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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1896
Page
4
A patchwork of Lanark Illinois items covers curfew talk blues and bicycle costs two dollars saved profits and a high street parade. Reports note Mt Carroll thefts and a fatal fall plus a Northern Illinois Wisconsin reunion plans and a harvest home at the M E church. Local protests on smoking and youth behavior appear alongside weather and rain impacts on crops.
A Lanark area column outlines a Republican Club meeting at Ehmers room next Saturday evening and reflects on local events. It covers horse racing by Kin Robinson with Mey the Kid, a birthday surprise for Elliot Nichol, Altgeld’s politics, and string of burglaries and suspicious activities around town.
Citizens of Lanark meet to organize the Old Settlers Reunion to be held August 20 in Lanark. Committees for arrangements include Hegeman as chair and Crossman as secretary, with subcommittees for reception, amusements, and services. railroad rates, trains met at depot, and a full day program with music, speeches, and games is outlined.
The Mt Carroll column reports residents replacing wooden walks with tar in homes for safety and economy. It notes school door changes and calls for fire escapes, plus local society items, obituaries, church events, caucus results, and a detailed account of Dr. Sneimer’s entomology collection valued at ten thousand dollars.
To Convention of Y P C U at Omaha Nebraska August 16 to 24 1896 round trip tickets available August 15 17 and 19 at fare 10 74 good to return August 24 25 with twenty day extension. McM Ont Agent notice will make cider Mondays Wednesdays and Mondays weekly season. Everything in wood repair neat and clean and Taylor wood work 1 B Theme six miles east of Lanuri.
The Carroll County Republican Convention at Mt. Carroll nominated for circuit clerk Rube Watson Savanna 72 votes to Grove 40 and Glotfelty Aft. for state's attorney Ralph Raton 105 to Henry Parsons 27. for coroner F E Melugin York 77 to G W Johnson Savanna 64. The convention organized with W S Cowen chair and Frank Yeager secretary. many county central committeemen named. Minnie Elder of Shannon dies at 31. service at M E church with funeral notes.
July marriage licenses listed include Benjamin Pipe of Jackson and Sarah Elizabeth Talbot of Savanna, with other pairs such as Clarence E. Bently Milledgeville and Mary M. Lindeman Mt. Carroll. Ernest L. Hendrick Milledgeville and Jennie Bowers Lanark appear, along with Frank M. Jewell Savanna and Martha Reed. John West Carroll and Cora BE Downs Salon are also noted. Allen Boyd Lanark and Carrie BE Rowland Lanark appear among the July registrations.
A westbound bridge wreck near Chadwick on the GC BR and N R R last Monday killed brakeman W. T. Cottral instantly and fatally injured another brakeman Russel Sehriver. Conductor John Hell escaped with minor bruises as the caboose and tank plunged 15 feet into the embankment and the engine remained on track. Sehriver remains in precarious condition. Cottral leaves a wife and four children. Sehriver has a wife and three children.
Compiled abstracts and transfers list many land trades in Mt. Carroll Shannon Elkhorn Grove and Savanna along with cemetery plots and church land. Political notices outline Peoples Party conventions in Springfield Rockford Lanark with dates August 1896 and county officers nomination. Carroll County Fair schedule lists Aug 25 26 27 28 events and free grounds for school children plus various races and attractions. Hood’s Sarsaparilla ad closes the page.
Voluntary Observers report for week ending Aug 2 1806 at Lanark station notes thunderstorm and hail at night with solar haloes. Also bids for Mt Carroll County Farm house painting and supplies. fortune for sight offers 50000 to restore A J Miller's sight. Miller, once wealthy Frankfort trader, is now blind after optic nerve damage.
State Geologist J. E. Todd leads a surveying party from Vermilion examining the Bad Lands near Hermosa. They study dry lake beds and valleys with puzzling formations, dunes near Pine Ridge shift with the wind, a vibratory hill by Sand creek and the White River shows a ten foot ash bed suggesting ancient volcanic activity.
The New York Journal reports Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt will marry Henry Payne Whitney in early November at St. Bartholomew's in Manhattan while Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr remains ill in bed. Separately a Cuban president travel claim is dismissed as false and Philadelphia carpenters push for an May Day eight hour workday at 85 cents.
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