Note: The Pabody Gazette gives us some real insight into life in Plum Grove in the late 1870’s and early 1880’s. In this weekly newspaper we find columns entitled “Plum Grove Items.” These colurnns were mostly submitted by two authors. The first contributor signs his name “A Star Cus” and it is easy to deduce from the way the columns are written and the similarity of the name that this is Starchus M. Spencer. The other contributor signs his name “Num Skull.” We are never given a clue as to the identity of Num Skull. Both of these authors gives us a lot of infomation about the people, the area and the climate in and around Plum Grove.
”Plum Grove will soon be blessed with a tri-weekly stage from Newton to El Dorado, a thing that has long been needed.”
PLUM GROVE ITEMS.
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for a correspondent to wrıte up tlıe items of news that transpire in his vicinity , and the time arrives for a communication to appear ın print and nothing transpires to report, it is then that your correspondent wishes that he was somewhere else.
–The cry for rain is heard from the farmers; many of tlıem are sowing their wheat, while otlıers are waıting for rain before sowing.
–Plum Grove will soon be blessed with a tri-weekly stage from Newton to El Dorado, a thing that has long been needed.
–The house of liquidation in Plum Grove has ”gone where the woodbine twineth, ” and the sign, ”saloon” disappeared. Nothing to be procured for snake bite this side of Peabody.
— Married, on the 3rd inst., at tlıe residence of I. Howe, by Rev. A. Cain, Mr. Harvey Ashenfelter to Miss Ellen Adams, all of Plum Grove.
—A new sign decorates the house of Mr. Worline, showing where the weary traveler can get the best to eat that tlıe country affords. — Dr. I. V. Davis reports the health of the county improving.
A STAR CUS
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