Grundy County, IL

Phoenix Advertiser
Minooka News

November 26, 1903
Vol. 28, No. 48


Markets - Corn 36 and 33; oats 33; eggs 25; butter 19.

M. L. KAFFER and C. E. DAVIS were in Chicago on business Tuesday.

Miss Mary CANTWELL is on the sick list this week with an attack of fever.

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. MURPHEY and Atty. and Mrs. Louis LAGGER, all of Joliet, attended the funeral of Mrs. WALLING here Monday.

N. J. COMERFORD arrived home last week from his western trip and has almost recovered from the attack of illness he suffered at Storm Lake, Iowa.

Mrs. Thomas SCHIEK, returned to her home in Keokuk, Iowa, a few days ago after a visit here with her step-daughter, Mrs. J. J. VANA of the Union hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. W. B. KAFFER went to Joliet Monday evening to attend a reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John W. D'ARCY to commemorate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.

Miss Mable FRECKLETON, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James FRECKLETON, was taken ill with diphtheria a few days ago. She is not in a dangerous condition and her recovery is confidently expected.

Henry TRUBY has awarded the contract for the construction of his new elevator on the E. J. & E. at this place to Contractor DAVIDSON, of Joliet. The building is to be completed by January first. It will have a capacity of 25,000 bushels. Mr. TRUBY himself furnishes the material and the builder mill merely do the work for which the contract is about $350.

Harry THAYER arrived home Monday evening from his trip to Denver, Col., and will probably accept a position as agent on this division of the Rock Island. He reports things rather dull in his line in the west and for this reason he returned to Illinois. He enjoyed the trip greatly, however, and took in some of the most picturesque scenes of the Rockies.

I. V. HOOPER was taken to a private sanitarium at Geneva, Ill., last week and it is hoped and confidently expected that he will soon be fully restored to health. A noted specialist of Chicago was consulted in the case and his opinion is that the apparent mental derangement is entirely due to extreme nervousness, which under proper conditions will soon pass away.

Mrs. Nellie WALLING, a sister of Mrs. Edward HOLT, of this place, died at the home of her brother in Chicago last Friday and the remains were brought here Monday. Funeral services were conducted at the HOLT home that day and the interment was in the Aux Sable cemetery. Mrs. WALLING leaves no children and her husband died several years ago. She was known to but few here and had never resided in this vicinity.

Mrs. Mary E. CRYDER died at the home of her son, Frank A. CRYDER, in Aux Sable township last Thursday, November 19, 1903, after an illness of two weeks. She has lived in Joliet since 1894 but a short time ago came to her son's home near here on a visit and was taken ill there. Mrs. CRYDER was born at Sand Town, New Jersey, Dec. 15, 1833 and came with her parents to Seward in Kendall county in 1836. She was married there March 19, 1858, to Henry CRYDER who died Nov. 17, 1870. Three sons, Frank A., William H. and Israel V. and one daughter, Mrs. Ella VanDYKE, survive. The funeral took place Sunday from the home. The burial was in Aux Sable cemetery.

Transcribed by Deb Haines, Grundy County IL CC, December 13, 1998