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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1899
Page
8
A long advertisement proclaims an immense stock of flour at 95c per sack versus wholesale $1.10. It lists challenge sale prices across groceries and meat, with specific brands and item prices. Includes long catalog of flour, canned goods, soap, coffee, produce, and meats, plus a note on a long-distance telephone line.
A compact list of entertainments and meetings in Frasport for February. Grand opera house hosts events by Memorial Lutheran church and Holden Comedy company. dances, plays, recitals, and social gatherings at St. Marys hall First Presbyterian Church German M. I. church and other venues. includes stockholders meeting Northern Illinois Agricultural association and Y. M. C. A banquet. Feb 1 to Feb 23.
John Steel was bound over to the grand jury today by Judge Lane on the charge of stealing eight bushels of clover seed from Henry Burkhard. The O. M. P. will give a social tomorrow evening at the K. of P. hall. Mr. Delvidio of Chicago, secretary of the supreme lodge, O. M. P., will be resent and address the Freeport lodge.
Stephenson lodge I O O F conferred the first degree last night and will have second and third degree work next Monday night. Rehearsal Thursday night.
The T P S C BE of the Second Presbyterian church will hold a press social and entertainment at the church Friday evening Feb 3. Refreshments will be served. All are cordially invited. The head truck of a coal car on train No 71 going west on the Central broke down this morning blocking the main track west of the depot for some time. Had the train been going fast a disastrous wreck would have occurred.
Engineer John Degnan of Illinois Central sold his Clark avenue home to J M Stiffler a prominent Florence township farmer for 6000 dollars. Stiffler will not occupy the premises, buying as an investment. A winter report notes illness in cattle from shredded fodder caused by rotted corn stalks and ears after heavy rains. Wallace M Bartlett seeks a legal separation from wife Lillian May Bartlett with custody of two young children. marriage began Jan 25 1898 in Yorkville and he left Jan 14 1899 for alleged infidelity.
Rudyard Kipling's The White Man's Burden appears in McClure's February with extracts printed after the frontispiece removal. The piece follows the famed lines urging imperial obligations. Kipling's fiction in McClure's proves highly successful as the January issue sells out and February circulation grows by 70,000 copies. Additionally a sidebar promotes Rocky Mountain Tea and Burrell cheese at 110 Stephenson St. 18dw
Margaret Jane Cary born in Montgomery county New York moved with her family to Racine Wisconsin then Durand Illinois before settling in Davis Illinois in 1858. Her husband F W Stegner captained Company I Tih Til Vol and was killed at Kenesaw Mountain in 1864. She married A Inman after 1869, had three children Edwin Inman Flora Stegner and Mary Mack, and died January 21 1899 after bronchi pneumonia. Funeral was at the M E church with Rev Nazarene and others, buried in Davis cemetery with verses from Revelation 14 13.
Doomed by the grip this old time remedy claims to stop a stubborn cough sore throat and feverish symptoms. It purports to ease aches in bones and muscles and prevent pneumonia or consumption with a money back guarantee and trial bottle offered at Emmert and Burrell's drug store.
Stephenson County Abstract Office lists recent land deals around Freeport Rock Grove and Harlem including Beck to Kiester 20 acres and Holsta to Kiester 10 acres with prices and dates. Florence and Rock Grove entries show 80 acres for 3200 dollars to M A Barton, and insurance transfer of 191 acres to Trembor for 9011 dollars. Also Ditzler 120 acres in Jefferson for 6120 dollars. Bucken's Arnica Salve advertised with guaranteed satisfaction, and Burrell's stock offerings at 110 Stephenson Street.
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