SUNDAY DRIVE- EARLY THIS WEEK- MY HUSBAND HAD SURGERY TODAY AND I WILL BE BUSY THE REST OF THE WEEKEND- BE BACK ON HERE NEXT WEEK-

WELCOME TO NEWMAN- HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

MORE FROM THE OAKLAND HERALD 1880:

THE TOP PHOTO SHOWS HOW THE PAPER WAS LAID OUT- BUT THE SMALL PRINT IS NOT LEGIBLE. THE BOTTOM PHOTO SHOWS A FEW MORE ADS.

THE OAKLAND HERALD 1880:

THESE ARE SOME ADS FROM THE 1880 OAKLAND HERALD NEWSPAPER- THE PRINT ON MY COPY OF THE PAPER ARE TOO POOR TO READ EXCEPT FOR THE ADS.

90+ Carloads for Barn Tour

The Barn Tour was a huge success with people from all over coming to see the old barns. Above is a picture of a barn raising in Newman, Il- date unknown- Burt Rutherford is the boy on top all the way on the right.

LIBERTY BELL IN OAKLAND- 1904

MRS NANCY JANE VANDYNE

DON'T FORGET THE BARN TOUR ON SUNDAY- START AT THE MEETING HOUSE AT 11:30-3:00

SUNDAY DRIVE- HUME, IL

UNKNOWN HOME AND FAMILY IN HUME

TWILITE MOTEL

2 APRIL 1877- HOT OFF THE PRESS FROM OAKLAND, ILLINOIS

Oakland-Hinsboro Prairie Sun- Thursday, May 18, 1989

Scene Through The Front Door

MEMORIES FROM OAKLAND NEWS OF 112 YEARS AGO-
BY: HELEN PARKES

FROM THE APRIL 2, 1877 OAKLAND NEWSPAPER…

One day last week, Wm Allen was driving his team near McReynold’s Chapel, 2 miles northeast of Isabel, when his lines broke, causing the team to run away. Mr Allen was thrown from the wagon and considerably injured. The team was stopped near Isabel, but not until they had torn down the railings on the new bridge near Isabel.
For Rent- A small dwelling house. Rent $8 a month- Inquire at this office…
Mr James Rapier of Greasy Point, is studying medicine with Dr Peak…
Miss Clara Ousley of Embarrass Township is visiting Miss Kate Reel and others in town…
Mr Augustus McNolan is Jack Oak and Mrs Mary Davison were married by Rev TS Johnson…
For Sale- A good buggy and double harness, very cheap- H.D. Williams…
Rev JR Burk has received 27 persons into church fellowship at Harmony, six miles south of Isabel, making a total of 45 on the Kansas circuit. Bro Burk can make a sinner feel good singing for him…
Rev Joe Martin, the preacher and leader among the colored people of Nip and Tuck, has sold out preparing to emigrating to the state of Kansas. The probability is the rest of the inhabitants of that “burg” will follow as soon as they can adjust their affairs as to leave…
The Clipper Mill, will on and after this date, until July1, will grind your own wheat on Tuesday and Saturdays…
Just to let you know how miserably mean some folks are we will tell you that on Saturday night, some person or persons went into Samuel Lippincotts stable in Morgan Township and shaved the tail of his fine Green Mountain Morgan stallion. Comment is unnecessary…
Perhaps people would regard the oversights and mistake of the country editor, publisher, business manager, job printer, foreman, reporter, collector, and so forth laboring ten to fifteen hours a day, with no recreation more than proper observance of the Sabbath requires…
JB Sargent, of Bloomington, has sold 400 acres of his farm, situated six miles northwest of Oakland to Mrs. Huldah Sargent and her two daughters, Mrs. Belle and Miss Flora for $12,000. Six thousand and six hundred dollars was paid in bank stock. JB Sargent is now a director of the Oakland National Bank. He has over two hundred acres of land yet unsold in Sargent Township…
The funeral service of the late SM Cash took place from the ME Church at 2 o’clock last Saturday afternoon, in the presence of a large audience, while the crowd outside the church was great. The sermon was preached by the editor of the Herald, who was assisted by Rev TS Johnson, pastor of the church. The following relatives from a distance were present: Seaton Cash and family and Jackson cash and wife of Newman, and daughter Mittie of Westfield, Marion P Cash and wife of Terre Haute and their two sons, Wm A Cash of Sullivan and Marcus Cash of Lovington, Carey J Cash, a brother and father of Mrs JH Busbey of this place, resides in Amhurst County, VA, and was not present. Mrs Rose Jenkins, only sister, died in Clinton County, Missouri, a few months ago. The ritual burial service of the ME Church was used. The grave laid with brick and arched, as a family vault was erected…
NP Smith has returned from the East, and a large stock of new goods is the result of his visit. Go in and see painted fishing poles, the elegant and accurate time keeping, nutmeg, Seth Thomas clocks, velocipedes of the knobbiest kind, baby carriage, a luxury and a necessity that nearly every family needs…
The Illinois Midland Railway Company has announced a great excursion on the 22nd from Terre Haute to Decatur. A round trip ticket from Oakland is $4…
If you want a good shirt for fifty cents, go to E Conaghan’s…
John Rutherford, cashier of the Oakland National Bank, a few days ago received several specimens from the mines of Mr Fillmore McConkey, Hindsdale County, Colorado, which he has on exhibit in a showcase at the bank. Mr McConkey will be remembered as a former resident of Oakland…
AJ Taylor is teaching singing school at the Greasy Point Church. Jack says there are splendid voices at Greasy…
“From Ryce Store in Terre Haute- Ladies summer underware at .50 cents. Fifty dozen Ladies white cotton hose, .40 cents per pair…
California broom corn seed. Never turns red- RA Traver, Charleston, Coles County…
The wives of Dr H Rutherford, SM Cash, JJ Pemberton and DR SA Reel, went to Arcola Wednesday morning on a visiting and pleasure tour…
Miss Carrie Wilson, Professor Wilson’s beautiful and highly accomplished daughter, is in the village, the guest of Marietta and Zonia Boyer. She will assist her father with his classes at the convention and concert next week. Nineteen of our boys have been struck by cupid’s dart by the aforesaid Carrie…
Strayed from the premises of the undersigned, in Oakland, on Tuesday, February 14, 1877 a bay horse, heavy mane and tail, three years old, and his hind legs are crookeder than usual. A liberal reward is offered…


THANKS TO JEANNIE RANKINS- THIS WAS AN ITEM ON DISPLAY AT THE MUSEUM'S LAST EXHIBIT- I WONDER IF THEY EVER FOUND THAT HORSE??

DR HIRAM RUTHERFORD BLOG

JUST A REMINDER THAT THERE IS ANOTHER BLOG ON THE RUTHERFORDS ONLY. NOT AS MANY HAVE CHECKED THIS ONE OUT, SO MAYBE YOU MISSED THE OTHER ANNOUNCEMENT.


http://hiramrutherfordoaklandil.blogspot.com/


JUST CLICK ON THE LINK AND IT WILL TAKE YOU THERE.

OAKLAND SCHOOL POEM BY ANNA ESPY RUTHERFORD

ANNA WAS THE DAUGHTER OF DR HIRAM AND HARRIET RUTHERFORD- I THOUGHT THIS WAS A NICE ITEM SINCE SHE MENTIONS SO MUCH OF THE HISTORY IN IT. EVERYTHING FROM WHO BUILT IT AND WHEN TO THE TEACHERS AND HOW MANY CHILDREN WENT THROUGH THE DOORS.

DON'T MISS OUT THIS WEEKEND:

MAIL POUCH BARN IN OAKLAND- LANDMARKS, INC- WILL BE A PART OF THE TOUR

STEVE ALLEN'S BARN WILL ALSO BE ON THE TOUR-

TRAIL TO INDEPENDENCE BARN TOUR
Landmarks, Inc of Oakland will sponsor a driving tour of area barns on Sunday, April 26. The event will be a Drive-by-Self-guided tour of dozens of surviving barns. The tour starts in Oakland and travels north into Douglas and Edgar Counties, to the site of the Black Grove farm, famous in this area because of The Matson Slave Trial that involved Abraham Lincoln in the 1840s. 5 area barns will be open for exploration and inspection while the remaining barns can be viewed from the road. Other points of interest will be included in the tour. These include the Hiram Rutherford Home and compound which includes an original Mail Pouch Barn as well as the site of the Nip-n-Tuck settlement, the Negro Cemetery, Wesley Chapel Church, Albin Cemetery with graves dating back to 1835, and Winkler School. Winkler School, a one room rural schoolhouse which has been well maintained and recently restored, will also be open for viewing. The barns that will be viewed run the spectrum of some of the oldest and most primitive to one of the finest remaining examples of last of the large wooden structures. One of the barns on Kim and Marylee McGee’s property was built prior to the Civil War and has been added on to several times in the ensuing years. It is constructed of large, hand-hewn timbers that rest on large stones instead of a more typical foundation. One room has a threshing floor of large oak planks held together with wooden pins. There is a large post in the middle of the room. Unthreshed grain was thrown on the floor and a team of horse walked around the post trampling the grain out of the husks. This barn will open for inspection. Eilleen Allen’s barn will also be open to visit. It was originally built into the bank of a small rise and had a basement on the low side of the hill. Plans are for James and Jack Allen to be present on the day of the tour to tell stories about growing up on the farm and the many experiences that they have enjoyed there. Steve and Dee Allen will also have their unique barn open to the public. Steve has recently restored the exterior of the barn and the original red barn now has white painted weather strips as was once popular among barn owners in the area. The Mail Pouch Barn will be open as well as the barn belonging to Roger and Dianne Reed.

The map and pamphlet for the tour will be available to purchase at the Meeting House in Oakland from 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM on Sunday, April 26. The Meeting House is located on South Pike Street across from the Rutherford House at the corner of Pike and Route 133.

THE COST IS 15.00 FOR THE MAP

THE TOUR BEGINS AT 11:30- BUT YOU CAN COME LATER AFTER CHURCH AND GO AT YOUR OWN PACE. SO, BRING YOUR CAMERA, BOTTLED WATER AND A SNACK, AND HAVE A BEAUTIFUL AFTERNOON IN THE COUNTRY.

MILTON BURT VALODIN FAMILY

October 1924-

No Headline

Finding the body of Mr. Stiff clears up the circumstances surrounding his death and will set at rest the many wild tales which have been circulating not only throughout this section of Illinois but will bring a close a nation wide search for his person, as many contended he did not drown but had chosen this was of disappearing.
Story of the Tradgedy
It was on the afternoon of Dec. 10, 1923 that Ben Duzan, a live stock buyer , went to the Stiff home on the banks of the Embarras river, six miles north and east of Hindsboro, to by cattle. Mr. Stiff told the stock man that the cattle were across the river but he would get would get them if he could wait a few minutes. Duzan went and sat down on a bridge where he devoted himself to figuring up his day’s buying while Stiff mounted a horse and rode off toward the ford after the cattle.
Duzan from where he sat on the bridge, could look down on the ford and might have seen the accident had he not been absorbed in his figures. He waited for about half an hour and then went to Stiff’s home. About the same time the horse Stiff had ridden away on galloped back to the …
…there as Stiff.
Probably Injured
It appears now that Stiff’s body must have floated down the river over the top of the net, unobserved on the flood waters that came a few days after his drowning and lodged where it was found Sunday. Evidently it had laid there for months while an eddy of the current piled the sand over it. It is likely that in crossing the ford the horse fell on Stiff injuring him and wedged his body in the mud.
From December last year, all through the winter, the spring and the summer the frequent rains have kept the river at a higher stage than usual and it is only within the last month or so that the water has fallen low in the channel.
His Survivors
Surviving Mr. Stiff are his widow, Mrs. Minnie Stiff, a daughter, Erma, employed as a school teacher and two sons, Orville and Lloyd Stiff about fifteen and eighteen years of age, respectively.

Dear blog readers-

Since beginning this blog, I have been approached numerous times to post ads for town activities. I am not able to post ads here for everyone- that's not what this forum is about and its all I can do most days to post historic information- which is what the blog is for.
Ads can be placed in Country Crossroads and the Charleston newspaper. They can also be emailed to each other and passed along that way.
I will post events that pertain to Oakland history and groups that support the preservation of historic artifacts.
Thanks for reading and I hope you understand the need to keep this an ad free environment.

T

PS- Maybe someone could start an Oakland Event Blog to keep everyone informed. I just don't have the time right now to do it with the two historic blogs.

Train Derailment- 1983

How many remember the train derailment and explosion at Murdock in 1983?
I found this link online. Do you remember where you were and what you were doing?
Show this to the kids and grandkids that weren't even born yet.


http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1280295/bleve_gas_explosion/

A better picture of the Settler's Meeting

Have a good weekend-

SUNDAY DRIVE

THIS WEEK WE ARE GOING TO SEE CHRISMAN BACK AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY.

Have found what was needed on the Antioch Baptist Church- thanks everyone.

Before and after...did we get it right?

I don't know who lives here now- but its on Pike Street.

Tin Type photos that need identified:

These were found in one of the Rutherford photo albums. See if you know anyone.