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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1915
Page
10
In Daily News from Country Bluffs Illinois town life details include plans for a municipal Christmas tree and social events. Reports mention local residents such as George Sisson Henry Linson and H. M. Brosius, family visits, illness cases including erysipelas and a four year old with sore throat, gatherings like rural conference and teachers meeting, and local commerce with cattle shipments and new furnace installations.
DEER RIDGE MO Guy Childers ill with ulcerated sore throat a physician visited Saturday Epworth league grows with Sunday programs at 6 pm Orval Clarkson sold a driving horse to Herbie Jones for 125 Newton Morrow and family visited Wil lisstown Bettie Morrow and family guest Morey Owen returned from Iowa revival at Midway draws attendees Robert Allen in Bunker Hill area week of reports Insurance on Dare school building collected new building planned hauling to be done by patrons free of charge local residents attend church Deer Ridge and surrounding neighbors featured in this period bulletin notes small social visits and weekly church activity with several names and places mentioned
Tioga residents report Keokuk shoppers Monday and Quincy trips Tuesday. Mr and Mrs H H Weiler and families visit. Willis Kropp and Ernie Crail ill with typhoid fever. Royal Neighbors elect officers Ralph Ensminger. Sunday school plans a Christmas program. Prof West to hold teachers institute December 18. Rev Pitman leading revival meetings at Hebron.
Wilt Allen returns from Kansas City with two year old feeding cattle for his farm northeast of Bethel. Miss La Veta Shipton of Carthage visits cousin Miss Aurelia Martin. Mrs. Arthur Wormley and son visit from Oswego, Ill. Mrs. Garvey meets daughter in Bushnell. Margrette Martin hosts a Somerset party. A. C. Lamphere of Monmouth visits Cochran home. Julius Jackson and children from Burnside tour Jackson relatives. Mrs. Weber of Carthage visits Alpha Thomas. Mrs. John Miller and daughter Mary of Bushnell visit Dr. Runyon’s, Miller’s daughter stays for house party. Helen Flynn and Roy Seibert visit Runyon home. Heagy home under rapid completion with moving picture show hoped December 18. E A Hoisington returns from Africa to speak at Ladies Missionary Society praise service. Meyers of Mt. Sterling visits Clark Webster family. Lyda Hanson and Cora Huston shop Keokuk. Presbyterian Sunday School officers elected. Revival services at Methodist church by Rev Maples grow in attendance despite Lima pastor’s death. Services daily this week and three times next Sunday.
Public notice states that under a 1915 Circuit Court decree Agnes Seymour vs James Jarrett et al the master in chancery Edward P. Allen will sell December 24 1915 at 2 pm at the south front door of the Quincy Courthouse for cash the property described as Lot 8 and the south 38 feet of Lot 1 in Block 16 in the original town now City of Quincy Adams County Illinois free of liens with 1915 taxes. Frank J. Penick is solicitor for complainant.
Edward P. Allen master in chancery will on December 22 1915 sell at public vendue the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 21 in Beverly Adams County Illinois with specific exclusions and metes and bounds. Sale at residence on premises to highest bidder for cash, Quincy Illinois.
Public notice to all claimants against the estate of Lucinda Waddell deceased to present claims for adjudication at the Adams County Court in Quincy on the first Monday of February 1916 the 7th. All indebted persons should pay promptly to executor Obadiah Frank Waddell with attorney F M McCann.
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