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This Week in Tampico History - Week of Sept. 21
The Tampico Area Historical Society encompasses parts of Whiteside County and Bureau County in Illinois. Focus is on Tampico, Hume Twp., Hahnaman/Deer Grove, & Prophetstown in Whiteside County & Yorktown & Thomas in Bureau County.

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LesN 287 posts Sep 21, 2008 5:44 AM	September 21, 1895 Mr. Fred ALLEN done a fine tasty job in painting the M.E. church. The edifice presents a fine appearance, the best we ever saw it done. September 21, 1895 When tramps enter our village they ought to be escorted out of town by the city marshal. Make them get, and we will have less burglaries, house pilfering, etc. September 21, 1906 Fulton Journal: - John REAGAN here is preparing his household goods for shipment to Tampico where he will reside. He has been employed as clerk in H.C. PITNEY's store in the enterprising town since last spring. September 21, 1906 The thermometer went up to 100 degrees Monday noon and everybody hollered about the awful heat and the fact that it was so hot this time of year.
LesN 289 posts Sep 23, 2008 5:42 AM	September 23, 1894 Thieves are numerous in adjacent towns and nearly every day you hear of some theft or burglary. Keep your door and windows securely fastened. September 23, 1904 FATHER WEBER TO LEAVE Has Been Assigned a Parish at Somanauk, Father DuFOUR Come Here. Father P.J. WEBER who has been the pastor of St. Mary's church here for the past six years received notice last Friday from Archbishop QUIGLEY of Chicago that he would take charge of teh parish at Somanauk, Ill. He will preach his farewell sermon next Sudna and leave for his new parish some time during that week. Rev. L. DuFOUR of Chicago will take charge of the parish here. September 23, 1904 R.H. McKENZIE SELLS OUT BUSINESS R.H. McKENZIE sold his grocery and gents furninshing goods business to Ed. J. NEAHRING of New Bedford. The stock of goods was invoiced Wednesday and Mr. NEAHRING took immediate possession. He lives norht of New Bedford. Although never engaged inthe mercantile pursuits before he is an industrious, hones man who will undoubtedly do well in his new venture. James ARNOLD will assist Mr. NEHRING in the store. Mr. McKENZIE will retire from active business and look after his farms. September 23, 1904 Mrs. Lovina BOOTH was elected vice president of the Whiteside county W.C.T.U. at the convention held in Morrison last Friday. The session lasted two days and the attendance was unusually large. Daisy SEYMOUR participated in the gold medal contest Friday night and won second place among six contestants. Mrs. S. V. WILLIAMS rendered "Nearer My Heart to Thee" in the deaf and dumb sign language and she also rendered a number of fine vocal solos. The delegates from Tampico all report an excellent convention. September 23, 1904 The orchestra concerts which have been given on Main street every Saturday evening by the Trocadero orchestra, will conclude with next Saturday evening's concert. The music has been enjoyed by many people all summer and has attracted no small crowds from the country making things lively every Saturday evening which was helped the town. September 23, 1904 A new pastor for the Methodist church here will be selected during the first week of October at the sixty fourth annual meeting of the Rock River conference to be held in Chicago. The members of the church here are planning to secure an able pastor who with a handsome remodeled church will push the work vigorously forward. September 23, 1904 A large dead muskrat was found front of the Tornado office Wednesday night. A tag on the dead animal read as follows: "This muskrat was caught and killed by Mr. TURNER in one of the mud holes on Main street in front of PITNEY's store. He killed it with rubber boots." September 23, 1904 W.R. ROBERTS a special rural mail agent from the post office department is working in Whiteside county on the matter of rearranging old routes and making new ones. At present he his working west of here and is working this way. He expects to reach Tampico soon. September 23, 1904 That there was a slight flurry of snow Thursday morning is vouched for by Job GREENMAN, C.F. CLIFFORD, T.A. CURNOW and others. It was very slight and only noticeable unless attention was directed toward the falling flakes or caught on something black. September 23, 1904 C.A. McMILLEN went to Ann Arbor, Michigan, Tuesday where he will continue his law studies. His mother Mrs. Mollie McMILLEN accompanied him to Chicago returning Saturday. September 23, 1904 H.P. ALLEN of Madison, Wisconsin, is here visiting and looking after his farm. He is in the ice business at Madison and says this has been a very poor year for business. September 23, 1904 J.M. ADAMS has purchased the old post office building and will move it to his lot in the eastern part of the village where it will be made over into a squab house. September 23, 1904 Vernon GLASSBURN went to Gambier, Ohio, Tuesday morning where he will attend Kenyon Military Academy. He was joined by several Prophetstown students here. September 23, 1904 Mrs. Mollie McMILLEN has built a new hen house 16 x 22 on her farm west of here occupied by Alfred ANDERSON. The granary and machine shed have also been shingled. September 23, 1904 Mr. and Mrs. Victor PIERSON returned Tuesday from a week's visit at the home of Nobel FERRIS near Fabius, Mo. Mr. PIERSON says that Mr. FERRIS likes his Missouri farm very mucha and has a good bottom land farm. Mr. PEARSON brought home ears of corn and large apples picked on Mr. FERRIS's farm. One specimen of corn was of a June 10 planting and it had matured into a fine large ear. Mr. PEARSON was "stuck on" Missouri and has his eye on a couple of farms. September 23, 1920 STREET IS MARKED FOR PARKING AUTOS The brick pavement next the curbing on both sides of Main street in the business block was laid off in parking places by the village authorities Monday afternoon for the purpose of lining up autos on the crowded occasions so as to allow as many as possible to part on Main street. Diagonal lies spaced for sufficient room for an auto in each place were marked out with white cement and drivers will be required to head in to the curb between the lines, thus taking up no more than their share of the street, making parking uniform and making it easy to back out. The crossings were also marked out for pedestrians to cross the street and should be used as a safety measure. The action of the authorities meets with general approval.
LesN 290 posts Sep 25, 2008 5:09 AM	September 24, 1887 Kane county is greatly exercised over the fact that a real live panther is roaming at will over her broad domains. The animal was last seen near Elgin. September 24, 1892 Our photographer, Geo. NEEDHAM, officiated as captain of the barber shop during JACKSON's absence. He is quite an artist at photography and barbering. September 24, 1892 Henry GILES has a new fence around his lots on North Main street. September 24, 1892 Charley WELCH's new house, on north Lincoln street, looms up in good shape. September 24, 1892 James GRAHAM changed his place or residence last Monday, moving from the CRADDOCK house on Glassburn street to the home Charlie ALDRICH owns upon Market street. September 24, 1892 Ed. EMMONS is expected home Saturday. He comes to pack up and move to Astoria, Ill., where he is engaged in the hay and straw pressing business. September 24, 1892 Mrs. RICHARDS, nee Pheobe STERNS, formerly a teacher in our schools, now of Wyanet who attended the W.C.T.U. convention at Fulton, stopped here on her way home Thursday to make a short with T.O. STEADMAN's family. September 24, 1892 Emmet HOGEBOOM, of the firm of HOGEBOOM Bro.s Hardware and Implement Dealers, of New Bedford, was in town Monday. He reports business fair in his town and that politics are distressingly quiet. September 24, 1892 Mrs. I.Z. BOOZE returned to her home in Spring Valley last Saturday, and her sister, Miss Mary SANDERS accompanied her. Miss SANDERS has accepted a position as clerk in the dry goods department of the Company's store there and entered upon the duties at her new position last Monday. Miss SANDERS will make an efficient clerk, as she has good judgment of dry goods, speaks and correct at figures and pleasant and courteous in her manners. September 24, 1892 Geo. H. LUTYENS moved to Sterling this week where he will engage in the manufacture of candy. Mr. LUTYENS has been in business in this city for lo [sic] these many years and it causes our people to regret his departure, but at the same time they wish him unbounded success in his new field of labor and trust that dame fortune will ever smile upon him. September 24, 1892 Geo. SHAW has sold his farm, which is located about five miles southwest of here, for $5,200. A.T. GLASSBURN made the sale for him. September 24, 1892 Having purchased the City Restaurant of Geo. H. LUTYENS, I intend to run the same in first-class style. Will keep a full line of goods, fruits, confectionery, cigars, bread, buns, etc. Oysters by the can or dish and lunches served on short notice. I respectfully invite the public in general to give me a call and I will make it advantageous for all to trade with me. Wm. McGRADY. September 24, 1898 John HOGEBOOM of Denrock has been spending some time of late in this vicinity. He is at work fixing up the building upon his farm southwest of here. September 24, 1898 Will PARENT had the carpenters cut a hole through the roof of his furniture store building last Monday and put a new large upright skylight. Will says he wanted more light and better ventilation. Well that is a good way to get it.
LesN 291 posts Sep 25, 2008 5:11 AM	September 25, 1913 L.D. ROGERS Dies At Chicago L.D. ROGERS, well known in Tampico where he had visited and made his home for the past five or six years intermittently, died last Sunday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lydia OLWIN in Chicago. Death resulted from is advanced years and ulcers of the stomach with which he had suffered for some years although able to be about most of the time. There remains were taken from Chicago to Sandwich his old home where the funeral services were held Tuesday and interment was in the family lot in the Sandwich cemetery. The deceased would have been 83 of age in November. He was born in New York state and came west when a young man settled near Sandwich. He was considered a good, shrewd business man and by his efforts had accumulated a fair share of this world's goods. He is survived by three children: Mrs. J.L. DARNELL of Tampico, Jared D. ROGERS of Plano, and Mrs. Lydia OLWIN of Chicago. Two brothers also survive: Stephen of Sandwich and Daniel of Piper City. The following went to Sandwich Tuesday morning to attend the funeral: Mr. and Mrs. J.L. DARNELL, Earl, Clarence and Iona DARNELL, Mr. and Mrs. Roy DARNELL.
LesN 292 posts Sep 27, 2008 5:00 AM	September 26, 1903 PETITION FOR FRANCHISE Petition for Electric Road Right-of-Way on Main Street is Circulated. The electric road will ask for a right of way through Main street and a franchise in the village at the nest regular meeting of the council. Attorney SHELDON and E.W. DOW of Rock Falls, were here Tuesday and circulated a petition for the right of way on Main street among the business men. The petition was liberally signed. September 26, 1903 Chancey McCLURE died Sunday night at 9:30 at his home north-west of here from the effects of a severe kick in the abdomen by a mule last Wednesday noon. Since his injury he seemed to be getting better and the inflammation seemed to be getting better, but on Sunday he grew rapidly worse and although both Dr. HORNER and SMITH did everything possible, they could not stem death. Interment was in Whittington cemetery. Chauncey Herbert McCLURE was born in Galva, Ill., April 19, 1862, and was married at Jefferson, Iowa, Jan. 23 to Ruby UNDERHILL. For five years they lived in Jefferson when they moved to Nebraska where they lived six years. In 1892 they came to Tampico since which time this community has been their home. The deceased was one of a family of seven children, two of whom died in childhood. The surviving are: E.D., of Tampico; William, of Nebraska; James, of Utah; Mrs. Bessie SEAVER of Utah; and Joseph of Nebraska. A wife and four children survive: Eunice, Maud, Lillian, Chauncey and Alice. September 26, 1903 Yorktown Looses P-Office After serving as a post office for more than a half century and being the nucleus around which a prosperous little hamlet grew up, south of here, the post office at Yorktown will be discontinued according to a decree of the authorities at Washington.
LesN 293 posts Sep 27, 2008 5:07 AM	September 27, 1902 TELEPHONE CENTRAL WILL BE MOVED The Farmers Mutual Telephone central which is located in Marvin GRIFFIN's residence will be moved in several weeks to the rooms over HOWLETT's hardware store. Irving STEWART has been engaged by the directors to have charge of the central in the new location. When installed in the new quarters a day and night and all day Sunday service will be given to the patrons. Mr. STEWART will have a sale and move to town from his farm a half mile north of here. He will live in the rooms where the central is located. Mr. STEWART is a genial, good fellow who will make a fine "hello" girl. September 27, 1902 Rural Free Delivery Washington, Sept. 23 - General Superintendent MACHEN, of the free delivery system of the post office department, has framed estimates, aggregating between $11,000,000 and $12,000,000, for the rural free delivery service in the United States during the next fiscal year. September 27, 1902 The Nebraska Indians - Tampico base ball which was to have been played here on Tuesday had to be called off on account of rain. The Indians spent the day here and went to Sabula, Iowa, in the evening where they played next day. They have nine more days to end the season, and, as they were tired out did not want to come here again. September 27, 1902 The corner stone of the new Catholic church will be laid Thursday Oct. 23. It is expected that twenty clergymen from the surrounding parishes and some high officials of the church from Chicago will be present and take part in the exercises. The corner stone was obtained in Ireland this spring when the plans were being made for the new church. September 27, 1902 Agent for the 1900 ball bearing washing machine. See me if you want one. Wm. NEWELL. September 27, 1902 All the new styles and shapes in collarettes [sic] at H.C. PITNEY's September 27, 1902 Daniel LEE, a Chicago attorney, visited his brother, Frank, who lives north of here last Saturday. September 27, 1902 The Man With The Iron Mask Company played to a fair sized audience Monday night at the opera house. The play was good, the costumes elegant and Earl DOTY in his role was exceptionally good. September 27, 1902 A cherry tree at Jesse VanBIBBER's place is in bloom at this [time] of year and a tomato plant also has flowers. Mr. VanBIBBER sees visions of fall cherries and tomatoes if the elements don't interfere. September 27, 1902 A handsome bouquet of six different kinds of dahlias of extremely beautiful colorings and some fine zinnas [sic] adorn the editor's desk. The dahlias were grown by Lee W. BROWN and are as beautiful specimens as the editor has ever seen. September 27, 1902 Mark PIERCE who has a good position in the road master's office at Aurora visited here Sunday. September 27, 1902 John GUTHERIE and Gib MORSE have had a poultry wagon built at George McKENZIE's shop and will buy poultry this winter. September 27, 1902 Jesse VanBIBBER has engaged a Sterling contractor to lay a good cement walk from the street to his house and around to the rear. Mr. VanBIBBER has a fine new house and takes pride to keeping his new place looking good. September 27, 1902 Contract for Library Let. Houghton, Mich., Sept. 22. - A contract was let Saturday for the construction of a memorial library at Painsedale, to cost $30,000. It is given by William A. PAINE, of Boston, and memorial to his mother, who died in 1901. September 27, 1902 Norwegians do not favor hunting whales because they believe that whales drive the fishes shoreward. September 27, 1902 Palm Oil in Margarine The commissioner of internal revenue has notified the Chicago manufacturers of oleomargarine that they will not be permitted to use pal oil in the manufacture of oleomargarine. This the manufacturers take exception to. They say the law permits the use of vegetable oils and that they will go into court to defend their rights. But the path of the commissioner is plain. It takes less than one per cent of palm oil to color the butterine yellow like butter. The fraudulent intent in its use is obvious. September 27, 1902 Public Sales I will sell at public auction in from of HOWLETT's hardware store, on Main street, on Saturday, Sept. 27, 1902, at 2 o'clock, the following household goods: 1 cook stove, 1 dresser, 1 dining table, 6 dining chairs, 1 ice chest, cooking utensils and other articles too numerous to mention. Mrs. John AYDELOTT. Robert McKENZIE, Auct. September 27, 1917 LETTERS FROM SOLDIER BOY More letters from Lee W. DOW, Camp Fort Bliss, Texas In a letter to his father, written some time ago, he wrote: I received your letter today and was glad to hear from you. I told you that I took a fifty dollar Liberty bond. I was supposed to pay five dollars per month until it was paid for but the bank broke the contract. Now they want us to pay ten dollars a month. I had already paid five so they want fifteen this pay day to make it ten from the beginning. They gave me my choice of doing as they want or dropping it, and they will pay back my five dollars in November. I made up my mind that as I started it, I will ride it through, if they want twenty dollars a month. The more I pay each month, the less time it will take to pay it up. Last pay da I had German measles, and the pay roll was brought to the hospital for me to sign. I stood muster in pajamas, some class to me. I started to machine gun school yesterday. The Company Commander chose about twenty from our company. We have to learn three different guns. Machine gun operators are a scare article here at this time. We have to learn the name of every piece in each gun and learn the guns so that we can take them apart and then put them together blind folded, naming all the parts as we put them together. Then we will have to learn to measure distances with field glasses and that is quite a stunt. To-day we had to drill from six o'clock in the morning until about eleven forty-five, then we got dinner and started for the school at twelve thirty-five. We will start for the school tomorrow morning at six-thirty. I am finishing this letter by candle light, so think I will close for this time. The tents are wired for lights. The government furnishes the electricity and we furnish the bulbs. I can get them down town for thirty-one cents. I bought one a few days ago and hadi it three days before some one took it. I will write Mother soon. My address is still Camp Fort Bliss. In a letter three days later than the one quoted, he wrote to his mother: Everything is going along very much the same as usual. As I said in my letter to Dad, I am going to machine gun school. The Company Commander called us up into the orderly room and asked us what education we had and how much we knew about machinery, and if we knew anything about horses and mules. Then he asked some of us if we wanted to be in a machine gun company. I told him that I wanted to be in a machine gun company. I could ahve been transferred to almost any other branch of the service if I had not wanted to go after the machine guns. I understand the Lewis gun and have qualified on it. I have yet to qualify on the range finder and two other machine guns. I understand the range finder and am waiting m turn to qualify on it. A range finder is a very expensive instrument. The firm which makes them will not open one up to make adjustments for less than four hundred dollars. I received your pictures yesterday and I think they are fine. In a letter two days later, he wrote: Dear Folks I thought I would write you a small letter to-night. I used a machine gun this afternoon for the first time. They took us out, and by putting broken and worn out parts in the gun, caused it to miss fire and jam up. Then we would have to find the trouble ourselves. They put in a feed paul that had been filed until it would not work when I went up to the gun. It fired one shot and stopped. I soon found the trouble, and he gave me a paul that was all right. I put it in and then it worked all right. I think I wrote you that I passed on the gun. Well, I qualified on the range finder this afternoon. I will close now for to-night as I have some "literature" to study on the Lewis m.g. Write soon. Ward.

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