December 11, 1903
PALATINE.
Woodmen election Saturday night.
Mr. Bicknase is recovering from a severe attack of pneumonia.
Read Jappa’s ad. His prices are as reasonable as department stores.
A little baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ben Wanegar last Sunday.
Miss Stella Catlow of Cary is visiting her aunt Mrs. Chas. Griswold.
Salted cucumbers for sale at 75c a bushel or 20c a peck. J.Lincoln.
Elmer Meston went to Michigan Saturday to spend a few days with friends.
Chains made from human hair combings on short notice by Mrs. J. Jappa, Palatine.
Ernest Beutler has been quite sick with pleurisy the past two weeks but is better at present.
Mrs. Henry Mundhenk returned to her old home in Iowa Tuesday where she will reside with relatives.
Football dance in Batterman’s hall tomorrow, Saturday night. Enough tickets have been sold to insure a success.
Mr. Abelman expects to sell his interest in the firm of Batterman, Abelman & Ost, and an invoice of stock is being taken.
The body of Dr. Clark of St. Louis, Mo. was brought here for burial last Thursday. He was a brother in-law to John Wilson.
Bert Pierce came home from Cincinnati Friday and returned Sunday, taking his mother and grandmother with him to remain during the winter.
The Ladies Aid society bazaar in the Methodist church last Thursday and Friday was the most successful ever held. The fancy articles sold well, many sat down to the suppers and a very social time was enjoyed. The net proceeds, aside from cook books sales amounted to about $235.00.
WAUCONDA.
Teachers meeting today.
L.H. Todd is seriously ill at present writing.
Born Tuesday to Mr. and Mrs. C.F. Randall, a baby girl.
F.L. Carr and J.P Blanck were Ivanhoe visitors Sunday.
J. Golding transacted business at Waukegan the first of the week.
H.E. and M.E. Maiman transacted business at Lake Zurich Wednesday.
Miss Carey returned home last Friday after a month’s visit with relatives in the city.
Mrs. L.E. Golding returned home Monday after a few days visit with relatives in the city.
Rev. Woulfe, F.L. Carr, Chas. Fisher and A.F. Kirwan transacted business in the city this week.
G.C. Roberts went to Chicago Monday to complete his course in Optics. This will require about two weeks, when he will return home ready to attend to any and all cases of bad or failing sight.
The Ladies’ Aid society of the M.E. Church will hold their annual sale in the church parlor Thursday afternoon and evening, Dec. 17, 1903. Many useful articles will be offered for sale. A chicken pie supper will served in the evening from six to nine o’clock. An interesting program will be rendered consisting of music and a debate on the following question: Resolved that the Press is greater than the Pulpit. Affirmative, Earl Roberts and Floyd Carr; Negative, Hazel Duers and Frank Glynch. All are cordially invited.
LAKE ZURICH.
For your holiday candies and toys call on Chas. Scholz.
E.Branding is now in the employ of the Bruce Ice company.
Special election held yesterday was quiet and a light vote polled.
The ice companies are preparing to begin cutting ice next week.
Bert Seip is at home again after a short absence from the village.
H.C. Paddock of Arlington Heights made a business call here Tuesday.
Courtney Brss. and Frank Roney shipped two cars of live stock this week.
Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Ficke have left our village for an extended visit to Arizona.
Section Foreman Carsten has been laid off for a few days and the section crew from Barrington put in charge.
Manager Shedd of the Knickerbocker Ice Company, has completed arrangements for the ice harvest here this season. Henry Schaefer will act as foreman and John Dickson as engineer.
At Palatine, Friday, December 4th, Miss Anna Shenning of this place, formerly of Barrington, was united in marriage to Wm. Gieske. They expect to make Lake Zurich their home. A large number of friends extend congratulations.
BARRINGTON.
Mrs. Paul Miller visited with friends in Chicago Tuesday.
Vanity is the only intellectual enjoyment of some women.
The December term of the Circuit court is in session at Waukegan.
Re. Father Quinn of Woodstock was among his parishioner’s here Tuesday.
Henry Beinhoff is serving on the petit jury in the circuit court this week.
Mrs. James Sizer is making a protracted visit with her children in Chicago and Oak Park.
Ray Frabrisch who has been confined to his home by illness for sometime is reported as gaining.
Dowie is said to be worth $10,000,000 and he has been here ten years. Evidently the Elijah business is profitable enough.
George W. Spunner has been confined to his home by illness for some days past, but is now able to resume his work.
The county board of supervisors of Lake county met in regular session this week and adjourned over yesterday on account of the special election.
Merchants who have bargains to offer for the holiday trade will find it to their advantage to advertise the same in the columns of The Review.
A Long Island man was sent to jail for kissing a school teacher, but the average small boy will think that he had sufficient punishment before.
At the meeting of the executive committee of the Illinois Press association it was decided to hold the annual convention in Galesburg Feb. 16, 17 and 18.
All members of Barrington Lodge 856 I.O.O.F. are requested to meet at their hall this evening at 6 o’clock to go to Wauconda to attend meeting of fraternal circle.
William Spunner returned from Des Moines, Iowa Tuesday, where he was transacting business for the Chicago Excavating company. The contract the company secured there he sublet to other parties.
A subscriber drops us a postal card and calls attention to a typographical error in an item contributed. A typographical error is a hard thing to find in the proof, but in the printed and complete paper it looms up like a fat lady in a group of vegetarians.
Humanity is a sociability. No one lives unto himself. All are more or less dependent on some one else, not only for the physical wants our bodies must have, but for the companionship- the exchange of sympathetic thought and feeling.
We heard a public speaker say the other day that he always takes a Democratic and a Republcan paper, so that he can get both sides of a question. This strikes us as a good idea. When every citizen feels it his duty to do this, editors will begin to come into their own.
The unfortunate wife who told the divorce court that her husband knocked her teeth out because the pepper was not in its usual place on the table ought to have given him the whole bottle at each meal. As most pepper is ground old shoe leather, frequent doses of it might have calmed his temper.
Henry M. Pratt has sold the greater part of his interest in The Dundee Hawkeye to F. E. Holmes of Richmond, formerly editor of The Gazette who takes possession Jan.4. Mr. Pratt contemplates moving to southern California, where he hopes for an improvement in his health.
You can scarcely pick up the Sunday edition of any metropolican journal and glance through certain of its items without finding things nauseating in the extreme. People of immoral character will take advantage of the newspaper to get into its columns with their licentious suggestion and intimations and then through the paper thrust their inquities before children and young people to their lasting injury. Such things ought to be eschewed by the newspaper.
The Thursday club met this week at the home of Mrs. Thorpe on Grove ave. The regular program was given and the “paper” was read by Mrs. Alverson. The discussion this week was apropos to the spirit of the times “Reformation social and religious with its influence upon the future.” After the close of the discussion the club as a guest was invited to the dining room, here a veritable feast was served for one seldom sees such a variety of delicious dishes as was prepared by this accommodating hostess. The club will be entertained next week by Mrs. John Robertson.
The Women’s Missionary society of the Salem church held its annual meeting at the home of Mrs. S. Giesk last week Thursday. The officers made their reports. The treasury report showed a nice balance on hand. The new officers elected for the ensuing years are: President, Mrs. B. H. Sodt; Vice President, Mrs. A. H. Boehmer; Secretary, Mrs. Hannah Sodt; Treasure, Mrs. F. Plagge.
On Thursday evening Henry A. Landwer and Anna E. Grabenkert embarked together on the sea of matrimonial life. Rev. J. G. Fidder spoke the words which made the two one. The groom is the second son of B. H. Landwer, one of the early settlers of this section of country; the bride is the youngest daughter of Mrs. W. Grabenkort of Cuba township. Both these young people are well known and enjoy the esteem of the people. They will settle down on the old Landwer homestead adjoining the town. Their many friends wish them a long and happy journey of life.