Grundy County, IL

Phoenix Advertiser
Minooka News

January 21, 1904
Vol. 29, No. 3


Markets - Corn 36; oats 35; eggs 28; butter 20.

Mrs. E. KINSELLA spent last Saturday in Joliet.

Mrs. William COULEHAN spent Saturday in Joliet.

Robert CARROLL was a visitor to Chicago Saturday.

Miss Bessie COLLEPS has been on the sick list with lagrippe.

Miss Mary DALY visited in Joliet last Sunday as a guest of Mrs. Louis BELAY.

George COLLEPS Jr. has had another bad attack of tonsilitis but is able to be out again.

Jeremiah KINSELLA, of Joliet, spent Monday here with G. T. SMITH and Mrs. E. KINSELLA.

Minooka has a limited number of bachelors for the girls to devote their attentions to this leap year.

Charles CARROLL, of Joliet, has been visiting here with his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth CARROLL, for a few days.

February 2, 1887, was the date of the big Minooka fire and the seventeenth anniversary will soon be at hand.

Tonsilitis is the prevailing malady now. C. A. TROWBRIDGE, Miss Beulah WEESE and L. A. WARD's family have all been sufferers.

They are plenty of fish in the canal and river and large quantities have been caught this winter by cutting holes in the ice and dropping in a line well baited.

The Minooka draying business has undergone another transfer and now Alonzo HEATH is at the helm. He bought the business from Elmer DRAINER a few days ago.

The little daughter of Ald. Frank KENNELLY in Joliet, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. J. KNIGHT of this place, underwent an operation for appendicitis at Silver Cross hospital last Thursday and is getting along nicely.

The young ladies of Minooka will give the annual fire dance this year. It will be the seventeenth event of this kind and will occur Wednesday evening, Feb. 3. Stahl's orchestra will furnish music and KROGNESS will serve supper. The tickets will be $1.75, including supper. Two hundred invitations are being issued and the event promises to be a grand success.

The great theatre holocaust in Chicago recently has moved the Minooka village board to condemn what has long been regarded as a bad fire trap here. This is Union hall on the third floor of the Union hotel building. There is but a single winding inside stairway to the hall and this is only wide enough for one person to pass at a time. A poorer exit in the event of fire or panic could not easily be contrived. The authorities insist that the hall must remain closed until a good outside stairway is constructed and their action cannot fail to meet with warm public approval. A suitable outside stairway can be constructed at small expense.

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