Local notices and society items from Carroll Co Herald
Miss Jessie Cross is ill with typhoid fever but improving. A. O. U. W. meets at 7:30 tonight. visiting brethren invited. Board of Supervisors met Monday. full report next week. Mira Giles promoted to Grammar school. Conductor Chas Cross under the weather. hopes for quick recovery. Miss Ann McFarland, Adeline, formerly of Freeport, died. brother Samuel also died. double funeral today. Rev. D. B. Byers to New York. will return in 8–10 days. Salem Church services and communion noted. Mrs. F. W. Greenleaf returned from foreign trip. husband aboard Wyoming at Naples. expects June reunion. A new union depot discussed for summer construction by Illinois Central and C&NW Ry. Miss Ik Ledwith and Edward Menlove married in Dublin. reception in Lincoln. future home here. Erie express accident near Oswego. four mail clerks burned. one messenger perishes. German Insurance Company annual statement printed. cash income $394,394.57. 30,193 policies. assets and surplus rise despite general hard times. local pride in company.
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Vreeport
Doctor reports gunshot injury from hunting incident
Dr J C Burbank was called to Bai leyville Monday morning to care for a son of A Bergman after a companion named Fusha shot him while rabbit hunting Wednesday. Drs Carpenter Buckley Winslow assisted. The ball, a hammered lead slug about an ounce, was extracted. The upper fibula is shattered, the leg swollen and discolored. Recovery probabilities are not favorable.
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J.C. Burbank
Baileyville
A. Bergman
Fusha
Buckley and
Winslow
Burbank
Wales
Lanark
Freeport native to wed Miss Jennie Woodruff at Janesville
A young Freeport gentleman, well known and loved by many, leaves Freeport for Janesville to marry Miss Jennie Woodruff today. The Journal extends congratulations to the couple and wishes them happiness and prosperity in their new life together.
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Legion
Freeport
Janesville
Jennie Woodruff
Journal
Death of Father Fred Yoerg at 76 in Freeport
Father Fred Yoerg died after inflammation of the lungs and kidney disease on the 18th at age 76 years 8 months 24 days. Born in Germany he emigrated in 1831 and settled in Philadelphia until 1855 when Freeport became home. Survived by his wife of over fifty years one son and two daughters. Funeral at Emanuel Church on the 20th conducted by Revs A Huelster and Ji Messner in German and English.
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Fred Yoerg
Germany
Philadelphia
Freeport
Emanuel Church
A. Huelster
Ji. Messner
Robbie McCoy dies of bowel inflammation at young age
Robbie McCoy youngest son of C McCoy died suddenly on Thursday after illness starting Friday. Funeral from Chicago street residence officiated by Revs Sweet and Jenkins, large attendance. The family and neighbors mourn the loss and extend sympathy to Willie McCoy.
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C. McCoy
Chicago Street
Sweet
Jenkins
Robbie
Willie
Witherin
Brooks
Harriet Phelps Dies at 56 in Home
Harriet Phelps, 56, died at her home on the morning of the 19th after a peaceful life. A grand literary treat is announced for church Thursday evening the 27th. Socials drew unusually large crowds, and a mishap near Babb's Grove left the group briefly injured but unharmed. Local news notes gifts of wood for a minister, visitors, and ongoing concerns about wood and coal thefts.
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Harriet Phelps
Bennett
Ewing
Messrs. Ewing
Ditzler
Babb’s Grove
Nellie Averill
Nettie Flansburg
Dora Mannix
Hiram
Amos Ditzler
Chas , Bennett
Oliver Becker
Will Ewing
Robinson
Waddams Centre
U. S
Tom Metz
Empire State
Palmer Pickard
Rockford
Scott Tallman
Chicago
Sliver
Dr. Charles H. Stocking Dies in Freeport Illinois
Obituary outlines Dr. Charles H. Stocking born July 16 1836 York Michigan, died aged 44 in Freeport Illinois. Details include medical career, Civil War service as Assistant Surgeon then Regimental Surgeon, education at University of Michigan, marriage to Mattie Breed, and business life in Hicks Treat and Swarts Stocking firms.
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Hevong
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Kentucky Volunteers
Liberty
Mattie Breed
Jamestown
N. Y
Amboy
Illinois
Secretary's Report of Ridott Teachers Institute 1881
The January 1881 session opened at 10:16 with President J. M. Fisk leading devotional exercises. Programs planned by a trio include J. M. Fisk on Advanced Reading and H. C. Eichel Geography zones and climate. A note on marriage for Albert Askey appears, and a local wedding records C L Hawkinson of Chicago to Miss F M Meigs in the city on January 25 1881.
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Teachers’ Institute
Ridott
J. M. Fisk
L. M. Swanzey
A.A. Krape
Mr. Albright
H.C. Eichel
Albert Askey
R. F. Sweet
C.L. Hawkinson
Chicago
F. M. Meigs
A Strange Disappearance at Mount Ranier
Portland Dr Standard reports that the famous Mount Ranier pack saddle, a prominent feature seen from Puget Sound and New Tacoma, has vanished after weeks of cloud cover. Residents fear it may have fallen into the crater, prompting speculation about its fate.
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Puget Sound
New Tacoma
Mount Ranier
Electric Bitters touted as Chicago's great enterprise
A Chicago advertisement extols the Laboratory for the manufacture of Electric Bitters as one of the city's greatest enterprises. It highlights large employment, high demand, and the remedy's merit in curing where others fail at a price of fifty cents. Burrell Bros advertises Anti Morbific and various sugar products in nearby columns.
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Chicago
Emmert & Burrell
Burrell Bros Apples Arrive In Fresh Varieties
Two car loads deliver choice apples Greening Spitzenburg Spy Baldwin King Seek-no-further Steel's Red and more. Leave your order now at our usual low prices. Burrell Bros.
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Greening
Spitzenburg
Spy
Baldwin
King
Steel
Burrell Bros
Oysters From Baltimore To Chicago Wholesale Prices
Oysters arriving daily from Baltimore will be sold in Chicago at wholesale prices C O D Stone.
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Baltimore
Chicago
C. O. D. Stone
Fenner Remedies praised in 1878 Mahoning Furnace letter
Jacob Smith of Mahoning Furnace Pa reports Father’s long illness improved by one bottle of Fenner medicines. Wife also benefited. Ad touts Dr Fenner's Cough Honey and Golden Relief claim to ease toothache neuralgia colic headaches and rheumatism with sales by Emmert & Burrell.
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Mahoning Furnace
Fenner
Fredonia
New York
Jacob Smith
St. Vitus
Emmert & Burrell
Yellowstone valley horse raising gains profit and risks
The text notes horses in the Yellowstone valley becoming a profitable business with herders owning 600 to 1,500 head and selling 3-year-olds for 50 to 100 dollars. It also mentions rough sheds as shelter and grazing on grass. It mentions ether treatment for sciatic pain and ether as ergotine substitute, and a Statist estimate of 1.5 billion dollars for Ireland land settlement costs.
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Great Yellowstone Valley
Hosts At Chantilly Chronicle Duc D Aumale Parties
The Duc d Aumale receives a succession of large parties at the Chateau of Chantilly with the Countess de Paris and the Duchess de Chartress acting as hostess in rotation.
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Duc d’Aumale
Chateau of
Chantilly
Countess de Paris
Duchess de Chartress
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