Sterling Standard from Sterling, Illinois • Page 16

3CV ImimL STERLING, SEFlftt, 1894. BOCK FALLS. KffittKHW, is toe represent) i Book for the STAKDAHD, a I L. BBttTrlred to collect all bills in J. E.

Dmstine Sundayed with friend In Round Grove. D. Rosebrook is being visited by mother from Harmon. This is a good time to stock HP with yonr winter's supply of soft coal. The character of Daniel is an inter csting one for Sunday school scholars Mrs.

William Greenman of Tampico spent Sunday with her sister Mrs. W. Dow. Miss Clementine Brooks, of LaMoille has come to spend a week. with her uncle, E.

W. Dow and family. Milt Shaw, of Lyndon, has been spending a day or two with the family of his relative, Mrs. Ida Throop; 1 Dr. Chas.

Morrill, of Yorktown, spent Saturday and Sunday in Rock Falls He will go from here to Springfield. Frank Underwood and wife, of Clin ton, 111., are visiting their uncle; Underwood and family on the Dixon road. Frank Bressler will be raised to yard master during the absence of Ed Huston and Perry Williams will be head switchman. Mrs. Rosina Lawton, of Gap Grove has been spending a few days with sister; Lucy, during the absence of their parents out west.

Mrs. A. A. Church and son Earl, started Monday for a several weeks visit among relatives in New York state They are from Mrs. Messenger andllrs.

Lydia Pen' rose returned from Putman county, they have been attending the great annual meeting of the Friends. A. B. Titus is being visited by.a brother from Missouri. As the two have not seen each other for thirty years the meeting is most dear to them We wonder if the News really meant it says when it speaks of the thousand dollar cards as being inexpensive.

They have them to sell you know. Mrs. Kehoe and family will' move to Anderson, the latter part of this week, joining her husband who has secured a place in the paper mill at that The mother of Jas. Wright and Mrs. Alfred Worthington lies very sick at her home on Park street.

She has been ailing for a week but is now much The discourses of Rev. Sanborn at the Congregational church last Sunday morning and evening were very fine and able and were greatly appreciated by the congregation. Will Curtis drove to Amboy Sunday in a rig belonging to a livery stable there that had been left here by a traveling man, Jake Frank rode up for company's sake. Geo. Deitrick and wife and Miss IiOttie Hutchinson, of Dixon, spent Saturday and Sunday at Charles Iley's in East Coloma.

Jovial George is a welcome visitor. Rev. Mrs. M. M.

Bales has been stopping at Jacob Smith's for a few days and calling on old friends. Ever since they left Rock Falls they have been at ILa Grange, being three years. Miss Villa Shirley has been laboring under difficulties in teaching over at the Sterling school for the past week, owing to having severely burned her hands and arms with hot grease. Some one had the gall to steal some of the choice flower roots which Jack IJimerick had not dug up from his late residence and moved to his new house, and he feels very bad at the loss. A club of boys from the Second ward of Sterling came over to Rock Falls to do up a club of our boys at a game of tall Saturday, but they went home sick.

The score stood 13 to 31 in our favor. T. A. McDonald is a grass widower at present. His wife him Saturday for a few days visit with her parents in Paw Paw.

Her granddaughter Miss Daisey MDconald returned with her. John Ferris has a contract for a deed for the four hundred acre farm south east ot Stones known Fer-, jria farm. He has rented part of it to Mr. Long, who lives near by and part to CharljjtJturtz. The work of painting the Industrial building was begun Monday, As the structure is two stories high and three hundred feet long it is a job of jjoo proportions and will an immense amount of paifitv Arrangements assr being made Paw Paw and Rock Falls ball will meet again for a tug of war, game will probably place Saturday on the grounds near the school house in Rock Falls.

The date of the Coloma township asunual Sunday School convention has for the Sunday in Oct. It will be interesting na- a good is being pre- foQ Adam Hoflsebor and family back from their visit to Clinton, lows Every boy big enough to spin a top has one this week and the top trade at the stores is something enormous. Chas. Gassenschmidt is enjoying him self working on the roads much better than he did cooped up in the lockup. It keeps Joe Hodges hustling this week doing double duty in the absence of the with his work at the postoffice.

Mrs. D. W. Van Drew was presentee with an elegant and complete-crysta set yesterday by her son-in-law from Milo, Bureau Co. The little twin girls of Mrs.

Sam'l Countryman, who are visiting at D. Grubb's, are both quite sick by a close call to cholera infantum. Miss Nellie Rubright's attending physician says she is slowly on the mend and thinks she will recover, providing she gets no back sets. Tommy Walters, the little fellow so familiar to our residents, son of George Walters, has been laid up for repairs by stepping on a rusty nail. Mrs.

J. Williams has gone to Reason, Casper County, Iowa, for a visit of a week or two with relatives. Her little son Clarence went along also. Will Stauffer has returned from Chicago. He expects to go back soon and get his old job of barn boss for Me Kinley, which is a good paying position.

The rains shut off the blacksmiths work of setting wagon tires, so they are employing their time in getting ready horse shoes for next winter's trade. II. L. Sheldon went to the Dakotas the fore part of this week, having business in both these states. He may be gone a week.

He goes as far north as Longsdon, which is near the British possessions. As there were no idle men in need of work to saw those big wood piles of Coe VanSant's to stove length, they have gotten Ed Currier and power circle saw and he is fast reducing the piles to the right length. The sled trade has already begun at the Sterling M'f'g who are the most extensive sled makers in this part of the state. A load of them was shipped to Washington state Friday. We hope their orders will continue at a rapid rate.

Jason Bean is intently watching the best farm machinery, and farming outfits that are in market with a view to stocking up and going to farming again. Jason Is of an energetic spirit and he can't stand but a year at a time to rest up in. A reader says, "say a word about the over drawn check now so much used on horses," and wants us to call the attention of the Humane Society in regard to this cruel habit. It is a matter which should be looked after and is something seen every hour in the Louie Bartl made up his mind three years back that corn would be better in price sometime and has hung on to his corn all these years. Thinking the present price satisfactory he sold the entire lot Thursday at about fifty-five cents.

The task of painting the Northwestern Barb Wire building is lompleted. Two coats of good red paint now cover the exterior portion of the factory. The wookmen are also painting the ware house situated on street along the railroad tracks. First Ward got a ying-in hospital in our ward. Third Ward but our ward furnishes the patients.

The virtuous Second is not in it so far, but there is no telling how soon she may be, if reports are all Falls News. William Cogswell and wife are great iome people, they wisely opine that lome, a good home such as they possess a good place to stay in, but they inally broke loose from the home ties and are spending a week or two among dnsfolks in one of the western states. Chas. Geeting has a peculiar hen. She likes to lay her eggs in a buggy.

It don't matter in which buggy it is so that it is a buggy. If he is using one she will lay in the oiher and vice versa, and if both should be in use she would probably defer laying until a buggy came. Hearing many inquiries as to why a portion of the Keystone office is painted white while the rest is red, we will say that the building is close by blacksmith shops and the white reflects the light back into the shop much better than the red would, otherwise it would be a dark, dingy room. B. F.

Gregory has traded his brick store building, now occupied by Walter Murray with groceries, to Henry Bush, of Sterling, for a house on the west side of Broadway, Sterling, about a lock from the Methodist church. Mr. Gregory was moving his goods over today to his newly bought residence. Miss Nellie Woodford fully demon- trated that she can drive as well as oax. No we are not talking about driving human beings, if she is a teacher.

She took one of her grandfather's peedy roadsters Saturday morning and drove home to Clinton, Iowa, to her folks, being homesick just a bask test night. It is reported that H. wife will a Thomas' blacksmith shop in reeeiv infc a Reneral overhauling in its interior today. The balance of the street lamps have been painted red, a favorite color 01 ours by the way. The tickets for reserved seats for the concert Saturday evening in the Congregational church, are' on sale at Bickford's.

i. The new steam radiators are being placed in the new school house some: thing altogether timely for these frosty mornings. The home of Green Norrls was made happy Monday by the birth of a fine baby boy, and there is nothing green about Norris this morning. Arrangements have been made whereby the Rock Falls ball club goes to Polo next Friday, to play a game with the crack club of that hustling little city. The cold weather makes the fuel trade brisk.

Coe VanSant have had to add several additional men to their force to get out orders without too much delay. Mrs. Harry Spear has been obliged to take from school for a long time.under the advice of a physician her "little daughter Delisle, who is badly, afllcted with asthma. Although we have had lots of rain, the farmers say they need more. It was so very dry that the earth was like a sponge, taking in all it has rained and not filled up James McGinnis has moved out to his dredge the vacant building he had near the depot and he will use it for sleeping apartments for his workmeri employed at the dredge.

Rev. M. Reu returned Monday from a week's stay in Paducah, Kentucky. He was much surprised upon his return to find a houseful of ny from a neighboring city. Chas.

Ilubbard, accompanied by John Ahrens, of Sterling, went to Algona, Iowa, Monday night to look after their large farms there, since they went through the great cyclone. E. W. Dow went to ProphetstoW to buy fat cattle. He says he notices that great improvements are being made in that staid little 'city, among which, are' the erection of two brick business houses.

Hon. J. W. White received an invitation Tuesday morning from the noted Marquette Club, of Chicago, to attend their annual dinner to be held in the Sherman House at 6 o'clock, October 9, 1894. This to be a swell affair.

Mrs. Richard Hurley and, family have departed for Denver, and we hope never to return as they are a bad lot and we can spare several more just like them. They went on the sly leaving a few bad debts behind them. The name of the new president of this -district for the W. C.

T. U. is Mrs. Rev. Divan.

She is the wife of the Evangelical minister, of Dixon, pnd is a minister herself and it is said will make a good worker, and she will devote her entire time to the work. D. L. Lampke finds it something of a cold ride each morning to drive down from his home in" Montmorency, the five miles, while doing the finishing work on E. C.

Winter's new residence, which, by the way, will be ready for occupancy about the fifteenth of October. The gentlemen who came up from Champaign county' last week mean business. One of them has purchased Charley Smith's farm of 160 acres, iu Hahnaman, a short distance from Deer Grove, paying therefor 845.00 per acre. There are other farms just on the verge of selling. Many transfers will probably be made inside of a week, and all came about by effective draining of the low land.

A postal received by Mrs. Mary Ashling Monday from her relatives in Algona, Iowa, says that the recent tornado just escaped the farm buildings of Ad. Batcheller, who used to live here, son of C. Batcheller, of Montmorency. His very next neighbor's buildings were demolished.

The list of the total dead in that vicinity figures up to twenty-two and many more are not expected to live. If there exists no longer a Humane Society in this town and Sterling, why not pull down the framed rules and regulations hung up in various places of the city. If there is any such society in existence here why not wake up and do a little work, don't give the lie to this most excellent society by inactivity. Our attention is called to something, every day would 'give them if that is what they are looking after. About thirty of the young friends of Ernest Lukens' responded to his invitation to help him spend his birthday last Saturday.

He was eight years old that day, and one of the nicest times they all had. All were sorry when night come to cause them to go to their homes. The refreshments consisted of cake, ice cream, candy and nuts and was much enjoyed. Mrs. Lukens bad many pleasant things prepared for their entertainment.

The children brought many reminders of the day tor Ernest. Pictures of the group were tciieu by a jocal photographer, 8. It, Whwlftofc fiftd family risited by two frtends from Turn pico. The PxtPrior of Heaton'ft larg barn in Montmorency is completed and he and his sons are at work painting it, Immediately after the first rains after the long drought, the farmers prepared the ground and planted their rye and wheat. It is now up and most of it is at least four inches high making a pretty sight.

it pay to Insure? Indeed it does. B. -F. Gregory has received a check for seventy-five dollars, twenty- five dollars per week for the three weeks he was laid up from his accident of falling down stairs. The Burlington railroad steam pile driver Sundayed here along with the boarding house car and engine.

It constitutes considerable of an outfit. They are putting in piles for the new some of the old ones. The ladies of the W. C. T.

U. will hold their postponed meeting next Thursday with Mrs. Worman Emmons on Elm street. The report of the doings of the district convention held at Geneseo this week will be given by the delegate who was present. JrW.

Fletcher is expected home today from Champaign county, where he formerly resided. AVhile on his visit there he sold two of his farms for good figures, of course he will invest the money in farm land His daughter Mrs. Hutchinson is expected to come also for a visit here. A letter from Mrs. David Ely to her family says she has just arrived in Iowa from her farm in Missouri, and that the crops in Missouri are excellent: that fruit is in abundance; apples are selling for ten cents per bushel, but where she is in Iowa all is reversed, no crops and no fruit.

A striking con- rast. One of our Coloma young men in looking through the Dixotj City Steam laundry, so taken with the charm and manner in which a young lady does up collars and cuffs that he came home and vowed he would not wear celluloid collars and cuffs again and weekly trips to the Steam Laundry and fine shirt bosoms, collars and cuffa may be expected. We are pleased to learn that Miss Hattie just secured a good situation as stenographer and bookkeeper in a publishing house in Chicago at a good salary to start with and a promise of an increase and it is also a permanent position. Yet she is but one of the great many who have se cured excellent situations after a course through the Sterling Business College. John Terhune, of Stones, has been serving as a juror in Dixon for the past week and will probably have to put in this week at the same work, much to the consternation of his partner, John Heckman, who is trying to run their threshing machine and engine alone.

Somehow serving on a jury never strikes a man when he can leave without greatly inconveniencing himself. Mike Grennon has three old neighbors visiting him from his former home in Champaign county, who have come up'for the purpose of buying farms. They have been over a great deal of the country south of the river and say they are well pleased with it. All the Champaign county people who ttave come up here and settled we have found to be number one citizens, We would we had more of them. We took a stroll through the paper mill Thursday afternoon.

It was a pleasure to see the many wheels and rollers revolve once more, after a period of idleness of nearly sixteen weeks. Everything being rusty and dirty the tirst paper was, of course, of poor quality, but it soon got into marketable shape. The -night gang started last night and'it is hoped that orders will come of sufliciet numbers to run it all winter without stopping. The old residents were agreeably surprised to see William Macomber on the street Thursday, His home is in Denver, and he is on his way tiome from attending the great A. convention at Pittsburg, stopping to see his brother Lev! in Chicago for a few days.

He is stopping at his brother's E. A. Macomber, All of his boyhood days were spent in these parts. Tass Shaw showed us Friday a large photo of Company of the first regiment of Chicago, taken during the strike, His brother Art is seen in the group. is the company which guarded the Pullman Works and had a tough time although their beds at night were Pullman sleepers, and they were hauled to the lake each day for a bath, so while their nights were dangerous to them yet they had a comparatively easy time during the day.

The people of the Methodist church propose buying a new organ and they also intend it shall be a good one and to that end they wish money from the church goers of their denomination from three young people, the middle aged, and the old people. Those finding-themselves not among these three may consider themselves free from paying anything the purchase money. There is every evidence of one being purchased 4 very short time. Now go It organ WO! is very sick with typhoid fever. Ask John Emmitt where he found his horsp and bnpgy Sunday night.

Adam Horiarbpr is attending the State Fair at SpringOeld this week. Installation of the newly elected officers of the Odd Fellows will take place next week. When all the factories get painted up that are on River street what a pretty sight it will make. The Burlington are putting in new timbers their railroad scales 'which had become terribly out of whack. E.

P. Stone and wife, of Sioux City, who have made a short visit with their brother-in-law, J. E. Durstine, departed for their home yesterday. The Drs.

Morrill have their office turned topsy turvy today on account of their fall office cleaning. But just take a peep at it tomorrow. John Lessman, an employe of Herman Sturtz on the farm, is purchasing the eighty acre farm south of Stones, owned conjointly by the Lessman estate. Mrs. Fredda Nims and daughter Bessje sjart DeSota, Wisconsin, the former home of Mrs.

Nims. They will probably stay a few Walter Murray did a good deed when he took down the roosting place around the cellarway to his store building and then covered it over with planks. John Adair has started to build a new barn in the rear of his residence ot. He has concluded that a cow is proper thing for him to keep this fall and Clare Brumley and Ray Wilkinson lave purchased one of Martin Grate's lay presses and will commence at once on the south side of the river to bale my and straw. The contralto singer in the Martin loncer't Company is said to bo a singer of great power and peculiar sweetness.

3he will be with the company Saturday night in the Congregational church. Henry Detman has rented the Mrs. Throuth farm in Montmorency for next year and has commenced fall plowing. It looks as if Henry was going to get a better half during the win- A dancing party is being arranged for Friday night to be held in Smithsonian Hall. It is expected that the old time fun will be participated in by the throng of young people who will be there.

Ralph Rundlett has been unable to attend the Brick school for over a week on account of a large carbuncle on his left leg. A physician lanced the member yesterday and it is getting along nicely since. Mrs. George Hoeffler's many blooms from her wax plant are attracting much admiration from the passers by. A blossom on the lappell of our coat ias fooled 'nearly all lovers of flowers.

It resembles wax to perfection. D. D. Stone is happy. His -wife has returned from a few weeks' trip to her relatives, in Michigan and D.

will not have to bake slap jacks or fry potatoes any longer. Mrs. Stone's sister also came back with her for a visit. Reports from Mrs. John -Butler are of the most encouraging nature, She isat the St.

Joseph Hospital, Chicago, where she went last Thursday to have an operation performed and it proved successful, She was accompanied to by Mrs. Dundon. Louie Bartl has just finished hauling his shelled corn to town to the mill, nearly 2300 bushels of it. Ed Currier who shelled it made a good run. During the first 4 hours and forty minutes tie shelled 1250 bushels.

That is the best record be ever made, At a meeting of "the G. A. R. Post Monday, it was planned to have a rousing camp-fire some time in the near future. The committee will meet Friday, night to complete arrangements and select the date, It is purposed having something pretty good.

It is a matter 'of pride for the Board of Education that the High School goes so proudly from a seventeen thousand dollar school building to one costing than 'twenty-five 'hundred. For the amount expended the new school house is an honor to the town, Mrs, Charles Jarvis started on the early morning train to Chicago, thence to Hagerstown, Maryland, to spend the winter with her mother. Charles and Markwood ill have a fine time during the long winter to perfect themselves in the art of cooking, John L. Kline feels much since he plucked up sufficient courage to have that aching tooth out. We saw him take the extracted tooth terday afternoon and place a little sugar in the ca.vdty and say "ache, darn you, it didn't have to then.

a N. G. VanSant went to Galena yesterday to attend the Methodist conference He also took with him some necessary papers which Rev. Gardner forgot to with him, telephoning down to idr, YanSant for them at Savanna. eat are the wonders, of the marvel- telephone.

At th the to the county Joseph Wright. W. II. MiddBuuh. man Sterling, Henry Hein, A.

ril, John Grady, R. L. Leitch, Grady and Ed. Mulcahey. M.

E. Chnrch Sunday was a day of work and fulness at the M. E. church. The fief- vices opened at 9 o'clock by a feast full of rejoicings, followed by fftjMj baptism of Mrs.

Robert Miss Adah Kelley and Ray after which six were taken in nection with the church and one letter. The administering of Lord's supper next occupied their tention. At its close it was time for Sunday school, hence no preaching fey Elder Van Home as many expected. Chantnuqna Organisation, The completion of the organization, of the local Chautauqua circle was effected Tuesday at the home of Kirk, on May street, The president pro tern called meeting to brder and the following ot- fleers were elected: pres. Miss Winnefred Butler L.

Kline treas. Those joining the circle are Prof, and Mrs. W. R. Kirk, Mr.

and Mrs. N. GL VanSant, Mr. and Mrs. L.L.

Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Goodell, Mf and Mrs.

Wm. Jenkins, Mrs. A. J. Neil, Misses Lizzie and Cora Coe, Win- nefred Butler, Marcio 0.

Smith, Mr. A.Kline. Some very fine piano music was ren- dered by Misses Mina Atkins and Net-' tieFarran. The next meeting of the circle will be held a week from next Wednesday" night at N. G.

VanSanft's in Sterling. I Don't do it. During our days as a farmer would occasionally trade horses and we learned a lesson by experience that cost us dear. It is this: Never trade'f horses with a woman, because er heard of one who would tell truth about a horse; they are far worse- than men. It was only Tuesday noon that Mrs, Joe Neller Charley'Staples to trade horses as met on the street.

Her horse was 4 up to the skies, and Charlie ed word she said because she a woman, and in less than two minutes" she made-him believe that his was an ugly looking crow bait, while he- ould actually see a superb steed hitch- ed to her buggy, and he not only traded right there, changing in thei shafts, but she made him give her bucket of plumbs to boot. Now haven't seen either horse but we wager a two pence that he got cheated; Don't trade horses with a woman. Effects of Draining. F. D.

Rosebrook and wife spent Friday in Harmon ajorig with nephew and wife from Chicago, at ias Ackert's. In the afternoon the party down to south a few where the great ditches have drained- In that vicinity alone there'; three thousand acres of cornf on ground that is virgin soil. In thef one particular place they went intOy, was a whple section, a mile square, aixi hundred and forty acres all in one Such a forest of corn Mr. says he never saw. The ears are m'ous and hang on the stalks than his head.

He plucked ears and brought, home and they indeed a pretty sight. They are out with kernels to the very tip. Orange Judd Farmer offers to give dollar for every ear of corn raised year that is over a foot long. nephew Frank Ackert found two th0i required length which he will take with him to Chicago an'd get his dollars. It is said that this piece will yield 75 bushels to the An Intelligent Horse, The many stories of a wondrous turetold of the intelligence of horse has but few believers, they thought to be too fishy for belief.

old story of the horse pulling the rope in the belfry is a familiar believed by a few and considered myth only. The following can vouched for by many reliable Hull Scofleld has among his of horses at the livery barn, a bay seventeen years old, which he brought from Iowa twelve years been at the livery barn ever sinqe Everybody knows old Charley. Yesterday noon he was let out of the to browse and caper a little on street. After taking a few turns fa marched up to Teach Bracken's, blacksmith shop where he has been fa the habit of getting shod. He stuck: In his head to see if there was room for him.

Seeing no horses in, he up to the place where he was wont ta, be led and held up his foot to Bracken, found the shoe to be ex-' tremely loose; enough so that it Mm. It was taken off and new were put on all around; never at all, although he was not tied. Whm we saw him he was having hlslaetr nailed on and seemingly enjoys work, If given, an opportunity will show,.