Local Market Notes and Town Notices
A jumble of ads and brief items from Felgars and Eells Grocery details prices and promotions for sugar, oysters, eggs, and sorghum. Community notices include visitors, business callers, pigeon shoot reports, lost items, telephone updates, and church society officer elections for 1903 and 1908 with names such as Miss Nellie Collier and Miss Isla Brunsor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunday School of the Christian Church
Isla Brunsor
Bert Kemp
Nellie Collier
Stella Shulte
Ellamina Hough
Emma _ Shulce
A. E. McNeall
J. H. McNeall
Iowa State University
Ames
Iowa
Burlington Route Personally Conducted Party to California
Travel ad invites readers to join a Burlington Route party from Chicago or St. Louis to Los Angeles via Denver Colorado Springs and Salt Lake City. It promises daylight passage through Colorado mountains, sleeping-car berths, and free illustrated books and maps upon request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Coast
Burlington
Chicago
St. Louis
Los Angeles
Denver
Colorado Springs
Salt Lake City
Colorado
California
The Kingdom of Bardsey A Hidden Welsh Island King
Bardsey island lies three miles south of a Welsh peninsula with 77 inhabitants including a king who governs autocratically. The king doubles as doctor and registrar, pays no English taxes, and the island thrives on barley bread crabs and lobsters sold for a penny. The 370 acre isle hosts St Mary Abbey ruins and a notable monument to Lord Newborough, while outsiders rarely reach its perilous harbor passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward VII
British Isles
Hardsey Island
Wales
London
England
Abbey of St. Mary
Devonshire
Bardsey
Lord Newborough
Tree Planting Town Near Brunswick Maine Expands Municipal Forest
Brunswick Maine undertakes a major municipal forestry project on a several square mile tract of land near town common. A nursery and 20 000 white pine seedlings have been planted under an expert forester with a firebreak. The effort aims to produce valuable timber and stimulate local resources. Also note immigration data showing 39 823 arrivals from Great Britain in five months to May 31 1901 compared with 34 285 from all other nationalities combined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Brunswick
United States
Great Britain
Fine Stock Farm in Hancock County Near Rail Line
A well improved 159 acre stock farm on the C B Q railroad line in Hancock County offers 100 acres cultivated, 4 acres timber, two houses with cellars a good well and cistern each, two large nearly new barns and additional outbuildings. Priced at 7500 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams County
Bowen
Elinois
Hancock County
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Bowen, Wabash
Coces
K. M. Topp
Rand-Men Ally
Adams St.chigago
Felgars
Edith Robertson
Carthage
John Kennedy
Quincy
Eells’ Grocery
A. Downing
J. Scott
Clarence Bell
Belvidere
Harry Jones
B. B. Crain
Augusta
THE
Chronicle
Harry Marsh
Florence Funk
Camp Point
Grace Cunningham
Russel Robinson
Mounds
John
Wm. A. Veach
W. H. Veach
Baylis
W. B. Cecil
Johnny
Myrtle Veach
C. 5
Aleshire
St. Mary’s
J. P. Kilgore
Charles Rampley
West Point
Roy Bosworth
Wichita
Kansas
F. B. Six
Alexander
Illinois
H. M. Todd
Mabel Dunlap
Western Illinois Telephone Commuany
Eells
Eell
Ramsey
J. E. Test
Mt. Sterling
M.S. McCoy
Galesburg
Southside
Phize
James Robbins
Quincey
Tlinois Telephone Company
Hyde
E. E. Kemp
Janily
Memphis
Missouri
Los
Chronicle Office
Arthur Thompson
Western Illinois Telephone Company
Machiever la Pect Tory
Christian Endeavor of
Christian Church
Minnie Dean
Jessie Dean
Stella Schulte
Arena
McNrall
P. S. Eustis
Q.R. B
Chicago, Il
Kingdom OF
Edward
Childrens Grain
Douglas
Mens Canvass
Childrens
Leggins
Nash & Norris
Free
Bowen, Illinois
Adams Co
Good Town
Proerty
Alpha Witt
Farmers Line No. 2
Adams
McCoy
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