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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1908
Page
1
The Ashton trading season opens with strong demand for high class goods as farmers from surrounding areas flood stores. Banks report heavy deposits and confidence remains high as merchants advertise widely and outpace competing towns twenty miles away.
The Reynolds Y P A presents a temperance program Sunday evening March 1 at 7 30 featuring hymns What Rain and Erich Deiner Knechtschaft Band invoc ation by Rev W Stork man songs Some Day and Dwelling with the Angels solos by Mrs Justus Hewert Myrtle Wiener Maude Kersten Rose Henert plus Say No Liquors Deadly Work and Write it Ernie Kersten.
Rev. Storkman led a morning program with Maude Kersten E H Wiener Mabell Wiener Myrtle Wiener and sixteen more. The group presented songs including Where Is My Boy Tonight and When the Roll is Called Up Yonder with Mabell Wiener as organist and a free will offering collected.
Representative F O Lowden of Illinois says southern and western congressmen would back Aldrich currency bill if it allows banks to accept commercial paper as circulation backing. He cites warehouse receipts for cotton, grain, and corn as strong collateral and notes western understanding of such paper. Lowden, ill with grip, spoke after meeting the president.
Local option question to be considered across Lee county towns including Amboy Ashبان ton China Dixon South Dixon Nachusa Palmyra Sublette Harmon Wyoming Lee Center and Brooklyn at the spring election.
Readers are advised to pay subscriptions before April 1 to reduce tax impact. The notice emphasizes timely payment and explains the financial benefit of prepayment.
One way tickets at special low rates on sale daily through March and April from all points on the Northwestern Line to San Francisco Los Angeles Portland and Puget Sound points. Daily and personally conducted tours in tourist sleeping cars via the Chicago Union Pacific and Northwestern Line. Double berth only seven dollars through from Chicago. For full details contact S A Hutchinson Manager Tourist Dept 212 Clark St Chicago Ill or nearest ticket agent. 5214 Hous 37122 and three lots for sale James Leipy
The article argues dairying becomes more profitable than raising small grains as land values rise. It urges farmers to milk more cows, noting butterfat quotes at 35 cents per pound and cream at about one dollar per gallon. It links care, technology, and market demand to dairy success and ties personal discipline to broader agricultural progress.
April 1 1908 marks a new ruling on mailing the Gazette. If subscriptions are over one year in arrears the paper may be discontinued. Postmaster Chadwick will collect one cent postage per paper unless we comply. Officials may require a sworn statement on subscription lists with penalties up to 100 dollars.
George VanNess announced his marriage to Ida Parker on the 17th in Boone Iowa. He owns a barber business and the couple will reside at the Linscott property. Revival services at the Methodist Episcopal church continue with strong attendance and nineteen souls at the altar this week.
A farmer near Harvard was duped by two strangers in a scheme over a farm acre. One offered a deal and a forged agreement. after a higher bid appeared, he paid a forfeited 500 dollars. The second man vanished, leaving the farmer wiser about thrift and farm shares for children and heirs.
A 30 day sale offers a handmade double work harness for 33 dollars and a collar priced at 2 dollars and 75 cents, with a reduced price of 2 dollars. The notice is signed by L. T. Moore.
A farmer swore to give $2 for the preacher’s salary once he sold his calf. He failed, attended church, and the choir sang "The Calf Has Never Yet Been Sold" which provoked his rage as he felt mocked by the past prosperity.
Ash ton hosts Ash ton Garrison No. 125 and Harriet Beecher Stowe Garrison No. 32 annual banquet at the Opera House with 100 plus Knights Ladies and guests in attendance A portrait of George Washington decorates the room The evening features music readings a supper and dancing with performances by Erma Hicholtz Edward Murray Reuben Schuster Eva Arnould and others.
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