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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1896
Page
4
A brief local item notes fH. S. Powerbaugh recovering well from a business rest and planning to greet old friends at his new Allemony drug store location. The piece also references a July Arena essay by B. O. Flower and nearby community notes.
A fragmented page offers a mix of request for thanks for bereavement assistance and upcoming Homeseekers Excursions from Monona Lake Assembly. It advertises July travel sale details, depart depots, and round trip fares, plus a travel pitch about a Yellowstone trip and a northern Pacific brochure.
Real estate transfers compiled this week list several property moves including Kalwin A dolinéon to Charles Sohn. Transfers show lots in Milledpeville and Chadsville with values around $10 and a Wesox Inn deed to Samuel W. Peugh. Additional entries include Jacob Paul and Flora BE Tramp related transfers in Lina, 2000 levels.
The Rock Creek column records a week of small town happenings including visitors Sue Dalley and Lucy McNamar, Truman Retman and J T Garns surveying school shingling, John Flickinger home from State University, Rev J O Trout’s family visit, and Jim Gearhart selling bikes. It notes Benton's growth, agriculture, and a republican county convention planned for August 1806, plus a quiet wedding at 314 North Street where Marguerite Dunlap and Henry R Yeager wed with Mendelssohn’s wedding march and guests from Rockford and Lanark attending.
A Lanark Illinois column notes social visits and family news. Mrs Evan Fisher returns from Danville, Alfred dies, while Hattie Mitchell and Mrs Minta Backer visit. Garden birds flourish as a variety of songbirds charm readers. Local speeches and politics bubble at the Democratic convention in Chicago with several locals in attendance. A cannon mishap lightly scorches a bystander. Willis Charles visits tied to G A Stanton. Union Sunday services planned across churches. A house on Centre Hill burns, retirement and civic comment follow. The Shimer will case continues with courtroom updates. Nada Veritas, a Pennsylvania native, is praised as patriotic. Root & Son offer Ruddy Harvester Ol for farm machinery.
The Frances Shimer Academy offers music and art departments, a Manual Labor Department, and introductory courses in English. It affiliats with the University and invites inquiries for details as Pallerm Seminary opens on Tuesday September 15.
One year ago today the author notes moving family to Lanark and becoming a citizen with full rights. He thanks patrons for support and advertises free examinations, treating catarrh and deafness, plus ENT and general surgery, offering 24/7 calls and honest assessments without relying on competitors.
In Chicago a rare wedding joined Miss Boutine Butler and Walter S. Lieber on a wooded Jackson park island. The ceremony blended Quaker and Jewish traditions with 30 bridesmaids in white, led by Justice of the Peace Gideon E. Clark. After vows, songs, toasts, and a cake, the couple left for Detroit then will reside in Philadelphia.
The New York Sun reports a louder Fourth of July due to imported and American made pyrotechnics. Most large set pieces and displays are produced on Staten Island by firms like Graniteville, employing hundreds year round. American crackers, roman candles, and automatic set pieces abound, with prices from six dollars to eighteen hundred and fifty dollars, and safety rules enforced by uniformed staff despite some still lighting cigars in shops.
Maria Katherine Snell Mizner born September 28 1846 in Bedford county Pennsylvania died July 2 1806 in Lanark Newfoundland aged 59 years. She moved west 1859 with family and married William H Mizner December 24 1865 having eight children all living except Cora who died in 1504. Her family includes seven full siblings and five half siblings, and two sisters and one brother remain. She joined the Christian church about 15 years ago and died peacefully after a long illness in the faith.
Still They Go! Odds and ends in Stiff Hats from 2.00 to 4.00 your choice 10c. Mens Working Shirts full size 20c. Wash Suits remaining at 50c 31.00 Wash Suits now 75c. Children white Duck Suits worth 2.00 now 1.25. Boys Wool Suits worth 1.25 now. Mens 14.00 black and blue dress suits 10.00. Mens Black Dress Suits as low as 5.00. Children Knee Pants 15c. French Balbriggan Underwear 1.00 reduced to 50c. The French Balbriggan Underwear cut to 50c. Linen collars 10c.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch notes a coming surge in fruit jar demand as extraordinary crops are expected this season. Jars may run short soon despite current large inventories as prices are expected to rise within two weeks and stocks could exhaust well before midseason.
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