Prairie Chicken Season Opens As Shooting Ends Dec 1
A busy local page notes changes in clergy and offices, plans for reunions, and community events. Dysentery claims two year old Alfred Dor man. familiar editorial shifts announced. a prairie chicken close season ends with hunting allowed until December 1. Mrs. Bray and Miss Bray join stage engagements. reunions set for Sept 16 with General Logan as orator. an excursion from Cairo to St Paul and a county executive meeting set for Freeport.
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Stephenson County
Logan
Iawk
Freeport
Cedarville
Ice cream festival and health news from Galena to Waukesha
Galena grocer J. W. Hellman travels toward Waukesha Wisconsin for thirty days of mineral water treatment citing poor health. An Aug 20 1881 ice cream festival in Dakota features the Cedarville and Dakota Cornet Bands with lemonade cake and refreshments. Community notes include visits by Rev H W Herbaugh and printer Mrs. J. Burchard. A skunk incident ends with five dead chickens, temperance mass meeting at Embury Church with multiple pastors and a full audience, and a drunken arrest of K T Stabeck with a court continuance granted awaiting a key witness.
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J. W. Hellman
Galena
Waukesha
Wis
Dakota
Dakota Cornet Band
Cedarville Brass Band
Embury Church
Martin
Dr. Cody
The
Baptist Church
Jenkins
First Presbyterian Church
Meredith
M. E
Jesse Burchard
I. F. Kleckner
Crissman
Second Presbyterian Church
K. T. Stabeck
Calaboose
R. Sheridan
Geo. Weaver
Kean
Stabeck
States Attorney’s Office
Photographer S W Allen Heads East to Address Convention
Mr S W Allen, a popular city photographer, left Friday to attend the American Photographic Association annual convention at Cooper Institute, New York City. He will speak on intricate photographic questions and display two recent patents, a lubricating pad for burnishing and a camera attachment that replaces the focusing cloth. The inventions are praised as perfect and highly saleable, stocked by leading dealers.
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S. W. Allen
East
American Photographic Association
Cooper Institute
New York City
Ife
The Sultan Mining Company Incorporation in Colorado
The Sultan Mining Company of Colorado filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State for 1,000,000 capital in 190,000 shares of 10 each. Officers named include J. R. Porterfield as President and Jacob Whitter as Vice-President and Superintendent. O. E. Goldsmith as Secretary and Treasurer. Andy Mchiahan as Manager. Mines Dolly Varden, Sultan, Porterfield and Jacob Whitter lodes lie at Platte Canon twenty miles from Denver via the South Park Railroad. principal office to be in Denver.
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Sultan Mining Company
Colorado
J. R. Porterfield
Jacob Whitter
O. E. Goldsmith
Andy Mchiahan
Dolly Varden
Sultan
Porterfisld
Subscribed readers urged as hunting season opens
The Freeport JOURNAL is praised for county news and readers are asked to recruit new subscribers now. The quarrel with Richards and Stabeck is noted as a local remark, while a bardish line hints at strategy. Hunters are criticized for careless prairie chicken shooting as season begins.
Mrs Sarah Shannon Dies in City at 78
In the city on Tuesday August 9 1881 Mrs Sarah S Shannon relict of the late Wesley Shannon aged 78 years 7 months after months of suffering she bore pain with Christian fortitude. For fifty nine years she professed religion and her final call came with rest. She was unostentatious and cherished her nine children who grew to adulthood. None knew her but to love and praise.
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Sarah S. Shannon
Wesley Shannon
Davis Lodge Elects Officers in August Meeting
Davis Lodge No 4551 C G T installs officers Aug 2 with Frank Mannion as I W C I and Rev J A Beidler as P W C T. Other officers include Miss L McHoes W A S, Rev Jno Imlay W C, ZJnc Liljiquist M M, Flora Slegner W T, Lizzie Cronemiller R H S, Julia Caldwell L H S, Lizzie Baysore W G, Willard Haynes W T. Dr E A Benton serves as Lodge Deputy. Meeting at Masonic Hall each Tuesday. membership 45 and growing.
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Liljiquist
D. M
L. McHoes
W.F.S
A. Tunks
W. T
Flora Slegner
Lizzie Cronemiller
L. H
Julia Caldwell
Lizzie Baysore
W.T
Willard Haynes
E. A. Benton
Masonic Hall
Death of Brocious's Young Son Shocks Freeport
Obituary notes the death of Peter Brocious's four year old son on August 2 after a minor forehead impact from a stove led to chronic brain inflammation and eventual death. Post mortem showed cheese-like dissolution of the anterior brain. the piece ends with a grave reflection on a lost child and includes a second obituary for Mary Burchard, aged nearly ten, who died of diphtheria, plus a local quip about hot whisky baths and rheumatism.
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Peter Brocious
Jesse Burchard
Freeport
Mary
Beloit Free Press
Farmers Seek Better Yields and a Paper Mill Plea
A rural column reports harvest cleanup and sparse plowing as threshing begins and yields remain uncertain. It cites USDA July 1 crop conditions across states, noting winter wheat failures, rye expansion, mixed corn prospects, favorable tobacco and cotton notes, insect damage in Iowa and Illinois, and a call for a local paper mill to utilize rye and flax straw.
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Serenity
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Atlantic
Ohio River
Mississippi
Ohio
Michigan
Illinois
Indiana
Missouri
Kansas
New England
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Nebraska
Iowa
Middle States
West
Maryland
Virginia
Kentucky
Local Frost and Harvest Notes Amid Warm Weather
Frost appeared in a few local towns but spared crops. Farmers have finished cutting and stacking and are plowing or threshing. Oat crop is light from rust and army worm damage, corn looks good with a strong yield expected. Hot weather brings sickness. Dr. Walton is fatigued, Mrs. Sarah E Poffenberger recovering from severe illness, Mr. Samuel Moyer also recovering. joy in the home of Mr and Mrs Henry Rodel over a new arrival.
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Walton
Sarah E. Poffenberger
Samuel Moyer
Henry Rodel
Local Notes and Weathered Tales From a Rural Village
A village bulletin reports a girl and mother doing well after an incident, Henry a solid young farmer amid town notables Me Hettinger D B Schulte Wm and Fred Gund attended a Rev Kerr lecture at the U B Church. Kerr slated for another talk next Sunday as six lectures finish. Herbert Blakeway vacationing at Saratoga Springs for hay fever relief. H Poffenberger steps into lumber trade role with ample stock. Asa Carey builds a new barn east of the village on cyclone site. Friday the 12th, a boy and son of Mrs Hess lost both legs chasing a butterfly near a sickle bar. Mrs Poppy Poppen of south Ridott dies after brief illness. funeral at German Reform Church on Thursday. Miss Nexer listed August 15, 1881. Citizeng S8T3 NM Trembor.
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Henry
Freeport
Me Hettinger
D. B. Schulte
Fred Gund
Dr. Kerr
Rockford
U. B
Kerr
Herbert Blakeway
Saratoga Springs
H. Poffenberger
J. Hemmenway
Asa Carey
Inst
Wm. Hess
Poppy Poppen
South Ridott
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