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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1906
Page
1
All accounts are left at the Exchange Bank and those owing me are asked to call and settle at their earliest convenience. Message signed W. L. Baywaep.
A Brimfield area notice lists a skilled blacksmith offering plow work horse care and all shop tasks at short notice in Stretchit with daily feed available. Other items include livestock shipments to Chicago, local store calls, visitors and births, cider mill days, coal availability, and a Sunday school basket sale postponed by rain.
The Village of Brimfield Illinois passes an annual levy and assessment ordinance for the current fiscal year. It lists appropriations including Streets and Sidewalks 1090.00 Police and Street Commission 480.00 Bonded indebtedness 500.00 Safest Bonded indebtedness 30.00 Sales 200.00 Lighting 100.00 totaling 2400.00. Passed August 6 1900 Approved August 6 1906.
Foreste. Fine farm of 182 acres near Brimfield with a large house barns wells stock water and groves. One of the best corn and stock farms on the prairie and a money maker for the right man. For particulars inquire of W. Hasitor.
August 29 1908 note shows donors listed with percentages totaling 78 75 toward the cemetery fund. The report laments lower receipts versus last year 125 75 and outlines prior year expenditures 83 00 back salary and 19 90 for pamphlets and improvements. Treasurer Rienano Pacwy promises an itemized public report with Brimfield News permission.
Claude U Stone County Superintendent of Schools announces daily office hours 8 00 am to 3 00 pm and Monday plus the first Saturday monthly office days from September 1 to June 1 and June 1 to September 1. Regular teacher certificate exams will be held at the courthouse on the third Friday and Saturday of October January April and July starting 8 00 am. The exam program includes Friday morning arithmetic American history Friday afternoon grammar reading handwriting and civics Saturday morning geography pedagogy Saturday afternoon physiology orthography and history of minds Botany zoology and physics also offered Saturday. Illinois State Normal School grades may be accepted in lieu of exams. circulars will be sent on application. Office third floor courthouse room 365 Peoria NL.
Farmers along rural routes urged to submit two names for envelopes priced at fifty cents each. Each envelope includes a return card and place name to help letters reach farms reliably.
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