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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1900
Page
7
Advert persists that prices are store prices not promises, offering 25¢ stockings, 9¢ hose supporters, 5¢ lace, 10¢ linen collars, 15¢ ribbons, 6¢ ginghams, 75¢ to 1.40 foulard silks, and tailor-made suits at half price with quick fittings. Strong emphasis on value and variety for spring stock.
April 23 Amity society dance at Blust's ball. April 24 county board of supervisors meeting at the court house. April 25 dance and card party at St. Pius hall. April 25 Wm Owen at the Grand opera house in a Gilded Fool. April 26 Eastertide entertainment by St. Mary's music class. May 1 Northwestern Homeopathic Medical Association meeting at the Brewster. May 15 Republican Senatorial convention 12th district. May 26 Democratic county convention.
The Freeport post office sells compact stamp books with three denominations. A 12x2 cent book costs 25 cents, a 24x2 cent book 49 cents, and a 48x2 cent book 97 cents. Each book fits a vest pocket with manila cover and oiled interleaving to prevent sticking.
Directors of American Steel and Wire cut prices by 30 percent after a New York meeting. Nails drop to $1 per keg or $20 per ton, annealed fence wire $18 per ton, other wires $20 per ton, with proportional cuts on other products. Previous prices were around $60 or 365 a ton.
J E Nichols of Cherry Valley, a frequent Rockford visitor, specializes in honey. Despite a poor season for the bees, his 50 swarms yielded about 4 500 pounds, roughly 100 pounds per swarm, with over 100 swarms expected to contribute to the next crop.
A silent man jailed in Rockford admitted guilt to robbing the Wempleton post office when he faced Chicago commissioners. He waived examination and was bound over to the federal court term likely in June. Sheriff Fox sent his photo to Pearl City, Musser, Sprague and others who recognized it as the man seen in Pearl City days before the robbery and bank safe attempt.
James G. S. Best, famed in the western field as Milwaukee Fire special agent and former Western department superintendent of the Agricultural, has joined the Manhattan Fire Insurance Company of New York. He will oversee the Illinois and Missouri field under Manager Bremer and assumes control May 1. Best is a longtime field man with many friends, and is a former Freeporter, brother to W. S. Best of the post office.
Tonight at the Freeport club bowl ing alleys the Rough Rollers will meet the Pin Destroyers in a promising game. Last Saturday in Rockford the All Stars beat Dubuque bowling six games. Dubuque’s best team score was 804, Rockford’s 826, and Harry Needham of Rockford rolled the highest individual 189.
A twelve member committee will meet in Freeport on May 2 to urge the city to host the 1901 Modern Woodmen picnic. Members include Jas O'Brien Camp 49 Duncan Bennett Camp 51 F L Morgan C T Boswell Ray McDonnell all of Rockford W H H Ashcroft A H Brooks Janesville John A Love Beloit A Garrett Belvidere Edward Wagner Wu Issenhuth of Freeport.
Freeport Council of the United Traveling Men's Association plans an open smoker next Saturday evening. The council reports a strong boom and pride in having one of the nation’s best organizations.
The Freeport Shakespeare society will meet this evening at Miss Stearns home. After the regular program Shakespeare's birthday will be informally celebrated and every member is invited to attend.
An evening event at Embury church features a silver medal contest with all contestants being young married ladies. An admission fee of five cents will be charged.
The Dupont Gun club will meet this evening at o'clock at Hollister and Fargher s jewelry store for reorganization. Dr. Carver the celebrated shooter and horse trainer has joined the club.
The Pleasant View school scholars in Harlem township enjoy natural study collecting over 50 seed specimens and a large collection of the season’s first blossoms.
Dr W W Krape is erecting a modern nine room house in West Freeport to be completed about the first of June. He will rent it.
The lodge of Knights and Ladies of Honor will be reorganized here tomorrow night. Some Grand lodge officers will be present.
Freeport chapter of the Eastern Star hosts a social this evening at Masonic hall with dancing and card playing.
Joe Schrank sells his stake in the Chicago street barber shop to partner Otto Krehl. Schrank will move east, ending his involvement with the business.
Advert reads Dr King s New Life Pills as a cure for sick and nervous headaches. Claimed to purify blood, strengthen nerves, and boost health. Easy to take, price 25 cents. Sold by druggist Joseph Einmert.
This notice previews Chas. Hoyt's satirical comedy A Texas Steer at the Grand opera house Tuesday evening. It features a newly elected congressman amid Washington politics with Katie Putnam and the Texas Steel quartet, plus the appearance of actors in related revues and the prior success of Arizona at the same venue. Flatulence is cured by Beecham's Pills.
Firemen answered a 1 20 a m call to a two family residence on Washington Street. The blaze started in a summer kitchen likely from a lamp. Loss to personal property about 200 dollars, insured for 500, with the Chapman family the heaviest losers.
Generous proprietors report over ten million free trial bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds given away. The medicine is advertised to cure asthma bronchitis hoarseness and all throat chest and lung diseases. Joseph Emmert, a local druggist, offers a free trial bottle with regular sizes priced at 50 cents and one dollar, guaranteed or money back.
A practical machinist offers sharpening and repair of lawn mowers with satisfaction guaranteed or no charges. H Gran dsen provides address at 216 North Galena Ave. Helen H Birch teaches piano at studio 150 West Street.
A period ad touts Golden Palace flour at 90c per sack and Favorite flour at 75c. It lists items including Boston baked beans 8c for 3-lb can, California white cherries 12c, Mohawk soap 25c for 12 bars, potatoes 25c per bushel, parlor matches 10c, lemon extract 3c, prunes 6c per lb, crackers 4c per lb, Braun Fitts butterine 14c per lb, Bartlett pears 12c for 8-lb can, flower seeds 2 packs for 1, Plymouth Rock peas 5c per can, coconuts 5c each, red steak salmon 12c per can, good salmon 10c per can, and baking powder 10c per 1-lb can.
Property on Upper Stephenson Street offered for sale at a bargain by GC F Hildreth. Modern conveniences noted. Listed as a general advertisement with contact name.
We are tearing down and remodeling but remain open at the old stand. Customers are urged to bear a little inconvenience to visit us and enjoy extraordinary low prices on goods for the next 10 days. New spring and summer stock has been recently bought for trade.
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