Burials and notices from Mt Carroll and area
The Mt Carroll section reports the burial of Amy Brantner previously Miss Cummings of Preston Prairie, with funeral at Mo B church and interment at Oak Ridge cemetery. Hugh Howell of Salem township, born Niagara County, N.Y., died after a long illness. funeral at Oakville school house. Posts note social visits, church activities, a temperance lecture, and local updates from Winslow Lanark and Savanna correspondents. Mentions Miss Lena Morrow, Mrs Hawk’s 10th wedding anniversary, and various local residents and meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amy Brantner
Brantner
Miss Cummings
Preston Prairie
Mo B
Me. Odgers
Oak Ridge
Brantier
Hugh Howell
Tie
Niagara County
N. Y
Salem Township
Oakville School House
M. E. Church
Meg. J. Odgers
Arnold
Lanark
Spring Valley Social Notes and Local Visits
Spring Valley residents hosted and visited relatives across Pearl City Lanark Davenport and Brookville including Mr. and Mrs. Heisler, Miss Alice Adair, Henry Elmer, Robert Merchant, and the Linkers. Evangelist Mrs. King led week long meetings. charity visits by Mrs. Garrison Matilda Van Brocklin and the Truckenmillers noted. One Minute cough cure advertised by Wa. Hoean. Chamberlain’s Pain Balm recommended for chest pain with cold. Local merchants Wm. Mogan selling remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Heisler
Pearl City
Henry Bremmer
Alice Adair
Lanark
Henry Elmer
Shannon
Robert Merchant
Brookville
John Linker
King
Spring Valley
Manuel Zier
Davenport
Iowa
James Merchant
Charity Garrison
Fayette
Matilda van Brocklin
Ed Truckenmiller
County Court Judgments Against Defendants by Default
In a county court docket, McChurg & Co. sue IH Puterbaugh for 480.58 with default judgment to the plaintiff. Franklin McVeigh & Co. vs Henry Puterbaugh granted for 875.47. M Osborne & Co. vs Miller Smith & Co resulted in default for all against Phillip Miller. August Radke vs W F Baird awarded 215.40 by default. Radke vs J M Smith dismissed. The People vs Samuel Klitz bastardy case dismissed. Abbott & Rowland Carriage Co. vs John W Miller default for 255.96. Estate matters: Zuck executor approved sale and accounting. guardianship sale of ward’s personal property continued to Feb 10. Miles executor inventory approved and sale of personal estate authorized. Sucher estate sale of personal property approved. Caldwell & Staley vs Amos Wolf executor awarded 215th class and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Radke
W. Fl. Baird
I. Radke
J. M. Smith
Puff
The
People &c
Samuel Klitz
Abbott & Rowland Carriage Co
John W. Miller
Pliff
Henry Zock
John If. Zuck
Geo. N. Machen
Norman D. French
Ward
Edward Noble
Charles K. Miles
Joseph Sucher
John Harless
Caldwell & Staley
Amos Wolf
Alonzo Heath
Real Estate Transfers Compiled for Savanna Chadwick and York
Real estate transfers list multiple parcels and sums. Catherine Gilbert to D Flanigan in Savanna. Henry Rhodes to Thomas Rhodes in Savanna. Edmund Phillips back and forth in York. Charles Law to John Wagner Woodland. Philip Miller to Henry Sack Chadwick. John Wagner to Frederick Engleking Woodland. Henry Sack to Louisa Sack Chadwick. Elizabeth Horning to Jacob Crouse Mt Carroll. Ora Zack to Thomas Hawk Freedom. Mattie Groth to Sophia Groth Savanna. John Hanaford to J Miller Chadwick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine N. Gilbert
D. Flanigan
Savanna
Henry C. Rhodes
Thomas B. Rhodes
William L. Densmore
Edmund SH. Phillips
Yorke
Edmund H. Phillips
Helen L. Densmore
York
Charles B. Law
John Wagner
Woodland
Philip Miller
Henry Sack
Chadwick
Frederick Engleking
Louisa EB. Sack
Elizabeth L. Horning
Jacob H. Crouse
Mt. Carroll
Ora M. Zack
Thomas M. Hawk
Freedom
Mattie Groth
Sophia Groth
Georgetown Spelling School Opens Friday Evening
Georgetown notes report a spelling school starting Friday evening January 23 1896 at the Georgetown school house. Local items mention minor accidents Mr H B Whitmer visiting firewood work Nicholas Puterbaugh ill Ella Keeney and Miss Ella Keeney seen home from church with Jacob Stoffer. The town’s football team shows strong play and a debate concludes whiskey causes more misery than war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgetown
H. B. Whitmer
Cameron
Harry
Charley Whitmer
Ella Keeney
Nicholas Puterbaugh
Ella Bristol
Savanna
Mrs. Cameron
Mt. Carroll
Jacob Stoffer
Barr
Alabama
Loran Marriage and Community Notices Highlight Local Life
A Jan 13 wedding at the bride’s home unites Mr Christian Buehman and Mrs Frederike Esselborn. Also recounted are a lecture on Eternal Punishment, ice storage season at Loran creamery, a shooting match won by Wallace Carter, and assorted social updates from La dies Musical Club to In Memoriam notices and local auctions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Buehman
Frederike Esselborn
Rev. Handler
A. C. Ballard
Ed Dodge
Pleasant View
J. Isenberger
John Barber
Loran Creamery
Wallace Carter
Lincoln Mowery
Stockton
Henry Waler
Albert Kerch
Freeport
Oretrude Grant Colds
Gertrude Grant Childs
Fremont, Carroll Co
Church
Church Triumphant
Jessie Grant
Our City
Dakota
BE. Crazy
Anita
Iowa
E. P. Childs
Congregational Church
Jan. Siet
Jesus Christ
Congregational Church of
Lanark
Town
Boston
Ashland
Childs
Jesus
F. G. Strange
E. Meminger
Presbyterian
Silsby
Ashland Music Club
Oregon
Doctor Jones Invites Surprise Visit to Helen Lloyd
Dr Evan Jones calls on Helen Lloyd after a misadventure and meets her parents at the Lloyd home on Colfax Avenue. Tom Lloyd introduces him with playful digs, revealing Jones’s family links and a plan to call upon a patient in Cripple Creek lore. The night ends with family warmth and a hinted connection to Miss Jean Campbell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Jones
Colfax Avenue
Peter Smitz
Det. Jones
Mr. Smitz
Tom Lloyd
Tom
Scott
Evan Jones
Helen
Elsie
Lloyd's
Lloyd
California
Evan
Doc
Tucson
Arizona
Donald Cameron
Texas
Father
Cameron
Denver
Tsay Evan
Jean Campbell
Closing Out Sale of Hog Herd and Auction in Mt Carroll
A long notice proclaims a closing out sale to liquidate a hog breeding operation. It names famed sires including Stamboul and Keeffer's Black Chief with other sires, sows, boars, and 75 head total for auction on a January date in Mt Carroll. The piece also includes local ad chatter about a newspaper collector and traders, plus commodity prices and a plug for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stamboul
America
Keeffer
Joe Patchen
Mt. Carroll
F. M. Woods
Col. Woods
A. Hlank
D. R. Keerver
Mr. Carroll
Als
Perry & Cameron
Flushing Michigan
Wm. Hogan
General Miles and Civic Federation shape American reform
General Miles earns high honors after civil war era on campaigns in the southwest and as Arizona presents him a sword. Chicago’s Civic Federation forms, with 10,000 members, promoting nonpolitical reform, civil service, cleaner streets, waste paper collection, and tenement sanitation while excluding city officials and targeting beggars. The piece also critiques immigrant English in schools, urging improved English instruction and composition, and notes tax collection duties in Cherry Grove and Shannon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles
Schofield
United States Army
People's Genera
West Point
Grant
Sherman
Southwest
Arizona
W. T. Stead
Chicago
Civic Federation of
Cook County
Federation
Also Mentioned on This Page
People's Drug Store
Lanark, Il
Prop
Will Hoan
Chisholm
John Taylor
Wheritt
Tev. Smith
U. 1. Church
Baptist Church
Lanark Gazette
W.G. Wi
PSG
Gazette Building
Broad St
Lanark, Ill
Savanna Times
the Times
Whiteside County
Prophetstown
W. G. Warnock
Geneseo
Silas M. Myers
Poland
John Crouse
Mr. Crouse
Winslow
Winslow Cor
Freeport Bulletin
McClure’s
Harry Perry Robinson
Railway Age
Buffalo
Robinson
Rockford
Bethel Church
Lena Morrow
W. Cl. UU
Reuben Edwards
Danville
Isis
Whitemore
Kansas
Nena Williamson
Champaign
Ell Paso
Maude Shirk
Judge Shirk
Sedalia
P. Miles
Samuel Fagan
Forreston
H. Kennedy and Sons
Tlinois
Ogle County
Dr. Wales
Argo
York Township
EB. M. McAffee
Clinton
C. Lamb
Charley Lohr
Sue
Woodland A. B. Church
Bender
Fred. Colehour
Will Masters
W. A. Brotherton
Browning
Mummert
Edith Horning
Frank Hell
Geo. Cowen
Fair Haven
Jeremiah
Chmberlain
Wm. Mogan
Mia
Etta J. Smith
Abviratts and Loans
Mt. Carroll Til
P. Roland
Georgetown Church
Porter Whitmer
LR. Young
Emma Lichty
Loran
Ladies Musical Club
Althea Noble
Weary
Angelo
Nellie Carbaugh
Rive-King
Godard
Chamberlain
Poland-China
Jacob Grossman
J. W. Cotta
Tom Corwin
King Tecumseh
Wilkes
Hadley
Bidwell
Royalist
Nelson
McKelvie
McWilkes
Jacob Grobbman
Jd. V. Corra
A. H. Hawk
J. A
A. Hi. Hawk
Amos, Wolf
M. M. Wilson
Dave Butterbaugh
Polo
Electric ‘Light Co
Electric Light Co
Democrat
Prince Madoc
Suda Veritas
Illinois
Harless
Savanna Journal
Wind
Grain and Stock
Sre
Chas. L. Reed
Ws. Hogan
P.M
Carroll County Teachers’ Association
Thomson
W. A. Pratt Morrison
Prin
D. P. Cowen
B.F. Baker
Anna Ransom
Jennie Bebilling
Laura Patton
A. B. Stuart
United States
Cherry Grove
Sherwood & Cook's Bank
Exchange Bank
Medi
W. H. Payne
Benjamin F. Lynch
Carroll County
Mount Carroll
Eugene Cook
Pedsadehis
Treasury
HS. Deespacn
New Mammoth
Bauscher, Jr
Wright & Duvall
Washington, C
Burlington
St Paul
Minneapolis
St. Louis
W.J
Kenyon
Gen. Freight & Pass
5St. Paul
Minn
Star Accident Company
Box Lif
W. Calvin Sites
W. Calvin Bites
Elmith Aay
JSEPH
Lanark Cash Store
J. A. Young
Depot
Rochester
WM. Walton
St. Dry Goods
St. Clothing
Rockford Business College
South Mary St
Rockford, Ilinois
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