Grundy County, IL

Phoenix Advertiser
Minooka News

January 7, 1904
Vol. 29, No. 1


Markets - Corn 34; oats 34; eggs __; 

The ground hog will soon have his day.

E. N. WEESE was a visitor to Chicago Monday.

KAFFER Bros. got in a car load of flour Tuesday.

Miss Essie BRISCOE was a visitor to Joliet Thursday.

Edward CARLIN, of Joliet, called on Minooka friends Sunday.

Michael BRISCOE was a business visitor to Joliet Saturday.

Miss Mamie CLENNON spent New Year's with friends in Joliet.

Thomas MURPHY and Frank LYNK went to Joliet on business Saturday.

The Reno Comedy Co., appeared at White's Central hall Wednesday night.

Miss Tillie HOLLERING, of Aurora, visited friends here Friday and Saturday.

S. F. TROWBRIDGE went to Joliet to consult a veterinarian Tuesday afternoon.

Miss Mamie CLENNON was a guest of Miss Regina BURKE in Joliet New Year's.

George COLLEPS Jr. was on the sick list a few days of the past week with tonsilitis.

Charles CARROLL, of Joliet, spent Sunday here with his mother, Mrs. Lizzie CARROLL.

Mr. and Mrs. John WEIDNER, of Morris, were New Year's guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. WARD.

Mrs. T. BURKE, who had been spending a couple of weeks with her friends in Joliet, returned home Thursday evening.

Miss Effie FITZGERALD returned to her home in Chicago Saturday after a visit here with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. P. DWYER.

Miss Adelaide TYRRELL, of Chicago, has been visiting here the past week as a guest of her cousin, Mrs. W. H. KAFFER, and other relatives.

Mrs. Edward STRATTON and son, of Massena, Iowa, arrived here Tuesday morning for a visit at the home of the lady's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. CAMPBELL.

The Court of Honor gave a New Year's party at Union hall Thursday evening and there was a large attendance. The music was by Stahl and supper was served by KROGNESS. 

Miss Ethel WATSON was a guest of Miss Clara UTTER in Joliet last week and accompanied her on her return to Galesburg, Ill., where both of the young ladies are attending Knox College.

Edward McEVILLY was in Chicago Wednesday of last week and witnessed the Iroquois theatre fire and its heartrending scenes. Mr. McEVILLY had tickets for the evening performance at the Iroquois that night.

A committee composed of Patrick BRADY, Michael BRISCOE, Henry TALBOT and Paul MURPHY gave a pleasant dancing party in Union hall New Year's night. The music was by Jesse James' orchestra and supper was served by Caterer KROGNESS.  

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. KAFFER attended a fine party in Joliet last Monday night given at Marquette hall by Mrs. Daniel FEELEY and the Misses Mamie and Lizzie RYAN, Ella BARRY and Sadie LANGDON. The ladies had about three hundred guests and all were royally entertained. The music was by Holman's orchestra of six pieces.

Next Sunday promises to be a day of unusual happiness in one Minooka home. Theodore KREIN's residence will be the scene of a family reunion that day and the five sons, John, George, Frank, Theodore and Edward, are coming out from Chicago, and the daughter, Miss Julia KREIN, from Joliet. These, with the children still at home, will make up the complete family group and it will be the first time in some years that they have all been together.

Robert McMICHAEL and family attended the funeral in Chicago Saturday of their cousin, a boy who parished in the Iroquois theater fire Wednesday afternoon. Another cousin, a young lady, was also in the theater and was so badly burned and crushed in the panic that she is now at the hospital in a precarious condition. She was underneath several other bodies and was thought to be dead when first found. The boy's body bore no marks of wounds or burning, and death is supposed to have resulted from suffocation or fright.

Harry THAYER is now day operator for the Rock Island at Blue Island. He came down Saturday evening for a short visit with his parents in this place and returned Sunday morning. The recent change was in the nature of ______ _____ and he is now in one of the most lucrative and responsible positions in the telegraphic division outside of the dispatcher's office. His telegraphic duties embrace the work of twenty one separate wires and he attends to the ticket sales besides. Harry is yet in his nineteenth year and has certainly made swift progress up the ladder of success in railroad work.

DIED: Sunday, Jan. 3, 1904, at 9:30 o'clock a. m., Mrs. Emma J. HILL, the beloved wife of William A. HILL, at her home in Troy township, two and a half miles north-east of Minooka. Mrs. HILL had suffered with stomach trouble for a long time and this finally led to her death. Miss HILL was born in Troy township, May 25, 1856, and was 47 years of age. She was well known throughout this section. Her maiden name was Marshall. Dec. 24, 1880, she was married to W. A. HILL, of Troy. Mrs. HILL leaves a husband and five children to mourn her demise. The children are Harrison HILL, of Galesburg, Ill.; Oliver, Charlotte, Clara and Albert, at home. The funeral was held Tuesday at the home in Troy at 11 o'clock. Burial in Chapman cemetery.

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