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Newspaper
The Joliet Daily Republican
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1908
Page
2
Nearby towns report social events in Lockport including theater and church gatherings. City finances show a May balance of 24.97 after paying 4,429.66 of old debt, with 21,879.27 in city clerk expenditures for the year.
Plainfield June 13 Special to The Republican Mr and Mrs Charles of Chicago visiting Miss Grace Road and the Stratton sisters. A quiet wedding at M B D parsonage Jo Yet united Ulysis Force and Maud Murray. Boots funeral 81 at home of son Joe Boots Jr. Laura Avery of Joliet visiting Miss Jane Bethel.
Special to The Republican reports visits and calls in Braidwood and Coal City. Miss Sadie Higgins of Bracerville called on friends, Emma Edwards and Elizabeth Jack visited in Coal, and Mrs James Hynds and Mrs Frank Hynds called on Wilming ton friends. Daisy and Gertrude Barr return from Joliet teaching to summer at home. David Sreinburg did business in Coal City, and Mr and Mrs Alexander Allen of Colosed visit in the city with his mother. Helen Arnold spends summer vacation at Dr and Mrs Arnold's on Bus Street. Oswald of Carbon Hill visits relatives in the city.
Lemont June 13 Special to The Republican. The school board hired for the next year Principal William Welton of Morton Park Illinois High School Teacher Peter Dockendorff Sixth Grade Nellie Murphy Fifth Grade Sadie Murphy Fourth Grade Tessie Swan Third Grade Nora Kellaher First and Second Grades Anna Doolin Visitors Mrs Traverse of Aurora Ill visiting with her sister Mrs B Weimer. News of local moves and appointments included Mrs Wm Burkhardt visiting in Chicago and the newly married Mr and Mrs James Sullivan spending time with relatives. A H Snyder became agent for Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe moving to Talty residence. Walter Chapman now works for Baxter Williams at McCook testing an Atlantic shovel for shipment to Louisiana.
The article praises Ringling Brothers as the standard of excellence with sixty gymnasts led by the Clarkonians Aenial Smiths and Millers among 375 performers. It notes aerial feats across a giant tent, European stars making their American debut, and two shows on Thursday, June 18 with a daytime street display and a downtown ticket office offering reserved seats at standard prices.
Lester M. Nelson of Naples Maine praises Dr King’s New Discovery as life saving for coughs and colds and lung complaints. The remedy, advertised for nearly forty years as a throat and lung healer and pneumonia preventive, is sold by J D Brown & Co with guaranteed pricing 50 cents and 1.00 and a free trial bottle.
Dialogue shows Tom asking about progress with Miss Milyan. Dick confirms improvement but notes her father ejects suitors with forceful action. the exchange hints at a protective father figure and social constraints surrounding courtship.
The Republican national committee finished hearings on 219 seats in seven days and then considered other matters. Taft faced one clear defeat in the Fifth Virginia district. Louisiana and Tennessee saw split delegations. the party leaned toward Fairbanks for second place and Woodford signaled Hughes support with a caution on his nomination.
Nearly 200 visitors and employees received tags at the White House as Quentin Roosevelt pinned them on. Friday marked Tag Day in Washington to raise funds for the children's playgrounds, with Roosevelt tagging 198 people from homecoming until evening.
John Vines Wright aged near eighty and longtime U S official in the general land office died following a paralytic stroke. He claimed the distinction of making more treaties with American Indians than any other man and served in the Confederate Congress. Survived by a widow and five daughters. Funeral planned for Sunday.
The national grand lodge of the Order of Good Templars adjourned Friday night after electing and installing officers. Resolutions praised Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma and Gov. Glenn of North Carolina for supporting prohibition. New officers include George F. Cotterill, A.M. Leffingwell, Mrs. A. J. Pyle, BD Dinwiddie, Mrs. Emily M. Peters, Willard C. Wylie, B. Morgan, and Col. B. F. Parker.
Justice Morschauser in Poughkeepsie rules Thaw will remain in the jail while counsel seek a change of the order that sent him to Matteawan State Hospital for the Insane. Arguments were heard in New York City on the motion to transfer the prisoner to a non Matteawan asylum due to strained relations with Matteawan officials.
Kansas City reports unusual rains Friday across Kansas Nebraska Missouri and Iowa with the Kaw and Missouri rivers predicted to reach high stages by Wednesday night. Missouri River readings show a rise of about one foot in a day as flooding expands from lowlands to higher bottoms damaging wheat and corn.
A pair of blasts and a following fire at Morris & Co packing plant in Kansas City Kansas caused two deaths and multiple injuries. Ammonia ignition and sewer gas sparked the first explosions as the flood plain hampered firefighting. five hours were needed to control the blaze.
In Toledo on June 13 the twenty first biennial review of the Knights of the Modern Maccabees closed at Memorial hall after a heated session. Officers elected include Past commander N S Boynton Port Huron great commander George S Lovelace Muskegon record keeper A M Slaye Port Huron finance keeper R J Whaley Flint medical examiner T M Slenean Port Huron great editor D Williams Detroit great counsellor Frank E Jones Ann Arbor, Mich.
Wisconsin Prohibitionists adjourned sine die after naming a state ticket and delegates at large to the national convention. The slate includes Governor W D Cox Milwaukee and other state officers. The move aims to decide a united ticket for the upcoming primary election.
The Republican Daily lists prices for yellow and mixed corn, oats, oat straw, butter, eggs, potatoes, lard and live stock. Notable figures include Yellow Corn No 3 at 43% and Oats at 50 14 00, with pork and dairy values noted as Bigin creamery butter 23 and live hogs in several weight classes from 4 40 to 4 90 per unit.
An advert promotes Albert's Little Dinner Pill as a universal stomach tonic and digestives cure. It guarantees relief from dyspepsia indigestion sick headache and constipation with a money back guarantee after half a package if no benefit is seen. A trial package is offered free to any sufferer with no dieting required. Palace Pharmacy in Spot Gash Block handles sales and guarantees.
Chicago June 12 markets to days report from Casey and Gray at the Chicago Board of Trade notes activity at 321 Jefferson Street and telegraph company correspondence.
Cash Wheat prices span No 2 red 91 93 to No 3 red 90 91 14 and No 2 hard winter 91 98 with No 3 hard winter 89 91 44. Cash Corn ranges No 2 yellow 70 and No 3 white 71 72 No 3 yellow 69 70 and No 4 57 59. Cash Data No 3 white 50 52 No 4 white 47 51.
Tom Moore of Rural Route 1 Cochran Ga reports a bad instep sore healed after applying Bucklen's Arnica Salve. He says less than half of a 25 cent box produced a perfect cure. Sold under guarantee at J D Brown & Co's drug store.
Conversation at a social gathering centers on flood damage to bridges and a playful exchange about a husband losing pin money in a game of bridge. The dialogue features Mrs Brown Mrs Smith and Gerald plus Geraldine discussing personal losses and household amenities.
Dr Detchon claims his Rheumatism and Neuralgia remedy rapidly cures rheumatism in 1 to 8 days. The patent medicine advertisement describes immediate effects and a mysterious action on the system, promising to remove the disease’s cause.
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