Oil Men Meet This Afternoon In Wyoming Development
Wyoming Land and Development directors plan a full meeting this afternoon to review advancing the additional 2 720 acre tract. A refinery and pipeline proposal may be considered as directors prepare for a Big Horn Basin trip next Tuesday evening. The address recalls a banker’s rise through hard work and urging young men to hustle for success.
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Wyoming Land and Development,company
Bremmer
S. T. Zeller
Ohio
Stubbs
Zeller
Big Horn
Bain
Ga zETTE Ends Third Year with Thanks to Readers
The Ga zETTE marks the close of its third year under current management. It thanks advertisers and subscribers for strong support and promises to improve in the fourth year, noting rapid growth in subscriptions as a principal achievement.
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the Gazette
Local Gazette Seeks Delinquent Accounts Cleared
In the past year the newspaper has provided northeastern Leecoun with local news and given away no talking machines pianos or trips. It reports 625 Gazettes are needed for Ashton and nearby counties and notes a gain of about 100 copies. Requests delinquents settle accounts this week to start anew.
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Leecoun
Ashton’s
Illinois Railroads Accept Two Cent Fare Plan
Illinois railroads will accept the new two cent fare passenger law from the forty fifth general assembly and comply with its provisions. Reports from Chicago indicate executives discussed the law after Missouri court opinions, with some fearing court defeat but others seeing potential benefits from the fare requirement. Henry Thomas received a new separator Thursday.
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Linois
Forty-Fifth General Assembly
Chicago
Missouri
Sindlinger Named County Assistant Superintendent of Schools
Harvey Sindlinger is appointed as the county's first assistant superintendent with a salary of 40 per month. The new position, created at the board of supervisors meeting, will oversee rural mail carriers and counting mail pieces delivered after July 1. More than 5,000 pieces per month were reported in several routes, with Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, and New York routes cited.
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Sindlinger
Harvey Sindlinger
I. F. Edwards
Board of Supervisors
Lee County
Iowa
Michigan
New
Illinois
Trade at Home Moral Tale From Possum Run
A rustic tale recounts Jim, a high school graduate at Ashton class of 1904, earning a West Point appointment after a rough sales night. Merchants at Possum Run refuse mail order cargo, urging locals to trade at home. A poetic moral laments cash-only limits and praises local commerce led by Sawbuck and Shears.
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Edwaris
Ashton High School
Iowa
West Point
Freeport
Possum Run
Jim
Olsen
Mr. Shears
Sawbuck
Nswer
Water Street
Time of Closed Season ofPrairie Chicken Extended
Sportsmen who planned to shoot prairie chickens starting July 1 face disappointment as the legislature extends the closed season from July 1, 1907 for four years, delaying hunting until 1911. Few licenses issued. other available game like foxes and squirrels are scarce and of little value to sportsmen.
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Praire
Saturday sale notice at Smith's Pharmacy
Notice announces a special Saturday sale starting June 29 with discounts on multiple ar ticles. It advertises Santa Claus Soap 7 bars for 25c and 5c face cloths at 4c, plus Bees Laxative Syrup for coughs and colds. The product contains honey and tar with no opiates and is sold by Smith's Pharmacy.
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Smith's Pharmacy
Married in Mississippi Ashton Couple Wed at Bride's Home
Clarence Sanders son of the late Joseph Sanders and Miss Carrie Dewey of Centreville Mississippi were married Thursday at the home of the bride. They left for Chicago after the ceremony and will reside on the J M Killmer farm south of town. Mrs Sanders is a northern girl and a cousin of Dr W C McWethy. The town discusses a proposed curfew ordinance to curb late night prowlers. The council meets next Monday evening and citizens may voice support. Mrs C W Jonker visited relatives in Rochelle. Lewis Auslander shipped a carload of old iron to market last week.
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Clarence Sanders
Joseph Sanders
Carrie Dewey
Centreville
Mississippi
Chicago
Ashton
Mr. Sanders
Sanders
W. C. McWethy
Ashton Fourth of July Band Concert Invites All
Ashton business men sponsor an evening Fourth of July band concert on the streets with balloons and fireworks. Joe Roesler plans balloon launches and a large turnout expected as in two years ago. A Saturday concert aims to draw a crowd weekly through September first. Mendota races run July 9 to 12 offering 5200 in purses with three races daily.
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Blair
Southern Illinois
Ashton
Uncle Sam
Ashton Band
Joe Roesler
Band Boys
Mendota
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Tolono
S. A. Forbes
Lafayette Township
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McCague
Thomas Paddock
J. W. Hoops
W. S. Sanford
John Porter
L. Frost
M. S. Moore
Dudley Reed
Joseph Williams
A. W. Rosecrans
Henry Thomas
Edna
Grequired
Fieces
Waa
Shears & Sawbuck
Praire Chicken
Sunoay South
Lewis Auslander
By Rosecrans
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