31 Dec 1908
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Newspaper
The Joliet Weekly News
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1908
Page
1
An article notes a Rural Schools Institute on January 18 addressing agriculture and sanitary home conditions. Topics include milks rules, farm sewage, and school garden programs to teach science and nutrition to youths in rural areas.
Institute opens Wednesday January 13 with free admission and a program to discuss carpentry smithing and farm practices that may keep land productive like the Virgin prairies. Everyone who farms is a member and invited.
Marshall county Minnesota exhibitors took seven prizes at the Omaha Nebraska event. L Lamberson won best half bushel of wheat, A D Van Bickle best oats, and others earned top honors in clover barley with world contest and Minnesota only divisions. Grand sweepstakes undecided but expected.
A damaged OCR note describes a road trip through Frankfort and New Lenox with a dirt gap in the gravel road to Owen's Hill. It notes Frankfort owns half a mile and New Lenox half a mile, awaiting repair to connect to nearby towns and county routes.
A historic farmers institute program outlines sessions for Wednesday January 18 with talks by Rev. McNutt Ed Davenport from the University of Illinois Ronald Button New Lenox Keen Children Plainfield and Mrs Fred Bladgett Homer Tracy Patrick Homer Kayer 200. The day features Agriculture in Rural Schools recitations on the needs of a farmer s wife in life and its influence and discussions on rootings courses and potato marketing with readings by Miss Amie Vivian Bronson Joliet.
A farmer in New Lenox Henry Schmuhl extended a fence into a public highway by sixteen feet prompting a dispute with neighbor George Osmus and a statewide look at highway rights. The state’s attorney George A Barr notes that adverse possession cannot defeat public rights and cites statutes on obstructing highways and protecting boundary monuments.
A crowd watched Hennebry drive a five year old horse from Ottawa street to the barn in under forty eight minutes, beating the Rock Island train by eighteen minutes and netting the driver a couple hundred dollars after paying $80 for the horse yesterday.
Interurban lines push aggressive pricing to lure patrons while steam roads curb rivals by introducing reduced rates. The Chicago and Alton announce halft fare between Springfield and Carlinville and Springfield and Lincoln with extensions to St. Louis. McKinley system responds to electric lines to sustain passengers as routes shift.
One of the Oregon state penitentiary scenes features Will Collins, a Joliet entertainer, performing a ward election sketch about two Irish aldermen candidates in a Christmas program for prisoners. The mass meeting atmosphere drew strong audience participation and laughter. The event also showcased Barnards and other acts, ending in a festive prison dinner.
Harvey Hazel a 17 year old former Toledo boy was found guilty of second degree murder and sentenced to life in the penitentiary for the January 11 1908 killing of his mother. The jury rejected capital punishment and Hazel showed calm despite the verdict.
A garbled notice invites readers to enter a prize competition offering $26 to the winner and $10 in gold to the runner up. It urges patronage and hints at a meat building context with a March 1 1909 deadline.
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