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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1905
Page
7
An article urges readers to distinguish the seventeen year cicada from true locusts. It explains its life cycle underground, non migratory behavior, brief adult phase, and minimal harm to vegetation. The piece promotes studying this harmless insect and notes local society updates and visits from June.
From Our Own Correspondent Shannon June 6 sunday notes record heat of the season and local social visits. Mentions H McCool A Seifert R Leucke W L Buffington Watkins stock shipment Freeport alums meeting plans and various visits by Miss Schmich Miss Yordy Miss Bulah Babb and others. Birds and locusts update plus graduation guests and travel chatter.
Edward A. Leste, former general manager of the King County Electric Light & Power Co., died at his Brooklyn home of pneumonia. He began as a messenger for Miccos & Mississippi Telegraph at Freeport, Illinois, and later moved with his family to a farm near Big Vicinity.
The Northwestern Illinois Holiness Association holds its annual campmeeting at Riverside Park campground for ten days from Thursday evening June 8 to Sunday evening June 18. Evangelists Rev E B Punham of Delaware Ohio and Mrs Rose Potter Crist of Topeka Kansas lead the event with E F Miller of Soraan Park Illinois directing singing. Daily schedule includes prayer meetings Bible study and multiple preaching sessions each day with prayer and praise services in the evenings.
A debarred lawyer Butter’s client tale unfolds in Salem Superior Court. Butler allegedly extorted half the man’s money during a private conference, then vanished. the court sought the missing client while the jurist returned to the courtroom. The report also recounts Pettus’s humorous ducking tale about barking dogs and expected tax pain.
Display of white hats for graduation and other occasions showcased at Miss S Brinkiman's on Galeng Street. Hats priced at $2.00 each with available sizes and styles for purchase.
Dakota correspondent reports several local items including births and family visits, a coal delivery to Creamery Co., sawmill moves, and progress on homes and churches. Upcoming events feature the Interior Academy commencement and a 26 cent morality play in the chapel with related sermons and public programs.
June 6 dispatch from Prar l City and Ridott details scorching 92 degree heat, no school, memorial events, and community visits. Summers forays include Klein, Krell, Dow, and others visiting Freeport, Savanna, Lanark, and Rockford relatives. local clubs, funerals, and church events noted.
Centennial June 6 Henry Schwartz bought a new Ideal windmill Wednesday. Fred Sandmeier and wife of Freeport visited countryside. Sadie Goethe returned home after months in Freeport. Misa Hale spent weekend with parents near Orangeville. Albert Koerner of Rockford visited brother Theodore Koerner and family. Children's day exercises planned at the German MM on Sunday. Mr and Mrs A 4 jan of Pearl City spent Sunday with their daughter Atte G Koettner. Henry Leser visited relatives near Loran Sunday.
The Stephenson County Board of Supervisors Poor and Poor Warm committee will meet at the Freeport Court House to solicit bids from licensed physicians in the county for full medical services from the letting date to July 4, 1906, including drugs, supplies, and nursing for pauper and contagious cases, nonresident poor, Freeport town limits, jail patients, and adjacent areas. Separate bids may be accepted for lump sum countywide services or per-case professional services, with contracts awarded to the lowest and best bidder. bids due at the County Court Office, Freeport Illinois. Howard Prich, Chairman.
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