Phoenix Advertiser
Minooka News

May 18, 1905
Vol. 30, No. 20


Markets - Corn 48; oats 29; butter 17; eggs 13.

Mrs. Wiliam BRANNICK is slowly improving.

Miss Bessie COLLEPS was a Joliet visitor Saturday.

Mrs. J. TINDER transacted business in Joliet Tuesday.

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. KAFFER were in Chicago Thursday.

Misses May BRADY and Garnett MILLER went to Joliet Saturday.

Mrs. F. C. MILLER and Mrs. Edward PATTEN were in Joliet Saturday.

William KILLELES, of Marseilles, was in town on business Saturday.

Miss Isabella KINNEY spent Friday and Saturday with her parents in Troy.

Mrs. William COOP and Mrs. Henry ANDERSON were in Joliet Wednesday.

Mrs. Martin KAFFER and daughter, Mrs. H. P. BRANNICK, spent Thursday in Joliet.

Misses Elva and Mary COOP have been visiting for a week with relatives in Lemont.

Miss Beulah WEESE went home Friday evening to visit her parents until Monday.

Quite a number attended the cemetery meeting at Mrs. R. COOP's Wednesday.

Miss Emma KINNEY visited her sister, Mrs. William KAFFER, Saturday and Sunday.

Edward McEVILLY who had been down in Indiana on business returned home Thursday.

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob SCHAUB, of St. Elmo, Ill., visited among relatives and friends here last week.

Mrs. C. E. DAVIS has been suffering with a hand that was poisoned while picking flowers in the woods.

Miss Mayme WHITTINGTON spent a few days of last week visiting her brother William and wife in Joliet.

During the severe lightning accompanying the storm on Tuesday evening Joseph KELLY had a cow killed.

The Reno and Alvord shows will visit this place next Saturday, May 20th, and the small boy is industriously chasing the elusive pennies necessary to pay for the price of admission.

Miss Maggie DEMPSEY, who had been nursing Miss Luella TEMPLETON for three weeks, returned to Joliet Friday, Miss TEMPLETON being rapidly improving from her severe sickness with pneumonia.

Jefferson COOP and family returned Monday evening from Lemont where they attended the marriage of their niece, Miss Marguerite MORGAN, and Nathaniel J. BROWN, of Chickasha, Indian Territory, formerly of Lemont.

A ball team from Morris came up to beat our boys at the bat Sunday but they were surprised at the finish when the score stood 4 to 2 in favor of Minooka. The game would be more interesting and there would be more spectators if it were held on any other day than Sunday.

A special election is being held in the village today to give the people a chance to vote on the proposition of issuing bonds to raise money to put in a system of water works. It is within the powers of the village board to issue the bonds without referring the matter to a vote of the people but the trustees wisely desired to obtain the wishes of a majority of the voters before going ahead with such an important undertaking. The numerous fires here in the past year or two have impressed the board and the people in general with the urgent need of some adequate means of fire protection. To do this it will be necessary to erect a tower and tank and to put in some water mains, the whole involving the expenditure of four to six thousand dollars. With good water no doubt many of the citizens would gladly take the water in their homes and thus the village would derive a revenue that would probably pay the interest on the investment. The project is a very important one and if undertaken will demand and receive the very best thought and attention of the village board.

John HENNEBERRY was born Feb. 9, 1844, in Limerick, Ireland, and at the age of four years came with his parents to America and the family settled at Lemont. They were there but two months when the father died and soon thereafter the mother and children went to Braidwood then known as Eureka. There they resided until 1860 when they removed to Lorenzo, Ill., where the subject of this sketch afterward lived until his death. Nearly all of his life work was devoted to the farm but for a few years in the early 60s he worked in the Braidwood coal mines. His brother William, while digging a well, first made the discovery of coal at Braidwood and sunk the first shaft. This was in 1862 and John HENNEBERRY was the fifth man down the shaft. In 1869 Mr. HENNEBERRY was united in marriage to Miss Catherine O'BRIEN, of Drummond, and their marital happiness remained unbrokern until Sunday, May 7, 1905, when the husband passed away at his home after an illness of a few months with stomach trouble. He had always been a man of very robust health and strength until a short time before his death. Besides the widow, all of the ten children that came to bless the HENNEBERRY home, survive. They are David A., of Minooka, Mrs. Michael KAVANAUGH, of Lorenzo, Mrs. Edward FEENEY and Mrs Andrew FEENEY, of Channahon, John J., Francis M., Kittie, Lizzie, Thomas and Harriet, all at home with the mother. Mr. HENNEBERRY was a man of large heart and intellect and his life was ordered along the lines of the strictest rectitude and honor and iwth an ever active regard for the happiness of welfare of others. Such a man could not fail to have a multitude of friends and an entire lack of enemies, and such was the case with John HENNEBERRY, now of revered memory. The world is better for his life and heaven is enriched by his transition. The funeral services were held in St. Rose's church at Wilmington Wednesday with solemn high mass conducted by the pastor, Rev. Father O'GARA, assisted by Revs. CONLEY and CLANCY, of Chicago, and Kiley, of Joliet, the last two being cousins of the deceased. All of the members of the family were present at the obsequies which were the most largely attended of any ever held in Wilmington.

Transcribed by Deb Haines, November 30, 1998