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Subject: [ARCLAY-L] All Around Clay County in Years Past.........1882
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 18:27:39 +0000
Taken from republished articles in the Clay County
Courier, Corning, Clay County, Arkansas.
1882
L.E. IMBODEN, popular young merchant and partner of
Morris HECHT in the firm of IMBODEN and HECHT on First
Street, was united in marriage to Mary A. AKERS of the
locally prominent AKERS family on July 23rd, W.B. HARB
officiating. The newlyweds were given a charivari last
night and Lute passed out cigars to the boys around
town.
Attty. F.G. TAYLOR and Miss Viola BELOATE pledged their
vows Wednesday night at the BELOATE home at Olice and
Second. The Baptist Elder, Wm. A. WATSON performed the
ceremony in the presence of the family. the groom has
established a reputation in law, has been admitted to
the Clay County Bar and is mentioned as a prospective
circuit judge before many years. The young couple has
set up to housekeeping in their new home in Corning.
The Courier and the community wish them well.
New Year's 1882 begins with a fresh chapter in the wave
of crime that has been sweeping this side of the county
since the removal of the county seat to Boydsville in
1877. This chapter is titled Murder. On December 29th,
Riley BLACK, Bent TAYLOR and Wm. MULHOLLEN of the
Vidette Community, after spending the day at
Neelyville saloons, were returning home and the body of
RILEY was discovered the next morning on the road out
of Missouri with his throat sliced from ear to ear. A
coroner's jury was convened and RILEY's companions have
been lodged at Boydsville on the charge of murder.
The three principals are thought to belong to the gang
of outlaws that has disturbed the peace of the Western
District since the 1877 bushwacking of Judge KILGORE.
The grand jury that meets in February should give this
outrage a full and completer examination.
The suit of the Iron Mountain RR against Levi HECHT to
settle land titles in Upper Corning was settled by a
decree on August 24, 1882, confirming title to the land
of the plaintiff, the railroad company. The case has
been in courts since August 11, 1874 and Upper Corning,
platted by the Iron Mountain RR in 1873, has been
hammered badly because of the clouded title. Although
the railroad guaranteed their titles to the lots would
be valid, this confirmation of title should promote the
growth of Corning to make the two parts of Corning the
best town in Clay county.
to be continued.....................
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