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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1906
Page
2
A garbled field notes an industrial facility, the Freeport plant, receiving a recognition from an international body for employing union labor. The fragment mentions departments and a type designation but lacks full context or date.
Hatry Dorman was in town on business. Walter Ketler was a morning passenger to Higin. Miss Flossie Fritz of Winslow is visiting the city. R. B. Fisher returned from Dodgeville. Miss Mabel JXnotinton spent the day at Rockford. Addison Bidwell was a morning passenger to Chicago. James Gleason was a morning traveler. William Blaisdell left for Rock Island on business. Miss Vera Wheeler went to Chicago to visit friends. Mrs. Emily Slocum went to Chicago for a few days. Mrs. BE. M. Blaisdell returned to Chicago after visiting her daughter Mrs. J. A. Martin. Dr J. F. Smith of Chicago, visiting in the city and Winslow, returned home. Harry Pollard of Savanna has returned to his time after visiting John Saladay and family. Mrs. Calkins of Allentown Pa visited Mr. and Mrs. EB. A. Blust, then returned home. Chief of Police J. J. Sweeney will go to Aurora to attend the fourth annual police convention. William Staver of Equador, South America, visiting relatives, was a morning passenger to Chicago. Edward Bushelle Jr left for Colvin Park Ill to accept a position with the Illinois Central Railway. Mrs. Kitty Youngs and daughter Miss Florence left for Pittsburgh to visit Mrs. Charles D. Finney. They were accompanied as far as Chicago by Jason Youngs of Omaha, visiting here.
Derstine recovers from illness as the Sons of Veterans meet for business. Freeport and Royal Masters confer the Royal Master degree tonight. Salem church Ladies’ Aid meets tomorrow with Mrs Daniel Molter. St Pius hall hosts a card and sewing party Friday for St Vincent’s orphanage. Trinity church women postpone meeting to next month due to Sunday events. Grace Episcopal choir rehearsal tonight at 7:30. Fire department responded to John Wise home chimney blaze with no damage. Ladies of the G A R plan a May 9 meeting to arrange attendance at G A R convention in Galesburg. Lion’s share of Baltimore fire losses cited in Freeport ad for S A Buckman agency. List includes one company’s large net surplus.
An excellent likeness of Dr A B Smith appears in the Chicago Chronicle with an article noting his leadership in reorganizing the Northwestern Homeopath medical society. The group includes physicians residing in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.
The Trades and Labor council reports ongoing receipts from local unions for the fund. Previously acknowledged totals and current contributions are listed, with a combined total shown as eighty six dollars and ninety five cents.
Arthur Siefert mashed the bone in his left thumb yesterday at the Stover Engine works. The bone was splintered between the first and second joints and he will be laid up for some time.
Massena P. Mitchell, a county pioneer born May 6 1812 in Aaronsburg Penn, celebrated his 94th birthday with grandchildren and relatives at John F Glasser’s home. He remains active, reads without glasses, shaves himself, and has a large family lineage including 17 grandchildren and 27 great grandchildren. Mitchell settled in Stephenson County in 1841 and has long been a Democrat with a long life of travel from Pennsylvania to Illinois and back.
At a special board meeting last evening the resignation of secretary J I Rogers was accepted and he was allowed to resign his duties. F C Rogers acted as temporary secretary while J N Rogers plans to leave Saturday for Moline to take the secretaryship there.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Peter Bennetham will be held from the family residence at 86 Hardin Street at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. Rev. Keagle of Cedarville officiating. Grandsons Clinton Bennetham John Henney Roy Bennetham Wm PB Bennetham Weber Bennetham and John Wright will act as pallbearers. Interment will be at Cedarville.
In Federal Court the April term adjourned after a night session and final arguments. Judge Landis directed a verdict for the defendants in the Richardson-Black Hawk head company suit, with a possible circuit court action for a smaller sum in Jo Daviess county. George Dean began serving a county jail sentence after failing to pay a $250 fine for obscene mail letters.
Tomorrow at 1 PM the Freeport Woman's club hosts the opening session at the Masonic Temple with welcomes from Mrs. F H Towslee and Mrs. Wm Gleason of Savanna. Reports, a 4 PM home visit to Mrs. Oscar Taylor, a 8 PM reception and music, and Thursday officers’ election plus next year’s meeting place. Autos will shuttle between the Taylor home and Masonic Temple. Freeport Electric, Light & Power provides a car for transfers. Taylor home admired in spring bloom as Mrs Breed, Miss Fry, and Miss Briggs provide musical numbers. each member may bring three guests free.
Rev. John S. Higgs of Cherry Valley faces a church trial at the fall Rock River Methodist conference over actions tied to a scandal involving Miss Zola Yessler and others. The case, unique in church history for alleged immorality concerns, centers on Higgs’s conduct amid his evangelistic work across Harvey, Cherry Valley, Pullman, Belvidere, and Rockford. Dr. Samuel Barngey may report to the conference cabinet while ministers debate the matter.
An advertisement warns against cures from local applications and promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as the only positive cure for rheumatism. The claim lists 385 cats, Tea or Tablets, and attributes to Joseph Em mert.
Evangelist Mr Sunday prepares to sweep Freeport with a week of services and daily prayers as locals react to his warnings of a spiritual enemy. Elijah P Brown promotes From Nowhere to Beulahland, recounting his own conversion with Moody’s influence. Brown’s book is sold at the tabernacle for fifty cents before Sundays return from Pontiac to lead tonight’s services.
Lena May 8. Mrs. BE Leckington and daughter Bertha attended the funeral of Mrs. Leckington's uncle Mr. Burton in Warren. Mesdames Peter and A E B Seise, G M Holley and Miss Martha Navallore were business visitors to Freeport. Miss Ivy Dodds returned to Freeport after visiting J Dodds. Dr O Smith and daughter of Chicago were guests of Mrs J H Rife. Miss Florence Taylor visited Warren yesterday. Martin Musser returned to Rockford after a few days in Lena.
The G A R post announces Memorial Day observances asking all members auxiliaries and allied organizations to assemble at the hall on May 30 for grave decoration with flowers and evergreens. Commander F C Henn invites teachers, children, and civic groups to join in placing flowers on graves honoring the blue and gray.
A late marketing claim says Grape-Nuts nourishes the nervous system by supplying albumen processed with phosphate of potash found in field grains. It asserts the food rebuilds brain matter and strengthens the brain and solar plexus for resilient performance in busy business and mental work.
Rockford hosts the first city track meet in years next Tuesday at the driving park between Rockford and Freeport High schools. Freeport is expected to participate after negotiations. The event will showcase hurdlers pole vaulters and sprinters for the sport loving public. The Freeport baseball team opens their home season tomorrow against Phalen's men at the ball park.
A score or more of young men and officers of the Young Men’s Republican clubs from Boone, Lee, Ogle, Stephenson and Winnebago counties visited Cal. Frank Lowden on his Oregon farm. Rockford attendees included J. E. Armstrong OC Y. Ison Humbert Pagani Walter C. Hunt and W. B. Zuppman. Boone County delegates were Charles Loop Fred Hunt William Israel and R. V. Carpenter Al G. Fleck and R. J. Carnahan spoke for Stephenson county. They planned to discuss consolidating county clubs and forming a convention.
A vintage ad promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as the best remedy for babies, claiming it helps them eat, sleep, and grow. The text also references a price of 35 euro and mentions tablets and Joseph Em.
Yarrow, a Chicago Record Herald authority on Russia, spoke to the Freesport Shakespeare society’s Woman’s Footh At the Masonid temple about Russian conditions post Japan war and the Douma. He reviewed fiction studied by the club and argued Witte was insincere, calling his de facto leadership harmful while praising constitutional democrats as Russia’s real progressives.
The Stephenson County Bar Association met at the courthouse and formed a committee to draft sympathy resolutions for the late Judge Hyde. The service will be held at 2 o clock tomorrow at the residence 871 Stevens Street with Rev F J Bate officiating and interment in the city cemetery. Pallbearers named include William Hall A McNamara Edwin Hall John Gellman F C Keehe and Bruce Mitchell. Henry Morrow Hyde son arrived from Chicago. James W Hyde cannot attend due to hospitalization. The bar association members will attend the funeral in a body.
Mrs Lucia Wilke of Caroline Wisconsin sought happiness with wealth but found relief at last from a 23 year running sore after using Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. A 26 cent tube at Jos Emmert’s drug store cured the painful leg condition.
James Walsh of Rockford, a retired bottler and grocer, died yesterday afternoon of Bright's disease. Born in Ireland sixty seven years ago, he married Mary Delaney in Freeport on July 6, 1862.
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