Grundy County, IL Phoenix Advertiser Minooka News August 27, 1903 Vol. 28, No. 35 Markets - Corn 47; oats new 32, old 29; eggs 17; butter 17. A. K. KNAPP continues to grow stronger very slowly. The intensely warm weather of this week has been the proper thing for corn. Considerable oats is now coming to the market and some corn is being marketed also. Miss Julia KREIN, of Joliet, was a guest of relatives here a few days of the past week. Mrs. Richard PALMER residing two miles north of town has been quite ill for a week or so. Mrs. W. J. CAMPBELL arrived home last Tuesday from a visit of several weeks with relatives in Iowa. Dr. J. J. BRINCKERHOFF's house and new barn are receiving fresh coats of paint. Charles and John DREW are the artists. W. H. MURPHEY, of the Dinet store in Joliet, is enjoying a vacation which he is spending among kindred and friends here and in Seward. It is expected that W. L. DOUGLAS, the Boston shoe manufacturer, is soon to establish a branch retail store in Joliet at 323 Jefferson street. Mrs. Agnes SPERRY, of Joliet, is spending a vacation of two weeks among Minooka friends. Miss SPERRY is a stenographer for a firm in the Stone City. Miss Tillie VANCE, formerly of this place but for several years holding a position with the Pure Ice Co. in Joliet, has been very ill there for a few weeks but is not convalescent. Miss Alma BELL, who holds a position as stenographer in Chicago, is enjoying a two weeks; vacation and is visiting here at the home of her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Alex BELL. Mrs. C. B. CHASE returned a few days ago from South Dakota and will again make her home here occupying their old quarters in the HOLT house. Miss Ellyn NELSON, the teacher, will board with her. Mr. CHASE remains in South Dakota where is engaged in brick making. The ladies of the Minooka M. E. church will give a "Rainbow Tea" at Masonic hall Friday and Saturday afternoons and evenings, August 28 and 29, and are planning to entertain a large crowd. A souvenir will be given to everyone attending. There will be music in the afternoon and a program at 8:30. The price will be 35 cents. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. ANDREWS died last Sunday morning at 3 o'clock of inflammation of the bowels after an illness of but a few days. The little one was but six months of age. Funeral services were held at the home here Tuesday morning at 8:30 o'clock, conducted by Rev. BEDDOES, of the Seward Congregational church. The remains were taken on the 9:43 Rock Island train to Seneca for burial. There will soon be a new business firm in Minooka and the young men who will compose it are George COULEHAN and Henry DWYER. They will embark in the grocery and meat business and expect to get started soon after the first of the coming month. Their location will be in the old CHASE stand. Mr. COULEHAN and wife have resided in Chicago for several months past, but will henceforth reside here according to the present calculation. The CAMPBELL property where W. J. CAMPBELL and family reside will undoubtedly be the site for the new St. Mary's Catholic church. The committee last Sunday decided to accept Mr. CAMPBELL's proposition to sell the property for $1500 and the only thing that might interfere with a conveyance to the church would be the refusal of Mrs. CAMPBELL to concur in the transfer. She has been visiting in Iowa for several weeks and up to yesterday had not been consulted in the matter, but it is not at all probable that she would not concur with her husband in the sale. The site thus chosen by the committee is in a fine location, being only two to three blocks from the business part of town and only a block from the public school. There are two lots making a tract 145x160 feet, with an old frame dwelling which will be moved away to give place to the new buildings. The committee of three appointed to secure options secured options on seven different sites ranging in price from a donation to $3,500. M. L. KAFFER, J. P. McEVILLY, and John BRANNICK offered to donate the FOSTER lots southwest of the public school and only a little over a block from the site chosen, but the full committee deemed the CAMPBELL property at $1500 preferable. The high priced property was that of J. H. MURPHEY for $3500. The price paid for the CAMPBELL property is generally considered to be more than the property would bring for any other purpose, but Mr. CAMPBELL was not anxious to sell. The church will certainly have an excellent site there and in the long run the committee has probably acted very wisely in accepting it. The new church will be of brick and the cost will be limited to about $15,000. Further than this no specifications have yet been drawn. Transcribed 11/09/1998 by Deb Haines