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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1910
Page
10
Magnolia residents visit relatives in Granville Henry Saturday and Gridley. Several locals travel to see the town ball team and attend injuries and hospital news. Concrete work praised by town board as Magnolia keeps active social and sporting ties across Illinois communities.
W H Wafer left Tuesday for Nebraska. Mr and Mrs Burdette Wilson of Varna visited Mrs Sam Potter Jr. and Mrs Hattie Hillabrand returned from Chicago. J G Clemens of Bloomington works with farmers. James Ray takes vacation from the mail route Ed Defenbaugh replaces him. Dr Simmons made two visits to Bloomington and one to Indianapolis. Forest Lester moves into Pickerell's house. Local town traffic as Henry visits. Magnolia band concert in the park. S B Mitchell visits relatives in Pennsylvania. Emma Stinger works for Martin Eglan. Mrs Eglan improving slowly. Sick list includes Grandma Potter Mrs Wasson Baby Studgan Mrs Hultgren Mrs John Dean Jr Miss Leitschuh Daniel Haugher. Putnam county teachers examination set for Aug 8 and 9 at the court house in Hennepin from 8 a m to 12 m each day. No other exam until mid September. George W Hunt County Superintendent.
John Swaney hosts and neighbors share visits and calls across Granville and surrounding towns. Regional gatherings include Putnam County Sunday School convention and county prohibition nominations at Granville with tours by families from Peoria and Toluca.
A Minneapolis reader shares a testimonial praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female troubles. The letter touts improved health after three months and urges others to seek advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
State committeeman A. B. Wilson magnolia county clerk W. T. Wooley Granville county judge O. W. Batrum Granville county treasurer J. N. Wilson McNabb miss kate brands Granville sheriff Henry Macher Magnolia. McNabb Mrs Bertha Pearce and baby recovering from illness. Carl Hanson sick. Granville visitors include Miss Rose travis Zenor and Miss Elia Davis helping at the bank. Gasoline blaze at J A McNabb’s. neighbors aided. Crouch's Line-Up Club meeting features a long sermon on politics and family.
The passage notes a brief struggle with no hope of lasting, a suggested closing song titled Oh Woman What Art Thou by Hew Kidd and others, and the club leaving the scene in silence after the performance.
S. W. Bends of Coal City Alabama says he found a perfect health mine after 12 years of liver and kidney trouble. The pills are praised as the best on earth for constipation malaria headache dyspepsia and debility and advertised at two thousand dollars at A J Ironmonger’s and T J Segraves’ drug stores.
Granville Echo presents portraits and bios for Republican and Democratic nominees for county offices. Henry C. Mills seeks county judge again with no opposition. George W. Hunt runs for county superintendent. Charles C. Greiner seeks renomination as county clerk. Harry E. Raley and others vie for sheriff. Williamson Mark Durley for county treasurer. Olden C. Cofoid seeks sheriff. Edward J. Berta also a sheriff candidate. Walter A. Paxson and Thomas Kennedy contest county superintendent. incumbents Mills Hunt Greiner Haley praised as sterling officials.
Nearly all burned-out firms in Granville outline rebuilds with Surface to locate an elevator east of Serrine's implement house Kjoller Young and Todd & Hunter to rebuild on former plots. C I & S will expand yard trackage. Mrs. Gariglietti, wife of Mark's mayor, dies at La Salle hospital aged 46, leaving six children. The funeral drew a large procession. A runaway damaged C I S property. Mr. Biedenfeld and son were thrown from the wagon. arm injuries sustained.
Lostant locals report better attendance at the Magnolia camp meeting this year. A $200 check to Ira Kregor Monday was received for his accident from Mrs. Atha Boshell, M W A clerk. Various residents travel, teach, or visit, with events including a Magnolia social raising funds for Hope church and multiple teaching assignments in La Salle and nearby districts. Threshing begins in the area and Chautauqua attendance continues as residents mingle with visitors from Pontiac and other towns.
A mother, Mrs. F D Lawrence, asks the public to help locate her son Glenn C Lawrence who left home May 26 1910 at age 16. He is 5 feet 8 inches tall, slender, 125 pounds, brown hair gray blue eyes and stammering. He is described as neat and moral and would write to ease their distress. If found detain him and await reply from his mother in Geneva Illinois.
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