Grundy County, IL Phoenix Advertiser Minooka News September 10, 1903 Vol. 28, No. 37 C. E. DAVIS was in Morris on business Tuesday. George COLLEPS was in Chicago on business last Tuesday. Markets - Corn 47; oats 30 and 33; eggs 17; butter 17. Sir Thomas LIPTON (Oaks) sailed his yacht to Joliet last Tuesday. Miss Mand THAYER has been visiting with relatives in Joliet the past week. Mrs. S. A. FERGUSON has been visiting with relatives at Wilmington, Ill., for ten days. I. H. HOOPER and Wm. PAUL took in the Labor Day doings in Chicago last Monday. Labor Day passed without any observance here. All the business houses were open as usual. Charles SHEIFILDT, residing a few miles north of here who has been quite ill with pneumonia, is better. A. K. KNAPP continues to improve slowly and was able to be taken out for a drive last Monday. Lost - A valuable coat. The finder will probably be cheerfully rewarded for returning the coat to Teddy SHEPLEY. Mrs. Charles WYETH, of White Willow, underwent a successful operation last Tuesday for the removal of a tumor. Mr. and Mrs. George KROGNESS are now in charge of the TINDER restaurant and have also embarked in the bakery business. Gorge COULEHAN and Henry DWYER expect to open their new store and meat market for business before the close of this week. William PAUL visited the "STORKS" in Joliet last Tuesday and perhaps one of the storks will some day return the visit to William. A few hot days and nights this week have been worth a dollar a second in developing and maturing the corn crop of the country. A traveling harpist and two youthful violinists discoursed the orchestral strains of "Hiawatha", "In the Good Old Summer Time" and other popular selections on our streets last Tuesday. N. J. COMERFORD, who was suffering severely with tonsillitis last week, has nearly recovered from that and is able to be out again. He is still weak, however, and will devote his attention now to building up his strength. Michael WHALEN has bought out the interest of his partner, Wm. PAUL, in the saloon business here and will henceforth conduct the saloon alone. We have not learned what Mr. PAUL's intentions for the future are. Miss Olive THAYER went to Normal, Ill., last Monday and entered the State Normal University there for a year's course. Her father, W. A. THAYER, accompanied her to Normal and returned home the same day. Charles Raemond DAVIS entered the township high school in Joliet last Tuesday for a post graduate course and everyone knows that "Butch" will ably represent Minooka at the big educational institution of Will county. The married ladies of St. Mary's church are planning to give a lawn party for the benefit of the building fund Oct. 7. It has not yet been definitely decided where the party will be held and announcement will be made later. The Minooka schools opened last Monday with good attendance and Prof. A. E. ROSS is in charge as principal. Mrs. Florence STRATTON is again teacher in the primary division and Miss Ellyn NELSON is in the intermediate. The Home Insurance Company, represented here by H. P. BRANNICK, last Friday paid over to the trustees of St. Mary's church the sum of $2885, being payment in full of the policy of $2900 on the church which burned recently. The $15 deduction was made for interest for 30 days to which the company is entitled under the insurance contract. Peter JORSTED expects to remove from his 160 acre farm a mile and a half north of town and will henceforth reside in Morris. He has rented his farm to "Dr." GRINDLE who now resides on the PETERSON farm and who will move in the spring to the JORSTED farm. The PETERSON farm of 160 acres was recently bought by Henry DWYER who, Dame Rumor says, will ere long end his bachelor days and take possession of the farm. C. B. CHASE returned last Friday from the Black Hills in Dakota where he had charge of the construction of some brick works as the representative of the Chicago Brickworks Co. Mr. CHASE is well pleased with life in the west and says the country is booming and that everyone there seems to have plenty of money. Nevertheless he thinks Minooka is all right and the nearest to paradise for him and he intends to spend the fall and winter at least in this vicinity. Next summer he may go elsewhere again to follow the brick work which cannot be successfully prosecuted during the winter months. Transcribed 11/09/98 by Deb Haines.