Grundy County, IL

Phoenix Advertiser
Minooka News

April 28, 1904
Vol. 29, No. 17


Bert WARD drove to Morris Friday.

Thomas MURPHY was in Chicago Friday.

Henry DEMPSEY is very sick with diphtheria.

Markets - Corn 37; oats 26; eggs 15; butter 20.

M. J. WHALEN was in Joliet on business Saturday.

Frank WILSON was in Joliet on business Saturday.

Mrs. Irvin COOP spent Friday with her sister, Mrs. L. WALSTROM.

William MURLEY is on the sick list with an attack of pneumonia.

Ambrose BRANNICK is laid up with a bad attack of inflammatory rheumatism.

Miss Alberta SPERRY, of Joliet, visited Miss Mattie COLLEPS here the past week.

Jeremiah FEEHAN, of Chicago, was a guest of Ambrose BRANNICK and family Saturday and Sunday.

Miss Mamie COMERFORD, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas COMERFORD, is ill with an attack of inflammatory rheumatism.

Prof. and Mrs. F. M. CROSBY and little son, of Maywood, visited over Sunday with Mrs. CROSBY's brother Alex BELL and family.

Andrew KREIN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore KREIN, was taken ill with diphtheria Monday, making the second case of this disease in town. A quarantine has been established and rigid measures will be enforced to stamp out the disease.

William COULEHAN met with a severe accident in Morris one day last week and as a result is nursing a fracture of one of the small bones of the ankle. He drove to Morris with a load of hay and at the court house square the load tipped over and threw Mr. COULEHAN onto the sidewalk. He was promptly given surgical aid and later was brought to his home where he is recovering nicely.

At the recent school election Martin KAFFER was reelected director and the new board organized at a meeting Monday evening with Mr. KAFFER as president and S. A. FERGUSON as secretary. By a unanimous vote all of the present teachers are to be retained in their respective positions for another year. The teachers are Prof. L. E. ROSS, principal; Miss Nelson, intermediate; Mrs. Florence STRATTON, primary. The teachers and pupils have done good work this year and all are well pleased with the advancement made.

The chicken coop and barn at the Vanna hotel were completely destroyed by fire at 4 o'clock last Friday morning, April 22, with a loss of about $1,000. The fire is supposed to have originated from an incubator that was used in the chicken coop and was first discovered by Mrs. S. A. FERGUSON who aroused her husband and he hurried out to give the alarm. The porch of Mr. FERGUSON's residence was badly exposed to the fierce heat and finally caught fire despite the heroic attempt of citizens to protect it. The blaze on the porch was soon quelled, however, and no great damage was done there. In the chicken house were about two hundred fowls and these were all burned. A cow in the barn was gotten safely out in time to avoid injury. The loss is a severe one for Mr. and Mrs. Vanna and they have the sympathy of all in their misfortune. There was no insurance on the property destroyed.

Transcribed by Deb Haines, Grundy County IL CC, December 16, 1998