NEWSPAPER EXTRACTS - 1889
January 4, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
Mr. William MONSON bade goodbye to Clinton last Monday afternoon and started on his journey to Fresno, California, whither his wife and family preceded him some weeks ago. A large number of his old friends escorted him to the depot for a farewell shake of the hand. No man in Clinton had warmer personal friends than had Mr. Monson. He has a warm heart and was always loyal to his friends. The PUBLIC hopes for his success in his new home.
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Submitted by Judy Simpson
January 11, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
A Disgrace to DeWitt County.
The Jail Declared by Grand Juries and the County Physician to be Unfit for Prisoners.
The sanitary condition of the jail in this city has been repeatedly reported upon by grand juries as unfit for the confinement of prisoners. The privy vault inside the jail has no outlet, and as a result the air is poisoned by the noxious gases. There have been repeated cases of sickness among the prisoners. Time and again the attention of the board of supervisors has been called to this matter by both circuit judges and grand juries, and yet no steps have been taken to remedy the evil. One time Judge LACEY ordered the discharge of a prisoner from the jail before the expiration of his sentence because the man was suffering in health from the poisoned atmosphere.
Last September the board of supervisors instructed the committee on public buildings to make some arrangements to improve the sanitary condition of the jail, but nothing has yet been done. The sheriff was so anxious to have new water closets and drainage that he offered to pay $100 toward the expense. During the summer months the whole jail building is so polluted with the foul smell that the sheriff’s family suffers as well as the prisoners.
Something must now be done. This week E. W. BREWER and J. W. SELBY were arrested in Waynesville for selling liquor without a license [see related article]. They were brought to Clinton and lodged in jail. Brewer is afflicted with consumption and asthma, and yesterday Dr. DOWNEY was called to attend him. The doctor at once decided that the atmosphere of the jail was poisonous to his patient, and he so reported. BARCLAY & GAMBREL, who are Brewer’s attorneys, went before Judge INGHAM and demanded either the release of their client or his removal to a place of confinement that would not imperil his health, and Dr. Downey made a strong affidavit setting forth that the sanitary condition of the jail was not only inhuman but dangerous to the life and health of the prisoners. Under these conditions Judge Ingham had either to release the prisoners, who could not give bail, or send them to the nearest county jail for safe keeping till next week, when they will be tried. The Judge issued an order transferring them to the jail at Lincoln.
Now that the city has water works the board of supervisors should at once change the condition of affairs in the jail. The city sewer runs out past the bridge on East Main street. If the county will extend this sewer to Coon Creek the city will grant the privilege of tapping the sewer which runs near the jail.
Supervisor O. H. SWIGART, of Santa Anna township, was in this city yesterday when the question was before the court, and to satisfy himself that the proceedings were not begun for effect he went over to the jail. One or two sniffs of the foul atmosphere satisfied him that immediate action ought to be taken by the committee on public buildings. Mr. Swigart said it was both brutal and inhuman to confine a prisoner in such a loathsome atmosphere.
Submitted by Judy Simpson
January 18, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
The DeWitt County Colony in Linn County, Kansas
In Linn county, Kansas, within a radius of twelve or fourteen miles, have located from time to time during the past twenty-five years a number of farmers from the east end of this county, till now, not less than fourteen families have made their home in that county, and we are glad to learn that all have prospered. With two exceptions all are tillers of the soil and many of them claim ownership to more than one good farm of one hundred and sixty acres. Among the first to go from this county to Linn county was J. J. SHINKLE, who left here in 1865. One after another the others followed. A list of the families may be interesting and bring their names back to the recollection of the old settlers of DeWitt county: J. J. SHINKLE, Jas. SHINKLE, Franklin SHINKLE, Moses ELLSWORTH, William ELLSWORTH, Jesse VANCE, N. Y. COLLINS, Newton LEMON, J. R. LEMON, Alfred PAGE, Antrim ROBBINS, John KIRBY, and Washington LYONS. All except Kirby and Wm. Ellsworth are farmers, and every man of them except Washington Lyons, are faithful adherents to the principles of the Republican party. Lyons strayed off from Republicanism to the United Labor party. It is no wonder that Kansas was able to give over eighty thousand Republican majority for Harrison when all the counties and States have furnished to one county alone in that State the same proportion of Republicans. It would safe to say that during the last fifteen years not less than three hundred Republicans have moved from this county to other States, and from the news we gather from time to time a large majority of them have prospered in the change. Mr. J. J. Shinkle was in Clinton this week, this being only his second visit back to his old home since he left here nearly twenty-five years ago. For all of those years he has been a regular reader of THE PUBLIC, so that he was prepared for the great changes in this city and the general prosperity of the county. Mr. Shinkle has several relatives in this county and an only sister who lives in Sangamon. He and his brother and nephew are now on a visit here and will remain for a week or more.
Submitted by Judy Simpson
January 25, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
Selling Liquor Without License.
Waynesville is an anti-license village, but for all that the bibulous seem to have no difficulty in getting all the liquor necessary to satisfy the cravings of the inner man. Marion BAKER sold whisky for a year or more, and at the last December term of the circuit court the grand jury indicted him for eighteen violations. Baker gave bail for his appearance at the March term of the court, but his attorneys knowing that there was no way of escape counseled him to arrange for an appearance before the county court, which was in session last Monday, and plead guilty to five counts and take his medicine. Judge INGHAM accepted his plea of guilty and sentenced him to pay a fine of $400 and costs. The costs will be about $50. Baker gave security for fine and costs; and his good old mother had to mortgage her home to keep him out of jail.
A. W. BREWER’s home is in Atlanta [Logan County, Illinois], but he thought Waynesville offered a splendid opening for a gin mill, so he opened up without a license. He had only been in business a couple of months when information was filed in the county court and he was arrested, brought to Clinton, and lodged in jail. The atmosphere of our jail was too foul for Brewer so he was taken over to Lincoln to await his trial. Last Tuesday he was brought back to answer in Judge Ingham’s court. About forty witnesses were summoned to attend the trial, and around the public square on Tuesday it seemed as if nearly all of Waynesville was in town. GAMBREL and BARCLAY, attorneys for Brewer, found out from some of the witnesses that there was no dodging the charge, so they advised their client to plead guilty to twenty counts. Judge Ingham assessed a fine of $400 and costs, which will run up the figures to nearly $600. As Brewer was lavish of his wealth which came in so easy he was unable to pay his fine, nor could he give bail, so he was sent back to jail. As he never expects to pay it he will remain in jail for awhile and then he will schedule out.
Submitted by Judy Simpson
January 25, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
Injured by a Falling Tree
Mr. H. H. MORRIS, familiarly known as “Doc,” was out in his timber cutting down a tree. In its fall the tree lodged and while Mr. Morris was looking after the safety of Mike SHEEHY, who was assisting him, a limb struck Mr. Morris on the side of the head, knocking him down, then the tree came crashing down on his leg, breaking his ankle. At first it was feared that the foot would have to be amputated, but his physicians now hope to save it. The probabilities are that Mr. Morris will be crippled for life.
Submitted by Judy Simpson
January 25, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
The Murderer of Captain George W. Porter Acquitted.
The readers of THE PUBLIC will remember that three weeks ago we gave the particulars of the cold-blooded murder of George W. PORTER at Hamilton, Kansas, by a man named SMITH. Porter and Smith met at a house in Hamilton on Christmas night, but as bad blood existed between them, the friends they were visiting tried to keep them apart. Smith left the house first, and a short time after Porter started for home. Smith did not go far away, and when Porter went out the quarrel was renewed and Smith fatally stabbed him five times in the abdomen. Smith claimed that he did this in self-defense as Porter had fired two shots at him from a revolver. Smith surrendered himself to the authorities. Captain Porter lived for two days, and up to twenty minutes before his death hopes were entertained of his recovery. On this account no effort was made to get a statement from him, and the result was that nothing could be produced in evidence that would combat Smith’s sworn testimony. Smith was tried at Eureka, Kansas, for murder, and made a successful defense that the killing was done in self-defense. The jury acquitted him. The local paper, in commenting on the trial says: “No one in all the world save the defendant knows the true facts in the case, and it is not at all probable now that they will ever be known. Whether the defendant premeditatedly sought the life of Captain Porter, or whether the killing was in self-defense and justifiable, the defendant has the blood of a fellow-being on his hands, and his future will not be an enviable one.”
Note: For more on this story, see the Porter obituary.
Submitted by Judy Simpson
February 8, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
Over in the village of Waynesville the people are getting warm on the whisky question. They had BREWER arrested and fined $400 and costs, which effectually stamped out his gin mill. Then they tackled WHITEMAN & WILLIAMSON’s drug store. Mr. BAYLESS, President of the village board, came over to Clinton and engaged BARCLAY & GAMBREL to begin proceedings against the drug firm. Mr. Williamson did not want a trial and offered to compromise, and when the parties met in this city to fix up matters a certificate was presented from the Waynesville village board instructing the attorneys to compromise for $25 and costs. Mr. Bayless would not listen to any such compromise; he wanted $400. That night Bayless remained in Clinton, and during his absence from home the village board was called together. Mr. Williamson, the defendant in the case, is a member of the board, and in the absence of the President he was made chairman of the meeting. A resolution instructing the attorneys to compromise for $100 and costs was presented at the board meeting, and of course Mr. Williamson put the motion, which was carried. The case was finally settled on Whiteman & Williamson paying $50 and costs.
Submitted by Judy Simpson
March 22, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
Mrs. George SCOTT and children arrived in Clinton Wednesday evening and received a hearty welcome from her old friends. She feels happy at getting back home once more, and we think it will take more than ordinary persuasion to get her back to California. The prospects are that Mr. SCOTT will be engaged in business again in this city in a very short time.
Submitted by Judy Simpson
June 7, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
The Old Mill.
Clinton had an old flouring mill that was built one-third of a century ago, but it did not have age or historic associations sufficiently strong to protect it from the ruthless hand of destruction. Poets and writers of fiction delight to weave an old mill, by a running brook, into their songs and stories, and in fancy we can see “the miller’s dog that lay at the mill door,” basking in the sunshine and too lazy to move out of the way should a farmer try to enter with his grist. There is something weird-like about an old mill with its joists and sills and its interior covered with the fine dust of flour that has been accumulating for generations. What a dreamy old place a mill is with the buzzing sound of the burrs and the splash of the water as it shoots over the overshot wheel that gives life to the machinery. But this is not the kind of mill of which Clinton can boast, therefore there is no inspiration here for the poet or novelist.
Away back in the autumn of 1855—and that is not so long ago as we count time nowadays—Starkey POWELL and Jacob HALDEMAN came from Scott county, Illinois, in quest of a location for a flouring mill, and as the Illinois Central road was then being built they concluded that Clinton offered peculiar advantages. In order to have the benefit of shipping facilities they bought the ground just east of the main line track and on this the mill was built. The work was begun in the September, 1855, and in August, 1856, the first grist was ground. The mill and machinery cost $10,000. Starkey Powell, who has lately died, sold his interest in the mill to Thomas C. BERGEN; and later Bergen sold to the late William HAYNIE. The mill was a profitable investment till recent years, and both Haldeman and Haynie made money out of it during the prosperous days of milling.
The old mill has passed away, and today nothing but the frame remains, and that, too, in a few days will be a thing of the past. The remnant of the mill sold a couple of weeks ago for $200. The timbers and other material are being moved to Decatur, where they will probably do service for the next half century as a barn. So it goes, from the poetic mill to the prosaic barn.
Submitted by Judy Simpson
June 7, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
Robbed His Uncle.
George STEVENS, aged seventeen years, is a tough youth. He lived with his father over near Bement, in Piatt county, and one day the old gentleman took the boy out to do some chopping, which work was not to his taste. George skipped out and came over to Byard [or Bayard] GRIFFITH’s farm in Harp township. Mr. Griffith is an uncle of the Stevens boy by marriage. One day last week Stevens and one or two of the Griffith boys took a lot of hogs to Birkbeck for shipment. On their way home the boys bantered each other to swap pocket-books, and when Stevens showed up he had about $50 in gold. When the Griffith boys got home they told their mother about the money that Stevens had. Byard Griffith is a wealthy old farmer who owns large tracts of land in Harp township. He kept a heavy bank account with John Warner & Co., but one day he got foolishly mad about some trifling affair and withdrew $2,000 and carried it home with him. This money he put in a box and kept it under his bed. The money tempted Stevens and he stole $295, taking it at odd times so that it would not be missed. Stevens went back to his father’s home near Bement, and there he lavished his wealth liberally. He bought a suit of clothes for his brother, made a present of $45 to his father, and gave his sister some trifling presents. After remaining at home a few days he came back to Byard Griffith’s last week, and on Sunday he was arrested and brought to Clinton. On Wednesday morning he had a preliminary examination, before Justice McHenry, and was held to bail in the sum of $500, in default of which he was turned over to Sheriff Henson. The boy is too old for the reform school and too young for the penitentiary, therefore he will only get a jail sentence. He acknowledges the stealing, and turned over what money he had in his possession.
Submitted by Judy Simpson
July 5, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
While Fred MAGILL was at the Derby races in Chicago the other day a thief took a fancy to a costly diamond stud that glittered in Fred’s necktie. The thief came up behind Fred and reaching around grabbed the tie and gave it a jerk, but Fred was too quick for him and turning around dealt the fellow a blow between the eyes that staggered him. Fred had better leave that diamond with his wife when next he goes to the Chicago races.
Submitted by Judy Simpson
September 6, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
Mrs. William MONSON and her three children and Mrs. George B. GRAHAM and her two children arrived in this city from Fresno, California, on last Tuesday morning. Mrs. Monson is thoroughly disgusted with life in California as she has been the victim of poor health since she moved to that State. If she continues in her present frame of mind it is doubtful if she will ever go back to reside there permanently. At all events both of the ladies expect to remain in Clinton till next spring. Messrs. GRAHAM and MONSON have bright business prospects ahead, as they have been retained in some important cases in which the fees promise liberal returns.
Note: The Monsons may have moved back to Clinton. William and Harriet and their children are all buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Submitted by Judy Simpson
September 6, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
The managers of the corset factory have matters in such shape that within the next few days the machinery will be set in motion and Clinton will be ready to supply the ladies of the land with the finest corsets ever manufactured. It is slow work fitting up a new factory as there are so many minor details that must be attended to in getting machinery ready to work. The Clinton members of the board of managers are Judge G. K. INGHAM, Mr. Drew INMAN and Captain CONKLIN, and the stockholders may have perfect confidence that every interest will be carefully guarded. Already a number of orders have been sent in for a supply of corsets, and the indications are that the force of hands will be kept busy from the start.
Note: (Less than one year later…) August 22, 1890—(An excerpt from a long article.)...“We started a corset factory here once. We put in a good deal of money, but it died. For awhile we thought it would be a home for women who had to support themselves. We thought it would be a sort of ‘Palace of Delight,’ such as Walter Besant pictures in that impossible novel of his, ‘All Sorts and Conditions of Men.’ But nobody connected with the enterprise knew nothing about a corset, and the enterprise went to pieces.”
Submitted by Judy Simpson
September 13, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
A Brutal Father.
W. W. McABOY, the proprietor of the nursery, made a brutal assault on his son Emery on Tuesday about noon. The boy came uptown in the forenoon and went to see the game of baseball, and on his return home he had a racket with his father. McAboy threw some tomatoes at the boy and then picked up a chair and struck him on the head, cutting a bad gash. Mrs. McABOY was sick in bed and hearing the racket she screamed and fainted. The boy ran to his mother at once and seeing her condition he started out to get a doctor. As the boy was going out of the door, McAboy threw a tumbler at him, which struck him on the arm and cut an artery. The boy went over for Dr. HYDE to go and see his mother, and not finding him at home he came uptown for Dr. WILCOX. By the time he reached the square he was faint from loss of blood, and the consequences might have been dangerous had his wounds not been bound up at once. From his home up to the square he could be tracked by the blood spots on the sidewalk. Marshal MOFFET saw the boy and as soon as he learned the cause of his wounds he went to McAboy’s house and arrested him. McAboy not being ready for trial, his case was postponed till next Tuesday. The boy Emery is very industrious and attentive to his father’s business, working day and night. He is a perfect young gentleman and he has the sympathy of everybody. He is yet nursing his wounds, carrying his arm in a sling and his head is bandaged. For such a brutal assault on his own boy McAboy should be made to suffer the full penalty of the law to teach him a lesson. A fine would be no punishment as he is well able to pay it.
Submitted by Judy Simpson
November 1, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
It is an old proverb that misfortunes and sorrow never come singly. It has proven true in the case of Postmaster CARLE and his afflicted wife. Two weeks ago last Saturday his youngest daughter, Blanche, aged six years, died of diphtheria. Last Monday their baby boy, two years old, died of the same disease. In a little over two weeks two of their children passed into the unknown world. Knight had only been sick a few days, but from the first the physicians had no hopes that the ravages of the deadly disease could be stayed. Every heart in Clinton will go out in sympathy to the father and mother bereft of their children in such rapid succession.
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Submitted by Judy Simpson
November 1, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
While standing by the grave of Knight, their baby boy, in Woodlawn Cemetery last Tuesday afternoon, word came to Postmaster CARLE and his heartbroken wife that Kittie, their oldest girl and the only one of the children left to them, was stricken down with that dread disease diphtheria, which had already bereft them of two of their children. As soon as the funeral ceremonies were finished, Mr. Carle and his wife were driven in a carriage to Wapella as fast as the horses could draw them. Kittie had been sent to her grandmother’s in Wapella before the death of Knight in order to save her if possible from the dread contagion, but too late; the poison had already taken hold on her. Two doctors were summoned from Clinton and with the attending physician in Wapella all that skill could do was done to save the life of little Kittie. We are glad to record that the danger point is considered past and that Kittie will be spared to her already doubly afflicted parents.
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Submitted by Judy Simpson
November 1, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
NO DIPHTHERIA IN CLINTON
There has been an unnecessary scare in this city about diphtheria. Three deaths have occurred from the disease, the last being Postmaster CARLE’s baby boy, who died last Monday. Mayor HARRIS’s daughter, aged about fourteen years, had a slight attack of diphtheria, but is now convalescent and is able to be about the house. The Mayor took the precaution to quarantine his family and since the first appearance of the disease not one of them, not even himself, has been out of the house. The only other case was the daughter of Mr. FOLLETTE, cutter at the corset factory. The girl had but a slight attack and was not confined to her bed any time during the week. These are the only two cases in the city, and the patients are now pronounced better by the physicians. We have interviewed nearly all of the physicians in the city and not a case even approaching diphtheria is reported. There are some cases of sore throat, but this is not unusual among children at this season of the year. The public schools will be reopened next Monday morning.
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Submitted by Judy Simpson
November 1, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
The Chicago Inter-Ocean of last Tuesday gives an account of Mary VAN LEWVEN, who a few months ago worked in one of the hotels in this city as a dish washer and scrubber. She is one of the world’s unfortunates whose only crime is that she is afflicted with severe spasms. She began her young life as an inmate of an orphan asylum in New York State and was transferred from one asylum to another till she was finally shipped to Illinois with other waifs and put on a farm where the people made her work like a slave. It was at that farmer’s that she was injured by being struck with the handle of a windlass while hoisting dirt out of a well the farmer was digging. From the effects of the injury the girl has been afflicted with spasms, and now she is unfit to earn a living and the Cook county poorhouse is now the only home she is to have. She was in Clinton about two months.
Submitted by Judy Simpson
December 13, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
TO THE PUBLIC.
The gratuitous and uncalled for attack upon the diagnostic skill of Dr. HYDE by Dr. WILCOX, in last week’s issue, is but an attempt to turn aside the unfavorable criticism that is being made upon him for a most unfortunate error in determining the nature of the illness that took our little daughter prematurely away. To this attack I am constrained to make the following reply.
I am only a layman, just as a very large majority of my readers, and have not the ability to use mystic terms to clothe plain, unmistakable symptoms. I herewith append a simple history of the trouble through which my family has so recently passed and leave the public to render its verdict.
Friday evening, October 4th, last, my little daughter Blanche came from school sick. She had a high fever and complained that her throat hurt her. I immediately called Dr. Wilcox, who after an examination pronounced her case “acute tonsillitis.” He assured us that there was no danger and that she would soon be well. Saturday morning she was no better, and when the doctor came our anxiety caused us to ask if there were any symptoms of diphtheria. He assured us there was not. Sunday morning brought no relief to the little sufferer. She had no cough and her voice was natural. Monday morning the doctor thought her better. Tuesday morning and then evening came, and this was the close of the fourth day of her illness, and she still had high fever and a very sore throat. She had no desire to eat anything because it hurt her to swallow. Wednesday morning a new symptom developed—a croupy cough. At this we were indeed alarmed and the doctor was called early to see her. After an examination he said she had only spasmodic croup, which would soon pass away. That night she could not speak above a whisper. Her croupy cough continued. The doctor had gone out of town, and as she continued to grow worse, Dr. Wright was called in, and learning her history asked if Dr. Wilcox had not suspected diphtheria instead of tonsillitis. He allowed us to infer that in his opinion it was diphtheria. The following morning Dr. Wilcox pronounced her illness membranous croup and considered her symptoms serious. All day Friday and until Saturday morning she suffered. Dr. Wilcox remained with her until twelve o’clock, midnight. Before leaving, he told us she was better. Two hours later her little soul took its flight, and her dear little heart, throbbing so violently for days, was still.
Just ten days after her death, our baby Knight was taken sick. Too young to describe pain, we only noticed his loss of appetite and unusual fretfulness. Friday morning, however, he gave that awful croupy cough, and that same evening I called Dr. Downey to see him. After a careful examination he told me my baby had that most fatal of all forms of the disease, diphtheria of the larynx—diphtheritic croup; that there was a very widespread coating of diphtheria upon the throat and that the disease had extended to the larynx.
He expressed grave doubts about his recovery, and began promptly the use of powerful remedies to get control of the disease. He also at once advised us to remove Kitty from the house and thus try, if not already too late, to prevent her taking the disease. Only those who have gone through similar trials can know anything of the feeling of parents witnessing this awful malady as it fastened its fangs deeper into the vitals of their loved ones, and this the second victim in our family. I pray God that no other household in this community may be called upon to pass through such a terrible ordeal. But even yet it seemed our cup of sorrow was not filled, for at the grave of our baby the news came that our only remaining child was sick at Wapella with the disease whose cruel ravages we had learned to dread. The physician already in attendance summoned to his aid Drs. Downey and Hyde, and they all at once pronounced it diphtheria.
And now some eighteen days after her recovery I am prostrated with a chill, followed by fever and a very sore throat. Do you wonder that I suspected diphtheria? Do you wonder Dr. Hyde suspected it? Do you wonder Dr. Downey suspected it? Would not anybody suspect it? Think of burying two of my children in less than three weeks, watching over the sick bed of a third with this frightful disease, and then when I myself am sickened with its too well-known symptoms of attempting to lull myself and family into inactivity or neglect by imagining my disease to be “follicular tonsillitis,” or some other trivial throat disease. Talk about interfering with business, with schools, with the customs of the people, when the lives of our precious ones are at stake. There is no father in Clinton who would not paralyze the small wheels of business for a week if he could thereby save the lives of his little ones. This is but an attempt on his part to cover up his deplorable mistake in diagnosis with the uncharitable mouth of ridicule. Both Dr. Downey and Dr. Hyde pronounced my case one of fully developed and unmistakable diphtheria. I am satisfied with their diagnosis; I am satisfied with their treatment. They are both opposed to making any reply to his harangue, and are surprised that he should offer to the public a statement so full of errors. I am informed that the use of the word “sebaceous,” in the description of an exudation upon the tonsil, is as meaningless as the statement that one might have an earache in his shoulder blade. No such thing as a sebaceous secretion being found in the throat. Now I want to say if these three physicians should be called upon to give an opinion in any case of illness in this city, and the two who attended me should pronounce it diphtheria and Dr. Wilcox should call it acute tonsillitis, it would not take a Solon to predict which diagnosis would be believed, which treatment adopted.
The criminal lethargy or professional incompetence that seeks to lead the public mind into the stupid and dangerous belief that the physician’s warning cry of “Wolf! Wolf!!” should be delayed until the innocent victim is devoured, deserves a scathing rebuke, indication of contempt with which such pernicious views are entertained.
C. J. CARLE
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Submitted by Judy Simpson
December 13, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
REPORT OF PHYSICIANS TO CITY COUNCIL
In view of the fact that diphtheria has prevailed recently in the family of C. J. CARLE, postmaster, and that Mr. Carle himself is now sick with a suspicious throat disease, we recommend that the stairway communication with his sick room be closed tightly from the office below, and that we consider that sufficient as a means of preventive treatment in this case.
G. W. HYDE, M.D.
F. E. DOWNEY, M.D.
J. M. WILCOX, M.D.
Clinton, Ill., Nov. 26, 1889.
Submitted by Judy Simpson
December 13, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
A few years ago David BOSSERMAN and his sons were running a stock farm up here in DeWitt township, where they made some money. The old man came to the conclusion that if he wanted to get real rich raising cattle and plowing corn was rather a slow process, so he sold his farm in DeWitt township and moved out to Superior, Nebraska, and bought land and went into the stock business on a larger scale. They wanted a bank out there, and David having some surplus capital he organized a national bank. We have received his official statement for last September which shows that the bank has a capital of $100,000 with a deposit account of nearly $100,000. All of which goes to show that it pays better to own a bank in Nebraska than a stock farm in DeWitt county.
Submitted by Judy Simpson
December 13, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
Charles McCONKEY and Ed WISEGARVER, of DeWitt, have had no angelic affection for each other for some time, and electric sparks have flashed whenever anything like contiguity took place between them. On last Tuesday night there was a singing school at the Excelsior School-house, east of DeWitt, and these gentlemen met and engaged in a Sullivan and Kilrain fisticuff encounter, doing great violence however to Marquis of Queensbury rules. The audience tried to interfere and stop the exhibition but could not, so the spectators ranged themselves around and gazed on the spectacle, allowing the combatants to scratch and tear one another like fighting roosters until of sheer exhaustion they gave out. Wisegarver is said to have drawn first blood, but McConkey seems a trifle the worst punished.
Submitted by Judy Simpson
December 13, 1889
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois
Frank LEMEN came up from Texas last Monday to visit his old friends in Clinton. Frank and Frost have a circus on the road and have done well the past season. The show is now in winter quarters in Texas. They left here on the 5th of July, 1887, and for a time were in hard luck but, as they were able to increase the attractions of the show, business improved. For nearly two years they have been making money. Col. Lemen is in the sheep business in Texas and owns a large ranch and eight thousand sheep. The wool clip alone each year brings quite a handsome income. Colvin is married and is accumulating wealth.
Submitted by Judy Simpson