Sparland Local Notes From Steuben County 1917
Sparland area news across Henry and nearby towns highlights social visits from Peoria to Chillicothe, church moves including Rev Walls resignation, Red Cross events, picnics and socials, and reports on local schooling and religious day schools. Mentions residents like G B Moore, Mrs. Moore, Hakes, Monier, Van Antwerp, and Ed Nightwonger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. B. Moore
Henry
David Timmons
Peoria
B. L. Atkinson
Streator
C. C. McLaughlin
Riddell and
Osborne
William Reginald
Nice
Guy E. Moore
Leland Monier
J. 8
Walls
Steuben Baptist Church
Joseph Hart
Yankee Street
The
Baptist Church
Dorothy
Marian van Antwerp
Mabelle Wade
Guy H. Moore
Harrison Thomas
Hdna
Nellie
William Osborne
C. D. Marshall
Mary A. Marshall
D. J. Htter
Squan Whitefield
Sparland
Marshall
D. J. Etter
Chillicothe
Joe Ferguson
Wilhelmina Monier
Annie
Alice
Mis. Monier
John van Antwerp
Messrs
W.S. Osborne
William Aitchison
A. H. Harmison
G. E. Moore
Rome
Town Hall
Red Cross
Spartan1een
Helen Suft
Lucile Atkinson
Steuben
Gordon Lyons
Chicago
Ed van Antwerp
Oklahoma
May Condon
William O'Leary
Johanna Harney Wallace
Wallace
West
Edmund Harney
Sparland Town Hall
Rena Tanquay
Ethel Watkins
Fred Nightwonger
Ray
Arizona
Uncle Sam
Edith ‘Brush
O. G. McCraw
Wilda Smith
Grace Tussey
la Prairie
Marjorie Root
William Gray
Ella Speers
Harry Willard
Princeville
H. C. Merrill
Elmer
Raymond Gruner
St. Louis
Albert Amen
Edgerton
Lacon
Rigley
Morrison
Toulon
J. C. Smith
Root
Ladies’ Association
Grant Burdick
Martha Grove
Sarah Routh
Dorothy Phillips
When the Irish Run Berlin Kaiser in the Palace
A wartime verse imagining Ireland ruling Berlin after the war. It mocks Germany with Irish stereotypes and envisions an Irish Kaiser ruling Berlin, replacing German symbols with Shamrocks and Irish imagery. The poem ties anti German sentiment to celebratory triumph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Micks
County Clare
District Fund balances and 1917 treasurer statements
The document records district and township fund balances and expenditures for 1917. It lists receipts from tax distributions transfers and tuition, with detailed outlays for teachers, books, fuel, maintenance, pensions, bonds, and other costs. Notary and probate court items follow, including estate actions and real estate transfers.
Wood-fed bread and slave labor reports from a wartime interview
F Sefton Delmer, an Australian educator interned in Germany, arrives in London and discusses wood meal bread and its use for soldiers and prisoners. He mentions Russian prisoners as potential future farm labor and cites a grim plan to keep Slav prisoners after the war. Also references railway crossing dangers and a liberal note on Goethals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LACON
Gregg
Sparland Township
Supreme Court
Henry
C. & N. W. Railroad
Sparland
Chautauqua
Ernest Laube
Charles Ramp
Otha Baker
F. Sefton Delmer
Germany
London
Holzmehl
Delmer
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the Republican
Henry, Ill
Sparland Department
E. J. Aitchison
F. F. Scott
Scottsville
N. Y
Chamberlain
Nichols
Grace Mills
Zella Edith Kimble
Elsie HB
Blazina
Toluca
Mabelle Marshall
Estella Catherine Reitz
Rebecca McAllister
Mary Zuliana
Margaret Broline
Magnolia
Lorna Hazel Blackburn
Anna Renz
Wenona
Zoe Walls
Elsie Fleming
Ida Dwyer
Helen M. Rae
Advt
Illinois Life Insurance
Basaso
Illinois
Oto H. Augustine
General Arrant
Jefferson Building
Harry Haladay
Bert Haladay
William Piper
Bert Piper
Amber Edminister
Wyanet
Mabel Monier
Mr. Haladay
Princeton
Edminister
Mrs. Haladay
Ents
Raymond Harley
Herbert Goodale
Steve Freer
Frank Lidgard
Sam Chesney
Putnam
Fred Harley
Sam Maupin
Cottage
Will Anderson
Earl McKee
Byron Allen
William Chesney
John Jack
Olive West
Connie Julander
Edmund Jardine
Margaret Yarington
Tiskilwa
Leslie Wilkin
Arthur Larson
Julius Toder
Ladies’ Aid
Laddie
Kaiser Bill
Kaiser
Mick
Tange
Marshall County
Totaliiereeteleisereisie
Tisteiera
H. BE
Wescott
L. N. Osborne
Court House News
Ts Im In
Jeremiah Filson
Homer Barney
Otto W. Gustafson
Theodore Bickerman
A. M. Zilm
Sherman T. Sperry
Peter Jacob
John Green, Sr
John H. Geen
BH. D. Richmond
Toluca Coal Co
Toluca Mining Co
Frederick T. Schwanke
Hy Schwanke
Bell Plain Township
J. Bruce Wilson
Jennie Holmes
Saratoga Township
Glen L. Cusac
Leota G. Phillips
LaSalle
J-F- Prather
Ieee BM
Davison
Sacu &Priingrisip
First National Bank
C. M. Jones
W. 8S. Harrison
J. L. Jones
C. H. Scholes
Cc. M. Jones
Harrison
William Duke
T. J. Segraves
E. G. Cromwell, George McGillick
Peoria, Illinois
Grhrmans
Jefferson Bee
Gen. Goethals
Denman
Gough