Grundy County, IL Phoenix Advertiser Minooka News August 20, 1903 Vol. 28, No. 34 Mr. and Mrs. George BELL spent last Monday in Joliet. Markets - Corn 49; oats new 32, old 29; eggs 17; butter 17. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert ERICKSON is ill this week. Mrs. John CONNELL returned last Thursday to her home at Swan Lake, Iowa, after visiting here for some time with her mother, Mrs. E. KINSELLA. Some of the ladies of the M. E. church are planning an entertainment to be given Friday and Saturday evening, Aug. 28 and 29, at Masonic hall. There will be a supper and some other desirable features. The growth of corn the past two weeks has been unusually heavy and about all that remains to be desired for a satisfactory crop is a late fall and frost. Some of the corn will soon be out of the way of harm but most of it would be badly nipped by a frost before the middle of September. The site of the new St. Mary's Catholic church will probably be decided upon next Sunday. The committee who will report with recommendations in composed of M. L. KAFFER, John CARLIN, and J. P. McEVILLY. Several sites are under consideration but it would be difficult at this time to state which is likely to be accepted. It is practically assured that the church will be built in town and not on the former site. The Young Ladies' Sodality of St. Mary's church is entering upon an active campaign for funds for rebuilding the church that was recently destroyed by fire and will start things to going by giving a grand picnic at Conroy's Park at Channahon next Wednesday, August 26, 1903. Elaborate arrangements are being made for the event which promises to be one of the most successful and pleasant ever held in this section. Stahl's orchestra will furnish music. The park has a fine dancing pavilion and is finely adapted for the entertainment of a large crowd. Everyone is invited to attend and help along the worthy cause. The admission tickets are but 25 cents. Mr. G. T. SMITH, the veteran Minooka merchant, has a complete record of all the transactions in the building of the St. Mary's church which was destroyed by fire a few weeks ago. He also has the original invoices of all the lumber and other material used in the building. The record shows all the subscriptions to the building of the church and the amounts received and expended in connection therewith. The record was kept by Mr. SMITH himself, who took the lead in the work at that time and frequently advanced money to meet the bills when funds were scarce. The record was a convenient thing to have when the insurance was lately adjusted as it accurately showed the size and value of the property. The record is kept in most excellent shape and Mr. SMITH is certainly to be congratulated on its possession at this late day. Ezra TABLER, whose injuries in an accident we chronicled last week, died at his home Thursday evening after three days of intense suffering. Mr. TABLER fell on an upright pitchfork handle while assisting in threshing, Monday, Aug. 10, and the handle entered his groin and penetrated up into his lungs. There was no possibility for his recovery although he received prompt medical attendance. The shocking accident cast a gloom of sorrow over the whole community and the family that is bereft has the sincere sympathy of all. Mr. TABLER was 59 years of age last October and had resided here nearly all his life. He was a good neighbor and citizen and kind husband and father. He leaves a widow, two daughters, Mrs. Charles CALVIN, and Mrs. Henry LADDAMORE, and one son, Henry TABLER, all of Aux Sable. The funeral took place Sunday at 1 o'clock from the home, conducted by Rev. BEDDOES of the Seward Congregational church. The interment was at the Aux Sable cemetery. The bearers were six brothers, E. B. TABLER, of Minooka, Jerome, of Channahon, Nathaniel, Lewis and William, of Aux Sable, and Farady of Chicago. The eldest of these is 67 and the youngest but 22. The funeral was one of the most largely attended ever seen here, there being 106 teams in the cortege. Mr. TABLER's was the third accidental death in his family. One of his brothers went through the whole civil war and came out unscathed to be kicked in the head by a mule a few months later and he died from the blow. Another brother was killed by a train at New Lenox ten years ago. There are two sisters living, Mrs. John McCLOUD, of Indiana, and Miss Anna TABLER, of Chicago.