October 16, 1903
PALATINE.
John Heide is attending to a law suit in Chicago this week.
Charlie Griswold is able to walk out some but, still has a very sore foot.
A good second-hand wagon scale for sale by Batterman Abelmann and Ost.
The study club is increasing in numbers and interest in the study is growing.
Miss Emma Kuebler entertained her cousin from Avondale over Sunday.
Wm. Tegmeyer has sold his residence here and will move on a farm for the coming year.
Miss Bollenbach of Arlington Heights was a guest of Miss Lydia Bicknase last Sunday.
The Ladies’ Aid Society will meet in the church parlors next Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Wm. Pfingsten will sell his farming implements, crops and stock at public auction Saturday, Oct. 17.
John Hirn is busy with auctions these days. Frank Biere, Monday, Oct. 19; Gustav Burzloff, Tuesday, Oct. 27.
Miss Clara Taylor started her kindergarten school Monday and now has a nice class who are enjoying the school.
A class for bible study has been organized and will meet in the Methodist church Sunday afternoons at 3 o’clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Hardin of Rockford have sent invitations to attend their silver wedding anniversary.
The first of the series of entertainments to be given in the Methodist church will be given on Tuesday evening, Nov. 10th, with the Grinneli Concert company.
The following owners of property have contracted for cement walks: Dr. Clausius, Mrs. Stark, Ed Lytie, H. Knigge, M.E. Church, M. Richmond and C.D. Taylor.
For Sale - A good stock farm by John Biggs, Paris, Monroe Co., Mo., 130 acres, price $45 per acre. Good buildings, plenty of fruit trees and a few acres of timber on east side of farm. Mrs. Flora L. Biggs, Palatine, Ill.
The Woodmen are looking for new quarters, as Mr. Abelman has refused a release of the hall to them, as he wishes to run the same himself. Odd Fellows’ hall will probably be the meeting place hereafter. There is some talk of obtaining a place as club rooms for the members.
WAUCONDA.
T.L. Carr transacted business at Gray’s Lake Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Waelti were Chicago visitors Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Maiman were McHenry visitors Sunday.
Miss Mary Freund is reported seriously ill at present writing.
H.E. Maiman and H.T. Fuller transacted business in the city Wednesday.
Dr. L.E. Golding returned Saturday after a ten days’ excursion to the Black Hills, S.D.
M.E. and L.E. Maiman returned to work Monday after spending a two weeks’ vacation at Waukegan.
Perry Powers, of Chicago, is spending the week with relatives and friends in our village and vicinity.
Will Shaw, of Stillman Valley, Ill., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. G.C. Roberts and family at present writing.
We are pleased to state that two of our typhoid patients, Paul Jones and R.G. Smith, are now up and around.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Whitcomb, of Chicago, spent Sunday with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. O.E. Whitcomb, in our village.
In a game of base ball played at Lake Zurich last Sunday the married men of Wauconda defeated the married men of Lake Zurich by a score of 30 to 18.
Died, Monday, at her home near our village, Mrs. John Basely. She had been ill for some time and death came as a sweet relief to her pains and sufferings. Funeral was held Wednesday from the M.E. church, Rev. Brosted officiating, after which interment was made in the Wauconda cemetery.
Saturday, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fannie Foster, of Elgin, occurred the death of Mrs. Powers, two closely following paralytic strokes being the cause of her death. The remains were brought to the home of her son, M.L. Powers, near our village, and the funeral was held from the Baptist church Tuesday afternoon and the remains were interred in the Wauconda cemetery.
LAKE ZURICH.
Walter Olson of Gilmer was here Wednesday.
John Forvbes transacted business at Diamond Lake Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. E.S. Bruce visited with friends in Joliet this week.
Mrs. E.A. Ficke was the guest of Chicago friends the first of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Prehm and Mrs. Wm. Sank transacted business in Wauconda Tuesday.
Henry Schaefer has been appointed foreman of the crew at the Knickerbocker Ice Co.’s houses.
Miss Mary Scheafer and Mr. Smith will be united in marriage on Wednesday, October 28.
Herman Arndt of Dundee and Ernst Schenning of Palatine were here on business Monday.
Wm. Boyer has returned from an extended visit with relatives and friends in Lockport and Joliet.
The ball game played here Sunday was a grand victory for the married men of Wauconda the score being 30-18. Frank Roney did not umpire the game per agreement on account of recent illness, but occupied a seat in the grandstand among prominent fans. Wall Sensor officiated as umpire.
Geo. Graber announces an auction sale to be held Wednesday, Oct. 21, at the old Kuckuck farm, 3 miles northeast of Lake Zurich and 1 ½ miles south west of Gilmer, in the town of Ela. He offers for sale the farm, buildings, horses, cattle, grain, farming implements and good threshing outfit. Henry Seip will conduct the sale.
BARRINGTON.
Mr. and Mrs. Mosher of Elgin visited with relatives here Sunday.
Miss Bessie Oakes of ELgin spent this week at the Spunner home.
Fred Stott has been visiting friends near Bloomington the past week.
Go and visit the picture gallery at M.E. church parlors this evening.
Miss Priscialla Davlin is filling a position in Schlesinger & Mayer’s, Chicago.
Charles Smale, of the H.M. Manufacturing Company, Chicago, was here Wednesday.
Mrs. B. Searles departed MOnday for Blookington where she will visit with her daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Powers and son left Saturday for a week’s trip through the Dakotas.
For Rent - Convenient 5 room ground floor flat on Hough street. Inquire of Mrs. Augustine.
Miss Ellis of New York City, niece of Mrs. Donnelly and Geo. Kimberly is a guest at Hybia Hill, Honey Lake.
John C. Plagge has purchased the Catlow building corner Station and South Railroad street, now under construction.
J.M. Topping has rented his farm and will dispose of stock, grain, farm implements, et., at auction, Wednesday, October 28.
Miss Vera Lane of Lee Center, Ill., who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. G.W. Spunner for two weeks will return home to-morrow.
The social in the G.A.R. hall Wednesday night was well attended and very much enjoyed by all. The next one will be Wednesday evening, Oct. 28.
G.B. Ferguson representing the Potter Publishing Company of Cincinnati was here Tuesday. Mr. Ferguson is a product of this Lake County.
Contrary to reports Fred Stott will not seek another business location, but occupy the new building nearing completion adjoining Wm. Grunan’s block.
Sanford Peck has removed the stock of general merchandise from the Sodt building to the store building at Chicago Highlands, recently vacated by Landwer Bros.
L.A. Talcott, has returned home from a season as advance agent of Gollmer Bros. Shows. He has traveled all over the west the past season and returns in good health and prosperous.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kirchsner entertained a few friends last Saturday evening in honor of Mrs. Kirschner birthday. A most enjoyable evening was spent in card playing and merry making.
Job Thompson has left this office a cabbage of the Flat Dutch variety. It weighs 22 pounds, is 49 inches in circumference and 11 inches in diameter. It is cabbage all the way through.
Cards are out announcing the marriage of Miss Mary Schaefer of Lake Zurich to John W. Smith a well known railway man. The event will take place Wednesday afternoon October 28, at 3:30 o’clock at the home of the bride.
All services at the M.E. church resumed at the regular hours next Sunday. In the morning the pastor will preach upon “The Servant of God;” in the evening a prayer of Elijah’s. The public is cordially invited to these services.
The large number of cement walks laid in this village during the past two months is a sign of improvement in which all are interested. It means that by the close of another season Barrington will be as well supplied with cement walks as any of its sister villages.
Work on the Grace buildings on the former Sandman farm at Honey Lake is progressing rapidly and an idea of the size and architecture of the structures can now be conceived. The main residence building is of brick and stone and the barns and shed are being renovated and enlarged.
At the meeting of the W.R.C. Wednesday afternoon Mrs. E.M. Cannon was chosen as chairman of a committee from the corps to solicit for the soldiers’ monument fund. The ladies suggested that a committee be appointed by the G.A.R. and also by the people of the town. We earnestly hope that all will become interested and help the good cause along. The W.R.C. pledged $200, so they have something to work for.