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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1895
Page
8
Classified notes show trade requests from J D Wolfley and J D Wonney for weaving gear while local items report weddings births and a teen death in Lanark area. Rural highlights include Millageville events church meetings school plays sleighing and brief notes on doctors and merchants.
Lanark markets for grain and stock are corrected each Wednesday morning by C Rowland. The brief notice states a regular update schedule and the market monitoring at Lanark. Rowland is identified as the corrigible source for price and market data.
Estate matters including final settlements for Espie Flautt Luecke Kessler Dyslin Westbrook Hileman and others. Guardianships for Harvey Shepard Charles Myers Charles Luidig Benj Meyers continued. Numerous verdicts recorded in several civil actions with specified sums and costs. Appraisal appointment for Miller and Wilson drug stock noted.
Detailed school attendance by department across grades from Grammar to Primary. Lists enrolled numbers, days absent, tardies, half days absent for each pupil. Includes a tax notice and collector statement for Salem township with Friday tax collection at W. H. Hess hardware.
A compiled list shows numerous marriage license entries across Jo Daviess and surrounding counties. Names include Wm Olmstead and Nettie Inman from Mt Carroll, Ida Renner and Kee Wim from Kee Wim, Lydia Seiler from Alton, Phillip Kerr from Mt Carroll, Annie Soule and Dennis Baldwin from Mt Carroll, and others such as Olive Holmes, John Lenker, Susie Merchant, David Dean, Sarah Morrison, Henry Rath, Rosina Boettle, Fred Bussekamer, Eliza Zillhart, Thos Straw, Katie Kopf, Geo Schneider, Mary Diehl, Geo Hines, Laura Bailey, Edgar Liddell, Lavin Christian, H Brill, Viola Davis, Sidney Melroy, Della Lockett, Annie Spengler.
Rev. J. M. Green delivered a Gettysburg lecture at Rockford with Col. Thomas G. Lawler presiding and endorsing the performance. In a letter dated January 1805 from Rockford Illinois Lawler commends the vivid artillery and Pickett’s Charge description and urges posts of the G A R to arrange the lecture.
Real estate transfers listed by Mrs Etta J Smith show multiple deeds across towns including Chadwick Wysox Shannon Lanark Cherry Grove Savanna Woodland Oak Hill Cemetery Mt Carroll and York. Buyers include Anna M Dem mon Emma Snovel Catherine Stoner Adam Kramer Raphael Blue John Roche Andrew Law and Mary M Parsons with amounts ranging from 1 to 5000 dollars.
Henry Miller and family visited the river area Sunday. Miss Edith and Mabel Landt were surprised at home Friday evening. Fred Mitchell broke through ice last week but escaped in time. Rev. D Huddler starts a series of meetings at Renner school house for a week or ten days. The groundhog forecast is disputed in zero weather. Jonas Beck, long time Carroll county settler, died February 2 at 81. He moved from Pennsylvania in 1846 and was a devoted Evangelical member. Burial services were led by J H Blasse and W Neitz. Fire destroyed the Unger residence in Lanark on a calm Saturday afternoon. Tax book updates and banking notices for Lima township, Lanark, Shannon, and Brookville.
A fragment notes an undershirt priced at one dollar and mentions variants or labeling around the item. The line is incomplete but indicates a simple apparel price point.
Daniel Snively will sell at public sale on his premises 144 miles west of Lanark on February 21 1805 at 10 am. The property includes 4 horses 9 milking cows 56 hogs and farm machinery. A grand combination sale in Lanark February 27 1805 at 12 50 pm features 100 Poland China sows bred and Short Horn cattle with detailed sires and breeding notes and two red bulls two year olds. Bids to A Hawk Levi Avey or auctioneers. six months terms.
Jas A Jones of Mexia Texas describes ten days bedridden with the grip and a second attack. He credits Chamberlains Cough Remedy with shortening the illness, noting it would have been as bad without it. The remedy is sold by Wm Hogan in 25 and 50 cent bottles.
Report of the treasurer of the Farmers' Institute held at Milledgeville on December 14 and 15, 1894. Temporary treasurer W R Hostetter noted receipts and expenditures, with entries including ad payments and lamp purchases, tied to the 1898 period. The item mentions The Discovery Saved His Life and Dr King’s New Discovery with testimonials and local druggist promotions. A seed catalog offer from J J Bell of Binghamton is advertised as free by mail.
An advertising notice touts southern farmland along the Mobile and Ohio railroad in eastern Mississippi and southern Alabama. It promises year round farming, lower death rates, cheap land rising in value, and easy access via monthly excursions. Contact F. W. Greene in St Louis or E. E. Posey in Mobile for pamphlets and rates.
Auction notice lists 27 head of cattle with Scowrerner as the auctioneer and M. Kingery as clerk. Reads like a rural sale notice from a local newspaper.
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