullivan, visited friends here the first of the week.
S.P. McAllister, of Decatur, was in
town Monday.
Miss Susie and Alice Votan and Ethel
Simpson visited in Greenup this week,
Professor H.H. Brown, a former
teacher in this place is paying a farewell visit to his many friends
here
before starting for Austin, Texas,
where he will teach this year.
W.R. White moved his family to Normal
this week, and his residence will be occuplied by the Rev. Plowman.
Captain M. Votan made a business trip
to Terre Haute, Greencastle, and Indianapolis last week.
The Cumberland County Fair was held
at Greenup Oct. 1,2,3, and 4. This is the second year Greenup
has held the fair and no pains were
spared to make it a success.
Eugene T. Smith, of the firm of Ewing
& Smith, of Lerna, has bought half interest in the large dry goods
and grocery store of D.C. Greene, and
has been invoicing this week. Mrs. Smith and children have visited
in town for several days.
Miss Sallie Mitchell returned home
Wednesday from an extended trip in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Dr. Chalmers Robe, wife and
sister-in-law started for Wheelock, Ind. on Wednesday.
Will Johnson, of Mattoon, spent
Sunday with his many friends in this city.
J.O. Wallace has been in Indiana this
week.
Mrs. Plowman spent part of this week
in Arcola.
1891
October
19 1891 Inter Ocean
AERONAUT KILLED AT GREENUP
Greenup Ill. Oct. 8
Just as the balloon on the fair
grounds ascended this afternoon, Alex Gordon, a country youth, tried to
jump across the ropes attached to the parachute, but his feet became
entangled in them and he was taken up head downward. In his struggles
to escape he caught the rope that releases the parachute, which threw
him and the balloonist to the earth, about 80 feet below, killing the
balloonist, William Kisser, of Louisville, Ky., and breaking Gordons
leg and arm.
Date: 1891-07-19; Paper: Inter Ocean
NEOGA, July 17,— Special Correspondence
J. T. Wallace shipped the first new peaches from this station last
Monday night.
The Rev. Father Lyon, from Altamount, is the successor of Father Martin
at this place.
Miss Allie Votaw gave her young friends a party last Friday night in
honor of Miss Nora Ward, of Greenup
The Woody Brothers have been holding musical convention here this week.
The Rev. W. D. Baker filled the appointment of the M. E pastor at
Sullivan last Sunday.
Miss Florence Albin returned Saturday from a visit with relatives at
and near Greencastle, Ind. Emberry Hoffman departed yesterday evening
for Bolton, Mo., where he expects to reside for the present.
Miss Lillian Wampler and Miss Pearl Gammon, of Sigel, hare been the
guests of Miss Jennie Good this week.
The Rev. J. M. Johnson started Tuesday evening to accept an Invitation
from the church at Morristown, N. J. to preach at the fiftieth
anniversary of the time he first began preaching, in said church.
Thomas Mitchall came over from Indianapolia last Sunday and joined his
wife in a. visit with his relatives and friends here.
Harvy Wade's residence, west of Neoga, was destrojed by fire on Sunday
night. The loss was $800 and he held a policy in the Continental for
$600.
Mrs. Jonathan Lindley and Mrs. Jesse Coloman started Tuesday morning
for Martinsville, Ind. Mrs. Lindley being is very poor health,
will visit medical springs. Mrs. Coloman will visit relatives.
The apple crop has begun going north, I. M. Wrignt and J. T. Wallace
are already shipping
1894
January
27 1894
BRETHREN IN STRIFE CHARLESTON ILL,
Jan. 26
Special Telegram.
The liveliest Democratic war that was
ever waged in this part of the State is now in progress.
The new Nineteenth Congressional
District takes in a layer of layer of lower counties, one of which is
owned by Congressman Fithian. In
seeking to retain his grasp on his old district he ran up against Andy
Hunter in Edgar, and Dr.
J. W. Neal in Coles. The Craigs, James W. and State Senator Ike, who
have long domineered over
Coles Coanly, have joined the Fitbian forces and are trying to down
Neal, who is a popular
man and a great favorite with the rank and file of his part. With the
Craigs are allied Post master
Briscoe and Colonel R. K. Foller, of Charleston; State Printer
Herreford. of Mattoon, and Bill
Ashmore, of Oakland, chairman of the county central committee
The trouble all
arises from a disagreement as to the manner of selecting the delegates
to the Congressional convention that meets
in Greenup, April 23. On Jan. 18, a meeting of the central
committee of this county was held
and by a vote of 23 to 15, a mass meeting was ordered to be held in
this city Feb. 1 Then the
kicking began. It was charged that there was a scheme to pack the
courthouse in favor of Neal, so a
petition was circulated and found a sufficient number of signers among
the committee to justify a
call for another meeting, which was held this afternoon in this city.
It took two halls to hold the
people. The regular committee met with thirteen of the twenty-three
members and issued a manifesto denouncing
the bolters and standing by its resolve for a mass convention. The
bolters. or "rump." as
they are called, had only nine of the committee with them, but they
knew no fear and issued a call
for a primary to De held in each township March !4.
There are four
Democratic papers in the county, and three of them, the Commercial ,
News, and Ledger, whose editors were here
today, say that they will not publish the call. The
remaining paper, the
Courier, is too busy fighting Cleveland to take a hand in this fight.
The result will be that two
sets of delegates will go down to Greenup and renew the fight there.
The friends of Dr. Neal
acknowledge his defeat, but they intend to die game, and say that they
will pull Fithian's house down
in the wreck. Republicans are rejoicing on all hands, for even
conservative Democrats say that Coles County will be lost to them by
500
majority, and express doubts as to their being able to carry the
district, which is 2,200 Democratic
1895
Inter
Ocean April 9, 1895
TEMPERANCE PEOPLE HARD AT WORK.
Hope To Overthrow The License Party
In Greenup
GREENUP, ILL., April 8.—Special
Telegram
A union temperance revival begins at
the opera-house here tonight, in anticipation of the village election
April 16, when the question
of the license or no license will be hard fought. Rev. H. C. Gibbs,
Rev. D. V. Goudy, and J. L.
Montgomery, of Marshall; Rev. M. R. Palmer, of Martinsville; Rev. C.
Baughman, of Tracy, and the local
ministry will take part in the week's programe, and the revival will
close with the Cumberland
County Woman's Christian Temperance Convention April 13,14 and 15, at
which Mrs. Louise L.
Rounds, State president of the W. C. T. U., of Chicago, and Miss .Mane
C. Brehni, district
president, will be present. License has carried here for two
consecutive years, the vote last year for
president of the village board being, a tie declared in favor of the
license candidate by drawing
lots. Both sides are making usual efforts this spring, and the result
will be close.
Inter Ocean May 22 1895
COLE'S LITTLE GAME,
He Makes Bogus Contracts for
Circus Supplies.
PLENTY OF
VICTIMS.
Showmen Who Know Say It Is Not a New
Trick.
How the Unwary Are Gulled by the
"Tape Measure" and the "Short Change" Schemes.
Greenup, Ill. May 21 Special Telegram
A stranger giving his name as F.D.
Cole Struck this town with a new game on unsuspecting citizens He came
here a week ago claiming to
represent the "Royal English Shows, " a reorganization of the old John
Robinson Circus, which was
to be here next month. he made contracts for livery rigs and for meat,
provisions, and feed to be
paid for and delivered upon the arrival of the show, and said he
would return in four days with his
advertising car, which, of course, never came. His game is to draw the
person with whom he had
contracted into a deal whereby he would raise the supposed order on the
circus company and
divide the difference. that is, if he had contracted for $25.00 worth
of feed, he would give
an order for $35.00 if the feed dealer would advance in $5. the circus
never comes and the
dealer is $5 loser. Cole is a slick man. no doubt, with considerable
circus experience, and
evidently working the game as a business, as he carries a stock of
printed forms for
contracts and orders.
BUT THE CIRCUS MEN LAUGH
Old circus men around town laughed
gleefully when the wail of the people of Greenup was brought to
their attention. "Mr Cole's little scheme," said one
veteran of the white tents last night, "is as old as it circus, and has
been, worked through every section
of the country, and ahead of every real and a host of imaginary
shows. I don't know anything
about any 'Royal English Show' or any 'reorganization of John
Robinson's Circus.' Therefore I
should judge that Mr. Cole's show wither does not exist, or is a cheap
one-tent-and-a-worn-out-elephant affair E. G. Waldron, long known as a
circus
agent, explained the operations of the scheme. "The people are worked
in two ways, and,
as a rule, the town folks are easier to scalp than the jays,"
said Mr. Waldron. "The trick
of issuing bogus orders in a regular thing, and the man makes a
business of it is always armed with a
stack of printed blanks to back his statements.
"Sometimes he works the merchant, as
these people of Greenup have been worked, gets the victim to enter into
a scheme to fleece
the circus, and gets $5 or more of the expected booty from the
greedy countryman. It's a miniature
green goods scheme, that's all. The jay thinks be Is going to rob
somebody else and gets the hot
end. Another way of working the trick is to tell the jay
that a money order has not
arrived, that I need $10, advance it to me and I'll add it
to the amount in your
contract, see?"The farmer is
easily caught on that trick almost every time."
THE TAPE-MEASURE TRICK
"A dodge that I have seen played in
large cities," said Frank Logan, another 'advance man,' " Is the
tape-measure trick. The
sharper selects a vacant lot alongside of a saloon and begins marking
and measuring. Saloonkeeper comes out and
gets inquisitive. Circus man tells him he is finding a lot for So
and-So's show but Is afraid
this lot is too small. Saloon-keeper thinks a week of a
circus right by his door will
net him big trade and bribes the circus man with $100 or so to report
favorably on the
lot. And the circus never comes."
Sidney Euson, a circus man for
fourteen years, described the manner in which the dollars are gathered
after a circus strikes a town.
"The advance order and tape measure
tricks," said Mr. Euson, "are easy and small beside the jobs by
which the 'grafters' skin lambs
when the show is once in town. First the parade. Then a shell game is
opened, and i can tell you the
name of a prominent Chicagoan who used to pay Forepaugh $500 a week for
the shell
privilege.
" The jay, we will suppose, has
escaped the advance man and the shell game, he gets into line and an
animal book is sold him only to be
collected from him when inside the door. "Prize boxes", guaranteed full
of gold and silver-nit-
are sold to him; finally he buys a ticket and is given a deal like
this:
"He buys a 60-cent ticket and hands in
$5. The grafter gives him his change in silver and counts it thus:
'Sixty and fifty is two, two
twenty-five, fifty, three, four, five and there you are", and there he
is, shy a dollar. Or he hands
a $10 bill to the ticket seller, who has a $1 bill in his cuff.
"Smallest you have? Can't change it take it back!"
"And the jay takes back a $1 note
instead of his hard earned ten. that's called 'the push back'.
"Those are merely samples of circus
trickery. the people of Greenup, therefore, are not out of the woods
yet.
If they were so easy on the advance
order graft, what will become of them when a circus actually strikes
their town?
Why, they'll be skinned alive and
lose their next year's corn crop if they aren't careful.
March 10 1895
Greenup Township Nominations
Greenup Ill. March 9
The Republicans of Greenup Township
today nominated as follows Supervisor M. Stockbarger; collector, John
Stull; assessor H.F. Sperry; commissioner of highways, John Waldrip;
town clergy; A.S. Williams. The Democrats nominated the following
ticket; supervisor Charles Conzel; collector, H.F. Booth; assessor,
James Reynolds;commissioner of highways. Arch Fettner; town clerk, W.H.
Cunningham.
Inter Ocean
April 15 1895
Greenup Ill April 14
W.E. Carleton and Miss Electa
Tutewiler were married here this afternoon.
May 22 1895
THEIR MARRIAGE A SURPRISE
Dr. Denman and Mrs. Robertson, of
Greenup, Did Not Inform friends.
Greenup Ill. May 21 Dr. W.O. Denman
and Mrs. May Robertson surprised their friends today by driving to
Toledo and getting married. They left for Plymouth, Ind. where the
groom will engage in business as a merchant.
Inter Ocean April 28 1895
SLUSSER GHOST CEASES TO APPEAR
Strange Story Of A Bargain With the
Greenup (Illinois) Apparition.
Greenup, Ill, April 27-Special
Telegram
The mysterious visits of the Slusser
ghost have ceased. The "woman in black" that is said to have haunted
the home of Lincoln Slusser, seven
miles south of Casey, for the last twenty years, is no more. The
superhuman woman appeared to Mrs.
Slusser and laid bare to her the burden of its heart. It is
said that in an old abandoned well
were the remains of her murdered infant, and if these were removed and
properly buried it
would never appear to her again, but would haunt the guilty parties to
the end of their days. In pursuance of the strange request the
old well was cleaned out and bones, presumably those of the infant,
were really found and
carefully interred and the old well was filled up.
The apparition has not since appeared
and the people of that neighborhood are lapsing into their normal peace
of mind after several months
of intense excitement, during which hundreds of visitors
went from miles around to witness
the maneuvers of the ghost. Reports are conflicting in regard to this
mysterious affair, but there are
worthy persons nevertheless who affirm to have witnessed these
visitations, and who look forward to
the time when there will be a sequel to the mystery
August 22, 1895
Young Hero Rescues A Child
George Smith, Aged 13, Performs a
Gallant Feat Near Greenup, Ill.
Greenup Ill., Aug. 21 The five year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hutsill, four miles west of this city,
narrowly escaped death in a burning barn today. George Smith, 13 years
old, rescued the child, burning himself badly about the hands. The
Hutsill child may live, but is in a critical condition. He was at play
in the barn when it caught fire. the building and contents, property of
H. Bright, were entirely consumed. Two horses burned to death.
Nov. 19, 1895
GUESTS ESCAPE SCANTILY CLAD
Hotel Building at Greenup Illinois is
burned.
Greenup Ill. Nov 18 This morning at 4
o'clock fire broke out in the European Hotel building. the inmates
escaped with only their nightclothes. The losses are estimated as
follows: F.H. Bosworth, European Hotel building, value $3,000; $1,000
in German of Freeport; hotel fixtures and restaurant stock, value
$2,000; $500 insurance in Hartford and $200 in German of Freeport.
Charles Flowers, general stock, values at $5,000; $1,500 insurance in
Connecticut. Sheriff L.C. Feltner, building and contents, hardware and
implements, loss $7,000; $2,500 insurance in German of Freeport. A.R.
Bosworth, building, loss $2,200; $500 insurance in Hartford and $1,000
in Connecticut. the heat and explosion of powder in the hardware store
shattered plate-glass windows and caused damages estimated at $2,000 to
$3,000. The losses generally are well insured. the cause of the fire is
unknown.
Inter Ocean Nov. 14 1895
ANOTHER COMET STRIKES THE EARTH
Greenup Ill Nov 13
The Montrose comet suspended
publication today, Editor J.E. Johnson retiring from the newspaper
business. the subscription lists and the business were assigned to
Greenup Press edited and published by John and W.H. Cunningham in this
city.
1895-06-03 Inter Ocean
Death William Stewart at Greenup, Ill.
1896
Inter Ocean Feb. 13 1896
MALIGNANT DIPHTHERIA AT WOODBURY
Greenup Ill. Feb 12
Diphtheria
of a malignant type has
broken out in the vicinity of Woodbury station, then miles west of
here. One entire family, that of John Wisner, is afflicted. His
youngest daughter died yesterday morning, and his oldest daughter
today, and two of the five remaining children will not survive. the
outbreak of the disease has occasioned much alarm, and the schools in
that vicinity have been closed.
Inter
Ocean Feb. 28, 1896
Greenup Has A Couple Not Afraid of
Matrimony
Greenup, Ill. Feb 27 Abraham Rhue,
aged 64, and Mrs. Rebecca Rocks, age 55, were married in Union
township, Cumberland County. the groom was recently divorced, and this
is the fourth marriage of both the bride and groom.
March 24 1896
VETERANS TO MEET IN JULY
Greenup, Ill. March 23
At a meeting of the officers of the
Cumberland County Veterans Association in this city. It was decided to
hold their seventh annual reunion at the Greenup fair grounds July 2,3,
and 4. A number of regimental reunions will be held at the same time
and place.
Date: 1896-05-23; Paper: Daily Inter Ocean
High School Commencements Greenup (Ill.) Class Dispenses with Any
outside Help Greenup Illinois May 22
The fourth annual commencement exercises of the Greenup High School
occurred at the opera house tonight. A class of four girls and
two boys delivered graduating essays. The programme included: " Shoe
Solo" Miss Jessica Conzet; "Applied Thought" Mr. Stanley Smith; "What
O'Clock Is It?" Miss Mattie Mock; "The Need of the Times" Mr. Charles
Eckard. the event surpassed all previous efforts here, one distinctive
feature being that the programme was rendered entirely by the class,
who interspersed their essays with musical selecting. Newton Ill. May 22
The commencement exercises of the Newton High School were held at the
opera house tonight, and diplomas were conferred upon three young women
and one young man, as follows: Antoinette Girhard, Emily Small, Mable
Clarke, and Ed Arnold. Miss Emily Small was the valendictorian, her
subject being "Hitch Your Wagon to a Star" Ed Arnold's salutatory
was on "A Napoleon of Peace." A quartet, consisting of Misses Jessie
Johnson and Nora McQueen and W.H. Lathrop and Dr. C. Booker, sang and
Miss Antoinette Gerhard gave a vocal solo. Miss Mable Clarke read an
essay entitled "Words Fully Spoken, Acts Well Done" Judge James P.
Jack presented the dipolmas and Rev. U.G. Johnson pronounced the
benediction.
Theirs Is a Much -Mixed Marriage.
Greenup. Ill., March 24—Special Telegram.—
Down in Spring Point Township Cumberland County, Joe Greenwood was
married the second time to Mrs. Nancy Elliott, after having been
divorced from her for years. He had been married once before, his first
marriage to her and twice afterward, this being his fifth marriage and
her second. The groom is 53 and the bride 56 Date: 1896-03-25;
Paper: Inter Ocean