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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1906
Page
2
The Freeport Journal is awarded a label by the International Typographical Union recognizing use of union labor in its mechanical departments.
The Personal Record notes numerous Freeport residents and visitors traveling to Chicago and Rockford for business and visits. Names include W H Shows, A Walt, F F A Schulz, Colonel Glasgow, Karl Dahler, O R Zipf, W S Matter, Guilds, Mrs W E Farnum, Miss Sarah Karcher, Mrs A L Johnson, Mrs A O Best, Miss Frances Burwell, Mr and Mrs Albert Karcher, Charles B Davis, L McCool, George Schmelzle, Dani AN oes, and G O Van Brocklin. It records trips to Chicago, Rockford, and Champaign for meetings, visits, and a funeral in Necudah Wisconsin.
St. Margarets guild plans Thursday meeting at Miss Irma Biersach home Carroll street. American Stars for Equity to convene tonight with Stanley Webster of Winslow taking a new role at Swarts Fleck drug store. A key found on Adams Street awaits owner at Frank Ross saloon 60 Stephenson Street. Ancho society to meet tomorrow afternoon at 1 30 for Albert Hofmann funeral. Automobile owners to assemble at Masonic temple Friday 9 am for United Commercial Travelers parade. One third tomorrow’s ball proceeds to King’s Daughters Settlement Home. ball receipts shared with Settlement Home Gliebe St Francis hospitals. Clayre Bolender leaves Chambers for Rawleigh Medicine in Freeport. W C T A Van Brocklin church holds monthly meeting Wednesday 2 pm. Ladies Aid Society English Lutheran meets at Mrs Joseph Brown Galena street after tabernacle. All welcome. important business planned.
Kitty Wolfenberger and Rose Hooks, taken in charge by the police Sunday night, will have a county court hearing Thursday afternoon. Their mothers request a declaration of dependence, after which the sheriff would likely custody them.
J Freeportledge Knights of Pythias will entertain Grand Chancellor Smith on the evening of June 8. A gaiety air will fill the venue and there will be work in the ranks followed by a banquet.
Heavy local hitting and controversial umpire calls marked yesterday's 10 to 6 Freeport victory over Oshkosh. Key errors, a late nine inning rally, and a disputed ruling by Cross shaped a tense game lasting two hours with Freeport seizing control after the fifth inning.
In Oshkosh, Freeport and Oshkosh played a tense game with Warhop leading Freeport with four hits. Moriarity and Graves starred for Oshkosh, while Eason and Safford combined on the mound. Hanford and Dolan contributed key defensive plays as the teams exchanged runs and bodies on a brisk June day.
Eau Claire lost to Green Bay by 5 to 2 in a pool game witnessed by a large crowd. The scoring shows Green Bay leading 5 to 2 with a sequence of runs and hits, Batteries Mohr and Backus, Bubbier and Connors contributing for Green Bay in May at Eau Claire Wisconsin.
LaCrosse overwhelmed Wausau in a May 14 game at Wausau Wisconsin. Weather was cold and grounds muddy making fast play impossible. LaCrosse scorers included Koh and Karnell Vogt and KilHan with LaCrosse securing a decisive win.
Chicago club women urge formation of Let Us Keep Clean clubs to crusade against litterers and waste disposal in streets. They vow not to dump sweepings into streets and alleys and aim to keep Freeport clean amid scattered waste paper and stray sheets.
Monroe resident Dr J C Kaufman was in Freeport today en route to Pearl City for a Lutheran conference attendance.
A vintage advertisement extols Holister’s Rocky Mountain Tea as the key to lovable women and beautiful girls, naming Joseph Emmert and praising clear brained tenderness as the moral of the product.
Staver notes dressy oxfords are the proper thing for spring with several beauties set to wow shoppers. See them now and save as styles debut in stores this week.
The Sun lauds Rev Sunday as he blends religious work with Elks baseball duty at Taylor's Park where services shift to 2 PM to accommodate a game against the Knights of Columbus. A letter from Rev J L Dool of Normal Illinois praises his influence, recounting a reader in Fitzgerald who rejoined the faith after reading his sermons.
Freeport hosts a benefit concert and ball on Thursday to aid San Francisco musicians after the disaster. A 40 piece band and 30 piece orchestra perform with proceeds going to relief. Germania society lends hall for maximum fund raise. Concert at 8:30 pm, ball an hour later, admission 2.60. Tickets are on sale at local outlets.
New York May 15 Special The memory of Patrick Gillmore famed band leader will be honored tonight with a Mammoth concert at Madison Square Garden. Plans long under way call for about one thousand musicians with conductors John Philip Sousa Victor Herbert Walter Damrosch and Frank Damrosch leading. Eminent vocalists have volunteered their services for the tribute.
H oH Steele resigns as head of the local boys department at the Y M C A. He will move to Chicago to lead as superintendent of a Chicago Boys Club branch while remaining in charge of Y M C A work until August 1. Seniors will picnic at the Dells of Wisconsin. juniors will walk to Galena for summer weeks.
A large audience at the Grand opera house greeted the Theodore Thomas orchestra with frequent applause and encores. Soloists Mr. Witherspoon and Mme. Maconda shared the stage, receiving cordial greetings and encores. After the concert the orchestra was hosted by the Elks at a stag party with about one hundred guests, ending with an elegant luncheon and a smoker.
The tabernacle used for Rev. William A Sunday revivals was sold to architect A M Dustman for 1900 dollars. The promoters incur a net cost of 4000 dollars after the sale. Dustman will auction part of the lumber and reuse the rest for building needs.
Members are reminded that the party announced at the hall for tonight has been postponed.
Alderman Lewis McGovern of Freeport was named chairman of the committee on thanks by Grand Chief Engineer W S Stone at the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers convention in Memphis. The opening session at the Memphis Grand Opera House drew large crowds as Stone outlined the order's aims sobriety truthfulness justice and morality and highlighted insurance benefits and engineer career paths. The six week convention will include entertainments to break the routine work.
An overnight stove blast in J. G. Welch’s apartments at 84 Stephenson street above the sau sage factory caused a morning flare up at about 9 o clock. Mrs. Welch, washing clothes, was burned on her face and hands as she tried to move the stove to the back porch. Chief Rodemeyer hurled the burning stove from the third story to the ground, where the flames were put out with little property damage.
Funeral services for the late Albert Hofmann will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at 2 30 o clock by Rev Byers of German Valley. The Saeng erbund will sing at the house and at the grave and the Anchor society members will attend. Wm H Wagner is in charge. Pallbearers include Charles Seyfarth Albert Schulte John Rotzler Oscar Wagner William C Shou er and Charles Moers.
May 14 report from Elgin says hunters in the annual crow shoot bagged over 900 birds in two days. High score 84 by Frank Delancey. Winners to be banqueted May 19 by losers. Detective Riley of CosmotPolitan Club Chicago and Warren Andrews, Elgin Gun Club president, will shoot a ten third match.
A New York man recalls coffee causing dullness and nausea an hour after breakfast. He stopped coffee, drank Postum, and his old trouble vanished. He now looks forward to Postum, praising its health impact and energy. The maker, Postum Co., cites The Road to Wellville and promotes Postum as a healthier substitute for coffee.
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