Some one broke into the store of Howard…
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

acid, taken with suicidal intent. Mr. Cleary was a popular man with all classes of people. He was a Mason in good standing, and was buried with all the honors of the order. His funeral is said to have been the most largely attended of any in that section in many years. Some one broke into the store of Howard H. Betts Wednesday night. Nothing was missed but a few boxes of cigars. The money drawers were pryed open, but nothing found therein. On Monday morning last a warrant was sworn out by Mrs. O. L. Scott for the arrest of her husband on the charge of “wife beating.” The case came up before Judge Lucas in the forenoon of the same day. Mrs. Scott and chil- ( 19 ) dren appeared, and gave evidence while the defendant had nothing to say. Mr. Scott was bound over in the sum of $500, and Mrs. Scott in the sum of $200 to appear before the grand jury, which subsequently found a true bill against Mr. Scott. From ihe Augusi 30, 1889, Issue of The Enterprise Vic Culbertson came over from the Sapello Friday last to be initiated in the chapter, A. F. and A. M. He was put through in the regulation style, and returned home a wiser, and it is to be hoped, a better man. From ihe September 6, 1889, Issue of The Enterprise