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John C. Dufly was ’married Wednesday morning, Sept. 22, 1897, at 9 o’clock, by Father Madden, as- sisted by Father Burns of. Chicago, in St. Mary’s church, to Miss Agnes A. O’Connor of Chicago. The groom is the populér station agent in this city of the Northwestern railroad. He is the most popular manthe road has ever had here with everybody, and it has always had good men. He was born and reared here; a pn- pil in our public schools, and since his father’s death has been one of the right arms of his widowed mother in her care and support of her large family. He has had the respect and confidence of the peOple of this city from his youth up. Like his brothers, be early took to rail- roading, began at the bottom of the Highland Park N eWs. VOL II HIGHLAND PARK, ILL, SEPTEMBER 24, 1897 DUFFY-O’CONNOR. northwestern military Jimmy and Bkvclc £09m. ladder here and has worked himself to the top. jg. :thié 91309.5“, . . u”. _ The bride is a daughter of Prof. O’Connor of Chicago, well known as a musician of high order, and his daughter inherits his gifts, supple- mented by her own accomplishments. She has sung here often and is there- fore well known and highly esâ€" teamed. Frank X. Duffy was best man and Miss Jane Sheahen the bridésmaid. The ushers were Thomas S., Joseph L., William and Edward Dufl‘y, all brothers of the groom. After the ceremony and a reception and greet- inge of their friends they had a Wed» (ling breakfast at Postmaster Will- iam M. Dooley’s, where the bride has made her Highland Park home for some months. They took the 2:30 train for a wedding trip through Iowa and Michigan and will be at their new home, on Second street, known as the Mondeau house, after October 10th. The Nsws extends its most cordial and hearty greet- ing; to Mr. and Mrs. John C. Duffy. The cut this week is of the North- western Military Academy, one of the best schools of the kind in the ‘West. The old building was burned some years ago, and when to most people it seemed that the academy must collapse and perhaps it would, but Col. Davidson has a good strain of Scotch blood in him which knows no defeat, Phoenix-like, out of the ashes, the academy has arisen and the losses are nearly all made good. The school has just opened for an- other year with over 55 cadets, the best opening the school ever had. MILITARY ACADEMY. NO 17;