Personal Paragraphs/About Town
William Jones returned Wednesday from his Colorado trip.
C. R. Walker and family moved to Elmwood, on last Monday.
Frank Wagher of Oneida, is calling on his Knoxville friends today.
Alderman Simpson is slowly recovering from a severe attack of the grip.
Miss Lulu Thompson left Monday evening for Colorado, to visit friends.
S. L. Charles, of Aurora, made Knoxville friends a flying visit on Sunday.
Squire J. C. Cover left Tuesday for Toulon, to visit with his children.
Elder L. B. Myers and daughter spent yesterday at Kirkwood, Illinois, with friends.
Mrs. T. C. Love and children spent a few days at Oneida last week visiting friends.
Mrs. F. Z. Harmony of Abingdon, was here the first of the week, visiting friends.
Misses Ethel Wilcox and Caddie Temple are out of the city visiting Wataga friends.
Mrs. E. H. Schreiber of North Henderson, Illinois, is visiting at the M. E. parsonage.
Miss Rogers of Chili, Illinois, is in the city, the guest of her grandfather, Mr. John Harmony.
Miss Anna Hodge, returned last week from Texas, where she has been spending the winter.
Alvah Cady and P. H. Bull, two of Galesburg's young men, worshipped in Knoxville Sunday.
Nels Gibson left yesterday for Kimball, Neb., where he will raise corn both to keep and to burn.
Rev. A. Norrbom was called to Peoria, Saturday, to attend the funeral of one of his parishioners.
W. H. Epley and wife of Elmwood, came up Saturday evening to see father and mother McClatchey.
Miss Florence Bates, of Galesburg, enjoyed the Sabbath here with her friend Miss May Johnson.
Mrs. Thomas Andrews and Mrs. Dave Simpson, of Altona, visited at Mr. William McClatchey's last week.
Mrs. Richard McCoy left Monday evening for Bradshaw, Nebraska, called there by the death of her son-in-law.
Mrs. Brown and daughter, of Peoria County, have taken up their residence with her sister, Mrs. Parish.
Miss Anna Feeley, who has been attending school here during the winter, returned to her home at Chicago, on Saturday.
United States Marshall Charles came up from Peoria, yesterday, and subpoenaed Fayette Woolsey, to appear before Judge Puterbaugh, and give evidence in a boot-leg saloon case.
Professor O. Z. Johnson undertook to start a musical convention here on Monday evening, but as only three of his audience had time and money enough to spare for the work, he gathered up his traps and departed for other fields.
Charley Welty was back from Monmouth, the other day. He has been working in the Wier Plow shops for the past year, but met with a painful accident last Tuesday, having a portion of a finger taken off in some machinery.
Mrs. Ada Palmquist, who is visiting her sister, Mrs. George Parmenter, of Oskaloosa, Iowa, writes that the numerous company of Knoxville people in that vicinity are enjoying good health, and that she will not be home until she is through with her visit.
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