Freeport Daily Journal in Freeport, Illinois

Hardin and vicinity discuss rail line and local trades

News from Hardin reports a rail road interest as residents meet to push the project. Local commerce includes three stores a mill and small manufactories with a two story brick schoolhouse and a Republican postmaster. Farm values range from twelve to fourteen dollars an acre with a Stephenson County sale noted at one hundred sixty dollars per acre. A cave discovery in Granton Wisconsin draws attention while Dunkirk’s Loder House burns for a loss of thirty thousand sixty dollars.