Canton
Miss Alice Krischke is visiting friends in town this week.
Miss Jessie Thompson is spending a few days in Peoria.
Miss Lottie Greenleaf, of Jacksonville, is the guest of Mrs. Lee Andrews.
W. E. Gill went to Springfield last evening, to spend two or three days.
N. S. Johnson came down from Chicago Monday, for a stay of two or three days.
Miss Lizzie Harris went to Springfield yesterday, to visit for the next two weeks.
W. O. Dean is looking after business affairs at Chicago and Kansas City this week.
Mrs. W. H. Wilcoxen and two children, of Minneapolis, are visiting at William Waddell's.
Mrs. John G. Piper, Mrs. H. H. Orendorff and Miss Nellie Orendorff are visiting at Leavenworth, Kansas.
John G. Piper, after a rest of two months at home, has resumed the road. He started for Yankton, Dakota, yesterday.
The Rev. H. K. Painter is attending the annual meeting of the Congregational Society of Illinois, at Quincy. This session commenced Tuesday, to continue four days.
Frank Hess in the city, from Newport, Ark., for a stay of a few days. He is accompanied by his wife, who expects to spend some weeks here with relatives at Quincy.
A letter received a few days ago by his father announces that Harry Maple has enlisted in the regular army. He will be at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, for the next three months, in training -- at the expiration of that period joining his regiment, the Seventh Cavalry, in Montana.
W. B. Hall and family left for Genesee County, New York, on Tuesday, to remain during the school vacation. His subordinate teachers all called at his hospitable home in a body Saturday evening, to take leave of their superintendent and wish him a pleasant summer and a safe and refreshed return.
Wiley Armstrong, of New Castle, Indiana, stopped in the city Tuesday, on his way home from a visit in Kansas. His father, the Rev. M. P. Armstrong, a former pastor of the Canton Methodist Church, he reports in very feeble health, paralysis having rendered him almost helpless for the last three years.
J. W. Johnson has just completed a two-story house, twenty-six by sixteen feet, with an "L" sixteen by thirteen, at the corner of Fourth and Hickory streets. The cost is about one thousand dollars.
A thirty-foot extension in the rear of the building occupied by J. L. Swearingen, the south side grocer, whose business has outgrown his present quarters, is to be erected at once by Miss M. P. Raymond, the owner of the property, at the cost of $400 or $500.
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