Will County IL Archives News.....Joliet Items July 27, 1890
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The Daily Inter Ocean [Chicago IL] July 27, 1890
Joliet, Ill., July 26 - Special Correspondence - The people of Joliet have 
resolved on a new hospital, and various social enterprises are being gotten up 
to contribute toward building it. William Grinton has donated five acres of 
land in the eastern and most beautiful portion of the city. The Protestant 
people are in the lead of this new institution, but as they have for so many 
years conributed liberally to the Catholic Church fairs and toward the 
building of their magnificent church and support of their hospital it is more 
than likely that they will in turn generously support the fund for the new 
hospital.

Several fine entertainments have been given in its interests, among which is 
that at the residence of C. W. Brown Wednesday night, which was one of the 
finest social gatherings of the season.

The doctors and lawyers got up a game of baseball Wednesday in the interests 
of the new hospital, and realized $300. The teams were as follows: Drs. 
Werner, Stewart, Shaw, Clyne, Holmes, Brunson, Dougall, Hocking and Hogan; 
lawyers, Hinckel, Higgins, Young, D'Arcey, Goodspeed, O'Donnell, Donahoe, and 
McNaughton. The game furnished infinite amusement for a large crowd of Joliet 
citzens.

The Joliet Saengerbund have purchased fourteen acres west of Joliet, and will 
establish a public park.

James Goodspeed has returned from Omaha.

George Munroe, after a lingering illness, is about again.

Congressman Hill and family are expected home from Washington this week.

George H. Munroe, who has done more to build up Joliet than any other man 
through his foresight in investing in Joliet property and building, is 
enjoying a big real estate boom in his attractive subdivisions.

The husband of Mrs. Otis Pratt, killed in the Rock Island wreck, has been paid 
$800 and the child $2,000 for the loss of the wife and mother.

U.S. Grant Command, No. 2, Union Veterans' Union, of this city, will picnic at 
the splendid place of George P. Trowbridge, Wilmington, on Aug. 2.

Mrs. Calvin Noel, aged 63 years, who was born here, died Monday. She was a 
sister of the late Cal Zailly, of the Joliet Signal.

A merry party of Joliet people are camping out at Basswood Grove, six miles 
west of Joliet. They are E. R. Herman, and Ann Matteson, Grace and Allie 
Rocking, Willie Keltie, and Murray and Myra Mathieson, of Chicago.

George A. Vance, teller of the Will County National Bank, has been dangerously 
ill for two weeks.

Miss Nellie Boyd has returned from a visit to Princeton.

Mr. and Mrs. Harlow N. Higginbotham, of Chicago, were guests of relatives and 
friends in Joliet this week.

The family of James McCaffrey spent the week with his brother John McCaffrey. 
They returned to their home in Eau Claire, Wis., accompanied by Mrs. John 
McCaffrey and two daughters, who will sojourn a while in Eau Claire and then 
go to Crookstown, Minn. John McCaffrey, who is president of the Tariff Reform 
Club, has been recently elected president of the Joseph E. Rolph Lodge A. A. 
of I. and S. W., of which order there are four lodges in Joliet. He is also 
Repulican candidate for the Legislature.
 


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