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The Western Star
Thursday November 24, 1881
The Official Paper of the County
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Henry Howry arrived home on Tuesday from Colorado Springs, and with his mother will spend the winter in Florida, at her daughter's Mrs. Voorhis.
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The election for Justices of the Peace on Tuesday last was quite spirited in the afternoon. The following is the result:
B. T. Brown                  312
Jas. B. Graham              291
John P. Keever              263
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On last Friday evening Mrs. Danie Perrine was stricken down with paralysis and is in a very dangerous condition.
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We regret to chronicle the serious illness of Miss Blanche Scoville, who is lying very low with inflammation of the bowels at her home. As we go to press there seems to be no improvement.
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The Rev. T. A. Brandon of Union City, Ind., has been employed by the Christian Church at Bethany as their pastor for the next year. He will make Lebanon his home. He is well and favorably known in this community where he formerly resided.
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The cards are out announcing the marriage of H. Percy Smith and Miss Imogen Parshall on next Thursday evening at the residence of the bride's mother. Upwards of two hundred invitations have been sent out.
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Miss Amanda Stokes, late of the Xenia Home, is stoping with her bother Walt Stokes.
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Miss Maria Adams came home on Tuesday to spend her Thanksgiving at her mother's.
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Miss Anna Porter, daughter of Gov. Porter of Indiana, is a guest of Mrs. McKay, on Broadway.
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Source: The Western Star, Lebanon Ohio, Thursday November 24, 1881, [copy obtained from microfilm available at the Warren County Genealogical Society]