Phoenix Advertiser
Minooka News

July 13, 1905
Vol. 30, No. 28


Markets - Corn 52; oats 31; butter 15; eggs 13.

Charles TINDER was in Joliet Tuesday.

Mrs. H. GORHAM was a visitor to Joliet Saturday.

Misses Bessie COLLEPS and Clara NEILSEN were Joliet visitors Saturday.

Mrs. Adeline DONALDSON, of Aurora, who had been visiting Miss Grace PYLE, returned to her home Tuesday.

Winfield BROWN has gone east on a two weeks' visit. Charles TRUBY of Joliet is filling his place at the office.

Many of our people will attend the Chautauqua at Rock Run Park beginning today and continuing for ten days.

Miss Agnes McEVILLY and cousin, Miss WALSH, of Chicago, returned home Sunday evening after a week's visit with relatives in the city.

Margaret McLINDEN, a resident of this vicinity, was adjudged insane in the county court in Joliet last Tuesday and was taken to the hospital in Kankakee as a private patient.

News has been received of the serious illness at Colorado Springs of W. A. WARTHING, an old-time resident and business man of Minooka, who left here twenty years or more ago.

Farmers are experiencing unusual difficulty in getting their bay crop cured this year. The crop is a very heavy one and requires considerable time and tedding to cure, more time in fact than has intervened between showers lately.

Mrs. Wm. J. WALSH and daughter Cecelia, of Joliet, visited the former's parents here over Sunday, returning home Wednesday from where they left that evening for Seattle, Wash., to visit Mrs. WALSH's sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. BUCKLEY. Mrs. WALSH also intends visiting the World's Fair at Portland, Oregon, during her visit in the west.

Transcribed by Deb Haines, November 29, 1998