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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1906
Page
2
The Fresport Journal receives a label from the International Typographical Union recognizing it uses Union labor in its mechanical departments. This mark highlights the paper’s commitment to fair labor practices and skilled print work.
Names and movements fill a Freeport personal notice page listing residents and visitors. Local residents travel to Forreston Monroe Center Richmond and Denver, while friends host guests from Madison Galena Chicago Cedar Rapids and Milwaukee amid school events and family visits.
Miss Florence Whiteside hosts Miss Nancy Cady of Dubuque at her home while Miss Helen Strong returns visit. American Stars of Equity meets Tuesday night June 19. members urged to attend. Dentists face burglaries sweeping the state with robbers targeting offices in Fond du Lac and Whitewater. Rockford judge invalidates Rockford board of education contracts. case to be appealed. Y M C A to organize a music class Tuesday at 7 30 with Prof L W Brean. Epworth League of First M E church holds monthly meeting tomorrow night to install new officers. members urged to attend.
An Alarming Situation frequently results from neglect of clogged bowels and torpid liver, until constipation becomes chronic. This condition is unknown to those who use Dr. King's New Life Pills, the best and gentlest regulators of Stom ach and Bowels. Guaranteed by Jos. Emmert, druggist. Price 25c.
Rev Hugh Lowry Moore delivered the forty fourth commencement baccalaureate sermon at First Presbyterian church. He warned graduates against worshipping wealth and urged life to be viewed from a Godly perspective. The address contrasted selfish pleasure with true meaning, urging service to others and the accountability of divine judgment.
The Freeport Trades and Labor council executive committee selects W J Burdick C H Ricoeffer Julius Opel Henry Klipping I K Bruse George Saunders and W W Wheat for general arrangements for the tri city Labor Day celebration in Beloit. The committee plans to transfer the Green Bay versus Freeport baseball game to Beloit to entertain thousands of visitors and will meet Wednesday at 8 PM at the Trades and Lyte.
A Lena pair drove a frightened horse on North Galena Avenue yesterday afternoon into a stone wagon at Dittmar's livery, throwing both riders and bruising one severely at the knees and legs. The horse was halted by bystanders and housed while the buggy was fixed. A week earlier the same horse caused a similar crash when meeting an automobile.
School year closes with alumni banquet and play preparations at Freeport High. Juniors toast the seniors in an annex assembly hall program led by Miss Clara Ryan and student speakers, with a class play to follow and a large alumni banquet at Masonic temple on June 22.
Mrs. Anna M. Stark mother of J. S. Stark suffered a badly wrenched arm from a fall last evening in front of the F. A. Read store. Though advanced in years she was only shaken up and nothing serious is expected.
Night Captain Mategat and Officers Frazier Miller chase a man from Adana Street to Chicago Street and through alleys. They fired several shots but he escaped briefly, then surrendered at the station when no burglary was found.
Newton Kleckner and Harry Krugjohann were arrested in Pearl City for assault and battery on T J Rodebaugh after they threw a beer bottle striking his chin and breaking his jaw. Krugjohann was discharged while Kleckner was fined 100 dollars plus about 186 dollars costs and committed to the county jail to serve his time.
The fourth annual Freeport Dentists association picnic was held Saturday at Pine Grove seven miles east of Polo. About twenty members attended, traveling by car, with several Polo dentists joining. The day featured swimming, fishing, and baseball followed by dinner and supper before the group returned home around eight.
DeWorth Easton former Freeport pitcher won Saturday's game for the Woodstock Olivers against the Lawndales. The score was 11 to 0. Easton struck out five, allowed one run, two hits, and contributed one put-out and three assists.
The passage asserts that moisture and heat convert starchy grain parts into sugars quickly absorbed by the body and that grain elements rebuild brain and nerve tissue for daily labor. It claims Grape-Nuts and Cream provide essential GO without stimulation, describing it as scientific feeding rather than stimulation.
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