A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Illinois > Pike http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=615 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=29648 Submitted by: Barbara Article Title: Pike County Democrat Article Date: July 23 1885 Article Description: Perry Springs Article Text: Perry Springs We spent the Sabbath very pleasantly at Perry Springs, notwithstanding the excessive heat of the day. There were some forty guests there, which number has since increased to about seventy five, and ere the month is out the number will probably be doubled. Among those there Sunday, were Hon. S. P. Shope and son, Hon. W. H. Barnes and wife, Lieut. N. H. Barnes and wife, (U. S. Navy,) Dr. H. Lee Hatch and wife, of Jacksonville, and many others; making a very pleasant company with whom the time passed most pleasantly. The house is under the management of that genial and clever gentleman, and skilled Boniface Harry Owens, so well known to former visitors at the Springs, with Mr. F. M. Grimes, of the Beacon, as clerk. Visitors have but just commenced coming in, and the preparations are not wholly completed, but ere the week is out everything will be in find working order. The season promises to be one of the most prosperous the Springs have ever had, and we have no doubt that! many of our people will take in come of the fun and pleasure that will prevail here. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com