08 May 1895
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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1895
Page
1
Local gossip records visitors from Freeport Milledgeville and Chicago, farm activity near Nursery, new barn construction, a big window shade sale, buggies at Hess Hardware, a crumb maple sugar shipment, and multiple community events including memorial day talk invites and a birthday surprise with a donated Bible.
Rev J A Beidler of Monroe Wis delivered a lecture Life and Its Possibilities at the Lutheran church last Sunday evening. The audience listened closely to an earnest eloquent talk that cannot be fully described in words. The piece aims to benefit communities and is highly recommended to churches and societies for public welfare. Dr H R Staley's franchise to build and operate an electric light plant in Lanark passed the city council and should be in operation in 90 to 120 days. The city reserves lighting location rights and street light obligations remain undecided while Staley canvasses merchants for support. existing lighting is described as worse than none.
The church invites all to Sunday morning services on the subject Why I am a Baptist followed by an evening program Redeemed in heaven.
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