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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1913
Page
5
Local notes include Gus Springer visiting Duncan and Cliff Hamilton, attendance at an undertakers’ convention in Peoria, and a Kimball piano purchase for Mrs Laura Keefer. Religious services, estate notices, and community events are listed amid accidents and local business updates.
By the end of June, Mars, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter will be moro ing stars, but Foley's Honey and Tar Compound w at all times the Star medicine for coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough. A cold in June is as apt to develop into bronchitis or pneumonia as at any other time, but not if Foley's Honey and Tar Compound is taken. George Howard.
Florence Oregon resident Wa Morris cites fourteen years of kidney and bladder issues. He reports kidney pills stopped the problems after eight months of trial and endorses Foley Kidney Pills, naming George Howard as a supporter.
At Springfield the Illinois Farmers Institute president A P Grout urged farmers to back a permanent, higher road spending plan rather than repeated yearly outlays. He warned current funds waste millions while roads deteriorate, calling for sound legislation and practical road improvements over a temporary approach.
Brimfield community directory lists M E Church Rev L F Conuom services at 11 and 7:30, Sunday school 9:30. Congregational Church Rev Grover, services 11, Sunday School 10, Young People 6:30. St Joseph Church Akro A MarxVILLE rector with Mass 10 winter 11 summer, mandy school after Mass. Baptist Church Rev H F Jones preaching 2nd Sunday, Sunday School 10. Fraternal and social groups including Reserve Life Brimfield Lodge 94, S M of M, M W A, and Fire Company with meeting nights and officers.
The Inaugural address highlights road improvements as essential to state welfare. It calls for state aid to counties for main highways, compulsory road drag use on earth roads, and directing the state automobile tax fund toward a state aid network. Convict labor and short-term workers would support material prep and actual road work as needed.
A brief note contrasts England’s historic repeal of a road regulation with Illinois current statute. It notes a shift in traffic governance and implies differing legal traditions without detailing specific laws or dates. The line hints at comparative legal history rather than reporting a concrete event.
Wanted at once men to represent locally or traveling for Allen Nursery Co. Apply at once to secure territory in Rochester N. Y.
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