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4 CHURCH THE EIGHTY? Rogers fMe WV Carpets! Just irriOtd Eclusi2e Patterns LoWst Prices CAPT ALLEN $hoW to You ound! A COUGH SV'RL JP That will break up a cold quickand make you feel well SANORD White Pine and Tar Compound 25 Cents a bottle Try it 1 STUART The Clothier On Tlie Corner Dodge acts This Be Understood REMARKABLE OLD PIONEER BROKEN HAPPY Mar 18 will be taken up Johnson Beach 16w6 3 parti Nort' k'fUL INTERIOR BURNED ND VATER SOAKED The Tailor Volunteer Army Insolvent The Volunteers of America seceeders from the Salvaiion Army are in finan cial straits in Chicago Their begging proclivities were not equal to the de mands and the Volunteer leader on Sat urday confessed judgment for $873 due for rent of their headquarters on West Madison street Too many people have come to believe that salvation is free when it takes just as much cash to rent a room for a church as it does for a saloon A ORCIBLE REMINDER DANIEL PIERCE GIVES ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS TO URTHER IT out last Thursday mother counted the money and knew that sum was in the drawer last September On Thanksgiving day some six weeks later the money turned up missing At first Sam said he did not know where it was but afterward on the trial the young man testified that he 1 had taken the money in the envelope and given it to his uncle John Lindahl on the street in Sycamore handing it to him in the envelope unopened in re sponse to a request of Mr Lindahl for a loan of it On the other hand Mr Lindahl a reputable citizen testified that he had not been in Sycamore on the day on which the loan was made had not seen Sam then nor for some weeks before and after had not received the money7 from him or from anybody and knew nothing of 'any such transaction And there you are But where is the $80? The Justice decided that there was no cause for action Tour of All Mexico In a special vestibuled train of Pullman compartment drawing room library and dining cars with the celebrated open no top observation car Chililitli starting from Chicago Monday ebru ary 27 for a tour of thirty seven days the longest ever offered Tickets in clude all expenses railway and sleep ing car fares meals in dining car hotels carriages special street cars boats guides and interpreters no extras what ever The party will be a select one and limited in number and will be person ally conducted under the auspices of The American Tourist Association Reau Campbell Gen Mgr 1423 Marquette Bldg Chicago or full information maps circulars etc call on of address any ticket agent of the Chicago Mil waukee St Paul Ry I6t4 Notice Office of the Illinois Insulated Wire Com pany Sycamore Ill ebruary 4 1899 Public notice is hereby given that a special meeting of the stock holders of said Illinois Insulated Wire Company will be held at the office of said com pany in said city of Sycamore on Mon day March 6 1899 at 10 a of said day for the purpose of voting on the question of increasing the capital stock of said company from the sum of $10000 to the sum of $20000 Geiserowich Secretary and Treasurer not a single clothing want for father and son but what may be filled now at most unusually saving prices: Winter Clothing in large assortment at lowest prices Mrs William Renwick Mrs Mary Renwick relict of Will iam Renwick died at the home of her sOnH Walter Renwick on the Ryan farm just west of Sycamore at 8 Monday morning aged 74 years De ceased had long been in poor health and easy victim to the grip Her husband' William Renwick died six years ago Of the children surviving Mrs Jonathan Woodly resides at Cort land Mrs Matthias Belles at Clinton la George at reeport Mrs Jennie Gordon at Kingston Mrs Sarah Anderson at Chicago and Walter and Susie at Sycamore The funeral services will be ftotil the church Thursday at 11 with the interment at Ohio Grove Why He Succeeds There are a large number oLsjiiffftrers with long' standing diseases who have fail id to recover simply because they have not had the needed treatment It can be safely said that there are few invalids who cannot be cured if the right treatment is supplied There are distinct reasons why Dr Prettyman is so successful in the treatment and the cure of the difficult class of cases and why he removes the blight of diseases from so many lives His natural adapt ability his thorough medical and scien tific education and his years of special hospital training combine to enable him to diagnose treat and cure the cases he undertakes At hotel Wednes day ebruary 22 Lived on Site of Sycamore When it was Open Prairie rom the Martin county Sentinel pub Usher! at airmont Minn we take the following clipping the issue ot eb ruary 3 1899: Dr Johnson performed an operation for stran gulated hernia upon Judge Rose this week The remarkable feature of the case is that Mr Rose is 91 years old and passed through the trying ordeal in good shape Judge Rose is the Jesse Rose who commenced life with the embryo city of Sycamore in 1839 was much in pub lic here for some twenty five years was the active one in organizing the Con gregational church in 1840 and will be well remembered by our old citizens He became county judge of Martin county A Candy Pull The Sycamore camp of Royal Neigh bors entertained their friends to the number of two hundred at a candy pull last riday evening A music? 1 and literary program was rendered as follows: Piano solo Mrs Cora Morris recitation Marx Lebhardt song Mr Ned itzgibbon duet Misses Hulda and Celia Anderson instrumental duet Mrs Cliffe piano Bert Stroberg violin recitation Charles VanGalder violin manipulations and song Mr itzgibbon Excursions On ebruary 7 and 21 and on March 7 and 21 the Chicago Great Western Ry will sell round trip excursion tickets to points in the fol lowing states at one fare plus $200 for the round trip: Alabama Arkansas Arizona Colorado Indian Territory Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Mis souri Nebraska New Mexico North and South Carolina North and South Dakota Oklahoma Oregon Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Wisconsin and Wyoming These tickets are limited for return twenty one (21) days from date of sale with stop over privileges on going trip at any point within home territory Any agent Chicago Great Western Ry will give you full information as to routes rates and time of trains as will also Lord Gen Citizen of DeKalb County or Many Years Capt Allen died at his home in Aurora on Sunday last after a long period of ill health He was a resident of Shabbona for many years was prominent as a Republican and was one of the best known citizens of this county Martin Allen was born in St Lawrence county November 6 1832 He came with his parents by way of the Great Lakes to Shabbona Grove in 1845 He enlisted August 12 1862 in Co 105th Ill Infty as first lieutenant was promoted to captain was wounded at Atlanta in August 16 1864 and was discharged in January following for physical disability He married Jane A Hunter in 1856 She went to Chatanooga to nurse her wounded husband and died shortly after of typhoid fever contracted there which disease was contracted from her by their second daughter who also died Their eldest daughter is now the wife of George Sanborn of Chicago the youngest daughter was adopted by Allen of DeKalb brother of Capt Allen and is the wife of Ell wood of DeKalb Capt Allen married Lizzie Alexander at Shabbona November 6 1867 To them was born one child a son Bert Capt Allen was county superintendent of schools from 1865 to 1869 He then conducted a drug business at Shabbona He was a Mason and a member of the A The funeral will he held today and Capt daughter Mrs Ellwood is expected to be present from lorida where she had been spending the winter Church Dam Water Away Interfered With Work of iremen Abont fi riday evening Dr tators were engaged in trying to find more Many Years Ago Mrs Morris Holcomb died at her I home in Chicago on Saturday of pneu monia Her only child Carrie is dangerously ill of the same disease Mary Harrington spent her girlhood in Sycamore her parents being among the early settlers of this county After the death of her father her mother be came the wife of Rowe another well known citizen of a quarter of a century ago Mary married Morris Holcomb who was sheriff of DeKalb county in the They left Sycamore about 25 years ago and made their home at Grand Rapids Mich after which they resided in argo North Dakota where Mr Hol comb is now engaged in business Deceased was about 53 years of age The funeral services were held in Chi cago and the remains were brought to Sycamore Monday evening and interred in the family lot in Elmwood cemetery Smith and Walter Langlois who were passing by saw smoke issuing in great Tame from the Episcopal church A I alarm was turned in The firemen fere on hand in a few minutes (The smoke was so dense that no one lonld entr the building even a short and the fire could not be lo Two streams of water were fed into the basement in the vicinity the furnaces and afterwards a am was thrown through a side win into the region of the chancel The thick smoke which had been 'issuing through the windows and every mwrina offer what seemed a loner time Ulv llX decreased in volume SO that the fire men were able to remain inside the p'o church for a few minutes at a time 'Then the fire was located and quickly extinguished kWhen the smoke had sufficientlyKred away a sad scene of havoc andvctidn was revealed wning hole through the floorKling the furnace just in front ofcel revealed the place where the Down the center aisle theMburned through as it also the chancel rail where theKryAvhich cost $600 or $800 a thing of beauty Much and joists were so burned decorated walls and heavy blackened and stained by steam highly polished blackJffieats and other wood work was legrimed and blistered most of tne cush Ins and upholstering were stained and re or less damaged The organ got but it is believed is not badly dam HrT inside The firemen had a hard time working the intense cold but they did their ork well The loss is variously estimated but ivill exceed $1000 The building and contents were in tured in the Northwestern National and tie Germanica companies for $5000 Charlie Partridge the janitor left she building shortly after 5 after If starting the fire The wood work was Itnot properly protected from the heat furnace I' si I A ui I Ivlzxn Pearley Terwilliger of DeKalb wasj on4 of the twelve students at the Lake orest University who were carried out into Lake Michigan while skating Sun jday afternoon The twelve boys ven tured out too far and were cast adrift on aii ice floe The temperature on the lake was ten degrees below zero and for nearly eight hours the boys suffered from the merciless cold At 7 ten of the boys young Terwilliger in the number were rescued by a search ing party but Guy Caron and George Mallory were not rescued but were lost in the lake a GITS OL I A I Mits 110 LCOM" 1EAD Trustees Eltliom Kogers and Jay Harring ton Donate One Kent or More Koom A gift of one hundred dollars from Mr Daniel Pierce was presented to the library board at its meeting on Monday to be used as the board thought best for the interests of the library It was voted to expend the money for books which are much needed At the same meeting it was voted to rent the room adjoining the library for storage room and for additional reference and reading room connection to be made between the two rooms by a large opening cut in the wall Two members of the board Mr Jay Harring ton and Mr Elthom Rogers promised to pay the rent of the new room for one year urniture and Wall Paper We know that it will be to the advan tage of prospective buyers to examine our fine new stock of the above goods UPHOLSTERING Old urniture Made as Good as New Cold Moderating The weather has occupied more at tention than anything else these last two weeks and no wonder with such intense cold without interruption rost bitten ears are fashionable Almost everybody who has water pipes has had trouble with them freezing and in several instances much damage has been done Several private gas generators have frozen and left the homes in darkness The frost is nearly 4 feet deep Such a hustling of plumbers was never seen before and the coal men have been kept going early and late But at last there has come a modera tion of the cold and yesterday the mercury was higher than since more than two weeks ago Saturday Jan uary 28 The record of temperature since our last publication is as follows as kept by Roswell Dow official observer riday eb Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday I Ellwood and the Steel Trust Inter Ocean Isaac Ellwood of DeKalb Ill was at the Victoria hotel yesterday on his way home from the east where he par ticipated in the organization of the big steel trust known as the American Wire and Steel Company of New Jersey He was elected a director of the new company which absorbed the Illinois Steel company He says the outlook in the steel business is bright and he does not think there will be an advance in prices unless there is a rise in the raw materials ore coal and The Gold That Glitters DO RICHES MAKE HAPPINESS OR DOES HEALTH MAKE WEALTH The richest man cannot always be said to be the most successful for true success is not possible without happi ness Many a wealthy man would give all he now to have the health and happineUx young athlete Health is pXet and keep if good iudgffi Us'fe for and supplying AM system Nature You sometimes $7Jtaxing your nerves your body and you time tcL'relax and take the rest thalu diM fid You must have outside Malt Extract The Tonic will supply the ex tra fuel food and strength it is abso lutely pure an unequalled assistant to nature in giving health vitality and strength It will make you eat and sleep well and cause you to feel like yourself again or perhaps better than you ever felt in your life The Tonic was awarded the 100 points of perfection at the air and was the only Malt Extract which received that honor Your nearest druggists car ry Pabst Malt Extract The Tonic in stock SHOE SIZES Almost Given Away Broken sizes odd pairs of otherwise discontinued shoe lines cannot remain on our shelves any length of time We make short work of them every season by marking them down to prices which often are next to giving the shoes away Here is a list of Kid Shoes turn sewed welt sewed pointed toe square toe and round toe Prices used to be $300 and $4 00 We sell them all at the uniform price of $100 a pair Come quick SANDBERG 1 A Peculiar Lawsuit Over the LH vapjwar mice of Hard Earned Cash I Sam son of Charles Wrigley of this 1 city had saved $80 which he had earned by good hard work He care fully tucked it into a bureau drawer But the money is now gone Where it 1 went to Justice Mitchell some law yers witnesses and a big crowd of spec A nrl vn 1 1 bVT 1 1 1 1 A kaavu vu VVU11 licit UUHdl bdVHlg for thousands of clothes buvers a quickstep price nuht A through this stock we must sell even faster When the falling thermometer makes you remember that it is the time to think of your Winter Clothing We have a beautiful new stock of Imported and Domes tic Tweeds Diagonals Cheviots Clay Serges and ancy Mixtures from which to choose and will fit and make them in our old time fine taste and exquisite style at hard time prices Ahern MAKE HOME By Buying Our City athers Deliberate At the council meeting Monday even ing not much business was transacted i The usual bills for salaries and current expenses were allowed aniong them was a bill of $105 for the firemen that being the amount the city paid them to extinguish the Episcopal church fire Carnes Danton were allowed $160 for defending in the Appellate court the Doyle stand pipe case and for other legal services The $200 extra saloon license received from the Scott saloon it was voted to expend for gravel for roads eral Passenger and Ticket Agent 113 one 01 the places to be graveled being Adams bt Chicago from the CGW tracks to the north Excursion Tickets to Insti bndge The council adjourned to ri i tute Princeton Ill day ebruary 24 when the business of Via Northwestern line will be sold revising all the city ordinances and is at rbdaced rates ebruary 20 and 21 suing a new book of revised ordinances until ebruary 24 or full uars apply to agents Chicago western railway 'la'w 4 a Ik ML wAk Bl wL Wl Da va ki (('A ML WA 1 tf' i 7 7 Let a it 8 It I ii I 7 III I IB Jo I 7 BOIES Editors and Proprietors PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK Subscription Price Per Year in Advance )ND YEAR SYCitMORt DEKALB COUNTY ILLINOIS WEDNESDAY JJBRUARY 15 1899 NUMBER 17 10 21 below 11 12 12 21 13 9 14 6 above I 4 I I.