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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1907
Page
2
The Freeport Journal earns an International Typographical Union label recognizing the use of Union labor in its mechanical departments.
Excelsior Lodge No. 97 A F and A M holds stated meetings on the 1st and 3rd Friday monthly with Master Mason work on Fridays in August. Evergreen Lodge No. 170 meets 1st and 3rd Mondays. Freeport Chapter No. 2 Royal Arch Masons meets 1st and 3rd Tuesdays. Freeport Council No. 9 Royal and Select Masons meets 2nd Tuesdays. Freeport Commandery No. 7 Knights Templar meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays.
Vacation time is here. Journal subscribers leaving the city for the summer may have their papers forwarded by leaving their address at the office. Call phone 26 both systems for forwarding. Addresses will be changed as often as desired without charge. Half the pleasure of a vacation is reading happenings at home.
Local notes report F. O. Keene visiting Monroe and A. B. Zimmerman family visits in Scioto. Many residents travel to Chicago Milwaukee Davenport Lanark and Arkansas for business or relatives. Crops seen fine at Winnipeg. Misses Estella Regina Hinderman Bertha Briggs on Jamestown exposition trip. several other residents visit relatives or plan short stays in Illinois Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
C G Hays of Luff Missouri hails Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as the quickest and surest healing salve for sores burns wounds and piles. He testifies from experience while Joseph Emmert the local druggist guarantees the product priced at 25 cents.
Notice to parties with water gas or sewer connections on Walnut Street to attend to them at once. Ww AsoHHK. 8-Sagt
City council considers enforcing a standard sidewalk grade amid disputes with Henry Witte over Kickapoo and Winnesheik streets. Other items include nuisance at a penny arcade, licensing for pool halls and bowling alleys, sewer plans, and street improvements.
A list of visitors and locals on business and leisure visits in Freeport includes A C Knorr at Winslow, H H Lewis of Clinton Ill, Albert Eisenhaur to Dixon, OC Buck from Savanna, Willis A Joy of Grand Forks N C visiting relatives, Annie Jewett of Chicago with Eleanor Griffith, Mrs J G Bender of Red Oak visiting daughter Mrs William Green, Mrs FF W Oppice of Marshalltown visiting her mother, John Rotzler Sr returning from Clarion, Elizabeth Brodkin visiting Freeport friends, Mae Windsor from Rockford returning home, Ross Oblander back from Bushnell, and George K Sackett with Hugh Flannert of Harlem Park and Grand Opera House Rockford calling on friends.
Superintendent F. G. Bratt noted 806.40 spent for labor and hauling on streets and 471.20 for quarry work during the month. Flora Ittar Griffin reported collection of 1,484.08 for special taxes, with the commission amounting to a portion of the total.
Mrs. John Ritchie, a prominent local figure repeatedly honored with public office and positions of trust, died last evening at the family home on Frank Street. The passing of the Bloomington resident marks the loss of a key community leader active in civic affairs.
Community notices include meetings of the American Stars of Equity Freeport Chapter Royal Arch Masons and various church groups. A band concert is planned at Highland Park on Wednesday August 7, and a King’s Daughters Sunday school picnic at Taylor’s Park if weather permits. Obituaries note the death of Harlem township resident Joseph Hutmacher and funeral details for Mrs. John Ritchie George M Aigley and Dr L S Taylor with services in Freeport and surrounding towns.
The Business Men's association will convene this evening at city hall in an open public meeting. The reorganization will occur, standing committees appointed by the president, and a secretary search committee formed. Charles E. Gregory of Chicago is expected to attend, and the gas question and the old and prospective company affairs will be examined.
An advertisement asserts deafness comes from an inflamed Eustachian tube and only constitutional remedies can help. It claims nine of ten cases stem from catarrh and offers one hundred dollars for any deafness cure not achieved by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
The case against Frank Bechtold of McConnell for wife abandonment was postponed today before Justice Geich and rescheduled for Friday morning August 16 at 9 o'clock.
Endorsed by the County the Otsego Journal Gilbertsville N Y urges Dr King s New Discovery as the most popular remedy for coughs colds and lung and throat diseases editor William M Dietz calls it an infallible cure and says a bottle is kept in the house pharmacist Joseph H returned guarantees no disappointment priced at 50 cents and 1.00 with a free trial bottle offered
Beginning Thursday July 11 and every Thursday until August 15 the Rockford and Interurban Ry runs special midweek excursions to Harlem Park Rockford at 806 round trip including street car fare to and from park Tickets sold for any car Good returning on sale date only 7 9 dead 8 14
A local shop announces a clearance on all footwear with big cut prices. C A McNamara and Co advertises stock clearance offering affordable footwear. Located at bedlw 3417 Stephenson St.
The Daily Journal announces citywide delivery available at 10 cents per week.
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