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Local notes on Dalton area residents and projects
Locals report fresh eggs at Highlawn Market in Simnica and Stramborst. Juan Evcure of Raverdam loses a work horse after a fever. Alexander Grant’s Leyden avenue cottage gets a new paint coat. Trustee Fred Weber of the Dalton village board is sick with rheumatism. Otto Von Moser from Riverdale departs for Germany for about eight weeks. Conrad Kern and Nicholas Simon from Riverdale return from Milwaukee tomorrow. Brick yard workers travel to Bernice to assist with a rush order. Meeder family to occupy the Milhahn cottage on Chicago street after remodel. La Tosca, a 20 foot gasoline launch by Frank C. Lund, launched and to appear in Decoration Day parade. Illinois property owners urged to cut Canadian thistle. Rev Herman Tannis and family, with Mrs Neiwegen, visiting Patterson New Jersey for several weeks. Pinger’s two new brick buildings rise at Chicago street and Lincoln avenue with old frame building being converted to a restaurant. Repairs on the Indiana avenue bridge over the Calumet river progress. bridge now usable for larger boats to Blue Island. David Craig, long-time steam shovel engineer and village clerk, returns from Houston to Dalton and visits friends.