A new article has been added to: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=328 Illinois Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?action=detail&id=59234 Article title: The Quincy Daily Herald Article date: August 2 1893 Article description: Notes From Near-By Article: Pittsfield, Ill., Aug. 1. What would happen if room No. 37 at the Mansion house was investigated? The depot crap game runs full blast every Sunday. Two girls created quite a little excitement by boldly promenading some of our main streets and gaily puffing cigarettes in true dude style last Saturday evening. Two of Pittsfield's boys engaged in a fistic encounter on the square last Sunday morning, and each were fined $3 and costs. Willis Richert and Manager Swan, of the Pittsfield Ball club, have matched a game with Detroit for $50 a side, the game to be played in the near future. The [i]Herald[/i] has made many friends in Pittsfield by its truthful account of the late Kingston murder. The Wabash Base Ball club played the Coopers Sunday. Score - Wabash, 18; Coopers, 14. James Long, of Barry, visited Pittsfield friends two days of last week. Mrs. Myrtle Abbott, of St. Louis, was brought home sick last Sunday evening. There are symptoms of typhoid fever. Frank Utt, of Chicago, was in Pittsfield Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Milton Lindneur, of Tuscola, is visiting relatives in Pittsfield. The fire department are fishing at Clear Lake to-day, Wednesday. A. C. Bently, of Baylis, attended court here last week. Bert McKnight, of this place, rode to Quincy on his wheel Sunday, returning Monday morning. Mrs. E. P. Dow is in Eureka this week as a delegate to the Y. P. C. E. and C. W. B. M. convention from this place. L. J. Huntley returned Monday evening from Barry, where he has been tracing the Regnier robbers. The Nebo Graphic is making itself quite obnoxious on account of its unwarranted attack on several of Pittsfield's best citizens. Wm. Hillerbranner is having his livery stable refitted and repainted. It will soon be the most convenient barn in Pittsfield. Ira Simpkins left for St. Louis last Thursday morning where he intends to reside this summer and fall. Carpenters and painters are unusually busy in this section of the country. Through the very shrewd management for which Col. Ed Yates is becoming noted the attention of our circuit court was engaged last Saturday in hearing a very quiet divorce case in which some of the very bluest blood of our aspiring neighboring city of Barry was very deeply interested. Mrs. Zillah V. Blair was separated and forever divorced from Geo. M. Blair, and what at one time promised to become a very sensational affair has been quietly and satisfactorily settled, and a large estate divided and long and tedious litigation avoided. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com Also visit our other sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com http://www.AutumnWindz.com