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was good and Samuel Hill and John McNeill pres
emily erected a store building of logs. They sofa
tea, coffee, sugar, salt and-whisky In the eroee,s
line and blue Calico brown muslin, cotton ciain
and straw hats, with few ladies' mats ana othei
ornamental feminine apparel in their dry goous
department.
John McNeilrs right name was John hcNahei, ~
He quickly made a fortune of about siz'oVo anu
wooed and Ann Rutledge. linen ne iei' "
bring his mother and sisters from New fork. a
Iopg deIov broke off the engagement and Lincoln
then won Ann McNamer returned to hno AIN
dead of fever.
Town Gets Postoffice
"On Christmas day in 1922" the historian .s soes
on to say, "a post office was estaDlisneu
Salem and Samuel Hill was made pos.ua1 81
George Warburton then built store buiiuihe ann any,,
put in q stock of goods, but soon sou ou' ~ no
Chrisman Brothers, one of whom, lsaae ,,:;,,,
came postmaster on November "a iooi ,.ne to
C1ary the brother of John, who gave MS naihe " W
tho grove where he settled in 1872 erecteu "
hecome proprietor of Clarys grocery. Then caiiie
Doctor Allen who erected dwelling across '"e
street south from the Hill & McNeih s'o'e
.Tn addition to his professional duties Doctor
Allen conducted Sunday school, He was an
ardent temperance man and formed the hrs' .ei
perance society in the community. Inc p'.e
meeting was in his residence or In the log scnoU I
house erected shortly before TINS time Oh uie mn
s,do south of New Salem. Doctor Allen was Doth-
cred as to whether 1t was right or wrong 10 en-
gage in the practice of his profession on ounuays
and compromised the matter Dy reie'hs uie SIN
but giving his earnings on thai uas "' ~ $50
work of the LORD.
"Then during the summer of 1880 Henry On
stott moved from Sugar Grove, erected dweiiing
ond established a cooper's shop, supplying the
kegs and barrels for the -four and meal made at
the mill and the containers for the cured pork
sbipped by fatboat to the markets of the South
generally from Beardstown, to which place 1t was
hauled in wagons.
Denton ofut Arrives.
.Durng the summer of 1881, Denton Offut,
his return from a natboat excursion to New Or
leans contracted for lot IA north of Main street
and erected store building, the deed thereto be-
ing dated September 2 of that year Then came
a rusb of other settlers-Philemon Morris, q tan
ner erected a dwelling and established tan
ward: Joshua Miller, blacksmith and wagon
maker built a residence and established a shop;
Alexander Furgeson and Peter Lufins the shoe
makers; Robert Johnson, the wheewright, who
made LOOMS spinning wheels and furniture; Mar
rabbit fur wool and the fur of other animals; the
Bale family, headed by Jacob Bale who bought
and operated Hills carding machine and store
house for wool the Herndon Brothers, shopkeep-
ers who established store west of the james
Rutledge residence and inn, and in part of the
house of Joshua Miller. which was double, lived
his brotber-in-Iaw Jack Kelso. whose wife kept
boarders occasionally and who hmsef was the
champion hunter and fisherman of the village.
Henry Since came in the fall of 1881 and sold out
Mt the end of a year to Doctor Regnier. Also
came Doctor Duncan David Wherry, Isaac Bur
ner Edmond Greer, Isaac Goamer, Robert and
Wnliam McNeeIy. Caleb Carmen moved there
from Rock Center after Trent left and made
.orhus the town soon became selfsupporting,
and had II not been for the fact that 1t was almost
inaccessible except from the west there Is no rea-