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Newspaper
Sumner Press
Location
Sumner, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1901
Page
5
SEGEGEEES Shire across the county presents lively notes from Lawrenceville with arrivals visits and social events. Recurring names include Corrie Baker and Corrie families with bonds to Vincennes Evansville and Chicago as townspeople travel for reunions visits and holidays.
Local notes show Dr Frazer improving and returning soon. Chas Orr made a Vincennes business trip on Tuesday. Emma Orr visited Sumner friends Saturday. Young stayed with sister Mrs Cal Clark. Elbert Thorn visited Quennell Friday to Monday. H G Milburn traveled from Vincennes on business, visiting Bridgeport. Floyd Abernathy from Lebanon spent New Year’s day with family. Uncle Larry Barns visited from Sumner for a short Bridgeport call. Geo Cooper of Sumner dined with W B Gray in New Year’s dinner. Bresart from MoLine Ill visited. accepted a Murphyboro position. Dan Thorn and others from Lawrenceville visited village. Mrs Hambash and Mrs Steed hosted O’Donnell and Garrip. Church New Year’s Eve well attended. social and devotional events enjoyed. Frank Meinhart, long-time inspector, transferred to Mitchell. Mr Marshall fills vacancy. Chas Smith and Cora Potete quietly wed. Modern Woodmen supper a social and financial success, net about $37. Bells rang in old year. festive scenes and crowd cheers mark the century boundary.
Beulah residents James Yetman wed, Mrs Richard Ammerman received a piano from Hoopeston, and many locals hosted or visited relatives over the holidays. Prizes, travels, and small-town gatherings fill the report with names like Stout, Mushrush, Bach, Galibue, and Bloomfield area ties. Burial and church notes appear alongside wedding and moving plans to Arkansas.
ST. FRANCISVILLE reports E. A. Hall arrived from Arkansas on Christmas day and will spend a week with Lawrenceville relatives. Misses Bessie Griggs and Maggie Saunders visited Allendale for New Year. A Catholic hall entertainment Monday night pleased attendees. Mrs. Ezra Vandermark of Croasville helped her sister Mia at Christmas. Rolin Gray and Frank Abernathy of Bridgeport visited with Syd in town for New Year. Wighfield family planned a Snowday trip to Bridgeport to see relatives. Watch meetings and midnight services were held at Catholic and J. B. churches Monday night. C E Young returned Sunday from Fort Branch Indiana after Christmas visit.
Local notes recount Christmas gatherings in Olney and nearby towns with wedding invitations, visits from Grayville and Pleassat Hill, and a remarkable dwarf orange tree grown by Lewis Barnhart's pen. The writer recalls Uncle Tom King's holiday gathering of 31 descendants, and wishes for lasting family ties across generations.
A holiday piece recalls Uncle Breck and Aunt Harriet hosting a traditional Christmas dinner with plum pudding oyster soup and ice cream. Guests included J F and W M Denison families, Sidney Stivera and Thompson families, Eva Moore, John K Hershey, Fred Foss, and A H Laughlin. A note on apple trees and purebred Brown Leghorn chickens from Wilson of Pennsylvania is also mentioned.
The Burlington Route announces three through trains from St Louis to Kansas City and beyond to Puget Sound and Portland. The Burlington-Northern Pacific Express runs St Louis to Portland with chair cars, dining and sleeper coaches. No 5 goes from St Louis to Denver and Pacific Coast, with a night service to Denver and service to St Paul and Minneapolis. No 15 departs St Louis at 9 p m for Kansas City St Joseph Omaha Council Bluffs and more with tourist sleepers. Excursions weekly from St Louis hosted by experienced conductors via Denver Colorado and Salt Lake City aboard wide vestibuled through trains with Pullman sleepers and dining. Cuban postal service has 730 employees in Cuba with 251 post offices and 104 rural letters. Pineat Jr General Passenger Agent directs in Havana. Write for details of journeys west from St Louis.
A vintage account recalls the crown prince of Japan meeting a fisherman’s boy named Yel during a summer at Paramiguara Ise. Their bond formed on swimming skill and drifted into memory as the prince, now married on his wedding tour, yearns to reconnect despite Yel’s continued poverty.
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