02 Dec 1909
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Newspaper
The Joliet Weekly News
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1909
Page
1
A speaker defends total abstinence as a civic aim, arguing it frees people from slavery to drink, protects homes and youth, and upholds democracy and law. The article recounts criticism from liquor advocates and praises the abstainers rising against drink.
Mrs. Levi Shaffner marked her eighty fifth birthday with a family dinner at her corner Fourth avenue and Sherman street home. Friends and neighbors joined in sharing memories and discussing old times. She has supported orphaned children and the Swedish Orphans Home in Joliet with gifts and meals, aiding city poor with coal and groceries over the years. The Shaffners would have observed a sixty year marriage anniversary on the 15th if Mr. Shaffner had lived.
Quirky exchange notes a tangled family tie through marriage in a humorous Chicago Record-Herald item. The snippet highlights shifting kinship and multiple marriages within one extended relationship.
At the Commercial club meeting, motorists from Will County push for a formal automoblie owners association to build and maintain roads. Leaders urge state wide cooperation, better road construction, farmer education, and highway signs, aiming for improved city and country streets and a state road network.
A citizen found a cow in his yard after returning home. He chased it out and later saw it again in the yard. The homeward citizen then searched the area and discovered the animal had entered the property by a side gate.
The German Evangelical Lutheran congregation faces a court battle over a 20 000 property split after a faction moved to form a new edifice. Judge Campbell will decide based on faction size, with 66 to 76 votes cited by one side. Expect appeal to the state’s highest court.
Six steel bridges have been placed across the S and M canal this fall by canal commissioners with seven more under construction. Wagon bridges 16 feet wide will be built as crews move through the maintenance work. Channahon has four, Five Mile and Buffalo Rock near Ottawa use new spans, and the Peacock bridge near Morris will be finished soon. Ninth Street in Lockport is next, with Lin-Salle possibly later. The legislature appropriated 20,000 dollars for the project.
The article traces brutal prison conditions from the 16th and 17th centuries to late 18th century reforms. It highlights John Howard and Elizabeth Fry leading moral awakenings, honors the Little Mother Mrs Booth, and praises Joliet Penitentiary for humane, airy cells, library, chapel, and hospital as a model of modern reform and preventive approaches to crime.
Fire destroyed a large barn, corn crib, milk house and contents at a Mokena farm around 10 on Saturday. Volunteers formed bucket brigades to halt the blaze from reaching the residence and nearby buildings, with about $3,000 in losses covered by insurance.
Two Will county cases have been decided by the Appellate court but the decisions will not be filed until March 1910. Judge Dibell, returning from Ottawa, states the cases are Tyler vs Illinois Central for personal injury damages from an accident south of Chicago. Original case heard by Judge
Case originated in Wilmington. Appeal from the County Court involves Marshall Walsh and Heraog with proceedings tied to local judicial action.
A list of marriage licenses shows Harry H. Ryat of Independence aged 31 wed Lydia Oswald of Mokena aged 31. Other entries include Frank Meeing tied to Ada Klerman with Hiram B. Fintan, and Carl Hararentig among residents of Frankfort, with dates and ages partially legible.
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