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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1908
Page
2
The Daily Journal prints under the Freeport postal office imprint as a second class matter. Subscription terms are shown as yearly in advance with $8.00 per year for carriers or mail, and a 10 cent in Freeport edition.
The Freeport Journal earns an International Typographical Union label in recognition of employing union labor in its mechanical departments, reflecting commitment to worker standards and fair labor practices.
L A Frisbie and G B Turneaure transact business in Chicago and Polo while O B Staver visits Winslow. Miss Alice Rice visits Freeport from Rockford. Theodore Ellis from Winslow also transacts business. Several residents travel to Dixon Chicago Sterling Dubuque and Madison for visits, relatives, or work. Notable names include Dr C E Gregory Mrs J B Rowe Oxman etc.
Sausage factory, maize parsing prompts obscure the text. The readable fragments point to a historical note on production or distribution, naming a local facility and an agricultural product, but crucial details remain unclear.
Item lists apples for sale at 65 Gts per bushel and indicates location pallvered at 89 Arcade Ave Ge2dade, reflecting a fragmented OCR entry with unclear units and address.
Stephenson County Farmers Institute dates announced for January with six institutes across Carroll Jo Daviess and Stephenson counties. University of Illinois experts including W J Fraizer C B Coleman Dietrich Carter and Miss Charlotte Gibbs will lecture on dairying swine domestic science and textile fabrics across Freeport Shannon Galena Warren Mast Dubuque Lena and Stockton venues.
Prof H A McGill, formerly assistant principal and history teacher at Freeport High School and for two years principal of Jacksonville High School, is visiting Freeport. He will depart in about a week for the University of Chicago to take an instructor position in history. His colleagues and former pupils welcome his advancement.
Lincoln-Douglas exhibit at the public library museum adds two Lincoln relics from H. M. Manse of Cherokee Iowa a flag fragment from Ford Theatre where Lincoln watched American Cousin and a 1865 Chicago funeral procession photograph. It also features Freeport images of Mrs Tutty Baker J P Spitler and Fred Baker with ties to local history. Attendance rises with county fair visitors.
The annual YMCA business meeting was held Thursday afternoon in the YMCA parlors. Officers elected include President Miss Carrie A Musser and President at large Mrs W H Manchester with secretaries Mrs DD Alexander and Mrs George Burkhart. Treas Miss Mary Engle and organist Mrs IE G Effinger also chosen. Department superintendents listed for Mothers meetings Literature Medal contest Scientific temperance Press work Evangelistic Jail work Anti narcotics Franchise and Flower mission with various assistants named.
Rev J H Gilliland of Bloomington chosen president of the Illinois Christian Missionary Society at the convention in Chicago. Nomination remarks hint at controversy over Prof Willett’s miracles stance. Other officers named include W R Shaw vice president and L O Lehman Rochester Irwin and Washington as secretaries. board members listed from multiple cities.
The funeral for the late Mrs Bernhardt Lamm was held from the Florence residence at o'clock and from St Josephs Catholic church at 9 80 this morning Rev Father Kalvelave officiated with interment in the Catholic cemetery east of the city Pallbearers were Jos Spangler Henry Otto Louis Schmertiman John Sullivan Joseph Wall and John Schmidt Edward Blust managed the arrangements
Miss Mary Bickenbach daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Bickenbach on Empire street sprained her left ankle during hide and seek at home yesterday afternoon. The injury will prevent use of the ankle for a week.
Miss Virginia Richardson of Hast Street, St Louis, arrives to assume duties as domestic science instructor at the High School for the upcoming year. She is a graduate of the domestic science department at the University.
Emanuel Lambert transfers lots 6 and 6 in block 4 Dakota to Roy Blunt for 300 dollars. Fred M Van Sickle conveys lots 7 ands in block 11 Lena by special warranty deed to W G Boeke for 1400 dollars.
Trene Bodie, a witness in the federal white slave investigation centering in Chicago, was brought to Freeport this morning by the U.S. marshal and lodged in the county jail.
J C Goodwin of Reidsville North Carolina declares Bucklen s Arnica Salve a sure en ough knocker for ulcers. He reports a severe leg ulcer last summer healed in a few rounds with no scar. Guaranteed for piles sores and burns. 25c at Jos Emwert s drug store.
The fall ceremonial of the Dram atic Order Knights of Khorassan will be held Monday October 12 at K of G hall. Rehearsals will commence Sunday afternoon at the same place.
Rockford rolls out a new skating season with a Saturday night opening on September 5. The event invites local residents to enjoy the rink as winter hobbyists return to the weeknight and weekend sessions.
Two out of town fair visitors were badly injured when a trailer left the Freeport Railway line and struck a loaded passenger car on Taylor avenue near Taylor's park. John Schmitt of Harlem township suffered a badly bruised ankle likely broken while Fred Hartman near Pearl City had part of his right ear torn. Both were stuck between cars but survived.
Kathryn Bennetham, two, was run over by a five passenger auto at Stephenson county fair grounds in Freeport. The car sped away after contact with the child as her parents and uncle watched. The injury proved minor aside from a bruised face and temporary limp. The car reportedly belonged to Mr Crabtree of Shannon, Ti.
An herbal remedy marketed by C. P. Guenthe & Co. promises cure for liver kidney stomach and bowels. It claims to purify blood improve digestion and bowel movements and costs 20 cents with money back if unsatisfied. Located at corner Galena avenue and Galena street.
Beginning tomorrow evening at Highland Park, Prof. Gleason will open and return engagement. A number of branches has been procured and some lively sport is promised when the professor attempts to break them to drive and ride.
R. Owens, an Illinois Central Operator, has been transferred to Fonica LL where he will serve as agent for the railroad. He plans to move his family to Tonica next week.
An Vermont man, N. H. Brown of Wittsfield, says Dr. King’s New Life Pills relieve stomach, liver and bowel kinks without fuss. The pills are guaranteed satisfactory at Jos. Emmert’s drug store for 25 cents.
At Riverside Park on Sept. 4 the camp meeting featured Rev. Grez Inger from Hampshire leading the morning service and Rev. Kesselring outlining Ye Are My Witnesses in the afternoon. Rev. HE. Kesser of Forreston preached on I Peter 2 9 and Rev. Feucht of Mt. Carroll joined the Freeport district ministers as the event continues with Bishop C Breyfogel expected today. Excellent weather and strong church spirit raise hope for a mighty grace manifestation this weekend.
The New York baritone William Ashley Ropps will perform a recital at Masonic Temple next Tuesday evening September 8 at 8 15. Tickets are 60 cents and on sale at Bengston's Jewelry store.
Miss Orpha Kreeps of Lena and Mr. Ermine D. Smith of Wadams Grove Ill were married at the Brethren church parsonage in Rockford Wednesday afternoon at 4 30 by Rev P R Keltner. The couple, well known in Stephenson county, plan to live in Lena after a short stay in Rockford and will be at home on the groom’s father’s farm.
Miss Martha Evelyn Teague and Floyd E Weatenburg will marry at the Teague home 827 South Church street at 3 o clock Tuesday afternoon Sept 15 Mrs James G Tetlow entertains for Miss Teague today and next Monday morning Miss Ruth Burlingame will be hostess at a pre nuptial for the bride elect This will be an At Home party at 10 o'clock sharing the position of honored guests with Miss Teague will be Miss Carrie Hoefer of Freeport.
Miss Frances Pettipiece plans an outdoor breakfast at Cedarville next Tuesday morning. She will entertain old college friends from Cornell College in Mt. Vernon Iowa, who were classmates there.
Miss Vorta Walker hosts a party at her State street home this evening in honor of Miss Carrie Siefert who leaves in a week to pursue a classical course at Cornell College.
Advertise a hair care product highlighting quick scalp cleansing against dandruff and itch relief. Claims include curing dandruff by destroying the germ, preventing hair loss, and adding an aristocratic charm. Sold by druggists with samples available for 10c in stamps. price 50c and 1.00. Geo F Swarts listed as special agent in Detroit Michigan.
The Majestic screens Henry Hudson and The Noisy Neighbors this evening. The film is a comedy described as very laughable. Raymond Fortner oversees the effects and surprises Majestic managers by starting a phonograph during a song, creating a realistic scene that irks the tenant below.
Co K Wilkins of Freeport offers three unmounted photographs of Lincoln and Douglas and the Freeport debate boulder. Postpaid photos priced at two dollars, ideal for schools seeking fine images of these famed figures and the monument.
Daily Journal is delivered to eight part of the city for 100 a week.
Figures compiled by the Rockford Gazette show a desire of fifty percent in the number of arrests for drunkenness since the local option law went into effect. The total number of arrests for the quarter ending Sept. 1 was 276, as shown.
8 A Grumbine of 15 Beaver Street has returned from Lebaron Pennsylvania where he visited his father whom he had not seen for fifteen years.
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