Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1899-12-20
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MILTON.

Miss Abbie Crawford was home
from Muncie last week.
The schools are dismissed for two
weeks vacation. They will reopen
Monday, January l..
Orville Murley died Saturday
morning after a ten days illness. He
was a on of George and Alice Bor-
der Murley, and was eight years old.
q 18Th the little r5 oy Was THasans:aassaffkk.
pathetic. He knew the time of de-
parture was near and babe farewell
to the family and said I'm goin' up
there; don t worry about me; I'll get
in" He lovingly stroked the face of
his devoted physician, and in a short
while hopefully passed to be forever
with Him who said ''Suffer the little
children to come unto me, for such is
the kingdom of heaven"
Harriet Gard Dillon died December
10, 1899, aged y years. She was
| born at Morristown, N. j., the daugh-
| ter Of Daniel and Hannah Fairchild.
| She was married to Joseph T. Gard,
| August 13, 1850, and in 1860 they
came to Milton and purchased the
farm adjoining Milton on the north
west. Here they raised their family
of five sons and one daughter. The
sons are Seymour of Sioux City, Ia,
Stephen of Milton, Daniel of Rich
mond, Jesse of Milton, and Francis
Of Sioux City, la. The daughter,
Mrs. Augusta Younglove, lives at
Masol City, Ia. One daughter, Ra-
chel, died in childhood. Mr.. Gard
died November ., 1877. On January
21, 1888, Mrs. Gard was married TO
John Dillon of Hamilton, o., who
survives her.
When seven years old she united
with the NJ. E. church and always
held to its faith, although in 1897 she
iITunifed. with Friends s~ocietX~to be in
the same church with her children
Rev. Edward E. Urner conducted
the funeral service at the NJ. E
church, Sunday afternoon, in the
presence of a large attendance o
friends. Interment at West-Sidt
cemetery.
There has been a largely ATTENDED
revival meeting at Doddridge chapel
There have been two acceSSionS, and
several professions of conversion ano
sanctification. Rev. Urner is con
Quoting the services.
Frank Roark is home from New
York. His brother Charles is ex
jpected to spend the holidays at home
from Indiana medical college, where
he is a student.
Harry Nelson and wife of Con.
nersville were here Sunday.
Oliver Ferguson is a juror at Rich
mond.
The Christian church vas reopen
ed Sunday after being closed for in
terror changes several weeks The
Improvements are very pretty and
were much admired. Edgar 2.
Jones, the choir director, had a fine
program of music prepared. Misses
Griffith and Hoshour sang very pref
ty solos, the latter Calvary and
the former The Holy City" The
sermons of the pastor, Rev. W. f.
Shearer, are uniformly god, but
on this occasion they were above the
usual standard. The morning theme
was Obedience to the Heavenly
Vision. Evening, The Old Book
VIII Stand" A special series of
meetings to be held by the pastor
are announced to begin early in Feb
ruary.
| The Citizens Telephone company
/ has extended a line over east of Mil
ton.
Exaggerated reports are scattered
in the neighboring places as to the
amount of diphtheria in Milton The
health officer states this evening
tuesday that there are only four
cases in town and they are mild In
type aud most of the four will be dis
missed before this item appears
through the county.
! The Christian Endeavor meeting
next Sunday evening viii be in
charge of the music committee and
will.large1v be a service of song.