County Convention Delegates Set to Meet This April
It is recommended that the canesses for delegates to the County Convention be held Saturday midday in April between the hours of noon and six at the usual town meeting place unless ordered by the town committee or by the County Central Committee in its absence. HL Balst
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Quiet elections mark county and town votes
Citizens cast ballots peacefully in a county election with four hundred votes and a fifty eight majority for the license mayor and alderman while the anti license police magistrate won by twenty. In the town election all incumbents were reelected except Clerk John A. Stakemiller who led Cal M. Feezer by twenty four. Dram shop licenses were granted and council members scheduled for appointment.
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John A. Stakemiller
Cal. M. Feezer
A. B. Hostetter
D. S. Berry
Frank Yeager
R. M. Cook
Shannon
Morrison
Springtime Winds Sweep Hillside Verdure
Poetic note describes warm spring arrival with birds singing and hillsides turning green as a brisk breeze sweeps the landscape.
Election results and local notes from Cherry Grove and Georgetown
The Australian balloting system elected town officers in Cherry Grove including Theo Wilkins as town clerk and G W Boyd as assessor. Georgetown began a three month school term while Mrs Young was named superintendent at the Sunday school. Other items mention horse loss, oats sowing, teachers Addie Curtis and Fred L Horner, an upcoming school director election, and local trips to Yellow Creek and Freeport.
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Cherry Grove
Theo Wilkins
G. W Boyd
J. E. Shrader
A. F. Grilley
David Boyd
Jacob Boyd
Georgetown
Young
Ward
Citizens of
Local residents note visits and name changes
Friday event mentions a woman formerly Mrs Rowe residing here. Dr Mowry of Freeport visited Sunday. Miss Inez Ernest visits G S Kleckners. Miss Edith Kleckner visited the Luecke family in Chicago last week.
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Dr. Mowry
Freeport
Inez Ernest
G. S. Kleckners
Edith Kleckner
Luecke
Chicago
Riverside letter from our burg notes events and notices
The letter mentions a week extra school vacation due to Miss Newcomer’s wrist, Easter events by the Missionary Society and Evangelical choir, local politics in Lima and Brookville, a house for sale near Dunkard church, a Hawthorne and Longfellow advertisement, Dr. King’s New Discovery for coughs, post office letters, health testimonials, and a Civil War remembrance with travel advice from W J Kenyon.
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Newcomer
Missionary Society
Evangelical 8
Hawthorne
Longfellow
Evangeline
John B. Alden
Rose St
New York
Savanna Selections and Local Civic Turmoil
The Savanna band will play at the Galena fair after a costly year for Savanna with poor streets. Election tempers rise as three aldermen will be chosen, with Catholics seen as potential new lawmakers. Community events include a Ross schoolhouse entertainment and plans for a county oratorical contest in an opera house.
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Savanna
Galena Fair Association
Ross
Washington Township
D.S. Berry
B. Pulford
Yellow Creek Cullings Update From Local Store and Election
Ed Lahre moves partition to stock groceries with his restaurant. F. B. Mitchell quits saloon business. At Tuesday’s township election Mrs. J. V. Snow is elected school trustee. J. S. Boop assessor John Graff collector G. W. Dow town clerk Wm Finkenbinder highways. 13 ladies vote for trustee. Mrs. Bauscher and husband board at American house. Hapless Blake Butler breaks leg. Visitors include Mrs. Calhoun and Mrs. Cushing.
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Ed. Lahre
Mitchell
J. V. Snow
J. S. Boop
John Graff
G. W. Dow
Wm_ Finkenbinder
Bauscher
Hepfer
Lanark
J. H
Blake Butler
Calhoun
Marshaltown
Mrs. Cushing
Dubuque
A. K. Eby’s
Chitty
Byron
De Witt's Pills and Remedies in 19th Century Ads
Local advertisements praise De Witt's Little Early Risers for biliousness and indigestion while promoting various tonics and cough elixirs. Claims include cures for nervous prostration, blood purification, and pneumonia prevention, with testimonials and druggist sales in Des Moines and Stevens Point.
Local Rentals and Patent Remedy Ads in Patton Rockford Note
Local classified mentions Tomlinson renting two store rooms and an upstairs area near the depot. An Illinois reader, Mrs. L. R. Patton of Rockford, endorses De Witt's Sarsaparilla for impure blood and debility. Also advertisement for a salve effective on cats, wounds, sores, and piles with a 25 cent price, plus a humorous tout for Little Early Risers pills claiming longer, better life.
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L. R. Patton
Rockford, IL
de Witt
Merchant Tailor Extols Wide Suiting Range
Like a Searchlight Our quest for the latest and best of everything pertaining to a complete line of Merchant Tailoring goods is only equalled by the penetrating power of the modern searchlight. We invite inspection of our goods and guarantee satisfaction. If you want a well fitting suit of trousers select from Worsteds Tricots Crepe Diagonal Blue and Black Cheviots Thibet Cassimere Suitings Check ed Suitings Tan Diagonal Fancy Austrian Trouserings German Plaid French Stripes and all the finest styles offered in the city. J G S shells r Merchant Tailor.
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J. G Shellsr
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