South Whitley Items (1874)

The Whitley County Commercial ~ February 26, 1874

• Our roads are fearfully bad at present.
• South Whitley can boast of as good an orchestra as the country can produce anywhere.
• J. K. Combs and Co., are having the brick hauled for their new store room.
• Joe Shannep is in the telegraph office in this place. Joe is bound to be a thunder and lightning man.
• Myron Cleveland occupies the residence of Mrs. Bitner, and has gone to keeping house and butchering in earnest.
• The concert which was to be held at Colamer on last Saturday evening has been indefinitely postponed on account of the bad weather.
• A daughter of Marcus Norris has been quite ill with pleuro pneumonia, but I understand is now convalescent.
• Dr. Hitchcock preached Mrs. Grafton's funeral, and since writing the notice of her death I learn that she was 27 years of age at the time of her death, and that she was born in England.