125 YEARS AGO

September 21, 1887
Several from this vicinity were in Chicago last Saturday to attend the annual reunion of the 8th Illinois Cavalry. About 150 of the old boys and their friends sat down to a splendid banquet. All had a very satisfactory time.

Rev. E.W. St. Pierre married Miss Ella Kirkpatrick, daughter of Smiley Kirkpatrick, one of the prominent citizens of Clinton Township. Mr. and Mrs. St. Pierre left last week for Persia as missionaries. They have a distance of 12,000 miles to travel, which will require a period of two and a half months. Five hundred miles of the trip will be made on either horseback or on camels.