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1900

In Beloit itself, 1900 saw the completion of the new county jail in January, built with a $25,000 appropriation. A canning company erected a factory in the Spring Brook addition on the sidetracks of the Chicago & North-Western Railway, and Lawrence E. added a retail lumber yard to his sash, door and blind business. 'The Chronicle,' a daily Republican newspaper, was established. At Beloit College, Anna S. Crandall became instructor in German and Alfred E. Whitford professor of physics. Several pastoral changes occurred in Beloit churches: Rev. R. Einsiedell's service ended in November, Rev. J. Figge began a pastorate on December 2 that ran to March 27, 1904, and earlier in the year Rev. W. Sleeper's nine years of service ended, Rev. B. Royal Cheney began service lasting until his death in 1905, and Rev. C. Pempton's pastorate ended. The senior member of Gaston & Sons died on July 16 at age ninety, and one marriage to Miss Amy Cole of Beloit was recorded on November 28. A union mission Sunday school organized by Rev. Charles Kelsey gave rise to the West Side Presbyterian Church, and a Ladies' Aid Society older than that church was also organized in 1900. ↗ ↗ ↗ ↗ ↗ (+6 more)

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