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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1900
Page
5
Local notes cover visits from L Drysdale and Mrs Cobb, church events, temperance meetings, and social gatherings. Merchants promote screen doors and enamel roof paint while health ads tout DeWitt’s products and Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. A Phillipines dispatch by Merton Hall shares army life and frontier notes.
The ad lists needed items for spring including screen doors windows lawn mowers gasoline stoves gas gasoline an oven that bakes screen wire poultry netting fishing tackle washing machines shovels hoes rakes and more all at bargain prices at Strain's.
Sweet potatoes tomatoes cabbage celery and peppers offered for sale in season by J. H. Pemble. Plant items listed indicate availability and timing for purchase.
A farmer scolds his son who admits plans to elope with the hired girl. He cites past indulgences like the circus, grandmother’s funeral, and late-night views of a lunar eclipse, urging an end to constant mischief.
Frank P. Lewis acquires the Whisky Trust Building to create a four story model cigar factory on Jefferson avenue. The new plant will employ over 200 workers, feature full light and ventilation plus water electric and gas service, and boost Peoria’s industry with Lewis Single Binder sales expanding across the middle and western states.
Mrs Jane Whitten died at her son A F Whitten’s home in Linn County Kansas aged 91. She lived many years in Brimfield and was mother of the late William Whitten. Her death occurred May 31.
Mr Allie Walker formerly of Brimsfield and Miss Mildred Booth of Chicago were united in marriage in Chicago on June 2 1900.
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a safe cure for constipation and related ailments. It claims relief of stomach liver kidney and bone issues and promotes the product at 25 cents from I Wm Robinson & Co’s drug store.
In the municipal race Judge Hand received 76 votes to Judge Craig's 46 with one defective ballot. Jubilee township boosted Hand 21 to 12 for Craig. A road tax proposition failed in Jubilee by 19 to 14. FHland won by a roughly 12000 majority.
Mrs. J. S. Onion and daughter Miss Effie of Hanna City visited Mrs. I. W. Sillamay in town with other friends in the fore part of the week. The note mentions Rocky Mountain Tea and a compliment to beauty in the land.
The lecturer notes it may be prudent to close some windows before the lights go down and the pictures appear on screen. He mentions women in the audience removing hats as a breeze may blow around, but the windows remain open and hats stay off.
A cordial invitation to breeders to examine stallions at Village Stock Farm. Featured are two black Percherons two Mammoth Jacks and one Hackney. Offspring fetch high market prices. Due to the proprietor’s shoulder injury the big horse will not visit Laura but will stay at home barns for the season. WH. WATSON.
Brimfield community notices list church pastors and service times for M E Church and Congregational, Baptist, and Presbyterian churches. It includes Catholic, G A R posts, M W A, K P, and local lodge schedules, officers, and meeting evenings at village hall and M Y A Hall.
The Spanish cannon obtained by Representative Esch for Lacrosse Wisconsin has been positioned. It measures ten feet long and ten inches in diameter at the street level and is dated Seville October 19 1787.
Miss Bessie Shirley of Salt Lake City is likely the only woman who edits and owns a mining paper. She established the publication herself and has built its success through her own efforts.
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