Phoenix Advertiser
Minooka News

July 20, 1905
Vol. 30, No. 29


Markets - Corn 33; oats 29; butter 15; eggs 14.

William GREEN is suffering with sore eyes this week.

N. J. COMERFORD was in Chicago on business Tuesday.

George T. SMITH was in Chicago on a business trip Tuesday.

Miss Lottie WATSON attended the funeral of a friend in Chicago last Friday.

Mrs. Charles PARMENTER is entertaining her brother, Charles FITCH, of Chicago.

There will be no further Sunday evening services in the M. E. church here until September.

Mrs. Charles GREEN has been suffering for some time with appendicitis but is now much improved.

Charles TINDER and Howard ANDREWS were among those from this place who attended the circus in Joliet Monday.

Anslow BELL, one of the old time Minooka patriarchs, now of Maywood, Ill., has been visiting relatives here for some time.

The grain market here has been unusually active this week although the prices are off a cent or more from last week's quotation.

Mrs. F. L. STRATTON and daughter, Miss Lou STRATTON, are spending ten days at Rock Run, tenting there during the Chautauqua Assembly.

Miss Essie BRISCOE, who underwent a surgical operation at Mercy hospital in Chicago recently, is getting along nicely. She is still at the hospital.

Miss Agnes McEVILLY, of Chicago, spent last Sunday with kindred and friends here and went to the Chautauqua to hear Father VAUGHAN that afternoon.

BODKIN Bros. trained animal show is billed for exhibition here next Tuesday and another opportunity will be given for the speedy parting of the wise man and his money.

Alfred DAVIS, of Joliet, formerly of this place, who has been sickly for a long time and went to Ottawa some time ago to take the fresh air treatment, has not been much benefited by the treatment.

The farmers in this vicinity have almost finished haying and are just beginning the oats harvest. Oats promise a fair yield and good quality. In some places nearby they have been badly lodged by the wind.

Over two-hundred persons from Minooka and vicinity went to hear Father VAUGHAN at the Joliet Chautauqua Assembly at Rock Run last Sunday. Several from here have been frequent visitors to the Chautauqua sessions.

The mercury has been renewing acquaintances with the high marks on the thermometer the past week, its best(?) effort being 95 in the shade. The weather man, we trust, will henceforth keep Merc's aspirations under eighty.

Transcribed by Deb Haines, November 29, 1998