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Newspaper
Henry News Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1925
Page
5
A notice offers work for a man and wife to care for a club house and furnish meals from September 1 to January 1, with possible year-round residency. The address given is C. P. Zacher, 1840 E. 79th, Chicago, Illinois, and the ad notes meals and lodging.
Dances formerly held at the I O O F hall in White are discontinued and will be held at the Henry Pavilion. The next dance is Wednesday June 24 at the Henry Pavilion with good music advertised.
The annual Alumni banquet at Hennepin Township High School was held in the new auditorium on Saturday evening June 13. Mrs. Mary Stouffer Porter spoke on reminiscences, Harold Morine welcomed guests and the class of 1925, with toastmaster Harry Wood, contributed readings and humor.
An advertisement in this paper promotes painters panel-hangers and decorators as the sure way to reach nearly every homeowner in the territory. The message emphasizes direct public exposure through this publication.
Notes show Henry Folks and relatives drifting across towns from Broadmoor to Tiskilwa. Attendees at a Catholic picnic include M J Brennan and families as well as LaVerne and Vincent Mercian. Announcements cover trips to St Louis and Los Angeles and a Fremont Nebraska wedding of LaVernice Huffman to G N Johnson.
George Palko of Streator was arrested in Wenona after his auto left the road and struck a culvert. Sheriff Litchfield took him to Lacon for a hearing before Judge Barney who imposed a $100 fine and costs, with imprisonment due to nonpayment.
A Chillicothe rural mail carrier, Oscar Gill, recounts a remarkable day while delivering mail. He drove through a swarm of bees and escaped without a sting, highlighting a rare hazard of rural routes.
Mr and Mrs Jake Pries and son Carl appear in Toluca and join relatives at various events. Other items mention visits to Lacon Bloomington Toluca and Varna as neighbors attend showers dances and family gatherings. Local nurses and students are noted along with a house purchase in La Rose and a forthcoming wedding for Georgia Spangler.
A local notice asserts the paper reaches at least 5000 readers weekly in the Henry trading area for general public and store news. The fragment ends with an unclear query about selling to readers.
Community notices recount visits from T J Smith and others in Venona and Springfield, births including Helen Eileen Crewes, and a dramatic prison tunneling plot at Princeton where Robert Braun and Turnkey Dahlgren foiled an escape using a dummy and improvised tools.
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Mr. and Mrs. John Valine and relatives from Blooming ton joined Gust Carlson Ed Homlstrom Alf Hall and families for a Rockford reunion on Sunday at Mr and Mrs Charles Sends 2 home in honor of their mother Mrs Valine who recently arrived from Sweden. Miss Lou I Willey of Henry was no caller at Dave Justice's on Tuesday afternoon.
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