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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1908
Page
4
A local store promotes curtain nets for fall with patterns in white ivory ecru green and red. India Madras cloth offered at 12 and 18 cents per yard. Etamine Draperies in red green brown and blue at 25 cents per yard. Also highlights carpet department rugs carpets linoleum mattings and window shades.
A public library museum exhibit maps the Black Hawk War with ties to Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Zachary Taylor. The Indian section displays a wartime map, Fort Hamilton, Kellogg’s Grove artifacts, and a Kellogg’s Grove monument relics case with bullets and a drummer boy skull story. Local families loan stone battle axes, arrowheads, bead caps, macassins, and carved salt dish. The exhibit, curated by Ruth Collins, runs daily 2 to 9 p.m.
A fragmented note suggests Citentrons are not receiving and idle members confer a favor at a location described awkwardly. The readable text hints at a mutual aid or signaling action among a group, with no clear names, dates, or concrete events.
Local brief notes the Galena board of education approves a new agriculture course for the high school. The Ladies Auxiliary of the YMCA will meet at the YMCA Friday at 4 PM. Freeport camp of Royal Neighbors hosts a card party at K of P hall tonight with public invited. A. C. Johnson leaves for Nashville to visit parents. Willie Mackay returns home from Pleasant Valley to resume studies after a visit with his grandmother.
Closing board of trade quotes show Dec wheat 9734-7, Dec corn 6955 4, Dec oats 103, Jan pork 1612. $68, Jan lard 968, Jan ribs 867. Union Stock Yards market strong for cattle 7000 head, beeves 370-370, heifers 180-580, hogs 16000 head strong, light 640-710, mixed 640-710, heavy 640-787, rough stock 640-660, bulk sales 675-700, sheep 24000 head, weak 225-480.
Waddams Center reports include John H. Miller visiting Orangeville on Monday. Stanley Price returns from South Dakota to visit Emery. Residents attended the Freeport county fair. Miss Mabel Mantzke travels to Polo to visit sister Mrs. Roy Barnhart. Local families hosted visits with Howard Price and family. George Hardel and family visited B. G. Rockow. Chas. Weick called. Mrs. Daniel Robinson sick. Mildred and Romana Holmes left for Sheridan to attend school. Nora Kluck visited John Miller. Phillips family joined Grandma Phillips at Damascus. August Schultz and son Earl visited Raymond Kluck at Lena. Martin Murphy called Saturday. J. F. Hardel family spent Sunday with Charles Scheider at Red Oak. Clarence Schultz left for South Dakota to visit relatives.
Funny notices appear in London papers with sly lines. A footman wanted for a small family must be between six feet and forty, a fine cob sold by a tall lady with a switch, and apartments to let to a gentleman with gas. The whimsy shows playful social commentary in ad form.
An elderly linen draper asks a geography question in class, prompting a witty reply about the capital of Holland, then a church anecdote shows a mother warning her child with the threat of never returning, then a quip about how bad the child will be punished.
In Indianapolis Toledo beat Toledo 5 to 1 in a second game the Toledo team won 8 to 5 Indianapolis led 38 at halftime Columbus Louisville 6 Columbus 2 St Paul Milwaukee 6 St Paul 1 Minneapolis Kansas City 3 Minneapolis 6 Lincoln Denver 2 in an opener and Denver 4 Lincoln 3 in a second game Sioux City Pueblo 4 Sioux City 6 Omaha Des Moines Q Omaha 3 Deg Moines 7.
Professor George A. Coe will leave Northwestern University after seventeen years to accept a chair at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. His move follows criticism of his regeneration theories, with revivalists at Des Plaines camp meeting labeling his ideas unorthodox. He has held a Ph D from Boston University, authored works on religion and morals, and received offers from other universities before choosing undenominational Union Theological Seminary, noted as the largest in the United States.
Stockton Herald reports H. A. Braed traded his farm northeast of Lena for a fine residence in Freeport and plans to retire from his farm near Rush to make Freeport his home.
F W Smith sues W W Ray for 5000 alleging malicious prosecution linked to the arrest of Smith at the fair grounds for selling liquor. The case unfolds amid a city fight over law violations as Chicago detective Al Winans vanishes then reappears injured prompting police searches and a council move to broaden search powers and druggist licensing.
A review of the movement for public playgrounds in cities is contained in a report submitted to the Playground Congress today by Dr Henry S Curtis secretary of the association.
The Daily Journal offers citywide delivery at ten cents per week. This small-town notice states the affordable rate and service area for readers seeking home delivery.
The Hopk Grand Opera House lists upcoming performances including A Woman of the West and Jane Eyre. Yankee Doodle Boys appear September 7. When We Were Friends September 24. Hearvey Dramatic Company on week. Hear the full schedule and dates for September 11, 16, 28.
Lena reports a 10:30 Sunday service with the sermon Little Things and a 9:30 Sunday school. Pastor J Nicholls leads. Mrs H Hotchkiss and her daughter visit Freeport. Miss Emogene Lanzer, Miss Emma Damert, Will Boeke, and Miss Jessie Hill are noted as Freeport visitors or travelers.
Cicero J. Lindley chairman of the committee on organization issues a notice for a Freeport meeting on September 18 to promote the deep waterway project. Congressman William Lorimer will speak and display large maps illustrating benefits. The session at the courthouse begins at 1 p.m.
Officers petitioned the Lee County board of supervisors to allocate 100 dollars to the institute for prize money and the board approved the appropriation.
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