and there are several other good ones in the township that are not old.
In the way of tiling a great deal has been done lately in New Albany Township.
There are several of the citizens who engage in raising fine hogs and other good stock.
As a township, mark New Albany one of the good ones.
NEVADA TOWNSHIP.
A HISTORY OF NEVADA TOWNSHIP FROM 1853 TO MARCH, 1887.
CONTAINING, ALSO, A NOTICE OF MANY OF ITS CITIZENS.
POPULATION IN 1884-TOWNSHIP 637, NEVADA 1,540-2,177.
Elsewhere will be found, also, a history of its early settlements. It received its name, " Nevada" because of its being a favorite name taken from the range of mountains in California called "Sierra Nevada." The township was first organized in 1853, comprising now only township 83 north, range 22 west. Nevada (town or city) was incorporated in November, 1869.
Of the brief items a few were culled from our county papers.
A CARD.-The W. C. T. U. will open a reading room on Monday evening, December 3, in the front room of the building occupied by Mrs. Foster. Gentlemen residing in Nevada and those stopping over night or only for a few hours are cordially invited to spend their evenings at our reading rooms. Respectfully,
(Nov. 26, 1879.) W. C. T. U. of Nevada.
Miss Julia Proutv met with almost a fatal accident last week by falling upon a butcher knife in her own hands. The knife entered over tile heart, striking a rib it glanced upward, missing her heart., thereby saving her life. Rumor says it was an attempt at suicide. Doctor Farrar is in attendance with hopes of a speedy recovery. —(Oct. 2, 1878.)
The first daily mail for Nevada commenced soon after the fifteenth of February, 1864. The first passenger train came to