Town of Smithville
Bloomington (IN) Republican Progress, Feb 11, 1885, p. 2.
Smithville is to have a boom, in the way of a sawmill. The energetic firm
of McDowell & Lucas are setting up their mill at his place and intend to saw
lumber for the people in the vicinity as there is a large amount of timber
that will not do for staves and spokes.
Ex-sheriff Grimes is cutting and hauling logs to the above mentioned mill
and is going to build a new crib and granary as he expects to farm largely
this season after his four years rest--I do not wish you to understand that
he is going to do four years' work in one.
There is a general depression in money matters down this way, it seems to
have sung that old song, "Farewell vain world I am going home," and acted on
the sentiment of the stanza, I do not know what is the cause unless it is
afraid that the county dads will be called on for another appropriation to
dig a canal along the side of the Wylie toepath to lead off the obnoxious
water when they strike the Potsdam or some other dam of that sort, as it
would be very insalubrious to inhale the obnoxious effluvia that would flow
from such a dam.
Everything is flat--even matrimony. A young widow, as pretty as an
Alexander peach fully ripe, and worth $20,000 in real estate, would have to
hunt a fellow down with a shotgun and then give a premium before he would
say , "yes!"
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