Grundy County, IL

Phoenix Advertiser
Minooka News

July 21, 1904
Vol 29, No. 29


Markets - Corn 42 to 46; oats 37; butter 15; eggs 14.

Miss Mattie COLLEPS spent last Saturday in Joliet.

C. A. SPERRY, of Joliet, spent last Sunday with friends here.

Mrs. L. A. WARD and son Earl visited in Joliet last Monday.

C. E. DAVIS and Charles O'BRIEN were in Joliet on business Tuesday.

Mrs. J. A. PYLE is entertaining her sister from Wyoming at her home here.

Miss Elsie HELMS, of Joliet, was a guest of Mrs. Charles FOSTER last Sunday.

Mrs. May WALSTROM and sister, Mrs. Irene COOP, were in Joliet Thursday.

Miss Mattie SPERRY, of Joliet, was a guest here of Miss May TINDER last Sunday.

Mrs. C. NEILSEN and daughter, Mrs. Laura McCOWAN, called on Joliet friends Friday.

Daniel FRECKELTON and Sam SHEPLEY, of Joliet, spent last Sunday with kindred and friends here.

The churches here will unanimously ask for the return of Rev. Wilmer JAGGARD to the Minooka and Aux Sable charges.

Miss Carrie ROBBINS, of Manhattan, is now officiating as the hello girl in the Minooka central of the Chicago Telephone Co.

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. KAFFER, Mr. and Mrs. Edward BRADY and Mr. and Mrs. D. A. HENNEBERRY visited Starved Rock last Thursday and Friday.

The diphtheria cases near here mentioned individually in these columns last week, are almost fully recovered and there is no longer any danger.

Mrs. John WIDENER, of Morris, visited here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles FOSTER a day or two of the past week and attended the chautauqua at Rock Run Sunday.

The mercury has been trying to play the high notes on the thermometer since last Saturday and with conceded success, Sunday and Monday the record was nearly a hundred in the shade.

Peter JORSTED returned recently from an extended visit in California. Mr. JORSTED has decided to remove from here but has not determined whether he will locate in Joliet or go to California.

A dance will be given this Thursday evening at Conroy's park in Channahon. John McEVILLY, Alex CONROY, Henry TALBOT, W. H. KAFFER, Joseph KELLY and Edward BRADY compose the .......

Frank WILSON, the Minooka meat merchant, has built a fine new slaughter house a mile and a half south of town, on the banks of the Dupage river. The land which has an area of thirteen acres, is owned by Fred DIRST and is leased by Mr. WILSON. It is an ideal place for the purpose for which it will be used. The slaughter house has a capacity for fifteen head.

Mrs. BLY, mother of John, Albert, Charles, Schuyler, Orin and Lucius BLY, passed away at the home of her son John, at Sand Ridge, Tuesday, March 22, 1904, aged 81 years. The funeral took place Friday from the M. E. church conducted by Rev. JAGGARD and the burial was in the Mound cemetery. The decedent was one of the pioneers of Seward and Minooka, and was a lady who enjoyed the high esteem of all who knew her throughout her long life. She was the mother of fourteen children, eight of whom are dead.

Smallpox in an extremely mild form has appeared in Minooka and Alonzo HEATH and William GREENBACK are sick with the dread disease which in the form from which these patients are suffering is not so much to be dreaded after all. Both Mr. HEATH and Mr. GREENBACK are able to be up and suffer comparatively little discomfort. Their homes are strictly quarantined and every caution will be observed to prevent a spread of the disease. Mr. HEATH and Mr. GREENBACK are altogether unable to understand how they contracted the contagion, but supposed that they must have picked it up in Joliet. Seneca and Marseilles each have numerous cases of the disease but neither of the Minooka men have recently been in that vicinity. Some alarm prevails in the community over the presence of the disease here, but Dr. BRINCKERHOFF, who is in charge of the cases, is hopeful of confining the contagion to the present cases. Many are be vaccinated as a measure of safety and all the children who have never been vaccinated should be submitted to the operation at once. The state board of health at Springfield has been notified and one of the members of the board is expected here in a day or two to examine the cases.

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