Our Sister Towns and Easter Notes From Lacon
Local column from Lacon shares visits, marriages, and retirements with residents including Annie Goal from Chicago and Mrs Clara Fort in town. It notes Easter services across churches, a temperance address in Peoria, Velma Sherburne Splath’s death in Minneapolis, and community movements such as new roofs and housing changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lacan
Thomas
J. P. Barratt
Annie Goal
Chicago
Clara Fort
M. FB. Walker
Braidwood
Lucretia Trench
Bloomington
L. O. Dougherty
Barton
Douglas Thompson
Danny Burroughs
Wm B. Thomas
Galesbur
Will Whiffen
A. F. Marsh
Congregational Church
Lucy Gaston
Peoria
Bridge Street
Congregational Association
Teachers’ Institute
Venona
Lacon
Las Durfeogs
Ora Owens
Parenta
Viola Sherburne Splath
Minneapolis
J A. Johnson
Viola
Muc
Baptists
M.E
Town Trus tees appoint O Leary police constable
William Hoskins remains very ill with typhoid fever though doctors hold hope for recovery after two weeks. In town meeting on April 15 William O Leary was appointed police constable until May’s first Monday. The piece also notes the death of Viola M Splain wife of Joseph Splain in Minneapolis and burial in Lacon with mourners from Chicago Henry Sparland and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Hoskins
R. Parsons
William O'Leary
Viola M. Splain
Joseph Splain
Minneapolis
Minn
M.M. Sherburn
Lacon
M. E
Chicago
Henry
Sparland
Q. E. Oran
Hennepin trip, school election, and local notices from Whitefield
Whitefield notes recount David Stockton and wife on an excursion to Hennepin last Saturday night. Ed Grady's gathering failed due to a storm. Thomas Monler is elected director at Sugar Grove school meeting. Various local items follow including cemetery plots, peach trees in bloom, fishing with a silver hook, a new Sunday school, and community notices about illness, mail coasters, and a wolf capture by Montgomery and Long's hounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Stockton
Hennepin
Ed Grady
Schuol
Sugar Grove
Thomas Monler
Samuel Clift
Geo Vail Constable
R. W. Bell
C. E. Burt
Jas Wilson
Thomas Wier
Woods Bros
Sugar Grove Test Sunnday
Joe Thompsson
Andrew Kelly
Thomas Morgan
Putnam
R. H. Delmege
Iowa
Richard Hunt
Thompson's
Montgomery
Long
Cesar Tim Hunt
Dunlap
Mra Deacon Dunlap
Red Ribbon Club
Center Church
Mr. K
Wm True
M McCurdy
Bureka
AH Wheeler
The
Christian Church
Watson
East Star of the River
J Ro Veach
W J Veach
Christopher
Marausil Downey
Dwight Morgan
Whitefield
O P Carroll
John Williams
Arsand
Yeach
Baba
David Haines
Adeed
Frank Dougherty
J. O. Winship
Cory
Frank
Henry
Seed Saving Practice Mentioned by Clyde
A reader named Clyde recalls cutting off the seed end and saving it for months before planting time to ensure a harvest of potatoes, noting they only plant the seed end to avoid missing a crop.
Whitehadd Corners School Election Results and Local News
Saturday night voting failed to elect Dr Willia and Ed Fountain as directors. Residents urged a meeting to discuss a new schoolhouse as the current building is a disgrace. A misread word about a cow was corrected. Mr Kenyon tears down an old landmark formerly the Glufnagle store. Easter services drew a full house with missionary collection. Clarence True, son of Mr True, buried from the church. funeral attendance noted. Public school closed for funeral services with wide community sympathy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sorriana Charles Smith
Lacon
John Parsons
John Burrow
Winegarten
George Chaman
Steuben Works
Warner Comb
George Tarbiit
Bilas Chadwick
George Cook
Hixon
J. 8
Brasfeld
Ed.Smith
LaSalle
Warmee Pbs
Marailes
Whitehadd Corners
Willia
Ed Fountain
Kenyon
Glufnagle
Clarence
Wm True
Mra True
Crow Meadow Family Notes and Local Work and Socials
The item records Easter visits and family matters including Jessie Harrison tending 26 sheep, Henry Thoraday and Walter Harrison, plans to finish bookkeeping by June, a calf narrowly saved from a straw stack, fishing at the lake where two bull heads were caught, neighbors hiring carpenters to improve homes, Bow Kitchen ball painted, and a surprise party for BC Vail with neighbors attending at Mrs Motter and Miss Jackson's invitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crow Meadow
Jessie Harrison
Henry iThoraday
Geo Helmandoller
Billie Snyder
Walter Harrison
Jas Harrison
James Wilson
Tom Wier
Ie Lake
Wood Bros
Frank Stocking
Minneapolis
Dakota
Brocking
Lgrandpa Vail
Horrum
Goltrn
Mr Blood
Jesse Harrison
Lnd
Mike Weigand
BC Vail
Motter
Miss Jackson
Henory
Mra Motter’s
Mr Vaila
Local notes and town election items stir Magnolia community
Reports from Magnolia cover family ill health with Uncle Richard Boahell Feeble and paralyzed on the left side. A funeral trip to Varna is noted. A school election in the 6th district re elected Silley Roberts as director for several years. Political maneuvering shows fusion among Democrats and Prohibitionists to beat Republicans, with Uncle Elias aligning with the Workingmen's Party amid tension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasg Molin
Richard Boahell
Varna
Corpaoen
Kaa
Agale
Silley Roberts
Sulley—E_Poe
Washington
Navy
Maygnolu
Truske
Beck 8
Magnolia
Amos B. Wilton
Te Uurn
Prohibitionists
Democrat
Prohibitionist
Elias
Workingmen’s Party
St—Dee
Rawnd
Consumption Cure Promised Free Remedy Letter
An elderly physician, retired, claims a simple vegetable cure for consumption and lung ailments after testing in thousands of cases. He will mail the recipe in German, French, or English with instructions, free of charge, to interested readers at his Rochester, New York address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East India
W. A. Noyes
Power's Block
Rochester
Farmers plow and fruit prospects rise in Oxbow area
The column notes ongoing plowing for core crops and good fruit prospects with abundant peaches and cherries. It mentions a strong storm causing minor damage, a school term starting in Norris district with a boy injuring his arm, and local election results naming J. A. Glenn and Martin King as district No 4 directors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King
Turner
H. Morris
Cotragg Hill
F. P. Funk
Kate Ransom
Norris
Sbe
J. A. Glenn
Martin King
Lulu Hillabrand
Lulu
Camnbell Shielda
Piventa
Missouri
Beyer
Burt
Scrap of Paper Saved Her Life with Discovery Cure
A woman near the edge of consumption saved by a wrap of paper telling of Dr Kings New Discovery. She used trial and full bottles, gained from under seventy pounds to 140, becoming strong and rosy. Request fuller particulars by sending stamp to W H Cole Fort Smith. Trial bottles free at Powell's Drugstore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr Kings
Fuller
W. H. Cole
Fort Smith
di Powell
Community Notes From Colfax Iowa And Area
Local items include Clarence Milla and others on Quaker Lane and a visited kin in Venona. Grandma Wilson’s 84th birthday celebrated with family. peach trees bloom for first time in seven years. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy praised by Mr. T Fields of Colfax. Bulletin No 4 from Champaign Agricultural Experimental Station of Illinois University received detailing corn varieties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Fields
Colfax
Iowa
Chamberlain
J W
Champaign Agricultural Experimental Station
Illinois University
Hull's City Cure Promoted as Constitutional Catarrh Remedy
An advertisement claims catarrh is constitutional and can be cured only by Hull's City Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. It asserts internal use from 10 drops to a teaspoonful, promises blood and mucus surface action, and offers $100 to prove failure with testimonials and circulars available. distributed by local druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Uasing
Pierce
Golden
Ulee
Neds
Aix Ree
Also Mentioned on This Page
South Adams S&t
Peoria,ul
Benry
Kerry
Wherry
Clyde
Prohidenti
A.B
Vn Cme
PIA J
Will Wood
Hennepins
John
Henry Casson
Wisconsin
Annte Fitzgerald
Joseph Yaeger
St Anthony's Church
Henry Post
Hennepip Post
Deck
Carecelius
California
de Powell
Quaker Lane
Clarence Milla Boasin
Wilson
Belle Bumgarner
H. K Smith
Mra
Foanie Griffith
Eddie Mite
Mary Tomlinson
New York
Mfercing Journal
G. Kellogg
East 7Éth Street
Kellogg
Charles A. Vogeler CO
Baltimore
Moxie
Seneddie Cretes
Khawledge
Odo
UNION
Philadelphia
Shaw
Garret
Mickey McCormick
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