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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1900
Page
15
Brimfield defeats West Jersey 6 to 5 amid hostile officials and rough play. McDonnell scores a 50 yard kickoff run for the first touchdown, with F Day adding a goal and strong line work from A Day Tucker and Mercer fuels the offense.
Brimfield outgained Jersey to only downed once, scoring two touchdowns by McDonnell while F Day kicked a goal. Jersey fought back with a late counter, but Brimfield held the line, never being held for downs, as time expired with Brimfield 11 Jersey 5.
Football duel scheduled for Saturday October 27 1900 at Danforths field with Wyoming meeting Brimfield. Kickoff set for 2 30 admission 10 and 15 cents. All spectators invited.
Members of the Shakespeare Club are requested to meet at Mrs. Ida Yoakum's home on Friday evening October 26 1900 to reorganize and plan the winter's work by order of officers.
The number 920 is the lucky draw at Hayward's where the holder must call and present the ticket to claim the prize a large bar of soap.
A door key awaits its owner at the office. Observer mentions a newborn daughter for Rev H B Cox and wife born Oct 22. Miss Mamie Longden went to join her Chicago parents. Marshall's Harness Shop offers counters and old bins. Local residents recall hearing James Whitcomb Riley in Peoria. A Sunday gale toppled gates and damaged a hall billboard and Cone's art car. In La Harpe park an old Dan Rice circus ring, planted over fifty years ago, bears eight to ten inch trees growing inside.
Brimfield listings show multiple church services and Sunday schools for the Brimfield Directory with Congregational Baptist and Catholic parishes. It includes meeting times for M. E. Mercer and Rev. Cons. McCuor, plus W C T U, K of P, and M.W.A. chapters, court and camp meetings, and notes on charitable group activities and a Mountain Tea advertisement.
Advertisement notes abundant coal on John Roll's farm north east of Brimfie with good measure. Post offers $900 yearly pay for an active man to deliver and collect for an established Chicago manufacturing house. Enclosed SASE to Manufacturers, Third Flat, 834 Dearborn St., Chicago.
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