February 5, 1863 - Contributed by Carol Parrish - with thanks to Dennis from
"The Monthly Gospel Visitor" (1851-1873)
Dear brethren please notice a few deaths in the Carroll church, Carroll
county, Illinois.
EUNICE C MILLER, daughter of Joseph & sister Rucy Miller died Dec.
25th last aged ten years & four months.
All the above died with diptheria. The funeral occasions were improved by
the brethren. May God bless the bereaved parents. (C Long)
July 19, 1872 Carroll County Mirror
An Unwelcome Visitor: On Monday as the family of Adam Wiler living in West Carroll near the Cemetery were at dinner, a large yellow rattle-snake deliberately crawled into the house and took refuge under the bed. Mr. Wiler was absent from home, and the wife and children vacated the premises, suddenly, and called in help to disposess the intruder. Jacob Divelbiss made batgtle with his snakeship and killed it with a club. The snake was about five feet long and had seven rattles.
July 16, 1876 - Goodly Heritage
During the years 1844 and 45 Mt. Carroll was the principal wheat market not only of Carroll but of Stephenson county, and Savanna was the lumber market of an extent of country well toward Rockford. The grain teams were unloaded in the order of their arrival and al ine would from day to day extend from the mill up to the courthouse square. At the same time, the mill was grinding hundreds of bushels daily, and a larger number of teams were constantly hauling flour to Savanna for shipment to St. Louis. This wheat was almost entirely paid for out of the company store. The company bought wheat with goods, paid for them in flour, paid their hands in goods either to the workmen themselves or to parties to whom they had given orders in payment for those things they could not buy at the company store.
September 12, 1879 - Carroll County Mirror (Contributed by John Sharp)
Frost. Cool nights. Take in your flowers. Let everyone come to the Fair.
Call at Hollister’s for an oyster stew. Read what the Beaver Brothers have to say in another column.
The Board of Supervisors met in regular session in this city last Tuesday.
Miss Myrtle Stevens has returned from her sojourn in Cedar Rapides Iowa.
The new store room of the Anction Boys is now opened and their display is great.
Lew Harris a former Carroll County boy now of Iowa is in this city visiting friends and relatives.
Read Busheys locals this week. If he hasn’t got what you want, you can’t find it this side of Chicago.
The best remedy for liver complaint is “Selers Liver Pills.” only 25 cents per box, sold by all druggist.
Remember that the Fair commences next Tuesday. Bring out your stock and produce for exhibition.
Now is the time when our “devil” beginneth to weep as maketh the office fire.
Entries are being rapidly made in the Carroll County Fair books and the prospects are good for a large exhibition this year.
R.C. Hallett left on Wednesday for Bloomington where he will attend school for a time. Rube, here’s to you.
The old settlers of Ogle County had a very interesting meeting at Buffalo Grove near Polo, on Tuesday of the last week.
Christian Mosser a former resident of this city died suddenly at his home in Pleasant Ridge, Kansas on the 25th of August.
Charles H. Lester of Freeport has charge of the Western union Telegraph Office in his city during the absence of Miss Agnes Moss.
Miss H.E. Johnston has sold out her millenary business to Mrs. R.M. Grier of Moresville, she is a highly spoken of first class milliner.
Cider is hauled from the depot in this city in kegs like the ones used last year in shipping beer. Think its cider anyway.
The Mount Carroll Cornet Band left on Tuesday morning for Freeport to fill a three day engagement at the Stephenson County Fair.
Do you know that men are coming from the county accompanied by their sisters and their cousins and their aunts to attend the Carroll County Fair?
Miss Agnes Moss the young lady who dispenses telegraphic dispatches in the Western Union office in this city left on Wednesday left for a week’s visit to Racine Wisconsin. We wish her a pleasant time.
According to the returns of the township assessors there are one hundred and one dogs in this county we will wager a nine dollar bill that there are three times that number in this city every moonlight night.
Miss Nellie Brown and Miss Ella Thompson of Mount Carroll Seminary gave a concert Wednesday evening at the Bethel Church Pleasant Valley this county. The entertainment was very highly spoken of by those who attended and it was a success financially.
Someone upset a barrel or so of cream in the road at the south-west corner of J. M. Stowell’s farm in Oakville one day last week covering the ground for several square rods and making travel precarious on account of the “ milky way.” For particulars inquire of Cal the driver.
H.L. Dellagers house in Shannon took fire last Friday and was burned to the ground with all its contents. The loss was about $ 500.00. The Shannon Hook and Ladder Company was absent at the Beloit Tournament at the time. The fire might have postponed itself a day in order to give the boys a chance to distinguish themselves. We gleamed this from the Shannon Express.
Two new freight trains have been put on the R.& S. W. Division of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail Road on a new time table which took effect last Sunday, a freight going west at 6:50 in the morning and one going east at 9: 50 A.M. A slight change in the time of two other trains has been made as will be seen in the published time card in this paper.
The Victor Hook and Ladder Company of Shannon took second place a pair of silver torches at the tournament in Beloit, Wisconsin, last Friday. This company has only been organized a couple of months but are making themselves a first class record. They were the finest appearing company at the Lanark Tournament on August 7, where they took second prize also.
The preliminary examination of John Cross the Lanark City Marshal, arrested on the complaint of Stephen Vandusen on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit bodily harm on the day of the fracas, in that town, was held in this city before Esquire J.B. Smith. The trial result in the discharge of the prisoner, the court holding that the defendant was at the time in the discharge of his duties as an officer.
While in attendance at the reunion of our old regiment at Lima last week, we had the pleasure of meeting W.T. Vanegriff of Central Illinois, C.W. Reynolds and W. C. Shimer of Iowa, and W.H. Price of Apple River Iowa. All of these were Carroll County boys who were members of the regiment.
September 26, 1879 - Carroll County Mirror (Contributed by Alice Horner)
William J. Ritchie and Miss Martha White were united in marriage at the bride’s mother’s in Pleasant Valley , Jo Daviess County, by the Rev. C. H. Mitchell on Thursday evening, September 11. There are many about town who remember Will Ritchie as a pupil in the Mount Carroll High School and they remember him as a splendid good fellow and they will be pleased to know that he has married a lady of many good qualities. May they live long and happily.
The house of Wm. Souders of Woodland was entered by burglars last Thursday while the family was attending the fair. The thieves went through the house and ransacked every drawer, cupboard, and trunk therein. They ate a hearty meal and carried away a suit of new clothes and numerous other articles of more or less value. No clue to the gentlemen who did the job.
There is a long list of prize winners at the Annual Fair of Carroll County Agricultural Society for 1879, but the font is tiny and I’m having a major problem with my right eye. But it even gives women’s needlework prizes so I’d like to go back to it sometime. Remind me.
August 16, 1883 - Goodly Heritage
It has been several decades since the "cemetery bluff" has reverberated to the whistle of sawmills, grist mills or factories of any sort on Birmingham flats, but J.B. Cushman and Kneale propose to wake them up again. The windmill factory expects to have all its machinery running in a few days.
Savanna Times 14 March 1884
July 1885 - Goodly Heritage
J.M. Shirk and Company are so crowded with work they are running their flouring mills night and day.
April 30, 1894 - Goodly Heritage
Han Warly, the Chinese laundryman at Mt. carroll regrets by $50 worth, the advent of the circus. He stepped outside his door to see the elephants flap their ears to the step of the music on the golden chariot, and on returning found his money drawer open, empty of cash, jewlery and revolver. Han says, "Me bellee muchly ruined man; melican man big thief."
16 September 1909 - Goodly Heritage
W. R. Hostetter of Mt. Carroll will not make any more ice cream and ship it to Lanark or other communities as he has sold his herd of 37 extra fine Jersey cows. He had been in the dairy and ic cream business for 35 years.
25 May 1910 Savanna Journal
Judge Patch of Mt. Carroll is in a very critical condition and his friends believe he is near the end of his earthly voyage. He is now bedfast and very weak.
24 September 1931 Thomson Review
Forrest Miller and Mason Hacker are being held by police officers as suspects in the theft of an automobile at Polo (Ogle County) last Wednesday evening. Miller was taken into custody by Sheriff Shiley and held at Mt. Carroll from where he will be taken to Oregon for the preliminary hearing. Hacker was taken directly to the jail in Oregon. The automobile was stolen at Polo and was driven to a spot just outside the city where it was stripped of its accessories. It is said that a spotlight belonging to the car was found in Miller's possession when he was arrested. Hacker, who is on parole at the present time as a result of some trouble last summer lives with his parents on a farm in Whiteside county.
09 September 1932 Thomson Review
Mrs Theresa High of Mt. Carroll was bound over to the November Grand Jury and released on a $500 bond after county officers raided her home last Saturday afternoon. Sheriff Harry Shirley and Deputy Ben Rose made the raid and secured 128 pint bottles of alledged home brew, several jugs of wine and a crock of mash brew.
19 August 1937 Thomson Review
Emery Bowden, Mt. Carroll was arrested Sunday on a larceny charge and following a hearing before Justice of the Peace Frank Schroeppel, was bound over to the Grand Jury under bond of $2,000. It is alledged that on Monday August 9, 1937, Bowden removed 4 tires from a truck owned by Jack Smith, Janesville WI. while the truck was parked on Smith property in Mt. Carroll. Smith charged that Bowden placed the tires on his own truck which was being used to haul gravel. Bowden is being held in the county jail.
12 August 1938 - Freeport Journal Standard
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Eacker, elderly Mt. Carroll couple had a miraculous escape from death yesterday afternoon when their automobile stalled on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific RR tracks at the grade crossing on Rt. 26 about 3 miles south of Freeport. Mr. and Mrs. Eacker were traveling south on Rt. 26, and a freighttrain was going southwestward toward Shannon. As the auto stopped on the crossing the occupants seeing the approaching train bearing down upon them jumped to safety in the belief their car would be struck. Only the front fender protruded over the tracks and it was stuck and torn loose. After the train passed Mr. and Mrs. Eacker returned to their car and continued his journey. Today Mr. Eacker was busy repairing his damaged fender.
21 October 1938
D. W. Ackerman was killed by a car at 9:30 a.m. Thursday [10/20/1938] at the Fay Stakemiller home. Mr. Ackerman’s sight was defective. He was born August 30, 1855 in Mt. Carroll. He is survived by two brothers: Sam and William, both of Mt. Carroll. (From Larry Reynolds)
02 November 1939
Mrs. Jennie Nipe, religious education instructor in the Mt. Carroll schools, brought a child's scripture lesson book belonging to her
mother which was over 100 years old; an English reader of her grandfather's who came here from England in 1831 and a copy of "Wesley's Sermons"' published in 1852.
05 March 1940 Freeport Journal Standard
Charles Adams 54, farming living north of Mt. Carroll received serious head injuries at 6 p.m. Monday when his car crashed into a culvert 2 miles north of Mt. Carroll on Route 78.
22 May 1940 - Freeport Journal
Memories of days when speed contests between hose cart teams drew larger crowds than baseball games do today are revived in a picture of Mt.carroll's state champion team which is now hanging in the Mt. Carroll National bank building. Framed with the picture is a large gold medal, emblematic of a state championship won before 1900. Shown in the photo are Charles McCracken, Elmer Wiler, Frank Phillips, Bert Clark, John Griffith (now athletic commissioner of the Big Ten conference), Oscar Plasch, Elmer Phillips, Ernest Freeman, Jonas Huffer, Cal M. Freezer, Sherm Markley, William Phillips, Marvin Price, Frank Irvin, Jesse Beaver, Frank Force and G.E. Mershon. Still residents of this city are Elmer Wiler, William Phillips and Dr. G.E. Mershon. Others have died or now reside in other cities. (Wonder where this picture is now - 2007).
22 October 1940 Sterling Gazette
In honor of the birthday anniversaries of the of their son Herbert and their nephew, Everett Queckboerner, Mr. and Mrs. Erm Barnhart entertained Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Queckboerner and family of Mt. Carroll and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Queckboerner and family Sunday at their home east of Chadwick. (From Larry Reynolds)
15 February 1941 Freeport Journal
CHARLES NIPE, OP ARGO FA, HURT AS CAR CRASHES INTO EMBANKMENT
29 September 1945 - Dixon Evening Telegraph
Mt. Carroll Sep. 25 - Mr. & Mrs. Earl Musser announce the engagement of their daughter Arlene to Pvt. Jhn Heath Jr. of the US army air force son of Mr. & Mrs. John Heath of Savanna. Pvt Heath is stationed at Dalhart Airfield TX. No date for the wedding has been set yet.
Dixon Evening Telegraph 19 October 1946
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Haenitsch and children and Miss Rosemary Haenitsch motored to Mt. Carroll Sunday to visit her mother, Mrs. Delilah Cripe, also Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Johnson & family.
Dixon Evening Telegraph 20 November 1946
The Misses Gracia and Laura Rogers, Miss Belle Elle and Miss Anne Eustace motored to Mt. Carroll today and spent the day with Mrs. Dora Hughes at the Judge Shaw home.
Dixon Evening Telegraph 13 January 1947
Mrs. George Asay, 57 year old Mt. Carroll resident, crawled three blocks to her home on her hands and knees Saturday after breaking her ankle. She did it because she didn't want to bother her neighbors with calls for assistance.
Mrs. Asay fell on an icy street three block from her home there at 2 a.m. Saturday while returning from her job at the Savanna Ordance Plant. She is resting at her home now with her right ankle in a cast and none the worse for her ordeal, except for a cold and bruises on her hands and knees.
She had walked a block after getting off a bus when she fell. Discovering she could not walk, she crawled over icy streets arriving in front of her home 20 minutes later. There exhausted, she called to her husband and daughter who carried her into the house.
Dixon Evening Telegraph 27 January 1947
Frank W. Scholl of Dixon, and Mr. and Mrs. F. Leslie Williams of
Mt. Carroll are motoring to California. Mr. Scholl will visit Mr. and Mrs.
Frank L. Scholl and Dale Rosecrans in Riverside Calif.
Dixon Evening Telegraph 27 June 1947
Maurice Siebert former member of the Oregon High School who left here to accept the post as principal of Mt.Carroll High School, and his family are living at Hoffman Hall, Frances Shimer College Dormitory in Mt. Carroll until a new home they are constructing there are completed.
Dixon Evening Telegraph 21 December 1949
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Coleour and two sons of Mt. Carroll were dinner guests Tuesday at the Harold I. Johnson home.
Dixon Evening Telegraph 19 September 1950
Mrs.Francis H. Colehour, Mt. Carroll is directing a training course for Girl Scout Leaders and troop committee members Tuesday and Friday September 19 and 22 from 7 to 10 p.m. and on the same two nights next week.
Daily Gazette 25 July 1967
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Mackay of rural Mt. Carroll announce the engagement of their daugher, Carolyn Faith to David curtis Spanogle, son of Everett Spanogle of Chadwick and the late Hazel Spanogle. Miss Mackay has been teaching foreign languages in Evergreen Park. Her fiance is engaged in farming int he Chadwick area. An Ausuts wedding is planned.
Mrs. Glen Davis, Mrs. Erma Richter, Mrs. Elsie Fickes, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Grimm and Helen Mackay all of Mt. Carroll, attended a "Candlelight Smorgasbord Bowl" at the Four Seasons in Freeport on Saturday night.
The Mt. Carroll Sew and Sew Club will meet in the home of Mrs. Lee Gifford on Tuesday evening, Aug. 1, instead of in the home of Mrs. Gustav Schmidt on July 23 as originally planned.
Mrs. C.R. Curley of Mt. Carroll was taken from Freeport memorial hospital to the Ortiz Nursing Home in Lena.
Guests in the home of Mrs. Mattie Weidman were: Mr. and Mrs. John Brown of Wapello, Iowa over the weekend. Mrs. Brown is a niece of Mrs. Weidman. On Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Petersen of Arlington Heights, and family spent the day in the Weidman home. Mrs. Peterson is also a niece of Mrs. Weidman.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Spangole and son David of Chadwick were dinner guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Mackay on Saturday.
20 August 1967 - contributed by Mike Hosler
James McCall was 82 years old Sunday, and in honor of the occasion Mrs. McCall made him the usual birthday
cake. Relatives who visited the McCalls on Sunday were served ice cream and birthday cake. They included his
brother, Earl and son, Harlan of Pearl City; Mrs. McCall's sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Toepfer of Mount
Carroll; Mr. and Mrs. William Thompson and daughters, Diana and Julie, and Mrs. Margaret Nesbitt all of Sterling.
When we called Mrs. McCall to get the news of the event, Mr. McCall said: " Don't forget to tell em how old I am. " Goes
to show you, some oldsters are proud of their age, and others will say, " Don't you dare put my age in the paper."
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