DAYS OF YORE: 105 years ago
(From the Jan. 28, 1897, files of the Peabody Gazette-Herald)
The ice on Doyle Creek is about 4 Inches thick, furnishing good sport for the skaters and a bountiful harvest for the ice men.
Mrs. E. R. Lowe entertained 25 ladies last Thursday at dinner. They had a very social day and sewed up all her carpet rags.
Nusbaum Bros. sold the largest hog of the season to G.W. Shupe last Saturday. It tipped the beam at 800 pounds.
A poverty social — coffee, doughnuts, calico and jeans — was held Tuesday evening at the joint district west. A prize was awarded to the poorest dressed man or woman. Ten cents admission was charged to the bourgeois who came in garb appropriate to their lowly means, and the proud aristocrat who wore his good clothes was assessed 25 cents, to equalize his valuation.
