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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1918
Page
13
Sparland residents report visits and gatherings across town and nearby areas. Mrs Relief McLaughlin illness prompts concern while Miss Elizabeth Marland returns from Chicago summer school. Local trips to Pekin Venona and Starved Rock accompany church services and a military enlistment update.
W C Young visited Peoria recently. Ed Hufnagle and family moved into the section house in Milo. Irvin Cappertine and wife visited their daughter in Peoria. Bert McKinney went to Keokanee due to his mother's illness. Mrs Emma Johnson and Mrs A W Shriver visited friends in Nepon. Mrs Bessie Fisher and children from Milo stayed with Mrs G Rees. L B Clifton and family moved into Clarence Haven’s former house. Grace and Kathryn Newton from Rock Falls stayed with their aunt Mrs L E Clifton. Mrs Clifford Crull of Akron visited Sidney Brown recently. A synchronizer for airplanes by A L Nelson of Galesburg won approval and will be manufactured. it enables a machine gun to fire 199 shots in eight seconds at 1,550 rpm, aiding allied aircraft.
Threshing began in the neighborhood on Wednesday. Local visits include Vidal Driver and daughter Elsie, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reid, Mr. and Mrs. James Foster, and others. Camp Wheeler training for Princeton youth and court house notices detail estates, guardianships, and real estate transfers. Community happenings include the Ladies Aid social, a cure story for dysentery, and a Dickinson factory rain gauge displaying nine inches of rain in Eureka from June 23 to July 7.
Charles V. Miles of Peoria, Republican nominee for circuit judge to succeed Clyde E. Stone, won the four-candidate nomination on the fourth ballot. If seated September 11, he will be the sole Republican judge in the tenth circuit joining T. N. Green and John M. Niehaus. districts include Peoria Tazewell Marshall Stark Putnam. Miles, born in Jerseyville, educated at University of Michigan, has practiced law in Omaha and Peoria and held election board chairmanship since 1914.
Illinois historians secured a 7500 appropriation to remodel the General John A. Logan home in Benton as the ninety second birthday of the general marks completion of restoration work. Camp Grant land may be purchased after a government appraisal and brick veneer remodeling of barracks. A $1000 reward is offered for William LeDuc, a double murder convict who escaped Chester State Hospital in 1906.
Mrs Katherine Swiger of Henry Illinois seeks a practical nurse to fill a nursing vacancy. Advertisement dated 7 11 13 appears in local classifieds.
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