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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1908
Page
1
Baileyville notes from Aug show Lincoln Douglas debate attendance, church events, birthdays, and visitors from Freeport and Chicago. Mentions include Rev Tilbert, Mrs Kilgore, Miss Dikkers, bee swarm during Mrs Hubert's birthday, Mission feast, and local preparations for fall schooling and community gatherings. Several locals travel to Freeport, Toledo, and Cedarville for events and reunions.
From Our Own Correspondent Cedarville Aug 31 warm weather and rain welcomed September. Former Fairfield Neb resident John Epley visited friends. Many old settlers attended the gathering, including Chas Clingman Covington Ky and others from Chicago Beloit Ia and St. Louis Mo. Local residents made a few improvements and visits before autumn.
From Our Own Correspondent Davis Aug 41 special trains will run Wednesday and Thursday September 2 and 3 to Freeport for the fail. Train departs at 7 02 a m returns at 10 p m round trip 56 cents. Extra coaches on Friday from Freeport at 3 55 p m. Mrs Depuis of Chicago visited J Mack’s home last week as school starts with staff including Mer the Seete un Co vers, DFinciplis, Anna Meyers immediate department, Miss A til, grammar, Miss Brice primary.
Mrs William Geeding of Attica Indiana writes that her two and a half year old son suffered recurring skin sores until using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. After three applications the sores began to heal and have not returned. She praises the remedies and says she will keep them handy and recommend them to others. Date July 22 1007.
Promotes relief and cure of eczema tatter milk crust psoriasis on skin scalp or hands through warm baths with Cuticura Soap and gentle anointings with Cuticura Ointment aided by Cuticura Resolvent. Guaranteed pure by Seattle doctor, with Cuticura Book offered by Boston suppliers.
From Our Own Correspondent Rock City Sept 1 Mrs G R Lashelle from Chicago visits a few weeks Mrs M Good of Dakota calls on daughter Mrs H J Barr Rock City beats Rock Grove 17 to 3 Fred Hellwig Jr Union TH visits relatives Lincoln Douglas debate at Freeport attended Northern Giants defeat Rock Grove 15 innings 7 to 6 There is a game at the ball park Saturday Freeport and Rock City clash Special train to the fair departs 7 10 returns later
Mrs A B Roberts improves in health and is around again. W D Mack visits relatives in Ohio for several weeks. John R Hayes of Chicago calls on old friends in the area. Arthur Van Brocklin leaves for South Wayne Wisconsin to visit relatives. Gertrude Schlegel Aletha Aspinwall visiting Mrs Josie Garnhart near Pearl City. Neva Bertha Roberts visit Freeport this week. Edwin Roberts returns from Oklahoma trip, may move there with family. J P Downie Erski Undlingham attend Wallace end Hagenbeck circus last Monday.
Shannon and Mileroy notes list Rev J G Finkbinder of Chadwick visiting Ely family Clark Wright from Rockton, Everett Miller at Belvidere Beloit and many locals visiting relatives in Freeport Lanark Savanna and Savanna area. Brief mentions of travel, visits, and a death notice from Perusta Iowa closing the fragment.
Months old infant of Mr and Mrs John Gaffney receives community sympathy as Miss Eisie Hartning of Freeport informs Mrs W M Ships ey of the sister. Rev A Griffon improving. Walter Seidel and wife spent Sunday in Freeport. Mrs Panskie and children of McConnell visited Mrs L Vehmeter. Mrs M B E Evans traveled to Freeport Monday.
Community notes list visitors such as C M Brown and Miss Eva Smith, relatives and friends visiting from several towns, and multiple calls on locals. An academy dormitory expansion is planned, a fighting plant to be installed at a Presbyterian church, and special train arrangements to Freeport are announced with travel times. Conrad Henze is noted for eight votes from one family.
Red Oak updates record a trip to Nebraska by Mr. and Mrs. J A Rief and a North Dakota business return by Benjamin Lied. Others attended the old settlers meeting and enjoyed a fine time while Joseph Miller visited relatives in Mt Carroll. Mr and Mrs John Stoll left for DeKalb on business, Henry Boehler visited from Lawler Iowa, Christen Zipse returned from Iowa, and Winneshiek correspondence notes Miss Ber.
Tha Shoemaker and Charles Sieber will wed Tuesday evening at the bride’s parents home. After a brief Pennsylvania trip they plan to live on J. B. Shoemaker’s farm. Oscar Myers hosts friends from Freeport and Durand. Tigtn of Chicago visits Charles Landolt. baptismal services held at U B church. A Kortemeter and Mrs Brandt of Shannon visit William Kortemeter. Matter family of Freeport spends Sunday with friends.
A critical critique notes the persistence of social hierarchy in Britain, with the king’s symbolic rule, aristocratic privilege, and a birthright upper house continuing despite abolition of other feudal abuses. It contrasts British attitudes with American views, highlighting lingering feudal-era mindsets and class loyalties.
A miscellany of notes on weeds and persistence from John Burroughs, an anecdote about a Baltimore school address urging daily reading, and an Antwerp draft episode involving six brothers born in one year. The pieces reflect 19th century nature, literacy, and military service themes with named individuals and dates.
The passage extols the beauty of native plants, praising Queen Anne's face in full bloom and the bird's nest form as particularly interesting. It frames the native flora as attractive and worthy of observer attention, contrasting with prior dislike of weeds.
The aye-aye, a nocturnal Madagascar primate, is described by the keeper as the only creature that kicks its food into its mouth. It uses its fore paw to pick carrots from a plate and tosses them in a looping yellow chain of motion, likened to a juggler. The natives revere the creature, which lives in holes.
An antiquary notes that church leaders opposed life insurance as gambling with lives and a motive for murder. He concedes some truth to the criticism but argues the policy’s vast good outweighs the evils, which he deems negligible next to its benefits.
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