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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1895
Page
8
A Prairie Center Nebraska letter defends relief efforts amid shortages and criticizes reports of no destitution. Treasurer D W C Hentineron asserts supplies are distributed immediately, funds cover freight, and local pastors act as unbiased distributors. Donations from Lanark are thanked as communities anticipate ongoing need.
Mary Kramer visited Lanark. numerous neighbors attended a Masonic banquet in Freeport. Ed Bart traveled to Belvidere on business. Frank Wick and family visited Freeport. Emma Kable returned to Rockford. Prof T N Flemming and family visited. Mrs. Byers and Mrs. Sherwood spent time in Lanark. Mrs. Glasser visited J J Glasser. Chas Stuert hauled sand for a new house. Mrs Cyrus Kable hosted a class event. F Kramer packed and left for Brit Iowa with family to follow. local Democrats and Republicans named candidates for supervisor, town clerk, assessor, collector, and highway commissioner.
McClure's April issue will feature a talk with George Du Maurier about his life and art, with portraits. Harper's Bazar's March 16 frontispiece is a Worth cloak drawn by Sandoz, plus Paine on fashion and Mrs. Kingsland on lunch menus. Richard Harding Davis's The Princess Aline, serialized in Harper's, appears in book form with Gibson illustrations.
The Freeport Journal notes township election judges sometimes fail to publish official ballots as required by Australian law with penalties. Leaf River Mirror reports 200 horses bound for slaughter across the Indiana line, shipped to Europe with meat and byproducts sold for profit. Lanark notices advertise land sales and exchanges in Iowa nearby, with a girl wanted for office inquiries.
An advertisement notes Dodge Institute of Telegraphy in Valparaiso Indiana with tuition and board rates and post about career placement. The Mobile and Ohio Railroad introduces a double daily fast train between St. Louis and the South with Pullman sleepers and day coaches. An 19th century science piece discusses snake vertebra variation and public remarks on candor in science. A Detroit salesman anecdote and a Judge dialogue lead into market notes from Lanark.
Franklin H. Frazey appointed executor of Noah Frazey deceased Carroll County Illinois gives notice to present claims at the County Court of Carroll County Mt. Carroll at the May term on the first Monday in May next. Creditors must attend and debtors should pay promptly. Attorney E C Dick, March 15 1895.
Advertises greatly reduced land prices in Iowa Minnesota and South Dakota. States railway fare costs available only to parties seeking land, not to visitors pleasure seekers or hunting parties going west.
An advertisement invites buyers to travel from 10 pm to Spencer Iowa next morning, continuing to Lanark, promising car fare covered if exchanging with the Spencer firm. It targets families with many children, offering land and town property exchanges and emphasizes keeping families together.
Novick Herny is given to the citizens and legal voters of Rock Creek Carroll Illinois that the Annual Town Meeting will be held at A Brooke shoe shop in Election District No One and at the C O D Laundry room in Lanark on date to be announced.
On Tuesday the second day of April the town will elect a town clerk assessor collector commissioner of highways and a school trustee plus pound masters as determined by electors. Miscellaneous town business to be transacted at the C O D Laundry room at two o clock P M polls open seven and close five. Dated Rock Creek March 20 1895 Joseph Wiltsey Town Clerk.
For further information about land locations prices and related details readers are urged to contact local agents or write the agency.
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