Local notes mix illness, lectures, and horse sale in town
Frosty night forecast while Mamie Talley battles pneumonia. Rev N B Wood promotes his book and lecture on the Negro question. The death of Doc Hunter shocks friends. funeral held at South Elkhorn cemetery. Ralph Bishop takes charge of the standard bred stallion Condor, with stud use and sale offered, West to Lanark and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. B. Wood
Baptist Church
Our City
Rev. Wood
Mr. Wood
A. N. Hunter
South Elkhorn
Ralph Bishop
Condor
Counsellor
H. Marks
Lanark
Lady Glencoe
Nate Doxy
Henry Marks
J. Haller
Ill
Grandma Buckwalter Returns to Cherry Grove County
Grandma Buckwalter, after months in Pennsylvania, has returned to the county and is living with Henry Baum's family. Lester Van Broecklin has chicken pox, and Mrs. Francis Van Broeklin was ill but improving. Miss Mary Linker, back from California, visits her parents in the northwest part of the township. The Dunkard love feast is planned for Georgetown church on the 15th and 16th. Rev. Geo Kosier begins his term with Shannon and Spring Valley charges. A township Sunday School convenes May 19 at Spring Valley church, 2 PM, with Revs. Platt and Livengood expected. cordial invitation to all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. N. Chaney
Chicago
A. J. Wood
Freeport
J. B. Johnson
Mary Lenker
Grandma Buckwalter
Pennsylvania
Henry Baum
Lester
Silas van Broecklin
Francis van Broeklin
Mary Linker
California
Wm. Holmes
Shannon
Simon Fisher
Ada Kahl
Pearl City
Spring Valley
Calvin F. Kramer
Spring
Dunkard
Georgetown
Geo. Kosier
Points
Platt and Livengood
Lanark
Macmillan’s Magazine
Lanark area social notes and events listed
Lanark residents visited relatives in neighboring towns over the weekend. A Sunday School convention drew sizable attendance and the community reports many social visits, a concert, a Y P S gathering and local-business progress including a new barn foundation and nursery creamery intake.
Harper's Round Table features summer publications and notable writers
Harper's Round Table will be renamed Harper's Young People and publish this summer with features including Heroes of America by Theodore Roosevelt, serials by Deland and King, Sports of English Schools by Whitney, and Great Men's Sons by Brooks. Archibald Forbes will report from McClure's on Napoleon II meeting King William and Bismarck after Sedan, with paintings and scenes accompanying the piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper’s Round Table
Harper's
America
Theodore Roosevelt
Ellen Douglas Deland
Capt
Charles King
Caspar W. Whitney
Alexander the Great
Charlemagne
Luther
Shakespeare
Cromwell
Napoleon
Elbridge
Brooks
Archibald Forbes
McClure
Napoleon II
King William of
Prussia
Prince Bismarck
Sedan
Real estate transfers and local notices reach Lanark area
Transfers show Geo W Boyd to Danl Kingery and multiple Lanark parcels with prices from 25 to 25 606. John W Cary to W H Hess and others list Lima and Savanna properties. Also notes on advertising home trade, a moral about shopping local, a poem clipping, upcoming excursion tickets, and livestock listings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. W. Boyd
Dan'l Kingery
Cherry Grove
City of Lanark
Lanark Cemetery
John W. Cary
W. H. Hess
Lanark
Amelia R. Gaghagen
Elizabeth Beck
Sarah J. Schrefiler
Lima
James Beck
Wm. E. Shaver
Elkhorn Grove
Mathias Ginther
Bothwell Pulford
Savanna
Bothwell Palford
Henrietta Guinther
Michael Nesbitt
Robert A. Gillogly
Washington
Della H. Pease
F. S. Greenleaf
James Bailey
Kinta Anderson
St. Paul Land Co
Wm. H. Gilliford
Milledgeville
W. Sandrock
John Mackay
Mt. Carroll
Jefferson Barnes
Frank Barnes
Shannon
Henry J. Vaughn
Ellen Espie
Robert Espie
Woodland
Sale of Fine Trotting Horses Near Sterling Farm
On Tuesday May 28 1895 a third public sale of about forty trotting horses will be held on the farm adjacent to Sterling city. The lot includes young mares fillies and geldings three to five years old all broken and shown in harness. Most animals bear six percent paper and may be sold with no reserve if a bid is made. Catalogues and further information available from Suarp Co H Strives auctioneers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling
Cold winds and warming tricks on a Chicago street
A Chicago Tribune item recalls a cold day where a thermometer set four feet from a drugstore drawn by a curious boy’s breath misled a German passerby who mistook rising mercury for warmer weather. The note blends with other brief items on Bacilli and ostrich kicks, a marriage quip, and a Greece canal project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago ‘Tribune
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Lanark Gazette
W. G. Wii
Pub
Gazette Building
Broad St
Lanark, Ill
Mamie Talley
C. P. Herrick
Polo
H. C. Knox
T. C. Wolfe
J. F. Greenawalt
Fay Wolf
Edith Holly
Matt Freas
Frank Meyers
Wm. Weaver
Brookville
Jacob Chambers
Cora
Emma Lichty
Ed Merrill
Sorosis
Rebecca
Eli Bolinger
Matcie French
Thomson
E. N. Black and Wife
Geo. Byers
G. T. Sherwood
Ed King
F. Bolton
Deihl
Truckenmiller
Bolton
Messrs
Earnest Puterbaugh
Mark Franks
Anna Shiley
Jessie Bolinger
Mrs. Scharman
Prof. Alden
Florence
Rev. C. Anangst
Elgin
Opera Hall
C. M. Saltzer
John Shaner
Chas. Tavenner
Herman Diehl
Stella Grossman
Gazette
Lutheran Y. P
William Souers
Coxey
William Weaver
Chas. Cotta
Chadwick
Geo. G. Knapp
Forreston
J. W. Cotta
Edith Burt
Fred Schmidt
G. W. Tame
Etta J. Smith
Mt. Carroll Til
Tion
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Wood
M. M. Our, Agt
Minnesota
Northwest
Lake Park
Northern Pacific Railroad
St. Paul
Larchimood Breeding Farm
Sterling, Ill
W. A. Sanborn
Sterling, HI
Suarp, Co. H. Strives
Auct
Bacilli
N. Y
Orotava
Hedsor
Greece
Corinth
Nero
Europe
Athens
Henney
Ilnois
The
United States
Shannon Express
Calaboose
ITY
Lanark Cash Store
Forsberg
U.S
Ccee Renee Se
Reserve Renis
Woese
la Paper suEreUnNs
Atesas
Bavonsesy de National Bank
Carroll
W._L. Franck
W. L. Franck
J. M. Glotfily
J. S. Snively
Hegeman
C. Kinkade
Sanitary
Merino
Loces
Nappanee
Ind
Moline
E. E. Dubbel
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