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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1901
Page
4
Local notes recount harvest, visits from Peoria and Chicago, farm sales, a new fire engine hose, and social events including an ice cream festival at Laura church. Mentions gatherings for old settlers, camp meetings, picnics, and a ball at Chichester hall with praise for orderly conduct.
The family expresses sincere gratitude to kind friends for aid and sympathy during their bereavement. They thank the M E church choir for services and especially Mrs J L Bart for faithful service during their loved one's long illness, signed Joseph Blundy and children.
W E Stanspory of Brinsfield announces readiness to perform all kinds of carpet weaving. He states all warp colors are on hand and invites customers to place orders promptly.
Tomas A. Day announces receipt of 345 from the Modern Woodmen Accident Association toward settling his injury claim. He commends the association for prompt and satisfactory settlement and notes payment to follow this acknowledgment.
The undersigned will hold a public sale of household goods including kitchen and parlor furniture stoves carpets garden tools at his residence in Brimfield on Saturday afternoon August 24. See bills for list. L. H. Lams. John Schmidt to sell farm machinery and stock one mile east of town on Saturday August 31 beginning at 10 a m. Doug McDonnell auctioneer. See bills.
All Sadieville, Kentucky, learns Mrs Whitaker’s health dramatically improved after using Dr King's New Discoveries. Her husband says it cured her chronic bronchial trouble and aided their granddaughter’s severe whooping cough. It treats coughs colds la grippe bronchitis and throat and lung troubles. Bottles 50 cents and one dollar. Free trials at Wm Robinson & Co. drug store.
District M E Church camp meeting at Oak Hill runs Aug 15 to 25 1901 with daily preaching morning prayers and Bible hours led by various ministers including Eckley Cummings Chatten Gimson Dudman Beall Johnson Moses and others plus a Jeprroeth League district convention with prayer services seminars and missionary events concluding with Epworth League sessions and a post office closure. Local fraternal orders hold regular meetings and lodge notices appear throughout the schedule.
An advertisement touts DeWitts Little Early Risers as a safe pleasant and effective remedy to keep bowels regular and easy, warning that irregular action could lead to serious complications. Wm. Robinson & Co. backs the product.
The National Land List is promoted as the only genuine real estate paper in America with wide circulation. It promises bargains and offers for land, merchandise, or other property, including buying selling or exchanges. Single copies by mail cost 10 cents from Green Ridge Missouri.
Etherley Illinois seeks miners with good work and steady employment. For information contact A B Cline Etherly or Etherly Coal Co room 218 Holmes Building Galesburg Illinois.
An old advertisement promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets claiming a cure for a cold in one day. The copy notes druggists will refund the money if it fails and is signed by E W Groves.
Trustees offer the Brimfield church building and lot for 500 dollars cash. Sale is subject to approval by the deacon board and a member vote at Brimfield. The sale terms require completion and clearance under church governance.
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