The Buckley Chronicle Assumed Date of August 31, 1895 (date portion of page is torn) HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK Frank Pacey is out again Did you see Venus Aug. 24? L.C. Schaefer is building a new barn. Henry Steinmann's children are reported ill. Mrs. Ed. Wolf visited friends in Loda Friday. Miss Anna Wendt is visiting friends in Gilman. Akewright (sic) Bros. lost and buried a horse Sunday. Miss Gustie Koschnik is working for W. Flannagan. Elder Russell is attending camp meeting at Watseka. Joe Greeley is fostering a "pet" on one of his hands. Geo. Grove of Ottawa is here, looking after his farms. Mrs. A.C. Bradley is visiting relatives in Riverdale. Miss Jennie Babcock will teach hte Hull school this term. Mrs. W. Kinsman of Loda visited friends here Thursday. The Hull schoolhouse looks neat and natty in its new head-gear. Luhrsen & Sasse had the platform in front of their store repaired. Mrs. John Pacey is ...with malarial and bilious trouble. Mrs. N. Soper of Topeka, Kansas, visited friends here Tuesday. Mrs. A. Vatter of Chicago is visiting her sister, Mrs. H. B. Cleave. Mr. and Mrs. I.E. Merritt spent Sunday with relatives in Roberts. Mrs. Walker and Miss Hart took a trip out of town last Thursday. Miss Anna Klann is at home now and intends to remain till September. Mr. Rose of Vermont is visiting his sister, Mrs. Geo. Shaw of Buckley. Wall Paper at cost for thirty days. COOK'S DRUG STORE. The sociable held at Mr. and Mrs. Luskey's was well attended. Receipts $11. Mrs. Cook's parents were here for a few days. They left for home Friday. Messers Wolff and Krumwiede are doing fine work on the Weber residence. Mrs. Cook and daughter Della left Monday for a short stay at Normal, Ill. The streets and alleys would look much better if the weeds were cut down. H.C.H. Stege left us again last Wednesday. He went to Matteson from here. O. A. Darrough started to Iowa last Tuesday to look for land. Many from this section will follow soon on the excursions of next month. Four miles east of Buckley George Walker put in a sewer pipe in place of a bridge. It is as fine a piece of work in that line as we ever saw. Many farmers, most of them, have such a poor hay crop that it costs them from $25 to $40 per ton, considering the rent they pay per acre. Not the Misses, as incorrectly stated in last week's issue, but Messers Weber and Trusheim were sponsors at the baptism of Henry Weber's boy. Adam Vohel and family, Henry Schaffer, Lewis Giese, Andrew Wry and Julius Knuth left on the morning train for Lakefield, Minn. to purchase land. John B...has returned from his trip to Brownsville, Tenn., and he speaks well of the country -- so well that he purchased 800 acres within six miles of Brownsville. J.K. Love, Ed. Newman and M.A. and P.P. Freehill of Strawn stopped and refreshed themselves on their way to Loda to institute a K. P. lodge. Mrs. Fred Koester was laid to rest last Friday afternooon. The mourners met at her late residence on Park Ave. From there the remains were taken to the church where a large number of friends and relatives had assembled to pay their last tribute of respect to the good lady. She was ready to die. Her sickness was of short duration, but she knew it would be her last. She said and did accordingly, even going as far as to go to S. Marr's undertaking establishment and picking out her coffin. May she rest in peace. HARVEST EXCURSIONS Will be run by the Burlington Route on Aug. 29, Sept. 10 and Sept. 24 from Chicago, Peoria, St. Louis and other points on the line to farming regions of the west, northwest and southwest. Very low round trip rates will be in effect. For folder giving details or for land pamphlets apply to P.S. Eustis, Gen'l Pass. Agent, C.B. & Q.R.R, Chicago, Ill. --------------------------------------------------------------------- UGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, 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: Loretta Krumwiede Barlow