Showing posts with label 1875. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1875. Show all posts
Sunday, January 27, 2019
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Roberts Spy??
--Paxton Record. 23 December 1875.
I can't figure out the name of this paper. Maybe Roberts Spy? I think I may have read that somewhere before.
18 November 1875
ROBERTS RAKINGS
News of interest in our town is almost as scarce an article at present as the sometimes abused but muchly coveted greenback.
A series of evening meetings is now being held here by Rev. Mr. Wenge, pastor of the Congregational church of Thawville, assisted by Rev. Hart, pastor of the Methodist church, in Roberts. . .
. . . James Gell, Esq, is building a banking office on his lot just east of Anderson & Campbell's.
H. Tinklepaugh is putting up some splendid farm wagons, every part warranted.
Ed. Newman has just returned from Chicago, where he has been after a fresh stock of winter goods, ready made clothing, etc.
Thompson & Lyman now have a practical tinsmith, and are ready to manufacture everything in their line.
Our grain merchants have plenty of greenbacks in exchange for corn, oats, and flax at the highest market prices.
Rice Bros. have opened their new meat market. With two meat markets we have meat enough to spare and potatoes to match.
Miss Montgomery has opened a millinery shop in the old post office building.
John Bunker has a new house nearly ready for occupancy, just north of the school house.
Ed. King is building a house for John McNish who has sold his farm and is coming to town to engage in the manufacture of boots and shoes with his brother.
E. Van Steenbergh shipped a car load of hogs last week which he sold at $7.25 in Chicago. Joseph Hurst and others contemplate shipping soon. Mr. Hurst has a very choice lot which will bring him outside prices.
Farmers are uncommonly busy improving the fine weather in husking a big crop of corn. Some claim an average of 60 bushels per acre.
If any one doubts the soundness of the suggestions of last week's Record in regard to working roads let him tread over the town of Lyman at the present time, roads graded in the fall are hard roads to travel I believe, but we must live and learn, for this is a progressive age in which we live.
--The Paxton Record. 18 November 1875.
News of interest in our town is almost as scarce an article at present as the sometimes abused but muchly coveted greenback.
A series of evening meetings is now being held here by Rev. Mr. Wenge, pastor of the Congregational church of Thawville, assisted by Rev. Hart, pastor of the Methodist church, in Roberts. . .
. . . James Gell, Esq, is building a banking office on his lot just east of Anderson & Campbell's.
H. Tinklepaugh is putting up some splendid farm wagons, every part warranted.
Ed. Newman has just returned from Chicago, where he has been after a fresh stock of winter goods, ready made clothing, etc.
Thompson & Lyman now have a practical tinsmith, and are ready to manufacture everything in their line.
Our grain merchants have plenty of greenbacks in exchange for corn, oats, and flax at the highest market prices.
Rice Bros. have opened their new meat market. With two meat markets we have meat enough to spare and potatoes to match.
Miss Montgomery has opened a millinery shop in the old post office building.
John Bunker has a new house nearly ready for occupancy, just north of the school house.
Ed. King is building a house for John McNish who has sold his farm and is coming to town to engage in the manufacture of boots and shoes with his brother.
E. Van Steenbergh shipped a car load of hogs last week which he sold at $7.25 in Chicago. Joseph Hurst and others contemplate shipping soon. Mr. Hurst has a very choice lot which will bring him outside prices.
Farmers are uncommonly busy improving the fine weather in husking a big crop of corn. Some claim an average of 60 bushels per acre.
If any one doubts the soundness of the suggestions of last week's Record in regard to working roads let him tread over the town of Lyman at the present time, roads graded in the fall are hard roads to travel I believe, but we must live and learn, for this is a progressive age in which we live.
Sunday, December 17, 2017
26 October 1875
ROBERTS RAKINGS
Roberts, Ill., Oct. 26th, 1875.
ED. RECORD: -- As our Advocate has departed for greener pastures, and left us at it were without a mouth-piece, I send you a few items.
We last night received another portion of ague pura, which seems to have changed our beautiful fall weather into that of a colder quality.
Times continue very dull, but somewhat improved. Farmers have not yet completed their threshing, and oats and flax come in slowly, and sell at prices not calculated to please anybody very much. Some farmers have commenced cribbing corn, which promises to be a No. 1 crop.
The Litchfield, Ill., car works have put a new fangled corn dryer in the Star elevator of J. B. Meserve & Co., which have failed to give satisfaction, being unable to dry with sufficient rapidity to make it pay. Mr. Meserve has a plan for a drying apparatus which I think, from his explanation, would prove a success if put in operation.
There is a construction train with some thirty men now at work on the Roberts section of the G., C & S. railroad, grading up the low places. Landlord Newman is boarding most of the men . . .
. . . A Congregational Church was organized in this place on Sunday last, by Rev. Dr. Roy, of Chicago. He preached to large audiences in the afternoon and evening.
Thompson and Lyman have bought the furniture of F. E. Pettit, and the building formerly occupied by Mr. P. has been fitted up for a dwelling and meat market by Myron H. Rice, of Wall, who is soon to remove to our town and furnish the citizens with fine roasts, steaks, and sausages, as companion for our nice cheap potatoes, which are only 25 cents per bushel at present . . .
--Paxton Record. 26 October 1875.
Roberts, Ill., Oct. 26th, 1875.
ED. RECORD: -- As our Advocate has departed for greener pastures, and left us at it were without a mouth-piece, I send you a few items.
We last night received another portion of ague pura, which seems to have changed our beautiful fall weather into that of a colder quality.
Times continue very dull, but somewhat improved. Farmers have not yet completed their threshing, and oats and flax come in slowly, and sell at prices not calculated to please anybody very much. Some farmers have commenced cribbing corn, which promises to be a No. 1 crop.
The Litchfield, Ill., car works have put a new fangled corn dryer in the Star elevator of J. B. Meserve & Co., which have failed to give satisfaction, being unable to dry with sufficient rapidity to make it pay. Mr. Meserve has a plan for a drying apparatus which I think, from his explanation, would prove a success if put in operation.
There is a construction train with some thirty men now at work on the Roberts section of the G., C & S. railroad, grading up the low places. Landlord Newman is boarding most of the men . . .
. . . A Congregational Church was organized in this place on Sunday last, by Rev. Dr. Roy, of Chicago. He preached to large audiences in the afternoon and evening.
Thompson and Lyman have bought the furniture of F. E. Pettit, and the building formerly occupied by Mr. P. has been fitted up for a dwelling and meat market by Myron H. Rice, of Wall, who is soon to remove to our town and furnish the citizens with fine roasts, steaks, and sausages, as companion for our nice cheap potatoes, which are only 25 cents per bushel at present . . .
--Paxton Record. 26 October 1875.
We took Roberts in on our return trip . . .
We took Roberts in on our return trip and spent a few hours pleasantly among her business men. Meserve & Hubbard, bankers and grain dealers; Thompson & Lyman, hardware: Floyd & Newman, R. B. Chambers, Pfaat & Gose, and Anderson & Campbell, dry goods; Thos. McNeish, boots and shoes and harness, and A. D. Wyckoff, drugs and books. The latter is a new comer from Chebanse and will prove a valuable acquisition to Roberts. We must not forget our brawny armed workers, Taff & Tinklepaugh, who run the wagon and blacksmith shops, and was fat and rich at the same time. Roberts has a fine country surrounding it and just as fine a set of business men and citizens as any town in the west can boast.
Geo. H. Thompson was at his post again, after a visit of some weeks in the East, and finds the prairies more attractive than the hills and rocks of New York.
The hotel de Newman is a marked improvement over the same house as we remember it several years since. A dinner enjoyed at that house is not soon forgotten. We can commend it to the wayfarer as the place where the money's worth is always to be had.
We had contemplated taking Melvin in our route, but wind and weather said no, and we shall be obliged to set apart another day and accept the invitation of our friend Charley Ellis to hunt chickens with him, though we have not the most remote idea that we shall be the death of any.
1875
Meserve & Hubbard Bankers and Grain Dealers
Thompson & Lyman Hardware
Floyd & Newman Dry Goods
R. B. Chambers Dry Goods
Pfaat & Gose Dry Goods
Anderson & Campbell Dry Goods
Thos. McNeish Boots, Shoes and Harnesses
A. D. Wyckoff Drugs and Books
Tapp & Tinklepaugh Wagon & Blacksmith
Newman Hotel Hotel
Geo. H. Thompson was at his post again, after a visit of some weeks in the East, and finds the prairies more attractive than the hills and rocks of New York.
The hotel de Newman is a marked improvement over the same house as we remember it several years since. A dinner enjoyed at that house is not soon forgotten. We can commend it to the wayfarer as the place where the money's worth is always to be had.
We had contemplated taking Melvin in our route, but wind and weather said no, and we shall be obliged to set apart another day and accept the invitation of our friend Charley Ellis to hunt chickens with him, though we have not the most remote idea that we shall be the death of any.
1875
Meserve & Hubbard Bankers and Grain Dealers
Thompson & Lyman Hardware
Floyd & Newman Dry Goods
R. B. Chambers Dry Goods
Pfaat & Gose Dry Goods
Anderson & Campbell Dry Goods
Thos. McNeish Boots, Shoes and Harnesses
A. D. Wyckoff Drugs and Books
Tapp & Tinklepaugh Wagon & Blacksmith
Newman Hotel Hotel
--Paxton Record. 7 October 1875.
Sunday, December 03, 2017
Saturday, November 25, 2017
29 July 1875
ROBERTS ITEMS
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Roberts has a dramatic club. They gave a performance Monday evening of last week. The receipts go towards purchasing books with which to start a public library.
The kite flying mania has struck Roberts, and numbers of variegated colored kites can be seen soaring heavenward, but a far greater number refuse to leave earth.
Farmers in the vicinity of Roberts will experience considerable difficulty in harvesting their oat and flax crops, the late rains having beaten it almost flat to the ground.
Corn has grown so fast during the past ten days as to preclude farmers from giving it the required amount of tending.
--Paxton Record. 29 July 1875.
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Roberts has a dramatic club. They gave a performance Monday evening of last week. The receipts go towards purchasing books with which to start a public library.
The kite flying mania has struck Roberts, and numbers of variegated colored kites can be seen soaring heavenward, but a far greater number refuse to leave earth.
Farmers in the vicinity of Roberts will experience considerable difficulty in harvesting their oat and flax crops, the late rains having beaten it almost flat to the ground.
Corn has grown so fast during the past ten days as to preclude farmers from giving it the required amount of tending.
--Paxton Record. 29 July 1875.
Sunday, September 03, 2017
Roberts Advocate
--Gibson City Courier. 18 September 1875. Page 4.
--Gibson City Courier. 16 October 1875. Page 4.
Saturday, July 29, 2017
Some Congregational Church History
--History of Ford County, Illinois: From its Earliest Settlement to 1908. Ernest Arthur Gardner. 1908.
--"Memories of Roberts" 1995 Calendar. Roberts Woman's Club.
Monday, December 26, 2016
Saturday, December 17, 2016
More Roberts Rakings . . .
ROBERTS RAKINGS
News of interest in our town is almost as scarce an article at present as the sometimes abused but muchly coveted greenback.
A series of evening meetings is now being held here by Rev. Mr. Wenge, pastor of the Congregational church of Thawville, assisted by Rev. Hart, pastor of the Methodist church, in Roberts.
James Gell, Esq, is building a banking office on his lot just east of Anderson & Campbell's....
H. Tinklepaugh is putting up some splendid farm wagons, every part warranted.
Ed. Newman has just returned from Chicago, where he has been after a fresh stock of winter goods, ready made clothing, etc.
Thompson & Lyman now have a practical tinsmith, and are ready to manufacture everything in their line.
Our grain merchants have plenty of greenbacks in exchange for corn, oats, and flax at the highest market prices.
Rice Bros. have opened their new meat market. With two meat markets we have meat enough to spare and potatoes to match.
Miss Montgomery has opened a millinery shop in the old post office building.
John Bunker has a new house nearly ready for occupancy, just north of the school house.
Ed. King is building a house for John McNish who has sold his farm and is coming to town to engage in the manufacture of boots and shoes with his brother.
News of interest in our town is almost as scarce an article at present as the sometimes abused but muchly coveted greenback.
A series of evening meetings is now being held here by Rev. Mr. Wenge, pastor of the Congregational church of Thawville, assisted by Rev. Hart, pastor of the Methodist church, in Roberts.
James Gell, Esq, is building a banking office on his lot just east of Anderson & Campbell's....
H. Tinklepaugh is putting up some splendid farm wagons, every part warranted.
Ed. Newman has just returned from Chicago, where he has been after a fresh stock of winter goods, ready made clothing, etc.
Thompson & Lyman now have a practical tinsmith, and are ready to manufacture everything in their line.
Our grain merchants have plenty of greenbacks in exchange for corn, oats, and flax at the highest market prices.
Rice Bros. have opened their new meat market. With two meat markets we have meat enough to spare and potatoes to match.
Miss Montgomery has opened a millinery shop in the old post office building.
John Bunker has a new house nearly ready for occupancy, just north of the school house.
Ed. King is building a house for John McNish who has sold his farm and is coming to town to engage in the manufacture of boots and shoes with his brother.
--The Paxton Record. 18 November 1875.
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