Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles Grundy County, IL Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives Copyright 1999 Deb Haines Phoenix Advertiser Minooka News September 1, 1904 Vol. 29, No. 35 Markets - Corn 48 to 50; oats 32; rye 64; butter 16; eggs 16. Miss Addie BAILY spent Monday in Joliet. Miss Audrey BELL is assisting at Bert WARD's store. Miss HIGGINS, of Morris, is a guest of Mrs. James CANTWELL. Mrs. P. CANTWELL is slowly improving from her recent illness. Thomas MUNROE has been absent for a week on a trip to Kansas. Miss Elizabeth COOP, of Chicago, spent Sunday at her home here. Mrs. D. H. ANDREWS visited with friends in Seneca, Ill., last week. A select dancing party was held in Masonic hall one evening last week. Richard WILSON, of Morris, was a guest of Charles COOK and family Sunday. The young ladies of Minooka gave a dancing party at Conroy's park last night. Mrs. Thomas NADEN returned a few days ago from a visit at Hoopeston, Ill. Clifford THAYER, of Chicago, spent a few days of the past week among kindred and friends here. Miss Effie FITZGERALD, of Chicago, has been a guest of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. P. DWYER for several days. Dr. H. LATTIMER and family, of Chicago, spent a part of last week here as guests of Dr. J. S. WATSON and family. A. BELLFIELD, who has been very seriously ill, underwent an operation last week and is in a fair way to recovery. Ray, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. FERGUSON, has been suffering for several days with a mild form of diphtheria. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. BUCKLEY and Miss May TINDER spent last Sunday with Joshua GARLICK and family near Joliet. School will open next Monday and the school building is being whitewashed and otherwise made ready for the occasion. Alex. FERGUSON, of Denver, Col., formerly of this vicinity, has been calling on friends here the past week. He left Minooka about seven years ago. George COLLEPS and Misses Mattie COLLEPS and Mae TINDER spent last Thursday in Chicago taking in the board of trade and other attractions. I. V. HOOPER has again embarked in the barber business here and opened a newly furnished shop in the middle room of White's new building yesterday. Miss Lou TEMPLETON visited in Joliet last Thursday and was accompanied by her sister Miss Winifred TEMPLETON who will visit here for a time. Mr. and Mrs. George CHURCHILL returned last Monday from a visit with relatives at Muncie, Ind. Their daughter, Mrs. Nora MUNSON, returned with them. John BUTLER and family, formerly of Chicago, now occupy the dwelling apartments over Robert MILLER's tonsorial establishment where Mr. BUTLER is employed as chief assistant. Robert W. CAMPBELL, agent for the E. J. & E. at Devine, is enjoying a well earned vacation of a couple of weeks and is absent on a visit to his sister, Mrs. L. E. STRATTON at Massina, Iowa. Mrs. W. H. KAFFER and Miss Kittie KINNEY went to Joliet Tuesday on account of the death of their uncle, Edward COONAN, a prominent citizen of the city. He was about 65 years of age. A little boy from Chicago, a relative of the VANAS, was taken seriously ill with pneumonia and appendicitis at the VANA house last Monday and was taken on the train to the hospital in Chicago Tuesday. C. F. THAYER went to Chicago Tuesday to accompany his daughter, Miss Etta, home. She was for, some time in the Hahnemann hospital where she underwent a successful operation for appendicitis and is now recovering nicely. The White Willow school opened last Monday morning but closed at noon on account of diphtheria in the vicinity. Miss Lou TEMPLETON is the teacher. The Brown school also opened and closed for the same reason. Miss Nellie COULEHAN is the teacher there. Miss Tillie STAUFFER and Mr. William ECHHART, both of this place, were married at the bride's home last Thursday morning Aug. 25 by Rev. Wilmer JAGGARD. Only the immediate relatives attended. After a bountiful wedding breakfast the bridal train left for a trip to the world's fair in St. Louis, MO. A half dozen cases of diphtheria have developed in the neighborhood six miles northwest of here. A little son of Matthew NADEN, of Winamac, Ind., visiting at the home of Mrs. James E. WILLIAMSON, aged six years, has had the disease the most severely and Monday it was thought there was not the slight chance for his recovery. The little fellow is now better. The other cases include Miss Hattie PERKINS, a son of Robert RIVETT, of Plainfield, visiting at Albert HEAP's, the eldest daughter of Ferdinand GHERKE, a son of Cornelius THOMPSON, and a daughter of W. A. KELSEY. All of those ill seem to be improving now. 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