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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1892
Page
4
A Friday night coasting on Mr Howell’s hill injures Willie Montague after a large sled collides with his. Reports note a possible back fracture but he recovers steadily by Monday. The paper discusses immigrant-society clashes, saloon industry, local business shifts, measles, misdemeanors, and a January 11 1893 G A R installation banquet.
Mrs. Hannah Reynolds of Forreston calls on friends this week. Miss Eva Hathaway of Savanna visits with sisters Lola and Libbie. Mrs. Ella Price of Lanark callers in Chadwick. Local youths attend the Hickory Grove entertainment Friday. Emma Curley and daughter note a Chadwick resident at the Bedal Gold Cure Institute in Polo.
Nettie of Polo visits Joseph Spear man and family while Rev Finkenbinder helped Rev Divan in revival work at Fair Haven last week. Wm Mummiert of Milledgeville was in town Thursday. Bert Robinson enjoyed a pleasant surprise with the young people last Thursday evening. Four Lanark couples attended church Sunday evening. Mr and Mrs H L Shirk visited their son John at Thomson on Sunday. Mr and Mrs J R Landt of Lanark spent Sunday with Gus Lohrman. We must stop work to saw wood or we will freeze these cold nights. Our weather prophet’s warm weather failed to materialize.
Rev George Harris and daughter Eva visited relatives in Chicago last week. Geo Lashell of Mt Carroll spent Sunday with family here. John Stager and Mrs Emma Kramer visited Lanark and Forreston respectively. Weddings occurred at Solomon Mattes home and Rev David Rowland officiated the second. City gossip notes include visitors from Freeport Chicago and Galesburg with various family updates.
Christmas vacation is noted for teachers and students. Students petition to use the basement south room for intermission athletic activities. Prof. Cowen enhances modern history via question and answer sessions. No lyceum due to unfinished program. Visitors Bert Stouffer Will Sheller Willie Tallman Nathaniel Grossman are mentioned observing school activities and a museum display.
Real estate transfers list several conveyances including Julia Fleisher to David Boyd with Shannon lots for 1225 dollars, Charley Krodel to August Leu Savanna lots for 2400, Isaac A Lewis to G W Beck York land for 80, Ezra Emmert to Eliza Herrick Millledgeville lots for 1200, Robert Espie to Brice Johnson Mt Carroll land for 3300, Rebecca Wallace to Miles Wallace Wysox land for 4000, Cyrus Easterbrooks to John C Easterbrooks Wysox land for 600.
Multiple land transfer notices listing parties like Louisa Hoffman and Conrad Lamp with parcels in Savanna Freedom Mt Carroll Lima and Woodland and sums from 4 to 5280 dollars. Also notices of stockholders meetings First National Bank Lanark and Rock Creek Mutual Fire Insurance Company, plus ads for Clover seed and Beatty pianos and organs. Also essays and literary notices from Harper's and Century, and medical cures with Electric Bitters.
A sprawling mid 19th century advertisement touts Downing's Specific as a universal cure, claims of kidney and liver restoration, and a royal pledge of refunds if not effective. It promotes Tonics for poultry, Sexatrop tooth wash, King's New Discovery for consumption, and travel promos for Burlington Route to California or Florida with vivid sales language.
In pursuance of a decreetal order of the Circuit Court of Carroll County Illinois Master in Chancery will on January 7 1905 at 1 pm sell at public auction at the courthouse Mt Carroll to the highest bidder the following lands Lot 1 Pleasant Point Village Carroll County and described tracts in the Northeast Quarter Section 29 Township 25 North Range 6 East contain small acreages with exact measurements and boundaries stated. Sale cash on delivery. Dated Mt Carroll Illinois Dec 6 1892 Master in Chancery W H H. Remm G L Hoffman Solr.
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