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Newspaper
Clippings
We have over
6000 family files in our collection that contain various bits of
information about family names. A good amount of the information
is in the form of newspaper clippings. We are constantly adding
not only new newspaper clippings but also old clippings from
donated newspapers.
We also have an extensive list of microfilm rolls of Clay County
newspapers, some dating back to 1854. Old newspapers are not
only fun to read but contain a wealth of information for the
genealogist or the historian in the family.
Some of the
articles listed in our monthly newsletter The Researcher are
based on old newspaper clippings or excerpts taken from the
microfilm of the old newspapers. Below is an example of one of
the clippings we posted in The Researcher and if you care
to read more you can visit our clippings
page.
Clay County Democrat
The following articles were taken from Captain
ROBERTSON’s Scrapbook, which he kept when he was the editor of
the Clay County Democrat newspaper, which was published at
Bowling Green, Indiana, at the beginning of the Civil War.
Clay County Democrat, July 26, 1861
Dr. Jacob S. KISER: One of the best-educated and most successful
medical practitioners of our place is Dr. Jacob S. KISER. He has
resided among us but a few months, yet his skill has built up
for him a fine and paying practice, and we everywhere hear him
well spoken of. He is not only a good physician, but he is one
of the most enterprising, useful, and candid of our citizens.
Long may he live to dispense the blessing of health to his
fellow men?
Subscription School: Prof. Samuel LOVELESS will commence a
Subscription School at the Union School House in Bowling Green,
on Monday, the 12th day of August next. Parents should avail
themselves of every opportunity to educate their children. Young
men who design teaching this winter will find this a propitious
time to review, and they should not permit the opportunity to
pass. Terms, from three to five dollars per quarter.
The new jail is rapidly approaching completion. The walls are
all up and the rafters on, and in a few days more it will
present every appearance outwardly of a finished building.
Enos MILES, Esq., Attorney at Law, has moved his office from the
Court House to the room one door east of the People’s Store.
Excerpts
from Clay County Advocate
Wednesday, September 27, 1854
Sale of Real Estate
On the 30th
day of September AD 1854, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and
4:00 p.m. of said day, at the courthouse in Bowling Green, Clay
County, Indiana, the undersigned will sell at public auction the
following lands: The undivided 1/6 part of the NE ¼ NE ¼ Sec
28 twp 9N R 7W, to be sold on credit of 6 and 12 months, the
purchaser giving notes with approved security, waving valuation
and appraisement laws with interest from date
James J. MOON, Adm.
Of Levi PUCKET’s Estate
Wednesday, October 4, 1854
Notice is
hereby given that the undersigned has taken out letters of
administration on the estate of William McCARTY late of Clay
County, deceased. All persons having claims against said estate
will please call and present them and all persons owing said
estate will please call and settle immediately. The estate is
supposed to be solvent.
Ellen McCarty, Adm.
October 2, 1854
Notice, is
hereby given that the undersigned has taken out letters of
administration on the estate of David MOSTILLER late of
Clay County deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent.
John Mostiller, Adm. October 4, 1854
Divorce:
Susan KESIAH vs Joel
Owen KESIAH
Be it
remembered that on the 28th day of August 1854, the plaintiff
herein filed her complaint against the defendant, also, the
affidavit of a competent witness that the said defendant is a
nonresident of the State of Indiana; he is therefore hereby
notified, that on the second day of the next turn of the said
common pleas court held at Bowling Green on the 2nd Monday,
November 1854, the said cause will be heard and determined.
Attest, Geo. PICKLY, clk.
Sept. 6, 1854
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