Fulton County Ledger Sep. 28, 1882

Fulton County Ledger
Sep. 28, 1882

Kidnapped.

City Marshal Morgart received a postal card from Avon, signed Henry Huffman, stating that on Thursday, 21st inst., a child named Nannie Walmsley was abducted by two men, and information is desired of her whereabouts. The girl is 12 years old, dark complected, slender, and small for her age. One of the men is named J. K. Walmsley, alias Knox Kennedy, is about 50 years of age, and has served two terms in the penitentiary. The other man is named Rounds, about 40 years of age, and has served one term in the penitentiary. $25 reward is offered for the arrests of the parties.
No particulars about the kidnapping are given, but the fact that the girl and one of the men hear the same name, leads us to suppose the man Walmsley is the father of some relative of the girl, who was probably placed in a family while he was in the penitentiary, and he has taken this method to get possession of her. (transcribed by Bonnie Dagen)

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Officers of Agricultural Society.

Friday afternoon last the following persons were elected officers of the Fulton County Agricultural Board for the ensuing year:

President.
John Prickett, Lewistown.
Vice President.
J. R. Herring, Putman.
Directors.
Astoria—Ed. Brinton.
Farmers—Lafayette Barker.
Lee—James Frederick.
Woodland—Frederick Lalacker.
Cass—J. M. Stewart.
Ellisville—I. C. Fox.
Kerton—William Markley.
Waterford—James Pritchard.
Lewistown—Robert Pritchard.
Fairview—M. M. Johnson.
Canton—T. J. Kelly.
Banner—J. F. Fillingham.
Farmington—I. N. Leeper.
Vermont—Henry M. Cox.
Harris—L. M. Donnelly
Union—J. G. Walker.
Pleasant—W. J. Lovell.
Ipava—Carl Marshall.
Deerfield—James Lawson.
Young Hickory—William Beer.
Isabel—James Lane.
Putman—F. M. Snively.
Joshua—D. G. Christopher.
Liverpool—Lemuel Potts.
Buckheart—Frank M. Fonts.
Orion—J. B. Kelly.

(transcribed by Bonnie Dagen)

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Personal.

Albert Webster will go to Chicago today, to take the junior course in the College of Pharmacy in that city. Albert has been in the drug store of Dr. C. Ross for four years and has been a faithful clerk. He desires to have a thorough knowledge of all the minutia of the drug business and therefore enters a pharmacy school.

A. H. Swain, Esq., of the Monmouth Review, was at the Canton fair on Friday and went from here to Lewistown, to visit Dr. A. Hull and family.
Walter Jackson, a former Canton type, has been visiting his father in this city the past week.

Mr. James Arnett, of Lewistown township, who was recently shot by his son, is in a fair way to recover, notwithstanding the prediction that he could not live. His son Cyrus, who did the shooting, left home.

Mrs. C. Littlefield Smith left Tuesday afternoon to visit her sister in Leavenworth, Mrs. Chester Tuttle.

M. W. Howard, who was some years ago C., B. & Q. agent at Lewistown, has been nominated for state senator by the republicans of Arapahoe county, Colorado.

Rev. McClish, pastor of the M. E. church, has gone to Lexington, McLean county, to attend the annual state conference, which convened yesterday.

Mr. J. R. Rothman is in the employ of D. W. Vittum, jr., a vice president of the state fair in Peoria this week and Mrs. Rothman and daughter are visiting Mrs. R’s mother in Galesburg.

Mr. Hamilton Martin and wife, of Grantsburg, Ind., have been visiting at Mr. George W. Seaton’s for some days. Mrs. Martin is a sister of Mr. Seaton.

Mrs. J. W. Ingersoll and daughter Carrie, who have been visiting in New York and Michigan for several weeks, returned home Thursday last.

Miss Linnie Piper went to Chicago Saturday last, to visit her sister Louise, who is in the retail store of Marshall Field & Co.

Esq. S. N. Breed and family leave this week for Texas, to make a new home in that state. They carry with them the best wishes of many friends.

Dr. Sutton went to Chicago Saturday and returned Monday night.

Mr. John Caulfield, traveling agent of the St. Louis Post and Dispatch, was in Canton yesterday, and called at the Ledger office.

Mrs. R. B. Townsend, of Iowa, has been for some days visiting her mother (Mrs. Hill) and other relatives.

Mrs. R. C. Manley (formerly Miss Hardy, and years ago a teacher in the Canton schools), of Lincoln, Neb., who has been visiting in Ohio, arrived here this morning on her way home, and is the guest of Mrs. B. F. Eyerly.

Miss M. Hedge was in Chicago this week, purchasing another stock of millinery goods.

Mr. Asher Parlin, of Natick, Mass., a brother of Mr. Wm. Parlin, sr., of this city, has been visiting in Canton for several days. (transcribed by Bonnie Dagen)