William Rooks has returned from Nebraska.

Miss Nellie McConnel is visiting in Yates City.

H. Shaw is again clerk at the Churchill house.

John Leigh, of Shenandoah, Iowa, is in the city.

W. H. Ketter and wife spent Sunday in Galesburg.

O. D. Evans, of Peoria, was a Canton visitor the first of the week.

The Rev. Terah Smith is at Wyoming this week, conducting a series of meetings.

Colonel J. M. Snyder will spend a few days at the state capital. He departed last evening.

P. F. Burgoin, proprietor of the well-known Elmwood Marble Works, was in town last Friday.

D. H. Bricker and family departed yesterday for Topeka, Kansas, where they expect to make their home.

Fred S. Tucker and sister, of Peoria, were among those present from abroad at the charity ball Tuesday night.

C. A. Phelps returned on Tuesday from a short visit at Decatur, Michigan. He resumed his school work at St. David yesterday.

The Hon. P. W. Gallagher and wife represented the future County Seat at "the old folks' ball " at the Opera House Tuesday evening.

Miss Sadie Burns and Miss Belle Doner went to Oregon, Illinois, this morning to remain, probably, until the first of next week.

A. V. Whitney, formally of the city, for several years the "traveling man" of the Transcript is about to take the road in the interest of a Peoria cigar house.

G. W. Swan, of Creston, Iowa, accompanied by his little daughter, is spending a few days with his parents, in Orion Township, and other relatives and friends in the vicinity.

Philo G. Smith and wife and Philo G. Smith, Jr., were in the city a portion of the past week. They are well-known former Canton people whose present home is at St. Louis.

Mr. Bear, a son-in-law of Ivory Wood(sp?) and who became a resident of Canton last spring and was employed in the paint room at the Plow Works, has moved back to Elmwood, where he formally resided.

Lyman Coleman has been at home from Chicago since Tuesday. The insurance firm by which he was employed is dissolved. He may take another position in the same city, or possibly accept an offer from Omaha.

After a month's sojourn at home on "sick leave" Frank Porter return to Quincy last Thursday, much improved in health. His mother accompanied him, and his father also is with them this week, having gone over on Saturday.

Silas Cheek, whose serious illness at Havana was noted lately, is fast regaining his accustomed state of health. His wife's condition does not improve, however but seems rather to grow worse. Their daughter, Mrs. H. W. Heald(sp?), of this city, has been with them since Tuesday.

Ellisville

Personal

Willie Vandercar spent Sunday in town.

Buck Flake spent Thursday of last week in Avon.

Mrs. Mary Bays visited Galesburg Friday of last week.

Auntie Wilson of Midway is visiting with the family of ye editor.

John Slater and his mother spent Sunday with relatives near Sepo.

E. White, of the firm White & Foster, Prairie City, was in town Tuesday.

Milt Irons, of Yates City, is spending a few days here with relatives and old friends.

Miss Ida Kimble, of Bardolph, is spending the week with her sister, Mrs. W. N. Hogsett.

Frank Johnson, who has located in Coolidge, Hamilton County, Kansas, orders the Register sent to his address.

J. W. Dodds, who spent a portion of last week in Jacksonville, says the "City of Colleges" is booming and that Morgan County is one of the finest in the state.

The Legend of Coal Creek

Between Fairview and Ellisville Station is a hilly bit of country through which flows Little Coal Creek. In the hills are valuable coal beds, lying generally only a few feet beneath the surface of the ground and cropping out in many places. The little cottages of miners and small farmers, with here and there a little patch of wheat or corn, are the only signs of civilization in the neighborhood. An old settler whom we met recently tells a remarkable story of this region. Many years ago, so the story runs, a man named John Biers lived at or near the confluence of Little and Big Coal Creeks. A little old man dressed in the garb of a hunter made his appearance in the neighborhood, and after wandering around for several days as if in search of something, mysteriously disappeared. For several autumns he came and went in the same mysterious way. One evening Mr. Biers' eldest son who died a few years later and whose remains are buried on the south eighty belonging to N. Aylesworth estate met him and the old man was carrying a sack of silver. On being asked where he got it he shrank from his questions and replied, "It would be death for me to tell; only three white men alive besides myself know where the treasure is, and must keep the secret." Subsequently, Mr. Biers himself met the strange old man lugging something which appeared to be very heavy near the mouth of a deep ravine just below where the Drayville Coal Works are now located. It was almost dark, and the old man turned and slowly retraced his steps up the ravine, followed at a respectable distance by Mr. Biers. At an abrupt turn in the ravine he mysteriously disappeared, and from that day to this he has not been seen, and it is supposed that he is dead. The Indians who had their wigwams at Taylor's Spring believed that there was a cave somewhere near where the old man was last seen, and that it was full of gold and silver. The cave, so the Indians believed, was hidden from all human eyes save those of the old man and his three friends, and would never be discovered unless pointed out by them.

If their belief was correct and the old man and his friends are dead, of course the secret is lost, and the dwellers along Little Coal Creek will never find the hidden treasure.

Fairview

Hugh MacArthur, of Aurora, is visiting at Charles Lowe's.

Charles Stines, and his brother, Frank, of Ipava, are visiting with friends at this place.

Isaac Kerkuff and his sister, Lizzie, are visiting with their uncle, J. G. Swegle at Weedman, McLean County.

The following persons from this place attended "the horse shoe" at Peoria on Thursday; Dr. S. B. Beer, J. H. Greenwell, H. C. Hill, William Mays, T. Farley, John W. Davis, F. G. Smith and F. Lewis.

Mrs. Radcliff is quite sick with neuralgia of the stomach.

Mrs. C. Wyckoff, who has been on the sick list for some time is no better.

William Vanlieu brought to market one day last week a turkey which weighed thirty-four pounds, gross,and which dressed thirty-one pounds. The turkey was of the bronze variety.

Married, at the Methodist Episcopal parsonage, Wednesday, January 4, by the Rev. J. L. Miller, Edward Hagaman to Miss Eveline Middleton. The contracting parties are both residents of this vicinity.

London Mills

Sam Hall, who was on the famous Grierson raid during the late war, can tell some pretty tough army yarns.

It is claimed that the London Clay Company will turn out over a million good building brick during the present year.

Asa White moved his sawmill into Tom Pratt's timber this week and will saw there during the remainder of the winter.

"Uncle Dick" White still insists that a man is not in favor of negro equality unless he is willing to marry a black damsel.

The 'coon roast committee are working like beavers, and President Jones informs us that the roast is an assured success.

John Combs and G. W. Shreeves think they could dispose of a little of the surplus in the United States Treasury, provided they could get it in their coffers.

White Brothers will move to Ellisville when that township's canal is completed and their elegant steam craft will ply between the Station and the village proper.

Dump Harlan has purchased a new $100 gold watch and a new pair of rattlesnake pants. He is evidently bound to make a "mash" on some buxom lass who is in search of a leap-year partner.

Ike Brown, living just northwest of London, claims to have seen the "What-is-it" last Saturday morning. He says that it is no doubt a ravenous panther and that no dog will tackle it. Where is Jeff Stout and the Oak Mound bear-slayers?

During our rambles recently in South Young Hickory we were shown by an old pioneer a mound which, although worn down somewhat and town to pieces by the cattle and hogs, still bore the appearance of having been at one time very large and high. This, we were told, had no doubt been the burial place of some ancient tribe or race of men.(incomplete article)