Newspaper Article - Old Bunker Hill Stories - 1 Jan 1998 - Macoupin County Illinois
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Old Bunker Hill Macoupin Co IL Newspaper Stories

donated by Cindy Leonard

The Union Gazette, Bunker Hill, IL Jan 26, 1866 - Wanted: Bunker Hill, a quiet little city of 
some two thousand inhabitants, wants a good barber. There never was a better opening for a 
first-class knight of the razor.

The Bunker Hill Gazette, Dec. 25, 1879 - Neighborhood Notes: The Greenfield schools have 
been closed on account of scarlet fever. Mrs. N. M. Harris of Dorsey, has gone to Missouri 
Valley, Iowa, to open a hotel. Staunton will build a new school house. Guards are placed at 
the door at the Christian Church in Girard to keep out Grandfather Strong, who has for some 
time disturbed the congregation. Woodburn: John Stark, formerly from Bunker Hill, has 
bought a farm near Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.

The Bunker Hill Gazette, Jan. 15, 1880 - Neighborhood Notes: Virden wants a brass band. 
Shipman is talking up a coal mine. Scarlet fever has appeared at Shipman. The Creamery at 
Girard is again in operations. Wm. Montgomery is postmaster at More, vice Smith, resigned. 
Adolph Hoch, of Carlinville, went to Germany some months ago for his health, and died 
there. Corrington Chapel: Miss Phoebe McPeak is again in our midst.

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