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Newspaper
Freeport Republican
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1882
Page
4
Saturday reports a newborn son for Mr. Chas. Morgan and various local events. Germain Assurance settles losses with Karcher brothers. Kenegy buys Teck’s meat market interest forming Kercher & Kenegys. Funeral for Mrs. Klowtz. temperance society events. repairs, lectures, and weathered town news.
Aeroplicax highlights the Seventeenth Annual Statement showing robust growth in a competitive market. The editor praises profits over stock increases, notes territorial focus, and asserts cautious expansion away from risky eastern markets. Also lists brief local personal mentions and visits in Polo and surrounding areas.
A wide array of visiting residents and officials from Chicago, Rockford, and Dubuque call on friends here while local clerks and dignitaries discuss lodge matters. The County Lodge met at Davis January 18 with six clergymen among attendees and approved resolutions praising Grand Lodge leadership, reaffirming per capita tax, urging careful investigation reporting, and thanking Davis Lodge and the Lutheran Church for hospitality.
Florence journalists report a lively week with lectures at the schoolhouse and Wednesday night dances at Mr Kruse’s. Prayer meetings, revival sentiments, and social gatherings fill the week as Misses Hamm and Home return from town. A vaccination-era improvement brings children back to school while high spirits and moonlit dances enliven Stephenson County.
A string of events fills the week from charity entertainments and prayer meetings to revival services. Activities include a ladies benefit with music by Gust Niles and Frank Baeminger, youth prayer meetings, a sermon at the M. Re and Broo Metta churches, and a Clement Concert at the Opera House with a grand masquerade ball planned for Friday evening.
From Days and Orangeville reports urge adherence to school rules and parental support for teachers, stressing duties to educate children for life. The piece notes local trials and religious meetings, with a theft incident where a boy’s party stole a man’s blankets and robes from a buggy.
Be careful what you eat. Not one person can tell adulterated from pure sugar. Trade at 110 for absolute purity Standard A Sugar 10 pts per lb White Extra O Sugar 4 ets per lb Yellow O Sugar 9 cents per lb Brown Sugar 8 cents per lb Dark Brown Sugar cents per lb Standard Granulated Sugar 11 ets per lb Burrus Bros accept horses as payment for organs and sewing machines. Special inducements to cash buyers. John Hea 34wt Opera House Block Freeport Illinois. Butler Process Flour $2.00 per sack Burnet Bros large Coffee Roaster supplies fresh roast of Santos Maracaibo and G G Java coffees. Superior quality and low prices drive demand.
For Thirty Days Best garden Photographs one dollar per dot at Motenry's Gallery 105 Stephenson St, Ireeport Tl 25 uf BP Schwargendahl ex of Billerbeck Schwarzendahl forms partnership with H Ruesenberg to open a bakery on Qaluna street Bayutiller’s ballet ing in a few days they aim to offer top goods at current prices Stansbury's fresh Baltimore Oysters best in the world sold only in Freeport wholesale and retail by Burrell Bros
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