Week's Memoir Notes From Illinois Farm Life
Miss Marjorie Duke returns home from Ferry Hall Illinois for a brief vacation. Locals report farm chores, visits from Lacon Princeton and Chicago, returning soldiers including Lt. J. Lloyd Jones and Thomas Harney. District residents discuss cattle sales and a Steamer Hast overhaul, plus a grapevine accident and local journalism move.
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Marjorie Duke
Ferryhall
Lake Forrest III
L. D. Gregory
Lacon
Harry Snell
Princeton
H. J. Gregory
T. Floyd Monier
Chicago
Florida
J. Lloyd Jones
Camp Sherman
Ohio
Newport News
Lee Smith
Kansas City
Frank Wood
Olive Elizabeth
Gladys Smith
Leo Merdian
Camp Grant
Charles Hartley
Debarkation Hospital No. 1
Ellis Island
N. Y
James Hartley
Leslie Waughop
Aberdeen
Galesburg
Dina
Dina A
Waughop
W. F. Krieg
St. Louis
Mound City
Ohio River
Ilinolg
Thomas Harney
John Harney
Tom
Henry
New York
F. P. Shields
Magnolia
B. F. Ransom
Our City
Tamora
Neb
Anna Steele
John Steele
Shea
Henry Hospital
Cromwell
Mary Steele
Charles W. Aukland
Marysville
Illinois
Grandpa
Grandma
Charles B
Brown Prince
Charles Motter
M. E
Columbus
Plain City
Whitefield gravel fund ballot passes 56 to 40
Whitefield voters adopt a gravel fund to gravel all township roads with an eleven mile state aid network eventually transferred to county and state maintenance. The plan may take four years, with some five year tax-era costs, aiming to reduce mud and improve roads.
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Whitefield
State Highway Department
Civilization silent film at Henry opera house April 8
A promotional notice extols the film Civilization as a dramatic modern critique. It highlights a war lord whose might prompts mass suffering and a defeated realm, with Christ’s descent scenes presented reverently. Producer Thomas H Ince notes humanity’s refusal to heed Christ’s teachings after 1900. A separate note says Mary A Henry Downey of near Putnam marketed 0 bushels of clover.
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Henry Opera House
Christ
Earth
Thomas H. Ince
Farmers Drive For Better Roads And Auto Access
The essay argues farmers once hostile to automobiles now back improved roads. It stresses roads as immediate needs and investments that raise land value, attract investors, and keep markets accessible year round, comparing paved town streets and country highways to concrete economic gains.
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Illinois
Henry
Jilted Janet a New Mutual Picture With Miss Fischer
Miss Margarita Fischer stars in Jilted Janet at the Henry opera house, a lively American mutual picture with strong situations and a comedic maze of deceit around a jilting for fortune. Also notes a Red Cross drive and local obituaries and marriages in Henry area news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margarita Fischer
Janet
Miss Fischer
Henry Opera House
Conditions Changing in Rural Communities
A detailed critique of urbanized business methods invading rural life. It cites motor trucks delivering farm produce, cash payments, and middlemen moving goods to Chicago markets, driving up prices and hurting small towns. It warns of declining rural populations, schooling, and industry as city life attracts the young. It ends with a call to restore local social and intellectual centers to revive the hamlet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States
Miss Margaret Wintringer Lecture At M E church
Miss Margaret Wintringer journalist and lecturer spoke at the M E church to a limited audience. She recounted wartime experiences in France and previews a June journey to Russia as a reporter. The event was hosted by the W C T U with musical prayers and a benediction by Rev Dusenberry.
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M. EB
Margaret Wintringer
Miss Wintringer
United States
Eva Harrison
H. G. Dusenberry
Mesdames Lawrence
Elmer Hunt
Russia
Dusenberry
Church Services And Sermons Across Local Parishes
The notice lists Fa Fa Presbyterian Church and Christie Church as holding services next Sabbath with 11 o'clock morning communion and 7:30 evening preaching by Hugh H. Hungerford. Bible school at 10, Christian Endeavor at 7, and midweek worship Thursday at 7. St Marys and St Josephs churches outline Lent masses and weekday services led by A Schauer and Rev MJ.
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Hugh H. Hungerford
Christian Endeavor
ST. Mary's Church
St. Joseph's Church
Wenona influenza and local notices mingle with county events
The item lists Wenona's third influenza wave with about seventy five cases and notes arrivals of birds for the season. It records George W. Johnson planning to farm near Lacey Iowa, a Chicago Tribune death notice for Joseph V. Leech, and local family births and a rent lawsuit verdict of 118 21. It also mentions church events, a county meeting on May 23 24 and a price update on anthracite coal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wenona
George W. Johnson
Whitefield
Lacey
Iowa
West
Joseph V. Leech
Chicago Tribune
Co. G
Sarah Leech
EB. B. Richard
Blackwell
Okla
Donald
Max
Abram Bell
Henry Bell
J. Howard Williams
Squire Dennis
George Dally
Jacobs & Green
F. W. Potter
Ladies Aid
M. B. Church
Marshall County
Nichols
Lacon
Henry
Illinois
Dailey
Henry and
Vicinity
Presbyterian Church
Mary Pickford
Charlie Chapman
Red Riding Hood
Melba McAdoo
Elsie Carpenter
Henry Morse
Manda
Blanche van Leer
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Masonic Order
M. B. van Leer
M. E. Church
Solomon’s Temple
Henry Downey
Near
Putnam
Jane
RED Cross
Mabel L. Steimle
Thomas Paxson
Alblonia
Stephen Appel
Hopewell Township
Calvary Cemetery
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Father Schauer
D. G. Davis
David Hankins
Mary Humphrey
John Hankins
Illinois River
Lake Senachwine
Walter Winship
W. S. Miller
W. H. Dawson
Peoria
I. R. Wasson
W. H. Westcott
Granville
W. L. Child
Old Harry
Fa Presbyterian Church
Rey
A. Schauer
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