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The Champaign County News from Champaign, Illinois • 2

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THE CHAMPAIGN OI XTY NEWS SATURDAY JUNE 1891 MANY LITTLE LOCALS 44 11 AT HOME COLUMN we: have finished Let every one who wants to bull the Finest Grade of FARM MACHINERY! OUR- OF A 1 1 KINIS NEW AND ELEGANT BUILDING WHICH THIS COLUMN CLOSELY 1SICD 2 CHAMPAIGN ILLINOIS and now occupy the same are so defective that they will have to be rebuilt The village board has done well to provide a remedy for this fruitful source of fires Born to Cecil Stevenson's burro last Monday a pair of ears with legs attached to them by a small membrane called by some the body Cecil anil the mamma burro are both doing well Children's day exercises will be held in the church a week from to-morrow afternoon and evening The day will be observed in the usually interesting manner the Sunday school having charge of the services commissioners of Union drain- age district have enlarged the district taking into it land belonging to Mrs A 1 McGee Mrs Sarah Sim Asa Van-j Fleet Jus Kilbury II Boyce and Albert Hardesty Abraham Bowers has engaged to the Tolono school board for the coming year He will have charge of the grammar room at a salary of $50 a month This is a deserved promotion as A lie is every inch a teacher I) Stayton Fred KiensUg Robert Parrott Wilson Lloyd Richardson Kellogg Shewalter and Isaac Peters all Knights of Pythias went to Homer Tuesday evening to assist in second degree work in Brilliant lodge at that place A Lester from Rantoul shipped 2000 pounds of wool from this place to Crawfordsville Wednesday With the Eagle's permission we will say on the authority of Mr Lester that 34 1 pounds of this wool came from a drove of 30 sheep making an average of 11 pounds to the head This is an unusually large clip I1 Shobe and I Kellogghave new sidewalks in front of their residences and 1 Woodin has had a new walk built in front of the grain office These are the only new sidewalks that have been laid under the new administration and these are the new members of the board and constitute the street and alley committee Better pass your new walks around gentlemen The five brothers and sisters of the Shreve family event to Champaign Monday and had their pictures taken in a group The oldest is Aunt Nancy Rock 84 years of age the youngest Geo Shreve 03 years old The others are Uncle Orison Shreve James Shreve anil Aunt Mary- Argo The combined ages of the five are about 330 years They are all in reasonably good health and enjoying life I have contracted for better gooil than I ever had before 1 can on name part of them that will soon needed Let every man who belief in the shallow cultivation of corn sure anil see the new Sattley Spring Tooth Cultivator before buying anything else for tlial 1 purpose The "Gopher" while i( crapes off the top leaves tin gmunJ i hard and liable to "crack" badly Thl Spring Tooth Cultivator while runninl ns shallow as necessary leaves tin sun lore nil ft tiffed up unii the ground wilf not crack nor the corn "fire" in thl driest season The 1ml parallel beams so that the shovels all ways point straight ahead It is thl Easiest Handled Finest Built and the Best Working Cultivator made We are ready to show the most Complete Line of etc by the children and a pleasant time is expected Miss Emma Rohm has returned from her trip South unimproved in health She is now very low Harris of Champaign shipped three ears of fine cattle from here to Chicago Wednesday Miss Jennie Hubbard will teach tlie primary department of the school next year The principal lias not yet been employed Dr Hadden has repapered and refitted his residence and added a new buy window much improving the house whieh was already vey handsome Gehrig has the best garden to be seen any where near here Mr Gehrig takes especial pride in making his place look nice and succeeds admirably Johnson A- Karr have made some decided improvements in their business room The partition has been torn out tlu furniture has been rearranged and the whole given a handsome coat of paint by their salesman Gaultney School will close Friday Saturday there will be a picnic to lie participated in by the pupils teacher and patrons Miss Porterfield will go Monday to her home south of Sidney where she will spend the summer and teach near there i next winter SAVOY Dunlap was in Chicago on business part of this week Thus Gunn visited relatives at Rantoul over last Sunday Holmes Ewalt of Champaign was in Savoy on business Monday Miss Grace Ewalt of Champaign visited Miss Rose Dunlap Wednesday MoMunn of Xeoga was in Savoy one day last week on business Mrs Raker and daughter Ruth visited friends at Champaign last week Cherry picking and shipping began Friday The crop is unusually large this year Mrs McKenzie and daughter Mabel of Sedalia Mo art visiting relatives here A Fleming living southwest of Savoy who has been very sick is very little better George and children Clyde anil Mamie visited relatives near Bloomington part of last week frame work of Fisher's large barn was raised Wednesday afternoon by Burroughs assisted by a large number of neighbors Children's day will be observed tomorrow by the Savoy Sunday school The exercises will begin at 11 o'clock a and promise to be very interesting and instructive All are very cordially invited FOOSLAND Henry Kurtz has a very sick child Mrs Warner has a new iron fence The crops are looking much better since the rain A mild case of diphtheria at Mr Wolf's south of town A little child of Geo Adams is very sick with catarrhal pneumonia Mrs (i A DeLong who had been visiting at Philo for two weeks has returned home Iiuchtle of Indianapolis has been visiting his cousin Mrs Dr Albright for the past week We noticed Ed Wright in town one day last week Suppose some one got skinned on a horse trade as usual The new officers elected Friday night for of lodge Xo 218 are A Albright Zerbee -I Pollock A (has Hays Pollock: Newman Fuqua I I OS Hats and Fine Woolens For Men's Youth's Boys' and Children's Wear AT PRICES THAT ARE RIGHT Tlie Milwaukee Jr Steel Framei Harvester is nicer finished than ever it is "beauty" it is the lightest draft easies to manage and tile handiest to adjust tJ every condition of grain of any machinfl in the market The Champion Steel Frame Harvester lias been great) improved and is guaranteed to do il work as well as any other machine fif the same purpose CALL AND SEE US I have the list of following cellent SCHWEIZER St WOODY GATHERED OVER THE COUNTY Til Wetk' Itrpiirt from oeph Lung View Mroint Hft)'niour Smuy anil T'uh1hikI from I mrt 11 lit- II of Tlie haminlj(ii County Srn ST JOSEPH St Joseph will celebrate the Fourth elsewhere Assessor It larrett has coin-plcted his work Kev I) li Du ltois and wife were in Champaign Wcdnesijay Gibson of Urbana spent Sunday with parents here Buy your fruit jars of Lew Stevenson at the Old Reliable The '1' 1' met with Mrs Eva Somers Thursday evening Jimmy Roark is trying to get into the soldiers' home at Quincy Mrs llal Ludwiek of Trinidad Col is visiting relatives here Laura Hunt of ileadlee Ind is visiting relatives at this place Mrs Josie Moore returned to her home at Carroll lnd Thursday Stevenson 'rill preach at the church to-morrow morning Miss Ada Youmans is the trimmer in Mrs Robertson's millinery store Leedy is learning the barber business with Shewalter Reed Derry Irons Dherris McKinley and Llge McCown were in Danville Tuesday For paints oils brushes varnishes go to the Old Reliable drug and jewelry store Miss Matie Whitzell visited Miss Jennie Drullinger at Ogden Monday evening Miss Russ Sim of Urbana was in St Joseph Monday and visited Mrs Al-lie Du llois Miss hla Purcell will return home from the Wesleyan University at Blnom-ington Friday II 1 Miller it Co have put up a shed in their lumber yard 100 feet long aud Di feet wide Miss Mabel Lewis is spending the summer with her sister Miss Lennie Lewis at this place Mr and Mrs Lewis Johnson returned this week from their extended visit to Columbus Another large invoice of indow shades of the latest styles just in at the I) and 1 store (' Fox and wife of Urbana visited the families of 1 Purcell and II Kienzle Tuesday More new goods at Mrs Shuman's Call and see them Don't forget the old reliable millinery store Grant Swearingen and Ike Walker sold 105 head of hogs to dealers Wednesday at 8425 a hundred Grain and poultry markets: corn 5257c oats 42c hens d-jc eggs 12 )e spring chickens 14c Miss Jessie Whitzell's school will elose to-day with a picnic Several from this place and Ogden will attend Walter and Minnie Somers gave a pleasant party for their young' friends at their home Wednesday evening Staple and fancy groceries of every kind at A grocery store and satisfaction guaranteed to purchaser If you want a good dish of ice cream go to Jim Reece's and get a dish of the Chicago ice cream he lias on sale Kellogg and family and Shewalter and family visited Mr Kellogg's mother and sister at Homer over last Sunday Cushing of the dental firm of Howard Cushing of Champaign will soon begin to make regular trips to St Joseph Grandma Lease will "return home this week to Veedersliurg lnd after a pleasant visit with her sons' families north of this place Sinks has been employed as special police for Saturday nights and Sundays to see that the new Sunday ordinance is enforced Frank Robbins wife and daughter Maud were in Homer Wednesday Frank is negotiating for the rent of the Etna hotel at that place Several families went to the home of Robert McVeagh Sunday and partook of a sumptuous dinner It was Mr McVeagh's 29th birthday Mayo Smith and A1 liirdzell spent Sunday with their families and returned to the western part of the State to sell books and territory Monday Wm II Somers of San Diego and Gilbert Taylor and wife of Urbana visited their relatives and A Somers here Friday of last week Wm Brent attended commencement exercises at the University of Illinois Wednesday Mr Brent until lately was a student of Monmouth college Geo Swafford and Kirkpatrick went to Harvey Monday to perhaps buy lots and to look over the place for a location for a grocery store Charles and Eugene Peabody Charles McCown Charles Rush and Dave Fisher attended the Sons of festival at Homer Tuesday evening The rain interfered with the Sons of Veterans' festival Saturday night The boys will try it again to-night It will lie in the park Everybody turn out Three ears of lumber have been received by 11 Miller A Co and there are six more to come soon Tlirv will then lie able to till every kind of an order you put up your screen doors? If not buy them at the lumber yard of Miller A Co Every kind from plain to fancy as cheap as any in the county It Swearingen Stevenson Somers 1) Dresback Wm Argo and Iteverlin are at Spring Lake near Peoria to-day on a fishing excursion Children's day services will be held at Prairie Hope to-morrow evening A well prepared programme will be car- ried out Some young folks from this place will attend Alie Bowers brought from the Atlantic coast and presented tot' it Du-Itois a fine crab which measured 21 inches in length to the tip of the tail and I of add last tii 7th June Mowers to select from The Ghampion The Eureka The Grown The Standard Ranging in cut from 4 feet 3 to 6 feet FARMERS TO STOP AT NO 3 NElL STREET Two Horse Hay Hake: Hay Tedders And Exchange Produce lor a Select Line of Groceries! No Stale Goods to Work Off Everything New and Fresh Our Goods Guaranteed to give Satisfaction Hay Loaders Hay Carriers and Steel Track pay the Advanced Prices for LONG VIEW Miss Gertrude Bailey ville on Saturday Sine Watts was in Champaign on business this week Miss Grace Hasty of Sidell is the guest of Miss Lura Coffman Bowman was in Sidell Monday and Champaign Tuesday 1 11 Fisher of Titusville Pa has been visiting his uncle Irwin Trotting horses foot racing anil croquet are the prevailing amusements Orpha Vickroy of Sidell has been visiting Mrs Haines at this place A Oliver is now agent for the Phirnix Insurance Company of Brooklyn Mrs Will Watts is among the ill She has been suffering from an attack of intermittent fever Wm Brown is building a new house It will be in the hands of the plasterers next week Fred Boyd will give a platform dance Friday evening in Watson's grove near Fairview school house Geo Helm has sold his elevator to Bartlet Coon Co of Terre Haute Catton A George will have the management of it Daines A Gilogly were invoicing this week on account of a change in the firm Daines having sold his interest to his brother Eli Daines John Rutherford lias finished his work on Dr Pensho's otiiee at Broad-lands and will begin on Wm Brown's house at this place next week Sadie Moon has been quite ill with remittent fever for two weeks Her friends will lie pleased to learn that she is now much improved There will be an excursion to Tuscola June 27th on account of the speaking of Gov St John The rate will be one and one-third fare for the round trip Cash has a pair of "Father Hubbard" punts on exhibition at his store The breeches are about as much a curiosity as would be the man they would fit The Christian church people held Children's day exercises in the church Sunday morning The Sunday school will have their Children's day exercises to-morrow evening NEWCOMB I Wright was on the sick list last week Mrs Wm Burton visited in Champaign last week Farmers here are rejoicing on ac- count of tin- recent rains Guliek of Champaign is out repairing one of the houses on his farm A horse in A Tucker's pasture was killed by lightning one night last week Assessor Caldwell lias completed his rounds finishing the work in bi days Messrs Ralph Mitchell Chas Hinton Dick Buchan and Edward James were In Springfield May 3oth The papering and decorating of Shiloh church have been completed and greatly to its appearance The summer term at Hannah school taught by Miss Jester closed Friday June 12th Miss Jester has been employed to teach the winter term There was quite an excitement here week on account of diphtheria which was reported in some of the adjacent towns Xo eases have been discovered here day exercises which were have been held in Shiloh church June were postponed on account of the diphtheria scare but will take place 14th at in o'clock Preaching at 3 o'clock same day Nichols Shepard Co's When you can get it here as Cheap as Ever Engines Wall Paper Wall Paper We now have the Largest Stock of Low Medium and High-Priced poods we have ever carried nr prices range from 5 and 10c PER ROLL TO 40 a it cl 5()c and upwards one and two Band Border to match Window Shades Window Sliades-Window Shades barge Stock both Plain and Decorated (iood mounted and unmounted Curtains for tlie Fashionable Light Windows on short notice pPJPUClmi Low --to 1 VlvO Meat Gompetin You are going to paint either inside or outside For such use we sell the Pioneer Prepared Fa i 1 1 AT $150 per Gallon Guaranteed lor Three Long Years also THE Swiss Villa Mixed Paints $1130 Per alloc and Vibrator Give us a Call and we Will do tjou Good Yours Truly 0 A Percival INDIANA MINERAL SPRINGS (iroMt II fit 1 1 li ICexort on the Line of tlie Chit-tAgo and Kiutorn III 1C IC A short rest from the active demands of the average American's busy life is always beneficial To rest then is certainly a good remedy in itself but when you rest how much better it is to go where you can have tlie privilege of drinking a water prepared in Nature's own laboratory bubbling forth pure and sparkling from the earth the use of which never fails to bring about immediate relief and a permanent cure for rheumatism kidney diseases liver complaint dyspepsia catarrh of tlie stomach and all forms of skin diseases I you seek rest and recreation why not combine it with improved health and the pleasure of spending a few days or weeks as suits you at the Indiana Mineral Springs Warren county Ind? Here you will find every accommodation that $150000 judiciously expended can procure a one hundred room hard wood finished modern appointed hotel lighted by electricity complete waterworks system a cold storage plant the finest bath house in the West and a hundred and one points of interest to entertain you Here you can drink tlie waters of the Indiana Mineral Springs that will quickly relieve that tired worn-out feeling bring' color to your failed cheeks invigorate your system with new life and energy and make Tffli feel that life is worth living after nil It is too beautiful a place to write about or even picture in this limited space so we earnestly urge if you desire additional information that you write at once to stone Gen'l Pass and Tkt Agt of tlie Chicago A Eastern Illinois railroad Chicago for illustrated anil descriptive matter showing in detail the improvements at the springs and setting forth testimonials from prominent people who have within the past year been restored to health by the use of the waters of the Indiana Mineral Springs Any officer or agent of the Chicago ami Eastern Illinois railroad will take pleasure in advising as to the railroad route and rates or answering any questions pertaining to this great health resort Take Your Machinery Sattley's Capital Straw Stacker Champion Grain Weighers Schuttler Birdsell and Turnbull TO MALTBY I WALLACE For Repairs equal to Both market This last Paint guarantor most higher-priced paints cream of the grades are the We also handle Spring Wagons Buggies and Road Carts Monarch and IXL Windmills Iron and Wood Pumps Creameries Churns and Washing Machines! Full Stock of At 8 fie to per Gallon Our Stoek of: Kalsomme Paints Varnish and Whitewash Brushes Special Offt-r I util July lt The Champaigx County News the Chicago Inter Ocean and the Orange Judd Farmer all one year for cash in advance Send orders to The News Champaign 111 Sew Try Thi- -AND- -J SEYMOUR lien was in line iav Woven Picket Fencel WIN'RAV GIAS' A LI SIZE (111 Woodin tira wa xainining the fftiv- durir tT He mo that the LJ Faulkner Go Champaign Illinois SABIN.

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1891-1917