Local notes from Varna and nearby towns in 1912
The Republican reports a crowded procession of social visits and travels around Varna and neighboring towns. Names include Dr Peterson, Mrs Johnson, H B Ramage, Edward Olson, Frank Potter, Gaffy, Dr Wilson, Mrs Hamill, L B Elliston, Miss Clemens, J H Price, and many others visiting relatives, attending services, or traveling to Peoria, Toluca, Granville, Henry, Streator, and Paxson’s. Various residents are noted for visits, business, and leisure, with mentions of unions, chautauqua trips, and Sunday outings.
Big Bend Reunion and Magnolia Community Notes
Aug 27 28 29 30 events from Streator to Magnolia include visits to Mrs Reymer and Mrs Ward's new bungalow, a Streator race, lake trip, and family illnesses. Fire threatens Lundholm home. Lundholm family evacuated with minor injuries. Socials, club gatherings, and visits across Magnolia and Venona with many locals and travelers profiled. Local notices include health, travel, and business updates, plus a Foley Honey and Tar endorsement.
Lumber for sale and teachers' exam dates in Illinois
Lumber milled to order offered for 20 dollars per M at a mill 4 1/2 miles northwest of Magnolia Illinois. Oak and red elm excluded. Also notices of a Putnam county teachers examination at the courthouse in Hennepin on August 15 and 16. Walter A Paxson county superintendent of schools announces the exam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magnolia
R. W. Spencer
Ill
Hennepin
Putnam County
Walter A. Paxson
County Superintendent of Schools
Social and visiting notes from area residents
Quaker Lane Josiah and Alice romlinson were Henry visitors Saturday afternoon. Lewis Spalding went to Toluca for a few days visit. Alex McKirgan and Harry Stan sell went to Granville to see the Indians play ball. Mrs. W. G. Griffith and Mrs. F. B. Smith were visiting at Mrs. Mary Kays' Monday. Lucretia Franklin and daughter went to Spring Valley to visit Dr. Franklin. Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Mills, visiting in Chicago, are at the Bumgarner home. The social for last Saturday night will be at the Friends meeting house Friday evening Aug. 9. Friends yearly meeting Aug. 18-22. Swaney school has few vacancies for tuition pupils opening Sept. 2. Mrs. Mary Vesty and son William returned to Chicago Monday. Leota Phillips of near Lostant visited over the weekend with Mary and Kathryn Griffith. Elsa Brennemann of Florida visited F. Smith's last Thursday and Friday. Belle Ross visiting at her parents’ home with Oscar Bumgarner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Massie
Chicago
Magnola
Blanche King
Granville
Ora Mathis
Ralph Paxson
Elizabeth Klein
Spencer Store
Henry
R. W. Spencer
Lackland
Ira Clemens
Lura
Costello
Hopewell
Toluca
Fannie Eddingfield
J. Phillips
Bobbitt
Gertrude Ramsey
Alice Weaver
Peoria
C. H. Merritt
M. Stillwell
Lostant
Pontiac Chautauqua
Albert Hecht
Ollie Roberts
Everett Hecht
Pontiac
Chautauqua
Charles Morphew
Iowa
John Dean
Leona
Albert Forrest
Potter, Jr
H. D. Jackson
Wendall
Idaho
W. H. Parkinson
H. J. Bassler
Decatur
Harry Hoge
Bassler
Venona
J. P. Foster
Indian Territory
Missouri
Ward Coe
Clarice
Ancona
Ezra Kemp
Joseph Lanning
Dana
C. A. Axline
J. C. Young and Son
Phoenix
Arizona
B. L. Monser
Mystic Workers’ Lodge
Illinois Central Park
Josiah
Alice ‘Romlinson
Lewis Spalding
Alex McKirgan
Harry Stansell
W. G. Griffith
F. B. Smith
Mary Kays
Lucretia Franklin
Spring Valley
Franklin
Ralph Mills
Bumgarner
Friends Meeting House
Friends Yearly Meeting
Swaney’ School
Mary Vesty
William
Leota Phillips
Near Lostant
Mary
Kathryn Griffith
Elsa Brennemann
Florid
F. ©. Smth
Belle Ross
Oscar Bumgarner
Hennepin Note: Hogs Sold at July Prices Amid Political Fire
Rural notes from Hennepin include hog shipments to Chicago at 8,5714 per hundred, social events at Mrs Helena D Stanton's home, August festivities, and varied visits. Local residents P M Morine and wife hosted Iowa kin, Cecil Hotel draws autos and boats, and several families—Zenor, Hamill, and Stouffer—visiting or hosting in midweek. County court met under Judge Gregg. threshing peaks with bumper oats.
Toluca man dies by own hand at Porterfield farm
Martin Meilke committed death by his own action at a farm near Porterfield on Sunday July 28, hanging himself in the granary with a rope. Coroner Dr. Peterson empaneled a jury whose verdict was death by hanging caused by his own hands. He was born in Germany, would have been 85 next October, lived in the area nearly 50 years, and was a former soldier with a pension. He kept spry for his age and recently visited town to collect his pension money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toluca
McAdam
Wenona
Chicago
Frank Ball
Henry
Roscoe Bayne
Ruth Ball
Iowa
Newburn
Frank Ames
Rutland
R. R. Newburn
Knox
Ind
Young Bros
United
Uncertain Elector Powers Stir Political Speculation
The Fairbury Blade weighs a hypothetical vote by presidential electors and asks how independents might exercise choice at the meeting. It questions potential cross party coalitions among Roosevelt Taft electors across Illinois Indiana Ohio Iowa and other northern states and warns of political jawboning over Postmaster Gregg’s job.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Iowa
Taft
Gregg
Fairbury Blade
Farmer's evolution from need to choice drives modern commerce
A concise contrast traces the farmer of yesterday trading out of necessity with many partners to the present farmer who engages with people by choice. It notes past dependence on wealth owners due to limited education and finances, versus today’s educated, independent farmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Straus
Press Comment on Illinois GOP Unity and Primary Work
Shelbyville Union quotes praise for Republican actions in Illinois this year from party integrity to fair primaries and nominations. Rockford Republic favors oats crop optimism amid political discord while Lincoln News-Herald questions primaries wasting taxpayer money and criticizes progressive methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelbyville Union
Illinois
Roosevelt
Rockford Republic
Lincoln News-Herald
Unfair campaign rhetoric spills into local election talk
A Springfield Mass Republican critique lambasts Roosevelt and progressive speakers as hypocritical in a tainted primary season. The piece labels the rhetoric a farce and warns that deception grows bold in the political arena. A later fragment mentions a patient endorsing Chamberlain's remedy for bowel issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Mass
Roosevelt
Taft
Illinois stallion license for corval whitefield horse 1912 season
A historical stallion notice for corval, a dark brown stallion named Billie Thomas Hill register no 0152, bred in 1894 with a 1400 weight and 16% height. Sire William M Hill and Dam Possum Pie have strong racing records. license to stand publicly in Illinois expires March 29 1918. Season 1912 held at Dr Gebhardt's Henry stable and Whitefield home, insurance 12 dollars, no liability beyond care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worth Dixon
Sparland
Ill
W. BH. Ketchum
Henry
Ben
H. A. Gebhardt
Illinois
J. R. Dickinson
Sec'y. S. Stallion Reg. Board
Whitefield
Marshall County
W. E. Ketchum
Billie Thomas Hill
Wm. M. Hill
J. K. Dickinson
Dr. Gebhardt
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Magnolia Department
Dr. Peterson
Norman Coe
Willi Law
Varna
Gteen
Fannie Johnson
Ottawa
H. B. Ramage
Edward Olson
Frank Potter
Raub
Streator
T. Phillips
T. F. Lash
Helen Funk
Peru
la Salle
Georgia Clemens
Burl Simonton
Moses Klenowitz
Frank Horton
Buckley
Ella Kays
McNabb
Gaffy
Pearl Hiatt
Wilson
Ramage House
Charles Hamill
LaClede, Pa
L. B. Elliston
Peterson
John Piper
Curley King
Anna Haws
Nebraska
L. A. Sammons
H.B. Surface
Laverna Clemens
J. H. Price
Clara Belle King
F. Defenbaugh
Paxson
S. Warner Lackland
Mamie Hull
George Foster
Joseph Thierry
Allen Glenn
Charles Johnson
R. W. Spencer & Co
Henry Fox
Dwight
A. Emmons
H. H. Thierry
Thomas Nevin
Bloomington
S. Potter
Cecil
Merritt Phillips
Mabel
Bessie Defenbaugh
Myrtle Simonton
Ralph Hecht
Hattie Jones
George Clemens
Gus Clemens
Paul Jones
Charles Hartley
Meta
Dorothea Lassman
Big Bend
Magnolia, Ill
Reymer
Michigan
Lundholm
Hultgren
Lottie Hannum
Haws’ Grove
Swaney Glee Club
Florida
Charles McCoy
Zo Kenyon
W. B. Mills
DeKalb
Country Life Convention
Dorothy Dent
Arkansas
Griffith
Max Whitney
Griffith Coale
Abel Mills
County Life
Ruth Bumgarner
Ruth
C. H. Ellsworth
Baldwin St
Rochester
N. Y
Foley
A. J
A. 5. Jones
Lee Pharmacy
Chico
Cal
Foley & Co
Ironmonger
Quaker
Scott
Scott’s
AllDruccis
Scott & Bowne
Bloomfield, N. J
Hennepin. P. M. Marine & Son
QO. C. Greiner
Helena D. Stanton
Will Ware
Dixon
Lavonne Stant
P. M. Morine
Clayton Stanton
Laura
Philip Porter
Princeton
Nancy Ott
Cheago
Rosalia Durley
Alice Seaton
G. W. Greiner
Vergne
H. B. Zenor
C. R. Hamill
Laclede Mo
Prof. Marshall
Edna Bush
Washburn
Sadie Stouffer
Delta
J. W. Stouffer
A. L.thomas
Lewis Warren
Mayzella Bentley
Our City
Will Hetrick
Adam Deck
Wm. Bruer
Charley Zenor
Judge Gregg
Judge McNabb
Jay Magoon
Lacon
Katherine Lawlens
Oscar Paulson
D. O'Dwyer
St. Mary’s Parsonage
Wehona
C. M. Turner
Maria Ball
Bitter Root Valley
Mon
Cora Carruthers
F. C. Guest
Albert Pletsch
Mcnabb, Ill
McNabb Central
M. D
R. G. Dakin
W. A. Simmons
Centenar
Paobh Italifcateo Street Bank
Barnes’ University
Chiru rteTa Society
St. Louis
America
The
Straus Bros. Company
Ligonier, Indiana
State of Illinois
Hawkstone
W. 8. Gunsalus
Fleming
Chamberlain
A. J. Ironmonger
T. J. Segraves
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