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Newspaper
Bowen Weekly Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1899
Page
5
Local items note James Ball and wife moving into Grant Sterrett’s house on West Worrell street. Property offers include a 176 acre farm near Augusta for rent, stores and rooms for rent, and various sales and bids. Community notices cover lectures, churches, schools, and upcoming fairs with multiple names and places.
Public sale planned by Miles Foster at his farm 144 miles southwest of Woodville on Friday August 25 with two 80 acre farms for rent and Milo McMillan of West Point handling inquiries. Also local notes on estate sale of John Belford, carload of nut coal, local deaths and various visits and industry progress on air brakes and automatic couplers in Burlington freight cars.
Local items note Prof W T Adams attending a teachers institute in Carthage. Various notices describe job work for T N Gillis of Stillwell, through Wabash railway rates, recent visits, a Bowen fruit property for sale, and a Jeresy cattle win at Carthage fair. Chronicles include a Wind Ridge Pa man’s use of a remedy for diarrhoea, and a Marion Candle fraud tale from Nebo Signal.
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