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OUR NEIGHBORS’ DOING Prankfort. Franxfort, Jan. 30.—Last night about 10 o'clock, as Mr. H. T. Bock was stepping out side the door of his residence his under pinning gave way and he fell heavily, dislo cating his shoulder. The doctor straighten ed it up, but Mr. Bock does not claim to have spent a very comfortable night. H. 8. Berker was married to a lady named Miss Wincey, at Albany, N. Y., on Wednes day. They intend visiting New York and Brooklyn, and expect to reach Frankfort about the middle of next week. Persons anxious to pay their taxes can do 80 on Friday by going to Muff's saloon. A notice is posted that a new barber shop has been started. What do you mean, Fred, by “satisfaction guaranteed?” ‘The M. C. railroad will need no additional coaches to carry the Frankfort delegation to the next Burns’ festival in Joliet. James Carroll, recently appointed section 1 foreman at Spencer, has rented his house to Mr. Adams, a farmer, who intends making his residence in this city. The growing prosperity and enterprise of Frankfort is at tracting men and capital from other parts. Among our valuable acquisitions in this time may be mentioned Mr. C. Wheeler, a grain buyer from Joliet, who has purchased an interest in the elevators, with Mr. D. M. Hunter, and has moved here with his family. Ana illustration of what a live man can do, we point to Mr. B Balchowsky. About two years ago he rented a room and com menced business in a small way. He sold goods cheaper than had been known in Frantfort before. This attracted customers. Now the first building that attracts the at tention of the stranger is that of Mr. Balch owsky. Several loads of grain came in yesterday, and we noticed one this morning. There may be more to follow, but not today. Going down the street we say Mr. Klepper cleaning the mud off the crossings at Bau man's crossing. Such acts of disinterested benevolence rank with the good Samaritan. Let others imitate the example. BLUEBEARD. SERIOUS ACCIDENT. Frankfort, Jan. 31.—Mr. Nick Marti, one of the Highway Commissioners of Frankfort, met with a very serious accident last night, from which he will probably never fully re cover. He had come to town to attend a meeting of the Highway Commissioners, and about 8 o’clock started for home. It was quite dark at that hour, and when near L. Ruggles’ residence, Mr. Marti struck with full-force against a hitching post. Finding himself badly hurt, he attempted to go back, supporting himself on the fence. He got as far as McDonald’s bare, when he attempted to cross the road, fell and could help himself no more. His calls for help were heard by a nember of persons, but no one paid any at tention to them. About 9 o'clock Mr. Jones, passing by on his way home, heard the noise, but at Gret paid no attention to it, thinking it was someone Who kinds Iitile too much beer. On reaching home, however, he took a second thought and went back, and, guided by the sound of his voice, found Mr. Marti lying in the road between NcDonalds Race and the Inenbes yard. Help w ained as soon as possible and the crippled man carried to the residence of Martin Muff, where Dr. Hass made an examination and found the knee cap broken, an injury regard ed by all physicians as among the most seri ous. He still remains at Mr. Muff's and was, this morning, as comfortable and cheerful as could be expected. MORAL IGNORANCE. Recent investigations have revealed a con dition of moral destitution in our communi ty which is truly alarming. A Christian lady, whose zeal has been quickened through the revival, interviewed a party of school children ranging from five to twelve years of age, and out of fifteen or twenty of those little sinners only one could or would repeat a verse of scripture. This condition of moral darkness having been made known at one of the meetings, a good deal of discus sion has been cached and some feeling de veloped. TALENTED CORRESPONDENTS, Tam glad that “Bluebeard” can recognize a joke. When he has a little more experi ence as a writer he will learn that it is not good taste to talk of caning any one for publishing a joke. What has given the Re PUBLICAN ts great popularity? It is its reg ular fusilade of jokes kept up by its talented correspondents! Judged by the criterion he sets up, we have no doubt of “Salamander’s” popularity. We can say without boasting that for one in ‘this town who reads Milton, Shakespeare, Tennyson, and other old fogies, there are a hundred who read Levoopoecon dean, Missouri, where he will zs .We notice our old friend, Jobn Tidemarsh, offers himself as a candidate for Street Commissioner, at the spring corporation election. John is well known in this section as a good, straight, honest man, and a hard worker. Mr. E. D. Gorham, Postmaster at Gorham, Russell county, Kansas, is at present visiting his fiends in Hadley and this place. The warehouse that is being built for Nor ton Co., on the north side of the basin, is nearing completion. The building is 170 feet long, 40 feet wide with 20 feet of the west end five stories high, and the balance two stories high. The building has a ca pacity of 8,000 barrels of four. Six bins are being built in the west end which have a ca pacity of 3,000 barrels of unpacked flour,and from which 800 to 900 barrels can be packed daily, when running full blast. We wish to call the attention of the Lock port public to the low clubbing rates offered by the Reposilcan. They will furnish any person or persons with a copy of the Joist Weekly Reposilcan and a copy of the Curcaco WEEKLY JouRNAL for $2.00 a year in advance. Rev. Plainfield. PLAINFIELD, Feb. 2,—The roads have been transformed from seas of mud to sol id ‘‘chunks’” by the action of King Frost, and we are in a quandary as to which form of “‘unpleasantness’’ we prefer. The Teachers’ Institute on Friday eve ning was one of the most interesting of the series. The exercises were as follows: Mr. Hawley devoted twenty minutes to a talk on phonics, devoting most of his time to long and short vowel sounds, illustra ting the diacritical marks by means of a chart. Mr. Kletzing followed with a dis cussion of the properties of sound, illus trating reflected sound, and explaining the construction of whispering galleries. Miss Keene followed with an exposition of physical geography of the United States. Mr. Metcalf then explained his method of teaching cube root, and Willie Stoop gave a select reading. Miss F. E. Keene has been engaged to teach a school in Kendall county. There are now seven vacancies in the ranks of Co. G, 12th Battalion, I. N. G. At the last meeting Capt. Simmons, Sergi. Pike, and J. H. Stedman were ap pointed a recruiting board. Miss Lettie Harding, who spent a few weeks visiting her parents and friends at Plano, is again with us. Mr. Yaggy, a brother-in-law of P. Y. Dundore, spent a few days in this place. Two bran new crossings adorn our streets, one between N.S. Hamlin’s and Dr. Carrier's residences, and one at Ed. Gilbert's crossing. The Street Commis sioner deserves the thanks of a long-suf fering people for building the latter. Selden Harshbarger is proud and happy. ‘Tis a boy. Walter Graves was married Wednesday at Aurora to Miss Alice M. Stolp. There was a spelling school at the Smith school house on Wednesday evening. Nettie Hahn is the champion speller in that district, car to an ancient the Jonce twilight paper is respectft in formed that the teacher of the lower dis trict has not yet arrived at that stage of idiocy to walk four miles through the mud, and farther, that talking to a young lady does not necessarily imply that a young man is “‘smitten. We infer, how ever, from the tenor of his epistles, that he so looks at matters of that kind. Ralph Morgan was rather badly injured by being struck on the head with a horse shoe while indulging in the pastime of pitching horseshoes. Jake Levee nearly got into trouble the other day by kicking a dog off the side walk. The owner of the dog invited him to practice kicking on him. Our town is becoming pretty thoroughly reformed. Beggs, Walz, Sontag, and Dishman have quit smoking cigars. Walz will smoke a pipe, however, and Dishman now smokes cigarettes. The drug atore of I. A. Clippinger is rendered very attractive by a new pre scription case, iss Lettie Smiley contemplates attend ing the State Normal School, at Normal, ILL. next summer, Cauroo. A man that owes more than he can pay is naturally more use. A little child of Dubuque looks so much like his father that its mother pounds it. Coal oil is no revivalist, but it converts fifty women into angels where the min isters convert one. A mark was set upon Cain, but the umbrella was, for some inscrutable rea son, left unprotected. A Georgian editor has had his pistol stolen. He advertises to give the thief the contents and no questions asked, if he will return it. Serenader: “Home, sweet home, dah am no place like home.” Colored lady at the window: “Well, you jes’ better get along home, or I'll try some fun.” The Chinese at home never “go visit ing.” When one wants to see his rela tives, he ero to their abode, puts up at a hotel, and sends for them to come over shake hands. A thief broke into the house of an Il linois editor the other day, while he was attending church, and stole his United States bonds and a pair of cast-off sus penders. And yet editors will persist In going to church. A Mi cat has achieved a kit ten with five and we can imagine how sweet it will be when that cat at tains its majority, to have it sit on the back fence and commune with itself, “I know where ett is a pother arm as as one, young man to his sweetheart, as he her fair arm one evening. The nicky pained try ben tn tan oi her other arm and one, my, r Me, du ee ee ae . Fs a ail mation? said “the
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The Joliet Republican
Joliet, Illinois, US
Sat, Feb 07, 1880
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