100 Years Ago in DuPage

The third ward people found a crazy wanderer in their midst Saturday. The farmers near Swift found a fellow in a ditch without a stitch of clothing on him. How he got there and that he survived the cold of Saturday was a wonder. He is an epileptic and will be sent to Elgin. Another fellow ran all the way from Naperville to West Chicago. He imagined that he had committed rape and that the citizens of Naperville were after him. The station agent at Lombard saw a man try to throw himself before a moving train Saturday evening and in saving the man the agent almost lost his life. It took several men to overpower the crazy man. Several other persons were in jail charged with being of unsound mind. Judge Slusser came out and several of them were adjudged insane and sent to Elgin. Antone Ham, of Winfield, who was serving a county jail sentence on the charge of forgery was discharged last Thursday, and within a few hours was in the Cook county jail. When Ed Voght, of West Chicago, was in jail several months ago, Ham stole a blank check out of Voght’s check book. The checks were on the West Chicago bank. The check was in favor of F. C. Clark for $37, and L. Kline was signed as payee. Ham went from Wheaton to Chicago and attempted to pass the check in payment of a suit of clothes. The clothiers mistrusted the validity of the check, called an officer and Ham ran. He was arrested and brought back to this county. Joliet will be his next post office address and he will reside in a stone front, steam heated building.

The two Hellbergs and Lester Marvin were taken to Joliet this week. Of the 18 prisoners, one is a government prisoner. The prisoners are a fine lot of singers and serenade the sheriff every evening by singing, "Where is my wandering boy tonight?"

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The old Dr. Pratt office, the property of Dr. H. W. Sutcliffe, and occupied by John Engstrand, as a shoe shop, was the scene of a conflagration last week Thursday night. It appears that the rear of the shoe shop is sub-let as a paint shop and it was in the paint shop that the fire started. Mr. Engstrand’s brother sleeps in the shoe shop and was awakened by someone on the street who first noticed the flames about midnight.

Wheaton’s Volunteer Fire Co. again showed itself equal to any emergency by prompt response and telling work. The entire business district was patrolled so that prompt attention could be given to any burning embers that might alight on inflammable material.

The tools and stock of Mr. Engstrand were mostly removed, but there was damage to the building from water. The damage to the building was considerable. There was no insurance.

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He hurried to his apartment, drew up his last will and testament, lighted his last cigar and climbed into bed. A nurse was summoned and hot applications began. Just then Cupid took a hand in the game. While the hot application were working on the young man’s appendix the gentle touch and soothing sympathy of the nurse began to operate on his heart. As the hours of the night wore on both organs became more and more seriously affected. At 4 a.m. and again at 6 a.m., the doctor called, and at his last visit left instructions for the nurse to summon the ambulance from St. Mary’s Catholic hospital and prepare the patient for an early operation.

As the doctor closed the outside door behind him the man jumped from his bed. "Die under the surgeon’s knife and be parted from her?" The mere possibility nerved him to desperation. He drew her to his arms, protesting that her love and nursing were all that was necessary to make him a well man. Stepping to the telephone, he ordered a cab, and before the sympathizing nurse could tell him that it was time for another hot application, they were driving down the avenue to the big hall where the license man would give them a permit to have all of their joys and sorrows tied into one knot. At 10 o'clock that morning Dr. A. L. Dixon, dean of the Moody Bible institute, made them husband and wife.

The bride was formerly Miss Jessie Cina Thompson, of Belvidere, and the groom was H. H. Carrolton.

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I desire to announce that I have recently installed in my office an outfit for the giving of Electric Sun, Alternating and Douche Baths, the very best non-drug treatment for rheumatism, skin diseases, impaired circulation and that tired feeling.

Dr. Frank Baker.

HARRY B. TUFTS

Room 1 Fuller Block

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The young couple have gone on a wedding trip to Wisconsin where they will visit Mr. John Armbrust, brother of the groom, and will also visit their own extensive farm lands which are located in that vicinity. The young couple will reside at Wheaton after April 15^th. Mr. Armbrust will resume his carpenter trade.

This is the third death in the Scott family in two months. Two months ago the boy’s grandmother, Mrs. Alvin Scott, Sr., passed away, and a week ago the grandfather, Alvin Scott Sr. died.

• The telegraph office at Glen Ellyn, Lombard and Elmhurst have been closed.
• F. M. Blount and family have returned to their Wheaton home for the summer months.
• P. A. Wolter, formerly in the plumbing business in Wheaton, has moved from Chicago to Beloit, Wis.
• J. P. Hubble has rented the John Colvin house, corner Main street and Washington avenue.
• The Naperville Clarion will pub-lish the delinquent tax list April 24.
• For Sale – Red Cross currant bushes. ellie F. Carbaugh,

225 N. Railroad street

• Born, to F. C. Beggs and wife, on April 9, a son.
• John Engstrand has again fitted up his shop at the old stand and is ready to do better work than ever.
• L. H. Grange is the purchaser of a new safe which is several sizes larger than his old one, showing an increase in business.
• George Leineke is having a new soda water fountain placed in his ice cream parlors, and will be ready to supply the trade with something refreshing.
• The A. E. & C. is putting in a side track for the accommodation of its cars loaded with freight and billed to Wheaton. Contractor Forbes is receiving his crushed stone over the A. E. & C. and the track is for his accommodation.
• Mr. F. W. Hazelton, connected with Bryant and Stratton Business College, Chicago, has purchased the 25 acre Schramer farm near Win-field. Mr. Hazelton intends to improve this property for a summer home. Harry B. Tufts negotiated the sale.
• John Schlessler, a cigar maker of Naperville, a resident there for 34 years, was found dead in bed last Saturday morning. He did not believe in taking medicine for ailments. The coroner’s jury found that he died from natural causes. Schlesser was 72 years of age.
• A. L. Webster is making an extensive survey of the Henry Puffer estate, near Downers Grove. This is one of the largest farms in that district and has an abundance of as fine timber as can be found in the county; refused an offer of $200 for a black walnut which stands a hundred feet high.
• Clarence Ashley, a well known Wheaton boy, will probably be the pitcher for the St. Paul team the coming season. He is in St. Paul for the practice games now. He is fast coming to the front among the players of the great American game. Ashley expects to visit here in a few weeks.
• The Ringling Bros. of Baraboo, Wisconsin, purchased 45 draft horses from the Dunham stables at Wayne. Nearly every horse was a dapple gray, and the 45 were sold at approximately $300 each.
• Every housewife dreads the approaching season of house cleaning and the unnecessary trouble of having inexperienced help. It is not necessary to worry longer as John C. Denman and wife ate ready to do the work. Mr. Denman has had 20 years experi-ence in house work and can do the work satisfactorily. House cleaning, paper cleaning, calcimining, gardening, or any work about your home. 413 Main street. Telephone 3062.
• Potatoes for sale by Louis Schulz at 75¢ per bushel, delivered. Tele: 1004.
• The barn from the John Colvin place is moving down Main street and will be placed on Chas. Ott’s lot.
• Mrs. Jay P. Smith was taken to the Homeopathic hospital, Chicago, last Saturday and underwent an operation yesterday.
• Married, on March 30, 1907, at Ladd, Ill., Pearl Ethel Robinson and Louis Arthur Grote, at the home of the bride’s sister, Mrs. Ellsworth Mills, the Rev. J. W. Balsh, of the M.E. church, officiating.
• Dwyer & Donovan, of Naperville, have leased the north room of Karsten block and opened a restaurant. They have a regular bill of fare and you can order anything for which your appetite craves, from 5:30a.m. to 11 p.m. They will make a specialty of Sunday dinners.

Our town is overrun by a worthless lot of dogs.

John Merz died on April 11 of Bright’s disease.

L. C. Cooper arrived home from the east Tuesday.

Dr. E. S. Higley has gone to West Baden for treatment.

Bert Engleschall was bitten by a dog belonging to Mr. Grant.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Machamer, on April 11, a son.

Dr. Phillips and family are now at home in their new house.

Miss Ruth Woodworth is at home having sprained her ankle.

Miss Beula Cole visited relatives in Chicago a part of last week.

Mrs. Pummel of Chicago is visiting her sister, Mrs. L. C. Cooper.

W. B. Ohnstead started to North Dakota this week on a business trip.

Miss Esther Nortondrum is making her home with the Ohnstead family.

Carl Patch has been excavating for his new home on Hawthorne avenue.

Miss Lucy Rhodes of Milwaukee has been here for some time caring for Mr. Walter Sabin.

Mrs. John LeMessurier and Mrs. Fred Reisen and brothers went to Naperville Tuesday to attend the funeral of an uncle.

Married April 6^th, Mr. Bell of Chicago and Mrs. Flora Newton of Glen Ellyn. They will make their home in Chicago.

The flinch party at the home of Mrs. Blackburn last Friday afternoon was enjoyed by 35 ladies. Mrs. O. D. Dodge won 1^st prize and Mrs. Rowland 2d.

Died at his home April 8^th, Mr. Walter Sabin, an old and respected citizen. The funeral was held Wednesday from the Methodist church, conducted by Rev. Godden.

The new library will be opened net Wednesday. Everybody is cordially invited to come and see it. Membership cards will be issued that day and books may be drawn then.

manufactured daily. Fruits in season.

103 NORTH RAILROAD STREET

TELEPHONE 100

Walter Sabin was born March 3, 1830 at Sherbourne, N. Y. He was the son of Alfred and Sarah Sabin. After receiving a good education in the schools of his native state he came to Illinois. He taught his first school at or near Cary. Subsequently he became teacher of the public school at Danby, now Glen Ellyn, and for many years, embracing the Civil War period, he was known as the teacher of the Danby school. After resigning from this position, he taught in several other districts in DuPage county until failing eyesight and advancing years made it necessary for him to give up school work. This he reluctantly did and during the rest of his life he toiled early and late as a gardener, but his familiar figure will no longer appear at our kitchen doors. His tools have been laid aside for he rests from his labors.

In his day and generation he was a most successful teacher and his success lay in his ability to impart to his pupils all the knowledge he was possessed along any given line. He was laborious, painstaking, tactful and stimulating in his methods... He made the old Danby school famous, and did much for the intellectual development of the community, through his spelling schools, parsing classes, debating societies, etc. His methods might not now be considered "up to date," but to what extent have improvements been made?

He was a great reader always up to date. He remembered what he read. His opinions were sound. He was a justice of the peace for many years and in each was just and impartial. He loved his country. His motto was to live honestly in the sight of all men.

He left an aged widow and many friends to mourn his loss. Eighteen of his pupils were present at his funeral. The Head Master has called him from the great school of life. We shall miss him. Let us honor his memory by remembering his precepts and profiting by his example.

Glen Ellyn, Ill. AN OLD PUPIL.

• Rev. M. H. Lyon is erecting a new house on College Ave.
• Born, to C. E. Fitch and wife, on April 23, a son.
• Lawrence Schab, who fell into an excavation near the gas office and broke his leg, is improving nicely.
• Charles H. Fuller goes to Saugatuck, Mich., this season, to take charge of the bath house.
• The inheritance tax of the Judge Geo. W. Brown estate was paid last week, The tax was over $1,300.
• William Thoman goes to Lake Geneva May 1^st, where he has a position with the Golf Club.
• Berthold Timothy Damm, aged one year, died on Monday of bronchitis. The funeral was from the Catholic church on Tuesday.
• Dainty gift books, fancy baskets, a fine line of fancy stationery at Newcombs, 107 R. R. Street.
• Mr. Paul E. Lambe and Miss Elizabeth M. Buch were married in Chicago last Saturday evening. A host of Wheaton friends extend hearty congratulations.
• This issue of the Illinoian consists of 16 pages and contains the delinquent tax list. This county is noted for property owners who neglect to pay taxes until published.
• If you want to know just how badly you feel, read the spring medicine advertisements. It is easy to have every symptom described this kind of weather.
• Mrs. Anna Papenguth, who has been seriously ill in Chicago, has recovered and is staying with her sister Mrs. Hugo Karstens, to have the benefit of the country air.
• The school election last Saturday was a very tame affair. All kinds of rumors were afloat of what might develop and what changes might be made in the teaching force. The rumors were from lung developers. There were 23 votes cast and not a scratched ticket in the lot. The board of education now is: W. B. Guild, president: S. L. Rathje, Jesse S. Fox, J. P. Shaw, T. M. Hull, J. P. Smith and Dr. H. W. Sutcliffe.
• The following pupils will graduate from Wheaton high school in June: Marjory Ames, Walter Ballou, Roy Barton, Harry Clare, Mabel Crandell, Imogene Critchfield, Pearl Dudley, Edna Daube, Frances Ewell, James Fletcher, Mayme Fox, Russ Grange, Frances Gorham, Myrtle Hull, Sarah Jones, Margaret Mackenzie, Ray Matter, Hazel Reber, Evert Russell, Florence Shafer, Harold Simons, Mary Swan, Ned Welden.

The barn at the home of Mrs. Phillip Hadley became fired in some unaccountable manner and was all in flames before discovered. The Jayne barn, which was but a few feet from it, also caught fire and was partly burned down before the fire company could arrive.

A high wind prevailed at the time and burning embers were carried to the barn of S. H. Richardson which was burned to the ground. Another barn on the Jayne property was partially burned down.

The Jayne, Nachtigall and Kuhn house roofs were also on fire and were only saved by valiant work. The Nachtigall barn and other buildings in that vicinity were fired by burning sparks.

The fire hose was all in use and the firemen had six leads of hose to work with. Fire Marshall Kampp was a busy man for a short time, but the firemen carried out his orders with such precision and effectiveness that the flames were soon under control. A number of the firemen burned their hands so large blisters formed, W. W. Renton being the greatest sufferer. The Wheaton Volunteer Fire company is surely one to be proud of.

The city will supply with a new lot of hose so there will be no danger of being caught short in that line should an emergency arise.

There was $400 insurance on the Hadley barn and contents. The Jayne barn was not insured.

Charlie Moffat has returned from Wisconsin.

Mrs. Clinton Bond has a new horse and runabout.

Mr. and Mrs. George Woodworth are on the sick list.

The Swastika Club will give a dance May 4, at Kimble hall.

Mrs. Elizabeth McChesney is visiting relatives in Elgin this week.

Leave your subscriptions to the ILLI-NOIAN with McChesney & Parker.

Just arrived a barrel of Heinz’s sweet mixed pickles. McChesney & Parker.

Mrs. George Adams, and daughter, Esther, visited relatives in Chicago last week.

The suit in regard to the water works question has been decided in favor of the village.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Hinkley nee Hope Hopkins of Pontiac, Michigan, April 12^th, a daughter.

Mrs. Latitia Dean Spangler of Glen Ellyn has a story entitled "Ever and Ever After" in the Circle for April.

The board of directors have decided to postpone the opening of the library until all danger of infection from scarlet fever is passed.

Furniture Moving

Telephone 391, GLEN ELLYN

I make a specialty of furniture moving, having wagons with spring trucks and my men are experienced in that kind of work.

H. Llewellyn

Painter & Paper
Hanger

GLEN ELLYN, ILLINOIS

Drop me a card or telephone 233 and I will call at your home with Alfred Peals and American wall paper samples.

Superintendent E. B. Howe and wife with the inspector and board of supervisors threshed over all the charges made, and found that most of the fault found was based on impressions and suppositions rather than facts gleaned from correct observation and direct information from the superintendent and wife.

The report as published in Chicago papers was not in accordance with the wording of the inspector’s official report. Some of the charges were not fair under existing conditions. This county has not an insane person at the alms house but was adjudged insane by court. The inspector admitted the some other counties picked up insane cases and confined them at the alms house without process of law. Because some other counties had done so, he put DuPage in that class. Because there were no barriers in the hallways on the insane floor he thought the two sexes mingled. As a matter of fact there were no insane female patients there at the time, hence hall door gratings were unnecessary.

There was no case of tuberculosis or cancer in the house at the time, but the inspector imagined there was and so reported.

The vermin infested and filthy condition proved to be bed bugs and cobwebs. The institution always had bed bugs and fresh importations arrive with nearly every new patient. Mrs. Howe knows they are there and is constantly waging battle on them. They were after them the day the inspector was there and made no excuses for being in that kind of work, but expected rather to be commended than condemned. The cobwebs was the filth. Draw your own conclusions, then go down and make a personal inspection, and see whether the county has gone back to primitive days as charged in the report.

When Dr. C. S. Owen and wife purchased the Austin Ehle farm, they endeavored to fix their articles of transfer so that if either died, title to the farm would be vested in the survivor. They little thought that in endeavoring to keep out of court proceedings they were laying a foundation for proceedings which went to the Supreme court before settled. Under ordinary conditions their plans were well founded, but when the lives of the entire family were snuffed out in the Iroquois fire, the heirs found that they had not been taken into consideration in the final disposal of the property.

The last act in the drama was witnessed last Saturday in the sale of the farm at master’s sale. The farm contains 152 acres and was purchased by Mrs. E. Elliott, Dr. Owen’s sister, for $16,800, being a little over $110 per acre. The first bid, $12,000, was made by Geo. H. Simpson, of Rogers Park, importer and breeder of Shetland ponies. He has constantly on hand from 200 to 300 ponies and the location is an ideal one for his pony farm.

After the sale to Mrs. Elliott, Mr. Simpson purchased the farm at private sale, and Wheaton will now have located on it borders one of the most extensive horse breeding farms in the state. The farm being near the driving park, where lovers of horses congregate, Mr. Simpson will be where his field of little roadsters can appeal to families wanting a nobby outfit for their children.

According to the court decisions the Murray heirs, Mrs. Owen’s relatives, receive $8,400, one-half the price received for the farm.

They come from various cities, and are sent by the sugar company which contracts to furnish this to the grower as need. This rather unprepossessing gang works by the acre, and each man earns, on the average, $3 per day. No better help can be found. They are swift and tireless. A lazy one is unknown. They live with the farmer for whom they work, and were they not brought here the successful raising of beets would be nearly impossible. The millions of dollars’ worth of beet sugar raised annually by the American farmer is produced mainly by the Belgian immigrant, whose entrance to this country is sometimes opposed. The busy season in the fields is from the middle of this month to the middle of October, when the harvest is supposed to be ended. While not working in the fields, they do whatever comes their way.

The farmers around here have taken kindly to the raising of beets, and if the industry reaches large proportions, a factory has been promised for Elgin. About 200 acres will be raised in this locality, 100 near Roselle, 85 around Pingree and 80 in the vicinity of Wayne.

The grower receives $5 per ton delivered at the car, and they are shipped to the Rock County Sugar company at Janesville. The yield runs from twelve to forty tons per acre, thirty tons being the average. At this rate the farmer receives about $150 per acre for the crop and pays $21 per acre for the foreign help which weeds and tops it. With this yield there is a great profit, and in all probability this soil will give a banner crop, owing to the richness of the soil, the fertility being due to the extensive dairying carried on here.

Mrs. Calla E. Bush, mother of Representative Guy L. Bush, a resident of Downers Grove nearly all her life, was joined in the bonds of wedlock to Capt. T. S. Rogers by Judge Slusser last Saturday…

On Monday of this week, at the home of Mrs. E. W. Beckwith, Meacham, DuPage county, Ill., occurred a family gathering in honor of the eightieth anniversary of Mrs. M. J. Worrell, widow of Rev. Benjamin F. Worrell, a minister who labored who labored for many years in this state. Of Mrs. Morrell’s nine living children, seven were present: Mrs. E. W. Beckwith, Miss Martha W. Worrell, of Wheaton, Ill. Rev. Edwin R. Worrell, D.D. of Morgan Park, Ill., Mr. George P. Worrell of Bellefontaine, Ohio, Mrs. B. B. Blachly, recently returned from a number of years’ residence in Mexico, Mr. Charles H. Worrell, of Saskatchewan, Canada, and Mrs. Adolph Drogenmueller, of Roselle, Ill. Two sons, Rev. William B. Worrell, M.D., of Peru, Indiana, and Mr. John K. Worrell, of Saskatchewan, Canada, were unable to be present. Seven grandchildren were present.

Mrs. M. J. Worrell was born in Bangor, Maine, May 6, 1827, but became a resident of Illinois before she reached the age of twenty, as her parents were early settlers here.

In the issue of October 6, 1817 of the Herald of the Prairies of Chicago, the following notice appears – Married, at Bloomingdale, Ill. on the 30^th ult, by Rev. J. B. Walker, Mr. Benjamin Franklin Worrell, publisher of the Herald of the Prairie of this city and Miss Matilda Jane Griffin, daughter of Major Griffin, of Bloomingdale."…

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Mr. John Walker died May 7^th at his late residence, 216 Illinois street. He was born in Alsace, France, Oct. 6, 1851 and came to Chicago in 1865. His father had died in 1860 – his mother died in 1866. Many a hard struggle faced the young orphan and foreigner,but quietly, patiently he did his work. He was married in 1874 to Miss Eva Schlaeger, of Clintonville. Of their eight children, two, a son and daughter, have passed away… Services were conducted at the home and at Wahlheim cemetery by his pastor, Dr. Cheney, Friday afternoon.

Gordon Neff is visiting his grandparents at Benton Harbor.

Mrs. G. I. Jacobs started for Cincinnati Tuesday to visit her sister.

Mrs. A. F. Higley entertained the directors of the library association last Monday.

The White Sox will play the Wheatons on the home ground Saturday afternoon.

Mr. and Mrs. Simons are now at home from California, where she has spent the winter.

Mrs. Harry Sutter of Elgin visited her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Boyd, recently.

Mrs. P. W. Stacy is now at home after a week or more with her daughter at Racine, Wisconsin.

Mr. and Mrs. Kimble and son, Howard, started Monday for Seattle, Washington to visit his parents.

John R. Robertson has sold his new house on Cottage avenue to a gentleman from Chicago.

Mr. and Mrs. Irving Pulse and son, Richard, enjoyed Sunday with the home folks at Park Ridge.

Mrs. F. Newton Bell of Chicago, spent several days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Luther last week.

Charlie Jacobs was among those who were injured at the wreck on the A. E. & C. electric last Monday evening.

Mr. Nat M. Brigham will give his illustrated lecture on The Grand Canyon of Arizona in Kimble hall May 27^th. The proceeds go to the library.

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The ladies of the W. C. T. U. met with Mrs. S. B. Cromer Wednesday. Mr. C. A. Blanchard, of Wheaton, was present and gave a very interesting talk on Social Purity.

Glen Adams of Carpentersville was the guest of Lawrence and Evelyn Barrett.

Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Cromer, of Aurora, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Steck.

Died, at Wheaton, May 28, 1907, Mrs. Mary Field McClester, aged 90 years, 1 month and 11 days.

She was born in Longmeadow, Mass., April 17, 1817, was married to Robert McClester, Nov. 4, 1838.

Their union was blest with three children, George K. and Mary Elizabeth Hoag, of Plainfield; Ida Wood Patrick, of Wheaton, all of whom survive her.

She, with her family, came to Illinois in 1858, settling at Plainfield, Will, 1865. Her husband died May 16, 1865. April 1873, she, with her daughter Ida, removed to Wheaton, making her home with her until her death.

She was converted early in life, uniting with the Congregational church. She was a woman of rare ability. Although four score and ten, she was in full possession of all her faculties except her hearing…The disease which called her home was bronchial pneumonia…

The expressions of sympathy of many friends was made manifest in the profusion of flowers.

The interment was at Plainfield. As the last rays of the setting sun broke forth in glorious beauty, symbolic of her life, the body was lowered to its last resting place, beside that of her husband. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.

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Miss Mayme Fox, of Wheaton, was the guest of Miss Gladsye Steck over Sunday.

Mr. Richard Brewer returned home from Grand Rapids, Wis., last Saturday; his father and mother came with him, and expect to make their home here.

Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Steck and Miss Mona Hoffman, of Aurora, visited Mrs. Andrew P. Steck Sunday.

Miss Kathryn Barkdoll left last Thursday for Mt. Morris. She will attend the commencement exercises of Mt. Morris college from which she graduated two years ago.