City election set for three wards. alderman races advance
The upcoming city election next Tuesday features one alderman seat in each ward. In the first and second wards incumbents Walter Duke and Walter Harrison face no opposition, while the third ward presents a contest between Fred Seitz and J. H. Ford. Seitz is praised for two years of council work and steady leadership.
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Ed Kaiser
Henry Republican
Chicago
Peoria
Olive Bymann
Aurora
King
W. EB. King
Charles Beardsley
Lavina (Griswold
France
Frank Powell
Tonica
Henry
Presbyterian Aid Society
George Travis
Margaret Riddell
Marshall County
Nash Braden
Henry School
Harold Tice
Wenona
Hans Otto
Sparland
David Leger
Toluca
John W.carrington
Washburn
C. BE. Johnson
Shires-Miller & Co
Putnam
Marshall Counties
Stark County
J. C. Shields
Houston
Tex
Varna
Illinois
Bushnell
Ader
Riddell
Alden Hunter
Whilopena Huffstetter
George Huffstetter
Grace
Walter Duke
Walter | Harrison
Fred Seitz
J. H. Ford
Seitz
Ford
Third Liberty Loan Meeting Crowded Opera House
Henry Banner Township leads Third Liberty Loan drive as a packed Henry Opera House hears speeches by J. K. O’Neil Louis Kraus and Joseph Heath and Rev Father Schaaf on patriotism dedication and victory in the war with America urged to sacrifice for liberty.
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Opera House
America
J. K. O'Neil
Opera
Liberty Loan Committee
Henry
Louis Kraus
Joseph Heath
Lacon Liberty
Father Schaaf
Hennepin
Stars and Stripes
Prussia
Kaiser
Germany
Kaiser Bill
James Case
L. D. Gregory
Lacon
Marshall County Women’s Liberty Loan Committee
Miss Arp
Rev. Saunders
Peoria
United States
Public meeting on new hotel venture at Henry Opera House
Residents urged to attend a Tuesday evening April 16 gathering at the Henry Opera House to form a permanent organization and elect officers for a proposed new hotel venture. Officials emphasize community support and attendance.
Early spring wedding at St Marys church and Varna funeral
On April 10 at St Marys Catholic church Hilda Merdian daughter of Bernard and who married Joseph Bogner son of Joseph Bogner. After the ceremony they hosted a wedding breakfast then traveled to Brewster and Barnesville Minnesota before settling on the Richard Tremain farm in Whitefield. Sven J Lundgren a Varna resident since 1867 aged 78 died last Tuesday with funeral in the Swedish Lutheran church. He leaves a wife five children and is interred at Varna cemetery.
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St. Mary's Catholic Church
Hilda Merdian
Bernard Merdian
Joseph Bogner
Bertha Bogner
Fred Merdian
Edith Konrad
Edna Bogner
Henry
J. Watercott
Brewster
Barnesville
Minn
Richard Tremain
Whitefield
Varna
Sven J. Lundgren
Sweden
Charles J
Magnolia
Fred
Wesley
Iowa
W. J. Austin
Hilda Johnson
Nina
A. B. Smith
Superman Bank
Presbyterian Church
Alden Hunter
Orrin Fulks
Peoria
Louis
Hardin Culter
Anna C. Hall
Ryan
Child Welfare Federation
Jefferson Hotel
Lee Wright
James Hartley
Richard Street
Anna Whettal
Lacon
Granville
Noder
John Noder
William Peterman
Henry Township
Marshall County
Senachwine Township
Putnam County
Smith
G. D. Hillabrand
Home Insurance Company of New York
Floyd Monier
Andrew Mercian
Mr. Monier
John Hartley
Hiltabrand
Benjamin Hiltabrand
George Hiltabrand
Illinois Music Teachers’ Association
Bloomington
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Washburn
Wenona
East Peoria
Sparland
Henry Hailey
Ellsworth Cullen
Sidney Hailey
Horton
Kan
L. T. Broaddus
Nemaha County
Horton Cemetery
Abigail
Paris
Ill
F. A. Powell
Henry Cemetery Association
Powell
Report of Whitefield Township on War Stamps
March sales show Whitefield Township selling twenty four war savings stamps and forty one thrift stamps, totaling 109.61 dollars for Uncle Sam. Township chairwoman Mrs. Frank Clift led teachers and co workers in this effort.
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Frank Clift
Mary Shubert
Grace Miles
Jane Steele
Rebecca McAllister
Beatrice Kuss
Irma Waughop
Ida Dwyer
Irene Wallace
Uncle Sam
Henry and Putnam grocers adopt Sunday closings
A Henry and Putnam grocers bakery and meat markets agreement closes doors on Sundays and resumes Monday. The move is praised as progress and an example of community adaptation to a weekly rest day.
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Henry
Putnam
Fem Peay
Fem
Marshall County
County Liberty Loan Drive Hails Henry Township Banner Victory
John I. Thompson of Lacon reports the Third Liberty Loan drive success at a county meeting. Henry township won the county banner by subscribing its quota and aims to be the state banner county. He praises local leaders and the teamwork of T. J. Segraves and assistants. The program closed as the audience left the opera house.
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John I. Thompson
Lacon
Liberty Loan Committee
Henry
Henry Township
Illinois
Thompson
T. J. Segraves
O‘neil
Opera House
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Henry Opera House
Sven John Lundgren
Whitefield Township
Miss Watkins
Home Department
Jennie Watkins
Jay
The
Red Cross Society of
Fred Smith
Mem Tee
D. H. Gregg
Marshall
Parent Teacher Association
Parent-Teacher Association
Lola Kaiser
Elizabeth Weaver
Inez Anderson
Imelda Hartley
Chillicothe
Liberty Loan
Henry High School
Board of Education
United States of America
Rand
Europe
Congress of the United States
Parents’ and Teachers’ Association
City of
State Board of Education
Roegolvet
Henry High School Committee
George Helper
Alice B, Gilpin
Main
Amu Methodist Episcopal
Epworth League
Glenn E. Tilton
Christian Church, Elder
Wesley Johnson
Christian Church
Christian Endeavor
St. Joseph's Church
St. Mary’s Church
Father Andrew Schauer
St. John’s Church
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the
M. E. Church
Merritt
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