Edwards Booster Club mobilizes to back I F Edwards
A Dixon booster club formed last week with 1 000 members supports I F Edwards for the Republican nomination for Congress in the district. The group includes business professionals preachers teachers and laborers and experts predict countywide clubs. With Lee Whiteside and Ogle counties together set to average about 15 000 Republican votes, Edwards chances appear bright and Lee County may form a 4 000 member booster club.
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Dixon
I. F. Edwards
Lee
Edwards
Lee County
Whiteside
Ogle
Franklin Grove Meeting and Local Notices in Dixon District
The Dixon district annual Methodist meeting will be at Franklin Grove grounds on July 14 with speakers including Bishop W B Lewis and Dr Christian Reisner and a Chicago Ministers' male quartet. Also notices of a home printer dispute over 800 dollar commencement invitations and a fifth wedding anniversary for Rev Alexander English. Troubadours to perform in Ashton on June 11 with open air Woodman band concert nearby.
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Dixon
Rock River
The
Methodist Church
Franklin Grove
W. 8. Lewis
China
Christian F. Reisner
New York
Henry F. Gandret
Chicago
Frank Briggs
Evanston
Prospect
Claude Moore
Galesburg
Board of Education
Adams Express
Express Company
Alexander English
Presbyterian Ladies Aid Society
Troubadours
Ashton
Opera House
Woodman Band
Council in Short Session
The city council met Monday with City Clerk H O Moore absent and S T Zeller Jr named temporary clerk. Bills were read and paid. sidewalk petitions from Dr James Brown Mrs Alvina Burnham Margaret Beach and Remi Arnould were referred to the Street and Alley Committee. The treasurer Nathan A Petrie reported and the council approved a revised Illinois statute. The marshal was instructed to curb vagrants amid reports of growing tramp activity. The meeting adjourned.
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H. O. Moore
S. T. Zeller Jr
Roesler
Tuck
James Brown
Alvina Burnham
Margaret Beach
Remi Arnould
Oesterheld
Petition for Southern Boundary Road Prompts Hearing
A petition filed with the township Highway Commissioners requests opening a 50 foot road along the section line south of sections 26 and 25 to connect the stone road southeast of town with the town line. A hearing date will be set after a meeting this week. land purchase of about twelve acres and a steel bridge over one creek are proposed with estimated costs of 3000 to 4000 dollars.
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Highway Commissioners
Catholics Lead in 1907 Religious Census Wealth and Members
The 1907 U S census of religious bodies shows Roman Catholics nearest to one third of total communicants with 12 079 142 members and property valued at 262 638 789. Methodists and Baptists follow in numbers and wealth, with Presbyterians and Episcopalians also listed among principal bodies. Proportions indicate Catholics dominate in wealth per capita while city distribution varies. Mrs Will Hart and two daughters with Miss Anna Buchman plan a Colorado summer, staying in Loveland and Boulder.
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United State
Census Bureau
Leadilde
Ley
Disciples of Christ
The
Christian Church
Episcopal Church
Congregationalists
Bing
Presbyterians
Methodists
United Baptists
Methodist Episcopal
South
See
Northern Baptists
Sacs
Episcopal
Church of Christ
New York
Philadelphia
St Louise
Saratei Ees
Will Hart
Anna Buchman
Colorado
Loveland
Children’s Day Programs Across Local Churches
Sunday features three large Children’s Day programs by local Sunday schools. United Evangelical holds a 10:00 a.m. service, Reynolds Evangelical at 9:30 a.m., and Presbyterian hosts its annual program next Sunday morning June 12 with multiple recitations songs and benediction.
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Methodist Sunday School
United Evangelical Church
Reynolds Evangelical Church
Presbyterian Sunday School
Ruth McMillan
Daisy
Lillian Payne
Burgess Farringer
May Geyer
Orva Moore
Vera Knapp
Englis
Sublette and Dixon appointees named to Board of Review
County Judge Robert H. Scott appoints John P. Malach Sublette and Nathan Cortright Dixon to the Board of Review with L S Shaw as chair. The board meets in July to hear objections and will sit ten weeks. Also notes Ashton High School events including baccalaureate, class day, commencement address by Rev. H N Bannen, and alumni banquet with ticket sales starting Wednesday at seven.
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Scott
Robert H.scott
Board of Review
John P. Malach
Sublette
Nathan Cortright
Dixon
S. L. Shaw
Lee Center
Board of Supervisors
Malach
Cortright
Dixon Township
Ashton High School
Methodist Episcopal Church
L. P. Warrington
Opera House
H. N. Bannen
Rockford
Presbyterian Church
Garnett Arnould
Anna Killmer
Maude Kersten
Mildred Griffith
Bennett Nettleton
Charles Pfetzing
Otto Schade
Arthur Clark
Watches Taken From Dixon Jewelers Robbery
Sometime early Saturday morning thieves broke the plate glass at Wm. E. Trein’s jewelry store in Dixon and removed four watches from a window tray. The night watchman found the window intact at two o’clock, a hammer used to pry in a hand hole. Three Howard watches and one Waltham were stolen. no suspects yet. Trein’s friends in the city express sympathy. Also noted was George Baker receiving a new drag wagon yesterday, a platform truck type.
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Wm. E. Trein
Dixon
Howard
Waltham
Trein
Rutledge of Elgin Spoke at Modern Woodmen Memorial Services
Dr J C Rutledge of Elgin addressed the annual Modern Woodmen of America Memorial at the opera house Sunday afternoon. The program included a band, prayers, songs, and a cemetery service headed by Venerable Counsel George A Putman. Over 48 000 homes insured, crowd overflow, parade back to the city with 175 Woodmen in line. Vera Knapp is ill.
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Modern Woodmen of America
Opera House
L. P. Warrington
Methodist Episcopal Church
J. C. Rutledge
Elgin
Alexander English
Presbyterian Church
Woodman
Forrester
George A. Putman
Opera
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Council
Bates’ Hall
Barclay
Council Mesa Orchards
Idaho
Illinois
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Raffensberger
Uncle Tom
Court House
John M. Sterling
Charles Wagner
Clara
Ted States
Lic
A. W. Rosecrans & Company
Henry Krug
James Gates
Lighthouse
Tribunes
Rock Island
Knights of the Globe
United States
Great Britain
Ireland
France
Peter Eisenberg
Watertown
John Erhard
George Baker
Woodmen Memorial
Rutledge OF
Vera
W. D. Knapp
A. W. Rosecrans & Comp’y
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