Cuba Journal August 23, 1900

Cuba Journal
Thursday, August 23, 1900

Personal and Local

T.E. Vliet(sp?) was in Canton Monday on business.

Jimmie Smith returned home from Canton Sunday.

A. R. Whitnah and wife were in Canton yesterday.

Mrs. John Newburn was quite sick the first of the week.

Oscar Horton, of Astoria, was in Cuba over last Saturday evening.

James Efnor attended the funeral of Wm. Rutherford at Peoria Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Moore were visiting friends in Smithfield Tuesday.

Wm. Legg has gone to Galesburg to do masonry work for the Santa Fe road.

G. R. Mosher and L. W. Snively were in London Mills and Farmington last Friday.

Mrs. Wallace Feagans came down from Peoria Monday to remain with her mother several days.

Mr. Cluts went to Galesburg yesterday to figure with the Etherly Coal Co. on new works at Etherly.

Mrs. G. E. Snively and children went to Ponemah Tuesday for a visit with Mrs. Snively's sister, Mrs. Jesse Lanphere.

Miss Millie Drumb and sister of Muskegon, Mich. are spending the week with friends in Marietta and Bushnell.

Mrs. Frank Wall and two children, Sophia and George, of Kansas City, Kan., came last week to visit Mrs. F. H. Cole.

Wm. Phillips, of Peoria, has been looking after his interests here and visiting old friends the greater part of the week.

Joe Beam and O. J. Moorehouse went to Chicago Tuesday evening, having two cars of hogs and one of cattle in charge.

Master Wallace and Miss Georgia Lou Tuell spent the latter part of last week here with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wallace.

The Riley family reunion which was to have been held last Friday was postponed until Wednesday of this week. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Riley and Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Laws attended from here.

Cuba Schools.

At a meeting of the board of education Tuesday evening it was decided to open school here Tuesday, Sept. 4. The date of opening is delayed one day on account of the 3rd being Labor Day.

Prof. and Mrs. Skinner are here and will board for a time with Mrs. John George until a suitable house can be rented.

Runaway.

Last Friday Wm. Massingale and F. M. Roberts had a very narrow escape from what might have been a serious runaway. While driving down the Turner hill, a mile beyond Roberts, one of the horses got his foot over the tongue and started to run. Massingale jumped out to catch the horse by the bit, but could not. The team ran down the hill and part way up before Roberts succeeded in turning them into the fence. The tongue of the buggy was broken and six spokes knocked out one of the wheels.

Fiatt.

Mr. and Mrs. Alward, of Breeds, visited Mrs. Engle one day last week.

Harry Morgan left here last Saturday for Galesburg and other points on a visit to relatives.

Mrs. Edward Aston and children, of Cuba, were the guests of Mrs. D. A. Brown last Monday.

Elder Mower of Bryant, who has been holding meeting at the Christian church at Ellisville stopped over one night at Fiatt last week on his way home.

Simon Stone has been very seriously ill the past week. His three daughters have been summoned to his bedside.

Mr. Hodson and Miss Jessie Morris were married by Squire Cosler at his residence Wednesday evening, Aug. 15, 1900.