The Central Record
April 5, 1895

CARTERSVILLE

There was a wheat buyer from Richmond in our village last week.

We enjoyed a good rain on Monday. The farmers are made glad once more.

Messes. Allen and Coldiron left for Kirksville to attend school. The latter to enter the normal department.

Mr. J. B. Carter attended Court at Richmond on Monday. He was mixing with the boys and talking finance.

A Sunday school was organized at Carter's Chapel on last Sunday with prospects of doing a good work. It meets at 10 o'clock, a. m. All are requested to attend on time.

Your scribe is enjoying secrecy, and there is much comment on it. Different ones are accused of furnishing news from this place. We wish to remain so, and if the boys don't walk straight we are going to report on them.

Your scribe was a little too fast last week when he said he thought our watch repairer had absconded with our valuable time piece, as it has now returned all right, and we will say that Mr. Conn knows how to repair a watch.

Mrs. J. A. Dean is seriously ill at this writing.

Wheat is looking fine in this neighborhood.

Mr. Luther Raney lost a good workmate last Sunday from colic.

A steamboat with a saw-mill attached to it is up the river at the present.

Mrs. Peachie Grow sold a lot of corn to Mr. Logan Ison at $2 per barrel.

Mr. Gilbert Turner and Wm. Shear finished gathering corn last week. Rather late to be gathering corn.

Mr. Morton Davis sold his crop of about 3,000 pounds of tobacco to Mr. Beazley, of Paint Lick, last Saturday at 2 cents per pound.

Preaching at Scott's Fork the 2nd Sunday of this month by Prof. Milton Elliott...Rev. Johnson will preach at Mount Hebron next Sunday.

T.L. Sanders shipped 6 hogsheads of tobacco to the Brown Tobacco Warehouse, which averaged him about six cents. His leaf brought $9.70; trash, $5.10.

Mr. Sparks, of Irvine, landed at this place a few days ago with his family and plunder on a raft of logs, which he is going to build a house with on his farm recently purchased from Mr. S. Hurt.

Mr. T. L. Sanders bought five shoats from O. P. Stone last week at 4 cents. He bought five nice hogs from C. M. Moberly for $25. James Hardwick bought a nice cow from Wm. Allen at $25. Last week and T. L. Sanders bought a small bunch of hogs from Freeman Lane at 4c. a pound. Mr. O. P. Stone bought a nice 4-year-old gray horse, 15 ½ hands high, from James Middleton, a horse jockey, last County Court day, at Lancaster, for $65.

Mr. E. F. Worrell, Sr., is very sick, Also Mr. George Lawson has been on the sick list for some days.

Mr. W. H. Furr bought of Mr. Jas. Syler a few days since six hogs for $17 and a heifer and calf for $13.

Mr. John Tankersley had a cow to go mad a few days ago. He had traded for her and she had been bitten sometime.

An extensive movement has been inaugurated in this vicinity to make up a colony for Jacksonville, Oregon, but it seems that several have abandoned the idea of going. The remaining party have arranged to start about April 2nd.

Miss Vashti Clark visited her father, Mr. J. G. Clark, of Cartersville, last week, but returned on Sunday morning in order to keep her engagement at the usual hour.

Mr. Wm F. Kennedy, one of Preachersville's promising young farmers, called on one of our charming young ladies last Sunday afternoon. We extend to him a hearty welcome as it is something very unusual to see him in this vicinity.

Miss Mattie Henry, of Paint Lick, is visiting her brother, Mr. W. F. Henry and family.