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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1906
Page
8
Local ad for Hermsmeier & Son at 193 Galena St offers 1905 pack Pride of Freeport emblem or Owl brand corn at 5c per can. Maple syrup sold at 23 cents per quart bottle. Refund guarantee for unsatisfactory purchases.
John T. Powers calls the second annual Wisconalts Association of Professional Baseball clubs meeting at 170 Madison Street Chicago at 9 AM Tuesday January 9. League to grow to eight clubs. two towns to be chosen from Hall Claire Madison Janesville Fond du Lac Appleton.
John A. Davis post G A R and the Woman's Relief corps held installations at the city hall club rooms last evening. Gen Smith D Atkins installed the post officers and Mrs James Brennen installed the relief corps officers to a large attendance.
Miss Anna Trautwein celebrated her birthday with about twenty guests last night. Prizes went to Miss Mariel Boedeker Paul Schaefer and Fred Piper. Guests enjoyed gifts and refreshments before departure. Raymond Wise hosted a dancing party for thirty at his Stephenson street home with a graphophone providing music and a Dutch supper at the end. O T Smith will host his Sunday school class this evening on West street.
Mrs. Fred Earles, of 105 Van Buren street, died this afternoon shortly before 3. She lived with her daughter Mrs. John Smith. Born in Germany, she was 77 and had resided in the area for forty years.
Allen J. Pierce of Janesville Wisconsin is 21 Carrie Salhoff of Janesville is 18 John T. Clark of Orangeville is 23 Nettie Kyler of Winslow is 20 James F. Scovill of Florence is 28 Emma E. Gordon of Shannon shows a garbled ending as aae aeee.
Clerks held an installation ceremony last evening for officers elected last week. A large turnout attended the event, followed by a banquet and smoker reflecting the group's cordial closing to the installation.
The first annual meeting of the stockholders of the Wenthe Railway Correspondence school will be held Monday afternoon January 8 at 2 o'clock to elect a board of directors.
Mr and Mrs Charles Moers of Carroll Street announce the birth of a baby boy. The new arrival adds to the family and is welcomed by relatives and neighbors in the community.
Frank Howe on sick list and Ada Naylor ill. Home baking event at King's Daughters' settlement Tuesday afternoon and evening. Gibler's orchestra to play at the new Masonic temple opening in mid January. Pecatonica Grove No 15, Woodmen of the World, meets tomorrow at 2 30 pm in the I O O F hall. Mrs C Fred Kuehner to host the reception tomorrow afternoon replacing Mrs T H Hollister. St Johns church Young People society to hold annual officer election this evening with full attendance urged.
Miss Mary Burrell of Chicago visits relatives and friends here. Fred A Milner returns to Chicago after spending New Year’s in the city. Mrs J Newmill and daughter Lillian come back from Orangeville. Miss Anna Siefert returns from Chicago after New Year’s with friends and relatives. Miss Tuulu Smith returns from Mahonison after New Year’s visits with friends and relatives.
It invigorates and strengthens body and mind, keeping one in condition physically or morally. The ad proclaims Hollister Rocky Mountain Tea will do this and lists 84 cents for Tea or Tablets by Joseph Emmert.
J F Matheson will sell January 10 1906 at a large farm one mile from Jackton 27 head of short horn cattle tracing to Imported Arabella Imported White Rose Rosemary line Minister and Arabella. Send F catalogue FP O addrons Book A oalWq.
Local column from Pearl City reports a quiet new year with church services and meetings. notes visits from relatives and friends to Beason, Anamosa, Freeport, and Waterloo. Mentions Pearl City Mutual Telephone plans to switch to owning lines for 3 a year with extensive free connections. Includes travel notices for Joe Doerr family to Oklahoma and various residents visiting relatives in Wisconsin and Michigan.
From Our Own Correspondent reports a busy period in Eleroy with Christmas exercises at U B church, gatherings at homes of Pickards and friends, and numerous visiting relatives from Fresport Freeport Lena Iowa and Illinois towns.January 2 1906 features Sunday school and local visits as residents host travelers and observe New Year celebrations with family and friends.
Scioto Mills January 2. Weber and Viola Meyers visited at Orangeville with Mr and Mrs Michael Meyers. Funeral attendance for Geo Wilcoxon at Cedarville this afternoon. About forty relatives surprised Mrs P Stenzhorn for New Year dinner. James Furgrenson and Eva with Chas Hart family visitors. J W Stocks and daughters from Freeport and Will Patterson from Winnebago spent New Year with E O Lund. Stephen Rigney Jr was guest at a surprise party Monday. Mrs Julia McConnaughey of South Omaha arrived for Geo Wilcoxon funeral. Violet and Chloe Bentley from Harlem Center and Stanley Turner from Eleroy traveled to Schultz Wisconsin.
President Ingalls of the Big Four describes a division superintendent plan to collect losses of farmers along the railroad line. A printed blank form asks for animal killed and kind, with a bottom space for, “Disposition of carr cass.” A flagman once reported a cow’s death with the reply “land and gentle.”
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