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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1908
Page
3
Regular correspondents chronicle speaths social events and county affairs with notes on personal updates and community happenings. The column surveys local societies, gatherings, and notable comings and goings within the county town.
From Our Own Correspondent Pearl City reports several inches of snow Saturday night making roads rough for sleighing. Local market activity includes hogs and cattle shipments to Chicago. Visitors arrive from Dakota Kansas City and Colorado while many residents attend lodge elections and club meetings.
From Our Own Correspondent Red Oak elects Prefect Albert Wolfe Monitor Mrs. John Stoll secretary Mrs. B D Miller banker Mrs A T Folgate marshal Mrs Albert Wolfe warder Clayton Folgate sentinel IA J Polgate supervisor Charles Kottman organist and reporter Mary Cc lsesser physicians Dr B A Arnold Dr J N Daly plus local notices of visits and a Christmas program to be staged December 17 with a light opera The Chaperon and scenes from Queen Esther under Mystic Workers management admission 20 cents adults 10 cents children under 12 Former Sheriff J B McCool visited Monday.
Well attended gathering listed managers led by Wm Miller of Lomax as chief cook Philip Michael head waiter assisted by Melvin Miller and William Runte with William Wilhelms Jr head dishwasher and William Otto helper. Otto and Miler orchestra provided music. Frisbie acted as toastmaster. Several attendees went to the Chicago stock show last week.
From Our Own Correspondent Dakota December 8. Miss Franken barger of Rock Grove spent Sunday here. The Teachers institute at the public school Saturday afternoon was well attended. Mr. and Mrs. Landis Leid of Freeport visited with A. E. Wagner. M. E. church meetings continue all week beginning at 7. Mrs. Walter Wehmeier visited in Freeport Friday night. Henry Andre of Freeport spent Sunday with R. C. Blunt family. Mrs. Brown of Freeport spent Saturday with F. R. Wolf family. Mrs. Good visiting Freeport this week. W. B. Rote R. A. McElhiney J. Meyer Henry and Amos Iserman attended the fat stock show in Chicago last week. Modern Woodmen elected officers: Consul C. P. Leitzell Advisor F K H Cheyney Clerk W. H. Smeltzer Banker W. A. Holcomb Escort H. A. Walker Watchman Jake Small Manager for three years A. J. Foster. Mrs. Gardner Briggs of Freeport spent Saturday with D. F. Messman. Irwin Barr and family spent Sunday with friends here. Woman’s Missionary Society Lutheran church bank offering service Sunday Dec 13 at 2:30 with music recitations and addresses. Public invited. G. S. Smith and wife went to Elizabeth Sunday to visit Grandpa Smith ill at Dr. Dorner Smith’s home.
From Our Own Correspondent Orangeville December 7 notes attendees at the Chicago fat stock show including James Chilton Frank Chilton A A Clarno Benjamin Keister Emil Lenz William Neuschwander and wife D C Confer tours the western states for Center Medical. Clyde Guldin moved to the Shons farm Nep Folgate moved to Swartz house Mrs J A Circle returns from Ohio Charles Wright Be loit Mrs Brean Town visit Ira Wagner family Mrs Shookanson Malden visits Dr Stealy and wife Freeport visits Dr Daly and wife James Miller and wife return
Tuesday morning reports from Freeport note events including Mrs George Wagener attending a pasaor held by the M E ladies in Monroe on Friday. Mira Flora Addams, longtime stenographer for Cenfer Medical, has moved to Freeport and accepted a new position. Mrs John Pullman and her Rockford son visit her parents L C Runkle and wife. Clare Sherbondy shipped household goods to Spencer Iowa Tuesday. Aaron Ritzman traveled to Canon City South Dakota Thursday to visit his brother Martin and family.
Centennial, Dec. 7. John Rosen ateil and Theo Koerner repair the telephone line. Fred Sandmetter builds a new yard fence on his farm with Chas Reed assisting. Mrs T D Kohlster and children return to Milwaukee after visiting relatives here. N Bechtold visits Orangeville. Ida Minzlaff works for Mrs John Rosenstein this winter. Ada Kiester visits Kent with her parents.
The Bolton area reports a well attended missionary dinner at Mrs. William Brillhart’s home and a Sunday school officers election at the parsonage. New officers include W L Roberts superintendent Ellis Goodsell assistant superintendent Bertha Peck secretary Julia Voss assistant secretary Roscoe Peck treasurer Edna Roberts missionary treasurer Ethel Roberts organist Edith Schauer assistant organist Mrs A V Sheetz choir leader Warren Sheetz Floyd Miller librarians. Local activities cover visiting relatives, market and farm tasks, church work, a Hart school program with play Christmas at Skeeter Corner, spelling contest and a 5 cent admission. Other items note improvements to church sheds, visits, illnesses, and upcoming M W A election.
Personal experience asserts Man Zan Pile Remedy provides immediate relief for all forms of piles. Guaranteed 50 cents. Sold by H J Moogk and C P Guener.
Harriet M. Burbank, listed as a piano teacher, operates at Studio 36 on Grove Street. The address is 92adtf, with no further context on dates or services provided.
Upcoming events list includes Prof Dawson social dance on the 11th and an annual dance and card party on the 16th at the college club, plus a prize masquerade, an officers ball, and the alumni ball at the Masonic temple in December.
The listing outlines December matinees and nightly programs for Morris Thurston Co. with Bioscope Moving Pictures on multiple dates including Dec 18 and Dec 19, plusatrical acts such as The Mikado and The Matchmaker. Also noted are Liquid Art lectures and titled features A Wife's Secret and A Mikado schedule.
Freeport's Santa Claus Bill Ascher plans his nineteenth annual distribution of candy and gifts for local children. He bought 2,500 pounds of candy plus a ton and a quarter of nuts fruits and presents to be shared with about fifteen hundred to two thousand youngsters on Christmas morning. All purchases were largely made in Freeport from local dealers.
The Grand in Freeport will run Bioscope Moving Pictures on all open dates this month starting Sunday Dec 13 with matinee at 3 PM and evening show at 7 PM. Two shows daily on Dec 14 16 18 20 21 22 23 24 26 27 28 and 29 as an entire daily change of films. The management reports strong audience interest and aims to show new pictures not yet seen locally.
Tonight at the Grand the Morris Thurston Co presents the strong feature When Man Turns to Brute. A large house is expected. Saturday offers a candy matinee with a bag of candy for every child and a Saturday night showing Raffles with a gold watch to be won.
Mrs A C Williams of Bac Ky recalls a graveyard cough that nearly killed her. After three years marked for death the medicine eased her lungs and helped her gain 58 pounds, with health fully restored. It’s advertised as the world’s healing record for coughs colds and lung throat diseases and pneumonia prevention, with trial bottle offered.
Pearl City News reports a teachers institute held last Saturday with thorough, ably presented subject remarks and lively discussion. Superintendent and teachers participated, with Mr. Grove endorsing the handling of subjects and supporting A. I. Boyer in the view that corporal infliction is a justifiable means of establishing authority in a schoolroom.
Mrs H Goodrich and her daughter Mrs Addie Sweet have been visiting the former’s son and family. They traveled to Freeport on Tuesday where Mrs Goodrich will reside with Mrs Sweet indefinitely.
The piece contrasts dream of farming gains with real limits, citing Texas onion yields, Oklahoma farm payback, New York orchards, California plantations, and lucrative New Jersey cantaloupes. It notes apples in Nova Scotia, strawberries profits, and Southern cotton creating wealth, then stresses watchfulness, hard work, thrift and pluck.
Executor Matthew B Marvin previews sale of several parcels in Freeport Stephenson County on December 12 1908 at 2 PM at the courthouse front steps The property includes multiple lots in Crockers and Arcade additions with three dwellings on the first site and rents of 13 per month Bids cash with a modest deposit and deed delivery balance. executor may reject bids and offers details by inquiry to M B Marvin
The piece compares living costs and challenges in Alberta and Pennsylvania, noting harsher winters, mental strain to endure solitude, and the need for health. It discusses agricultural risks from cantaloupe and sweet potatoes, market fluctuations, and suggests opportunities and comfort found in cities and access to physicians or hospitals.
A fragment from the Philadelphia Public Ledger mentions acres of wheat land and the dream of Alberta. It contrasts hopeful land dreams with thoughts of worse outcomes, reflecting a digressive, literary headline style.
Shoplifters have appeared in Sterling, with two incidents in which valuable goods were taken while proprietors were momentarily distracted. The thieves fled with items as storekeepers watched.
Colds this season relieved quickly with Bees Laxative Cough Syrup. Its laxative quality rides the system of the cold. Pleasant to take. Best for children for coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough. Sold by H J Moogh and C P Guenther.
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