Oct. 6, 1870 Obituary of Rev. James S. Ferris. Born Brookville, Ind., Sept. 14, 1818. Moved to Winchester, 1839 and married there Dec. 8, 1844. Moved to Delaware Co., 1847, to New Castle 1850, Muncie 1863, Iowa, 1865, then to Winchester in 1866. Teacher and Methodist Episcopal minister. Left wife, 3 children, and several siblings. Benjamin Hool of Lewisville has sold his store to Richard Wallace of Milton. Popular merchant. Oct. 13, 1870 Married. Oct. 11, at the residence of Lewis Dale by Rev. E.M. Baker, Daniel Hartman & Miss Rebecca McClellan, all of New Castle. New Castle: "Charles Martindale's lecture last Tuesday night at the M.E. church was not very largely attended. The night after the election is not a very propitious time for temperance meetings." Saturday evening last Benjamin Morgan and Miss Laura Osburn were elected teachers at Dunreith. William Elson, employee at Jennings saw mill, had right hand "terribly mangled" last Friday night. T.S. Lines, representative elect from Henry County, "a plain old-fashioned farmer who, with more energy than most, has earned an honest living at hard labor for 30 years past." N. Hayes of Cadiz deputy county surveyor. Oct. 20, 1870 J.E. Hodson letter from Waterville, Washington County, Kansas. "I am now stopping at our old friend, James Hayworth's . . . an old resident of Henry County, who had grit enough to pull up stakes in his old age and come out here where he has now a quarter of good land, with plenty of timber and water, and will soon be comfortably fixed to spend a good old age." Spiceland. "N.H. Ballenger has traded a farm for Jenkins Kennard's interest in the Spiceland Mills situate on Blue River, near the western line of the township." Spiceland: "John Unthank is about to engage in the manufacture and sale of tinware." Spiceland: "Martha Cook is quite sick. She is thought to be worse today [Monday]." Spiceland: "A respectable young man could get half a dozen wives easier than one good hired girl. Indeed, there are but few really good Cooks in this town. We understand that Mr. Levi Hodson has secured one of them." Spiceland: Albert Henley moving from Dunreith to Ackley, Iowa, to join flour mill operation with J.H. Foster, formerly of Dunreith. Spiceland: "Jesse Ballard has just completed his new house. Dr. Stewart and Clarkson Davis are each building dwelling houses." Spiceland: Black barber named Clark has left town, leaving debts behind. Samuel Bogue of Dudley Township oldest man in Henry County. Lemuel Winings, son of Joseph Winings a few miles south of New Castle, hurt in runaway accident returning from Cambridge City fair last Friday. R.M. Grubbs moving to Indianapolis to open "Tinners Furnishing House." Results of township elections. "We present below the names of township officers elected last week for all the townships in the county. Liberty failed to elect an Assessor. Many of the Justices and Constables will not qualify, as the business in most of the townships will hardly justify even one man with ordinary intelligence devoting his time to it. In Jefferson and some of the other townships some of the parties receiving the highest votes were not eligible and we are not able to tell who will fill the offices. Wayne Twp: Justice of the Peace, Branson Swaim, Jacob Green, Henry Bangston. Constable: Wm Brosius, Nicholas Mowrer, Oliver Allee. Spiceland Twp: Justice of the Peace, Jesse Gordon, Nathan Murphey, Wm R. Wilson; Constable, Robert Porch, A.H. Young. Trustee, Albert Newby. Assessor, Nathan Dix. Franklin Twp: Justice of the Peace, C.W. Wiggs, A.C. Shute, W.H. Kerr. Constable, Levi Shute, C. Fancher, R.M. Copeland. Trustee, Abner Ball. Assessor, A.M. Julian Dudley Twp: Justice of the Peace, John M. Swafford, Hugh Sloan. Constable, J.M. Gore, George Scott. Trustee, Phineas Hall. Assessor, C. Ratliff. Liberty Twp: Justice of the Peace, Nathan T. Laywell, Alfred Walker. Constable, Martin Way, Clark Bland. Trustee, T.B. Hewit. Assessor, J.G. Allyn. Henry Twp: Justice of the Peace, A.S. Burr, E.M. Rogers. Constable, H.W. Alexander, John Bock, A.J. Griner. Trustee, H. Thornburgh. Assessor, C.M. Moore. Greensboro Twp: Justice of the Peace, W.W. Southard, Wm. Chew. Constable, David Foster, Alex Pressnal. Trustee, Ezra Spencer. Assessor, D.W. Saint. Harrison Twp: Justice of the Peace, Phineas Lamb, L.C. Oliager, Greenberry Farmer. Constable, E.A. Gregg, James McCormack, Martin Wisehart. Trustee, W.D. Cooper. Assessor, L.W. Modlin. Fall Creek Twp: Justice of the Peace, J. Rice Conwell. Constable, George Saunders. Trustee, John Terhune. Assessor, Caleb Nelson. Jefferson Twp: Justice of the Peace, George Gorman, Lafary Hale, M.D. Harvey. Constable, G.W. Baker, G.M. Atkinson, Thomas Beavers. Trustee, J.B. Benbow. Asessor, C.C.M. Bock. Prairie Twp: Justice of the Peace, Harvey Davis, J.W. Dunbar. Constable, Asa C. Nay, Wm. Miller. Trustee, J.M. Hickman. Assessor: James Richey. Stoney Creek Twp: Justice of the Peace, W.T. Wilkinson, Frank W. Murray. Constable, Daniel Ross, Chris. Richardson. Trustee, Geo. W. Rees. Assessor, J.W. Bidwell. Blue River Twp: Justice of the Peace, A. Wrightsman. Constable, Nehemiah Bell. Trustee, H. Main. Assessor, Amos Davis. "In Jefferson Township, the Democracy met with gratifying misfortune. They had two candidates for assessor. A Mr. Cory received a majority of the votes cast and his election was duly certified. About this time it leaked, that he had resigned the office of Justice of the Peace to run for assessor and the law expressly declares that a Justice of the Peace is not eligible to an election to any other office until the time for which he was elected Justice expires. His opponent had not received a majority of the votes cast was not elected. The consequence, our auditor not being in the habit of appointing Democrats to office felt it his duty to give Democratic Jefferson a Republican assessor." Oct. 27, 1870 Dr. A.V. Talbert now resides at St. Anthony, Minn. Richard Modlin, died Oct. 23, 1870, in his 56th year, five miles northwest of New Castle. Funeral at Sugar Grove. New Castle: "Mrs. Hathaway, a minister of the Society of Friends, held a meeting at the Brethren church last Friday evening. The notice was short, consequently there were very few out. Report says she preached an excellent sermon." John Shroyer has sold his interest in the dry goods firm of H & J Shroyer to Isaac Millikan. "Ben Peed has gone to Chatsworth, Illinois, to clerk for Geo. Taylor."

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