Jersey County, Illinois
Gossip and "Visiting" News
Jersey County, Illinois
Gossip and "Visiting" News
The Jersey Examiner - August 13, 1879Piasa Points
There were several arrivals in our village by the train of Wednesday
- Mrs. Eddings & Miss Annie Denny from California, after an absence of two or three months
- Mrs. Mary Denny and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Wm. Denny from Kansas
- Mrs. Wooley, wife of R.R., Agent of this place, from Quincy
- Mrs. Kendall and daughter Lizzie are on a visit at Mowequa & Litchfield
- Miss Nettie Forward is visiting friends at Edwardsville
- Miss Black of St.Louis is spending some time at Mr. Wm. Peters
- Mr. Mize has been employed to teach the school district No.6
- Miss Lizzie Kendall is to teach in primary departments in Piasa
- The Baptist Church has no paster now since Mr. Coffee concluded his engagement there
- Dr. W.J. Harris & wife have gone to Canada for a summer trip
- A new wheat dealer has opened up the old Hunter Warehouse
- Wilson & Denny are busy in the wheat business since harvest, & have paid as high as 92 cents per bushel for wheat
- Mr. Lockwood has erected to the memory of his brother who was killed on a train in Arkansas, a fine monument in the Piasa Cemetery
- Mr.Joseph Tally has invented a new kind of portable fence that promises to be a success
- Mrs. Joseph Caldwell of Jacksonville, and Miss Abbie Sawyer of Godfrey are visiting at Rev. J.W. Caldweil's
- Mr. David Kellam had a severe spell of cholera morbus but is now convalescent
- John Maley is dangerously ill
- Today Silas Bates is 62 yrs old
- Miss Anna Turner is convalescing
- Edward M. Fuller of Elsah was up Friday
- Ex-Sheriff James H. Belt was in town Monday
- Miss Hattie Spencer has returned from Virden
- Jesse Robards of Rock Bridge was at the races
- George Spence of Fidelity was over last week
- J. Knox Smith was at Virginia Ill., last week
- Judge Robert Burgess of Delhi was up yesterday
- Miss Allie Roach of Alton was here over Sunday
- Robert Maltimore is now in the express office
- Hon. William H. Pogue went to Chicago last night
- A. Wilson Cross the banker was at Grafton recently
- J.M. Bates is selling agriculutral implements in Missouri
The Jersey Examiner - August 27, 1879
- Josiah Vaughn Sr. & Archie Craig of Fidelity were in town recently
- Issac Moore was at Jacksonville one day last week for the 1st time since 1861
- Dr. Clemments & wife of Carlinville are visiting at the residence of John B. Hickman
- L. Stillwell, son of Jerry O. Stillwell, the Otterville farmer, is a prominent & successful lawyer at Osage Missouri, Kansas
- Mrs. John W. Voorhers, and Miss Laura J. Brooks of LaPlata Missouri, is here visiting her parents Mr. & Mrs. Chester Brooks