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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1908
Page
6
Illinois expects fair skies tonight with peavey showers in the south and a slow rise in temperature. Iowa forecasts showers tonight or Wednesday with gradual warming. Wisconsin calls for fair weather, possible showers in the west late tonight or tomorrow with a slow increase in temperature.
Chicago closing board quotes show July wheat at 88 7/8, July corn 67 1/2, July oats 44 3/4, July pork 14.20, July lard 3.77, and July ribs 7.82. Union stock yards reports cattle 4 000 at 85.00 to 86.20, stockers 2 to 5.50, cows 2 50 to 6.50, heifers 5.00 to 6.50, light to heavy 5.30 to 6.77, bulk 5.60 to 5.80, sheep 18 000 steady 3.40 to 5.50, lambs 4.25 to 6.75. Further quotes from Chicago Board of Trade provided by F J Miner & Co.
A series of personal mentions lists residents and visitors in Freeport and Chicago. Names include Joseph W. Cowley of Chicago. Mrs. D. E. Goldman and Mrs. O. N. Mulroye visiting Chicago and Rockford. S. Richard of Rock Falls in Freeport. Ray Hoover to Mendota. A C Hershey of Moline on business. W C Rouland of Polo. H W Tabbert of Rockford. Dr J T White to Chicago. Mrs. James R. Cowley and Mrs. W. H. Foll traveling to Chicago. Frank Keck of Allentown on estate business. Aldermen McGovern Harden Dorman at Republican convention in Chicago. Todd Meare in city. D B Graham returning from UW for vacation. William Smythe and family arriving for a wedding. Jack Caldwell in town for Truesdell Lawver wedding. Mrs. Caroline S Barrett traveling to Chicago. Mrs. H F E Barrett and others in town for weddings at 131 Walnut Street.
The funeral for Levi Henry will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 30 at the family residence 164 Liberty street. Burial will follow at City Cemetery.
The Republican platform lauds Theodore Roosevelt as guiding a era of progress and justice. It highlights enforcement of law, regulation of rates, labor-arbitration, conservation, and expansion of civil liberties, pledging policy continuity under Republican administration. It also notes anti injunction aims and railway rate reform with interstate oversight.
The resolutions committee considers five core planks: trusts anti-injunction railroad rate tariff revision and currency. The trust plank urges stronger federal supervision of interstate corporations to curb monopolies while preserving legitimate associations among business and farmers.
The plank calls for tariff revision by a special session after inauguration, automatic max and min rates tied to production costs, and protection for American workers. It favors free exchange with the Philippines with limits on sugar and tobacco and backs the Aldrich Vreeland bill only as emergency. It also urges a modern currency system adaptable to business needs.
Freeport chapter No 28 to confer M and S degrees this evening. Trinity church ladies to meet for work Thursday afternoon. Mystic Workers plan a members only social tomorrow evening. St Catherine guild to meet 2:30 Wednesday at Mrs Carey 359 South Galena Ave. W M MS of Trinity church to elect officers Wednesday at Mrs Schmidt 109 Oak Street. W H MS of First ME Church urged to bring mite boxes to Ladies Aid meeting tomorrow. Ministering on Kings Daughters circle to hold basket sale Wednesday at Highland Park with city circles and Settlement Home board invited.
Miss Minerva Burchell departed this morning for Chicago where she wed B. B. Bignall of St. Charles Illinois this afternoon. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs W W Burchell of this city. Bignall worked in Freeport during the past winter.
Sheriff Milner George Milner and Miss Evelyn Milner visited Rockford this afternoon to attend the funeral of their uncle.
The Republican convention began in Chicago with Temporary Chairman Burrows stirring delegates. cheers rose as references to Roosevelt and Secretary Root drew applause. Taft was to inspect the platform later, while new national committee members from Illinois Iowa Michigan and Wisconsin were named.
The Chicago Great Western line orders train No 3 to stop at South Freeport at 11 28 a m to board Stockton Dubuque Ovl wein bound passengers and return by 11 28 a m This comes after a Business Men's association dinner highlighting Freeport’s growing business and the railroad’s effort to attract riders and traffic to the city.
The Freeport branch of Rockford knitting mills at 86 Exchange Street will close until the first Monday in August. Under manager Mrs Mackwith the mills claim to be among the few in the middle west not shut down during winter, citing a presidential election demand drop as the reason.
E H Morgan and Reeve Burton returned from Toronto where Arcade Manufacturing showed moulding machines at the National Foundrymen Convention of the United States and Canada.
Voters in the Park District election cast 620 ballots by 2 o clock at the Masonic Temple. The figure reflects early voting progress and marks a running total for the day.
Bernard Janssen and Loran Mattie Larsen of Hudson North Dakota received marriage licenses indicating formal engagement and forthcoming ceremony in the locality of Hudson.
To close out, sack suits priced at 38 and 40 dollars are reduced to 30 dollars. JOHN 5S. HaRestER, The Up-to-Date Tailor, 139 Stephen son Street, Glldin.
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