July 20, 1901
WAUCONDA.
H.E. Maiman transacted business in Chicago Wednesday.
Miss Nina Pratt is spending a week with friends in our village.
Mat Freund and John Seger were Pistaqua Bay visitors Sunday.
G.C. Roberts spent a few days with relatives in Wisconsin this week.
Capt. Dominick of Chicago is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Price.
J.S. Haas, who was on the sick list for the past week, is around again as usual.
Mrs. H. Maiman and Miss Yvonne Haas were Des Plaines visitors Wednesday.
F.L. Carr, L.E. Golding and Frank Roney transacted business in Chicago Tuesday.
Frank and Miss Laura Harrison returned to Chicago Sunday, after spending a day in our village.
Misses Agnes and Mary Meyers of McHenry were the guests of relatives in our village the first of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Zimmer and son Leo of Long Grove spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. H. Geary and family.
The ladies of the M.E. church will hold an ice cream social on the school grounds on Saturday evening, July 27. All are invited.
Winnie Torrance and friends, Mr. Madden, who have been spending a two week’s vacation with the former’s parents, returned to Chicago Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Hapke and family and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hapke and daughter visited with relatives Sunday at Waukegan.
The Wauconda delegates sent Saturday to Waukegan succeeded in a securing both the Lake county M.W.A. picnic and the Soldiers and Sailors reunion for our village this year. The picnic is to be held August 15 and Senator Mason has been secured for the orator of the day. The reunion will be held the last of August. Further particulars later.
A report has been circulated that Mr. Burritt had sold out his lake property for a consideration of $12,000 to some large ice company, who made the purchase to stop some private parties from securing control and would make no use of the property. The report has no foundation as we were informed by Mr. Burritt, who owns 130 acres in the lake, and all in deep water, who says the consideration might be correct providing he did sell but he was still holding the property.
H. Maiman & Son have made extensive improvements on the interior of their store during the past two weeks. Some of the shelves were torn out and tables were put in instead to accommodate the clothing stock, which this season is by far the largest that this firm has ever carried, and, by the rearrangement, places everything before the public for inspection. The hat department has been moved to the front of the store and the pants and overall line has been changed to the rear. It makes a big improvement and convenience.
QUENTIN’S CORNERS.
The beer wagons seem to do a land office business this hot weather.
Jacob Sturm, jr., took a load of porkers to Prairie View Saturday.
H.L. Bockelman and family were at LIbertyville calling on friends recently.
Chris PFingsten of Bartlett was here this week visiting with relatives and friends.
Wm. Hoesft has had his buildings on the old homestead repaired and neatly painted.
Mrs Chris Schumacher’s health is failing, and there is but little hopes of her recovery.
Miss Clara Knigge is spending a few days at Arlington Heights visiting her brothers and friends.
Wm. Bowman was at Wheeling on a visit. While there his horse ran away and his buggy damaged considerably.
Chas. Froelich, Herman Landwer and John Witt took a trip to Huntley last Sunday calling on friends and sight-seeing.
The Chicago & North-Western Line will run a popular excursion to Lake Geneva, Saturday, July 20. Fare for the round trip $1.00.
Chris Schumacher has invested in a new McCormick harvester, August Grever has purchaser a Champion and Fred Grever bought an Osborne.
Herman Junker had the misfortune to loose six of his best dairy cows inside of ten days and more are suffering with the same disease. The disease is call anthrax and is very dangerous and contagious.
LAKE ZURICH.
Chas. Givens is on the sick list.
Woodmen picnic Saturday Aug.3.
E.S. Bruce made a trip to Joliet on Thursday.
John Collen of Barrington was seen on our streets Friday.
Miss Emma Ficke of Dwight is visiting with his parents here.
Frank Roney received a car-load of cattle from Chicago Friday.
There are more campers around the lake this year than ever before.
Emil Frank and Frank Roney made a business trip to Chicago Tuesday.
Frank Blocke of Chicago is visiting with his brother-in-law, Louis Seip.
The M.W.A. band of Barrington has been engaged to play at the Woodman picnic here August 3.
H.L. Prehm, H. Helfer and Wm. Buesching, sr., went to Joliet Thursday to buy a steel pipe for the outlet bridge.
Bert Seip had the misfortune of falling from a wagon Saturday while getting coal at an elevator. His elbow was thrown out of joint. Dr. Wells of Wauconda was called and set the arm in place.
CARPENTERSVILLE.
Joe Irick has gone to Nebraska.
Duncan Livington is at Buffalo.
Harry Eldridge of McHenry was a visitor Sunday.
Mrs. Maggie Matthews and daughter Ella went to Nunda Tuesday.
Delos Dunton and daughters, Misses Ivy and Daisy, have gone to Buffalo.
Mrs. Chas. Coltrin of Austin and Miss Eva Castle of Barrington were visitors.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sinclaire have been to the Pan-American Exposition.
Mrs. Mary Wilber led the mid-week meeting at the Congregational church this week.
Jesse Miller is so improved in health that he and wife are in attendance at camp meeting.
The Congregational church at Dundee is being ton down and will be replaced by a new $7,000 edifice.
Irving Miller, recently of the asylum force, is now working at Nunda.
Ray Clark, of Aurorasville, Wis., who visited here, has gone to Hampshire where he has secured employment.
BARRINGTON.
Mr. and Mrs. C.O. Winter visited at Devils Lake the past week.
John Shales of Chicago visited his nephew, W.B. Shales, Monday.
Frank B. Dale of Oak Park was visiting friends here Wednesday.
Henry Pingle sr., is serving on the petit jury at Chicago this week.
Miss Eva Castle departed Tuesday for a visit with friends in Indiana.
Mr. and Mrs. John Robertson are at their summer home at Lake Zurich.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Freeman visited with V.N. Ford at Algonquin Saturday.
Misses Perl and Maude Naiden of Iowa are guests at the home of C.B. Otis.
Mesdames E.M. Cannon and C.H. Kendall visited at Arlington Heights Monday.
Miss Bird Warner of Chicago was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Hill last Saturday.
D.F. Lamey and family have returned home after a pleasant visit at Oswego, Ill.
Albert Gleason, after a short visit with his mother, has returned to his home in Boston.
Mrs. Pope-Howard departed this week for a visit with relatives near Springfield, Ill.
Frank Wells and Miss Amber Cady of this village were licensed to wed at Chicago, Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Hutchinson of Chicago were guests of Mr, Hutchinson’s parents Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Robertson visited with Mrs. Flora Lines at her summer home in Wauconda this week.
Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Hatje entertained Mrs. Hatje’s brother, Mr. Schoppe, and his family from Chicago Sunday.
Henry L. Miller and family of Racine were here Thursday, enroute to their summer camping grounds near Wauconda.
Miss Belle Scofield, of River Falls Wisconsin Normal school is visiting with her aunt, Mrs. C.A. Hollister, this week.
Fred B. Bennett and wife of Woodstock are visiting the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo and points of interest in the east.
Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Hollister, Miss Belle Scofield, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Walbaun and L.E. Runyan attended the milk dealer picnic at Fox River grove Wednesday.