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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1906
Page
4
An informational label from the International Typographical Union credits the Freeport Journal for employing union labor in its technical departments.
Local residents and visitors are listed in a daily personal record of travel and visits. Names include Jpr Hayes, C. S. Barrett, G. F. Kerns, B. J. Quigley, A. C. Schadle, Albert Weise, W. B. Stout, Mrs. P. J. Geib, Miss Lewise Scheidt, Robert Martin, Miss Mabel Goddard, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. S. Giles, Jerome Gibler, George Sackett, Edward E. Barkley, Fred Palmer, Miss Louise Ziegler, Engineer F. C. Dickey, Mrs. OWEB Cleaves, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Bruer, O. B. Bidwell, Isabelle and Emma Fry, Miss Margaret Fry, Mrs. C. Shoemaker, Hazel, Pearl Sampson, Blanche Hughes, Charles Brubaker, Mrs. C. H. Emder, and others. Sessions note trips to Chicago, Earlville, Madison, Denver, Dallas, Minneapolis, and Texas, along with visits to Freeport, Cedar Rapids, and Los Angeles.
The Ladies Aid society of Salem church will meet Wednesday afternoon at 71 American St. G A R encampment attendees may contact County Clerk F C Held for rates. Foresters headed to Harlem Park Rockford picnic ride the 8:85 interurban on July 18. Embury Epworth league lawn social at 64 Prospect Terrace tonight. First M E Ladies Aid meet Wednesday at 2:30 in church parlors. National G A R encampment in Minneapolis begins August 18. Fred Held, commander, handles rates. Followers of Christ hold a meeting at King's Daughters Mission rooms. another session next Monday at 7:80. A. E. Norris to lead. English Lutheran Ladies Aid and Missionary society joint meeting at 68 High Street Wednesday at 8. Bring appetites for a pleasant time.
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A report from Freeport describes St Vincent's Orphan's Home as a worthy charity with clean, well kept facilities and a beautiful lawn. Independent volunteers witnessed a Independence Day event with a grand march and a shared meal hosted by local parish ladies, illustrating charity and community spirit toward homeless children.
A Freeport lawn party Thursday aims to aid St. Vincent's orphanage, hosted by Rev Father Kalvelage and Sisters of Charity. Admission is 25 cents. prizes donated by Mrs. C Page. grounds cover 15 acres, with the Bergman home as the site. The event coincides with the patron saint day. high mass at 9 a.m. and Father Kalvelage leading prayers.
State Superintendent Bayliss issued 776 scholarships in Illinois normal schools under the Lindly law. Scholarships are awarded by competitive exam in every township with applicants and cover gratuitous instruction at any normal school in the state. Eighth grade graduates are eligible to the OB L.
The W C IT U Van Brocklin church will meet in the church parlor Wednesday July 18 all members urged to be present.
A hard lot of troubles from torpid liver and blocked bowels vanish with Dr. King’s New Life Pills. Pleasant and effective cure for constipation, they help prevent appendicitis and tone the body. 25e at Jos Emmert's drug store.
The Daily Journal offers home delivery anywhere in the United States for 10 cents a week. Subscribers can have the post office address changed as often as desired at no extra charge. The notice promotes the home paper as a preferable alternative to a letter.
Freeport won yesterday at Eau Claire 6 to 4 behind Warhop and Fiske. The win tightens Freeport's grip on second place and puts them within one game of first, with a series at Wausau upcoming and a home date with Eau Claire on the 26th.
Director Fred Rodemeier reports the Freeport baseball squad in good shape after returning from Green Bay. Gardner and Erickson and Moriarity improve, while Rodemeier rejects drunkenness rumors. He attributes losses to crippled conditions and notes a disputed umpire incident in Green Bay when Stremmel hit Hassman, leading Bay to walk off and end the game. President Weeks sought extra umpires but was refused.
Sterling July 17 The local garrison committee of Knights of the Globe issues a circular urging garrisons to attend the August 28 picnic in Sterling The event offers a $100 silk banner for the garrison with the greatest membership percentage and a $100 silk flag for the Eminent Lady garrison with the best drill staff and membership The top band will win $50 and the city band of twenty four pieces will provide music Miles Wharfield cited A J McNeil reporting strong interest from Jo Daviess counties lodges and a large Freeport delegation预计 crowds may strain local services
Miss Helen A Taggart of 60 Broad Way advertises private instruction in all high school branches except sciences and in college Latin and Greek. Terms are 50 cents an hour and lessons can be arranged by calling Black 683.
Morning runaway on Chicago street ends when Joe Paules loses control of a horse drawing his wagon. Paules sustains minor bruises and a deep elbow cut after tumbling onto the brick pavement. The horse collided with Andrew Bloom’s buggy, breaking its shafts, while Bloom escaped injury. Paules seeks medical attention with Dr. Mense.
Forreston residents campaign to release Enno Boekholder, jailed as principal in the murder of Mrs Harm Anderson at Joliet penitentiary. A petition will be presented to the state board of pardons, arguing others involved were not punished.
William Zimmer of North Dakota travels through the city en route to New York City to take a position with the New York Telephone Company. Born in Davis, he formerly lived there and moved to Minnesota years ago. He studied electrical engineering at the State University, Minneapolis, graduating from the EE department.
A party including Frank Maine of Cleveland Ohio Mrs A E Zietmine Harold Scott and Edward McWillama of Chicago arrived from Chicago last night and started toward Dubuque this morning. The group travels in a Stoddard Dayton car and reports the road between Chicago and here in fine condition.
In the Arcade addition last evening a man named Smith threatened to break up furniture and mistreat his family, prompting neighborly intervention. Authorities declined to intervene, saying the matter fell outside their jurisdiction.
The Young Men's Outing club of the Y M C A will hold its third weekly outing at Forest Park tomorrow afternoon. Past sessions drew large crowds and many members are expected to attend tomorrow evening. Interurban cars at 5:30 and 6:30 will take participants to the park for a ball game.
Dr. W B Peck coroner of Stephenson county left for Kent at 11 this morning to impanel a jury for an inquest into the death of Lucian Auman who was killed yesterday afternoon when struck by a Great Western passenger train. He will return this evening.
The hearing of Charles Cazel, arrested Saturday evening for mistreating his wife and family on Walnut street, is postponed until Saturday evening and will be heard in the police court.
Independence Iowa reports a body recovered from the Wapsipinicon river is believed to be J C O'Brien a fireman on the Dubuque express of the Illinois Central rail line. O'Brien disappeared last Saturday night from his Waterloo Indiana home and the body bore railroad passes though official identification awaited coroner jury deliberations and a brother's confirmation.
JOHN KEITH a 35 year old resident of the organ factory addition attempted to take his life last evening. In a drunken rage over his wife and children he seized a razor but neighbors stopped him just in time. He only cut his neck slightly and did not require a doctor. The sheriff investigated and saw no need for arrest.
The Freeport Business Men's Association will convene tonight at City Hall to elect officers. Important business is to be presented, and a large attendance is hoped for.
Bargain alert as no 1.50 work pants are offered for 1,109 at the E and W clearing sale. The listing highlights steep discounts and a limited stock run. The event runs with broad price cuts across clothing and related items.
A small fire discovered at Mrs Ellen Campbell's home at 665 Hormer Street was extinguished within minutes. Neighbors notified by yelah bars as flames appeared around the kitchen roof. Fire departments responded and with chemical aid the blaze was contained. Likely caused by chimney sparks. Insurance covers the loss.
James Grant celebrated his twenty third birthday at his parents North Galena Avenue home yesterday afternoon and evening with many friends. Embury Epworth league hosts a lawn social this evening at L. L. Hime 64 Prospect Terrace. A card and sewing party for J Vincent's orphanage is planned tomorrow with 2 cents admission plus 10 cents for cake and cream. Mrs C F Chapman hosts an afternoon social July 18 for the First Baptist Church ladies at 281 Liberty St. All invited.
A fragmented historical chronology lists events and births from 1429 to 1903. Highlights include the 1429 Rheims coronation, 1687 activity, Adrian Réland birth in 1744, Peter II of Russia death in 1762, Charlotte Corday’s execution in 1793, 1841 Punch first issue, 1861 Mexico foreign debt suspension, 1868 New York draft riots, Hood and Johnson change in 1864, 1884 Greeley survivors reach Newfoundland, Utah statehood act 1894, and notable deaths such as Butterfield in 1901.
John Rumelhagen faced a police court hearing on disorderly conduct and was fined $1 plus costs totaling $6.66, which he paid before release. The complainant Gardner did not appear, and his charge was dropped.
Dixon Illinois July 16 R D Adams owner of The Broncho denied that any sale of his horse Speedy Racer had occurred as reported in a Chicago paper on Sunday. He said no negotiations with the parties said to have bought the pacer had taken place.
Excursion tickets to Monona Lake Madison available July 23 and 24 at reduced rates with return validity to August 6. Other sale dates by certificate plan. Apply to agents of Chicago and North-Western Railroad.
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