(My last post for tonight.... Nancee) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Journal Leon, Iowa October 25, 1883 Mrs. I.N. MCPHERRIN varied the monotony of our country life on Thursday week by inviting her neighbor ladies to a good old fashioned quilting. A privilege of enjoying the society of Mrs. SEABURN, sister of the hostess, was appreciated. The young ladies of the family assisted their mother in entertaining the guests very acceptably. Grandma LILLARD, as usual, quilted the first stitches. Miss MOLLIE BAKER went to Reno County, Kansas, last week and will enjoy the society of her sister and family, and teach school there again this winter. Our school is a live one. Mr. CONE will teach writing and singing of evenings, so we hear, if he has encouragement to do so, and no doubt he will HEROMANOS RUFF has sold his farm east of Lewisburg, and has a sale next Saturday of personal property. They go to Gillespie County, Texas, Nov. 10th. Mr. and Mrs. RUFF, with their eight children, will be at ENOS DAVIS' the last ten days, in whose family Mrs. R. Formerly lived. They go to be near her aged parents. J.M. LILLARD went to Chicago with stock Saturday week. Mr. JONES has more auctioneering than he can attend to. McKIBBEN's attended the Fair, and Miss LIBBIE being secretary of the inter-school literary society, exercises were postponed on Friday. THOMAS MASON has moved to A.C. NORTHRUP's farm. ----------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert January 7, 2010 [email protected]

Can anyone tell me (l) where Tick Ridge was and (2) who Mr. Cone was i.e. a first name etc. Mary Cone Stewart ---- Nancee Seifert <[email protected]> wrote: > (My last post for tonight.... Nancee) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The Journal > Leon, Iowa > October 25, 1883 > > Mrs. I.N. MCPHERRIN varied the monotony of our country life on Thursday week > by inviting her neighbor ladies to a good old fashioned quilting. A > privilege of enjoying the society of Mrs. SEABURN, sister of the hostess, > was appreciated. The young ladies of the family assisted their mother in > entertaining the guests very acceptably. Grandma LILLARD, as usual, quilted > the first stitches. > > Miss MOLLIE BAKER went to Reno County, Kansas, last week and will enjoy the > society of her sister and family, and teach school there again this winter. > > Our school is a live one. Mr. CONE will teach writing and singing of > evenings, so we hear, if he has encouragement to do so, and no doubt he will > > > HEROMANOS RUFF has sold his farm east of Lewisburg, and has a sale next > Saturday of personal property. They go to Gillespie County, Texas, Nov. > 10th. Mr. and Mrs. RUFF, with their eight children, will be at ENOS DAVIS' > the last ten days, in whose family Mrs. R. Formerly lived. They go to be > near her aged parents. > > J.M. LILLARD went to Chicago with stock Saturday week. > > Mr. JONES has more auctioneering than he can attend to. > > McKIBBEN's attended the Fair, and Miss LIBBIE being secretary of the > inter-school literary society, exercises were postponed on Friday. > > THOMAS MASON has moved to A.C. NORTHRUP's farm. > ----------------------------------------------------- > Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert > January 7, 2010 > [email protected] > > www.iagenweb.org/decatur > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message