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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1906
Page
1
Chicago weather forecast indicates showers tonight turning to snow flurries Sunday with much colder temperatures. The sun rose at 7 25 a m and will set at 4 59 p m.
The Rt. Rev. C. P. Anderson will officiate at Grace church tomorrow morning administering the rite of confirmation. The service includes morning prayer the confirmation service and sermon by the bishop. An informal reception at the Elks hall opposite the courthouse tonight invites men to meet and hear the bishop socially.
Freeport lodge No 452 Knights of Pythias will meet Monday evening in its castle hall for business and work in the second degree with R W Sweeney of Galesburg present to exemplify the secret work in three ranks All Knights of Pythias invited. Joseph Emmert Division No 290 GIA to the B of L E will hold a card party Wednesday afternoon Jan 24 at 230 oclock admission 15 cents. Kennedy laxative honey and tar advertises the cold evacuation claim with druggists carrying it.
Excelsior Lodge prepares for Past Masters Night next Friday as Masons relocate from the Fry block to the Stephenson street temple. Builders advance moving of paraphernalia from 1871 quarters to the new site opposite the public library, with Evergreen lodge and visiting Masons invited to attend the events.
Freeport Socialists plan a January 22 meeting at 1657 Stephenson Street to condemn the Russian autocracy following Bloody Sunday. A collection will aid the Russian revolution, with speakers expressing abhorrence of the regime and solidarity with victims.
Local brief items report meetings of the Euterpean sacayer and Miss French on Jan 25 and 23, a 2 PM visit by Mrs Rohrer, a slip on an icy Adams Street injuring A J Goddard, basketball results from Savannah with Freeport teams, Rev C W McCaskill beginning at First M E church, a 20 voice chorus led by Prof Titus, a Young Woman's Foreign Missionary Society meeting at Mrs J M Lapp's home, and Grace church confirmation with D bishop of Chicago urging communicants to attend early service.
Tomorrow evening a musical service will be rendered featuring an organ prelude Andante Wass derchant The Lost Chord. A violin solo Adoration will be played followed by O Little Town of Bethlehem with violin obligato. Conant Comhan will conduct the Nativity.
Mrs. C B Kling who has been treated at St Francis hospital for two weeks is not improving and worsened last night, alarming relatives and friends. Mrs John Stewart of Stephenson street is seriously ill.
At last evenings session several new delegates joined including Rev J Price representing the Ministerial association who gave a short address. Dr W W Krape was also a speaker at the gathering.
Freeport town board selected Louis Dickes to succeed the late Henry Lichtenberger as supervisor. The move completes the local leadership shuffle and places Dickes in the top town post following Lichtenberger's death.
An advertisement touts Dr King's New Life Pills as the pleasantest and most effective cure for constipation. It claims the pills prevent appendicitis and tone up the system, priced 25 cents at Joseph Emmert's drug store.
Albert T Grattelo traveling salesman for Woodmanse Manufacturing dies by self inflicted gunshot in a Lanark hotel. Despondency over farm debt and financial strain followed trips with G E Steenrod to Kansas City for an Implement Dealers convention. Coroner and jury deem death self inflicted. Grattelo, 46, longtime Woodmanse employee, formerly of Freeport, born Syracuse New York.
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