Grundy County, IL

Phoenix Advertiser
Minooka News

Nov. 5, 1903
Vol. 28, No. 45


Markets - Corn 40; oats 32; eggs 22; butter 18.

Miss Mary BRADY spent Monday in Joliet.

Mrs. E. N. WEESE visited Joliet last Thursday.

Mrs. James SHIELDS called on Joliet friends last Friday.

Charles O'BRIEN made a business trip to Chicago Monday.

Mrs. Fannie NEWMAN visited with friends in Joliet Saturday.

A number from here attended the races in Morris Saturday.

Mrs. William FITZPATRICK visited in Joliet last Wednesday.

Mrs. Frank WILSON called on friends in Joliet Thursday.

George COLLEPS and daughter, Miss Bessie, spent Monday in 
Joliet.

E. N. WEESE visited with his son Charles in Morris Wednesday.

W. J. WALSH, of Joliet, called on kindred and friends here 
Thursday.

Mrs. L. Van DOLSON spent Wednesday and Thursday with 
friends in Joliet.

Mr. and Mrs. William GRUETT visited with relatives in Chicago 
last Sunday.

Mrs. D. H. ANDREWS and son Garnet visited friends in Seneca 
the past week.

L. A. WARD, otherwise known as Bert, was a business visitor 
to Joliet Tuesday.

A new dwelling is being erected on the south side for 
Malachi DEMPSEY and family.

John Van ZANDT, of Iowa, is visiting among Minooka friends 
and relatives this week.

Mrs. and Mrs. George THAYER and little daughter, of Joliet, 
are visiting here this week.

Mrs. P. DWYER and daughter, Miss Anna DWYER, are visiting 
relatives in Chicago this week.

Mrs. James FEEHAN is quite seriously ill at the home of her 
daughter, Mrs. Ambrose BRANNICK.

Dr. J. J. BRINCKERHOFF attended a meeting of the Will County 
Poultry Association held in Joliet last Monday evening.

Mrs. Olin SAGE, of Chicago Heights, and Mrs. A. M. WESTON, 
of Joliet, have been visiting here this week with their 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. J. KNIGHT.

Mrs. John CROOK and her son aged about five years are both 
suffering with diptheria. The disease appears not to be of 
a virulent form.

Charles E. DAVIS and Mrs. Frank MILLER went to Mazon last 
Sunday to attend the funeral of their mother who died there 
Friday, Oct. 30, 1903.

The approaching wedding of Mr. Charles O'BRIEN and Miss Mary 
BRADY was announced in St. Mary's church last Sunday and the 
wedding will take place Wednesday, Nov. 18.

Owing to a little discrepancy in the specifications no bids 
were received Monday night for the building of the new St. 
Mary's church and the opening of bids was postponed until 
Wednesday evening.

The building committee of St. Mary's church have decided on 
the brick to be used in the building. They will come from 
Hobart, Ind., and are of dark reddish color. They will cost 
$10 per thousand delivered here.

N. J. COMERFORD left Tuesday noon for Chicago and thence 
over the Northwestern for Plankington, S. D., where he will 
spend three weeks with relatives and friends. Mrs. COMERFORD 
accompanied her husband as far as Chicago Tuesday.

School district No. 51 in Seward township, of which Miss 
Edna M. BELL is teacher, secured one of the ten U. S. flags 
presented by the Youths' Companion for the best work done 
by schools during the year in improving and beautifying the 
school grounds.

D. A. HENNEBRY has sold out his interest in the grain 
business here to Henry TRUBY of Bird's Bridge who proposes 
to erect a new elevator at the "J", forthwith and expects to 
have it completed by the first of the year. Mr. HENNEBRY 
will remain with A. K. KNAPP.

A class of sixteen girls and fourteen boys made their first 
communion last Sunday in Central hall where the services of 
St. Mary's church are held pending the erection of a new 
sanctuary. Rev. Father Joseph McMAHON officiated at the 
communion service. The girls were all dressed in white and 
wore white veils and the boys wore bows of white.

Several Minooka members of the Masonic fraternity attended 
the meeting of Mt. Joliet lodge in Joliet last Friday evening 
and witnessed work in the third degree. Nearly 200 from 
Chicago were also present and nearly _00 people sat down at 
the banquet which was one of the pleasing surprises in store 
for the guests. The Minooka Masons who attended state that 
it was one of the best functions they ever attended.

Last Saturday night was Hallowe'en and what the Minooka 
youths didn't think of doing would appear very tame compared 
to their doin's. They decorated Charles FOSTER's building 
with three or four carts and buggies, placed saloon signs on 
private dwellings, transferred the McCORMICK implement sign 
from THAYER's drug store and removed from Frank WILSON's meat 
wagon a wheel which has not yet been discovered. The following 
morning a man from Chicago stepped off the train here and 
being possessed of a well developed thirst for a glass of 
Budweiser he stepped over to the residence opposite the depot 
where the boys had placed a saloon sign the night before. 
Before he knew he was on the wrong tack he asked the man at 
the house if it would be possible for him to get a glass of 
beer there that (Sunday) morning. He was briefly but firmly 
directed to go to.

Transcribed 11/11/1998 by Deb Haines