Dance at Walnut Grove Friday Eve Aug 2 News of a Week
Local happenings note Mrs. Louis Meier visiting Lacon, farm life and war era concerns. Items cover dances, farm work, local commerce, church events, and patriotic appeals including Salvation Army, doughnut drives, and a county contest with Henry wins prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walnut Grove
Louis Meier
Lacon
T. B. Mills
Hennepin
Gridley
R.S. Bayne
Bureau of Enforcement
Harold Helper
Rochester
Minn
Mayo Bros.’ Hospital
Charles Wabel
Jennings
Charles
Bismark
N. D
Dakota
F. A. Barr
Spring Valley Coal Company
Kirkwood Leader
United States
Army
Navy
Army and Navy Technical Air Secretary of War
Secretary of the
Henry
Illinois
Seelig
Helen Phillips
Logan Barrett
Harold Daniels
T. C. Coggshall
Ft. Riley
Kan
Coggshall
Byrey
France
Salvation Army
Wilson
General Pershing
Field Marshal Haig
Cook County Auxiliary
F. Agnaw
North Dearborn Street
Chicago
L. EB. Myers
West Adama Street
Centenary Illinois State Fair prep announced
The State Board of Agriculture plans an Aug 9 to 26 centennial Illinois State Fair and Industrial Exposition with a pageant on the final day to mark the 100th year since state constitution adoption. Theodore Roosevelt is invited to give the chief address. Governor Lowden will preside as officials and dignitaries attend.
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State Board of Agriculture
Theodore Roosevelt
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois Supreme Court
General Assembly
State Fair Board
B. M. Davison
Barrey Ollfisid
Louis Chevrolet
Fair Board
Food Administration
Prize winner’s husband drives home in loud Ford
After the count, the grand prize went to Lacon and Mr Lucas, driving a Ford, heard a jingling rattle on the road. He explained his wife had won the county subscription contest capital prize and he was headed home with the big money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Republican
Lacon Journal
Chillicothe Enquirer
Peoria Star
Lucas
Henry
Neck of the Woods
The
Republican
Lacon
Three Senachwine lake resorts host Sunday picnics and baths
Local notes report warm weekend weather across Marshall County with many residents at Senachwine lake resorts enjoying picnics and swimming. A silver jubilee marks St Ann's church Toluca's 25th anniversary, while reporter Grace Hartley takes a summer break in Chicago.
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Senachwine Lake
St. Ann's Catholi Church
Toluca
Grace Hartley
Chicago
B. F. Anderson
Grier
Bureau
Ottawa
Illinois
America
Red Cross
France
American Red Cross
American Expeditionary Force
Stephen Clare Brown
Eberhart Avenue
E. 35Th Street
Griswold & Walker Co
Washington, D. C
Clare
Clyde
Dante
Marshall County
Wenona
Uncle Sam
Lacon
Henry
U. S. Food Administration
Food Administration
Camp Upton
Lenox Avenue
Berlin
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Leota B. Thiedohr
A. B. Smith
H. H. Haines
C. M. Lucas
Hazel Bean
Susie Creabil
lTrene Hofer
Fay Ball
Margaret Shafer
Elise Helper
Inez Anderson
Bessie Rolley
Magnolia
Inaz Parker
Chillicothe
Europe
Washington
National Council of Defense
State Councils of National Defense
Tilton
Peoria
Apollo
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
George Kleine
Alan Crosland
Philip Landicutt
Ea Fin
Boe
Quantico
United States Marine Corps
Henry Opera House
Union Temperance Meeting
Union Temperance
Christian Church
Lucy Mateer
H. G. Dusenberry
Presbyterian Church
Josephs
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Henry Siewers
William O'Brien
Father Brennan
Lillian Hartley
Geneva Doran
Corine McManus
Mary Dorothy Flynn
Margaret Finnegan
Ida May Holt
Brennan
Leo Barnes
Thomas Finnegan
Harold ‘Barry
Frank Wallace
Robert Turney
Frank Spangler
Henry Sievers
Henry Appel
Floyd Williams
Edwin Kane
Harold Hennefeldt
Joseph Brennan
Thomas Harney
Raymond Keegan
Ba Fa
Board OF Review
Board of Review of Marshall
Ill
Frank Harry Ong
G.hb
Fenwick
Lulu M. Burner
South America
Methodist Episcopal Church
Epworth League
Glenn
Smiss Presbyterian Church
St. Joseph's Church
M. J. ‘Brennan
St. Mary's Church
BE. W. Newhalfen
Miss Bean Ae
Creabil Oekt
Miss Hafer
Miss Ball
Miss Shafer
Miss Helper
Miss Anderson Noe
Mies Romgy
National Guard
Texas
Regular Army
Marines
War Department
National Army
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