Florida farms lure Oklahoma buyers to Southeast coast
James M Powers and partners explain Lawton Okla home base while detailing a push to develop five and ten acre winter tract and semi tropical fruit farms along Florida gulf coast. They cite climate, rail access, and growing orchard profits, with offices in Detroit city area and St Louis agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James M. Powers
George Burt & Son
Lawton
Okla
Washington
United States
Towa
New York
Gulf Coast
Brownsville
Texas
Florida
Dade County
Miami
Gulf Coast States
Detroit Prairie
Detroit
East Coast Railway
Biscayne Bay
Detroit Center Place
Salt Waters Beach
Bay Shore
Pines
Detroit Canal
U. S. Government Weather Bureau
Ocean Gulf
Powers Land & Loan Co
Market Street
Union Station
Landseekers
Oklahoma
Fred Powers
Illinois
Hough
Missouri
Ralph Powers
Colorado
Denyer
St. Louis
Veterinarian Offers Hospital With Complete Equipment
The advertisement notes a graduate of Chicago Veterinary College runs a veterinary hospital equipped with operating table and all necessary gear. It lists Babres Macnells and McNabb Cents as associated names in the facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Veterinary Colonie
Bbares Macnells
McNabb Cen
Magnolia social notes and church school counts
Magnolia community members host visitors from Peoria La Rose Kansas and Chicago while local stores adjust staffing. Sunday school attendance runs through four schools with Magnolia leading Varna Lostant and Hope in totals. church charges show Rev Busby 5728 and Rev Jones 3828.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada Potter
Peoria
Bertha Meredith
la Rose
Flora West
Kansas
Magnolia
Effie Boyle
Tonton
J. T. Boyle
Helen Bishop
Bloomington
J. G. Clemens
Belle Evans
Chicago
Mary Baker
Mary
Vera Chestnut
Iowa
Alonzo Evans
Dwight
la Salle
Harvey Ramage
Gertrude Ramsey
Htta Phillips
R. W. Spencer
Inez J. Bender
Illinois
M. B
Lostant
Varna
Hope
Busby
Rev. Jones
Local residents mingle at events across Lostant and neighboring towns
Lostant residents visit home folks in Lacon and Tonica while others travel to Oglesby Mendota and La Salle to attend circuses races and family gatherings. Visitors include Miss Maggie Body Mrs J M Hannum Mrs George Lechner and many others with trips to Chicago Muscatine La Salle Mendota and Indianapolis area relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Gapen
Lacon
Wendel Noel
Oglesby
Maggie Body
Thomas Foley
Mr. Noel
Peru
Huber Neider
Kate Kelly
Wenona
Henry
Beryl Barbour
Bloomington
Lostant
Ringling Bros.’ Circus
la Salle
Milton Hartenbower
Chicago
Ami Maust
Marla Kelso
Mendota
J. M. Hannum
Bane
Tonica
George Lechner
Thomas Williamson
Grace Ryan
Streator
Wade Creech
Portsmouth
Ohio
Mat Neifing
Erban Wherly
Mayme Golden
Joseph Ebner
Tonjea
Casper Weber
Nina Haskell
Indiana
V. J. Regina
Baker
Fairchild
D. C
Richard
Badger
Atkinson
Iowa
Henry She
Alice Barbour
Wilson Barbour
Muscatine
Will
Charles Hartenbower
Henry McKenzie
Lawrence
Notable Local Travels and Funeral Attendance
Miss Queenie Henning and Elvira Henning returned home after summer school at the university. Dr Schoenneshoefer and wife attended the funeral of Lena Roetzel, sister of the doctor and Mrs Zilm, at Roberts. Passengers bound for St Anns shrine included Mrs Thomas Flannigan and family, Mrs Foley, Kate, and several others from Peru.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cus
Queenie Henning
Elvira
Normal
Schoenneshoefer
Awa Red Zilm
Roberts
Lena Roetzel
Zilm
St. Anns Shrine
Thomas Flannigan
Thomas Foley
Kate
Ed Flannigan
Ambrose Harth
Bridget Comisky
Hugh Comisky
Pat McGrath
Miller
Peru
Examination for teachers' certificates in Hennepin
In Hennepin a two day teachers' certificate exam will be held at the courthouse on August 15 and 16 starting at 8 30 a m Subjects listed for the first day include arithmetic grammar Illinois history civics and geography County Superintendent W A Paxson announces the event Chamberlains Liniment is advertised to hasten healing of cuts and bruises and relieve muscle soreness and rheumatic pains sold by A J Ironmonger and T J Segraves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hennepin
Illinois
W. A. Paxson
A. J. Ironmonger
T. J.: .Segraves
Social and visit notices and pie social in McNabb
McNabb residents report Jessie McNabb visiting Chicago and Mrs. N S Edminster visiting relatives in Kewanee while Gordon King stays with his father at the C A elevator. W W Johnson took auto parts to La Salle for repairs. Mr and Mrs Tom Hoey Jr spent Sunday with his father near Florid. The M B Ladies Aid host a chicken pie social and program at Ziegler's hall in McNabb Friday night August 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie McNabb
Chicago
N. S. Edminster
Kewanee
Gordon King
W. W. Johnson
la Salle
Tom Hoey, Jr
M. B. Ladies’ Aid
Ziegler’s Hall
McNabb
Alfalfa Pays Big in Central Illinois Farm Study
Lindsay Reese of Pana demonstrates up to date scientific farming with alfalfa on Hayward farm. He reports five tons per acre valued at 22.50 per ton and 112.50 per acre, plus 100 bushels of corn per acre in favorable plots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian County
St. Louis
Lindsay Reese
Pana
Reese
Hayward
Illinois
Otis Humphrey
Frank Beyers
Timothy
Putnam county seeks state fair win with Mills exhibit
Granville Echo notes W B Mills of McNabb prepares Putnam county display for the Illinois State Fair aiming for first place after two second place finishes. The piece urges countywide support, previews Mills plans, and promises a forthcoming article. Also covers a vicious dog attack on a Flor ida child, Coxey's Army hikers through Granville, school-building dedication plans, and local notes on new Supt Dewitt Talmage Petty and business expansion by George P. Koehler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Granville Echo
Mills
McNabb
Putnam County
Illinois
Mr. Mills
Putnam
W. B
Arthur Critton
Wilson
Lacon
Granville
Deer Park
Starved Rock
Coxey’s Army
A. T. Stevens
Lacon Congregational Church
Lyle L. Richmond
Allen W. Ford
Black Grieves
Paul Richmond
Hopkins Farm
Mr. Hopkins
George P. Koehler
Lincoln Block
Virgil V. Vale
O. L. Hawthorne
Henry
Mr. Vale
Edward Barnard
Boy in Wenona loses leg in coal car accident
In Wenona Joseph Babage, a young lad, was hit by a moving coal car and suffered his leg severed between thigh and knee. The coal car rolled from chute under a brakeman and sparked a chain reaction among coal cars as the boy gathered coal nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wenona
Joseph Babage
Lighting Plant Works At Fay Home And Hotel Acetylene Upgrade
The Hennepin Record reports the new lighting plant at the Fay home is complete and operating. The Cecil Hotel acetylene plant has been remodeled into a gas generating system and is now in service with good performance. Charles Eckard was ill for weeks and traveled with his family to Springfield for possible surgery. John F. Eckard tends to government lights on the river and helped recover two skiffs adrift above town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hennepin Record
J. G. Fay
Cecil Hotel
Charles Eckard
Springfield
John F. Eckard
Toluca Star: Mule Kick Injures Local Resident and Town Busy
William Rithmiller of Toluca was kicked in the left leg by a mule while in a barn. No bones were broken but pain kept him in bed for a few days. The town bustled as farmers shelling corn hauled in 11,000 bushels from 185 loads. Alderman Slattery’s house got a new foundation and improvements, coal rail work continued, and monkeys rumored to roam Toluca sparked excitement. Supervisor Morrow’s fever recovery and visits from Mrs. Hill of Sparland to her sister Mrs. Slattery are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Ulrich Hindert
Minoak
Bloomington
Earl C. Bosquet
Clark University
Augusta Blum
Elgin
Hedding College
Abingdon
University of Illinois
Kankakee
la Salle County
Cherry Mine
Hrvatsko Radmeko Podporso Drustvo Sveta Tri Kralja Odsjek
H. Z
Gabriel Levar
Simun Franciskovich
Francio Polich
Havana
Oquawka
Leonard Schell
Boards of Review
Knox
Mercer
Warren
Henderson
Hancock
McDonough
Monmouth
Peru
Pontiac
Reformatory
Livingston County
Peoria County Board of Review
Chillicothe
Chillicotheans
Peoria
Toluca Star
William Rithmiller
Toluca
Alderman Slattery
John Gannon
Coal Company
Princeton
Magnolia
Big Sandy
Pickard’s Yard
Morrow
la Rose
Hill
Sparland
James Slattery
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ALL Drugeists
Richard Street
Main
Edward Streets
Robert Doran
A, Simmons
IIL
Centenary Hospital
Olive Street
Barnes’ University
Medico, Chirurtgeal Society
Ina Bank
Ina
F. Mongeau
W. H. Weathers
Magnolia, III
L. B. Elliston, M. A
K. G. Dakin
Magnolia, I
Truesight Specacle Co
III
Dr. Titus
L. Frank Titus
the Republican
Henry, Ill
Magnolia Department
Mary Toemmes
Misa
Annabel
Ann
Napoleon, Ind
Luther Sammons
Magnolia, Ill
M. C. Boerner
Care Napolean State Bank
Napoleon
Ind
A.J. Ironmonger
DR. Cox
Liniment
Foley
A. J
Scott
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