Sterling Standard from Sterling, Illinois • Page 4

rf 1 rirr- Cor "jit 'on. 1 rorns- 1 i nun- I in 1 trk i i -v ir; rrmi- i for aW i-t-it i I'd of i iiti rn tes i In tin- i 1 1 (1 IP i 'in 1 I it Uiis rt nil I) Convention to bo held at i 1 1 nro 1 ntlil PC tor for this Son.il District to be yotetl lor at the Keum in ml 1 appoint a mcmt'nr ol the Slato Central i ml loth Dliti let to transact such other business as mny ivo before the cnnvpntlon The bails j-vcspntatlon will bn one dplppito for each cost for Vr Illlim Mchlnli In and for each fraction of IIKI votes so catt, will entitle the sovoral counties to rejire- i susinn as follows unties. Votes. Delegates. 6177 il ox "I ft 31 (O IS ktaand 7 ill J7 Kiarfe JC3G 8 WhlttnHdO 6577 28 O.

L. Campbell, Chairman, Knoxvlllo. S. V. Dwni, Hecretary, Galva.

U. N. lilazer, Aledo. JJook Walter Johnson, Kock Island. A.

O. Hammond, Wyoming. 9. Surdam, Fulton. SOCIAL CIRCLES.

On ninny a ypnr Holrnrs. Sterling i Miss Laura Crandall gave a plcas- nnt card party at her home on West Third street Friday evening. Grand was the game. Dainty refreshments were served at the conclusion of the playing. The following were there: Misses Hester Patterson.

Florence Pennington, Katherine Gait, Julia Gait, Margaret Dillon, Etta McCune, Minne Palmer. Messrs W. T. Gait, John M. Gait, H.

H. Wood, H. E. Diller, R. N.

Clark R. G. Craword. Mr. and Mrs.

J. P. Lawrie. Miss Julia Conlon was the victim of a jolly surprise party at her home on West Fifth street Friday evening. The evening was spent in dancing and at 11 o'clock a delicious supper was served.

The following is the list of the guests: Misses Sacile O'Hair. Eva Conlon, Florence Conlon, Blanche Conlon, Kittle McMahon, Elizabeth McCormick, Kittie Carney, Mary Rourke, Julia Lyons. (Messrs James Conlon, Thomas Con- Ion, Mlcheal Owens, Micheal McDonald, George McMahon, John Tracy, William Klllen, Joseph Killen. A reception was given at the Methodist church in Dixon for S. M.

Smith, general secertary of the Y. M. C. A. and his bride, and Frank G.

Llewellyn, the gymnasium Instructor for the association. The affair waa very largely attended, three hundred being pres- sent The church was handsomely decorated. Refreshments were served during the evening. Mr. Llewellyn's term expires May 1, and he will return to Sterling for the summer.

The probabilities are that he will return to Dixon in the fall. A delightful reception was given Friday evening at the homo of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Bressler in Jordan'for Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Bressler who were recently united in marriage in Chicago. The Bressler home was prettily decorated for the occasion with smilax, roses and carnations. A splendid supper was served about 11 o'clock, the reception was of an informal nature and all of the guests report a pleasant time. XThe following were there: Messrs and Mesdames J. B.

Gilbert, Nick Wllger, M. H. Overholser, John Bressler, G. W. Brewer, C.

O. Lipp, L. D. Osterhoudt, Ezra LeFevre, Henry Landis, Eugene Blank, Warren Oliver Talbot, Charles Ech- ternaeh. Mrs.

D. N. Foster. Misses Bessie Foster, Mabel Foster, Lola Overholser, Etta Wilson, Helen Lipp, Evelyn Llpp, Mamie Weaver, Mary Weckesser, Anna Weckesser, Edna LeFevre, Alice Talbot. Messrs Robert Foster, Henry Bressler, Henry Bressler, A.

W. Wilson, Walter Osterhoudt, Henry Osterhoudt, Harry Bressler, Roy Baer, Bert Baer Jerome Gilbert. There was a pleasant family gathering at the home of and Mrs. John Bartl Sunday. A superb dinner was served to the guests and a delightful time Is reported.

Among those who attended were: Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bartl and family. Mr. and Mrs.

George Brown and family, Mrs. Wentzel Bartl, Mrs. Christ Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bartl and family, Peter Eckel, Mr.

and Mrs. Andrew Bartl, Mr. and Mrs. John Kannally, Maggie Grady, Miss Elizabeth Bartl Miss Rosa Bartl, Eddie Miller, Thomas Grady, Anthony Bartl, Charles Long petmis Long. Informal music was enjoyed aftftr the was served.

All of the details of the arrange- this May party which to tra tomuvTow evening by the of St I'himh Can vie with May? Children need pood teachers p.nd good parents. Roosevelt: Ker-p your eye on the stars but your on tho earth. Barbara Frietchio go? Thf? aro beginning to deny Whittier's famous sons. Dr. Robert Collyer, the minister and lecturer, seventy-eight, started life as a blacksmith.

To Have and To Hold in ten weeks reached sale of 200.000 copies, took Uncle Tom a year. Atlantic Monthly believes teachers in high schools should have taken a degree. Abigail Adams, 1SDO, was first lady of White House. Three members of the graduating class at Carlisle high school are colored, and the white are not in a gracious mood. John Rockefeller will not allow dancing or card playing in his home.

Sensible. A good Baptist. Arbor Day not observed in our schools. What is the matter. Children should be kept in touch with nature.

Roosevelt Is the coming man of American politirs. Boer is like weasel, hard to catch asleep. When British think is in a trap, he is not there. Like General Miles, General McArthur who takes Otis' place in Philippines is not a graduate of West Point. Inquirer: No, our city council is not opened with prayer.

There is no chaplain, and no alderman who feels solemn enough to perform the office. Roosevelt despises jewelry, and wears only a plain seal'ring. Your truly strong man cares little for the petty decorations of dress. ROMAN COIN IN WISCONSIN Laborer Turned Up Piece of Money Over Two Thousand Years Old. C.

A. Iffert, a German teacher and instructor in German in the public schools of New Glams, is the fortunate owner of a piece of money coined about 260 B. C. The coin is a Roman deuarius, coined by the family of Carisia. So far as known there is but one other in the United States, the one bought by the government for the national museum.

Mr. Iffert's coin was found at New Glams, about three and half feet below the surface, while a company of workmen were excavating for the foundation of an icehouse for a brewery, says the Chicago record. The man who picked it up took it for a nickel, but atter discovering his mistake sold it to the present possessor for ten cents, or rather two glasses of beer. The coin, no doubt, is worth $1,000 or more. It is of about the size and thickness of a nickel.

The metal is a. bronze composition washed with silver. On the obverse side, in bold relief, is of a head facing to the left. On the reverse side are two human figures in the act of walking, facing to the right. Each is carrying something resembling a lance in his hand, while the right is leaning on some object behind.

Above their heads and between the two figures is a representation of an anvil and a pair of tongs. There is no edging on either side. How the coin came to be in New Glams is a matter of conjecture. The most plausible theory is that it was lost by the French traders who frequented this region-during the seventeenth century. No one.of the Swiss colony, whose decendants now form the thrifty town of New Glams, ever owned a coin of the kind.

Further, it could not have worked its way under the soil to such a depth since 1845, when the first Swiss came to Wisconsin and brought this land under cultivation for the first time. Tempting sums have been offered Mr. Iffert for his coin, but he is not anxious to sell. nr I j-i my jit' I 1 r'o P' 1 P'l '1 'T r- orirrinnted in Knnsrss City, Knn. tirl Poppard was the genius who con- strurted a vehicle that carried him and three companions over the pinini from almost to Denver.

And with such rapidity, too, that he not only passed all the white people journeying the same way, but easily distanced Indian pursuers and won for big rig the unstinted admiration of thp retl men. It was during the time Of the excitement following the discovery of sold in Colorado. A great many people had set out for this El Dorado, and long wagon trains were to be seen every day moving across the plains. Mr. Peppard was anxious to go, but.there wan one great difficulty in the didn't have the money to buy horses and wagon.

So he sat down and thought it all over, and then as a result he gave out that he was going to build a wagon with a sail, which he thought would make the trip in about as good time as any prairie schooner that was floating around over the wild and woolly west. When he first began to build the wagon the wise men of the town all laughed at him for wasting his lime on such a craft, just as other 1 wise men of Noah's time scoffed at the good patriarch. Mr. Peppard's advisers declared that if he attempcd to navigate such a craft he would certainly be killed, and the people in general looked (he wagon over, shook their heads and called it "Peppard's folly." But Mr. Peppard kept on sawing wood and turning it into wheels and running gear and boards.

At last it was finished. It was made of rough lumber and shaped like a skiff. It was eight feet long from prow to stern and three feet across at amidships and two feet deep. The bed was placed on a running gear with axles six feet apart, the wheels all the same size and about as large as the front wheels of a buggy. A ten foot mast was fastened to the front axle and came up through the bottom of the wagon box.

and to this two sails were rigged, the larger eleven by eight feet, the other seven by five. They were both to be worked by a rope through a at the top of mast. If the wind was high the smaller was to be used and If it was low the larger was to be employed. The wagon had a brake and a rudder for steering. The hounds, instead of having a tongue attached, came up pver the top of the bed and were welded together.

A bar was overland voyage he mufle a trkU on mile south of en the site- oC the Jefferson county croiinds. There, is a lovol stretch of several miles, nnd a pood, stiff was on. When it struck tlfe. larpe sail craft stuck Its nop.r> down to the ground and cn.m« near cnps-izinp. He slacked sail Rid pot out with the large sheet reefed nnd the smaller one full against the wind, and away it whizzed.

It went so fast, in fact, that the boxing in the wheels heated. Then. when it went, over a little knoll. It leaped ahont thirty into the air and came down with a crar.li. The vessel was a wreck, but Mr.

Peppard was not discouraged. He made new spindles, repaired the damage and in a few days he and three companions were ready to start. Profiting by his first experience, Mr. Peppard chose a day to start when the wind was blowing only about ten knots an hour. The first day they went fifty miles.

Their route lay northwest through Kansas and across the southwestern part of Nebraska until they struck the South Platte river, and from there they went toward Denver. "Our best time was two miles in four minutes," said Mr. Peppard, in describing the incidents of the journey: "We could not run faster than that rate, ns the boxing would have been heated. One day we went fifty miles in three hours and in doing so passed 025 teams." A Wonderful Old Oak Tree. A wonderful old oak fell the other day in the royal forest of Alt-Lletze- goercke.

It had flourished for more than four hundred years, and there was not in the entire forest another tree quite as stately.or robust. The head forester, hearing of its fall, or- tiered that it be cut into convenient eectlons and removed. While this was being done the workmen noticed that the base of the trunk was hollow, and a closer inspection showed that there was Borne kind of an animal within this broad cavity. It proved to be a fox, which had been severely wounded, and had sought shelter in the retreat. As the body has been completelymum- ified, it is supposed that at least a hundred years had passed since the Jpppr animal went into the tree to die.

The body, when found, was curled up, nnd so admirably was it preserved that one would have said Reynard waa Bleeping. Why not Save when you can? Special Bargains in Boys' Clothing Great Sensation in Men's Clothing Straw Hats Go at 65c on the dollar What Is Standard. home without the Daily THE White Goods Department Never before was so fulLand complete with all of the season's choicest novelties, affording an unusual opportunity for the selection of materials for GRADUATING DRESSES Fine White Persian Lawns, Handsome Plain and Dotted Swisses, 50-inch White Batistes, Fine White Pearline Lawns, Fine Organzine-de-Tissue, Fine White India Linons, in fact, every thing desirable in White Goods can be found here at right prices. 50c Caps go at 35c 25c Caps go at 19c Shirt Waist Sensation. $1.00 values go at 49c Madras, Dimities, Ginghams and Lawns.

Great Shoe Bargains. Best Quality, Latest Styles Dry Goods Sensation. Special Bargains in all departments Vinegar Sale lOc 5 Bought the Rutt Brenneman stock at half value. Double strength Malt Vinegar goes at lOc. THE New Laces New AH Overs, French Laces, Valen.

ciennes, Point De Venice, Torchons and Orientals, Blacks, Whites, Butter Colors. New Embroideries, New Underwear New Hosiery The Eiffel Brand has no superior and is lower in price than any other first class hosiery. The Sandow Hose for boys is the strongest and best ever made and beats them all. G. B.

DILLON, N. CARPENTER, CHICAGO CHICAGO, 111., April 30, 1900. Northwestern wheat receipts 356 cars today against 279 cars same day fast year. Clearances; Wheat, 85,697 bushels; flour, 22,101 corn, 660,956 bu. Car lots 56; corn, 279; oats, 297.

MAY 1, 1900. UNION STOCK YARD. HOG AND CATTLE RECEIPTS. Hogs, 25.000., Cattle, 3,000. Sheep, Hogs left over, 3,152.

Open lower. Mixed, heavy, rough, light, $5.40. Cattle steady. Sheep steady. Kansas City hogs, 14,003.

Kansas City cattle, 9,500. Omaha, hogs 10,000. Omaha, cattle 5,000. CLOSING. Hogs close lower.

Fair clearances. Tomorrow 30,000. Mixed, heavy, rough, light, $5.37. (J-iUlp bteaJy. Brfvtrs, cnws and heifers, JC 'i N), utmtkersi aud feeders, The Great Lace Department is strictly up-to-date with all the season demands in fashionable laces, from the pensive Valenciennes at a penny a yard, up to the most expensive.

Nottingham Laces for Yokes, Rennaissance Laces in All-Overs, Point-de-Esprite Nets (and Laces, Fancy Tuckings and Lace Stripe All-Overs, The new Wave Bands in narrow and medium, A grand assortment of Lace All-Overs at $4.95, $3.45, $1.48, 98c, 75c, 65c, 48c S.BROABWAY MENDOTA Saving Money There are very few things that one can save money more satisfactorily in than Clothing. Of course, one can't save money by buying poor clothing. That's the most "expensive kind of economy." In the lirst place the price must be low. Quality of goods and quality of workmanship. That's the kind that doesn't disappoint.

ft holds old customers and makes new ones. our experience- as inert-hunts. Jo.