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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1906
Page
8
Irene, Norma and LeRoy Roberts visit from St Louis for the summer as local correspondents chronicle a week of visits, property transactions, barn work, recreations and Sunday school picnics. The column names many residents and movements from Freeport Lena and Davis with trips to Pecatonica and Winneshiek.
From Our Own Correspondent Centennial July 9 reports Theo Koerner pronoset a Deering mower Grace Carter of Red Oak visits with aunt Emma Luettig John Goethe buys a new piano Albert Geiser spends Sunday with parents John Rosenstein and Mrs S C Koertner buys a Dain hayloader last week Dr Arnold of Freeport and Dr Baker of Pearl City perform operation on Harry Kommerhoff resting easy Mrs Henry Berg and her son of Stockton visit Bechtolds last week
Eleroy residents share weekend visits with Edw. Hanke family in Freeport and attend a chautauqua there. Flora Fye travels to Dubuque to visit sister Mrs. Williams while Mary Gilman and Vivian visit Mrs. Gilman’s daughter in Freeport. Mr. and Mrs. W. Rose of Moline return from a relatives’ visit. F Towar of Iowa Falls visits F C Bacon and family.
Pleasant Hill notes Will Hoppe and Wesley Yeager of Fair View circulate a petition to alter the mail route so the carrier serves their homes. Lena adds a new route starting July 16 with Reuben Fowler as mail carrier. Gillette recovers from illness, praised by friends who helped plow his corn field. Clara Phillips visits from Damascus for Sunday school work. Grandma Holmes visits George Holmes and family. Lena celebration drew many locals. Joe Kratzer spills milk, leaving his team at Damascus storefront.
From Our Own Correspondent Harlem Corners July 8 Mr and Mrs Peter McGurk of Kent spent Sunday with relatives here Mrs David Meters and her young son returned to Dubuque after a week with sister Mrs Frank Harris Rev Pearce of Sterling preached at Damascus on Saturday evening and Sunday morning Mr and Mrs I E B Schoch and daughter of Freeport spent the Fourth with Wm Wagner and family A large number of locals spent the Fourth at Lena Mr and Mrs Frank Harris and daughter and R Rosenstiel and family visited Willard Harris and family of Lena
The Denver Post recounts a feverish search for buried riches near Nederland Colorado where ranchman Rank Fisher claimed to hid four thousand in gold at a log and stove pine location and eight hundred more in a rock pile on White Cloud mountain with the tale tied to nearby De Lond and farmsteads. The search has drawn dozens of locals across years though the gold remains unfound. Fisher died soon after revealing the locations and methods.
About 30 000 earthquakes occur yearly with roughly sixty world shaking events detectable at long range. Professor John Milne finds these major quakes cluster into thirteen regions, with three unimportant. The important centers form two great rings, led by a chief ring with a defined radius.
A Buffalo Commercial report notes a four act comedy in a western mining town. After act three the miners rose to depart, prompting the comedian to plead for another act. The miners replied that they were leaving because there was another act yet to perform.
A Detroit Tribune quirky exchange on jury duty humor shows a juror finding the process tedious while another remarks it is on little trying.
Fragmentary report notes a July 12 diamond badge shoot at Raytor’s park amid odd phrases about the Ancient Chaldeans and a Masonic temple. It mentions a defendant’s attempts to challenge jurors and then the judge, with comments on bias and conviction history, and ends with a socialist remark about work hours.
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