Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-08-23

vacation with MIS-. + OrDer relatives.
Prof and Mrs. Woodmansee. Miss |
leila Pinkerton and Miss Grace Ev-
ans went TO New Boston Saturday and |
spent Sunday al the home of Mr.. and |
Mrs. W. H. Bartlett.
Prof Ray who has been spending his |
vacation near Pittsburgh, Pa, return
ed Saturday to help with the col |
lege campaign. Mrs. Ray will come |
in a few weeks.
Birch Snyder of Greeley, Colo, |
spent Sunday with DR.. and Mrs. Sells. |
John Z. Whitman, wife and daugh |
ter Mildred visited Sunday with his |
brother X. NJ. Whitman. Mr.. Whit |
ham who is cashier of the Capital Ma
tional bank at Lansing, Mich, is on a
short vacation and has been touring
the west and northwest and is on his
way home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Chinlund who
were recently married in Monmouth,
arrived home Monday from Chicago
where they have been spending a few
weeks. They will reside in Aledo.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Hawkinson went to
Lake Geneva, Wis, Tuesday to spend
a week with their son, DR.. Oscar Haw-
kinson.
Miss Daisy Reid went to Wyoming
H., Saturday to visit her sister Mrs.
/ Homer Cox for few weeks.
/ Mrs. R. Elvin and son left Friday
/ for Rock Island where they viii camp
| for week at Prospect park.
| Leslie Hamlet Cooper was born in
Michigan January 13, 1910, and died
in Hamlet August 2. He was married
to Mary Jane Nichols June /, 1875,
and to them six children were born,
who with the wife and two sisters
now mourn his death. Mr.. Cooper
was one Of the first settlers of Perry
ton township, having come with his
father, Hamlet Cooper, in 1874 They
settled in the Hamlet neighbOrhood
which was named for the father and
here Mr.. Cooper lived continuously I'M
til his death with the exception Of
three years spent in the United States
army. He enlisted in Co. c., 1O2 H.
volunteer infantry August II, 1862,
and was in active service until he
mustered out June IA, 1865. Funeral
services took place on the lawn Of
Charles Boyles at 10 O'clock, August
5. 1912 and were conducted by Rev
J. Thompson Baker. Interment was
made in the Hamlet cemetery.
Carl S. Swanson OF Mathers-
vile and Miss Hilda Gustafson Of
Joliet were united in marriage here
Tuesday noon by Rev. F. Swenson in
the parlors of the Swedish Lutheran
parsonage. Mr.. and Mrs. Swanson
} will make their home in Mathersville.
, Guy Bradford formerly of the Aledo
bank of this city has been made the
Buffalo Prairie.
= Mr. and Mrs. William McCulley and
= daughter. Mrs. J. F.. Icenoggle are
. visiting with relatives and friends in
Pattonsburg, Mo.
Mrs. Tears of Toronto, Ontario, is
visiting at the home of his uncle and
5 aunt, Mr.. and Mrs b. F. Townsley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Longley spent
Monday with Mr.. LOngley's brother
, Glen Longley. near Burgess.
Mrs. Emory listed and baby Emily
i are spending two weeks with heI
+ relatives in Mount Pleasant, la.
v DR.. J. A. Kleinsmid spent Tuesday
5 in Galesburg.
i Mrs. 5. 5. Johnson left Monday for
, Coal Valley to visit her brothers, Rob
y, ert and Isaac Bailey.
Fifteen old soldiers have died in
e Mercer county since September l, 1911
d William Fuller and William II. Simp
Z. son in Suez township, John L. Sample
! and Redding l.. Carver in Preemp
ton township, James A. Cummins
{ James A. Warwick, Andrew NJ. Lem
on, William Parkinson and Laom
e Brown in Mercer township; Lester
o H. Cooper in Perryton township; Johr
hubert, J. d. Thornton, Marion Rigg!
. and John NJ Warwick in Millersburl
+ township; Andrew Whickhiser i:
q Keithsburg township.
l.. Mr.. and Mrs F s Muller Of Kan
sas City are visiting their daughter
!, Mrs. r. ". Bolton, and family.
Mrs. Ernest Young left Monday 70
9 Butternut, Wis, TO take the body 0
81 her seven months old daughter 70
e burial
- Mr. and Mrs Colclasure and twt
children. Thelma and Elliot, OF Sun
u beam, left Saturday for Flora, IL, {
II visit relatives.
II Miss Ethel Boruff of Keithsburi
d visited Monday at the home Of F
q. Sheats, leaving Tuesday morning 70
Galesburg.
: Frank Bauer of Shenandoah, Iowa
l. visited a few days with his mother
Mrs. Fredrica Bauer He has left 70
- Chicago.
= Mrs. Mary Nilligan and daughter