Market News Brief on Wheat and Produce Prices
WER MARKET notes weekly grain prices with Wednesday listings, citing choice wheat per bushel and premium grades. Produce lines are abbreviated, with limited readable details on exact items and figures.
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Newspaper
Sumner Press
Location
Sumner, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1900
Page
8
Over the County Listing Items and Local Happenings
Local notes list visits, job changes, and events across counties. Clerks, candidates, teachers, and residents travel between Vincennes, Bridgeport, and Oblong as weddings and licenses are reported. Fire damaged a stable. hose and wagon response. minor property losses noted with no injuries.
Local Folks Busy With Church and Visit Notes
The column lists many neighbors visiting relatives and attending services at Mt Erie Bethlehem Sunday and nearby towns. Names include Mrs Ethel Kr of St Louis visiting sister Mrs Hattie Heston, John Neely and wife of Mt Pleasant, Arthur Atking and family of Antioch, Miss Julia Mathias, Lacy Sanders, Charley Harms and wife, and Verna Schafer of Richland visiting friends. A Widely attended Sunday school convention, a charity benefit in Mrs Knepper’s grove on Wednesday, and Dr Montgomery studying in Chicago are noted. An auto from Dundas looked at Mr. Anderson’s stock with possible purchase. Mrs Geo Keptinger’s 46th birthday gathering closes the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James McGaber
Palestine
Wm. Brown
W.C. Reeder
Woodbury
Satonday
A. W. Evinger
Agnes
Litchfield
Thomas Ewing
Walter Lege
Landes
Albert Pauley
Bowrer
M. E
Little May Weaver
Joseph
Sod
Jacob Petty
Samner
E. Langhie
Denison
Jessie Mc Bowell
Sameer
Wilbur Ringwall
Dr. Montgomery
Chicago
Orville Jou
Verna Schafer
Richland
Waller
Sumner
Wre
Wm. Anglereon
Frank Faker
Kansas City
Local visitors and neighbors gather Sunday in town
Four ConsEES, Charley Laughlin and family visited oat Pret French's Sunday. Mrs. Eva French visiting her sister. Charley Laws took a road position and said goodbye to the town. Grandpa Sumner and Master Rex visited relatives. John Garriteon and wife from Bridgeport rode through Sunday evening. Mrs Anne Donnel and family from Geeey joined neighbors Sunday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charley Laughlin
Eva French
Loyola Slemia
Charley Laws
Sumner
Master Rex
John Garriteon
Bridgeport
Berryville birthday for ninety year old Uncle Jacob Berry
In Berryville on Thursday July Sth Uncle Jacob Berry marked his ninety years. Born in 1810 in Center county Pennsylvania he moved to Ohio in 1820 and later to Richanty then to this state in 1841 and has lived here since. He and wife Susan Landie had nine children and many descendants. A birthday dinner hosted over 240 relatives and friends with fifty five grandchildren and one hundred great grandchildren in attendance. Local ministers Rev Daniel Breeze and James Wright spoke as attendees wished him many more birthdays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Berry
Center County
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Susan Landie
Richanty
Aeon
Henry
Memphis
Tenn
Henry Wengle
McGuarta
Jacob, Jr
Oregon
Aieba-Wse-Else Actocelorescher
U. B
Ceele Jacob
Preston
Daniel Breeze
Sumner
Kansas land boom described by Sumner native
A letter from a former Sumner boy extols Kansas and U S scenery, urging readers to consider homesteads in the state. He notes wheat yields of 35 bushels per acre, corn 40 to 60, and cattle and grain farming as prominent. Prices range from four to ten dollars per acre for improved land, with payments possible in a year by planting crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dane City
Rassas
Sumner
Cuba
Philippines
United States
Kansas
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Tomer
Wm. Dunphy & Son
T. M. Stevens
WER
Froduce
Lambs
Setae
Secretary of the
Flame B. & L. Association
P. D
E. By
Time Tan
Olney
Ville Exprea
E. Huebner
Lawrence
Weedoes
Wee
Illinois
M. E. Huebner
Lawrence Tilee
Edith Beataler
Hardacre
Mondar
Indianspois
J. Leeper
Mra
T.F Hoopes
Hall
G. W. Lackey
Turaday
He B. Andrews
Ney
Lion
Wabash County
Jas. Groff
Bloomington
Missouri
Wa. C. Gillespie
Jennie Miller
Bridge ‘Pon
Hem Soutener
Stella Carr
Vincenoca
Frank S$. Tipton
Stella Childress
Pasturefeld
Hostetter
J.D. McMeen
F. H.atwood
Ler
Satunday
Judge Barnes
Earl Basee
Will Thom
C. C. W. Kein
Jerrold
Thie
Bad
Ries
Tias
Dickinson
Williams
Peltyjonn
Chauncey
Dave Wepner
Paddick
G. N. Wyatt
Geo. Greer
Waterloo
Clara
Bertha Powell
Amity
Denis
Near Oblong
Abs. George
Bowen Sanday
H. C. Thorn
Dick Hutchinson
Eilen Wagner
Pleasant Hill
Benton Haines
Misa Alice McNeal
Pasturefield
C E
Mollie Newman
Addie Brothers
Epent Sanday
Arthur Atking
Antioch
This Place
Samlay
Julia Mathias
Lacy Sanders
Mt. Erie
Charley Harms
Bethlehem Sanday
Beulah Chorch
Donnel
Berryville
James Wright
The
Ew Light-beard
Grandpa Berry
Art
Claas
Perhershurs
Shin
Fii
Hay
Aoyte
Vere
Hur
Lee
Rye
I. H.bunn
Sufiner
Lawrence County
I. H. Bunn
T. L Jomes & Sons
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