Local notes and court talk from Putnam county
Our Vicinity reports court activity in Lacon and Wenona with cases heard, miners paid, and locals attending education and church. Dacon Whitney promotes a Peoria Script locale. lectures on Shakers and Jerusalem are staged at Rose's Hall. city post office receives a new cat and editors note community events and social visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dacon
Whitney
Peoria Transcript
Hobart
Rose's Hall
Scott Brothers
Anna Crooks
Jake Strawn
Maud Green
Rose
Jerusalem
Holy Land
South America
Thursdang
Tudge-Burns
Ada_ Burns
Chas. N. Thompson
First National Bank
Cyrus Utchins
Board of Education
Union Schools
Douglas Smith
Kirk's Marble Works
Geo
Cook
Mother
Laws
H. Thompson
Judge Laws
Bam
Emma Strawn
Wenona Coal Company
Joseph Ong
Putnam
Chicago
W.j.brenman
Lacon
Alvin Anderson
Cletl Duncan
Whitefield
Scott
Henkins’s
Daisy
Iowa
Undercliff
W. L. Kelso
Commodore
Elmer Henkins
Paxsr
Sparland Society Oyster Supper At Martin's Hall
The M B church society of Sparland hosts an oyster supper at Martin's Hall Friday night. Other brief items note Owen Morarity visiting from Minnesota, James Uayter selling another horse, J B Sparr visiting Kansas, Henry Sneft to stay in Sparland next year, Harry McClanahan teaching in Sara to, and F A Barr building a salt house. Sam Prisbey injures knee at the railroad, needing sewing, with recovery ahead. Mrs O Martland visiting Wyoming. Chas Sargent back home. G E OraE mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sparland
M. B. Church Society
Martin’s Hall
Owen Morarity
Minnesota
James Uayter
J. B. Sparr
Kansas
Henry Sneft
McFarland
Nebras
Harry McClanahan
Sara
Walter Athvy
Iroquois County
Cartwright
Rogers
Sherburne
Strip
Dakota
Missouri
F. A. Barr
Salt
Wm Berwick
New Orleans
Lizzie Moore
Thos. Kelley
Davenport
Mary Morarity
Sam Prisbey
O. Martland
Wyoming
Gillette
Chas, Sargent
Select party and local notices from Saratoga
A Saratoga note lists Ella Kermeen hosting a Thursday evening party with a grand, elegant supper. It mentions Geo Warren and Andrew Kelley as friends, a marriage Oct 8 between Thos Clark of Sara and Auguste Croaning, and local happenings from dancing at Peter Benders to Mrs Bodkins returning from Chili cothe health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga
Ella Kermeen
Geo. Warren
Andrew Kelley
Clark
Sara
Auguste Croaning
Karley Rerling
Laws
Peter Bender
Anna Bender
Sterling
Bodkins
Chillicothe
Henry Kline
McDonough
Will Harney
Lone Tree Notes Share Local Happenings and Personal Tales
Dorle Sutphen returns from the west pleased with the country. Doc Smith of Venona visits and recalls past youth. Vendors and residents report stock losses, marriages of humor, road improvements, and local gossip. A $1,000 check from Mr Kohn to his Nebraska son is highlighted. The piece weaves town chatter, mischief, and small town events from Putnam and Wheatland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lone Tree
Dorle Sutphen
Doc. Smith
Wenona
M. D
Kansas
Venona
Urphy
Peoria
ABC
Lud
Henry
Bilin
Putnam
Acon
Norton Moffit
Ed Murphy
Prof Linker
Sam McAfee
Lacon
Weveral
Pinery
Mary Hennebery
Kohn
Wheatland
John
Inebraska
Pungent paragraphs from old papers evoke jests and ads
A collage of brief snippets from various papers, including jokes about post offices renamed Westlake, a horned sea creature in San Francisco, a bashful suitor conversation, a court suits over pigs and shoats, and a doctor’s tale of tongue line neuralgia relief. The tone mimics 19th century miscellany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred
Detroit Post
Lincoln
N. M
England
Egypt
Boston Courier
Bobby
Theamily
N. Y
Mitchell County
Squire A
Joe
Uire
Macon
N. Y. Journal
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Matt Condit
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Phgerix
R. T. Connally
Mountain Fork
Ark
Bond
A. L. Hupp
Second Street, Nenry, Ill
V. Becker
Cain
Vincent Becker
J. F. Gates
Bulletin Board
Graham
Marshall County
California
Epp
Lacon Stream Granite
Asmuah
Keire
Orden
Fifth Street
Bridge
Lacon Ill
Alesmen
Chase Brothers
Rochester
W. Y
Ares County
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