Weather prognostications and local notices from January
Prof Tice in January weather forecasts is notably off. The Missionary Guild of Zion Church meets Friday at 7 30 PM. Stevens advertises bargains in dry goods. Rt Rev Bishop Wells visits town, hosted by Frederic Bartlett. Mrs Mary Byerly hosts a reception for Miss Spencer of Sterling. Ladies Aid Society of Zion Church meets at Brewster House with Mrs Sweet. Bro Lewis of Lena Star is ill with congestive sore throat. Journal wishes him a speedy recovery.
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Ladies’ Aid Society of Zion Church
Brewster House
Mrs. Sweet
Bro. Lewis
Lena Star
Journal
Dixon movement aims to honor Father Dixon memorial
A Dixon effort seeks to form an association to erect a suitable monument for Father John Dixon, recently deceased. The Dell Rapids Exponent notes local events from Dell Rapids Dakota Territory, including school board turmoil in Galena and local business notices.
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Dixon
Aris
John Dixon
Jno Lee of Jo Daviess County Talks Canton Bridge Delays
Jno Lee, agent for Canton Iron Bridge Co in Jo Daviess County, visits the city and explains shipment delays due to high demand for Canton bridges and manufacturers’ iron shortages. He says price increases will not affect preexisting contracts and that bridges will arrive soon despite the delay.
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Ganton Iron Bridge Co
Freeport
Harlem Centre
Preston’s
van Brocklin’s
Loss Creek
Loran
Jno
Lee
Jo Daviess Co
Canton Iron Bridge Co
Canton Bridge
Lerch Leaves Walton Firm for Chicago Post
Mr P Lerch of the Blue Front resigns after sixteen years at Walton to join A T Stewart Co in Chicago. He leaves February 1 with his family amid warm local esteem. Also noted are fifty plus circuit court suits against Stephenson County over soldiers bounty, prompted by Indiana claim agents seeking a share. S D Atkins represents the claimants.
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Stephenson County
Indiana
Board of Supervisors
S& D. Atkins
Going West Mr Bentley Leaves Local Bank for Grand Island
Mr C F Bentley long associated with the First National Bank of the city resigns to move to Grand Island Nebraska where he will start banking on his own account. A bank building is under contract to be ready February 1st. Bentley is highly regarded for integrity and reliability and will be missed by the local community and friends.
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G. D. Younglove
Loran
Yellow Creek
C. F. Bentley
First National Bank
Grand Island
Nebraska
Bentley
Far West
Freeport Boy Elected Editor at Yale
A Yale Junior Class meeting elected editors for the Yale literary magazine for the next year. The ticket includes Sherman Everets of New York City Adrian B Van De Graaf of Los Angeles Philip G Bartlett of Washington Joseph D Burrell of Freeport Illinois and July Coleman of New York City. The slate is expected to be approved by the current Board of Editors.
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Freeport
Yale
New York Times
New-Itaven
Conn
Sherman Everets
New York City
Adrian
van de Graaf
Los Angeles
Cal
Philip G. Bartlett
Washington
Joseph D. Burrell
Ill
Coleman
Illinois corn crop shows gains over 1878 in state report
Advance sheets from the State Board of Agriculture show 1879 Illinois corn acreage at 7,918,881 rising from 7,673,190 in 1878. The average yield 38 bushels per acre yields 305,013,377 bushels valued at 32 cents per bushel, totaling 7,483,052 dollars. Sangamon county records 159,138 acres in 1879 with 5,728,068 bushels at 30 cents, value 1,718,690 dollars, up from 1,158,608 for 1878.
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State Board of Agriculture
Fisher
Illinois
Sangamon County
Monticello Mourns Loss as Z T Runner Returns to Freeport
Z T Runner returns to Freeport after four years in Monticello with his family to serve as Superintendent of the City Gas Works. Formerly with Freeport Gas Co. he left for sales work but health improved and he accepted the new post. Mrs Runner and elder Ranters accompany him back, leaving Monticello with a sense of loss and best wishes for their return home.
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Z.T. Runner
Monticello
Freeport, Ill
Runner
Freeport Gas Co
Ll. Z. Farwell
Whiting’s Grove and Mitten
Freeport
Jfunticello
Bupress
Resolutions of Respect For Isaac Stine and William Rhodes
At a regular meeting of Excelsior Lodge No 97 F and A M jan 15 1880 resolutions honor Isaac Stine a valued Mason and public spirited business man and express sympathy to his family. They also honor William H Rhodes noting his energy sagacity integrity and religious principles and lament his move to establish a new home among strangers. Committees sign. Also Lancaster Mutual Tire Ins Co annual meeting reelects James S Taggart Thomas Bell J F Melkibben Godfrey Vought Jacob Jaeger as directors with Jaeger as president and J F Mckibben as secretary and Godfrey Vought as treasurer naming local agents.
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Excelsior Lodge
Wuenreras
Isaac Stine
M. D. Chamberlin
Jonn Arthur
M. Stoskoff
A. F
A. M
Wune EnkEas
Wm. H. Rhodes
Lancaster Mutual Tire Ins. Co
Grange Inn
Freeport
James
Ridott
John Frisbie
Silver Creek
Joseph Nutmacher
Harlem
Benjamin Snyder
Lancaster
Dakota
Bonanza Crashes as Stock Demands Return Unfold
A satirical note on a Muscatine mining stock scheme titled The Colorado Co operative Prospectiv e and Mining Company. The piece ridicules the caused loss of wealth and the ill fated advertising plan while recounting a demand to return stock valued at forty dollars per share and the author’s uneasy response. It mentions the Fifty shares, the President, and references to Poru Wheat and Chillian Potatoes with a closing cartoonish quip about the devil’s realm.
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Stephenson Sthreed
Muscatine
Bunyan
Despond
Iearning
Muscatine Tribune
Colorado Co-Operative Prospective and Mining Company
Silver Cliff, Custer CO
Col
Iowa
A. V. Richards
the Journal
Freeport
Hanley
Cahootes
G. O. Pearce
Minister’s Thanksgiving Day relief with St Jacobs Oil
A Rochester New York doctor notes a minister could not preach on Thanksgiving Day due to rheumatic shoulder pain. After using St Jacobs Oil several times, the minister reports wonderful relief. Dr B Prox Rochester NY.
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St. Jacobs
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