Rossville, IN, Oct. 7, 1897.
While drilling a well today at Sedalia, a village 4 miles east of this place, the drillers struck gas at a depth of 60 feet. The well was on Charles Pritch’s property, near the Vandalia Railroad. When lighted a flame 15 feet high was shown. The gas escaped with such force as to throw large stones out of the hole.  The find is considered valuable enough to warrant a full investigation. Twelve years ago Hamilton Brown, near the same town, struck a strong flow of gas at about the same depth. He drove his well pipe through it, and the was never used for gas. This find, it is hoped will be developed. It is believed there is gas further west than it has been discovered heretofore.

Frankfort, IN. Feb. 20,1896. 
The name of Elder R.J. Parrott, of the Untied Brethren Church, will be presented by Stone River Post, G.A.R., of Frankfort, for departmental encampment. Stone River Post, G.A.R. of Frankfort, is proud of the distinction that ii is the only G.A.R. post in the State that pays benefits to its members. It has now a sufficient sum in its treasury to pay to the family of every deceased member $25. beside bearing the usual funeral expenses.

Frankfort, IN. June 21, 1898.
The much discussed case of Nellie Stevens against the Fowler National Bank of Lafayette is now on trial in the Clinton Circuit Court. Several months ago Nellie Stevens, the keeper of the boarding house in Leadville Col. Moved to Lafayette, and going to the Fowler Bank, announced her desire to deposit $4,800, stating she wanted 2 certificates, one for $2,000, and the other for $2,800. The bank clerk made out the certificates and the Colorado depositor is said to have paid only $3,800 and left the bank before the clerk discovered that the certificates called for $1,000 more money than the fair visitor had deposited. A messenger sent to Miss Stevens, but the lady claimed that she had left the amount the certificates called for, and sued for the $4,800. The banks claims to be able to show that Miss Stevens drew the money out of the Leadville bank, and that she at not time had $4,800. Miss Stevens is a handsome woman, and is said to have a rather romantic history.

Town of Kirklin RESOLUTION
WHEREAS one of our young men, Paul Tharp serving in the military forces in Viet Nam was killed in action July 1, 1970.
BE IT RESOLVED that the Flag be lowered to half mast at the Town Hall until the day of his funeral.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that all citizens of the community share in honorable memory of his supreme sacrifice.
So ordered this sixth day of July, 1970.
The Board of Trustees Town of Kirklin
Floyd F. Sedwick, President Tharp resolution OK'd in Kirklin
The Kirklin Board of Trustees passed a resolution Monday night specifying that the flag at the Kirklin Town Hall was to be lowered to half-mast until funeral services are held for Paul Tharp, of Kirklin, who was injured fatally while serving with the U.S. Army in Vietnam.
The resolution also said, "be it further resolved that all citizens of the community share in honorable memory of his supreme sacrifice."
Many have died in war, but Kirklin mourns first loss
By Judy Watson of Times staff

 
KIRKLIN ---Almost 50,000 American soldiers have died in Vietnam to date, but Friday Kirklin residents mourned the loss of their town's first war victim- Pfc. Paul A. Tharp, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Tharp.
Approximately 200 friends of the Tharp family crowded quietly, into the small Kirklin Wesleyan Church, for the solemn funeral service. Last minute arrivals stood in the back, peering through a high wall of bright flowers sent in sympathy, which later were transported from the church to accompany the body at the gravesite.
The mood was reflected in the organist's somber rendition of "Stand Up for Jesus" and "Battle Hymn of the Republic."
All eyes respectfully bowed or rested sadly on the flag-draped coffin and visiting Pastor Paul Abraham of Lewis Creek, standing directly behind. Only the restless squirms of a few young children broke the still air.
Abraham, a former pastor of Kirklin Wesleyan and father of a brother-in-law to Tharp, spoke briefly and quietly.
"We always appreciated Paul's kindness and devotion as a Sunday school boy and later an usher when we pastored at this church," he told the family and friends.
"We even shared the same birthday-April15," he noted sadly.
Following the brief eulogy, Abraham preached the theme that man's last enemy is death.
"Our country goes to a great extent for victory...in this fight, as in life, the last enemy is death. Christ is our ally and through him, death is swallowed in victory to the Lord," he sermonized.
After grieving family members, each in turn, tearily bent over the coffin, paying last respects to the deceased, the funeral party proceeded to the Oak Hill cemetery.
The foggy and damp weather somewhat appropriately matched the grey occasion. The long train of headlights broke slowly through the fog, and passing vehicles stopped in respect. Public flags hun limply at half mast, joined by many set out by sympathetic Kirklin homeowners.
At the cemetery, the military saluted it war victim. Following Abraham's reading of the Twenty-third Psalm, a lone soldier standing behind the mourning group quietly bugled "Taps: while all heads bowed solemnly.
Under the funeral tent, the honor guard of six young servicemen officially folded the flag draping the coffin, expertly tucked it into a neat triangle, then saluted it and handed it to the young widow, the former Linda Beets.
"Mrs. Tharp, I present you with the flag from the President of the United States, in honor of your husband's service and sacrifice to his country," an officer said, handing her the stars and stripes for which her husband died, ending the ceremony.
Tharp was killed July 1, when a jeep in which he was riding hit a land mine. He had been serving in Qui Nhon, Vietnam since February and had enlisted in the Army in September, 1969.
Another Kirklin minister, Robert Longdon, of the town's Christian Church, echoed the stunned community reaction to Tharp's sudden death in a eulogy printed in the town's shopper's guild:
"It is difficult to find words to express our grief or to cushion our shock....We leave all partisanship behind and remember with respect and gratitude that in a short lifetime he served his country to the full limit of his ability and gave to this land-"land of the free and home of the brave" that last full measure of devotion, his very life."
"Not only Kirklin, but he entire United States stands beside the family in this hour of bereavement. Pfc. Tharp is not a boy that will soon be forgotten, as no soldier has been in circumstances as this. The stamp of his youth, his vitality, his dedication and his courage is upon us. He died as he lived, at the task of peace, amidst the enemy who would threaten our freedom as a passenger in a jeep in fulfillment of a military mission."
(Contributed by Linda Rodriguez)

FRANKFORT, Ind., June 11 -  George Hall, of Columbus, and Gustave Schmidt, of Terre Haute, the burglars who were shot and captured Saturday night at Moran while robbing N. E. White's store, entered a plea of guilty today and were sentenced to four years In prison. The men confessed to burglarizing: stores at Sedalla, Cyclone and Moran during the past three weeks. Thomas Hart was found gilty by a jury today of robbery and given a sentence of two years.
Source: Indiana State Journal June 17 1898

Rev. Thomas HAMILTON and wife, of Clinton county, have celebrated their golden wedding. They are the parents of eight children, three of whom were present.
Indiana General News Items from the Indianapolis News 10 December, 1890