DELAVAN ENTERPRISE beginning of file

Wednesday, January 4, 1888

Volume X, Number 45

**Married on Tuesday, December 27, 1887 at the residence of Prof. M. G. Stillman were Mr. Marshall Coon and Miss Luella Crandall. Rev. S. H. Babcock officiated.

**Will A. Welsher is home from Marinette for a short time. He is employed by the State Fish Hatchery.

**Dr. C. L. Ripley, Sharon, visited his parents here.
**John O’Connor walked home from Darien on Saturday.
**A dancing party will be January 5th at Frascata Park. Music by Greeman and Mattison.

FAIRFIELD

**John McFarlan purchased a family carriage.
**E. F. Welch shipped cattle to Chicago.
**Miss Lula Hackwell returned from Whitewater and offers her services at dressmaking.
**D. M. Barlow, our town treasurer, is mentioned.
**Willie Dykeman’s face bruised by kicking colt.
**A. G. Clowes was kicked in the knee by a horse.
**G. W. Waterman received a commission as Postmaster at this village.

**Mr. Jasper C. Serl loses home to fire. He has moved into the house formerly occupied by R. A. Housten.

**Hollister district school had floor badly burnt in a fire last Wednesday.

IN PROBATE

**For Timothy Duggan, late of the town of Delavan, who died November 12, 1887. Petition of Hannah Duggan.

NO COLUMN HEADING

**Mention of McBurney, dentist.
**Mention of Mr. Ernest Phillips.
**Mention of Woodbury selling his overstock over the next two weeks.
**Party to be given at the Saxton House, Darien.
**Dr. E. S. McBurney moved on Monday into his new office in the Bradley block next door to the Enterprise office.
**The post office moved to its new quarters in the Schultz block last Friday.
**Notice from George Wells Ford stating that he is no longer connected with any paper published or printed by Messrs. L. & M. A. Brown.

PERSONALS

**Mr. N. A. Keeler, Rockford, visited town.

**Miss Edith Schultz has returned from an extended time in Chicago.

**Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Crimm, of Ilion, New York, have been visiting at B. B. Drake’s. Mrs. Crimm is a niece of Mrs. Drake.

**Miss Georgene Drake, who has been visiting at home, returns to Rockford.

**Miss Alice Sturtevant, a Chicago teacher, visits home.

**Dr. Webster is visited by his brother, J. T. Webster, a student at the Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago.

**Mr. Henry Ege, who has been telegraphing in Minnapolis most of the past year, was home for the holidays.

**Mr. Stepehn Faville, Milwaukee, visited.

**Mr. Edw. Powers left for Metropolitan, Michigan last Tuesday.

**Mention of Attorney Wallace Ingalls, Elkhorn.

**Mention of Prof. G. L. Collie, principal of the public school.

**Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Jones will be gone through the southern states until mid-March. He goes for business.

**Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Thurber, former Delavan residents, now of Marion, Iowa, visited Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Bailey. Mrs. Thurber is a sister of Mrs. Bailey.

**Mrs. N. C. Palmerter, who has been visiting her daughter in Milwaukee, is detained there on account of sickness.

**Died: Mrs. Marenda Bruce Marston, 84, at her home in Post Mill Village, Orange County, Vermont, on December 28, 1887. She was a sister of Z. D. and C. H. Sturtevant of this village.

**Died: At Waukesha, Wisconsin, while on a visit to his son and grandson, on Wednesday, December 21, 1887 of rheumatism and apoplexy of the brain, Mr. Jacob Sweet, aged 68 years 5 months 25 days. Mr. Sweet was a soldier in the late war, a member of Co. D, 13th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers. He is survived by his wife, four sons and two daughters.

**Died: The eldest daughter of Mrs. J. C. Dockstader on December 9, 1887, Mrs. Helen L. Wight at her home in East Los Angeles, California.

**Officers elected at Delavan Lodge No. 121 A. F. & A. M. and Delavan Chapter 38 Royal Arch masons for the coming year are: James Davidson, A. R. Barker, A. J. Woodbury, T. J. Smith, Dr. A. J. Rodman, D. L. Glover, E. D. Fisk, E. B. Sission. At the latter the following: E. B. Hollister, David Williams, Dr. F. L. von Suessmilch, A. J. Rodman, A. R. Barker, A. J. Woodbury, James Davidson, S. W. Menzie, M. D. Barnhart, F. P. Van Velser, Paul Turi. Mr. Harry Jones entertained. Dr. F. L. von Suessmilch was host.
**At the race on Lake Como, Fred Smith’s mare and W. C. VanVelzer ’s horse mentioned.

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