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Newspaper
Sumner Press
Location
Sumner, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1900
Page
4
A long list records visits, travel, and daily life notes. Miss Corrie teaches spring term. many residents travel to St Louis or Lancaster. neighbors host dinners and attend meetings. Several deaths, sales, and farm updates occur, with mentions of weddings, birthdays, school assignments, and a discussion note on domestic service.
A historic grain of farm guidance covers fattening fowls with beets and corn, pasture and fencing for hens, crossbreeds, and mothering tendencies. It notes beets aid growth, brown China and White China breeds, and a poultryman’s caution on demand during summer. It also mentions Polly G and Star Pointer in racing context.
A surprise birthday dinner was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Denison in Desieun township Desieun on Tuesday March 4 in honor of Mr. Denison’s 50th birthday. A large company attended enjoying a long table with many cakes and goodies followed by music and games into the night. Attendees included Dick Gillespie and wife Greer Grave and wife Sameul Irwin and wife Thos Mieure and wife Hillie Laughlin and wife Braxton Denison and wife Abner Gould and wife Orville Buchanan and wife Jaerench Buchanan Berl and Gleon Corrie Laura Smith Mrs T. C. Buchanan T. H. Gutteridge and family ee Buchanan and family and Mrs key and daughter Mise Vearl A Feresp.
R Moody inherits his father Dwight L Moody papers and will write anecdotes for The Saturday Evening Post. The first piece Moody a Boy and Business Man will run in the April 7 issue with new photographs.
The Lawrence County Illinois Board of Supervisors met March 20 1900 at ten in the morning. Present were M W Corry chairman J A Benson S J Carlisle E F Dalrymple J W Seed J A Provines J T Spangler A Currie and C H Crews with officers Howitt GW Hall clerk and William Pettyjoba sheriff. Minutes read approved bonds and clerical actions noted including approving bond for A C Turner keeper of the poor farm and setting election duties. Grand jurors for May named by townships. Budget actions includes a defeated $300 ag exhibit request and a transcription proposal deferred. Appointments of election judges for precincts and free use of basement room by G A R and Ladies Relief Corps approved. Claims allowed for various county services. Salary for county judge discussed and approved for December February March. Board adjourned sine die Attest G W Hix Clerk.
Non resident notice for George F Carter in a Chancery divorce suit filed March 19 1900 with a Sammons returnable May first. Carter must appear May term or the bill will be confessed and a decree entered. Judge Chas F Eshelmann clerk. Lawrenceville Ill March 27 1900. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve ad ends the notice.
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