Lanark News Roundup and Local Notices
Lanark residents receive a chorus of social updates and events from Miss Maggie Roach to Rev Geo Chase. Local fairs draw crowds. Lanark Steam Laundry advertises modern shirtwaists. removal sales and new paint brighten depots. candidates rally in Elmer's hall. the town notes nurse Miss Agnes Woodside and a busy press scene with editors among friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agnes Woodside
Shannon
J.M. Baum
Baum
Miss Woodside
H.W. Wales
Return to Protective Tariff Emphasized by McKinley
Four years of prosperity cited under a Protective Tariff as the path to renewed wealth. The piece quotes Major McKinley on tariff revival and recounts a romantic tale about Thomas E Watson. A big Republican rally is planned in Lanark with Horace M Clark and W Gemmill speaking, plus music and a torchlight parade. Also listed are unclaimed post office letters in Lanark and a note about missing livestock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer's Hall
C.W. Middlekauff
William Sheller
McKinley
Geo. C. Taber
Ed Glotfelty
Clyde Lower
Kent
C. W. Middlehanff
Ad Lient
Thomas E. Watson
Tom Watson
Lanark
Horace M. Clark
Mattoon
W. Gemmill
Chicago
Dorsey Patton
J. Kinney
Rockford
Lanark Clarette
McKinley and
Hobart
Soldiers and Sailors Reunion at Mt Carroll Alabama
A Soldiers and Sailors reunion is planned for Mt Carroll Alabama on Oct 8 1806 with headquarters in the old county clerk's office. Comrades and spouses may register pay 25 cents and receive a badge plus a free dinner ticket. Parades begin at 1 am with Col WH Healy directing, then an address at Mattersons opera house and entertainment by Gen JI Stibbs and local bands. Fire companies schools and the public are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Carroll
Old County
Court House
WH. T. Healy
Woodland
Shannon
Mr. Carroll Cornet
Matterson's
Opera House
Ten. W. G. Cochran
J. I. Stibbs
Chicago
Lizzie Sweitzer Dies in Disappointed Love Suicide
Local notice recounts Lizzie Sweitzer ending her life by corrosive poison after a failed romance. Miss M Fike, daughter of J J Pike, died at her father’s home earlier in the week after a typhoid illness lasting about five weeks. Funeral services for the Moeras sereste were held Thursday at 10 o'clock at the Dunkard church. Other items include a travel update for Frank and Mrs Dustin, farm auction notice for Henry Stifer's residence, and community notices from Milledgeville and Lanark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha Laborer
Arthur F. Clark
Nicholas Fagan
Lanark
Richard F. Fagan
Commercial National Bank
The
Laborer
Forty-first Avenue
Fagan
Omaha
Grissinger
Ohio
Freeport
Bloomington, Il
Phillip Wand Chas. F. Wentz
George Wentz
Minneapolis
Malinda Wentz
Chicago
Lizzie Sweitzer
H. P. Brainard
North Kensington Avenue
Miss Sweitzer
la Grange
Mt. Carroll
Ill
Brainards
McConnell
Western Avenue
Lh Street
South America
Dunkard
M Fike
J. J. Pike
Frank Dustin
Dakota
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A. Hl. Hawk
Dn, Owen
van Agtstys
F. Walke
Warren
Carroll County
Ciicuit
J.T. Jacobs
Wales
Oregon
van Aelstyn's
Allies Glory
Geo. Paul
Irvin Root
Jesse Gates
Lena
Wm. Sheller
Prof. Leland
Wife
St. Paul
Clarence Bloyer
Savanna
John C. Schriner
Chadwick
Freeman Cook
A. Baum
Lowlands
C. J. Forsberg
Frank Eckerle
Toy
Frank Moffett
Elgin
BE. B. Dubbert
Wesley Dial
Yeager & Son
Chas. Seyfarth
David Stoner
East Lanark
Edith Grossman
J. M. Baum
Reddington
Maggie Roach
Lady Friend
Lanari
Geo, Chase
Marian
A. S. van Aelstyn
Chas. Boyd
Washington
Savanna Railroad
Jessie Harley
Galesburg
Conservatory
Knox College
Henry Redline
Bors
Ira E. McClure
Lanark Gazette
J. Woodin
Buffalo
N. Y
M. Stineman
Dixon
Frank Haller
Evanston
N. W. University
Illinois
State
Union
Dubuque
C. E. Wales
Myers & Woodside
J.C. Gordon
Michigan
Harry Clemmer
St. Paul, Minn
Norman Bixby
Iowa
J. A. Michaels
John R. Rahn
Laura M. Shafer
Lima
G. W. Tallman
Howe & Lamoreaux
Man
I. K. Haynes
W. H. Hess
Miss Laird
House of Correction
Adam Harman
Dallas Center
H. B. Shoeman
Geo. Teeter
Hl. S. Marks
Mr. Ed. McFadden
White Pigeon
J. JD. Wolfley
W. R. Walden
Old Progressive Church
Buffalo Bill
Bryan
Rebekah Lodge
Main Street
Fred N. Wild
Whiteside County
J. M. Kinkade
Geo, Noble
Ada
Wm. Strickler
Jack Brandt
Hitt
E. E. Dubbel
R. Teachout
Harry
Melvin
Elmer Emmett
Roy Hamilton
Brown's Lake
Albert Stevens
Maud Shirk
Sedalia, Mo
Dr. Haller
Mt. Carroll Academy
Christian Church
University Association
Leland
Chas, Taverner
Jennie Tew
Cordova
Orvil Brown
Near
Jersey
Jerry
Fowler Lowman
Jeters’ Music Store
Jacob Wolfley
Anna
Frank Douglas
Ellen Wolfley
J. L. Slick
Freedom
Lanark Silver Club
Geo. W. Fithian
Marshall, Ill
Sherwood's
Georgetown
Geo. L. Hoffman
Ralph Eaton
H. C. Noble
Prairie Street
Amelia Laird
Dr. Bradley
Marie Harbaugh
Davenport
Rock Island
Mekka Medical Company
Kansas City
St. Joseph
the Gazette
John Curley
Mary Carroll
Kittredge
John Barry
Father McCann
Frye
Sweden
Polo Press
M. B
T. V. EK. Sweet
Epworth League
W. Fonrens
Freeport Democratsc
Paw Paw Times
George
Harry Renner
Tinois
Colfax
Adair
G. W. Mackay
Stockton
Ege
Ata S. van Aelstyn
Lanark and
Brookville
Stockton Herald
J. W. Parkinson
Morris Index
Freeport Journal
Freeport Bulletin
Bulletin
Atkins
Poland
China
Post Office
Livengood
Gordon
van Aelstyn
WML
Superior Lumber
Wilbur Lumber Company
Wilbur Lumber CO
Siscce
Lanark’s
McKenney Bros. & Lafferty
Rueleford Republic
H. D. Dennis
Maud Dennis
Holden Comedy Company
Holdens
Miss Dennis
Pansy
Gouker
Ida Badsley
Gertrude
W. J. Bowen
Carroll County Reunion
Bank Kicker
Thos
Dayton
Hotel Royal
Royal Hotel
Palmer House
Imperial
New York
Arizona
DeWitt
Milledgeville Free Press
Milledgeville
Ang. Hy Isuo
Robert Cheeseanin
F. L. Baldwin
Elias Lichty
J. Uf Roderick
Henry Stifer
West Earl Street
Lama Stark
Lanark Pion
Wailonas
A. H. Hawk
Mt Expense
Lanark, Illinois
Ilinois
South Dakota
Calue
H. F. Wulke
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