Burglars Loot Putnam Village Post Office
Thieves entered Putnam last Friday night via the midnight train, pried open the general store and post office, blew the safe door with an explosive, punched through the floor, but left empty handed and escaped. Snede Wheeler saw two men alight from the baggage car and flee. The intruders took tools but no money was found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Putnam
Snede Wheeler
O. P. Carroll
W.8. Murphy
Fred Cook
Howard Loomis
Wm. L. Kelso
Robbery at Kelso Post Office Sparks Village News
A Post Office robbery in Kelso disrupted the village scene. Thieves emptied a safe containing only private papers and deeds, fled to the depot, and left behind a knife and tools. The incident follows a prior failed attempt two months earlier and prompted safer storage for valuables.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas
Kelso
The Blacksmith Shop of L H Pinnell Robbery Report
Robbers entered the L H Pinnell blacksmith shop Friday night by breaking into the post office area. They gained access through a window near the small door in the ell of the shop. the issue contains further details of the evening’s events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. H. Pennell
Union District No 1 Formed For Magnolia and Hope Townships
The Magnolia and Hope townships drainage area is organized as Union District No 1. Proximate cost to complete is $20 000. The board, with engineer G V Loring, plans an 80 inch to 10 inch tile ditch starting in Hope and ending at O Wilson’s farm section 22. Assessment of lands benefitted to follow. Further details to come.
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Magnolia Township
Putnam County
Hope Township
LaSalle County
Union District No. 1
Mt Palatine
Section
O. Wilson
J. L. Mills
Abel Mills
Lawrence
A. H. Mills
A. B. Wilson
Ilinois
Union District Drainage Board
Mason Wilson
Grant Trone
J. D. Avery
Thoroby
G. V. Loring
Decatur
Drainage Commission
Train Schedule Changes at Henry Station and Local Notes
The Henry area changes rail times for trains to Chicago and Peoria with several departures listed. Some trains do not run on Sundays. Other items note hunters licensing updates, names issued by city and town clerks, a Nebraska Indian baseball game at Bradford, and Carrier L M Bell discovering oats in his cat bin from the Quinn Bros.
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Henry
Chicago
Peoria
Ottawa
Joliet
Bureau
LaSalle
Morris
Henry Republican
el Wright
William Shorts
John
Henry Peterman
Casper
William Halbleth
Orville Durflinger
A. Spencer
Sterrett
Peter Newhalven
Sparland
Geo W. Gilbert
Harry Wood
Lyman Nadel
Shorts
Elmer Martelle
Harry Snell
Bert Stout
Bradford
L. M. Bell
Quinn Bros
M. A. Adams
Galva
Henry County
Short & Adams
Adams
Helper and Adams
Our City
Woodmen
Masonic
Congregational Church
Woman’s Club
Woman’s Library Association
Adana
Calef
Ezra Calef
William
Alden
Mark
Adna Hartley
Theodore Clark
R. Jones
Jones
Mr Jones
Church notes and community announcements in Henry
Sunday services at St John’s church as usual. A Christian church picnic is planned for Pavilion Park on Saturday Aug 29. Various meetings and sermons across St John’s Presbyterian and M E churches are described, with notes on painters, organists, and visiting clergy. A Hen ry team baseball tournament and local relocations are also reported.
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St John’s Church
Christian Church
Pavilion Park
Ladies Aid of the Christian Church
Orson Beckwith
Woman's Missionary Society of the
Presbyterian Church
St Bartholomew’s Day
Chicago
L. E. Coad
Galesburg
Christian Endeavor
Vogelsang
M. E
Disosway & Smith
Episcopal Church
Undercliff
Henry Burkhart
M. E. Church
Robert McDonough
Mra BE
Reed
Z. F. Kellogg
Bloomington Chautauqua
Miss Kellogg
Miss Williams
Ladies Aid Society
Wm Starliper
McCown
Oak Hill
Henry
M. Edward Fawcett
D. Y
Church of St Bartholomew
Englewood
Seymour
Springfield
Iowa
Minnesota
Tennessee
Nebraska
Rey
Charles Bowles
All Saints, Ravenwood
Gorter
St Joseph’s
Russell Sparling
Charles Harney
R. Sparling
Spalding Institute
Peoria
Joseph Keely
Rock Island
Wm Murbaugh
Sheffield
L. Zambuehl
M. Foley
Geneseo
R. Depoorter
Atkinson
L. Selk
Lacon
Pejoria
F. Drummey
Tiskilwa
Williams
C. Eby
City of
St Louis
New Church
Eby
New Church Messenger
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Putnam Village
W. L. Kelso
Uncle Sam
GL. A. Pennell
L. G. Landenberger
Missouri
Louise Boehmer
Lisa Boehmer
Miss Boehmer
Dewitt Stateler
Wenona
Marshall
Hivans
David McDonough
Waukesha
Wis
Joel Carson
Hiram Hunter
Republican
Seiveletriet
Iferfon Lesfonfecte
Kestonjoodes, A
Seber Ee
L. H. Pinnell
Magnolia and
Hope Townships
Tom Boy
Church Notes
Rey Eby
D. D. Dow
United States Express Co
Harrison J. Gregory
Postal Telegraph Co
Express
Hartley
Frank Baer
Providence
Wyanet
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