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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1900
Page
4
Republican voters in Florence Township will hold a primary at the town house on Monday March 19 from 1 30 to 8 o clock p m to nominate a township ticket Pp W Russell and a Committeeman
Local brief lists residents and visitors including Ralph Hudson leaving for southern Texas to work on a fruit farm. Several townsfolk travel to Chicago and Dixon. Notables include Dr. Brockhausen to Lansing Iowa and Prof. Burton to Davis. Mrs. Sibley and Mrs. Judson visit, and Elizabeth Dorman recovers from a Chicago hospital operation.
Cherry Camp will meet this evening to initiate eight members. Sheriff Fox took Johnson Potter of Davis to the Elgin insane asylum. Grace parish Woman's Guild to meet with Mrs M A Van Reed at 2 pm. Hermemeier and Son advertise changes readers should see. Rev Judson Kempton of Mt Carroll will preach at the Baptist church Sunday morning and evening and deliver the fifth B Y P U free lecture on The Story of the English Bible. Rev and Mrs Holden hosted Chaplain D D O'Dell at their home last evening. the chaplain shared experiences and left for Joliet this morning.
Walter Hea is confined to home with sickness. Miss Pearl Wheat is among the afflicted. Mrs John Fritz is very low. Miss Dobb is on the sick list. Walter Moellenberndt is recovering from diphtheria. John G Oyler and his little daughter, who have been quite ill, are improving.
W W Young of the Arcade foundry represented Freeport Moulders' union at a district meeting in Moline. The gathering formed the Illinois Iowa conference board with Peoria as headquarters and elected officers including President W J Kennedy of Peoria and Secretary Olof Buckland of Rockford. Delegates from Rock Island Davenport Moline and other cities attended. The event featured speeches by union and business leaders, a banquet, and calls for closer union among iron molders.
The weather bureau records February wind at 5,998 miles for the city, with a cold month overall. Average temperature 18 degrees, 7 below the 29 year mean of 25. Total precipitation 2.45 inches, 0.88 inches above average. Eleven clear days, thirteen cloudy, rest partly cloudy.
A nostalgic verse remembering a beloved old house, its shelter through storms, family memories, and the worn kitchen door. The speaker praises the dwelling's quiet endurance, the damask rose by the window, and hands that built and cared for the home, despite time and hardship.
A letter from La Porte Texas dated March 1 recounts southern life, rainfall, and mild winters. The writer notes early peaches and pears, thriving garden produce, and new town development by the La Porte Improvement Company. He describes La Porte’s rail service, deep water channel plans, and excursion to a historic Texas battlefield, praising health, water supply, churches, schools, and potential for fruit production.
The farewell tour production of Lewis Morrison's Faust presents a new Brocken scene praised as the most weirdly beautiful ever seen on stage. Electrical effects stun with owls, bats, snakes, dragons and fireflies while Mephisto watches from the summit and hurls thunderbolts. The finale features a novel, imposing pyrotechnic display.
An essay on aging contrasts the ideal view of old age with its miseries when the stomach fails. It argues that proper nourishment is key to vitality and praises Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for weak digestion, claiming mental and bodily vigor improve as a result.
Cuicaco reports closing Board of Trade quotes for July wheat at 6 3/4, July corn 35, July oats 22, July pork 10.65, lard 5.95 and ribs 5.85. Union stock yards figures show cattle 10,000 and hogs 23,000 trading strong, sheep 10,000 steady to higher. C. W. Killen, broker, provides open high low close readings and Chicago and Northwestern receipts for wheat, corn, oats, hogs and cattle.
An old newspaper ad lists Imperial oats two pounds and other staples at low prices including Quaker oats, Swift laundry soap, Plymouth Rock peas, Favorite flour, White Star flour, Braun Fitts butterine, Sweet Naval oranges, Van Camp’s soups, baking powder, Japan tea, California fruit cans and preserves, Standard tomatoes, wax beans, and fruit butters with prices per unit or per can.
Notice declares Bergman & Dorman, based in Freeport Illinois, dissolved on February 27 1900 by consent of all members August Bergman Henry Dorman and Fredrick Dorman with Bergman retiring and Dorman Co succeeding. Also mentions A Berean Frep Dorman Henry Dorsam and 3 6dwin Mrs John G Oyler vocal teacher at 186 West Street listed among notices.
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