23 November 1871

LYMAN ITEMS
Corn has "riz." -- Johnson and Meserve now pay 30 cts.
All our farmers are bragging of their big corn crop; hardly any of them estimate the yield at less than 50 bushels per acre.
Some of our young folk took a notion to get married the other day, to wit: Mr. Nelson Busick to Miss Maria Woolsoncroft, and Mr. William Wilson to Miss Alice Busick, all of Lyman. They were nice looking girls and proper young men. Maybe you saw them yourself as they departed for Paxton after the event.
Some boys concluded to "charivari" the married folks, aforesaid, and one of them loaded his gun so heavily that on firing it, it burst, injuring his hand so badly that amputation was necessary.
A new time table for the Gilman, Clinton & Springfield Road, took effect on Monday, the 20th. Two passenger and four freight trains a day -- lots of business and heavy trains.

--Paxton Record. 23 November 1871.

9 March 1871

--Paxton Record.  9 March 1871.

12 January 1871

. . . Thompson and Dashiel of Onarga have built a store in our town, and filled it with Dry Goods and Groceries, and are doing a good business. Our R. R. is graded and bridged, and ties are contracted to be hauled. A water tank is also under way.  Most of our farmers, after keeping their hogs until the present time, -- and their value depreciating every week -- have at last concluded to sell, and quite a large amount of pork has been started Chicagoward in the past few days. I have been talking to our farmers about their corn crops and its average yield, and have found that excluding sod corn, the average is fully 43 bushels per acre, and this average, unlike others, is an under estimate, rather than over.

--Paxton Record. 12 January 1871.

50 Years with the RR.

 



--The Pantagraph. Bloomington, Illinois. 23 May 1953. Page 5

ROBERTS RAKINGS
 
--Paxton Record. 12 January 1871.

. . . Thompson and Dashiel of Onarga have built a store in our town, and filled it with Dry Goods and Groceries, and are doing a good business. Our R. R. is graded and bridged, and ties are contracted to be hauled. A water tank is also under way.  Most of our farmers, after keeping their hogs until the present time, -- and their value depreciating every week -- have at last concluded to sell, and quite a large amount of pork has been started Chicagoward in the past few days. I have been talking to our farmers about their corn crops and its average yield, and have found that exluding sod corn, the average is fully 43 bushels per acre, and this average, unlike others, is an under estimate, rather than over.