Transcribed by Judy Churchill. Thank you Judy!
 

Personal

Ellisville, Ill., June 19, 1885

Dr. S. B. as purchased his brother Charles’ farm near Fairview, and will soon move thereon. We are sorry to lose the Doctor, but believe he will make a first-class granger.

Our Tom, or T. R. Caldwell, adds the profession of dentistry to that of harness making, and when he puts the nippers on an aching molar in a man’s head, the tooth, like Zip’s coon, comes down and out.

Miss Mina Daily is on the sick list.

Hon. C. F. Robison lost a fine Sprague colt, valued at $300, last week.

Joshua Weaver is repairing his house, preparatory to moving to town.

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Joshua, June 22, 1885

George Andrews’ little boy is sick. Dr. Strong attends him.

Jacob Buck has removed his quarters to Mason City, and will be the leading ditcher there for some time, as work is more pressing in that section of country.

Mrs. Hattie Crowl, of Bushnell, spent a few days with her relatives here last week.

Miss Mattie Havermale and Miss Mary Myers visited friends in Canton last week.

Mrs. Mattie Lewis, of Fairview, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Sam. Shrader, this week.

Grandma Miller has returned from her visit at her daughter’s. She is not very well at this writing.

Anyone finding a coat in the neighborhood of Moore’s Chapel will please return it to J. L. Miller, as he lost one while out riding Monday last.

John Otto has returned to his former home on a visit. He is much pleased with Dakota.

John Vittum’s team ran away Monday evening with a load of hay and completely demolished the wagon. No one was hurt.

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Maple’s Mill, June 22, 1885

Our assessor, E. Jennings, has got through and meets today with the board to equalize the assessment.

Mr. James Mace, our grocery an, is doing a large trade. He beats other towns in the county on some articles.

E. Preston is having a brick cistern made. R. B. Willcoxen is doing the work.

Mr. J. M. Smith and wife, of Canton, was here on a visit last week.

Mr. E. Warfield has gone to Missouri and Arkansas, to look at the country.

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Marietta, Ill. June 23, 1885

Steve Caley and Jos. Faulkner started for western Kansas Sunday evening, to be gone a couple of weeks.

G. W. Kerstetter had a platform dance at Leman at last Thursday evening and an enjoyable time was participated by a large crowd.

Grandmother McCarthy had her leg and arm broken Sunday by falling on a slippery door step.

Last Friday proved quite an exciting day for this neighborhood. Early in the morning news arrived that Miss Nellie Throckmorton had committed suicide the night before by drowning and her body count not be recovered. Several of our citizens hurried forward to the scene and about noon found the object of their search “under a hay stack fast asleep,” She had endeavored to commit suicide by taking morphine, but had taken an overdose, which saved her life, but caused her to spend the night in a most miserable condition. The cause of her rash act is laid to a slight altercation she had with her mother. As the rescuing party were homeward bound they captured a Mrs. Weaver, who was temporarily insane and prancing up and down a small creek with a bag of stones in each hand, trying to find water deep enough to drown herself. She was taken to her home and the rescuing party returned well satisfied with their day’s work.

William Waddell, of Canton, has been roaming over our hills the past week in search of herbs and roots and not being very successful returned home last Saturday.