At Hambleton's point on Riverside, a delightful camping party from Carthage has held forth since Tuesday. Those in the party are, Miss Maybel Maxwell, of Lincoln, Ill., and J. M. Turley and wife, Mrs. Lou Grove, the Misses Stella and Nettie Wright, Ethel Thompson, Messrs. E. M. Jones, L. Roy Spangler, Leslie Harnest, Arthur M. Thompson and Master Dean Turlly, of Carthage. The party will return home this evening. PERSONAL Fred Craig is back from Missouri. Miss Mary A. Jacobs is visiting in Sonora. The Rev. J. Hart is attending camp meeting. Mrs. Thomas Gregg is considered very sick. Mrs. Freeman is ill with typhoid fever. Mrs. Buell is recovering from a very severe illness. A. L. Miller and wife are visiting in Liberty, Adams county. Mrs. Harvey Pence and little babe are very seriously ill. Mrs. Ligerwood of Augusta, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. E. Wilborn. C. P. Dadant and wife were the guests of Nauvoo relatives one day last week. H. K. Denton is at Rushville today. He drives two of Dr. Robbins horses there. Charles Agnew and wife have had quite a sick babe but we understand it is better. Mrs. J. W. Bridges entertained Mrs. John McClory and daughters, Edith and Lottie, this week. Mrs. Frederick Williams of Sonora, celebrated her sixty-ninth birthday last Monday. The infant babe of D. O. McManus has been quite sick with summer complaint for several days. Mrs. C. J. Ostrom returned Tuesday from Arbela, Mo., where she has been attending her father who is quite ill. Albert Wittich, the widely known musician of Keokuk, died in that city last night of typhoid fever. He was in his thirtieth year. Mr. and Mrs. Jos Nomberg are the proudest parents in Illinois to a fine boy born Friday, August 7, 1896. Mother and babe doing well. (NOTE: It's no wonder I can't find my Momberg family.) Carroll Marsh of Warsay and Miss Lucile Connable of Hamilton, drove to Carthage Saturday and spent the day with friends in this city.--Gate City More later, Debby