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Newspaper
Sumner Press
Location
Sumner, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1900
Page
2
Local notices urge fuel and building material purchases, advertise on farm goods, livestock for sale, and services. Church and political speeches announced with gatherings at Masonic Hall and Lake Park. Medical endorsements, village promotions, and rail excursion plans appear alongside farm equipment and shoe notices.
A collage of sales pitches and notices from Sumner including cash offers for wheat and apples, second hand organs, buggies, coffee and molasses, a church rally to lift a debt, and political club organization. Also featuring Chamberlain's Cough Remedy endorsement and a testimonial about Electric Bitters for digestion and liver troubles.
Judge Jehu Fields died suddenly at his Colorado Springs home on Wednesday. He had moved from Lawrenceville about twenty years ago due to asthma, served in the Eleventh Missouri after the Civil War, and practiced law there with success. He leaves a wife and two daughters, two more children, and a son and daughter. He was about 64 years old.
A dubious pill claims to regulate the liver and purify the blood to give clear skin and a rich complexion. The ad asserts Dr King’s New Life Pills offer this remedy for 25 cents at Dale and Sheridan’s drugstore.
Henry L. Harma of Grayville learns by telegram that his fast race horse Fred F. fell dead on the track at Swaysee Indiana while finishing a second heat in JO. Fred F. was a noted horse, valued at $1,000 three weeks earlier, which Harms refused to sell as he believed him the best on the turf.
Illinois Central Railway now operates the Mattoon to Evansville section formerly part of the P D E R line. Through trains run Evansville to Chicago with reclining chairs and free seats on all day trains, and Pullman drawing room sleepers on all night trains between Evansville and Peoria and Evansville and Chicago. A Chauncey church ice cream festival is planned for Friday night September 8, 1900.
The Lawrenceville reunion drew sizable crowds Wednesday through Friday with strong attendance on second and third days, notable addresses by Charles H. Martin Gen C W Pavey and Col Horace Clark, plus a balloon ascent challenged by wind. Registry counted about 100 to 130, fewer than the county event, with some names pending. no serious incidents reported and sales of Sumner property listed by D B VanScroc.
Fragmented note lists stock peas and a fete with moseseeee 2b ete. No clear names, dates, or locations available to confirm details.
In another column this issue, a time change for the Central Railway is listed. The page includes a time card heading for P. D. and E. chair card, with seats free, showing routes between Evanaville and Pr. Sabecribs. The Perse-six per year rate applies if paid in advance.
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