Grundy County, IL Phoenix Advertiser Minooka News August 11, 1904 Vol. 29, No. 32 L. A. WARD spent Tuesday in Joliet. Markets - Corn 48 to 51; oats 21; butter 15; eggs 17. Mrs. L. A. WARD visited with friends at Rock Run Tuesday. Miss Lizzie PAUL, of Joliet, is a guest at the home of Fred DIRST and family. W. S. BROWN, of the TRUBY elevator force, has been enjoying a vacation at Silver Lake. Mr. and Mrs. John BOYD, of Joliet, were guests of Alex. BELL and family last Sunday. Mrs. John KINNEY has been very seriously ill at her home in Troy but is now recovering. J. W. CARLIN returned last week from a visit of several weeks with relatives at Plattville. Miss Elva COOP spent last week in Joliet as a guest of her cousin, Mrs. Frank H. HODGSON. Mrs. George TINDER Jr., of Morris, visited here last Saturday with her husband's mother, Mrs. George TINDER Sr. Mrs. Charles DIRST has been on the sick list for a week or more and has only just started on the road to recovery. "Jack" JOHNSON of the national soldiers' home in Milwaukee, has been calling on friends here for a week or so. Misses Ellen and Sadie CONNELL returned last Saturday from a week's visit with relatives and friends in Odell and Chicago. Miss Elsie KING, of Chicago, has been visiting among relatives and friends in Minooka and vicinity for some time. William HOWARTH is now the night operator for the Rock Island here. Frank HILL the former operator, has gone to Princeville, Ill. Mrs. FIELD and little son, of Chicago, arrived here Monday evening and are guests at the residence of James HANDLON and family. Mrs. F. M. CROSBY, of Chicago, is spending this week here with relatives and friends. Mrs. CROSBY was formerly Miss Maggie BELL. A class of twenty or more were given their first communion by Rev. Father Joseph McMAHON at the St. Joseph parish home last Sunday. Mrs. Robert MOORE is seriously ill with sciatic rheumatism. She has been far from well for a long time and has been gradually growing worse. J. H. MURPHEY and son Fred left last week on a trip to Kansas and will probably invest in some land besides taking in the sights of the country. James HANDLON has purchased 300 acres of land in the Red River Valley in Minnesota, through the Pioneer Loan & Land Co. and intends to sell his farm here and remove to Minnesota. Miss Emma BELL, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William BELL, of Seward, met with a serious misfortune last week. She fell from a chair Tuesday and sustained a fracture of the bones of the wrist. The eastern automobile tourists enroute to St. Louis, fifty strong, passed through Channahon Monday afternoon and were given a word of greeting and a swift parting smile by Alderman George HUTCHINS. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. MURPHEY, of Joliet, came here Tuesday morning to enjoy a vacation visit with their parents and other relatives. Mr. MURPHEY is having a week's vacation from his duties at Dinet, Nachbour & Co's store. The record of grain receipts at KNAPP's elevator last week was twelve hundred loads or an average of two hundred loads a day. We doubt if there is another point in the state that can make so good a showing for the same time. Anslow BELL came down from Chicago arriving here Tuesday morning after spending a few days with kindred in Joliet. Mr. BELL will visit among relatives and friends here for a week or more. He is 80 years of age and is well and sprightly. About six weeks ago he had a severe illness but has now fully recovered and is able to thoroughly enjoy a social visit. Joseph FALKENBERG's team took fright at an automobile on the highway near COULEHAN's place last week; ran away throwing Mr. and Mrs. FALKENBERG and daughter from the buggy. None of them were seriously injured but the buggy was demolished. The auto driver was willing to settle the damages and promised to pay Mr. FALKENBERG $50 for his fright, trouble and loss. He promised to remit the amount but up to date the remittance has not been received. For a couple of weeks Jefferson COOP was troubled with a tickling disturbance in his throat occasioned he thought by the lodging of a bit of meat in one of the passages of the throat. He consulted a physician here, another in Morris and a specialist in Joliet without obtaining relief and the physicians were somewhat inclined to the belief that the trouble was nervousness. The true source of the disturbance finally came to light when a few days ago Mr. COOP coughed up a medium sized needle which in some unaccountable way he had swallowed with his food. The needle had lodged in the membrane of the throat and could neither be seen nor felt by the physicians who attempted to locate the trouble. Transcribed by Deb Haines, Grundy County IL CC, December 18, 1998