Grundy County, IL

Phoenix Advertiser
Minooka News

July 28, 1904
Vol. 29, No. 30


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

L. A. WARD and son, Earl, were in Joliet Friday.

Mrs. Charles COOP spent last Monday in Chicago.

Miss Lizzie COOP spent last week here with her parents.

Richard WILSON, of Morris, spent last Sunday with relatives here.

Several from here took in the Barnum and Baily circus in Joliet Wednesday.

Miss Kittie KINNEY attended the funeral in Joliet Tuesday of Miss Alice Laura BELL.

Master Earl WARD is spending a couple of weeks with his grandmother in Wauponsee.

Miss Tillie HOLLERING, of Aurora, is a guest at the residence of Edward HOLT and family.

Miss Agnes McEVILLY has been assisting in the clerical work at KAFFER Bros. general store a few days this week.

Miss Tillie VANCE, formerly of this place, now stenographer for the Joliet Pure Ice Co. in Joliet, has been quite ill there for several days.

Oats cutting and haying will be completed this week and by the end of next week the hum of the thresher will be heard abroad in the land.

Daniel DAHLEM, of Joliet, formerly of Minooka, is among those who registered for land in the Rosebud reservation and is anxiously awaiting tidings from the drawing.

Fred MURPHEY is home from St. Louis on a visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. MURPHEY. For a couple of years past Fred has been engaged in electrical work in the world's fair buildings.

The Morris high school nine came to Minooka last Sunday and met the M. W. A. team. The result was disastrous to the visitors, the score being 21 to 11. William GREENBACK pitched for the Minookas and Robert BRADURY officiated as umpire.

The Modern Remedy Co. finished fleecing the Minooka flock last Monday night and departed for Depue, Ill., the following forenoon. The company did a thriving business while here and probably carried away a couple of hundred dollars more than they brought. They worked over the old game of a voting contest for the most popular young lady and awarded a watch to the winner. Miss Clara NEILSEN won out in the contest with something over 7,000 to her credit. Miss Mae TINDER was a close second with about 6,700 votes and Miss Hazel CLARK was third with 5,800. A wood sawing contest was also put on and Mrs. James PYLE won out. Miss Carrie NEWMAN was a faint second. The winner received a silver tea set guaranteed for thirty minutes. John BELL, through buying the last half dozen bottles of medicine on the last night, was enabled to read his title clear to a silver water service likewise guaranteed. The financial success of the company here indicates that the stringers of society are not all with the Barnum and Ringling circuses.

Transcribed by Deb Haines, Grundy County IL CC, December 18, 1998