Postmaster Eads spent two days last week in Peoria.

Supervisor Simpson was in Peoria, yesterday on offical business.

Henry Kennedy is home from a trip north, soliciting for M. E. Schuck.

A. C. Arms, Elmwood's popular merchant worshiped in Knoxville last Sunday.

Miss Lena Eads is absent from the city on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Randall, of Peoria.

Miss Anna Allewelt is still at Elmwood, suffering from the prevailing complaint.

Peter Collins was here over Sunday. He is buying stock at the Union Stock Yards, Peoria.

Miss Rena Evans, of Avoca, Iowa, arrived this morning on a visit to his sister, Mrs. Joe Lander.

W. N. Potts, of the firm of Charles, Potts and Co., Elmwood, was in the city the first of the week.

Mrs. Heddenburg of Clayton, Illinois, who has been visiting her son, returned home on yesterday morning.

Sam. Charles, the " Q's " good-looking purchasing agent, called on his Knoxville friends, on yesterday.

LaGrippe took such a grip on Cliff Brewer that he was compelled to return home from Chicago before he was ready.

Miss Mamie Walker, the charming telephone girl at Elmwood, visited with her parents in this city, the first of the week.

Alderman Rogers has been appointed administrator of the estate of Christopher Geiger.

We stop the press to inform our readers that Charles Egan sells groceries and provisions.

Fred Gottrick has packed his grip and gone to Dahinda, where he will continue the grocery business.

Joe Planter has secured a contract for painting the new college and several of the cottages at St. Mary's.

Green Burner sold to the M. H. Collins, Monday, a car load of hogs, for the Chicago market, that weighed 447 pounds.

Mrs. Estella Ramp will hold a public sale of personal property on Saturday, next, at Samuel Caulkin's residence on North Street.

Jesse Underwood, the " boy singer", who is starring in the country towns, is pronounced by the Yates City Banner to be a fraud.