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Miss Ruth Keller entertained a few friends at a chaffing dish party Monday evening. The guests were Misses Imogene Dean, Ruth King, Gertrude Sheets, Clara and Fae Paddock and Mable Taylor. A surprise party was given for Miss Mable Downes at her home Wednesday evening by a number of her friends. Each guest took her as a gift, a souvenir spoon. Those present were: Misses Allen, Elizabeth Lindsay, Mayme Wheelock, Carrie Watson, Florence Saggau, Lucy Mollohan, Edna Yost, Gertrude Bown and Mesdames Bob Florer, Roy Myers, Ed Hauser and Ralph Powers.
The ladies of Lincolnville will have a bazaar in the central telephone building first door east of Central office on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 6th, and will serve a chicken-pie dinner. The proceeds will go toward the new parsonage. Come and buy something, get a good dinner, and help the parsonage fund along.
There was quite a gathering of interested people to see the demonstration of the work of the international manure spreader last Saturday given by Saggau & Co. It is a great machine, and one whose importance is sure to increase steadily as the need of soil fertilization becomes more and more apparent.
Fairly good prices were realized at W.H. Rhodes' sale of Herefords at his place near Tampa last week, in spite of the bad weather which prevailed. The thirty head averaged $60. W.H. Hawkins, of Tampa, topped the sale by purchasing the imported cow Benzoline at $135. The largest purchaser was A.E. Wingate, of Tampa. He bought eight head.
Miss Millicent Clubine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.L. Clubine, and Mr. John H. Yeagley, son of Mr. and Mrs. D.L. Yeagley, were united in marriage Wednesday of last week. The RECORD extends congratulations to these excellent young people.
W.E.M. Oursler exhibited a sweet potato raised on his place in Jex Addition, which weighed seven and a quarter pounds.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Nienstedt are the parents of a boy, born last Tuesday.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles King last Friday, a boy.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Harter, Thursday, a daughter.
Mr. Ross, the new proprietor of the Elgin, moved in and took possession this week.
There was a delightful family reunion at the home of Mr. W.W. Runyan last Thursday evening. Beside the relatives who live here there were present Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Tomlinson, Mrs. Jennie Gary and little son, Mrs. Prout and Rev. Will Runyan.
For 10c any holder of a lecture course ticket can have a seat reserved by the Dixie Jubilee Concert at Stanford & Billings drug store.
This office received a few days ago DeLay's "Manual of Bookkeeping," a publication of which Prof. D.W. DeLay, well known here, is the author. It seems to be a carefully prepared manual, extensive in scope, and practical in method. Prof. DeLay went to Mattoon, Ill., soon after leaving Marion and started a business school. This school, known as the Mattoon School of Commerce and Institute of Shorthand and Typewriting is now in its eleventh year and has enjoyed a steady growth. Prog. DeLay's daughter, Miss Mary DeLay, is principal of the shorthand and typewriting departments.
William Scully Dead.
William Scully, generally known as "Lord" Scully died in London last Wednesday. He had been a citizen of the U.S. since 1900, and resided in Washington. He was known as "Lord" Scully but as a matter of fact he never had or claimed any such title. He was the son of Dennis Scully, prominent in the Irish emancipation cause and was the first Irish student in two hundred years to be admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge. He came to America many years ago and traveled extensively over Illinois on horseback, and began investing in land. He returned to England but came back in 1900 to make his permanent residence in this country.
He owned about forty or fifty thousand acres of land in this county. He was a good landlord. He treated his tenants fairly and honorably, and as far as we have ever heard they have only kind things to say of his treatment of them. He was a thorough master of the science of the soil, and possessed business ability of a high order.
Mr. John Powers, who has represented the Scully interests in this county for many years had a telegram last week announcing that the funeral was to be held on Friday in London, and interment made there He leaves two sons and a daughter, all of whom reside in Washington, D.C.
