Commencement Exercises for Country Schools at County High
Graduation exercises for county country schools were held in the high school assembly room with diplomas presented by S. E. Raines. Rev. F. M. Davis delivered the address on High Ideals. Seventy two graduates were listed, including Fred J. Bangasser Edwin Barrett Morris Bechtold and many others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. IE. Raines
Freeport
F. M. Davis
United Brethren Church
Ernest Johnson
William Voss
Tom Sawyer
Ralph Fischer
Joseph Miller
Harriet Moore
Hazel Winchell
Flora Neuberger
Vernena Dow
Myrtle Cross
Mary Sisson
Yale
Aldred Fehr
Florence Tumma
Grace Gishwiller
Les Bergers Wattean
Haz Winter
Lady Yeardly
Grace Mack
Margaret Henen
Jennie Berhenke
Mamma
Vera Wolfe
Fred J. Bangasser
Edwin Barrett
Morris Bechtold
Clara Benning
Gertrude Best
Charles Borke
Flora Brinkmeier
George Brown
Archie Campbell
Grace Confer
Elsie Coomber
Charles Dwyer
Nettle Everson
Mildred Fehr
Viva Lilley
Sadie Lutz
Joseph Meyers
Wm. Moore
Clark C. Myers
Myrtle Penticoff
Clara Pfeiffer
Raymond Pfeil
Thomas Rigney
Elsa Schulz
Bessie Scovill
Ethel Seachrist
Vivian Shippy
Oscar Silberman
Della Sprague
Flossie Stamm
Mabel Stoll
Florence Tumms
Ralph Vehmeier
Charles Volkers
Edward Voss
Hazel Winter
Nellie Wise
Charles Zipse
Louisa Zuhlke
Amateur Night at the Bijou Showcase Mixed Talent
Last night’s Bijou program drew crowds for amateur acts led by George M. Cohen who impressed many as refinished professionals. Milk drinking contest drew laughs as four youths raced to gulp from nursing bottles. Little Dixie Harris stood out among child performers with a strong trained voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George M. Cohen
Dixie Harris
Freeport High School
Fandon
Maggie Mitchell
Fanchon
Marjorie Verbeck
Landry
Clara Ryan
Charles Sullivan
Barbeaud
Helen Leitzell
Madelon
Louetta Hinderks
Will’ Ellis
Ellis
Panchon
Didier
John Grant
Mr. Grant
Fred Liebetrau
Caillard
Edward Allen
Mr. Hoy
Thousands Mentally Defective in Illinois Asylums and State
The report of the secretary of the state board of charities of Illinois estimates 12 000 insane in asylums and at least 8 000 more insane outside them, plus about 10 000 idiots and imbeciles and 10 000 epileptics, totaling 36 000 mentally nervous defectives in the state. Sunday Dinners at the Troy Eats 35 conta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Charities of
Illinois
The
Troy
He Fired the Stick
North Mills North Carolina man John Garrett shares that after forty years with a sore he finally treated it with Bucklins Arnica Salve. He reports the salve healed the sore and made him happy. The product is guaranteed for piles burns and similar conditions by Joseph Hummert druggists at 26 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Garrett
North Mills
N. C
Joseph Hmmert
Massage and Turkish Baths at Wilcoxon Building
Mrs SHATTUCK offers in home massages and Turkish baths with treatments provided at the client’s residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilcoxon Building
Preachers balk on pay of $1.09 a day at synod meeting
The Northern Illinois District of the German Evangelical church convened in Lincoln with 215 attendees including 121 ministers and 107 lay delegates. Reports highlighted ministry departures and arrivals, benevolent spending of 21000, and an unusual job offer requiring German and English, organ skills, mission work, and a horse for circuit riding with a salary of 1.09 per day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Illinois
Synod of the German Evangelical Church
Lincoln
St. John's Church
Freeport
Q. Niebuhr
O. Krafft
Niebuhr
Krafft
Plum Grove
Bloomington
Monee
United States
Bensonville
Missionary Festival and Rally Next Wednesday
The Thirty-fifth Missionary Festival and Rally of northern Tinois Reformed churches will be held next Wednesday on the Freeport church lawn at South Galena avenue and Carroll street. If weather fails, events move to Third German Presbyterian church. Freeport English Reformed church provides chairs tables and free ice cream. The day includes social hours, dinner, multiple recitations and readings, a flag drill, an anthem, a sermon, and an address on Our Church and Our Country with Rev Whitmore of Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeport
Tinois
Church Lawn
Galena Avenue
Carroll Street
The
Reformed Church
English Reformed Church
Stephenson and
Chicago Streets
Galena Ave
Third German Presbyterian Church
Our
Rev. Marburger
Dakota
Ottlie Ortmeter
Our Church
Rey
Schaffer
Forreston
Dud
Zimmerman
Gabrick
Rohbaugh
Orangeville
God
Ward Hartzell
Miss Pool
Romo Bobb
Miss Billing
Reading
Sons of
Martha
Miss Kostenbader
Shiloh
L. Whitmore
Chicago
America
Children’s Day Exercises at U B Church Program
Tomorrow evening the U B church will host Children’s Day exercises featuring processional marches recitations and choral numbers. Participants include Sunbeam Rain and Dew, Apple Blossom, Flower Bell and Infant Class with pieces titled Courage Be Pure and The Golden Fears among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. B
Angel of the Flowers
Mother Earth
Datay
Aiden
Embury Picnic Tickets Offered at Sunday School Meeting
Tickets for the Embury picnic at Smith's Grove on Tuesday next will be distributed to intermediate Sunday school members at tomorrow's meeting. Tickets for this group are free. Other tickets are sold at Pattison & Kryder’s book store or the water company office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Embury
Bordner Family Picnic Set For June 27 At Folgate’s Gro
The Bordner family holds its annual picnic at Folgate's Grove north of Cedarville on Thursday June 27 with a rain date of the following Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bordner
Folgate
Gro:e
Cedarville
Remarkable Rescue in Fedora Tennessee
C V Pepper recounts a dramatic recovery from throat hemorrhages after using Dr. King’s New Discovery. He was bedridden until the medicine eased coughing and bleeding, enabling him to return to work in three weeks. Available for coughs and colds at 60 cents and 3.00 with a trial bottle free at Emmert’s drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fedora
Tenn
C. V. Pepper
Dr. King
Joseph Emmert
Illinois Historical Society issues 1906 report with notable illustrations
The Illinois State Historical Society publishes the 1906 transactions and papers from its seventh annual meeting held January 24 and 25. The volume includes nine state history papers, dozens of portraits and scenes, and obituaries of four society members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois State Historical Society
State Historical Society
Starved Rock
Theodore Jessup
Massachusetts
Illinois
William Conkey
Fort Chartres
J. S. Snyder
Madison County
Ella F. Newbauer
Kaskaskia
Mary Allison
Ilinois
Paul Selby
East
Lincoln
Lucian A. Stevents
Richard M. Young
John F. Snyder
George Schneider
J. Q. Lesle
Henry L. Boltwood
Alexander County Circuit Court
John H. Mulkey
Harvey B. Hird
Chicago Legal News
Lst
Cahokia Court House
Philo Beers
Sangamon County
Caroline Beers Kane
Charles P. Kane
Noel LeVasseur
Kankakee County
Samuel Willard
Nauvoo
Munholland
Hall of the Seventy
Hyrum
Joseph Smith
Mormon Church
Brigham Young
Etienne Cabet
Sangamon
Republican Party
P. L. Dieffenbacher
Havana
Geo. H. Souther
Springfield
John Mayo Palmer
Adolph Moses
Luther M. Dearborn
Henry W. Wohlgemuth
Local Happenings at Lena Lena on June 22
Community notes report Mrs. Mary Saul departing for Waterloo Iowa then Humboldt to visit son Frank Saul. Mrs. W. W. Kremer returns from Freeport. Win Hayes travels from Chicago to see mother Mrs. D. W. Hayes injured in a cellar stair fall. Gen. F. W. Byers visits from Monroe after Soldiers' reunion at Warren. Curt Mizner injured while working near his farm. Miss Kate Clark dies after long illness aged 50 to 60. Mrs. Wm. Dip pers dies at daughter Shoesmith’s home. funeral set with pastors officiating. West Point Township Sunday School convention planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lena
Mary Saul
Waterloo
Humboldt
Frank Saul
W. W. Kremer
Freeport
Win Hayes
Chicago
D. W. Hayes
Gen
F. W. Byers
Monroe
Roush
Warren
Curt Mizner
Kate Clark
James Clark
Mary Harris
DeKalb
Northern Illinois State Normal
Nettie Dobler
Abagail Opie
H. C. Houser
Wm. Dippers
John Shoesmith
Shoesmith
F. Bahr
Immanuel German Lutheran Church
Loofbourrow
Methodist Church
Long
O. ‘Pf. Christianaen
Minneapolis
John Shoosmith
Mise Rosetta Dinpois
West Point Township
Baptist Church Program Invites Attendance Tomorrow Afternoon
Isabeli chapter O E S hosted a social with about one hundred guests in Stockton and Winslow last night. Lena chapter received two new members and Ada Loofboutron gave readings after initiations. A fine supper followed social time as Mesdames Houser Berhanke and Barrett attend rural school graduation in Freeport. Mr and Mrs Frank Omer traveled to Rockford for the weekend. Mrs W E Bowker visits Freeport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist Church
Isabeli
Stockton
Winslow
Lena
Ada Loofboutron
Mesdames Houser
Berhanke
Barrett
Freeport
Frank Omer
Rockford
W. E. Bowker
Personal visits and business trips noted in Freeport records
A column lists Roy Nelson from Lena and numerous others from Illinois and Wisconsin transacting or spending the day in Freeport. Names include Charles Schell Milledgeville Joliet F H Wheeler Rockford H A Hartzell Orangeville John Dunn Lena Jennie Glennan Francis Dutcher Whitewater E J Fox Wellington Anna Singer Chicago Lois Ross Canton Albert Minnick Des Moines Dolly Boyer Emma Lampert Williams Addison Bidwell Family Root Dixon Anna Hoking Smith Dabington Jennie Grant Mary Gordon Addie Stella Thayer Elisha Thayer Carrie Landon E H Allen C L Snyder Martha Garver Miss Minnie Davis and others visiting relatives, attending clinics, or city business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie Glennan
Chicago
Francis Dutcher
Whitewater
Wis
E.J. Fox
Wellington
Kans
C. H. Heard
Lois Ross
Canton
Albert Minnick
Freeport
Kiel
William EK. Blaisdell
Des Moines
Y M C A Boys Meeting Announcement
The regular Sunday afternoon gathering of the boys at the Y M C A will be held tomorrow afternoon. Rev H M Markley of Second Presbyterian Church will present the address his first appearance before the group. All boys are cordially invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Milton
Galden
H. M. Markley
Second Presbyterian Church
Catarrh Cure Claim Promises $100 Reward
An advertising notice touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only known cure for Catarrh, claiming it cures all stages by a constitutional treatment. The firm F. J. Cheney & Co promises $100 for any case the remedy fails to cure and offers testimonials, Toledo Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Hal
F. J. Cheneby & Co
Toledo
Wake Hall
Men’s Sample Belts Offered at Bargain Prices
Bargain sale item: men’s sample belts priced from 50 cents to 81 dollars, offered at 88 cents each at the E. and W. 6-190 lw. Limited quantities, details and availability in store display.
State fairs set dates across Illinois this year
The State Board of Agriculture announced Illinois county fair dates to run September through October. Taylor's Park will host the county fair from September 2, with many new features expected to draw crowds, and the schedule lists 60 plus fairs from Boone to Woodford with varied start dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Rezner
Taylor's Park
Tlinois
State Board of Agriculture
Boone—Belvidere
Bureau
Princeton
Carroll
Mt. Carroll
Clark
Martinsville
Champaign—Urbana
Coles
Charleston
Crawford——Robinson
Cumberland
Greenup
DeKalb
Sandwich
DeWitt
Farmer City
DeWitt—Clinton
Douglas—Camargo
Bndgar
Paris
Edwards—aAlbion
Effingham—aAltamont
Fulton—aAvon
Gallatin
Shawneetown
Greene
Carrollton
Grundy—Mazon
Kendall
Yorkville
Knox
Knoxville
Lake
Libertyville
Livingston
Fairbury
Logan
Atlanta
Macoupin
Carlinville
Madison—Highland
Marshall
Venona
McDonough
Macomb
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rev. F
M. Davis
Prof
Raines
Dent Freeport Schools
Davis
Journal
Evangelical Church
Pandon
Historical Society
Historical Papers
Roy Nelson
Charles Schell
Milledgeville
Ill
F. H. Wheeler
Joliet
James Shandy
Mrs. H. A. Hartzell
Orangerite
Harry Snyder
John Dunn
City
F. J. Campbell
Galena
Anna Singer
Dolly Boyer
Emma Lampert
Harriet Howard
Addie
Stella Thayer
Elisha Thayer
Mrs. Thayer
Carrie Landon
E. H. Allen
C. L. Snyder
Winnebago County Dental Society
Rockford Registers Gazette
Martha Garver
Union Pacific Tea Co
Govuth Galena
Manning & Giege
NUAL
Will
State Board of Agriculture Ae
Bushnell
McHenry
Woodstock
McLean—Danvers
McLean—Leroy
McLean—Saybrook
Mercer—Aledo
Perry—Pinckneyville
Platt—Monticello
Pike—Grigegsville
Putnam—Magnolia
Richland—Olney
Rock Island
Wroslin
Oxfords
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