A. McMurray, Attorney

PROBATE NOTICE

Public Notice is hereby given to all persons having claims and demands against the estate of Malo Chapman, deceased, to present the same for adjudication and settlement at a regular term of the county court of Adams County, to be holden at the courthouse, in the city of Quincy, on the third Monday of December, A.D. 1879 being the 15^th day of said month.

All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned.

Mrs. Mary W. Chapman.

Geo. M. Janes, Attorney.

Probate Notice.

Public Notice is hereby given to all persons having claims and demands against the estate of William Laugh, deceased, to present the same for adjudication and settlement at a regular term of the County Court of Adams County, to be holden at the courthouse, in the city of Quincy, on the third Monday of April, A. D. 1880, being the 19^th day of said month.

All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned.

Zalmuna Morton
Administrator.

Probate Notice

Public notice is hereby given to all persons having claims and demands against the estate of William McClelland?, deceased, to present the same for adjudication and settlement at a regular term fo the County Court of Adams County, to be holden at the courthouse, in the city of Quincy, on the third Monday of March, A. D. 1880, being the 15^th day of said month.

All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned.

R. M. Bacon?
Executor

J. N. Sprigg, Attorney

Probate Notice

Public notice is hereby given to all persons having claims and demands against the estate of William M. Maynard, deceased, to present the same for adjudication and settlement at a regular term of the County Court of Adams County, to be holden at the courthouse, in the city of Quincy, on the third Monday of May, A. D. 1880, being the 17^th day of said month.

All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned.

William W. Martin
Administrator of Said Estate

Board of Commerce meeting at the council chamber.

A couple of women in the police court this morning.

J. W. Hart, residing north of Homan's mill, is dangerously ill.

The work of cleaning the prinicipal streets is progressing favorably.

The case of John Julian, alleged to be insane, was heard in the county court today.

A disabled coal wagon partially blockaded Hampshire street, between Fifth and Sixth, to-day.

Dr. Shepard died at his home in Payson yesterday. He had been seriously ill for some time.

To-morrow night occurs the grand masque ball of the A.O.U.W., at the National Guard armory.

Pinafore by the Church Choir company Friday evening. The sale of seats commences to-morrow.

About two hundred men, young and old, will leave Quincy this spring for the mining regions of Colorado.

James Adair died a few days since in Ursa township. He was over 95 years of age, and was one of the first settlers in the county.

The marriage of Dr. O. H. Crandall and Mrs. R. A. Curtiss is announced. It was a quiet affair, the ceremony being performed at the bride's residence by Rev. William Waller.

Quincy taxpayers got stirred up yesterday on a report that the supreme court had decided against $1.03 in the tax case. The non-taxpayers were wild until they found out the whole story was a joke.

Supt. Macfall reports the public school attendance for February as follows: Number enrolled, 2,864; average daily attendane, 2.485; average number belonging, 2,642; percent of attendance on average number belonging, 94.

The grand masquerade ball and carnival to be given at the National Guard armory to-morrow evening will be one of the most enjoyable events of the kind ever witnessed in the city. The Gem City band will furnish the music for dancing, and the attendance will include the members of the order in Quincy and their invited friends. Nor will those who do not dance be neglected. While these festivities proceed in the armory hall, a social will be in progress in the lodge-room of the Druids above, where all will find entertainment. Prof. Pfeiffer will preside at the piano, and a number of other good performers will give vocal and instrumental selections. The carnival is for the benefit of the A. O. U. W. library.

J. H. Abel, of Milwaukee, is at the Tremont house.

Prof. Samuels and wife are in the city for a brief visit.

T. J. Buford, of Rock Island, is at the Wilson house.

D.C. Spring, of St. Louis, is at the Quincy house.

Daniel Harris left for the mining region of Colorado last night.

Capt. Ben W. McCoy, of Clayton, arrived in town last evening.

C.P. Heywood, of Hannibal, arrived at the Wilson house last evening.

W.C. Kimball and H. Oppenheimer, of New York, are at the Tremont.

Edgar Strakosoh, agent of Miss Emma Thursby, is at the Tremont house.

Gus Bernheimer, the dry goods merchant, leaves this evening for New York to purchase his second new stock of spring goods.