Grundy County, IL

Phoenix Advertiser
Minooka News

August 18, 1904
Vol. 29, No. 33


The Minooka schools will open Monday, Sep. 5.

SMITH Bros. famous show was billed for Minooka Tuesday.

Markets - Corn 48 to 50; oats 32; rye 64; butter 17; eggs 15.

Miss Mary CANTWELL is away from her duty at WARD's store attending her mother who is ill.

Mrs. Robert MOORE who has been ill with rheumatism for a year or more is now slowly improving.

Farmers who raised rye are threshing the same and the yield is good. Some of the rye is being harvested here at 64 cents.

Mrs. Patrick CANTWELL was taken suddenly and seriously ill last Saturday and has since been in quite a critical condition although now a little better.

A fine little daughter arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. KROGNESS last Friday, Aug. 12, 1904, and C. G. says she is a sure enough "hello" girl.

Frank CLARK representing the Pioneer Loan and Land Co. of Joliet, Ill., and Warren, Minn. Left Joliet with a party of several land seekers Tuesday evening for the Red River Valley and will be gone for a week or ten days. W. A. KNAPP, the secretary of the company, returned from Minnesota Monday after selling 1920 acres of land to the party that he took up.

John COLLEPS, the aged father of George COLLEPS, cashier and manager at KNAPP's bank and grain office, passed away at St. Joseph's hospital in Joliet last Saturday evening at 9 o'clock after an extended period of feebleness from age. He was 86 years of age and had resided here for nearly thirty years. The funeral occurred Tuesday from the home here and burial was in the Willard cemetery in Channahon.

The village board has adopted ordinances requiring the improvement of certain streets in the village by the laying of cement sidewalks. One half of the cost is to be assessed against the property adjoining and one half is to be paid by the village. About six blocks of walk are to be laid and in a general way they include the walks from the school building and the two churches to the business section. The walks are to be five feet wide and will form a fine improvement which can and will be extended as the public funds will permit. It is a good start in the right direction.

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