Galena Fair draws largest crowd in history
News from Galena's fair reports a record turnout with about fifteen thousand paid admissions. Weather favored attendance as trains and roads carried crowds. races offered purses of 300, 250, and 75 dollars. Keggie Mont won the open trot, Fiddlesticks took the 2:35 pace, and Rose Dillon led in the running race amid protest by Little Schubert owner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galena Fair Association
Northwestern
Buncombe
Great Western Special
Knapps
Keggie Mont
Robert Knapp
Ashton
Ill
Walter Scott
William McCann
Freeport
Fiddlesticks
Frank Tilton
Chadwick
Roy Gilbert
Sickner
Monroe
Rose Dillon
St. Marty
Brh
Knapp
McCann
Little Schubert
Babb
Holeman
C. m
Tilton
Teddy, S. G
Thompson
St. Marry Legs
Selle Pepper
Br. m
Mr. Babb
Keggle Mont
Galena
Personal notes from the fair attendees and visitors
Names from Freeport, Savanna, Chicago, Warren, Springfield, Dubuque, Minneapolis, and other places visit the city or attend events at the fair. Highlights include church leaders, teachers, and a variety of social calls, a school building plan approved in Platteville, and a Holy Cross dedication. A lost watch, a men’s address at the YMC A, an Illinois Day solo, and social dances at Turner Hall finish the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. B. Erb
Freeport
George Schnieder
Clinton
Clara Singer
Chicago
Walter Badwell
Savanna
Scott Sherard
Warren
H.f.gunn
Myrtle Swales
Springfield
Colly
Thomas Nixon
Platteville
Minnie Strickland
Lottie
Dora Sievers
Dubuque
George W. Jones
Minneapolis
George Maxevier
Etta McGinnis
Sullivan ‘S. Jackson
Winnie
Joseph Jonas
Johnson Ward
Ruth
Carrie Evans
Bert Evans
Illinois Universalist Convention
Stockton
George Creighton
W. J. Raleigh Med. Co
Homer Gray
Omaha
Illinois Central
John Gray
J.B. Quigley
Holy Cross
Fair notes on sales and exhibits at the fair
Mannie Guggenheim and Will Kelly led sales of confetti and wife beaters at the fair with assistants. The Standard Cigar Co wheel drew crowds Thursday and Friday giving a box of Standards to the holder of the stopping number. Moran sisters of Warren displayed fancy needlework and sofa pillows in the art hall with Miss Moran overseeing. she plans to teach needlework to forty women in Galena.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Platteville Normal School
Wisconsin State Board of Normal School
Gust-Thode
We 'T. Polkinghorn
Long Beach
Cal
Galena
Mannie Guggenheim
Will Kelly
Cigar Co
Tom Hogan
Moran Sisters
Warren
Lal
East Dubuque Couple Elopes in Michigan Wedding
Francis Maguire and Miss Gladys Disch wed in St Joseph Michigan last Saturday in a quiet ceremony after months of opposition by her parents. Lacking a license due to age they married out of state with her mother present. News reached East Dubuque Monday via Chicago papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Dubuque
St.Joseph
Mich
Francis Maguire
Gladys Disch
Francis
St. Joe
Chicago
Freeport club weighs carnival fair to pay debt
Freeport ball team backers plan a fair to cover a $500 note due next Saturday. Fourteen signed the loan, needing $58 each. The club has 27 cents in a German bank and fears carnival profits would be slim, with 15 percent receipts to the association and high expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeport
Baseball Association
Carnival Company
Freeport Standard
Youngest Old Man of Peoria County Avery Dalton
Avery Dalton of Elmwood celebrates remarkable longevity and vigor at ninety five. A Civil War era veteran in memory, he recently shot eight squirrels in nine attempts with a rifle. Born December 20 1810 in Virginia he moved to Illinois in 1830 and has lived near Elmwood since 1837. He endured the Black Hawk era decades ago and remains robust with four sons and many descendants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Avery Dalton
Elmwood
Virginia
Illinois
Fulton County
Burnington
Tall Farm
Jie
Williams grants marriage license at Pair Grounds
County Clerk Williams issued this afternoon at the Pair Grounds a marriage license to John Lleary Herd and Ethel Trene Goodwin both of Waterloo Indiana. Funeral of Vincent Robail held at St. Mary's church with G. A. R. members in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williams
John Lleary Herd
Ethel Trene Goodwin
Waterloo
Vincent Rohail
St. Mary’s Church
Quality smoke and the Lead Mine sale notice
A fragmented ad promotes Race Flour-Best on the Market For Sale by John Cloran tt Modern Manners. The piece references childhood proprieties and social etiquette, quoting a Lady Helen Vorled line about frank discussion and relaxed conventions while urging readers toward a “Quality” smoke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Cloran
Helen Vorled
Suppressing News Called Public Duty to Publish
A discussion on whether newspapers should hush grim reports. Harper's Weekly argues that press honesty serves public duty and national improvement, despite readers’ dislike of distressing crime details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tzading
Harper's Weekly
Freeport to Host Rock River Conference Pastors
Freeport prepares to entertain over three hundred Methodist pastors for the annual Rock River conference session. The event draws many prominent western church leaders and keeps most Freeport district charges unchanged while a few Chicago district moves occur, including Rev J G Amield leaving Avondale for Galena interests. Strohmeyers Shoe Store unveils latest fall winter shoe line at low prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeport
Rock River
Chicago
Galenians
J. CG. Amield
M. E. Chureh
Avondale
Strohmeyers Shoe Store
Sousa Special Makes Record Run and Local Goods Sale
Sousa's band on a special Illinois run between export and Dubuque traveled sixty five miles in one thousand sixty five minutes with two stops. A matinee in Freeport preceded the Dubuque engagement, band trains, conductor W L Bradford and engineer Harry Ludwing. Also announces ten thousand yards of flannels, shakers, tennis flannellette and woolen styles for sale at favorable prices by Tarey Bros.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois Sa Record Rin
Export
Dubuque
Sousa
Senles Mound
W.L. Bradford
Harry Ludwing
Freeport
Tarey Bros
Wisconsin woman helps rival after boating accident
Mrs Jank R Baldwin of Tanesville Wis gave dry clothes to rival Miss Sadie Martin after a Sunday boating outing. Baldwin was arrested with Martin by Chicago police following a report from a Milwaukee bound boat passenger. Witnesses say the incident involved a Delevan hotel meeting and a remark about the rival’s alleged past release from an industrial school. A brooch missing between St Michael's church and Elk Street is offered for reward at the Tribune Office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jank R. Baldwin
Tanesville
Wis
Baldwin
Sadie Martin
Bnet
Chicago Avenue
Chicago
Delevan Hotel
Clark
Ontario Streets
Mwaukee
Anid
Milwaukee
Vox
Sadie
St., Michael's Church
Elk St
Tribune Office
New Boarder Aaron Otway In Warren Beats Steady Sheriff Whitmore
Sheriff Whitmore hosts Aaron Otway of Warren at the brick building with barred windows. Otway, previously convicted by a Warren justice for beating his wife, was ordered to post a $200 peace bond. He was brought to the sheriff to consider the consequences of menacing his conjugal authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitmore
Aaron Otway
Warren
Otway
Lewis
Funeral Notice for Henrietta Vincent in Greenwood Cemetery
Interred at Greenwood, Henrietta Vincent daughter of Deputy Sheriff Milton Vincent. Funeral services held from her residence on Serubary Lane with private burial at Greenwood Cemetery. Unclear details mention a fund and a mine, with distorted phrases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henrietta Vincent
Sherif
Milton Vincent
Greanswood Cemetery
Hare
Serubary
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C.C. Kraehmer
Galena,ill
Foxe
Galena Fair
Theodore Vossberg
Sinsinawa Mound
Charles Hoffman
St. Paul | Minn
Turner Hall
Galena Harp Orchestra
A. W. Beckner
Rockford
James Cowling
Phillip
Segur
Main ST
Edler’s
Phillin& Segur
A.j.fetz
A. J. Fetz
Lena
Clarence St. Gri
Sheridan
Ind
Candy Cathartic
Sterling Remedy Co
N.Y
St. Joe, Michigan
Freeport Club
Prairie Queen
Mrs
Vincent Robail
South Dakota
Isaac F. Moore
Galena, Hi
John Gerteh
Gug
Genheims
Porter, Mann & Wickler
Piddick
Northwest
New Empire
Porter
Mann
Wickler
Ialso
Matt Beaton
Janesville
Greenwood
UNION
H. Strohmeyer
Lallister's
Locks Mountain
Siingers
Cardiff
Cocka
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