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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1900
Page
4
Notice announces a Saturday evening meeting at the Village Hall for completing the organization of a Democratic club. All are invited, by order of the temporary organization.
Season opening notes reveal admission and equipment details, with local vendors offering stoves coal oil and grease. A mix of notices includes political rally plans and a brief on a Bryan club organization pending further steps.
A brisk Brimfield page lists floor coverings at Memler Bros and cheap cider apples from E. C. Lucas. Wm Robinson & Co advertise De Witt’s Little Early Risers and One Minute Cough Cure alongside second hand buggies and harness remedies. Local moves include Pred Meeker back at the Q depot, M. C. Johnson’s Kansas City trip, and Miss Nettie Jackson’s recital. Department items note church plans, repairs, and a new railroad survey near Elmwood Road with Stretchit town rising to host Davenport & Peoria railway.
Two Knox county unions reported as James Bennett and Jennie Bennett wed at the Congregational parsonage with Rev. Charles McCluer officiating. They plan to live near the depot in the J.M. Lambley residence. Also J C Whittaker and Amy H Cravens wed in Galesburg, Cravens noted as a former Knox county teacher and musician, with the Whittaker family hosting near Laura.
Report notes happy fishing conditions this fall via H L Fishers with Spoon lure. William George returns from circuit duties and opens a shoe shop near Wy man Street next to West End Grocery. Shovel hat used at Oak Willberavel pit relocated for work. Large number of men seen at Oak Ti site.
Proposals to furnish coal for Brimfield public school will be received up to noon on Saturdays October 6 at the clerk Fred Arber's store. Rights reserved to reject any or all bids. By order of Board.
Obituary notes a rural figure's passing with moral reflections on life and eternity. A disclaimer-like line about life as vapor appears alongside archaic phrasing and local newspaper flavor. The excerpt includes a humorous misquote about a calf and a sales pitch for DeWitt's pills.
Alton Ladies' Quartet appears September 22 and Lucius Perry Mills, poet and humorist, October 6. Darwin McIlrath lectures October 20. Alton Packard, cartoonist, November 3. Juanita Glee Club performs November 17. H. V. Richards lectures, December 1. Augustus F. Howell entertainer, December 15. Frederick magician, December 29. Glazier Jubilee Singers sing January 12. Edward Ownings Towne presents The Little Duckards on January 26.
J M Garreteon suffered years of asthma agony in San Antonio Texas until a fire-related incident spared him. He credits Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption as a cure for asthma and lung troubles. The medicine, claimed to cure coughs colds and throat chest ailments, is sold at 50 cents and one dollar with guarantees and free trial bottles at Wm Robinson and Co drug store.
Brimfield hosts church services at 11:00 a.m. Sundays led by Rev. A Mainville, with monthly lodge and club meetings. Zylka Lodge No. 47% and Brimfield District Court of Honor No. 487 hold regular Friday or Tuesday sessions in M W A hall or village halls, welcoming visiting members. Local camps, social and M W A branches meet on alternating weeks, with officers named. W B F M S of Methods Church meets monthly on the first Thursday afternoon.
The remedy has achieved great success in treating bowel complaints and has become standard in much of the civilized world. It is for sale by Wm Robinson & Co.
On Jovin Car roll's farm northeast of Brimfield there is plenty of coal on hand with good measure. An advertisement seeks an active man of good character to deliver and collect in Illinois for an old established manufacturing house, offering $9008 yearly repay. Honesty valued over experience, preference for any city bank. Enclosed sealed seed stamped, envelope. Manufacturers The Floor 834 Dearborn St Chicago.
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