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NOTICE. All persons having claims against the estate of Samuel
M'Gee, deceased, late of Edgar county, Ill., are hereby requested to present them to the Probate
Court of said county, for adjudication, on the 1st Monday in April next. And all persons indebted to said estate,
are requested to make payment immediately. CATHARINE
M'GEE, Ex'tr'x. Paris, Ill., Jan. 14th, 1845 (Printed in the Coles County "Republican"
on February 21, 1845)
Geo. W.
Hoover was arrested in this place [Newton, Jasper County, IL] yesterday morning, March 14th [1877] by
Sheriff Selby, on a warrant issued in Edgar county. Hoover is charged with the theft of a pair of horse mules near
Shilob, in Edgar county, in June last. He now languisheth in "durance
vile". [Newton Press, Jasper Co.,
IL March 15, 1877]
Miss Mollie
Link, of Paris, was visiting her brothers in this city last week. [The
Charleston Plaindealer....Thursday,
April 20, 1882]
The Misses Hattie and Lottie
Bradshaw, of Paris, Illinois, visited Mrs. Dr. J.W.
Byers the fore part of this week. [The Charleston Plaindealer...Thursday June 23 1887]
Mr. Leroy
Wiley, of Paris, Ill., was in our city Tuesday and made a friendly call at the Plaindealer
office. [The Charleston Plaindealer....Thursday June 23 1887]
SUICIDE.- Last Thursday evening, June 9th, about six or seven o'clock, Michael
Kiser, who lived in Edgar township,
committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver. Mr. Kiser, while he owned 320 acres of land, was considerably
involved financially, and it is supposed that this weighed so heavily upon his mind that he committed the rash
act. The ball entered just in front of the left temple. Charleston Plaindealer...Thursday, June 23, 1887
Mrs. D.
Wilson visited her husband, Prof. Wilson, at Alton, last week, where he has been teaching large classes
in music.
Two of the prisoners that broke jail,
Davis and O'Gara,
were captured at Clinton, last Wednesday, and brought
back by Deputy Sheriff Sims next day. (Arcola
Herald, quoted by the Charleston Plaindealer on Thursday, June 23, 1887)
News from Kansas as printed in the
Charleston Plaindealer on
Saturday, April 14, 1888:
G.R.
Blood
will visit England soon.
Mr.
Frei
visited friends in Paris this week.
Horace
Ball,
of Paris, was in town last week.
Little Bennie
Arterburn is sick with fever.
Charlie
Hall brought his bride to town last week.
Harland
Rhodes visited in Charleston last week.
James
Paxton visited Sullivan, Ind., last week.
Mrs.
Isgrigg visited Paris on Thursday of last week.
Mr.
Briscoe,
of Westfield, visited Kansas last week.
Amos
Baber,
of Paris, was in our village Monday.
Prof. Thrailkill's little child has the whooping cough.
Vance
Arterburn will go into the barber business soon.
Uncle Johnny
Arterburn is able to be on the streets again.
Fred
Pinnell spent a few days in Charleston last week.
Charlie
Herrington is very sick with pneumonia and fever.
Mrs. W. S.
Pinnell visited friends in Terre Haute last week.
Geo.
Blood
will make his home in Hindsboro this summer.
E.T.
Wiley
expects to build an addition to his house before long.
Mrs.
Kitts
will move into the house now occupied by Tim
Venomen.
Miss Grace
O'Brien, of Ashmore, visited Miss Dimple
Paxton last week.
Miss Cora
Tafflinger will make her home at Mr.
Shaver's this summer.
Emmett
Boyer, who is on the I. & St. L. R.R. visited his home last week.
Miss Allie
Baber, who has been visiting friends in Indiana, has returned.
Henry
Alexander was on the streets last week for the first time for some months.
Rev. J.W.
Wharf, of Olney, occupied the pulpit at the M.E. church Sunday morning.
Mrs. Wm.
Arterburn has returned from Charleston, and reports Mrs.
Gerard much better.
Miss Hettie
Green, from the country, spent an afternoon last week with Miss Nettie
Buckner.
Misses Lillie
Jacobs, Carrie Korte,
Nellie Laughead and Mollie McConnell visited Miss Nellie
Dunn last Sunday.
Mrs. Ed
Hutton and daughter Kate were in Charleston last week. Kate received an injury in her ankle from a fall.
Work has been suspended on Ed
Hutton's house on account of the sickness of George
Low, as the noise disturbed him.
Mr. and Mrs.
McGrew, of Charleston, visited their son Jap, of this place, and daughter, Mrs. Billy
Mack, in the country, last week.
Miss Mary
Clemmons was thrown from her horse last week, cutting her face considerably; but she was able to remount
and ride home.
Miss Nellie
Kester visited her home in Paris over Sunday, and missing the train failed to reach her school Monday.
Her place was filled by Miss Leona Boyer.
The following officials were elected on Tuesday last: Wm. L.
Kester, supervisor; W.C.
Pinnell, town clerk; Harrison
Poulter, assessor; W.S.
Pinnell, collector; Thos. Laughead,
commissioner.
Miss
Burt,
an accomplished music teacher who has been making her home here for some time, has gone to Arcola, where she will
teach a class in music. We wish her success wherever she goes.
Mrs. E.A.
Jenkins visited in Kansas the first of the week. [The Charleston Plaindealer ... April 12, 1889]
Mr. and Mrs. C.A.
Newman visited friends in Paris Sunday. [Oakland news from The
Charleston Plaindealer ... Friday,
April 11, 1890]
Mrs.
Peabody and daughter, Mrs. Propst,
of Paris, visited in the city Monday and Tuesday. [Oakland news from The Charleston Plaindealer ... Friday, April
11, 1890]
R.W. Brooks
did business in Kansas Monday [Ashmore news from The Charleston Plaindealer ... Friday, April 11, 1890]
J.H.
Poulson did business in Kansas Tuesday. [Ashmore news from The Charleston Plaindealer ... Friday, April
11, 1890]
From the
Illinois State Chronicle (Decatur, Illinois
)
March 27
1856
Ebenezer David, of
Edgar county, after having chewed tobacco for forty
years, has quit in disgust. He has contracted for the
printing of one thousand copies of a sermon against the
vile weed, which he intends to distribute among his
neighbors.
submitted by Nancy Piper
From The Daily Arizona Citizen
Aug 21, 1882
The marriage of McCarnahan and Miss Burnham
was forbidden by the girl's father at Paris, Ill. She
escaped from the house in the night,
walked eight miles to the telegraph office, and sent a
message to her lover to come to her. But he, less
resolute, had committed suicide.
Submitted by Linda
Dietz
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hall returned from
Paris, Illinois where they attented the funeral of the
former's stepfather Mr. Leroy Wiley. [Lexington Herald
February 19 1910 - Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer] |
