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Newspaper
Bowen Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1901
Page
1
From the United States Department of Agriculture a circular advocates year round good roads and forming local good roads clubs. It argues ten cents per day for twenty years to fund roads would also enable rural mail delivery farm telephone daily paper and weekly farm and stock papers and uplift farm life overall.
Free trial lessons cover short hand bookkeeping penmanship grammar letter writing Spanish German commercial law dresscutting and other branches. Enrollment since 1881 reaches 13000 and the ad urges writing to name branches of interest to receive lessons by mail.
The Nauvoo Independent enters the new century as a semi weekly publication. Published by Baumert Bros the paper is among the best in western Missouri and receives best wishes from neighboring editors for continued success.
The army reorganization bill banning sales of beer wine and intoxicants at post exchanges canteens and on army premises was approved by the Senate last Wednesday after House passage and awaits the President's signature. The measure also stirred talk of prohibiting liquor exports to the Philippine Islands under military control with broad bipartisan support.
The Christian church held its annual meeting in the chapel on Saturday January 5 with a lavish dinner, strong attendance, and reports showing flourishing finances. Treasurer noted adequate subscriptions for the year as officers delivered short talks and the gathering adjourned with a shared sense of satisfaction. Charles A Stevens & Brothers profiled as famed local merchants who rose to prominence in Chicago through bold advertising.
Delegates from Hancock county Modern Woodmen camps met in Carthage at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday January 10 to elect eight delegates to the state convention in Peoria on the second Tuesday in February. About fifty delegates attended from a county membership of 1947.
The Senate voted to let the president prosecute the war in the Philippines according to his own judgment, suspending aggressive hostilities until an amnesty proclamation is issued and Filipino representatives are invited to negotiate with the United States government. Congress appears to approve the policy of vigorous and continued war until rebels surrender.
Governor Tanner spoke at the Macomb corner stone ceremony for a new normal school building. He asserted rural schools rival other schools in importance, training teachers who lead in cities, trade, and politics. He warned neglect would threaten the republic and highlighted Illinois as pivotal to agricultural progress. He urged actions to strengthen rural education for state welfare.
The article comments on the astronomy class wishing to communicate with Mars and the Geometry class making noise when the door opens. It notes a boy in the corner happy about not changing seats and the bookkeeping class finishing January work. It also observes teachers on their way to school and students watching them.
Hancock county reports three smallpox cases at Fountain Green ten miles from Carthage. The county school board orders vaccination for all children and keeps strict quarantine. Officials say the disease is mild with few severe symptoms and not likely to become an epidemic.
John B. Laing, reputedly the United States' oldest Freemason, died in Chicago on January 9 at age 100. He joined the Masons in Scotland in 1820.
F D Rugg of Champaign assisted the Court of Honor in installation exercises and sang bass solos to applause. Rugg, former general representative, now tours with a liquid air scientist and hopes to arrange a Quincy date amid a lecture tour. The show features a demonstration of liquid air and follows engagements in southern cities as he heads toward the Pacific coast.
The Army Canteen prompts debate on its moral impact and effects on soldiers. Proponents cite officer approval and possible novelty, while critics argue it corrupts morals, impairs discipline, spreads disease, and wastes funds. The piece urges removal of harmful surroundings and stronger measures to keep troops temperate.
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