Local notes on town events and society gossip
Regular correspondents sought for condensed neighborhood news. Reports mention a death in the Poor House at age 70, a broken wrist from a fall, local visits, a Boston Dip drama by the Good Templars, and a Board of Education meeting. Also listed are real estate transfers, railroad personnel changes, a sale of a confectionery business, debts, city council frugality, gas issues, and upcoming lodge meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abigal Dawson
Mary Murtagh
G. W. Lee
Lincoln, Neb
J.D. Spencer
Florence
Pip Sina
Post Office Report for Year Ending 1878 at Gemmill
The Post Office items for the year ending December 31, 1878 detail stamps stamped envelopes and postal cards sold along with domestic and foreign mail revenue. It records numbers for registered letters and packages received and delivered totaling 5 450, with various amounts paid for domestic and foreign mail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gemmill
Amt
Iysne
Frints of the Wine Cup to be staged by Temperance Society
The Temperance Society will present the drama Frints of the Wine Cup at the Opera House this Wednesday evening along with recitations and music. The group urges support from its 1800 signers and aims to show a strong, honest effort to improve their cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ereeport Commandery No. 7
K. T
Cy A.S. Wun'rs
Opera House
Co. G
Temperance
Library to Move Books to Taylor & Son Office
After a Library Association meeting, books will likely be moved to the Taylor & Son office where G. I. Anghes will oversee access. The current room’s furniture will be sold, coal and light will run only when the library is open, and running costs will remain very low. The reading public is urged to show more interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Library Association
Taylor & Son
G. 1. Anghes
Not Willing to Acknowledge Corn Yet
A communication from Mr. Goche nour arrives too late to publish. He declines to acknowledge the corn issue while praising Mr. Gressinger. Gressinger suggests he has only one large ear of corn. Godenour offers to compare corn with Gressinger or no other man, proposing a three-farmer committee decide the matter and inviting better varieties to mature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gochenour
Gressinger
Court Notes and Obituary for Jacob N Kryder
Court notes report filings in the estates of Heck Wolford Sprattler Glock and others with decisions recorded. An obituary records Cedarville Alabama resident Jacob N Kryder dies January 6 1979 aged 35 after seven years illness and a year in bed. he served in Co B 46th Illinois Infantry and funeral attended by many friends with religious tributes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas, Heck
Catharine Wolford
Alice A. Gaylord
J. M. Sprattler
J. DD. Ditfenbaugh
Frederick Glock
Cedarville
Jacob N. Kryder
Kryder
Co. B
46Th Minois Infantry
Jake
Gro. H. Wells
New Year’s Eve wedding unites Joseph Ant and Lucretia Swanzey
In Hant Swanzey Ridott on New Year’s Eve a ceremony joined Joseph Ant and Lucretia Swanzey at eight o’clock with Rev J Braddock officiating at John Swanzey’s home. A fountain of gifts followed including family Bible and silverware from many relatives and friends led by John Swanzey and W TH Gregory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephant
Lucretia Swanzey
Ridott
John Swanzey
J.8
Braddock
Middle Creek
Anna Swanzey
W. TH. Gregory
Rockford
Thos. Hunt
Mrs. Thompson Lease
Little Mary
James
Taggart
Emily Woodruff
Mra. Blakeway
Freeport Good Templars Postpone Opera House Event
The Good Templars of Freeport announce a postponement of their January 1 literary entertainment at the Opera House to a quarter past eight to avoid clashing with church services. Lodge leaders express regret, stating the scheduling conflict was unintended and they seek harmony with church activities. R J Hagzierr D J A SHEET W OC T
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opera House
R. J. Hagzierr
Berlin Social Arc: dances, lectures, and plans
From Berlin the lively scene includes parties, lyceums, singing, and a surprise party at Mr. Fate's. Thomas Myers opens a singing school at Berlin School House with over thirty pupils while Tom Allen lectures at Brown's School House. River bridge repairs loom. a wary note warns Freeport men away. a wedding is planned at Company C Haswell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
B. Fate
Thomas Myers
Myers
Tom Allen
Rock City
Brown
Here
Ridott
Freeport
Company C
Annual Elections and Local Fraternal Installations in Freeport
The Freeport council of Princes of Jerusalem held annual officer elections last Wednesday night with multiple officers listed for roles such as PGM and GILDGM. Western Star Encampment No. 35 I O F installed officers on Tuesday evening under Past Grand Patriarch Jacob Krohn. Rescue Hook and Ladder Co No. 1 elected officers for the next six months on Thursday evening. The Young Men's Literary Society elected officers including KT Stabeck as president. The town boasts low crime due to a small police force, contrasted with recent thefts from major shops. A jury found Mary A. Gaylord not crazy on Thursday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princes OF Jerusalem
Freeport
Western Star
Jacob Krohn
W. W. Krape
C.P
Wm. Koenig
G. Wormser
Hook and Ladder
Rescue Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1
Foreman
Chris
Strohacker
A. Zimmermann
Adam Maute
Fred, Kruse
Loranz Lahr
Henry Janer
John Miller
Chas
Hubel
Buzeard
Poy
Union Grange No, Bad
Geo, Shay
The
Grange
Mi Ella Saul
Sheetz
W.M
Jno
Rees
I Crippen
W. L
Ges
Stout
Best
Mra
Brobst
W. Gra
Aspinwall
W.‘t
Lureh
Geo. Stout
W. C
Canfiell W
W. L.A
R.G. Stout
Iss Elia Saul
J. W. Warmwarox
Nuggets From Ruth Ern Illinois Chronicle of 1879 Local Bits
A collage of transient Illinois notes: Chicago debt and taxes, Rockford factory purchase, Rockton dog tale, Carlinville fatal coal accident, Macaupin County clerk capture, Ridott school enrollment, Will County births marriages and crimes, Peoria indebtedness, Vertillion tax tallies, St. Clair and Adams county births and deaths, Savanna fires, Chicago saloons and trade, hog slaughter and cash flows, winter cold, revival meetings, lard shipments to San Francisco, Lyndon paper mill hand loss, Northern Illinois Firemen meeting, Forreston precinct question, Moline paper mill fire loss, Coleta hall petition, Ottawa postoffice receipts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Roscos
Rockton
Carlinville
G. I. Holliday
Macaupin Co
Winnebago County Court House
Rockford
Upson & Herick
Chas, Litz
Florence
Ridott
Will County
Peoria
Vertillion County
St. Clair County
Adams County
Winnebago Co
Savanna
Illinois
San Francisco
New York
Cape Horn
Paper Milla
Lyndon
Northern
Minois Firemen’s Association
Sterling
Sublette
Baptist Divine
Kiwis Press Association
Springfield
Brookville
Ogle County
Forreston Herald
Forreston
Baileyville
Board of Supervisors
W. Wheelock & Co
Moline
Coleta
Ottawa
Local sale receipts and stamp costs noted in brief
Fragmentary text shows amounts from sales including 100 dollars from bostal cardg and 1408.21 from stamped envelopes, plus money orders. Mentions an agricultural study at the Minis Industrial University in Urbana dated January 2 and promises duplication of tea samples to save ten to forty cents per pound. Burrell Bureos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minis Industrial Univers
Urbana
Burrell Bureos
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mrs. Wise
City
Good Templars
Board of Education
Jas. Dunlap
Naperville
Temperance Hall
Theodore
Alfen A. Gaylord
Theodore Tilton
Our City
Simborn
McPotter
T.’Tilton
Leonard Sherman
C. N. Rosenstiel
Ed. Cavanagh
Richmond
Ind
M. L. Ettinger
Chicago & Iowa Railroad
J. H. Broadie
Ilinois
J.D. Diffenbaugh
C.Q. D
D. D. Diffenbaugh
Monmouth
Frank McDowell
Carewell County Gazette
Lanark
Sig
Furce
Daily Virtune
Council
Second Presbyterian Church
J. K. Fowler
J. M. Chambers
State Grange
State Grange News
James J. Neff
General Assembly
Tome
Excelsior Lodge No
Auf
A.M
Moses R. Thompson
Gabriel
Kingdom
Stephenson County
Peddler
Times
F. W. Brainerd
Stephenson Street
W. McTenry
John Black
South
Black
Tilton
Messrs
Cochran and Tettinger
Hant-Swanzey
Lyceums
Young Men's Literary Society
KT. Stabeck
J. Geib
A. D. Breen
O.E. Heard
D. Farout
W. MM. Widner
Marshall
Mary A. Gaylord
Stephenson Country
Ruthern Illinois
Stevens
N. B
Hamburg
Uist
Brewster House
Fresfort, Ed
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