The De Kalb Chronicle from De Kalb, Illinois • Page 3

KANEVILLE BIG MAIL. The Chicago Times numoer or social events arc on the bills for next month. ciety will have quite a 'busy time of it. The snow is rather light for sleighing parties or heavy hauling, although a light sleigh slips along nicely. Ed Parker, until recently a resident of Genevav is building a $1200 house up in the east end near Geo.

Kliler's. Genoa Odd Fellows dedicated their new hall Monday night. It is said to be one of the finest in the county. The Sandwich bank has recently taken out a policy insuring them against loss by burglars or a daylight ''holdup." Our aim is to have the cleanest paid up subscription list in this end of the state. This is just what we are out to have.

Sandwich had a Christmas trade, it was a mighty boom, Somon-auk-ed it on the head and sent it up the flume. Free Press. DeKalb might have a good whist club and "do up'' some of our neighboring towns. It is said there are some fine players here. Young Andrew Shipman is nursing a broken arm.

the result of falling from the. roof of the old skating rink Saturday afternoon. The big dynamo over at the electric station was fitted out with new armatures this week, the ones that came with the machine having been found defective. The Frank C. Patten Co.

has secured a franchise from the Sycamore city council to operate an electric light plant in that town for public and private lighting. Mr. and Mrs. John Patten who have been visiting here since Christ ttio-u lifr Ti las. fr i.iti Vruii'ic 1 wnere mey nave retain es.

men home is in Carthage, South Dak. i I 1 I I COMMENDABLE A remarkable religions work ha recently taken place at Kirk-land in the northwest part of this county which seems well worthy of notice. The village is a station on the Chicago St. P. K.

containing about 900 inhabitants, and was incorporated about twelve years ago. The town has lacked the higher moral elements; supporting but one small English speaking church, with an attendance usually of less than fifty people; besides this there was a small Swedish church. There were a few persons, however, who were not satisfied with this condition of things, and a request was sent in to the state superintendent of the Home Missionary Society at Chicago, to come out and look over the ground with a view to some religious work. He did so, and it was arranged to send a state missionary and assistant upon the ground. They began their work in the building of the Lutheran church on Nov.

18th last. The meetings were a success from the start. Large numbers of people attended at every service, and on Dec. 2, two week's only from the start, a Congregational church was organized with forty-five members, which on the following Sunday was increased to eighty-nine members, with a prospect of still further increase to at least a 100 members by the first of February, and becoming a self supporting church. This work could not have leen taken up in any such efficient manner except through some such organization as the state society, and illustrates very plainly the wise and useful work accomplished by the church and individual contributions to the State ILome Missionary Society, which has in its service six or eight evangelists and assistants engaged in the kind of work just accomplished in our county, which it is doing in all paris of the state.

Sandwich Free Prcm. A horse can travel safer and jug more and more attached to De-better with his head hanging down K.tD. Good horses can alw.n.; be or free, than it can when it is sold here and the nth is in- leighing is ab.mt whipped O. II. Goodsell is Bodnian's new delivery man.

There is talk of lighting Hinckley by electricity. The Potter divorce case will go into court next month. Sycamore has a Kindergarten school with fifteen pupils. Rock ford has been admitted to the western base ball league. A large grey wolf was killed in Somonauk township last week.

9m Nearly forty tuition pupils are enrolled in the Rochelle schools. The Elgin gas company has laid 2,400 feet of gas mains this fall. The rolling skating rink craze has been revived at Mt. Carroll. The National Hotel at Princeton, was closed the sheriff last week.

Mrs. Frank Greely, of Water- mrn, spent last week with relatives in-this city. A good many farmers are rilling ice houses for home use. Good thing to do. The ice harvest is done in De Kalb.

The crops will figure out about 600 tons. 430 pupils are enrolled in the public schools. The average daily attendance is 421. Dan Carton is said to be danger ously ill with pneumonia home south of Cortland. it his Save Feb.

22d for the Masonic ball. As usual it will be the so cial event of the season. Mr. and Mrs. J.JEI.

Rogers, of Sycamore, left Wednesday for California to spend the winter. Prof McCosh's Chicago Orchestra, seven pieces will furnish music for the Masonic ball, Feb. 22. The DeKalb Fence Co. are still running their plant night and with a full double force.

There is no lack of business up there. The Sandwich Argus is eighteen years old ami in a healthy condition, ever advocating the up building of Sandwich and progressive in all things Malta visitors in DeKalb" lat week were Burr B. Smiley, Wiil-lam Vanartsdale, Mrs. Will Keast, Mrs. Charlie Pease, the Misess Frances and Katie MeCabe and Miss Angie Quitm.

C. A. Morris has sold the Paw-Pa Herald to Swart liout tpej taking possession of the pap-ejr at once. The Swarthout's Iromise a first-class pape'r and they are capable of giving what they promise. The Barb city Building ami Loan Association has been incorp rated with a capital stock of 1,000,000.

The incorporates are A. G. Leonard, M. J. Henaughan, A.

G. Kennedy, E. P. Ell wood and S. P.

Chambers. Editor W. W. Lewis, of the the Greenville Advocate and his charming little wife, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary Jan. 5th, by entertaining a large company of friends in their usual 'happy manner.

According to the Aurora Post Fred Bohe, cigar maker, has jumped that town, leaving his family behinel and his partner $800 in the hole. Boho will be remembered as the slippery Dutchman who ran a cigar business in this town for a short time several years ago. John Bowler, the man who was charged with shamefully mutilat ing several horses near Rochelle recently, went over to Oregon last Friday and gave himself up to the sheriff. He was given a hearing, pleaded guilty and was releasee! on $200 bail. His case will come up at the next term of the circuit court.

The penalty for the crime of which Bowler is charged is imprisonment in the penitentiary from one to three years, or a fine not to exceed $1,000 or both. The out. I cheap, and like to sell dealers in horse goods them. Don let your horse stand at the tie post during cold weather for five minutes, even, without a blanket to keep it comfortable. The Chronicle has room for a numlnT of new county correspondents in places where it is not now represented.

Our paper this year will be essentially a local ht and will confine itself to home news Who will be the first to join our force? It is said that the Northwestern officials have recently asked for a complete list of men on the system whose annual waires amount tn M00 or more. The 1kvs fend uite anxious to know just what the Northwestern company expect to do with this list. Spafford Smith, a resident of the county since 1839, died at his home in Sycamore Tuesday morn- aged 86 years. He was for years a prominent farmer of May- held township where he had half a section of land, but for the last 20 years had lived in town. "When I was at Sycamore the other day said a srentieman whose business takes him to the county seat occasionally, "I found just one busy man.

He had the dt rheum and a Waterbury watch When he wasn't scratching him self he was winding his The Royal Arcanum will tender a reception and lunch to the Grand Officers of Illinois anil invited guests on Feb. Mh. The program will be literary, musical, social, and ill be first class in all appoint-j ments. About 20m invitations have been issued. An effort will be made to make this the social event of the season in DeKalb.

The DeKalb Horse. Sale has become almost a national institution. Several team lwniglit at this sale during the p.ist year have sold for long prices, and buyers an- btcom- creasing. Our people should use every means to encourage the sale. It brings people to town and when they are in need of good they Uvlin wlien to theI in.

The Chkonicxk will sell the coming week several hundred dol- irs of poor subscription accounts to collecting agency. We can not carry, them longer and the agency will use vigorous measures to enforce collection. None of the accounts in this first batch are less than five years in arrears, and they are mostly people who take the Chk Nin.E just to help it along. It will be some satisfaction to the Chromci.k to have the public know who these people are and how long they have been reading a paper without paying )r it. The man who pays for his paper and stops it because he does not want it, is a gentleman; nine times out of ten the person who never stops and never pays is a bad man, and it will not hurt the public to know a few ef them.

The DeKalb Chronicle, of which Clinton Rosette, late president of the Illinois Press Association, has issued a holiday number of that superb paper. It is one of the finest jobs issued. It is a pamphlet of 130 pages, in which is a write up of all material interest of with it illustrations of manufactories, business houses, jortraits of its leading citizens and beautiful interspersed with lieautiful scenes in England, making a souvenir of DeKalb, it jm'o-plo will ever have reason to be proud of. Verily "it is a thing of beauty and joy forever." The souvenir, while extensive, costing thousands of dollars, will be a great advantage DeKalb, and is a souvenir of a prosjxrous and progressive city of Illinois. It stands at the head of any holiday edition we have seen.

Me Henry Republican. See the Chronicle about Stock Printing. We are leaders in this line. Horse' blankets are There were seventeen thousand letters received at the Kaneville postoffice Thursday for Miss Edna Brown and the number is constant lv increasing. There seems to be no way of stopping it.

The postmaster is in dispair. Farmers in the vicinity and all who will do the work are furnished with a basketful of letters addressed to Miss -Edna Brown, which they can opea at their leisure and trim the can celed stamps. She has over three million already and their number is daily increasing, with no known way of stopping it. The postmaster has leen compelled to hire an extra clerk to handle the mail. Aurora Jtwpresa.

DEKALB AT THE FRONT, A3 USUAL Week before last circulars were distributed throughout our city, calling a mass meeting of our citizens on the evening of Jan. 4, at Haish's Opera House, for the purpose of considering what could be done to relieve the suffering people of Nebraska. The call was signes by Revs. Richards, O'Connor, Huelster, Fuller, Stark and Samuelson, besides a numler of our leading citizens. Mr.

Haish kindly tendered the use of his Opera House for the meeting. The meeting was call to order and Mayor Lott was appointed chairman, and M. J. Henaughan, secretary. The object of the meeting and the needs of our suffering fellowmen in the far west were ably and eloquently presented by stirring speeches from Revs.

Huelster, O'Connor and Richards. Donations of money and provisions were then called for by the chair, and responses came so promptly that the secretary was seriously taxed to keep pace with the liberality of the givers. Notwithstanding the fact that, owing to the in-clemaney of the weather, only alnmt forty of our citizens were present at the meeting, over $200 in cash was subscribed and nearly a car load of provisions donated within a few moments. At the suggestion of ihose present the chairman appointed the following named persr.s as an executive commit ce tc solicit further dona tions and atlnd to forwarding of same to th proper parties: M. .1.

Henaugian, chairman; Frank Moshcr. V. A. L. Oisen, Mrs.

Dr. II. O. Sinth, Mrs. C.

G. Bodnian. Following is the list of clothing ami precisions that have been shipped up to date. Shipments have bt.n divided as follows: 1st cT to the Red Willow Relief Cdimittee, Indianola; 2nd car to the.Rt-lief Committee, Broken BowCtister Nelm; 3rd car to Reiief Committee, Ains-wori, Brown Nebr. 4 Pairs new shoes -2) i 80 00 300 00 100 (0 75 00 25 '00 75 00 3(0 00 250 00 25 00 100 00 hop Lbs.

i lour Underwear Hose 0 Overcoats estimated 50 Suits clothing Corn and Oats Assorted shoes, etc. $1330 00 In addition to this quite a large amount of flour and provisions are included which will swell the amount to more than $1500. The liberality of otfr citizens in aiding this cause has been commendable in the highest degree. It does one good to live in a town where all ihe people assist in a worthy cause like this so cheerfully. M.

J. Henaughan, Chairman. Mrs. C. L.

Barber and 'Cap" Crawford returned from Florida last Friday. They report the total destruction of the orange crop in the vicinity of Grahamsville, by frost. Jake Crawford loses his entire crop of nearly a thousand boxes. TO TAX PAYERS. The tax books for DeKalb town ship are now ready.

They can be found at the office of Bradt Shipman during the day and at V. Glidden's store in the eveninsr. D. W. Gakretson, Collector.

ESTABLISHED 1854. The People's Paper. 8, 12 and 16 Pages Daily. 32 to 48 Pages Sunday. No pleat daily in the States is so closely in touch with the ieople hstiii; Its, loliey is progressive, lilral, tolerant.

THE TIM KS holds that existing social, iH)litii-al, and industrial coii-ilit ions are not founded iimiii the of tiial rights tu all and Siei-il privileges, to none. That" under existing conditions injustice necessarily is done the mass of the-people. T1IK TIMES lias its own convictions as to how tl iese condit ions may be amended. While urging its own beliefs stienu-ously and intelligently it does not dismiss with contempt or without a hearing r-t tie advocates of other economic reforms. THE TIMES is fearless in its utterances and unswerving in its devotion to the great Inxly of the people.

THE TIMES believes in free speech, the free coinage of silver, and radical tariff reform. THE TIMES believes in government control of all nat-ural monopolies. THE TIMES believes in such a tax on land values as shall lighten the burden of the farmer and make the owners of valuable city property pay his just share. THE TIMES lelieves in the wisdom and good faith of the people. THE TIMES prints all the news from jill the world in a manner interesting and instructive to all the people.

Send for sample copies. 4 EAD the PEOPLE'S PAPER YOU CAN Get a good job ol Wagon Work, Machine Repairing, or Anything else in the Line of- General Blacksmith Aiid Ren air Work, By leaving your Order at P. W. Vaughan's Big Stone Shop on Main street just east ol Third. Shoeing a specialty, "prompt service by The best workmen In the county.

Bargains have a list of most i abl bargains in DeKalb eal Estate improved and unimproved resi-dence and business lots Young Rosette We are in receipt of a souvenir edition of the DeKalb Chronicle, a work of 112 pages, which surpasses, in every respect, anything of the kind we have yet seen. It establishes the reputation of that office as the leader in ability of management, enterprise and prin- tatorial. skill. lhe write up it gives DeKalb covers the situation admirably and the almost endless number of half-tone illustrations of buildings, influential citizens, are superb in execution and design. Shabbona, in DeKalb county, was the birthplace of our editor, and he "therefore rinds the woik of great additional interest.

Brother Rosette, we congratulate you on vour artistic creation. Marsailles Plaindealer The following from the Sterling Standard has the Chronicle's unqualified endorsement: Will the general republic never learn that it is exceedingly bad taste for people whose friends have died, to publish cards of thanks? If yournoo checked' up. By all means let your horse have its head. Higgle Home Hook. up.

By all means let 1258 books were lsued from th Sycamore public library last week. Of these 74s were works of fiction and juvenile. The few others were history, travel, biography. poetry, etc. That distinguished financier.

Ike Grim, of Polo, was around town Thursday. The rumor that he intends to embark in the hardware business again in this town is not generally credited. In the organization of the senate F. E. Hills, of Sycamore, was made chief enrolling and engrossing clerk.

He owes his selection to the friendly offices of Senator D. D. Hunt. Republican. The third car of supplies for the Nebraska people contributed by the citizens of DeKalb went out Tuesday, consigned to the relief committee at Ainswortb, in the part of the state.

Tillie Olson has applied for a divorce from Magnus Olson, al- leging habitual drunkeness and re-repeatetl acts of cruelty. They were married in DeKalb Dec. 7, 18S9 and lived together until Nov. 1, 1803. Aliout C00 tons of 12-inch ice has leen harvested in DeKalb during the past week.

About thirty men were employed on the work. The cutting was done on Dee's pond and on the Kishwaukeo just south of the dam. A missionary meeting was held at St. Paul's Episcopal church Wednesday evening. Addresses were made by the Rev.

John A. O'Meara, the Rev. Marcus Lane, the Rev. Joseph Rushton. The meeting was arranged in connec tion with a two days session of the Northern Deanery of the Diocese of Chicago, held at Sycamore and DeKalb.

Rev. Frederick D. Ward was the minister in charge. friend or relative dies, and you are under obligations to neighbors foi services and attention rendered, gl to them and personally expreil your thanks, but don't rush i print to herakl your and vour gratitude aoroi It is in bad taste and in the eas states the custom was abandt years ago." None of the manv fraternm- suranee orders can show a per or cleaner record than the crn Woodman of America. ltsturs are most ably and econo'Hy managed, and, covering asp jurisdiction does, a section of Amtry in which the mortality lower than in any other sectiin the United Suites, it is the1! and lest society of its kV ln 'existence.

Its growth, fing the past four years, has IP simply phenomenal. 1 Many of the men ts on the street have been ii icing this week. Here's hopinat the bal ance will show on tl i 4 1 7-v. 1 ft.