Nothing has happened in our little town...” “We have the finest town in the country”

Shannon is perhaps the healthiest place in Northern Illinois and just at this time unusually so. Our physicians who have been pretty busy for several months are having a breathing spell and some seem to relish the little respite. Dr. J.I Smith who has been in Shannon for about four years has had no respite since he has been among us, and the dull season must be peculiarly welcome to him. The Doctor has been a most successful physician and had ridden further, driven faster, got there sooner lost less patients, charged less in fees then any other doctor in this section. This is no flattery but a deserving tribute to an industrious prompt, generous, painstaking man who loves his profession, and loves to do good in it Long may her live to enjoy the rewards of his labors and may the reward be commensurate with his labor and skill.

“Out of the old house into the new.” Four little birds will soon take their flight from the parents nest to begin to adorn homes for themselves. On the road running north and south one half mile west of Shannon the two or three miles north two new houses are being erected which when finished will be occupied by D.B. Shore and wife and James Dodd’s and wife. They are on either side of the road and a mile a part. Our wishes surround these homes with flowers and perfume with music and happiness with peace and prosperity we trust they will be shrines of sweet thoughts and contribute to that aggregate of happiness reared upon individual firesides, that yield a fragrance and grace which will finally fill the world with perfume and beauty. “May you all live long and be happy.”

No deaths , no accidents, no sickness – nothing has happened in our little town during the past week that we are ashamed or pained to have it know all over the country, and all though it is hard on your correspondent to find matter to fill his space he is glad of it, Long may it be so we have the finest town in the country, if it small, has good society , a charitable leniency for all, desire to be good individually and collectively and no desire to pain or wound the feelings of anyone. Hence to accord with these characteristics we are glad that no one is dead to darken the home of any, no accident has caused pain or distress. We have nothing but what we can thank God for and take courage to go forward into the shadowy future.