Governor Deneen has called a special Judicial election for December 21^st to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Charles A. Bishop.

• Licorice, rock candy, horehound drops, at Hiatt’s.
• J. Sterenberg was at Fulton over Sunday, visiting his parents.
• Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Tibbits have gone to Joplin, Missouri, to reside.
• Robert Steven of Ransom, Ill., was visiting Wheaton relatives this week.
• The History Club will meet on Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 29, with Mrs. Demmon.
• "Masks", "horns", "crickets" and "novelties" for Hallowe’en at Newcomb’s.
• E. C. Faber has been spending the past week at Atlantic City, N. J., and other eastern points.
• Lewis Kruse was discharged by the court last Saturday and returned to his home at Addison.
• First basket-ball game of the season Saturday night. High School vs. Medill High of Chicago.
• Prayer meeting at the Gospel hall, corner of Hale and Wesley streets, at 7:30 each Thursday evening.
• Wm. Myers returned home from Manlius Wednesday, where he spent three weeks with his uncle.
• Mrs. Ella Harvey of 603 Scott street and son, James Harvey, are at Minooka this week, being called there by the death of a relative.
• Henry Bird, a resident here many years ago, now living at Lockport, was a visitor last week. He has a son attending the college here.
• John Sutcliffe will have a car of choice Wisconsin potatoes in about 10 days. Those in need of any will save money by ordering so that they can be delivered from car.
• Any party wishing to purchase a farm, can find a bargain in the C. Wise farm, south of Naperville. For particulars address H. J. Durran, Naperville, Ill.
• While Mrs. Henry Eggers, Jr., was cleaning clothes with gasolene Tuesday, she got too near the fire with the clothes, causing an explosion, severely burning her.
• Joseph H. Radcliffe, father of Mrs. E. M. O’Neill, died Oct. 20 at the home of his son, F. W. Radcliffe, Chicago, aged 81 years, and was interred at Wheaton on Tuesday.
• Mrs. J. H. Raach and daughter, Mildred, left for Columbia City, Ind., on Tuesday, to visit a brother and sister.
• The stork was a busy bird in Naperville and vicinity during September. Twenty-five stops were made – some boys, others girls.
• James C. Lloyd and wife of Meacham became separated in Chicago recently and after twenty hours’ search were united in the police station. The aged couple left for their little home in Meacham, where people have plenty of time, where people are not separated, and where, though their years are frosted by life’s winter, they live as sweethearts still.
• H. J. Traver had the fire place at his home filled with paper to shut off the draft and in some manner the paper became ignited. The roaring of the flames caused a fire alarm to be turned in by members of the household, but when Mr. Traver investigated he found no cause for alarm, as the chimney contained the burning mass.
• The Wheaton high school basket-ball team has its schedule for the season almost complete. It is planning for a championship team this year, under the leadership of Arthur Guild, a former Wheaton college star. Wheaton high school lost the state championship last year by a small fraction. The prospect is fine for a winning season…The members of the team are as follows: Ernest Brooks, captain, forward; Frazier Snyder, manager, guard; Joe Zoller, guard; Herbert Matter, forward; Arthur Grove, center; Harold King, substitute.
• Work has been begun in the beet fields at Wayne. There are 50 acres of the white sugar beets on the Dunham farm. The average yield is about 20 tons to the acre, which sells at $5.00 per ton. The average expense is $25 per acre, leaving a profit of about $75 per acre.

Short Items of News from Glen Ellyn

Nearly one hundred and fifty relatives and friends of Dr. and Mrs. E. C. Guild joined with them Saturday evening, October 26^th, in the celebration of their fiftieth wedding anniversary.

• The new Brethren church at Naperville has been dedicated.
• Chas. H. Fuller is an employee of the A. E. & C., wiring cars.
• Adolph Hammerschmidt is moving from Lombard to Los Angeles, Cal.
• Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Clare E. Vallette on Sunday, Oct. 20, a daughter.
• The Downers Grove Reporter has increased its subscription price from $1.50 to $1.75.
• Mr. and Mrs. Chas. H. Newhall are celebrating their silver wedding anniversary today.
• James Fletcher of Wayne left last week for New York. He will sail on the "Lusitania" for France, where he will purchase horses for the Dunham & Fletcher stables.
• Frank Holstein, who has been making improvements and procuring patents on a washing machine which will be a Monday Ideal for the housewife, has now a family size on the market. The machines at the Wheaton laundry and county farm are his make. The machine is on display and for sale at Spencer’s.
• Mrs. E. W. Bixby is in failing health. She was so ambitious during her life in serving and pleasing the restaurant patrons, that when her health failed it left her in a nervous collapse. There is no woman in the county who has taken such a motherly interest in the wayfaring stranger as did Mrs. Bixby. Her acquaintance is unlimited and the word of sympathy comes from many states.
• Joseph Meister, Ed Binder and Fred Hageman dined on rabbit pie Sunday. They bagged twenty on Saturday.
• `The Gary Mausoleum is still under construction, as is evidenced by the large blocks of marble granite which are being taken to the cemetery. The cap marble slab was so large and heavy that it had to be moved from the car to the cemetery with a windless.
• Surveyor A. L. Webster was at Addison last week making a survey of the valuable property in Addison village just purchased by Heinrich Schneider from Ernest Lesseberg. Schneider will build a residence at once.
• Wm. N. Landrum has sold the Butterfield farm, south-west of town, to a Mr. Hopkins of Chicago. Mr. Landrum has been in Indiana looking for a farm and is well satisfied with the land in the vicinity of Knox.
• Mrs. Frank Kimball died at her home in Yorkville on Monday. Mr. Kimball will be remembered as a former Wheaton resident. This is the second time death has visited his home and taken away his helpmate.

Short Items of News from Glen Ellyn

Postmaster General Meyer has not had anything to say about the parcels post since he returned to Washington. Probably the reception his idea met with when he was in Chicago discouraged him, and possibly we shall hear nothing more from him on the subject.

The ninth lecture of the course at the First Cong’l church on Friday night at 8 o’clock. Dr. Kaye will give his audience an evening in "The World’s Metropolis." The great and interesting things of London will appear in a large number of fine views and their description. The landmarks of this historic city, Tower of London, Temple Bar, and a score of others, together with many other things highly entertaining will render this evening on of the most interesting of the course.

At least twenty new substantial residences have been built this summer, and late contracts have been let as winter jobs.

• Born, to Ray Stockton and wife, on Nov. 20, a son.
• Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ruch, on Nov. 22, twin boys.
• Mrs. William DeWolf is critically ill at her home in this city.
• Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Barstow, on November 26, a daughter..
• A young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stanford died last Friday.
• Attorney O. M. Olson is erecting a new residence on Concord street.
• Born, to Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Halleman, on November 22, a daughter.
• Samuel Budd is in Milwaukee, Wis. on a visit. He may enter the Soldiers’ Home there.
• Miss Nellie Ball is again with the Wheaton Plumbing and Heating Co., after a forced absence.
• Mr. Harry Kuykendall of Dow City, Iowa, is a visitor at the home of his sister, Mrs. Chas. DeWolf.
• Mrs. A. J. Nystrom is at Des Moines, Iowa, spending a season with her mother, who has been seriously ill.
• Mrs. Johnston of Crystal Lake has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. A. M. Brundage, on Washington street.
• The liverymen of Wheaton and Glen Ellyn have formed an associ-ation and fixed a rate of prices for hacks and surries for funerals.
• Geistefeld & Loxon have rented the Secker building, just south of J. H. Kampp’s furniture store, and will move their bakery next week.
• Master Chas. Thies, who has been in the Hahneman hospital, came home to dine with the home folks on Thanksgiving Day.
• Miss Mattie Budd of Wheaton and Mr. James Nielson of Milwaukee, Wis. were married at Kenosha this week. They will reside at Milwaukee.
• Work is in progress on the erection of a general utility building at the cemetery. There is no building on the grounds in which to house tools or seek shelter during a storm.
• The prisoners at the county jail feasted on turkey and mince pie yesterday. Many of the inmates were duly thankful that the last grand jury allowed them to escape Joliet.
• Richard Kussmann, who was killed at Roselle, Nov. 22, would have been in the county jail, charged with incendi-arism, within 24 hours had he lived. Hallowe’en pranks got him into trouble.
• Mrs. Geo. S. Bartholomew, of Rockford, who has been recuperating from an operation in a Chicago hospital at the home of the editor, returned to Rockford yesterday.
• If you want calendars printed as an advertisement for your business, the Illinoian office has a fine line of samples.
• Hogs sold for $4.00 per hundred pounds in Chicago this week, the lowest in seven years. Pork loins will have to tumble a bit.
• A. J. Sauer & Sons have opened up a shop on Railroad street, south of the old Methodist church, where they are prepared to do furnace work, all kinds of sheet metal work and repairing. They make a specialty of putting furnaces in old houses as well as new houses. All work will receive prompt attention.
• The children of Mrs. Peter Lenertz made merry her 67^th birthday, on November 24, by taking possession of her home while she was at church, and decorating the rooms and table for the occasion. Beautiful and valuable presents were left as tokens of love and esteem. Her only son, Peter Lenertz, presented his mother with a handsome Morris chair.
• Marjorie, aged two years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Millner, died on Nov. 28 of spinal meningitis. The funeral will be this Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
• The livery barn at Downers Grove burned to the ground this Friday morning. A teamster for the Venard construction Co. lost his life in the flames. The barn contained 14 horses, eight of which were burned to death. A dozen vehicles were burned. The barn is just across the road from the home of J. W. Rogers which narrowly escaped destruction. Coroner Matter has gone to the Grove to hold an inquest on the man.

Short Items of News from Glen Ellyn

• Fine watches at L. C. Brown’s.
• H. W. Grote is at Bloomington this week visiting his son.
• Fancy boxes and all kinds of high grade chocolate, brick and bulk ice cream at The Ideal, 103 N. Railroad St.
• Adam Dernbach is serving on the petit jury of the federal court, Chicago.
• Abe Hartman, who moved from Wheaton to West Chicago, has a new house up and enclosed.
• Floors, Owaxum! Telephone 1454.
• V. L. Vanplew and wife of Lee, Michigan, are here visiting the home folks.
• Miss Anna Conklin has gone to Joliet to spend the holiday season with her brother.
• Xmas and New Year cards, booklets and calendars, Newcomb’s.
• Subscriptions taken for all magazines at Hiatt’s.
• Mrs. S. D. Weldon has rented the house at 507 Ohio street and will occupy it after January 1^st. Mr. Bixby will make his home with her.
• Get your Christmas cigars by the box, at wholesale price, at The Ideal, 103 N. Railroad street.
• Dunham & Fletcher shipped a car-load of horses to California last week. They shipped a horse to Alberta, Canada, also a car-load to Salt Lake City, Utah.
• For good reliable fire insurance see Harry B. Tufts. Fuller Block. Phone 2651.
• Joseph Sauer, while working on a swinging staging, at Batavia power house, repairing high tension wires, the staging turned and threw him to the ground, a distance of 30 feet, breaking three ribs and otherwise injuring him.
• A new supply of gas and electric table lamps suitable for holiday presents at A. L. Hawker’s.
• Aluminum cooking utensils make very acceptable Christmas gifts. You will find a large display of wear-ever utensils at the Woman’s Exchange. You are invited to drop in and look them over.
• Irving Yackley, son of Edward Yackley of Bonaparte, who has been at the St. Charles hospital, Aurora, undergoing an operation, has returned home, with conditions favorable for good health.
• At a meeting of the Wheaton Women’s Relief Corps last week, it was voted to disband the organization and relinquish its charter. They have been a great help to the G.A.R Lack of interest made it impossible to continue the organization.
• Mr. George SchuslerError! Bookmark not defined. had a fine Arabian stallion shipped to him last week from Iowa.
• Mrs. Steward, accompanied her daughter, Mrs. A. J. Nystrom. Home from DesMoines, Iowa, and will make an extended stay in Wheaton.
• If the average woman kept a book account of her finances it would be something like this: "Monday, $40 given me by Henry. Spent it all."
• Last Sunday night, at the close of the sermon, ten persons, all adults, united with the Gary Memorial M. E. church.
• Our one-time Glen Ellyn corres-pondent, W. H. Lloyd, Kinmundy, Illinois, was last week elected, for a second term, secretary of the Illinois State Horticultural Society.
• Raymond and George Enders of Winfield, who have been visiting their uncle in South Dakota the past two months, returned last week. While there they husked one thousand bushels of corn.
• A convenient and inexpensive way of remembering your distant acquaintances is to send them a Christmas post card. Spencer has the finest and largest line of this and other varieties ever seen in Wheaton. Also a nice line of albums for the collector.
• A letter from Capt. W. F. Grote states the safe arrival of himself and family at Manilla. He will be there for two years as regimental commissary officer. This is the fourth time he has been stationed at Manilla.
• Building operations are going right along regardless of the frosty weather. In all parts of town one can see improvements developed.

With the beginning of the new year it is time that the 1908 fair should receive attention, if one is to be held. Last year all the work was crowded into a few weeks and lacked proper organization.

Ever since students and politicians inhabited Illinois the question of college men voting at elections in cities where they are attending school has been a mooted one. It has been settled by the State Supreme court in the famous Shumway Walsh majority contest of Galesburg, in which Shumway wins and the court decides that students can not vote who do not make their permanent residence in the college town.

• The public schools open Monday.
• Lombard has several cases of diphtheria.
• Two children of David Foulis are ill with scarlet fever.
• Paul A. Wolter is in the plumbing business at Beloit, Wisconsin.
• Eugene L. Gates has gone into the undertaking business. His telephone is 2871 or 2304.
• If you want corn at 47 cents per bushel, delivered in Wheaton, call up telephone 114.
• The Chicago Tribune published a list of bequests given during the year. In that list was a bequest of $50,000 to the Chicago University by Judge E. H. Gary.
• Edwin Hubble, who took the basket-ball trip with the Chicago University team, returned home last Friday. They played in Iowa, Missouri and Kansas.
• The worst grip epidemic that ever swept through the wards of the alms house is now getting in its handkerchief work. All the inmates and the help join in the "kerchoo" chorus.
• Mrs. Anna Marie Kohley, mother of ex-Supervisor Kohley of Lisle, died on Tuesday, aged 79 years. The funeral was held at Naperville yesterday.
• While killing a steer at the Lombard slaughter house last Wednesday, Louis Hahn was driven up into the rafters by the infuriated beast. He had shot the animal, but with no effect, and having no more ammunition, he had to remain twelve hours and finally escaped through a window.
• Otto B. Hammerschmidt, formerly of Naperville, and Miss Marguerite B. Brown were married New Year’s day at the home of the bride’s parents. Dr. and Mrs. Chas. Brown, Sycamore, Ill. R. N. Givler and wife of Naperville spent Tuesday night with Wheaton relatives and friends, being enroute to the wedding.
• Clinton Fey and Miss Millie Book were married at Naperville December 24. The will reside on the Fey farm, north of Naperville.
• Mrs. William W. DeWolf died on December 30 of a complication of diseases, aged 66 years. The funeral was from the M. E. church Wednesday.
• Benjamin Howarth, who was proprietor of the College avenue store several years ago, now a resident of Batavia, died last Saturday of apoplexy, aged 65 years. He was the brother of Mrs. Guy Levens of Wheaton.
• Henry Cooper was one of the forty-niners who went from the Big Woods district to California. While there he was waylaid and robbed. Papers in his pockets gave his Illinois address and he was brought to his home in Winfield township. As he recovered from the blows he received to his head, he was found to be insane and was taken to Elgin. From there he was returned to the county farm, where he died last week Friday, aged 82 years. The remains were interred at Warrenville on Saturday.
• Ormand Barkdoll of Warren-hurst had the misfortune to fracture his left leg between the knee and ankle, while on his way to school December 18. With a companion he was walking along the road when another boy gave him a playful push which threw him to the ground with the limb twisted under him. His companion fell with his full weight upon the limb, fracturing the bone.
• One of the pleasant events in Wheaton on New Year’s day was the dinner given by L. C. Brown in honor of his mother, Mrs. C. A. Brown. All living descendants of the Brown family were present, 27 in number, representing four generations, the mother being 81 years of age. Mrs. Brown taught the first school at Bloomington when 16 years of age, the Indians peeping into the windows of the school room to see what the gathering represented. Mrs. Electa Colton of Fort Scott, Kansas, and Marcellus Brown and wife of Chicago were guests.