Brimfield News Highlights Follies Beads and Local Events
Brimfield community pages note May 16 Brimfield Follies at the Community Building and a Beads on a String comedy at Laura by Millbrook Grange. Local items include visits by Vera Grant, Neikirk and Collins families, garden concerns over stray dogs, Peoria Legion Band plans, and upcoming Peoria area visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everett Catton
Kewanee
Laurence Catton
Millbrook Grange
Laura
Peoria Post American Legion
Legion
Morton
Rade School
Venona
Glasford
Brimfield
The
Brimfield Follies
Beadson
Notable Historical Figures and Quirky Descriptions
A quirky Omaha World spoof lists figures such as John Adams and John Quincy Adams with playful attributions. It lumps in Hawthorne Emerson Lee Washington Clemens Cooper Henry Clay with humorous misstatements and odd labels.
Courtney Ryley Cooper A Versatile American Writer
Courtney Ryley Cooper born October 31 1886 in Kansas City Missouri led a kaleidoscopic life. He ran away at fifteen to be a circus clown and later worked as newsboy trucker glove salesman and press agent. He became an actor monologist vaudeville dancer newspaper man rodeo organizer and manager of the world second greatest circus. He helped Mrs Cody write Memories of Buffalo Bill and served in Marines in 1918 collecting historical data in France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courtney Ryley Cooper
Kansas City
Missouri
Buffalo Bill
Cody
United States Marines
France
Marine Corps
For sale and notice items from local ads
For sale Guernacy bull G P Hart Laura Ill For sale Early seed and good eating potatoes 60c per bushel Mrs Max Was on Strayed White sow about 220 lbs Chalmer Catton For sale Good used tires cheap Hartleys Garage p4t For sale Charles Nicholls gladiolus bulbs 50 for 1 00 at the News office For sale Good country butter delivered 22c per lb Willis Kingdon For sale Rieda Yellow Dent seed corn price 1 25 per bu W D Miller Jr For sale Illini soy bean recleaned 1931 crop 6 bu per acre Hubert Oakes cro Formale Strawberry plants Cooper and Aroma 75c per 100 Dunlap 65c per 100 Otto Windish p2
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Illini
Hubert Oakes
Cro
Cooper and Aroma
Dunlap
Otto Windish
Multiple Classified Offers and Rentals in Peoria Area
Local classified ads list hauling services, farm equipment for sale including iron scrapers and a Fordson tractor, and land for rent on Jubilee Two Section 20. Also available are screened coal from Fussner Coal Co, Krog seed corn, brood sows wanted, pasture rentals, seed corn varieties from Reids Yellow Dent, and contact listings for Alex McDonnell, Joe Carroll, Oscar Harding, L. G. Cady, Cal Brimfield, Forrest M. Oakes, and C. Ir. Juan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex McDonnell
Hil Peoria
Also Mentioned on This Page
Vera Grant
Bradford
Neva Forney
S. H. Neikirk
Arthur Collins
Earle Collins
Joan Beiken
Bilmwood
Helen Hart
Ross Craig
Williamsfield
Mildred Kelley
Rolland Griges
Peoria
H. A. Grigga
Ernest @olce
Jacki
Henry Bolce
Emwood
Raleigh Gover
Edelstein
H Neikirk
Tnad Fuchs
Elizabeth
Frank Fuchs
Doris Overen
Charlie Collins
Eva
Mrs. Arthur Calling
Knoxville
Henry Osborn
Dairs
Galesburg
Joe McCartney
Bert Murdock
St Louis
Pearl Murdock
Williamafield
Minnie Murdock
Elizabeth Hering
Ben German
W 7. Pacey
Washburn
Walter Pacey
Charles McNair
Gatesburg
and & F Pacey
A Pacey
Bartonville
Keith Savage
Thelma DeVries
Dorothy Weidner
W.G Johnson
Williamsfield Times
Brimfield Friends
W.3
French Creek
Frank Guest
Gertrude
Maywood
George Johnson
Jr R. Johnson
Mr. Johnson
News
Walter Clark
Elizabeth Fuchs
Marcella Travis
Prophetstown
A. B. Bowman
Theo
Plack
Minnie Chambers
Paradise Chapel
Elizabeth Drysdale
Charles
Misa
Ellen
Harry Talmage
Henry
Misa Mary Eppel
Ross Paulling
Harry Shirley
Musca Tne
Iowa
Dr. Shirley
John Caldwell Place
Service Kingdon
Margaret Hasselbacher
Arthur L. Epstein
Harte Collings
Earle Miles
Willam Proctor
Charles Proctor
H Proctor
Wark Murphy
Elmwood
Clarence Miles
Normane
Ciirerce Ekena
Carl
Dale and
Astlere
America
Utica
N. Y
Obvier
Cs Dispatch
Edith Martin
Marie Richards
Mt Pleasant
Town
Walter Simmons
Irene
Launemin
Frank Wenquist
Keith
Isalesburg
Bertha
Carrie Caldwell
Princeville
Cora Hollis
Dwane Hollis
Toulon
Charles Best
Charlie Zink
Marie
Earl Eichhorn
Charlie Eichhorn
Merle
Oliver Gaiter
Spring Bay
Charlotte and
Emily Corner
NEW Hall OF Fame
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Daniel Webster
England
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert E. Lee
Mississippi
George Washington
Samuel £. Clemens
Mark Twain
James Wentmore Cooper
Henry Clay
Omaha
Courtney
Ryley Cooper
Rockies
Oklahoma
Genevieve R. Furey
Los Ani Ivo
Idaho Springs
Colorado
Mr. Cooper
Guernacy
G. P. Hart Laura
Max Wasaon
Chalmer Catton
Saale
Hartley’s
Charles Nicholls Gladiolus Bulba
Willis Kingdon
Rieda Yellow Dent Seed Corm
Charis Yeas
Fordson Tractor
Oliver Plow
Joe Carroll
Fussner Coal Co
Shelley
Oscar Harding
L. G. Cady
Cal Brimfield
C. Ir. Juan
Commonwealth
Veart
Forrest M. Oakes
Iil
Brimfield Service
G. A. Shane
Johnson &Son Funeral
Ananicre Allross
Overken
Neikirk’s
Pillsburys
Parkside Cafe
Fountain Service
J.S .McCay
Symphonie
Zern Pharmacy
Johnson
Grimpielo, Ill
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ATLAS
Perry Bevier
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