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=59188 Article title: The Quincy Daily Journal Article date: August 5 1897 Article description: Local and General News Article: Local and General News. F. B. A. meeting to-night. Get your livery at Lusk's. Dr. Woods, oculist and aurist. C. J. Tibbets, dentist, 506 Maine. S. T. Rice, dentist, 5th and Maine. Zoller Bros.' steam shampoo is fine. The Coss case was put off til the 14th. Evans' Newcomb livery for good drivers. McColm & Coffeld have dissolved partnership. Harvey Chatten went to Keokus to-day on business. Miss Irina Allen of East Vermont has gone West to visit relatives. William H. Murtagh of the Newcomb has gone to the Northern lakes. Mr. J. H. Dickason of Hannibal was in the city yesterday on business. Miss Emelia Oberling and Miss Lizzie Miller are visiting friends at Liberty. J. E. McMurray has taken his family to Denver for an outing of three weeks. The Naval Reserves will leave Saturday morning for Chicago for their week at camp. J. T. Dyer, superintendent of telegraph on the H. & St. Joe R. R., was in town to-day. Sporting men are preparing for the hunting season, which opens September in Iowa. A set of single harness belonging to George Woods of 217 Chestnut street was stolen last night. Mr. Barmeyer's house was struck by lightning last evening. A few brick were knocked off. Miss Jessie Scroeder of Kidder, Missouri, is the guest of Conductor and Mrs. F. D. Murray. Miss Grace Johnson went to Quincy to-day to meet some Chicago friends - [i]Hannibal Courier Post[/i]. Mrs. R. T. Finley, sons Robert and Milo and daughter Eva are in Chicago, the guests of relatives. Miss Jennie Rawlings has returned home after a visit with her friend, Miss Jessie Welch, of Hannibal. Friends of Miss Ida Easterday will regret to learn that she is quite sick at her home, No. 110 South Tenth street. C. H. Williamson is in Buffalo, New York, attending the National Apple Packers' Association meeting. Architect Batschy has been confined to his bed by illness for the past few days. At present he seems some better. The members of the colored Christion Church are talking of having an excursion or picnic a week from to-day. Frank Everett, who has been very low for some time, is reported this afternoon to be very near death's door. The city paid off to-day. There were about 500 warrants, 198 of which covered the rebates for the North End sewer. Mr. Lloyd of Chicago, who is the assistant superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company is in the city. Miss Lizzie Kordsiemon very pleasantly entertained her Sabbath School class at a picnic at South Park yesterday. The case of Frank Bartlett, charged by Dora Viar with bastardy, was settled to-day before Justice Allen by marriage. Our police have been notified that Rev. Edward A. Waldo, slightly demented, of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, is missing. Mrs. Albert Rue, colored, died this morning at Blessing Hospital. She had been operated on three times. George Bond and wife and Miss Mamie Bond of Hannibal spent yesterday in Quincy, returning home on the St. Paul. Mrs. Yeargain arrived on the steamer St. Paul yesterday afternoon from Quincy to visit her sister. - [i]Hannibal Journal[/i] Men who have nothing to do find sport in fishing in the river just west of the Quincy Coal Company's property on the levee. Misses Ada Swanson and Saline Kelly arrived in the city yesterday from Hannibal on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Swanson. Bargains in carpets, matting, oil cloths, for August only, at less than present value. Henry Rupp, 111 and 113 North Fourth street. Will Schachtsiek, a hustling delivery boy for one of the dry goods firms, is enjoying his vacation at his home at 629 Washington street. Mrs. Ben F. Cherry left yesterday on the St. Paul for her home in St. Louis after a pleasant visit with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. G. McNeil. The apple crop in Hancock County will be immense this year. A Chicago firm will take 50,000 barrels from Hancock County, if it can get them. Tramps are set to cutting weeds in Burlington and are termed the "botany class." It has a wholesome effect in keeping them out of the city. Misses Ada and Mabel Martin, Minnie Dreyer and Pauline Miller were among the excursionists from Hannibal at the Maccabees' picnic. Misses Alice and Addie Dickhut have returned to Chicago whence they will go to Boston on a visit. They were home something over two weeks. Narrow black silk lace 5c. Good line of white Valenciennes lace. Two big lots of shirt waists are on sale for 25 and 50 cents at Duker's, Maine st. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Adam Thron, a daughter. Mr. Thron is the Woodland Cemetery policeman. To say that he is happy is putting it mildly. The Chamber of Commerce yesterday decided to retain the present quarters for a year and Landlord Woodruff will have the rooms repapered and repainted. Miss Carrie Duncan of North Twenty-fourth street entertained a few friends last evening. Refreshments were served and an enjoyable time was the happy result. A Washington dispatch says that there are nearly 7,000 applications for 54 places in the congressional library. One is from a man who is anxious to leave Alaska. If our grape shippers have as many baskets as is reported and all of them be used, there will be 120 car loads of the luscious fruit shipped out of Nauvoo this year. - [i]Nauvoo Rustler[/i] Mike O'Donnell and wife have returned from Quincy, where they have been residing for the past few months, and will take up their abode in the Fourth ward. - [i]Hannibal Journal[/i] Miss Fannie Brothers of Quincy arrived in the city yesterday afternoon and is the guest of Miss Blanche Bash on South Seventh street. Miss Brothers formerly resided here. - [i]Hannibal Journal[/i] Progressive District Court of Honor will give a moonlight excursion to Canton and return on August 11. Dancing free. Tickets can be had of the members or at W. H. Smith's news depot. A Quincy friend has received a nice letter from Mrs. C. P. Keast of St. Louis, formerly Capt. Boyler of the Salvation Army. The captain was married July 5. She is well, and of course, happy. O. D. Booth, a Chicago inventor, was in the city the other day and left a contract with Sam Baldwin for a cigar-shaped balloon seventy-four by twenty-two feet, which Booth will use to carry his flying machine. The Independent Cycle Club met with Miss Maud Binkert last evening at her hospitable home on Park Place. The principal amusement was progressive whist. This was the last meeting of the club this summer. There are to be six eclipses in 1898, three lunar and three solar. The occurrence of three eclipses of the moon within the same year has not taken place in 200 years and will not be repeated for nearly 200 years to come. Messrs. W. H. Drescher and Tom Brown, two business men of Hannibal, are in the city to-day, having come up on the Maccabee excursion to attend the picnic at Baldwin Park. Both are pleasant gentlemen to meet, and the hope is that they will visit us often. Mrs. Jane Carrott, of Quincy, who has been in Hannibal on an extended visit to Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Appler, returned home yesterday afternoon accompanied by her nephew, Finley Carrott, of Quincy. Mrs. Carrott is Mrs. Appler's mother. - [i]Hannibal Journal[/i] H. D. Brown and A. C. Lovejoy, of Quincy, veterans, who fought for their country during the civil war, were down from Quincy yesterday and were examined by the pension board which held its regular meeting at the office of Dr. Schmidt, on Market street. - [i]Hannibal Journal[/i] Mrs. Jennie Slade of Slater, Missouri, and Miss Effie Slade of the same place, and Miss Alice Clarkson of Moberly, Missouri, arrived here this morning on a visit to Dr. J. G. Williams and family, 329 North Ninth. Mrs. Slade was formerly Jennie Gramthan of Ursa. The Freight Bureau have not yet selected a manager to succeed Mr. Parker. The bureau is inclined to appoint a certain young Quincy man, who is not an applicant. He is not a railroad man. The bureau has several other men under consideration, including a Chicago railroad man. Prof. H. R. Charle, superintendent of the German school, wife and children; Misses Lora, Elenora, Edna and Masters Paul and Harry, arrived home yesterday afternoon on the steamer St. Paul from Quincy, where they have been on a three weeks' visit among relatives and friends. - [i]Hannibal Journal[/i] A year ago Henry Steinbach, of near Bethel, Missouri, brother of Quincy's mayor, lost a $35 watch. A couple of weeks ago it was found in the big barn in the western part of Bethel by L. W. Arnold, who uses the barn for a feed stable. It had been covered up with trash for a year, yet when found and wound up it ran all right. The Misses Chloe and Minnie La Croix of Nauvoo, gave a picnic party at Bluff Park Tuesday in honor of their cousin, Miss Lulu Rantchler of Pueblo, Colorado, and Miss Jessie Hartley of Quincy. 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