Gossip News
©Except where noted, these were transcribed by K.Torp
Gossip News
©Except where noted, these were transcribed by K.Torp
1853
OLD COLES FOREVER - A lady, living within a few miles of this place, gave birth, on the 14th inst. to a male child that weighed 16¼ lbs. Who can beat that? Wednesday, Dec. 21, 1853 - Charleston CourierTRUES & MARSHALL are about to send Gideon EDWARDS to Muddy Point. Look out. Wednesday, Dec. 21, 1853 - Charleston Courier
COVINGTON & WILEY have dissolved partnership. Wednesday, Dec. 21, 1853 - Charleston Courier
JAS. MONROE & CO., want to buy all the furs in the country. Wednesday, Dec. 21, 1853 - Charleston Courier
T.G. CHAMBERS has some valuable timber land for sale. Wednesday, Dec. 21, 1853 - Charleston Courier
1867
Squire GILMAN was around on the streets, Saturday, -erying a chunk of an iron grey mare, which he finally knocked off at ninety-eight dollars. The same animal was sold on the streets, a few weeks since at one hundred dollars, but the title was not good. March 21, 1867 - Charleston Courier
1868
At J.R. Sp---? short-horned cattle sale, near Jacksonville in this state, Messrs Albert CLARK, J.K. DECKER and James CHILTON, of this city, purchased a fine two-year old bull, for which they paid, in all, $325. This is the finest animal of the kind in Coles county, and we ---? that they deserve credit for introducing it. [The Plain Dealer... April 23, 1868]
POTTER & STOVER will present a new advertisement in our next. [The Plain Dealer... April 23, 1868]Elijah CONELLY, 8 miles east of this city has a 12-horse power engine for sale cheap. [The Plain Dealer... April 23, 1868]
Mayor CUNNINGHAM of Mattoon is at work in this city. [The Plain Dealer... April 23, 1868]
A dwelling to rent apply to J.F. BARLOW. [The Plain Dealer... April 23, 1868]
1880
Miss Helen Mar WHITE will appear at City Hall, on Wednesday evening April, 28th. [The Plain Dealer, April 22, 1880]
G.W. SNIDER and Walter CASH went to Westfield Sunday, they saw the new cars which they say are very nice.[The Plain Dealer, April 22, 1880]
The largest couple in the world dined at the Essex House last Saturday. Their names are Mr. and Mrs. V. BATES, and were on their way to join Coles circus which is in St. Louis.[The Plain Dealer, April 22, 1880]
1883
The Homestead and Loan Association on Saturday evening sold six hundred dollars to Charles R. BRIGGS at twelve and a half per cent. [Thursday, April 19, 1883 - Charleston Courier]Mrs. Mary DUNBAR, opposite the Universalist church, is prepared to accommodate a limited number of good, prompt paying boarders. [Thursday, April 19, 1883 - Charleston Courier]
I.B. MITCHELL has plenty of Early Ohio potatoes. [Thursday, April 19, 1883 - Charleston Courier]
Mrs. H.C. NORFOLK has two plows that she will sell at a bargain. [Thursday, April 19, 1883 - Charleston Courier]Mrs. J.P. HARRAH has pure-blooded Patridge(sic)-Coachin eggs for sale at $2 per setting. [Thursday, April 19, 1883 - Charleston Courier]
A Surprise Party: On April 10th the many friends of Mr. and Mrs. S. EMHUFF gave them a pleasant surprise, it being their thirty-second anniversary. They came with ell filled baskets, and the tables fairly groaned under the load. Lists of presents:Hanging Lamp by Mr. and Mrs. T.N. COFER, R. MCALISTER, Wm. EMHUFF, Mrs. Betty MCALISTER and Mrs Margaret MCALISTER. Camp Rocker - H. ROBINSON, A.E. BABBS, E. THOMPSON One table linnen - Mr. and Mrs. G.F. RAPER One table linnen, autograph album, glass bread plate - Mr. and Mrs. J.O. TOLAND Fancy work basket and lace colar - L. MONROE, Charleston Brussels rug - Neal MAHEW Silver butter knife - R.J. MCALISTER Silver sugar spoon - C.C. MCALISTER Set worked bolster and pillow sham - Miss Anna Hardin Spittoon - Geo SNYDER and O. DAVIS, Charleston Plug Tobacco - George SEBREL Pocket knife - G.T. MCNUTT, Charleston Testament - Mr. & Mrs. MULLIKEN Glass spoon-holder - Mrs. Sam WYETH Lamp mat - Miss Mollie WYETH Linnen towels Mrs. John PARR, Mrs. S. BAKER, Mrs. N. SEBREL Pair hose - Mrs. R. MURPHY [Thursday, April 19, 1883 - Charleston Courier]
Bushton: Did Jeff STITES go to the party Saturday night? No, he wasn't there. Jeff is a married man, but he says he can't help feeling young and single. [Thursday, April 19, 1883 - Charleston Courier]Geo. CHOWNING is a regular attendant at the Plesasant Valley Sunday-school now, we can't account for that unless he must have some one to go with. [Thursday, April 19, 1883 - Charleston Courier]
Riley WALKER has moved to Casey and will go into the lumber business. [Thursday, April 19, 1883 - Charleston Courier]
1885
Dr. J.C. Brooks has purchased Flem Shriver's handsome cottage home, near the Baptist church. [Charleston Courier, April 23, 1885]J.E. Perisho is building an ell to his house. [Charleston Courier, April 23, 1885]
Mr. Wing, the new mill man, has the handsomest horses and most stylish turn-out in the city. [Charleston Courier, April 23, 1885]
1887
The Mattoon Journal says Michiel Ozee of Pleasant Grove township, lost a fine $100 Norman colt from lung fever a few days ago.(The Charleston Plaindealer, June 23, 1887)Kelles Mason, of near Lerna, had a fine cow killed by lightning Wednesday night of last week. [The Plain Dealer - July 28, 1887]
Reports have reached Charleston of two cases of attempts at suicide in Oakland last Monday. Mrs. Jas. Wright and Mrs. Frank Wilson were the parties. We have received no particulars. [The Plain Dealer - July 28, 1887]
1888Dr. Montgomery bought Fred Rhodes bird dog Wednesday and shipped it to his brother George in Pennsylvania. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]
Fair Grange: E.P. Foreman lost a mule one day last week. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]Fair Grange: Jesse Patten contemplates putting about 30 acres in broom corn this season. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]
Hindsboro: Capt. Hinds took charge of the telegraph office at Fairland last week, while the regular operator went to see his girl. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]
East Hutton: D.H. Goble shipped his hogs this week. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]
Humbolt: A.H. Sutherland & Co. have improved their livery and feed stable by adding a billy goat. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]Humbolt: The Illinois Central R.R. having closed the night office at Leverett, J.C. Elkin is at home waiting for an office elsewhere. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]
Lerna: Wm. Funkhouser is assessing Pleasant Grove. Either kill or hide your dogs. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]Lerna: Den Dowling was in town last Tuesday hustling the boys to tell what they knew. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]
Lerna: Dave Hill, one of our worthy carpenters, is building a house for the widow Balch. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]
Lerna: J. M. Bishop, breeder of fine chickens, has 180 young chickens and 220 eggs setting. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]
Lerna: D.U. Tremble is engaged with Bidle & Co., and will be pleased to have his friends call and see him. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]
Farmington: Geo. Worden has lost his fine Jersey cow. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]Westfield: Daniel Goble shipped a car load of hogs to Chicago Tuesday. He is also buying stock hogs at 4 cents. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]
Westfield: Jno. Endsley's sale last week brought a good many people to town, also a good many dollars into his pocket; yet nothing went beyond value. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]
Farmington: Dr. P.M. Duvall's Kentucky colt is a clipper. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]Farmington: Jon. Best is repairing his fence around his farm. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]
Farmington: Chas. Armstrong has traded his fine norman horse for 90 acres of land in Edwards county. Ed is a hustler on the swap. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]
A writer in last week's Paris Republican devoted over a column to "Poking fun" at the people of Charleston for their gullibility in regard to exhuming the dead body of Wm. Morris. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]
Ashmore: John Sage looks rather lonesome. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]
Ashmore: Dr. L.C. Robertson spent the Sabbath in the village. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]Ashmore: T.M. Woods has sold his residence and is now about to join the army of "Benidicks" [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]
Humbolt: Tuesday of this week being "Auntie" Braddock's 75th birthday, her many friends concluded to give her a pleasant surprise. Everything was arranged by her brother's family, G.W. Gray, with whom she resides without her knowledge and at about 1 o'clock the friends, without any notice, knocked at her door, and when told that it was her birthday her joy knew no bounds. May she live to enjoy many such happy occasions. [The Plain Dealer - April 14, 1888]
1889
Grandpa Dennis Hanks, who taught Abraham Lincoln to read and write and who is now in Charleston, will celebrate his 90th birthday the 15th. [Original source: Mattoon Star. Republished in the Newton Press, May 15, 1889]
1890
Lerna: A party for the young folks was given at the residence of D.P Todd last Friday evening and a grand time was reported by all present. [The Plain Dealer - April 11, 1890]
Rardin: Thos. Crispin & Sons have the job of plastering A.H. Bryants & Co's store room. [The Plain Dealer - April 11, 1890]
Janesville: Mrs. Ellen Butler has been granted the pension of a soldier's widow. [The Plain Dealer - April 11, 1890]
Loxa: Rev. Sandlin will move to Ashmore next week. [The Plain Dealer - April 11, 1890]
Loxa: Rev. Sandlin was surprised by a number of his friends coming in at the eleventh hour, Tuesday. they came with baskets laden with good things and a pleasant time was had by all present. [The Plain Dealer - April 11, 1890]Unity Chapel: J.T. Weaver and John Doty are improving their farms by putting up new fences and repairing the old ones. [The Plain Dealer - April 11, 1890]
Janesville: Miss Hettie Gobin's friends gave her a party Tuesday evening in honor of her eighth birthday. [The Plain Dealer - April 11, 1890]
1893
And now Paul Rider knows how it is himself. For years he had looked with longing interest at the Knights of Pythias, but had not the nerve sufficient to knock at the portals of the order. Last Monday he was made a knight and is now thoroughly satisfied -- but never mind the details, they were all there. [Newton Press, Jan. 11, 1893, quoted from the Mattoon Gazette]
T.R. Weaver received $2,500 insurance on his stock recently destroyed by fire. This was the full amount of insurance carried on the stock, $500 being on the soda fountain. The Mattoon Gazette, 13 January 1893 [Contributed by Src #3]
T.D. Stokes, who left the position of train despatcher on the Big Four to engage in commercial pursuits, has a good offer from a southern road, the acceptance of which he has under consideration. - Indianapolis Journal. The Mattoon Gazette, 13 January 1893 [Contributed by Src #3]
Our esteemed friend, Prof. D.D. James, is writing a story, the scene of which is laid in the Elwell settlement near Shawneetown, Gallatin county. It is said by those who have been permitted to read advance sheets to be very little inferior to his poems. The Mattoon Gazette, 13 January 1893 [Contributed by Src #3]
1902
Still Seeks his Wife who Ran away with Another
Perry Hopper, a farmer living near Humboldt whose wife ran away with another man last week, was in the city today en route to Effingham in search of his erring spouse.
Hopper says the man who induced his wife to leave him is Elijah Duckworth, an aged farmer who lived on a farm adjoining his home. He says Duckworth, who has a wife and family of grown children, recently sold some 80 acres and Mrs. Hopper also sold several acres of land, and between them they had about $6,000 when they disappeared. Hopper has traced them as far as Effingham and he hopes to locate them there. He says he only wants to get back his little boy who was taken with them and, if they will give him up, he will let the guilty pair go unpunished.
[“Mattoon Daily Journal”,page 1 - February 22, 1902 - Sub. by Src #17]
1922
At Bushton Home: Mr. and Mrs. H.A. Murphy entertained Miss Olive Humes, Thelma Elliott, Orman Cook Lewis Murphy and Charles Bulla with a three-course luncheon Sunday at their home in Bushton. [Charleston Courier, May 28, 1922]
At the Rocks: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fletcher, Mr. and Mrs. Con J. McMahon, Mr. and Mrs. D.J. Cavanaugh of Detroit, Mich., Mr. and Mrs. Sam Harper and daughter Ruth, Miss Lenore Hill and Mr. and Mrs. O.B. Goble formed a party which greatly enjoyed a picnic at the Rocks Sunday evening. [Charleston Courier, May 28, 1922]
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