February 9, 1901
PALATINE.
Masquerade Friday night.
Thursday is St. Valentine’s Day.
Sock social Thursday at 7 o’clock.
Miss Bertha Bicknase is visiting her sister in Chicago.
Wm. Sawyer of Minnesota is visiting with Mrs. L. Sawyer.
Miss Elliott was a guest of Mrs. Elmer Robertson this week.
A new Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine for sale at this office.
A grand masquerade ball will be given in Knigge’s hall Friday night.
Farm hands are in demand around Palatine. Several farmers are looking for help.
John Hirn will hold a sale of cattle at his farm on February 16. Some good cows in the lot
Henry Senne, town collector, has received the tax books and will soon begin to do the collecting.
THE PALATINE REVIEW office has put in a Mosler safe, where subscription accounts can be kept.
Mrs. Charles Smith and Mrs. Wm. House of Chicago visited their mother and brother here Thursday.
Wm. Thieman of Wheeling has been appointed to an office in the state grain inspector’s office at a good salary.
Palatine lodge, No. 708, I.O.O.F., introduced a candidate to the goat on Wednesday night and enjoyed a nice supper at the Union Hotel.
Cuthbert Richmond has sold his creamery at Highland Grove for a consideration of $2,500. Ed Sharringhausen will operate it for the several share holders.
Persons wishing to place their names before the public as candidates for town and village office will find this paper a good medium in which to place their announcement.
I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of collector for the town of Palatine and ask the support of my friends at the republican caucus to be held next month. CONRAD H. SCHROEDER
The following is the schedule of rate of taxation in district No.6, Palatine; State, .60; county, .79; township, .09; village, 1.99; road and bridge, .60; school, 2.50. Total 6.59, and increase over last year of 1.33. The school and village furnishes most of the increase.
The basket social at the Plum Grove school last Thursday night was a success in every way. A nice program was rendered and the baskets sold wel. Frank Bicknase is the instructor and is well liked by both pupils and parents.
F.W. Karstens has purchased the bakery and restaurant of J.Handleman and will locate across the street in his present building. He will rent the whole building and Mr. Vogel will move his shoes shop in the present Handleman place, where Mr. Karsten’s will have his sample line of furniture. Mr. Karsten’s takes possession the first of March.
The young people held a social hop in Knigge’s hall last Friday evening and it was one of the most enjoyable events of the season. The Bergman-Meyer orchestra rendered first-class music. Over frosty young people were in attendance and the following Barrington young people were present: Misses Ethel Austin, Mabel Wagner, Beulah Otis, Ethel Kitson, Myrtle Comstock, Messrs. Arnett Lines and Edward Kirby.
Mr. Harmening sold Henry Glad some wood from his timber land at the price of $2.00 per load. Henry had an eye to business, for he hauled the timber in full lengths and the first load he hauled was the biggest load ever drawn out of Plum Grove. It contained about four cords and Henry was just able to get out of the woods to Henry Harz place, where he had to throw off half the load before going farther. Mr. Harmening spoiled his chances of becoming wealthy by annulling the agreement the next day.
LAKE ZURICH.
George King was seen on our streets Tuesday.
And now the saloon men step proudly to the bat.
Wm. H. Smith was a Barrington visitor Tuesday.
H. Seip transacted business in Chicago Wednesday.
Henry Seip was in Chicago Wednesday on business.
Anson Packard has finished cutting ice at Wauconda.
Mrs. J.C. Meyer has returned from her visit to Chicago.
Joe King of Rockefeller transacted business in Zurich Tuesday.
Wm. Buesching and Wm. Bickanse were Barrington visitors Thursday.
John Hodge was seen on our streets Saturday and Sunday. What’s the attraction, John?
Mrs. John Dickson has returned from her Iowa visit, where she was calling on relatives.
Henry Branding and August Dettmann were in Waukegan Wednesday to attend the Liquor Dealers’ association meeting.
A large number of people from surrounding towns are working for the ice companies. They are unable to get board here and go home every evening.
The Barrington Social and Athletic club will give their 4tyh annual masquerade carnival at Stott’s hall, Barrington, next Friday evening. Quite a number of our young people are going to attend.
Regular service at St. Peter’s Evangelical church at 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon. There will be a business meeting after the regular services to discuss the advisability of building a parsonage.
Both ice plants are again busy at work, after a week’s vacation. All the snow has been taken off the ice and a nice crop will be harvested. The work of filling the houses has commenced and if men enough can be secured, the companies will work night and day until the ice houses are filled up.
WAUCONDA.
Charles Morey is again in our village, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. F.L. Carr.
David Raswon of Iowa is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Johnson at present writing.
Isaac Rosenblatt of Beloit, Wis., transacted business in our village on Wednesday.
L.E. Golding came out from Chicago Friday to spend a few days with his parents.
Charles Cary of McHenry was a pleasant caller in our village Monday and Tuesday.
Frank Harrison of Chicago was a guest of Mr, and Mrs. John Golding Saturday and Sunday.
Prof. R.C. Kent of Chicago spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives and friends in our village.
Martin Murray returned to our village Wednesday, after spending a few days with relatives in Chicago.
David McClain returned home Saturday after a two month’s visit with his son, Lee McClain, at Independence, Ia. He reports a very pleasant trip.
T.V. Slocum, the Arkansas traveler, is again a guest in our village. We understand that Mr. and Mrs. F.L. Courtney and son will accompany him on his return to the South.
Mr. and Mrs. James Sensor of Algonquin spent Sunday in our village, the guests of the former’s mother, Mrs. Ed Sensor, who was reported seriously ill last week, but is now on the gain.
We understand the Rip Van Winkle club will hold their second dance at the Oakland hall next Tuesday evening.
The Mystic Workers will hold a reception and social at the M.W.A. hall next Friday evening. Each member has the privilege of inviting two guests. A general good time will be the order of the evening.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Johnson was enlivened by a throng of about fifty guests last Friday evening, it being in the form a surprise upon Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. The evening was most pleasantly spent at various games and amusements, as well as at instrumental and vocal music by Mrs. Jones and John Brandt. A fine oyster supper was served at ten o’clock, after which the guests felt refreshed for a few hours more of enjoyment. It was past the midnight hour when all departed.
Price Bros., one of the old mercantile firms of our village, having conducting a store here for the past seventeen years, has been dissolved by mutual consent, the senior member of the firm, A.L. Price, retiring, and his nephew, J.C. Price, taking his place. Mr. Price wishes to thank all their patrons for general patronage in the past and hopes for a continuance of same to the new firm. All accounts are now payable to the new ifrm of L.C. Price & Son.
Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Hughes and their two children of Rockdale, Mont., are spending a few weeks with relatives and friends in our village. Mr. Hughes, who was formerly a resident of our village, is a son of H.F. Hughes and a brother of M.W. Hughes, our photographer and furniture dealer. He left for the West several years ago, taking up a claim and has rapidly plowed his way to the front. A few years after moving to the West he was married and this is her first trip East. We wish them a pleasant visit in our midst.
The masquerade ball at the Oakland hall Friday evening was one of the leading events of the season. About seventy couples were present and about sixty spectators’ tickets were sold. No person who was not masked, was allowed to dance until after the prizes were awarded and all removed their masks. The prizes were awarded as follows: For ladys’ most artistic costume, Miss Emma Welch, representing a hunting girl, the prize being a gilded ornamented thermometer; for finest gents’ costume, Albert Bond of Antioch, representing a Scottish highlander, the prize being a smoking set; for most comic lady charchter, Miss Priscilla Davlin, representing Topsy, the Negro girl, the prize being a pair of twin Esquimaux brownies perched upon a looking glass; for most comic gent charchter, Will Baseley, who represented the two-faced man, the prize being a giant lead pencil a foot long and an inch in diameter. All passed off pleasantly. Reed’s orchestra of McHenry furnish music and Mr. and Mrs. Grantham’s serving was fine and enjoyed by all, as always when prepared by Mrs. Grantham.
BARRINGTON.
E. Hachmeister spent the past week at Leyden.
Rev. Menzel visited with friends at Cary Saturday.
Valentines at prices to suit every one at Churchill’s.
William Stokel of Quentin’s Corners visited here Friday.
Dr. G.A. Lytle of Chicago was in the village Saturday.
Robert Hudson of Cary was calling on friends here last Friday.
Mrs. Dr. Morse of Denver, Colo., is the guest of Mrs. Sarah Cronk.
B.Raue of Nunda was a visitor at the home of Wm. Shales Tuesday.
William Meyer of Chicago visited with friends here Saturday and Sunday.
Edward Lamey of Oregon, Wis., visited with his parents here the first of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bennett of Woodstock visited with relatives here Thursday.
Miss Clara Winert of Chicago, who has been visiting friends here returned home Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Kampert are the happy parents of a little daughter born January 30.
Charles Cary, formerly manager of the Lakeside Hotel at Wauconda, was calling on friends here Monday.
Mrs. H.A. Harnden returned home Wednesday after spending several days with her brother in Chicago.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kirschner attended a church concert at Central Music hall, Chicago, Wednesday evening.
George W. Foreman attended the meeting of the Liquor Dealers' association held at Waukegan Wednesday.
Henry Brasel has returned from the city where he consulted a surgeon in regard to his injured foot, but is still confined to the house.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Butzow and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kirschner were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Frick at dinner Sunday.
James Sizer is still at the hospital at Chicago but little improved. An operation was performed last week but physicians have small hopes of a permanent cure of the ailment.