Geneva
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The Shelbyville News
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
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RIVERTOWN
Geneva is a charming village
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The Shelby Democrat
Thursday, January 25, 1906
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GENEVA.
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Mrs. Joseph Gentry
is ill at the present writing.
Ora Cuskaden
of Marion college is visiting his father, J. T. Cuskaden.
Richard Rock
and family spent Sunday with George Cole and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Othor
Howard spent Sunday with Amos Jones and family.
Trustee Oscar Howard
and George S. Billman were at Hope last Saturday.
Miss Dora Roberts
was the guest of Miss Chloe Jackson last Saturday evening.
Harry Wright
of Indianapolis is spending a few days with his uncle, John Woods.
Miss Bertha King
of Milford is sending the week with her aunt, Miss Lewis Wasson.
Miss Bertha Braden
of Decatur county spent Sunday with George Morgerson and
family.
Frank Collins
was given the second degree by the K. of P.'s of this place last Saturday night.
Misses Opal
and Roxie Wasson of Posey county are visiting friends and
relatives in this vicinity.
Miss Alta Wasson
of the Hope exchange spent Saturday and Sunday with her father, Lewis Wasson.
Friends of Steven
Howard will be pleased to note that he is considerably improved from
his recent serious illness.
Harry Howard,
merchant, and Landy Kelley, poultry dealer, were at Indianapolis
last Saturday, transacting business.
Mr. and Mrs. James
Dasson[sic] of Burney last Wednesday visited the latter's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Wasson, who are very ill.
Mrs. Ida Howard,
who has been sojourning with friends and relatives in this vicinity, returned to
her home in Indianapolis last week.
The Rev. Mr. Bean
expounded the gospel to a large congregation at this place last Sunday.
Two additions were received into the church.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming
The Shelby Democrat
Thursday, September 7, 1905
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GENEVA.
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Everybody is preparing to attend the fair.
Othor
Wood and Orel Vaughn have a stand at the fiar this
week.
James
Peck has sold one of his houses and lots in this burg to Frank
Maze.
Henry
Copeland, after a severe tussel with typhoid fever, is able to be out
again.
You will find William Reed under the amphitheater this week,
welling the famous Girton cider.
Mr.
and Mrs. Lon Hiers, of Adams, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Fiscus, of
near Greensburg, were in our town visiting friends last Sunday.
The many friends of Mrs. Mary
Howard will be pleased to learn that she is on the road to health
after a severe attack of typhoid fever.
James Peck, Lon
Gregor and Harry Howard attended the races at
Franklin last Friday. Mr. Peck says Beryl Wilkes went
one mile in the 2:10 pace in 1:55-1/4
The
two services at the M. E. church Sunday were well attended. The morning
service was conducted by the pastor of the church, the Rev. Mr. Bean, the
evening service by Rev. Dimmith, of Shelbyville. Some very
fine music was furnished by Prof. Taylor and wife, of Indianapolis.
There is a great deal of
moving this week. Jeff Lovitt is moving into the property
recently purchased from William Ross; Luther Rosencrans
to the Bethel neighborhood; Albert Neibert into the house
vacated by Mr. Rosencrans, while Warren Wasson
takes the place of Mr. Neibert.
Edgar Blackamore
had a pair of fine colts badly hurt Monday by running away and coming in contact
with a barbed wire fence. Mr. Blackamore took these colts to the
Greensburg fair and captured several premiums with them and was expecting to
show them at Shelbyville this week.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming
GEOLOGY.
The soft magnesian stone found at the base of the Corniferous
group, at Moscow and Milroy, makes a lime that is highly prized by masons and plasterers, and especially by the latter, on account of its working easily and smoothly under the trowel. The Moscow stone, having a considerable percentage of earthy matter, will yield
a "cool" lime that slacks slow1y; while that produced from the Milroy stone, on account of its more crystalline character, will rank
as an intermediate between a" cool" and "hot" lime. Typical" hot "
lime is produced from the hard Niagara stone. It was formerly
thought that the dark, rotten, Corniferous rock, having much the
appearance of a decomposing sandstone, that occurs abundantly on
the banks of Flat Rock and its trlbutaries; was utterly worthless
for making lime. Experience shows that the darkest stone will
burn perfectly white, and that the alumina, or earthy matter, mixed
with it, adds greatly to its value for builders' use. The equivalent
of the stone under discussion is used in making lime at Adams and
Greensburg, in Decatur County, and at Geneva, in Shelby County.
The ease with which the Flat Rock stone can be quarried, and the
less amount of fuel required to reduce it than the hard Niagara
stone, are questions of expense that indicate that the business might
be made to pay in this county.
History of Rush County, Indiana, Brant & Fuller, 1888, pages 272-273.
Copied by Jill Knitl
A Shelby County Newspaper
Special Correspondence of the Democrat:
Geneva, Ind
June 8, 1885
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Simeon Moore is erecting a handsome residence on his farm south of here.
Dr. C. M. Keeling will attend lectures at the Indianapolis Medical College during the next term.
What made Jim Seward leave so hurriedly last Sunday evening while Dad was hitching his horse?
B. T. Bergen is anxiously expecting
an appointment to a clerkship in the Pension Department at Washington.
Dame Rumor in law, hushed voice is quietly coupling the names of
Frank McDonald and Mrs. Elizabeth Mouts together for future "weal or woe".
James Hatton, while riding from the corn field last Monday was thrown from his horse, which had become unmanagable, and severely injured.
His collar bone was thrown out of place and his hip badly bruised.
Squire Ellsberry, after a brief but decisive campaign among the widows of Indiana, closed the engagement at St. Paul on last Friday by completely subjugating the heart and capturing the hand, and gently leading to the hymencal altar the
Widow Hewitt, and there promised by the most sacred vows known to man, to split kindling, carry in wood, and, in short, to be a kind and loving husband to said widow as long as life should last. I wish them much happiness.
Ed Keeling closed his school Saturday.
A young Democrat made his appearance at
Jim Shirley's a few days ago, and Jim is all smiles.
Squire Ellsberry is at least ten years longer than he was a week ago, and is the happiest man in Noble township.
Success to you Squire.
Harvey Lockridge has engaged in the poultry business on a large scale.
Harve makes the breeding of Plymouth Rocks a specialty, and has some of the finest chickens in
the State, Sid Conger's not excepted.
Delos Thompson, of Waldron, was in town to-day looking for a Justice of the Peace.
Sorry to say Geneva could not accommodate him, but if he will leave his case with the long haired man it will receive prompt attention.
Contributed by Linda Ellis
DEMOCRAT - VOLUNTEER.
Shelbyville, Ind., Feb. 26, 1880.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF SHELBY COUNTY.
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FACTS AND FANCIES
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Flashed From the Fabers of Our Special Reporters.
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Notes From all Points of the County
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Geneva.
(Correspondence Democrat-Volunteer)
Geneva, Ind., Feb 25, 1880.
The names mentioned in these sketches were Alexander Tindall, a Republican farmer of this section; J. F. Stewart; George Kail and George Cuskaden; and Wright's schoolhouse where David B. Wilson, Isom Wray, and Dr. Howard of St. Paul spoke.
Names abstracted by Phyllis Miller Fleming
THE SHELBYVILLE REPUBLICAN
Thursday, December 12, 1872
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Rev. D. A. Robertson will deliver a Temperance lecture at Geneva, Saturday night, Dec. 14th.
Copied by Phyllis Miller Fleming
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