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Newspaper
Sumner Press
Location
Sumner, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1901
Page
3
A disparate local page notes sheep for lease on shares to A W Wrera. Various ads follow for wagons, coal, fertilizers, building materials, and real estate. Community announcements include birthdays, juries in Cairo, and a planned church social and parlor gathering at the Seed home. Local commerce, farm sales, and miscellaneous items populate the column with multiple named residents and businesses.
The Shakespeare Circle held a New Year program Tuesday at Mrs Carrie Murphy s home with guest poems by Miss Anna Billett and Miss Mary Murphy a guessing contest won by Mrs M J Progh and a Shakespearean quotation game. Mrs O T Jones won the honors as others present included Mrs D Breeke Miss Pearl Stevens and Mrs J W Davy Saint Louis. The W F M held a pleasant gathering at Mrs Brian s home with roll call quotes on Con secration a lesson on Migration in Japan a duet by Mrs T F Hoopes and Mrs C T Abernathy currents events by Mrs W Saxton and Mrs L J Bowman elected recording secretary. The next meeting will be at Mrs T F Hoopes s home on the first Thursday afternoon in November.
Marta & Co. announce the sale of People’s Drug Store in Sumner and surrounding area. John Mathia becomes proprietor and the sellers extend thanks and best wishes to customers, hoping the trade continues and that Marta & Co. may return soon with best regards.
W H Eada of Jonesville Virginia recalls a severe foot burn in childhood that left lasting leg sores for 30 years. Bucklens Arnica Salve healed the wounds after other remedies failed. The product is praised as infallible for burns cuts scalds sores and piles. Dale and Sheridan sell it for 25 cents. Also advertised a 18 volume national dictionary and encyclopedia at Pazas office.
The Miller estate near Saline, valued at about 30000 dollars, with 264 acre farm, was left to the Masonic Grand Lodge of Lilino to erect and maintain a widows and orphans home for Masons. If declined, land would go to Moultrie County for pauper use. The Grand Lodge met in Chicago and voted to accept the trust and pursue the testator's wishes.
A flood of items describes Lafayette Creamery Co agents selling patent cream separators on 90 day trials. Farmers sign receipts that become promissory notes as agents fail to repaint churns. Included are local anecdotes, patent medicine claims, university notes, and a factory schedule for Sumner Apple Batter Factory on Tuesdays and Fridays.
A fragment summarizes grain and poultry prices and qualities. References include wheat, corn, oats, clover, timothy hay, stock peas, and various live poultry items such as spring chickens and ducks with per unit pricing implied in old market language.
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