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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1892
Page
4
Local notes from Mt Carroll include Joan Buchanan of Chicago reporting her father's near death after two brain operations from a head injury at a carriage shop. Other items cover church plans, a hospital visit, a mating dispute, and local crime talk as well as a yesterday’s fatal illness.
This week nears corn picking end. Rev Keefer of Mt Carroll preached at Shick schoolhouse Sunday afternoon. F B Speck shingled his house between showers. Mr McGrath of Zion began winter school at Renner on Monday. A Democrat beat Johnny Patton of Loran for ten pounds of bologna on election night. A township S S convention will be at Renner schoolhouse Sunday the 20th with two sessions 10 am and 1 pm lunch at noon. Miss Effa Boyd of Cherry Grove finished fall term here teaching a model school. Republicans bemoan the freeze night while Cleve and Steve adherents are jubilant. Nixy.
Squire Frank Dyslin returns from Milledgeville where he built an office for his son-in-law Dr C W Aurand and votes straight prohibition. M N Wertz S E Carter and Ed Myers travel to Lanark for election returns on the evening of the 8th. Mrs Gert Studebaker visits her mother Mrs D Keister. S M Mitchell goes to Jo Daviess county to pick corn.
An extended farm feature explains orange cultivation from seed to sale. It covers bed preparation, watering, budding, grafting, and timing of fruiting, plus packing house grading and box counts. It mentions Washington navels, Valencia, and local care by orchardists and laborers.
Tuesday's school election tallies Harrison 335, Cleveland 15, Bidwell 1, Weaver 1. The page notes experiments in class, debates on tariffs, Puritan and Cavalier history, and a set of health advertisements for Dowing's Calisaya Compound and other cures, plus local drug store promos.
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