North Ridott notes and local happenings
North Ridott reporter lists a quiet week of activity including visits to Pearl City and Chicago fat stock show attendance, sales and purchases, employment, and a list of prompt pupils for November. Names include Clyde Wise, Jed Miller, Mrs. Wm Turner, Laura Turner, Walter Bokemeier, Chas Lestikow, Bertha Miller, Albert Jones, Lloyd Gitchell, and others. Public sale set for Tuesday with Kellar.
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North Ridott
Clyde Wise
Pearl City
Jed Miller
Wm. Turner
Laura
Kankakee
Walter Bokemeier
H. Bokemeter
Chas. Lestikow
Chas. Lestikow, Jr
Lloyd Burgher
Chicago
Bertha Miller
Borchers
Albert Jones
Lloyd Gitchell
Ridott
Wmn
Glannan
Snively
Christ Snively
Freeport
Kellar
Ethel Hickory
Martha Turner
C. Kellar
Our School
John Daughenbaugh
Earl Daughenbaugh
Glen Daughenbaugh
Reeve Bokemeier
Myrtle Bokemeiler
Elsie Fleuchtling
Will Ubben
Martha Ubben
Calendar gift at Kh. and W. Clothing House for 1909
The Kh. and W. Clothing House offers a free 1909 calendar featuring a Madonna and Child to customers upon request. The item is available by asking at the store.
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Kh. & W. Clothing House
Illinois Supreme Court Invalidates State Fishing License Law
Springfield Dec 16 The Illinois Supreme Court struck down the 1907 fishing license provision as unconstitutional and discrimination between Lake Michigan and other state waters as special legislation. The ruling overturns an enforcement against James Wilcox of Schuyler County and upholds equal treatment under the constitution.
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Springfield
Tinoig Supreme Court
Lake Michigan
James Wilcox
Schuyler County
Circuit Court
Fish Commissioners
Supreme Court
Diphtheria Quarantine At Illinois Eastern Hospital
Diphtheria cases force quarantine of the north infirmary at the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane in Kankakee Illinois five cases reported including three women patients and two nurses Miss Emma Stang and Miss Cecile Maxey These are the first cases since the 1907 June outbreak which infected fourteen and claimed nurse Miss Gertrude Henkel death occurred in June 1907
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Kankakee
Ill
Illinois Eastern Hospital For the Insane
Eimma Stang
Cecile Maxey
Gertrude Henkel
Scarlet Fever Cases Close Deaf School in Jacksonville
Several scarlet fever cases found at the state school for the deaf in Jacksonville. The institution will close for two days for fumigation and to prevent spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
State School For the Deaf
Schwab Predicts Open Hearth Superseded by Electric Steel
Charles M. Schwab told the House Ways and Means Committee that in five years Bessemer and structural steel would vanish in the United States and be replaced by open hearth. Within ten years the open hearth would be superseded by an electric system of manufacture developed in Germany. He noted Bethlehem Steel imports Cuban iron ore and warned against tariff cuts.
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Washington
Andrew Carnegie
Charles M. Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
House
Ways and Means Committee
Bessemer Steel
United States
Schwab
Bessemer
Supreme Court Reverses Argo Contempt Verdict
The Illinois state supreme court reversed the Cook County criminal court ruling convicting Horace Argo for contempt of court. Argo had been summoned by a grand jury probing gambling and bribery tied to the steamer City of Traverse acting as a horse race pool room in Lake Michigan. He had refused to answer certain questions, and the lower court had fined $500 and sentenced him to six months in jail.
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Springfield
Criminal Court of
Cook County
Horace Argo
State Supreme Court
Argo
Traverse
Lake Michigan
Switchman Awarded $22 500 for Lost Arm
William Witt of Danville was awarded $22,500 by a Chicago jury against the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad in the superior court. While employed as a switchman in Danville yards, he claimed a worn draw bar and protruding nut caused his arm to be drawn between car couplers, resulting in the loss of his arm.
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Chicago
William Witt
Danville
Chicago and Eastern Ilinois
McEwen
Witt
Mine Fire Claimed Harmony Mine Ordered Sealed
Belleville Alabama December 15 State Mine Inspector Rutledge has ordered the Harmony mine closed after a fire has burned for ten years. A fourteen inch concrete vault housing the fire stood at white heat as the shutdown order was issued.
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Belleville
Rutledge
Harmony
Annual college events and dances listed for December to January
A schedule of campus events includes the Plattedeutsche Galici dance on December 17, Prof Dawson’s Prize Masquerade on December 18, Prof Dawson’s Christmas Ball on December 2, and multiple dances at the Masonic temple from December 8 to 9. January features the B of BR T annual ball and board party and the College of Commerce winter term opens January 4.
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Plattedeutsche Galici
Dawson
Masonic Temple
BR. T
College of Commerce
Bioscope Moving Pictures and The Mikado Event Schedule
A sequence of cinema showings and performances listed with dates in December. Bioscope Moving Pictures runs multiple matinee and night screenings on December 16 17 20 25 27 and 18, with A Wife's Secret on December 26 and a December 10 lecture by Lieutenant Afr, plus The Mikado on December 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bioscope Moving Pictures
Market Report and Ridott Local News Summary
Closing board of trade quotes cover May wheat corn oats and pork and lard with cattle hogs and sheep at Union stock yards. Ridott reports births visits church events and a long, persuasive lecture by Oscar G. Christgau on rabbit feet and wretchedness emphasizing persistence over luck.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Board of Trade
Union Stock Yards
Chicago Board of Trade
C. D. Anderson
Hettinger
Stephenson Street
Jan Cores
Local news from Winneshiek shows church meetings ongoing
From Our Own Correspondent Winneshiek December 14 Messrs C Marze BE Mathiot I Fawyer W Herbert and H Pfile visited Chicago last week Rev Spurlock of Oregon aided Rev Frye at U B church meetings will continue this week John Greider is sick Rev MLapp former India missionary on furlough preaching in U B church Sunday morning Youngs church Sunday evening Mennonite church Tuesday evening Mr and Mrs Lapp plan to return to India after vacation Rev JS Shoemaker spent the day at Shannon
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Ridott
William Cary
Elfreda Kasten
Belvidere
Ridott Friends
U. B
F. M
Frank Bengston
Flora Mayer and
Minch
Freeport
Susie Heilman
Susie Boyer
Everts
C. R. Boyer
Lucy Lincoln
Waddams Grove
Dorothy Brown
Chicago
Beveridge
William Burdick
Agnes Hunt
Oscar G. Christgau
Minnesota
Christgau
Winneshiek
Messrs. C. Marze
BE. Mathiot
I. Fawyer
W. Herbert
H. Pfile
Spurlock
Oregon
Frye
John Greider
M. Lapp
India
Young's
Lapp
J. S. Shoemaker
Shannon
Real Estate and Rentals in Mille Lacs and Worthy Areas
Classified blurbs advertise 400 acres for sale in Mille Lacs county Minnesota and 9 acres improved farms in Winnebago county Iowa. A. Clark of Freeport listed. Also furnished first floor rooms for rent at 150 Broadway. Wages sought for experienced double entry bookkeeper. Representative for a large inquiry appears in the snippet.
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Mille Lac County
Minn
Winnebago County
Towa
A. Clark
Freeport
Broadway
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New York
F. A. Read
Win Walton Neph
Clothing Department
the Daily Journal
Louis Young
South Gatena Ave
Holiday Post
Otto Wagner
Galena Street
Yinles
Freeport Cligelenmeawe Blast
Prosper
Union St
Allington, Jr
Schoeffel’s Christmas Supplies
Florida
California
Santa Clara
Moxley
Solio
Scwoeffel
Galena
Supreme Court OF
Illinois
Asylu
Illinois Eastern Hospital
Steel
City OF
Switchman
White Heat
Grand Opera House
E. M. Harnish & Bro
U.S
Walter J. Hea
John H
Ryan's Music
Galent St
Freeport Gas Light and Gore Company
Stephenson Bt
Ruch
Stephenson St
China
W.j.young & Co
Opp
Pickard
Emerick, Barrett & Co
Reeport
Sve
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