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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1907
Page
2
The International Typographical Union awards the Freeport Journal for employing Union labor in its mechanical departments, highlighting a fire in its facilities as a factor in recognition.
A list of residents and visitors in Rockford including Rev E E McKay from Winslow, W W H Winshaw from Elgin, J H Enger from Madison, Thomas Reed from Beloit, Gordon Reigard to Chicago, J E Richmond from Normal, Fr Leydon from Apple River, H D Lambe to Polo, E D Dunlap from Champaign, John D Dirksen from Chicago, H A Lange from Dubuque, Leo Leveque visiting Dixon, F W B Rahn returning to Appleton, L J Johnson from Covington, special agent Timothy J Healy from Clinton, Mr and Mrs BR C Smedley to Bloomington and James town trip, WN W Harlacher and daughter to Madison for son Lloyd’s wedding to Mildred Chamberlain, and J A Aylward from Madison attending Huenkemeier Beckmire wedding. notes on Democratic gubernatorial candidate Aylward.
Court Mohawk I O F meets tonight. George Fath departs for Rockford and Chicago. L N I club of the Y holds a meeting with supper. Freeport Knights and Ladies of Security attend Belvidere council entertainment. Edwin McCabe leaves street car work for yard clerk at Wallace yards. First MBE church young people plan a strawberry social with entertainment tonight. Missionary concert prayer meeting tomorrow at Embury church at 7 30 pm with Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and Standard Bearers participation in The China Jubilee. Members and all Hone and Foreign missions interested invited.
Veteran of the Civil War John A Gettemy died Monday at his Peoria home. Born in Knox County Ohio on September 11, he moved to Freeport as a child and later relocated to Monmouth Michigan where he enlisted in Company A 18th Illinois Infantry.
At the Western Star encampment meeting last evening four candidates received degrees. The team conducted the degree work in a formal ceremony.
Joseph Emmert markets Hollis ter's Rocky Mountain Tea or Tablets as the greatest strengthener. The tonic claims to fortify the system against all diseases and is offered at 38 cents. Public health promotion in a local commerce ad.
An advertisement invites customers to call E and W for shoe repair work. It promises repair requests to be called for and delivered, highlighting convenient on demand service from the shoemakers.
A seller advertises a limited time summer suit sale with an offer of ten percent off for cash within 30 days. The notice names Ina John S. Harpster and mentions Bodiy Opposite Monument as location cues.
The 83rd birthday anniversary of Judge Charles Betts approaches as he marks sixty years in Freeport and a long career at the Stephenson county bar. Once a Whig auditor candidate and later a Democrat congress hopeful, Betts remained a steadfast legal figure with deep ties to Stephen A. Douglas and Cassius M. Clay, now retired in Freeport after a storied life in Illinois law.
The notice recalls Judge Betts as a strong union supporter and famed orator who spoke at Freeport and Rochester events. It chronicles his early career in New York and Illinois, his legal prowess, and his rise as a political figure desde the 1850s, highlighting his service and lasting influence.
A brief advertisement urges the public to use Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea or tablets priced at 35 cents. Signed by Joseph Emmert, the note frames the product as a civic duty in service to justice and humanity.
The Mothers' club will hold its regular meeting tomorrow afternoon at 2:80 at the Kings Daughters' Settlement home. A good program has been prepared.
Belvidere June 11 Claude Wheeler released from custody while Ray Trambie is jailed awaiting tomorrow's second inquest. Adelphia Koerting’s body inquest today produced no verdict, reserved until Minnie Haag inquiry Wednesday. Wheeler testified clearly. Trambie remained evasive, prompting remand. The inquiry seeks if the pair reckless or criminally careless with two girls' lives. Prosecution may target saloonkeepers for serving minors, based on Saturday testimonies.
Colonel Frank O. Lowden’s Sinnissippi herd at Oregon Illinois sold 62 head of fancy shorthorn cattle at the Union stock yards Chicago. Dr Earles of Milwaukee bought the top bull for 8000 dollars and a cow for 2000. The total sale brought 388998 dollars with an average of 629 per head. The sale was at the International Live Stock Exposition building.
The W C T U will hold its regular panel meeting Friday afternoon June 14 at 3 o clock in the Y M C A parlors. All members and auxiliary friends are requested to be present.
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