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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1906
Page
2
Scioto Mills notes social visits from Wis to Freeport and Madison, with many locals and relatives mentioned. Anniversaries, school plans, illness, and travel appear. depot changes and lamps on Main Street are recorded amid routine town life.
From Our Own Correspondent Dakota Sept 11 reports visits by Mr and Mrs Hall of Brodhead Wis to their son A B Hall and family Grant Seeley of Cherokee Iowa visits old friends Vernon Kebil arrives to attend academy school opens Monday Sept 17 with new seats and other improvements Mrs Joe Muffley and daughter of Des Moines visit sisters in law Mrs Pletcher and Mrs Morse Mrs Fred Clump of Spirit Lake and Mrs E Brubaker of Freeport visit Wm Glasser and family James Leitzell of Pennsylvania visits J B Leitzell Lizzie Templeton and Leora Wolf depart for De Kalb Illinois
Cedarville column notes visitors from Chicago Freeport and Pearl City. Mrs Mary Neidigh hosts relatives while school opens with 64 pupils in Prof Auman room 32 in Miss Barber and 40 in Miss Rutter. Lieutenant George W. Hartsough dies in Milwaukee. Additional local names and visits recorded.
Taft rural free delivery carrier reports yearly mail counts by route. Av Mt shows 4,262 pieces collected and delivered, Hunt East records 4,697, Anenst 4,873, and Aalev 3,395 pieces. Red Oak to the Dakotas and other routes are noted in the tally from Tuesday.
Local notes recount plans by S C Weaver to erect a large round barn near Rockford with J J Shaffer as contractor. Visitors include Dr Verbeck and family from Freeport, and Frank Cooper with family from Seward. Social dances, croquet contests, and Ladies Aid events are scheduled in Mover’s hall and Pleasant Hill with rock grove society involvement.
From Our Own Correspondent Pleasant Hill reports the Freeport county fair drew an estimated 18,000 on Thursday as roads led crowds to the event. Mentioned are Mrs. Elizabeth Fetzer heading to Iowa to visit relatives and Dr. Salter speeding through town. George Holmes organized a hauling bee last Saturday to haul lumber for the project.
Agse prepares to erect on the old Manny farm. Royron Pickard transacted business here last Thursday. George Harris sold D. Van Sickle 200 bushels of corn and has delivered it this week. Mrs. Wm Masters of Louisa visited her daughter on Friday. Andrew Kratzer finished threshing for the season and stored his machine for winter. Grandma Holmes visits her son George. James Fogel was on the sick list after the fair. Mr. Allison of Lena supplied fish to old customers. Mrs. Joseph Kratzer and Dora attended the Hawke funeral at Damascus. Mrs. RosL Bate and son Herbert of Lena visited Snyder's on Wednesday. Harvey Daws and Albert Buss visited L C Jacobs on Sunday. John Scievel and wife were visitors at McConnell yesterday. Barbara Niss visited her parents at Lena on Sunday. The Pleasant Hill vs Kent ball game did not take place and Kent did not appear. spectators praised home talent.
From Our Own Correspondent Harlem Corners Sept 10 A number of locals visited the Freeport fair on Thursday Mrs Winnie Berglund and baby Paul of Hayfield Minn visited her father Ro S Waener and family Sunday Miss Bertha Rosenstiel went to Freeport for her cousin Blanche Chapman s wedding preaching is planned at Damascus next Sunday evening Preston Collins of Loran returned home Monday after a pleasant visit with relatives here.
When two strong men come to blows even if well matched it is not a pleasing sight. The man who gets the worst of it will use DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve to look better and feel better quickly. Be sure you get DeWitt's. Good for everything salve is used for. Sold by all druggists.
Very low excursion rates apply from all stations Sept 3 to 14 for round trips to San Francisco and Los Angeles via the North-Western line due to the National Baptist Convention. Three fast through trains daily to California. The Overland Limited electric lighted with drawing room and tourist sleeping cars via Salt Lake Route. The China and Japan Fast Mail also operates daily to the same destinations. For itineraries contact Chicago & North-Western Railway agents.
An Omaha township department notice offers openings in nearly all lines of business on the Chicago Great Western Railway. Write EK. B. Magill, Mer., for full information and a copy of Town Talk. Expected dates show 7 20d 19 16, indicating ad timing.
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