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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1907
Page
2
A damaged OCR brief listing several merchant names and store items including groceries clothing jewelry and dry goods. The text shows fragmented company names such as Cod Schoeffel Groceries Walton Nephhews and others with partial product lines and addresses, typical of a period ad page.
Mrs J N Daly returns from Orangeville this morning. J A H Hartman of Rockford visits Freeport. W E McGurk of Lena guests relatives in Freeport. Miss Fay Smith leaves for a Rockford visit. C W Huenkenkamp of Quincy calls on Freeport friends. F Schmidt of Rockford visits Freeport. Mr and Mrs W A Grant of LaSalle enjoy Sunday in Freeport. Miss Birdie C Zaeger of Lena visits Freeport. R H Reece travels to Polo after visiting C M Saxby. Miss Delia Finnan of Summers millinery returns to Chicago. E D Allington conducts business in Forreston and nearby towns. Miss Irene Baltzer returns from Orangeville. Miss Flora LaShelle of Rock City visits Freeport homes. S M Malnix returns from Kentucky Coal Mining stockholders meeting. Mr and Mrs A T Runner go to DeKalb for a short visit. Mr and Mrs Daniel T Buckman back in Stoughton after visiting nieces on Jackson Street. Mrs J A Bardell of Welsh, La., to move to Freeport this week. Fred Hein, former Freeport shop worker, visits his parents. recently laid off from Henry Buggy factory.
Local groups announce meetings and activities across Freaport including the Freaport Shakespeare society with Miss Barton and the Culture club on South Carroll street. Fraternal lodges and auxiliaries plan meetings, elections, and charitable sales at various venues this week and next.
The Woman's Club hears Mrs. I. L. Burchard's paper on Col. Benjamin Stephenson, early Illinois pioneer for whom Stephenson County is named, plus notes on Elijah and Owen Lovejoy, Lincoln-Douglas era anti slavery figures, and the Washburne link to Illinois history.
Freeport lodge No 452 Knights of Pythias will meet in castle hall this evening to elect officers and conduct regular business. all knights invited to attend.
Abraham Brown of Winterton New York suffered varied diagnoses from five doctors heart disease kidney trouble blood poison and stomach and liver trouble none helped his condition until his wife recommended Electric Bitters one bottle did more good than all five doctors and the remedy is guaranteed to cure blood poison weakness and stomach liver and kidney complaints by Joseph Kimmert druggist Oc
The Daily Journal is delivered citywide for 10 cents per week.
The Very Rev Walter Taylor Sumner preached at Gracechurch services intensifying the churchs work with the poor and needy A moving letter read aloud showed a family lacking coal and food prompting immediate aid from church and local officials
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