Note: The Peabody Gazette gives us some real insight into life in Plum Grove in the late 1870s and early 1880s. In this weekly newspaper, we find columns entitled “Plum Grove Items.” These columns were submitted mainly by two authors. The first contributor signs his name “A Star Cus,” It is easy to deduce from the style the columns are written and the similarity of the character that this is Starchus M. Spencer. The other contributor signs his name “Num Skull.” Unfortunately, we are never given a clue as to the identity of Num Skull. In these bi-monthly columns, both authors garner a lot of information about the people, the area, and the climate of Plum Grove and its vicinity
| PLUM GROVE ITEMS. | 29 DEC. 1881, Thurs. |
Plum Grove and Vicinity.
Editor Gazette :
Our new machine has ground out but a few items this week.
Mr. J. E. Kennedy is down from Missouri visiting his uncle and friends.
Robert White will leave for Iowa about the first of January on a visit for the winter and, if he can satisfy himself, will locate, but we expect him back next summer.
The Methodists and Christians have held a protracted meeting at the Grove for the past three weeks. They have received about a dozen converts.
Rev. Heagy will preach at the Guilty school house on New Year’s Day at 11 o’clock A. M.
The latest thing that has struck us on the whisky dodge is the St. John lozenge. Said lozenge consists of a candy shell about the size of a filbert full of a pretty good article of brandy. What will come next?
T. L. Ferrier will buy himself a plug hat and a pair of fine boots pretty soon and will blossom out Into a fine stock breeder. He has ordered twelve thoroughbred Cotswold sheep from Bourbon county, Kentucky, for $400.
We have thoroughly talked the “scales” up through our section
and have failed to find one person who favors it. Put up two seales with their beams facing; one for livestock and the other for grain, etc ., and one man can do all the weighing easily and will earn his own salary and a snug little sum for the improvement of your city-is the of-
NUM SKULL.
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