Smithville, Indiana
Encyclopedia
Smithville is an unincorporated town in Clear Creek Township
, Monroe County
, Indiana
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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!"
Clear Creek Township, Monroe County, Indiana
Clear Creek Township is one of eleven townships in Monroe County, Indiana, USA. At the 2000 census, its population was 4,164.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, Clear Creek Township covers an area of ; of this, is land and is water.-Unincorporated towns:* Fairfax at *...
, Monroe County
Monroe County, Indiana
As of the census of 2010, there were 137,974 people, 46,898 households, and 24,715 families residing in the county. The population density was 306 people per square mile . There were 50,846 housing units at an average density of 129 per square mile...
, Indiana
Indiana
Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
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History
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!"