Grundy County, IL

Phoenix Advertiser
Minooka News

July 14, 1904
Vol. 29, No. 28


Markets - Corn 30 to 44; oats 34.

Robert BRADBURY spent last Sunday with Joliet friends.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry NEWMAN spent last Saturday in Joliet.

Miss Tessie McEVILLY went down to Starved Rock Tuesday.

Supervisor Daniel HALL was in Morris on business Monday.

Mrs. Arthur THOMAS, west of town, has been quite ill for a few days.

Mrs. Michael McCANNA, of Joliet, visited among relatives and friends here a few days of the past week.

Mr. and Mrs. L. A. WARD went over near Lorenzo Wednesday to visit at the home of Mrs. WARD's uncle.

Miss Agnes McEVILLY returned home last week from Chicago where she had been visiting among relatives and friends for a month.

The Minookas and Aux Sables crossed bats at Shepley's park last Sunday afternoon and the grangers won out by a score of 8 to 5.

Henry TALBOT is able to go out again after going through a siege of smallpox. Few people were aware of his illness until he was through with the malady.

Several people from here went to Starved Rock yesterday. The Knights of Columbus are holding a week's meeting here this week, and the sessions have been most interesting to those in attendance.

Frank WILSON made an error in carving meat several days ago and accidentally cut his foot quite badly. The wound was also poisoned and altogether the victim has had quite a painful time.

Richard COOP and wife left Tuesday afternoon for Cripple Creek, Colorado, to visit Mrs. COOP's brother, William HEILMAN and family, who formerly lived in Minooka. Cripple Creek is the center of the strike disturbances in Colorado.

Messrs. and Mesdames N. J. COMERFORD, M. L. KAFFER and Edward BRADY went down to Starved Rock last Sunday and witnessed the first celebration of mass in over two hundred years on the spot where Father MARQUETTE, the great French explorer, conducted mass among the indians and converted many of the aborigines to the Catholic faith.

Diphtheria, is prevalent in the vicinity of White Willow and the contagion seems to have spread from a case at a picnic on the Fourth. A little son of Edward HEAP, a daughter of Charles PERKINS, a son of Charles SHERRILL, a son of Ferdinand GEHRKE and Miss Minnie TABLER are the victims. Miss TABLER's case has been the worst but all are now improving. All were taken sick the same day about a week ago. Anti-toxine has been employed in each case with highly satisfactory results.

The body of John BLOOM was recovered from the waters of the Illinois river six miles below Morris last Sunday. Three weeks ago BLOOM and two other Joliet boys, Harry JACOBS and Harry BROOKER, were camping on the river near here and came to Minooka several times. It is supposed that they capsized in a boat for all were drowned. The bodies of JACOBS and BROOKER were recovered in a day or two, but the search for the body of BLOOM was unavailing until last Sunday when three boys discovered it almost concealed beneath some drift wood on the shore of the river. The flow of water in the drainage canal was shut off at Lockport Sunday to aid in the search for the body. The actual manner of death of the three young men will never be known as there were no witnesses of their drowning.

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