-----Original Message----- From: Sue Koller <sue@KAIConsulting.com> To: IL-Traces-L@rootsweb.com <IL-Traces-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, November 08, 1998 12:03 PM Subject: [IL-Traces-L] tidbits/Many Names/Feb.9,1889/LaSalle County >Grand Ridge, Feb. 6-The threatening weather the first of the week did not >avail much. >Frank Trude has been unwell but it now better. >Walter Dearth is still in Chicago, Thinks some of staying there this summer. >Miss. Bell Fulton returned from Chicago last week. >John Heath, who of late visited in Pa., returned last Friday. >Misses Fannie and Maggie Boyd returned home last week. >Miss. Emma Hagne Sundayed at J. L. Porter's. >Charles Evans came near having a serious accident last week by falling under >the wagon. The horses stopping instantly saved him. >Miss Jennie Antram spent a part of Sunday with Mrs. John Dearth. >J.C. Porter is living on the fat of the land in Pa., so he says. >Isaac Pashall talks of going to Washington to the "Inauguration," and from >there to Virginia, where his parents live. >Ellias Core has advertised a sale for the 21st of this month. >Clark Coe will summer in Iowa. >John Ewick recently purchased the J.L. Reese property, east of town, and >will convert it into a pasture. >Neff Provans, our collector, is getting ready for business and will take all >the spare chink you have. >Our burg is taking a building boom never before known in our time. At the >present rate we will have somewhat of a boom in another year. >Rev. Sears returns to Missouri this week. The meeting have been interesting >and profitable under his zealous work. A number have made profession and >then joined the C.P. church on last Sunday. >William Sutton is plastering his house even if it is winter. The winter has >been very favorable for such work, even if it has not been known for years. >John Core lately purchased of Lon Wright his addition to the east part of >town. >Some one backed into Alf Dearth's buggy last Sunday night at church and >upset it. No serious damage. >Rev. Lord commenced a series of meetings in the M.E. church west of town >last Monday evening. >Freeman Poundstone has erected a house just south of his present dwelling >for renting purposes. It is about ready for the plasterer. >George W. Hook and wife Sundayed in Spring Valley. >William Jones wears a solemn countenance, he has had no spare ribs for >several weeks. >Miss. Whitney Sundayed in Ottawa. >Andrew Hook still makes his rounds selling Chicago goods. >Miss. Nellie Palmer is home from school. We did not learn weather or not she >will return. >Newt Piersolt's new barn on the east side makes quite a show. >William Casey shipped two cars of cattle last Friday night and brought back >one. He is not wholly discouraged with the market. >Will Butters has leased the Faust farm for a number of years and has >commenced hauling timber to erect a house. Will says he is not going to keep >back either. >Ed Robinson is building a new hay shed and when completed will excel Ed >Burk's. >Thomas Burke received a severe kick from his stallion, Monarch. He is >improving rapidly under the care of Dr. Connoly and will soon be able to be >around again. Tom you should be more careful in handling such horses. >One of the largest sales that ever took place in Wallace was the Edmond >O'Donnell's on last Thursday. Fully one thousand people attended it, and >between four and five thousand dollars realized. Most of the stock was sold. >Dan McCarty brought the Cleveland bay stallion which is a beauty. > > > > > >==== IL-Traces Mailing List ==== >These files are being submitted to the Illinois Archives, please follow the rules listed in your welcome letter. >Terasa Hodges >IL-Traces Listowner >http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/il/ilfiles.htm > >