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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1906
Page
8
Lena July 28 residents share social visits with relatives and friends from Freeport Winslow Belmond Chicago Mt Morris and Freeport trips. Local families including the Cadres and Lamberts host guests while church services and idle Sundays mark community life.
Freeport council members and Knights of Columbus returned home from a Forest Park outing after a day of food, drink, and a baseball game pitting married men against single men. Twelve men per side, the married team won 12 to 4. Umpire M. J. Hutton, noted as the biggest man in the crowd, enforced calls with no reversals amid frequent disputes.
Knights of Pythias Freeport lodge 462 calls knights to a castle hall meeting this evening for business and work. All knights are cordially invited.
Freeport B P O Elks plan a picnic at Forest Park next Friday afternoon with elaborate preparations under way. Members and guests are invited to join the event and enjoy the planned activities.
A meeting of the Eastern Star is scheduled for this evening to conduct organizational business and related discussions. Members are urged to attend and participate in the session.
A treasurer of thefts in Galena street and Exchange street stores led to the arrest of a man calling himself White, believed real name Anderson. Assistant Chief Silk tracked him over two days, charging goods to others and selling items at secondhand shops, including a saloon tab. He was held to the Grand Jury on $200 bond after a hearing before Magistrate Bentley.
Miss Mathil da Rippberger and William A. Cox of Freeport quietly wed in Rockford late Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Cox is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rippberger of 220 Lincoln avenue, a longtime Freeport resident born in Ridott. The groom, formerly of Oskaloosa Indiana, came to Freeport about three years ago to work as an engineer for the Freeport Railway, Light & Power Co.
The piece traces 19th century letter habits from paper and envelopes to folding, wafers, sealing wax, and sand blotting, noting ubiquitous quill pens and the lasting term pen knives. It recalls Miss Squeers shyly using a pen to write, and contrasts steel pens with earlier tools.
Charles Jones, a Schwarze and Son delivery worker, was assaulted Saturday night by a stranger. He was left unconscious and found by fellow delivery boy Thomas Grant. Jones cannot identify any motive or suspect.
A fierce thunderstorm swept Freeport and nearby Pearl City yesterday afternoon ending a week of extreme heat. Residents feared a tornado as winds lashed trees and barns in Pearl City, roofs were torn off, but no injuries were reported and Freeport escaped a direct hit.
A Saturday evening surprise at the residence of Mr and Mrs John Sharpels honored Mrs Francis Erb now of Oak Park Chicago. A large crowd from Freeport and nearby gathered including Robert Clark Indianapolis and many Erb and Bamberger relatives. Flowers and ferns were presented, comical and touching recitations were offered, and attendees sang God Be With You Till We Meet Again, marking a memorable event.
Miss Lulu Smith vacationing from F. A. Read store. St Catherine guild meets Wednesday at 2 with Mrs Burwell. Mrs H Glennan resumes at F. A. Read after Chicago trip. Mrs C J Becker, daughter Ethel, and Misses Alice and Helen Stiles of Berwin Ill visiting Miss Edna Becker. Mr Oyler and daughter arrive from Chicago. he returns from five week east trip. Rev John M Fulton spoke at First Presbyterian and leaves for Chicago. Oak Street church plans Riverside Park picnic Wednesday with buses at 8, 8:30, 9 and 9:30 am. Mrs George Franz arrives from Chicago with nephews Allen and Charles Shaffer. Mrs F A Bowers of Bethlehem also in party. S Hoefer buys O T Smith half of Evans Plumbing & Heating. will run office with Evans handling field work. promises best prices and quality.
At the BE and W Clearing Sale a selection of men’s outing suits marked eight and ten dollars is offered for four dollars and sixty six cents. The sale features discount pricing on lightweight summer wear. Names of brands or stores are not disclosed in the readable text.
An advertisement invites readers to mail The Daily Journal to any U S residence at 10 cents weekly. It promises free address changes while away, noting the home paper is better than a letter and recommending everyone keep it.
Advertises boys' knee pants in two price points 24 and 35 cents at the E. & W. sale dated 7 28. The fragment notes strong value for sturdy knee pants likely aimed at families shopping for children’s clothing.
Classified fragment offers an eight room cottage for rent at corner Second and Columbus near Arcade. expires August. Also notes a high grade upright piano for sale, used and not in good condition, with a mailbox address on Illinois Street.
Lews Porter, son of Mrs. Joseph Potter and former resident of Desport, named secretary and active representative of the capitol commission. Contract for rebuilding the Wisconsin State Capitol at Madison awarded to G. B. Post & Sons of New York. Porter, an eminent Madison architect, to report progress at frequent meetings and be paid 3500 dollars annually.
Sick and afflicted Grace Fox suffers appendicitis at her sister Mrs. Shields home Nan Petrie remains homebound after stepping on a rusty nail raising fears of blood poisoning Hiram Morrow’s younger son badly cuts the first and second fingers of his right hand while whittling with a butcher knife needing several stitches
The Ladies of the G. A. R. plan a regular business meeting on Wednesday afternoon July 26 at the G. A. R. hall. All members are requested to be present.
In a Wins ted Conn divorce case the wife claimed her husband loved the chickens more than her and moved to the hennery after being urged to, while a county life feature describes a farmyard method where chicks are fed with a milk and cereals diet and nursing bottles, leading to slow elevator transport to the knitting department.
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