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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1907
Page
4
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Elder William Brewster chapter of DAR was entertained yesterday by Mrs Iyndale Cobb. Guests included Mrs Breed and Milas Krinbill. Attending daughters named, Hull House discussed relics from Revolutionary and Civil wars, with china pieces linked to Governor Richard Caswell. A banner from a Carolina regiment and Washington era china were shown during luncheon.
Miss Violet Holroyd and Grove Wittbecker married at St. John’s church parsonage by Rev. F Holke. Witnesses were Dr. and Mrs. Griffith. Bride’s parents near Davis. groom born in Freeport, longtime city resident employed at Arcade Manufacturing. They will live on Bauscher’s Lane.
The Knights of Columbus entertained last evening for members and ladies with a short musical program. Refreshments were served and the evening concluded with card games. Prizes went to Mrs John Manion and John Manion for first, Mrs J O Rourke and Edward Scanlan for second, and Miss Rae Boyington and Alex Fay for third.
The Jewel Birthday club met with Mrs Alvi Koertner for a May party turning an evening into a merry celebration. Mrs Koertner received a berry dish and plate a half dozen cut glass tumblers and a wall plaque. Seventeen members attended supper and a musical program followed. The next gathering will be with Mrs John Thorn on May 22.
A large crowd attended last evening’s Mystic Workers of the World party for members and their ladies. Cards were played and favors awarded to Mrs. Fred Southwick, A. L. Gilbert, Mrs. F. A. Knepley, Jacob Koehler, and John Fosselman.
Members and families of the Ger mania society will enjoy a night of dancing and card games. The event brings together attendees for social entertainment and community fellowship.
City Sunday schools meet at 2:45 pm this Sunday at their churches and proceed to the First Baptist church. At 3:00 pm a temperance mass meeting will be addressed by Mrs Beauchamp of Kentucky and Mrs Addie N Fields, with the Baptist choir leading music. Other choir members may assist.
Miss Edith Belot of Freeport and Mr. Charles Schmidt of Freeport were married in Rockford yesterday afternoon by Rev. Otto Gruner. Schmidt works for the Illinois Central and will move to Freeport with his bride. Belot, a Shannon native, has lived in Freeport for several years.
Henry B. Witte quit claimed the Natural Carbon By-Products property to the Natural Carbon By-Products company. The conveyance covers the realty, plant, machinery and mining leases formerly owned by the company and included in the prior purchase by Witte.
All members of the First English Lutheran church are urgently requested to attend tonight’s session after the lecture. A business meeting will hear and consider a proposition from a special committee appointed by the council.
The annual parish meeting and dinner of Grace Episcopal church will be held this evening at K of G hall. Dinner will be served from 6 30 to 8. A program will be rendered during the evening.
Levi Keister sues William Bower and others in circuit court to quiet title to a piece of property in Orangeville. The filing names the clerk of the circuit court as the action’s venue.
The instructors in the high school department will visit the schools at Chicago Joliet and Galesburg tomorrow.
PIANO PARLORS invites readers to mail name and address or call to register in the music Directory offering access to all known sheet music at actual cost for one year. Smith & Barnes Song Book free to all callers. DEVORE PIANO Co. 76 78 Stephenson Ave Freeport Illinois.
The June term juror list totals 86 names, exceeding the usual 82. Local districts include Freeport with Robert Casey and Arthur Winters, Silver Creek with William Faiste, West Point with Lee Boyer, and Erin with Tom Heitter, among others.
The forecast says light frost tonight and cooler Friday across Illinois. The report notes the sun rose at 4 53 a m and set at 7 01 p m providing daily daylight details.
A collection of short items notes laws, records, and oddities from diverse places. Topics include a 1679 pamphlet on airships by Francesco Lana, mourning customs of papal relatives, unusual holiday counts in Mexico, New York’s Blackwell Island Bridge capacity, long elm trees yielding seven cords of wood, a 500yearold anvil linked to Captain John Smith, Austrian efforts to strip modest drapery from statues, a Chicago man’s 63year newspaper subscription, hospital patients sleeping outdoors in Connecticut, Lincoln rails relic at Connecticut Historical Society, a Vermont woman’s typing record, a tale of a Korean bedroom appointment and a plow injury, old Hotel Kirby glass panes, coughing during a Blackpool service, paper stock for U S postage stamps, and a Unitarian women’s supper served by men with a large bill.
An old advertisement promises relief from appendix issues without pain by maintaining regular bowels with Dru King’s Naw Eye Pills. It guarantees gentle action and cites Joseph Emmert, a druggist at 254, Try them.
May 1 Men of Baptist church banquet. May 2 Tiv. 182 G I A to B of L BE card party. May 2 WK of G hall division 182 G I A to B of f BE afternoon card party. May 2 Germanian society dance and card. May 6 Dance of St Margaret's guild at Lexington hall. May 8 Eastern Star May party at Masonic Temple. Joe Fifers social dancing school at Lexington hall May 7 14 21 28.
A fragmented schedule lists performances and exhibitors from May through June including Dixie Minstrels May 2, Swanson's Moving Pictures multiple times, Lymant Howe's Moving Pictures, Corner Grocery, Humty Dumty, and District Leader with dates spanning May 2 to June 2. Multiple entries reference Lyman J. Howe's Moving Pictures.
Freeport resident and former soldier Elias Koon has been notified that his pension has been raised to 12 per month.
Fine shirt waists are heavily discounted in a two day sale. Multitudes of right and stylish waists, extensive assortments, and extraordinary low prices attract women seeking quality garments.
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