November 6, 1886
Peter PIERSON, of Galesburg, was home on a visit to his parents, Mr. O. PIERSON, who resides in this vicinity, and while here he ordered the Tornado sent to his address.

November 6, 1886
John CLARK and wife, of Prophetstown, arrived in town Friday of last week and did not return until Monday. They are guests of their daughter, Mrs. J.S. KIMBALL while here.

November 6, 1886
T.O. STEADMAN, who has charge of MOSES & HORN's poultry house of this place, tells us that he is already to start picking. He has built a high board fence on the south running from the picking to the live house, and a large gate nine feet high on the north side running west. In delivering poultry the work will be done within this enclosure, so there will be no cause for finding fault with stray feathers being blown about town. In the picking rooms he has taken up the floors and put down sand and cinders to a depth of six inches. Under his care we trust our people will have no cause to complain and that his work will prove satisfactory.

November 6, 1886
The Tornado received a letter from Clarence M. WINCHELL, of Ouray, Colorado, a former resident of this place, in which he states that "wages are good, the general prices being from $50 to $75 per month with board that beats working on a farm in Illinois for $18 to $20 per month. The boys in your vicinity ought to come west and get rich."

November 6, 1886
Fred ALLEN has taken up residence in the Jim VARIAN house [moving from his farm], and says he is going to try city life for a change.

November 6, 1886
Job E. GREENMAN started for Morrison last Wednesday where he will sit upon the bench of justice as a juror, and express his opinion of, and try to unravel the knotty questions that may arise in the cases that he is called upon to adjust.

November 6, 1886
The school board has recently purchased an anatomical chart for use in our school. The action is to be commended. Good and suitable tools to work with are as essential in school work as in any other line where desirable results are secured. For years it has been the custom in many localities to furnish the school with fifty or seventy-five dollars worth of apparatus for the study of the comparatively unimportant study of geography, while many other studies, more essential in our estimation, are presented without aid. This chart is so arranged that the different organs are shown in their true position and natural size; and by an ingenious arrangement dissections are made before the class. If, as POPE said "The proper study of mankind is man," this chart is certainly the proper thing to have in a school room.

November 6, 1886
The famous statue, by Bartholdi, of "Liberty Enlightening the World" was received at New York, June 19th, 1885. The French vessel Isere, with the statue on board, was escorted up the bay to Bedloe's Island by a number of United States men-of-war and other vessels. The statue stands on Bedloe's Island - hereafter to be known as Liberty Island - at the entrance to New York harbor. Bartholdi, it is said, conceived the idea of rearing a colossal statue to symbolize America's message of liberty to the world while sailing up New York bay on his visit to this country in 1871, with heart depressed at the ruin and wretchedness in his native land after her defeat by Germanny [sic]. On his return to France he suggested to his friends his idea of such a statue to be presented by the French nation to the United States. The idea was received with great favor, and so rapidly did subscriptions come in that in 1876 the sculptor began work upon his great statue. M. Bartholdi supervised every step of the work, which was not only a labor for many years, but one full of difficulty and detail. The first step toward its construction was made in 1874, when the French-American union was established, a banquet given and an appeal made to the people of France. In 1876 the sculptor began actual work. First the artist made his model in clay, and when this was approved a plaster statue was made, in dimensions it was one-sixteenth the size of the intended statue. Another plaster statue four times as large as the first, and a third, of the full dimensions of the finished work were made. The last model had to be made in sections, and a wooden frame-work was constructed on which the plaster was spread. When these sections were completed, wooden models were used, exact copies of the plaster in size and modeling. These were carefully cut out by hand, and in them were shaped the hammered brass work which forms the outside of the statue. Eighty-eight tons of brass were used in the structure, and the entire weight of the statue is 400,000 pounds.

November 13, 1886
Ed PRATT moved into the Mrs. John ALDRICH house last week.
November 13, 1886
The W.C.T.U. will meet next Saturday at 3:30 p.m., at Mrs. Alden BOOTH's residence.
November 13, 1886
Charlie BURDEN moved into the rooms above his store formerly occupied by Joe PINKLEY, this week.

November 13, 1886
The married people's dance, of Thursday evening, was not as well patronized as was expected. Only a few numbers were sold; but those that did attend enjoyed themselves. Everything went off as nice as could be.
November 13, 1886
Don't forget the pigeon shoot at Sodtown, Thanksgiving day, at 10 o'clock.