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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1908
Page
4
Quick service advertisement from E and W Clothing House offering shoe repair with home pickup. Calls for customers to get shoes fixed to look like new. 25-dlw shows a date or code.
Miss Mabel B Ferguson and Adrian Z Metters married Saturday at Trinity church parsonage by Rev L C Schmidt. The couple eloped with only parents knowing, left for Rockford after the ceremony, and will reside with the bride’s parents at 416 Oak Street.
Miss Hazel D Downing of Freeport and Harry L Cole of Elgin were married Saturday at 5 PM at the Christian church parsonage with Rev F W Hmerson officiating. Attendants were James H Downing and Miss Clara Denton. The couple returned to the bride’s Douglas avenue home for a small wedding supper before heading to Elgin to reside.
A records and sewing party to benefit St Vincent's orphanage is planned for tomorrow afternoon at St Pius hall with proceeds aiding the institution.
Closing quotations show Dec wheat at 10334 6 to 10014, Dec corn 6537, oats 4914 2, Jan pork 81687 90, Jan lard 99092, Jan ribs 88790. Union Stock Yards reports cattle 23,000 steady, hogs 28,000 down, sheep 82,000 steady. Daily grain note references heavy rains in southwest, good cash trade in Minneapolis, outlook for winter wheat acreage down 45 percent, and advise buying May corn and oats on the price break. cash trade strong, packers buying, and January pork and lard favored.
A notice asks patrons to report nonreceipt of the newspaper. The item sets Saturday October 10 as Tag Day and requests readers inform the office if they do not receive their paper regularly.
J C Goodwin of Reidsville North Carolina touts Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a sure fire ulcer knockout after a severe leg sore last summer. He claims the salve cleared the ulcer in a few rounds with no scar. Also advertised for piles sores and burns with a 350 price at Jog Em mert’s drug store.
Salvatore Campagna’s murder trial resumed as Chief Stik testified on land descriptions and track sightlines. Evidence showed a six foot man could move unseen along the embankment near the main tracks, with ground six to eight feet below track level. Cross examination failed to dislodge Chief Silk’s testimony about visibility issues around the oil shanty and east window view. Later, in Stover case, petitions for guardian ad litem for Porter Stover and Mrs. Winger’s minor children were set to be acted on by the court.
E C Arno and Arno Kunz of Dubuque T a spent Sunday in Freeport as guests of Mr and Mrs Emil Haeni. Mrs Caroline Matter of South Carroll street who visited daughter Mrs Mabel Burd at Delta Colo has gone to Omaha to visit a son before returning home. Mr and Mrs Leon Hiller of Waverly Iowa who attended the funeral of the late Harrold Stein have returned home. They report their city in total darkness with the electric light plant and water works station destroyed by fire while they were in Freeport.
Ferdinand Neumann transfers Lot 8 Block 2 Loos subdivision for 1200 to Charles J. Koym. Mary S. Deade sells Lot 6 Block 4 Johnson Wheel company plat to Isaac Steele for 750. Elmer G. Pratl to Charles F. Hildreth Lot 7 Block 2 Stover's addition for 700. August Bergman to Fred H. Burkhart Lot 2 Block 2 Rotzler's addition for 2850. Henry Heldenreich to George M. Holley part section 1 Lan caster town and park of section 36 Dakota town for 1425. Ferdinand Neumann to Robert R. Pratt Lot 8 Block 2 Loos subdivision for 1800.
Work began this morning on the Jacob Pfender feed store site at Stephenson and Adams streets. The old building is torn down and a new modern three story structure is being erected by John Stoskopf.
Pearson's Weekly notes alpine flora surpasses plains in color and chlorophyll. Mountain flowers show deeper greens, more intense reds blues and yellows, with smaller aerial organs and larger subterranean roots anchoring blossoms close to the soil.
A narrator recalls Nan’s fear after hearing the sheep and the goats parable. Her clergyman grandfather consoles her by urging a godly life, but she frets that her mother could be the goat next, a worry echoed in Delineator’s note.
The Arabic alphabet contains twenty nine letters each written in distinct forms. Each letter varies by position in a word: isolated initial medial or final. Mastery requires memorizing 29 116 distinct letter signs across contexts.
Seventeen page seven references to Peoples Column ads with a long string of garbled text listing items for sale and notices. The legible fragments mention beads, rewards for return, wages, sale of property due to health, and a restaurant and hotel board offer. Names and places are obscured by OCR errors.
Readable items list October events at the Presbyterian church Bent, including Dr Sane H Gray lecture at Ma-0 Mie temple, Freeport Business Men's Association meeting Oct 10, plus a string of stage shows at Grand Opera House from Oct 1 to Oct 21 featuring The Wolf, Donald Robertson in Comus, The Angel and the Ox, Brown's in Town, Lyman Pwins, Jane Jenkins, and Human Hearts.
Local social and civic notices list Eastern Star and St. Margaret's guild meetings, Wintesheik lodge degree work, Mystic Workers drill team, and U B conference returns. Also reports of visitors to Bloomington Pantagraph, Waterloo Times Tribune coverage of church and school events, and Freeport College of Commerce enrollment plans.
At a Rockford creditors meeting a dividend of 10 percent on all filed claims was allowed. The trustee's report was read and approved. A larger dividend was prevented by many filed claims. the trustee also said that endorsements of the company name on notes held by Kansas City banks were unauthorized and not a liability, a matter to be settled in court.
An advertisement extols Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Pierce's Pellets as non-alcoholic remedies for women’s health. It claims they build strength, regulate functions, relieve pain, and improve overall vitality, with testimonials from medical authors and details on ingredients and packaging.
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