Grundy County, IL

Phoenix Advertiser
Minooka News

May 19, 1904
Vol. 29, NO. 20


Mrs. E. KINSELLA was in Joliet Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. L. A. WARD drove to Joliet Monday.

Mrs. Frank HOLBROOK was in Joliet on business Monday.

Markets - Corn 40 to 41; oats 39; eggs 14; butter 16.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles O'BRIEN were in Chicago Thursday.

Miss Mary O'BRIEN is visiting friends in Chicago this week.

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. KROGNESS were visitors in Joliet Friday.

Edward CARLIN, of Joliet spent Sunday here with kindred and friends.

Robert WILSON, of Plattville, visited with his brother Frank here last Saturday.

Ambrose BRANNICK, one of the rheumatic victims, is very little if any improved.

Mrs. Daniel ERICKSON and little son are both suffering with inflammatory rheumatism.

Miss Etta DUNNE, of Chicago, was a guest here of Miss Minnie BRANNICK Saturday and Sunday.

Dennis DOUGHERTY, of Chicago, visited over Sunday with his mother and brother north of town.

Benjamin MURLEY who has been suffering with rheumatism for some time, is only a little improved.

John BUCKLEY has been doing jury duty at Yorkville, county seat of Kendall county, for a week or two.

Miss Carrie SCLADLER, of Joliet, is visiting with her grandmother, Mrs. FOSTER, and other relatives here this week.

Miss Lizzie KEARNAN, of Joliet, came here Tuesday morning and is a guest of her cousin, Mrs. Thomas WYNNE.

Mr. and Mrs. A. D. SEARLES, of Omaha, Neb., spent several days of the past week here with the former's mother, Mrs. A. D. SEARLES, Sr.

Miss Mary CANTWELL has had advices from her cousin, John FITZGERALD, at Clifton, Ill., stating that he is in a fair way to recover from his dangerous illness.

Charles WHITE's new brick business block is now nearing completion. It will be only one story and the west room will be occupied by DR. BRINCKERHOFF's drug store.

There seems to be almost an epidemic of rheumatism in the community and there have probably never before been so many cases of the disease as at the present time.

The fifteenth anniversary of the organization of the Epworth League was commemorated with an appropriate program at the Minooka M. E. church last Sunday evening.

Mrs. Robert MOORE who has been severely afflicted with rheumatism for some time was taken to the hospital in Joliet last week and it is hoped the treatment there will benefit her.

The White Willow School, Miss May TEMPLETON, teacher, closed last week on account of the prevalence of mumps in the district, and school will probably not reopen there until next fall.

Erwin L. HUTCHINSON, formerly of this place, and Miss Agnes R. RYAN, of Millbrook, Ill., were married at the bride's home two weeks ago. Minooka friends are pleased to extend congratulations.

The Minooka high school base ball team went to Plainfield last Saturday and met the high school nine there in a close contest on the diamond. The Plainfield team finally won over the visitors the score being 4 to 2.

The Morris base ball team that was defeated here last Sunday will come up again next Sunday with a revised lineup and will endeavor to "show" the Minooka ball tossers a few of the fine points of the game. It might be well to state that Minooka has been shown.

Fred COULEHAN met with a piece of bad luck in Joliet Thursday. Mr. COULEHAN left a suit of clothes and two overcoats in his buggy on Bluff street and when he returned the apparel was gone and no trace of it could be found. The Minooka man was therefore the loser and Joliet's light-handed gentry were again the gainers.

The Minooka Scrubs and the Morris Dubs played a hot game on the diamond in Shepley's pasture last Sunday afternoon and the visitors were vanquished by a score of 15 to 7. After this game the Aux Sable team and a nine of the Minooka married men got busy and ripped up a score that looked like the returns of a republican state convention ballot. The Troy nine were scheduled to play the Aux Sable team but the Trogans evidently lost some of their valor and were afraid to appear.

Transcribed by Deb Haines, Grundy County IL CC, December 17, 1998