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Newspaper
Henry Current News
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1921
Page
3
Varna and surrounding areas report a busy week with visits from residents of Lacon Wenona Toluca and Peoria. Local high school track meet results show Lacon and Varna teams placing in singles and doubles events while several residents travel for family and medical reasons.
May 30 is designated Poppy Day in the United States. The American Legion with patriotic orders backs the idea. Poppies will be sold for ten cents with proceeds sent to France to aid mothers and children in war torn areas. The simple flowers symbolize the blood shed on battlefields immortalized in poetry and song.
Illinois agriculture officials urge milk distributors and buyers to adopt weekly sediment tests as a quick, reliable method to verify cleanliness. J L McLaughlin says posting test disks helps producers and distributors track quality, with aim to have all in the state using the practice.
A Thursday night blaze at the Bradford fairgrounds burned the largest barn and many animals perished. Peoria received 20000 poppies from Madame Blance Breweron the Poppy Lady of France to be sold by organizations. A legend claims the poppy color comes from soldiers' blood in the German defense.
Three intruders caused a stir in Chillicothe last Thursday night entering the Kinsella home where a light revealed a man at the door. They fled after discovery and the Slim home and Stalling residence also reported disturbances with the latter seizing a revolver before neighbors frightened them away. Meanwhile obituaries note Charles Montgomery of La Rose passing at his Knoxville home with funeral services in La Rose and burial at Lacon.
A brief cable gram from Mrs Clara B Fort reached friends in Lacon R describing a message from an unnamed party. The note hints at a social or personal communication without further details.
An old advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine for frequent colds and nasal catarrh. It claims the internally taken remedy cleanses the blood, reduces inflammation of mucous surfaces, and restores normal conditions, urging readers to buy from druggists and request circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, Ohio.
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