NEWSPAPER EXTRACTS - 1906

Tuesday, January 16, 1906

Decatur Daily Review
Decatur, Illinois

CLINTON TO HAVE A FIRE WAGON
City Council Decides on Improvements.

(Review Special Service.)

Clinton, Ills., Jan. 16.—The city council at its meeting Monday night voted to purchase a fire wagon and team and to improve the department as much as possible. It was also voted to furnish water free of charge to the Warner hospital as soon as it is completed.

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The county clerk has finished the tax books and on Tuesday was sending out the bonds to the collectors.

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The DeWitt County Medical association held a meeting Tuesday in the county court room.

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Seven vagabonds were arrested Monday night by the sheriff and placed in jail. This work is usually done by the police, but as the tramps were outside the city limits the arrest was made by the sheriff.

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The DeWitt county farmers' institute will open Wednesday morning in the court house. All day Tuesday the farmers were bringing in their products for exhibit. The DeWitt county teachers' institute will be held thru week also, beginning Thursday. The teachers and farmers will have a joint session Friday night at the opera house, when Superintendent Alfred BAYLISS will speak.

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Information was filed in the county court Tuesday morning against Earl BANGS, charging him with assault and battery. He is accused of striking Goldie BRITTON on Jan. 10.

(See next article)

Submitted by Sheryl Byrd

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Wednesday, January 17, 1906
Decatur Daily Review
Decatur, Illinois

BUSINESS MEN TO ORGANIZE.

Business men of the city met in the county court room Tuesday night and reorganized the Clinton Business Men's association. The object of the association is to make up and keep a credit book for the benefit of the members and to take other necessary protective measures. W. F. GRAY, a young lawyer who has just come to Clinton, was elected secretary and voted a salary of $50 a month. He will look after the credit end of the association.

Officers were elected as follows:

President—H. W. SAWYER.
Vice Presidents—E. L. FREUDENSTEIN, C. H. RIGHTER, H. G. BEATTY.
Secretary—W. F. GRAY.
Treasurer—G. W. WOY.

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Wednesday, January 17, 1906
Decatur Daily Review
Decatur, Illinois

YOUNG FOR TREASURER.

Announcement was made Tuesday night of the candidacy of R. B. YOUNG of Clinton for county treasurer, subject to the Republican primaries. Mr. Young is in the State bank of Clinton. W. S. HARROLD of Wapella has been out for some time.

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J. I. EVERSON announced himself a Republican candidate for the legislature Tuesday. He has been busily electioneering for some days. His opponent, J. R. ROBINSON, is also at work.

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Wednesday, January 17, 1906
Decatur Daily Review
Decatur, Illinois

200 PEOPLE AT SHORT HORN AUCTION.
A. D. Shaw & Son Going Out of the Business.

(Review Special Service.)

Maroa, Jan. 17.—About 200 people were at the sale of shorthorn cattle of A. D. Shaw & Son at Smith & Stoutenborough's stable Tuesday afternoon. The firm is going out of the Short Horn cattle business and sold all of their stock. Forty-nine head were sold. The highest price was paid for a cow, $137. by J. H. STOUTENBOROUGH. The other cows went around $100 and 102. A bull sold for $65. A number went to Clinton and some to Midland City. There were three auctioneers, WILEY, BRADSHAW, and ROLOFSON.

Submitted by Sheryl Byrd

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Wednesday, January 24, 1906
The Decatur Review
Decatur, Illinois

OUT OF BUSINESS.

The two grain offices in Clinton are open after a shutdown of a day or two on account of the storm. The wires were so completely demoralized that it was impossible to do any business Monday and hard Tuesday.

The Western Union office was closed all day Monday. The Postal, however, did some business with its line to St. Louis. Tuesday the Western Union was in fair condition.

Submitted by Sheryl Byrd

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Wednesday, January 24, 1906
The Decatur Review
Decatur, Illinois

WILL REPORT THURSDAY.

The committee of Knights of Pythias, which went to Clinton Sunday to talk with Colonel Tom SNELL, will report to the lodge Thursday night the result of the trip. Members of the committee refuse to say what Colonel Snell told them.

If the Snell property is not secured, two or three other pieces of property will be considered. It is thought that the Clinton lodge can offer suitable in*cament (unreadable) to obtain the home.

Submitted by Sheryl Byrd

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Wednesday, January 24, 1906
The Decatur Review
Decatur, Illinois

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. Richard SNELL will on next Tuesday evening entertain about thirty friends at the 6 o'clock dinner in celebration of her birthday and that of Mrs. H. AMSDEN and Mrs. John SCHMITH, all of which occur that day. It happens that two of the ladies are the same age and a year's difference between these and the other. One of the ladies entertaining on this occasion each year. Mrs. Amsden was hostess last year.

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Mrs. SNELL was hostess at a luncheon given last Thursday and Mrs. SCHMITH gave a dinner on Friday.

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Mrs. Morris HINCHCLIFFE is visiting at her home in Rockford.

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Mrs. K. M. BISHOP entertained friends at a luncheon last Friday.

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Mrs. Earl VANDERSLICE from Chicago is the guest of her mother, Mrs. A. J. TYLER. She will be here two or three weeks.

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Mrs. PARKS, state president of the P. E. O., of Chicago is expected to be in Clinton next week. It will be her regular visit to the local P. E. O. club. The club is now studying fiction and parlimentary law, every other meeting being devoted to the latter.

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The History club held its regular meeting Tuesday afternoon.

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On Friday afternoon the regular monthly meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society of the Presbyterian church will be held, followed by supper, to which the public is invited. The proceeds of the supper, which is given each month, are used for church purposes.

Submitted by Sheryl Byrd

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Wednesday, January 24, 1906
The Decatur Review
Decatur, Illinois

BRIEF MENTION.

Earl Francis SMITH died Monday evening of spinal meningitis. He was the son of William SMITH, an Illinois Central engineer. He was 13 years old. His illness was of only two weeks' duration.

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Shaken from his seat in the cupola, Conductor William SHARKEY of the Freeport division, had his back injured at Kappa Sunday night by falling against the corner of a seat below. The jolt came when the train broke in two and suddenly stopped. Mr. Sharkey will be laid up for several days.

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Dr. C. W. KEEL of Sullivan was in Clinton Tuesday.

Submitted by Sheryl Byrd

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February 7, 1906
Decatur Daily Review
Decatur, Illinois

BOYS IN JAIL.

Two boys of the names BESS and McBRIDE are in the county jail, charged with robbing the Commercial house in Farmer City. Both worked in the hotel. They got between $60 and $70, beside 125 cigars. When captured in Champaign by a Big Four detective, they said some man had taken most of the money.

Submitted by Sheryl Byrd

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February 7, 1906
Decatur Daily Review
Decatur, Illinois

CONFLICTING STORIES.

Earl BANKS is charged with assault and battery of Goldie BRITTON in front of her home near Farmer City. The girl swears that the assault took place about 5:30 o'clock in the afternoon, her father that it took place about 6:30, and her mother that ti took place at 4:30. One says it was light enough to recognize Banks, the second that it was so dark he could not see Banks at all, and the third that it was broad daylight. The case is so all the way through. The witnesses except one on the stand have been kept out of the court room during testimony so that they might have no chance to change their stories.

Banks asserts an alibi.

Submitted by Sheryl Byrd

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February 9, 1906
Decatur Review
Decatur Illinois

PANA HOTEL CHANGES.

Pana, Ills., Feb. 9.—The Aetna hotel has changed hands and has been thoroughly renovated and newly furnished throughout. The new proprietor is Mrs. Eugene PALMER, wife of the late Eugene PALMER, who was killed at Clinton a few months ago. She will also change the name of the hotel.

Submitted by Sheryl Byrd

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Wednesday, February 14, 1906
Decatur Daily Review
Decatur, Illinois

CLINTON REST ROOMS GROW IN POPULARITY.
Railroad Will Give Carpets and a Living Room for Matron—Deal for Interurban Station.

(Review Special Service.)

Clinton, Ills., Feb. 14.—To raise a fund with which to pay the expenses of the recently established rest rooms in the Illinois Central station, Clinton members of the W. C. T. U. will give a supper in the G. A. R. hall Friday night. As the supper will be donated, the W. C. T. U. expects to make enough to pay the expenses of the rooms through the rest of the year. The supper will be for the public.

The object is altogether worthy, for the rooms have proved a bigger success than had even been hoped for. Open since Jan. 1, they have had 700 visitors, railroad men and passengers. Since Jan. 25, the matron has kept a register, which now has 350 names. Included in that number, however, are the names of some who took advantage of the rooms before Jan. 26. Another room will, it is thought, be added in a short time. Railroad men are well satisfied with the rooms and pleased with their success.

THE ROOMS.

The rest rooms are two rooms on the third floor of the station. They are a reading room and a rest room proper. Intended only for railroad men and passengers, they have also attracted many boys of the neighborhood. The reading room is furnished tastefully and supplied with twenty-five or thirty periodicals besides a small library donated by the Y. M. C. A. Both the periodicals and the library will be added to from time to time. To this room the railroad men may come to write letters or their reports or to read while they are off duty or are waiting for their trains. Passengers, especially women, may also use the reading room and the matron's room adjoining. Many who have to wait for early trains stay in the rest room all night.

THE MATRON.

The matron is Miss Mary S. WELCH, for seventeen years county superintendent of DeWitt county, and for thirty-four or thirty-five years an attache of the DeWitt county schools. For thirteen years before she was elected county superintendent in 1867, she taught schools in the country and the town. Very few men know the county as well as she knows it. She retired from the superintendency in November, 1890, and later taught school four or five years. For years she was connected with the board of education of Clinton, acting as secretary for that body. She is an able woman very well liked.

Miss Welch lives in the rest room. She is shortly to be given another room so that what is now the rest room may be exclusively for the passengers. All the rooms will be carpeted by the railroad.

INTERURBAN DEAL.

The interurban option on the Drake property on Monroe street expires March 1. C. C. and C. M. DRAKE, the owners, threaten to raise the price unless the property is taken then. The title has not, however, been cleared, two of the heirs refusing to sign without compensation, and negotiations may fall through.

The property is the first lot fronting on Monroe street south of East Main street on the east side of the street. It is now occupied by Drake Bros'. feed store. The property was formerly owned by Robert LEWIS, by whom it was not properly deeded. The signature of all the heirs except Mrs. T. F. RUSSELL and Mrs. Henry RENNICK of Pana have now been secured.

The property was purchased by the Drakes six years ago for $2,500. The price to the interurban is $6,000, the owners figuring that the property has increased in value $2 a day in the last five years.

Submitted by Sheryl Byrd

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July 13, 1906
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois

RETURNED FROM KENTUCKY.

Mr. Tillman LANE and wife returned last week from the great Kentucky Homecoming and they report one of the most enjoyable experiences of their lives. The citizens of Thompkinsville, thirty miles from Glasgow, heard that Mr. and Mrs. LANE were coming and a veritable ovation awaited them. Some home comer arrived in advance, and told the people of the aged town in the hills, that a gentleman who had founded and given his name to a good town in Illinois, was returning to visit Thompkinsville, after an absence of seventy-nine years. Mr. and Mrs. LANE, greatly surprised a delegation of kind-hearted people who expected to help an aged couple on tottering feet, when they latter saw their nimbleness. Mr. LANE distinctly remembered the scenes of his childhood, though but four years old when his father Ezekial LANE and grandfather, Tillman LANE, emigrated to Long Point, DeWitt county, in 1827. Mr. and Mrs. LANE attended worship in an old log church adjacent to a cemetery in which the remains of their grandparents rest. Mr. LANE will give a talk at the annual "Old Four Families" reunion, which will be held at Weldon Springs in September.

(see History of Weldon Springs)

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July 27, 1906
Clinton Public
Clinton, Illinois

HALL IN JAIL AGAIN.

R.I. HALL who was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and live in jail 30 days, and released after 30 days by Judge PHILBRICK, was brought to Clinton from Lincoln Saturday and gave bond for his appearance when Judge HILL sentenced him to pay $100 and go to jail for 37 days as he had already served 3 days. HALL's attorneys asked for a 10 day stay to give them time to take the case to the appellate court, he refused, as he had not explained why he had been away from Clinton sixteen days when he was wanted. There is a difference of opinion between the county and circuit judges that may result in further complication, and the result is being watched for interest.

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