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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1923
Page
4
Notice forbids hunting trapping and trespassing on all land owned or controlled by H Dimon and announces sale of blacksmithing business Wiley and Ewing debts to be settled at Auto Inn. Roy S Winey requests debtors call at the books to settle accounts.
Linskill schedules farm sales at Lanark area. Jan 18 John Mertz near Lanark 4 miles for general closeout. Jan 24 Chas Spangler 3 miles east for general sale with 75 white face cattle. Feb 15 Fred Wehmeyer & Sons Brookville pure bred Poland Chinas plus stock cattle and 10 horses. Lanark Illinois December 11 1922. Lanark Canning Company stockholders meet January 15 1923 at 2 pm to elect three directors for three years.
The page calls members to attend Bible school next Sunday at 10 0clock and notes the superintendent's drive to improve church work. It mentions Missionary meets with Mrs G I Adams and Leaven Circle meeting with Mrs Emma Adams. A verse by Erra H Hawk closes the item.
Notice denies hunting trapping or trespassing on farms owned or controlled under penalty of the law. Names listed include Otho player Harry Linskill Naaman Diehl Lloyd Peters Ray Lichty Louis Diehl Will Peters Cloyd Wehmeyer.
Road No. 5 opened last week providing a concrete route from Freeport to Rockford and toward Chicago. The highway is eighteen feet wide with six foot earth shoulders on both sides, totaling thirty feet. Stephenson county spent about $300,000 for the line at an average $90,000 per mile.
Church notes from Cherry Grove include weekly activities with Pastor Weaver and the Aid Society meeting at Maggie Myers home. Thursday song service 7 40 p m followed by Teachers Training study. Sunday school 10 a m worship 11 a m May day sermon theme A Pathetic Question.
About fifty ladies of the C C Circle met at Mrs Lichty's for the January session despite snow flurries and car trouble. President Mrs Anna Rahn led the business and song and two new members joined. The program covered poultry care and brooder stoves with demonstrations on chick incubation to three weeks old.
Carroll County Farm Bureau directors met to set priorities for state highway Route 40 and Route 27 paving and to back a $100 million bond issue funded by automobile license money. They endorsed a petition urging early action and circulated it for signatures by January 15. Delegates Getz Bliss and Henderson were named to Illinois Agricultural Association events.
Beltista Chapter 515 O E S held its annual installation Friday Jan 5 with a banquet served by Star ladies. Officers installed include Miss Anna Bray installing officer Mrs Anna DeGraff marshal Mrs Ella McNamer chaplain Worthy Matron Edith Lower Worthy Patron George Jones Conductress Olive Hendricks Associate Conductress Alice Eckman Secretary Anna Hower Treasurer Emma Snively Marshal Cora Garman Musician Mae Wiley Ada Lucile Newcomer Ruth Olive Shoup Esther Iva Shaner Martha Nellie Coutts Electa May Sword Warden Hattie Diehl Sentinel Geo Diehl Escorts were Harry Lowman Geo Jones and Harry Shoup. Mrs Lucile McLaughlin praised for musical duties with solos by Mrs Lucile Newcomer and Mildred Woodside. Owing to sickness Jennie Klome unable to attend.
T Burnworth Pastor offers Thursday prayer meeting at seven, Saturday choir at seven, Sunday school at ten, morning worship at eleven, and Union W C T U services at seven. Also an ad for buying junk including rags rubber iron paper hides with two phone lines. Headquarters at the big feed shed.
The fragment lists loans and banking house items with five entries for property and fixtures. It shows due from banks cash and other cash resources with numeric entries 3308 10 11115 60.
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