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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1900
Page
5
From Our Own Correspondent Pearl City March 26 news notes visitors from Freeport Lanark Polo Clinton Dubuque and Stockton crowd events at the opera house dance and silverware drawing. Masons buy lot set sidewalk and confer third degree while telephones go into Pearl businesses family movements and local funeral travel and caucus nominations listed.
Martintown Wisconsin reports social visitors and activities including Chas Bucher from Fuller creamery in Wayne, Mrs Kate Brown planning westward travel, Ladies Aid meeting at Mary Cline's, M C A executive board gathering, John Englehart traveling to Freeport, Warren Academy Glee club performing at the depot, and several visits with family and friends. Mercury reaches 60 degrees.
Miss Sarah Fink of Savanna visits Rev and Mrs Erving in Dakota. J H Swartz of Polk Wis visits his mother Mia. concert at Grinell draws full house. Mrs W M Senkel and daughter Emma visit W H Kampen. Earl Holcomb ill. Rev H Cullen preaches last Presbyterian sermon. Public school on two week vacation. Andrew Kryder visits twin brother Wm Kryder. Harry Butterfield visits from Sioux Rapids. Mrs Robert Mitchell visits Geo Mitchell family. Prof Beam’s sermon praised. Emma Thomas dies near town. funeral at Rock Run church. leaves husband two children and extended family. Charles Smoyer to be S C railroad agent at Buena Vista. Mrs Jacob Haag has paralysis. Spring returns with robins and bluebirds. Dan Rees seeks campaign supporters. Ida Fisher and Elma Heitter bring gifts for Pearl Billings sixteenth birthday. Hogins returns from Whiteside. J B Aspinwall sells hogs at Eleroy. Joe Winters and Cora Sheetz attend Eustice Townsend wedding at Stockton. Mrs E A Aspinwall rents farm to Will Walbaum. she and son Lloyd move to Freeport.
Everoy reports a series of health and travel items. Harley Fye fell ill with lung fever last Wednesday morning. Aug Amendt’s eldest son was quite ill over the weekend. John H. Mideke visited Freeport on Tuesday. Dr. Mease treated William Frank’s frail daughter, who improved. A work train to Galena passed through Thursday and again today. Mrs. L Pelton returned from Chicago and Elgin, planning to start housekeeping April 1. The Flansburg school saw Miss McCollough resign and Miss Heitter take over. An old man, stranded Saturday, got aid and a Lena-bound ticket.
From Our Own Correspondent Bolton March 26 local events report Tom Redding ton assisted at the elevator Mrs Jasper Kimball fell from a horse power Saturday and broke her limb Elder R G Vanhorne presiding elder will hold quarterly conference Saturday evening and preach Sunday morning Let everybody come and give the elder a good audience Mrs M W Goodsell recovering slowly from her fall Will Secomb and family move to Bay City Michigan soon Quite a number attended the school entertainment at Florence Saturday evening Mr Fullrath of Mt Carroll visiting his daughter Mrs F W Bolton here this week
Mrs Noah Bocktole hosted a quilting bee on Thursday while Hogins and his wife traveled to Freeport for a fortieth anniversary event.
From Our Own Correspondent Warren March 26 reports a new snow storm with sleet and rain, union church services, an evangelist aiding pastors, and many town happenings. It notes numerous social visits, property transfers, a high school past, church receptions, Sunday school plans, and a fatal horse accident alongside local business changes and upcoming station moves.
SuHan non March 26 fills the page with arrivals and departures. Teachers from Lanark attend a local institute while Miss Besse Gilbert visits G. T. Sherwood. Miss Kittie Sullivan arrives from Chicago to run Della Cook's millinery parlors and many Shannon residents welcome her. Minnie Moll returns from Mt. Carroll as an academy student. Dr. Gates and wife plan a move to Bridger Montana for a new mine doctor post. Epworth league hosts a church program. John A. Willey takes Chee seman farm and plans a new house. Braman family relocates from Chicago to Shannon last Friday.
McConnell reports an evening event featuring William Korth, with Marchee Aan participating as part of the program. Details are limited in the readable fragment.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat excerpt recalls a merchant who received an anonymous boatload of onions in 1896 with no sender details. After three years a second shipment arrived with a letter claiming repeated consignments and satisfactory business relations, though no money returned. The tale highlights peculiarities of cross‑country commerce and uncertain consignments.
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune note recalls inventive substitutes for wedding rings when none are available. Substitutes include a curtain ring, a church key ring handle, a coin edge ring carried as a curiosity, and a best man crafting a ring from a tie pin. A bent horseshoe and ancient lead cramp rings are cited as lucky or health aids.
Mrs John G Oyler and Mrs G S Mansfield invite Freeport area ladies to call and inspect a fine line of plates and samples of ready to wear gowns skirts waists and jackets from Chas A Stevens Bro Chicago at 136 West St and Grove and Stephenson streets corner.
Closing Board of Trade quotes show July wheat at 66 1/2 with mixed grain prices. Cattle at Union Stock Yards steady to strong, hogs up to nickel higher, sheep firm. Chicago receipts list wheat, corn, cattle and hog totals with Monday’s close noted. Northwestern and New York stock market activity summarized by broker C W Killen.
A lady writes Grain-O from pure grains improves with use as a coffee substitute nourishing the system. Children may drink it freely with great benefit. Get a pack age from your grocer and follow directions for a delicious healthful table beverage. Also notes a 7'11" Egyptian arriving in New York for a dime museum exhibition, age 23.
Joseph Emmert reports 1300 Mormons in South Carolina and 10,000 in 11 southern states. Advertisers push Rocky Mountain Tea and Burdock Blood Bitters claiming sharpened minds and vigor. Hamburg American steamship earnings for 1899 reach 18 million marks, up 4 million from the prior year.
Renick Hamilton of West Jefferson Ohio suffered 18 months with a rectal fistula and doctors warned of death unless operated. He treated himself using five boxes of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, praised as a sure pile cure. Priced at 25 cents a box, sold by Joseph Emmert.
Excursion tickets to nearly all U S points are on sale at Chicago Great Western Railway ticket offices on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of February March and April at a low homeseeker's rate of one fare plus $2.00 for the round trip. Tickets are valid for return within 21 days from sale. Prospective travelers should contact a CGW agent or write F H Lord G P T A 118 Adams St Chicago for details.
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