Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles Grundy County, IL Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives Copyright 1999 Deb Haines Phoenix Advertiser "Minooka News" September 8, 1904 Vol. 29, No. 36 Markets - Corn 56; oats 30; rye 67; butter 17; eggs 17. Mrs. Arthur THOMAS, north of town, is quite ill with heart trouble. Mrs. Henry MUNSON, of Iowa, is a guest here of her sister, Mrs. Clarence CHURCHILL. Some Minooka people spent Labor Day at the picnic at Electric Park, in Plainfield. A number of Minooka people are attending the Will County fair in Joliet this week. Mr. and Mrs. Otto FELDTHOUSE, of Chicago, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. William COOP this week. A fine little daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Roy McCOWAN last Monday morning, Sept. 5, 1904. Attorney and Mrs. BARKER, of Chicago, were guests of Rev. and Mrs. Wilmer JAGGARD last Sunday. All the diphtheria patients in the vicinity of White Willow and Aux Sable have completely recovered. One of the sisters from St. Joseph's Hospital, Joliet, is now nursing Mrs. P. CANTWELL whose improvement is very slow. Several from here went to Morris last Monday to attend the annual reunion of the Chicago Grundy County Association. James PAUL, Miss Lula BELL, John KAFFER and Miss Grace PYLE attended the band concert at Electric Park, Plainfield, last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. CLARK and daughter Florene are spending this week with relatives in Chicago and will finish their vacation at Paw Paw Lake. Miss Edna BELL, Ray DAVIS, Murray BAKER and Miss Ethel NADEN started to school in Joliet Tuesday morning. They are attending the township high school. The noon passenger train east has changed to its old time of 11:58 a.m. at this station. The new schedule went into effect Sunday. There are no other changes. Edward NOBLES, of Chicago Heights, formerly of this place, came here Tuesday for a visit with his old comrade, William WOOD and other Minooka friends. James HANDLON and others from here left with Frank CLARK Tuesday for Warren, Minnesota, to look over the lands of the Pioneer Loan and Land Company of Warren and Joliet. Rev. Father Dean DUNNE, of Joliet, spent last Tuesday morning here with Rev. Father Joseph McMAHON arranging some of the details for the dedication of the new St. Mary's church which will occur the latter part of this month. The Minooka schools opened Monday with Prof. ROSS at the fore. The other teachers are Miss Marie NELSON in the intermediate and Miss Florence STRATTON in the primary. There is a fair attendance in the schools for the start. Last week probably broke all records for grain receipts at KNAPP's elevator here. The total for the week ran up to over 70,000 bushels. Wednesday's business surpassed all former records with 230 loads of grain received. This record did not last long, however, for the following day brought 231 loads. Nearly all of the receipts have been corn. Some well posted and observing individual entered an unlocked side door at DWYER & COULEHAN's store and meat market last Saturday night after the store was supposed to be locked for the night and appropriated for himself two kegs of beer and a lot of groceries. He succeeded in getting away with his plunder unobserved and it is not unlikely that he had some confederates to help him take care of the swag. Transcribed by Deb Haines, Grundy County IL CC, March 13, 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organiza- tions or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contri- butor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ----------------------------------------------------------------- File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines