Local notes and notices from Magnolia period page
Local items report residents visiting relatives in Bloomington Peoria Ottawa and Chicago. trades and moves include W A Simmons office relocation and Dr W H Weathers renting. a ball game was rained out but a ten-inning high school win followed by a nine in town. For sale three Aberdeen Angus bulls. lighting for Masonic hall shipped awaiting install.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor
Granville
Magnolia
R. D. Spencer
Anita Roberts
Chicago
Frank N. Glover
Max
Nolia
Masonic Hall
W. A. Simmons
Peterson Building
W. H. Weathers
Consolidated
Lookout and Swaney Contest Highlights at Consolidated School
On Friday April 17 the Lookout and John Swaney 50cieties held a debate and essays with readings and music. Lookouts won a close contest with two ties. Magnolia and Consolidated teams played a 28 to 1 win for Consolidated last week. Arbor Day plantings occurred and teachers searched for next year. Ball game set between Granville and Consolidated next Saturday. Victor Kays reelected as school director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magnolia High School
Magnolia
James
Ancona
Virginia
DeKalb
Granville High School
Consolidated
Victor Kays
Local society notes and gatherings in West Liberty IA
Mrs Josephine Hollingsworth returns home to West Liberty after weeks with her mother Mrs M A Tomlinson. The Happy Hour reading circle met with Clear Creek teachers at the cottage for a pleasant evening. Mr and Mrs A B Wilson hosted teachers and high school pupils for a track meet at their home, reports good fun. W G Griffith attended federal court in Peoria. Miss Alice Tomlinson was ill but improving. Edna Wilson returned to Chicago to resume school after a week's vacation. Ethel Bumgarner has tonsillitis. Pearl Huffman of Venona was a guest at A B Wilson’s home last week. Mrs Morris A Wilson visiting relatives in Sterling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephine Hollingsworth
West Liberty
M. A. Tomlinson
Clear Creek Cottage
A B Wilson
Che
W G Griffith
Federal Court
Peoria
Alice Tomlinson
Edna Wilson
Chicago
Ethel] Bumgarner
Pearl Huffman
Venona
A. B. Wilson
Morris A. Wilson
Sterling
Ep Palatine Notices and Local Travel
Miss Alice Laughlin returned to Missouri after a four month visit in Tineis. Mrs Woodbury and Mrs Gallaher visited Odell. Woodbury may stay. George M Puffer replaced an east shed with a larger one. Devereux did the carpentry. Kornemann is under the weather with a sore limb. Powell recovers from a buggy fall a week ago. Congregational church preaching this Sunday invites a large turnout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Laughlin
Missouri
Tineis
Al“A. Woodbury
T.B. Gallaher
Odell
John Kornémann
F. E. Powell
Congregational Church
Local visitors mingle in Sprinkleburg and Granville
Flord, Ass Jessie Belchwine and daughter Marguerite visited at Gera Allen's in Sprinkleburg last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Beck called in Portia Sunday. Mrs. Mary Allen is in Granville for a few days.
Village Notes On Health Visits And Helpers
On Tuesday morning for appendicitis. His many friends hope for his speedy recovery, as he has a large family depending on him. Mr. Field, the piano tuner, was in our village a few days last week tuning pianos for different ones. He does good work. Bessie Pluma and Floyd Allen visited Florida friends last Sunday. Mrs. William Hartman has been quite sick the past week with rheumatism. Mrs. Waldo Hamm from Peru visited with Lada Hetrick last Wednesday. Mrs. Simon Beck went for a few days' visit at her son's, David Clemens', near Granville, also to assist, Mrs. Clemens in some household work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Field
Bessie Pluma
Floyd Allen
William Hartman
Waldo Hamm
Peru
Lada Hetrick
Simon Beck
David Clemens
Granville
Clemens
W B Mills
Ernest
McNabb
Perry Griffin
Magnolia
W. H. Griffin
C. W. Randall
J. M. Hannum
A. H. Bell
W G Wilson
Bloomington
la Salle County Club
Harrison Giddings
Charter Grove
Lostant
Anna
Mary Toemmes
Carl
Minonk
Ambrose Harth
Lena Roetzel
Gilman
Fred Zilm
Charles Miller
Dwight
Anna Loesch
George O Rafferty
la Salle
Harles Kelley
Dana
John
Local residents visit friends and attend gatherings
Ernest Kiine of Sparland visits in Lostant with numerous neighbors visiting in town. A La Salle county club sends members to a Masonic gathering in Bloomington. A young man recalls a 1966 pneumonia scare and praises Dr King's New Discovery for coughs and lung ailments.
Wenona News Roundup Highlights Local Life and Elections
Pearl Heflin visits Varna while A L Turner serves on a federal grand jury in Peoria. Mrs Oscar Frede and Rev Cal Houn attend Epworth League in Lostant. Oral Hoge visits Bloomington. Robert Burgess travels to Europe to buy horses for Burgess & Son. State high school inspector commends Wenona schools. City election yields aldermen C H Ong Frank Lauf and Prof Thomas Hopkins. Mayor Fred Vaughn re-elected. Mrs Myra Fosbeender returns from Chicago hospital after operation on Elmer. his recovery expected. Wendona high school baseball travels to Streator. roster includes Stanton Fogg Harter Calhoun Laughlin Moffitt Calhoun Whitling Swartz Bassley family hosts school board gathering. Lschool election reelects A L Durner president. Peter Zimmermann replaces Charles Burgess Sr. as board member.
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Pearl Heflin
Varna
A L Turner
Peoria
Oscar Frede
Rev Calhoun
Lost Ant
Oral Hoge
Bloomington
Corine
Wesleyan University
Robert Burgess
England
France
Burgess & Sonvere
Wenona
C H. Ong
Frank Lauf
South Ward
Thomas Hopkins
Ong
Hopkins
Fred Vaughn
Myra Fosbéender
Hospittal
Chicago
Elmer
Wenddna‘high School
James Stanton
Alden Fogg
Clark Harter
Glenn Calhoun
Verne Calhoun
In Laughlin
Frank Moffitt
John Calhoun
M. Whiting
Harry Swartz
Bassley
Lschool
A.L. Durner
Beine
Peter’ Zinmierman
Charles ‘Burgess
Pioneering Elderly Resident Remembered in Cumberland Obituary
Mery Ann Myers-Hunt of Cumberland was born February 22, 1826 and died April 23 at Wenona. She moved with her family from Decatur to Marshall County in 1831, married James S. Hunt in 1848, and had eight children. The obituary recalls her faith, family devotion, community resilience, and long life through frontier hardships with railways and conflicts with Indians. Funeral services were held April 6 led by Rev J D Calhoun.
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Mery Ann Myers-Hunt
Cumberland
Evans Township
Geo
Ife
Wenona
Mrs Hunt
Old Fort
Hunt
Christ
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Lfe
Nice
Lord's House
J D Calhoun
MBEB
C E. Erwin
Anderson Skinner
C E Erwin
Alec Moulton
Court fines Magnolia man for selling liquor without license
The Hennepin circuit court fined John K Seese of Magnolia $20 and costs after he pled guilty to selling liquor without a license. Sadie Scott was granted a divorce from Charles Scott. Several suits were settled. The Child Land agency sold the Martin Hanson farm one mile north of town at a record $350 per acre to a Polish gentleman whose name could not be spelled by the real estate man. Last Friday evening John Swaney Consolidated school pupils held a contest between the John Swaney and Lookout literary societies. The Lookouts won on points in debate, essay, reading, and instrumental music with the John Swaney representative taking oration and vocal music. Prof King of Henry served as a judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Consolidated School
Lookout
John Swaney
50- Cieties
George Willey
Ruth Bumgarner
Mark Kays
Herbert Wierman
Swaney
Our Birds
Helen Beck
Edith Halbleth
Essa
Edna Beck
Reading
Olive Shepard
Bessie Davidson
Louise Merritt
Lora Kays
Benjamin Lundy
Enida Griffith
Ralph French
Look
Hennepin
John K Seese
Magnolia
Sadie Scott
Charles Scott
Child Land Agency
Martin Hanson
John Swaney Consolidated School
John
John Swaney Society
King of Henry
Education Notes on Agriculture Courses in Township High School
The township board of education adds an elementary agriculture course for winter term at the township high school. Textbook Elementary Agriculture by Hatch and Haselwood used with practical home illustrations. Topics include plant growth, soil, crops, stock feeding, dairy, poultry, farming buildings, forestry, gardening, and related practices. The course aims to benefit all students, farming or not. Change in school methods discussed with notes on country schools, consolidation, and travel for pupils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Township Board of Education
Hatch
Haselwood
Pisa
A Fragmented Verse on Thanksgiving Treasures
A reflective, poetic fragment praising thanksgiving and memory. It cherishes the dead as radiant presence in home and hearth, imagining angels and heavenly light guiding loved ones, and honors the living with gratitude for the past. The tone is reverent and elegiac, blending seasonal gratitude with spiritual consolation.
Onward the Bright Bay Horse in Thoroughbred Pedigree Sale
A fragmented 1899 era listing describes Bob Onward a bright bay horse of sixteen hands with detailed lineage includin Hanson Ned Forrest and Abdallah bloodlines. It notes sale in multiple barns and days with terms of 15 dollars to insure a foal and a conditional sale based on mare ownership and neighborhood money, naming Grant Glover as owner and Carl Phillipa as groom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanson
Combiss
Hettle Brash
Happy Heir
Nal Grove
Ate
Nell
Ned Forrest
Edwin Forrest
Beena G
Gone Peek
Onward Silver
Dream
Ministrator
Gath
Abdallah
Ava
Hra Ae
Onward
Godvin
Egmont
Langtree Grant
NP General Grant
Sale Barn
McNabb
Grant Glover
Carl Phillipa
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Northern Illinois Co-Operative Burial Association
G. W. Keller
Undertaker
Henry Ull
Prudence
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Robert G. Dakin, M. D
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J. H. Massie
Mcnabh
Fresh Bakery
Griffith’s Laundry
J. M. Downey
Downey
Magnolia, Ill
Centenary Hospital
Olive Street Bank
Barnes’ University
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St Louis
Ina Bank
A. R. Kreger
Chicago Veterinary College Veterinary Hospital
Magnolia and
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Red
Griffith
W. G. Griffith
Putnam County
the Republic
Magnolia Departat
R. A. Ward
Henry Republican
Winde
Quaker Lane
Death
Jesse P. Morris
Skipper, VI
Neumon
Dr. King
A. J Ironmonger
Venona Index
Steator
WRC
Vrs Hoge
Kemp
Worco
Morse
Faytt
Charles
Frankla
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Hoyte Were Elected Aldermen, Asl
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Lockport
Chicago & Alton
HI. Drennen
Cherry AL
Turner
H M Whitney
Peter Zimmerman
Board of Education
Judge Green
Pekin
Atreult
Green
John Schimkus
St. Paul Coal Company
Princeton High School
Halcyon Lamm
Thei
Lamim
Illinois
L. N. Studgyuin
Granville Echo
As & Esty
Han Hiss
Colt, Tans Pawcasion
What Is
Castoria
Teledo
James Tighe
Altoona
Wasington Post
Earth
Ministry of Souls
Frances L. Mace
New Church Messenger
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