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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1911
Page
9
Coal shaft running full time and slow improvement for Comrade O Leary. Numerous visits and trips among residents, including Henry and Peoria, with a Labor Day event in mind. Attendees head to Chicago Heights and Magnolia for reunions and visits, while J F Ream to speak at Labor Day celebration.
William Riddell recovers enough to visit Sparland Bank while others attend to family news. Lottie Duncan hosts, Lillian Green from Chicago Heights visits, and Belle Bradley arrives from Chicago. Charlie Haven recovers well after appendicitis. Labor Day celebration Sept 4 promises a grand parade, ball game, and events with Senator J. F. Ream as speaker. Eva Hoadley visits from Kewanee and attends Sunday school with old friends.
This segment records visits by Mr and Mrs James Colgan Rev Fr J Roach and others to Camp Grove and Peoria. It notes construction of the Exchange bank brickwork, a gas well accident, property moves, and a threshing season summary with record yields by John Burner William Gill and James Smurphy. It also mentions racegoers traveling to Peoria and a Wyoming race injury recovery.
Saratoga and La Prairie scenes brim with visits and travel. Clarence Sutton arrives from South Dakota. Herbert Wilson returns from the West. many locals travel to Peoria Chicago and Niagara Falls. A church cradle program, weddings, and a furnace update at the school mark community activity. several family visits and picnics fill the week.
A farmer in Ireland raises potatoes yielding hundreds of bushels per acre this season. The same Irish ruby, now sold in the market, trades in the same class as other precious stones, placing him in strong competitive push.
John Stouffer shelled corn on Monday while C Schantz and Pauline visit Iowa. Local families, including Bachman, Stouffers, Loverhills, and Jennetts, host and visit relatives. Several Bradford and Bradford area residents attend visits and institutes. various callers include Fogarty, ONeill, Downey, Ziegler, Finley, and Henkins.
Social gatherings and visits include Rev John Rodgers and wife Mrs Marshall Lidgard and son at Frank Dotys along with Ernest Reynolds and family. Harvey Hunter completed threshing at Elmer Towns. Mrs Myrtle Hess to give an elocution program at Cottage church with Miss Meta Williams assisting. Proceeds support Cottage church.
Local notices record visits and guests among Normandy, Peoria, and Broadmoor households including Mrs. Clarence Perkins and A. W. Shriver family. Birth announced for Alfred Holmes and wife. The piece ends with a summary on Birds Police Earth and Air noting larks sparrows and thrushes reduce insect pests and weed seeds per a Success Magazine article.
A treetop food chain is described with tree sparrows consuming weed seed, nut hatches and chickadees scanning trunks for insect eggs, warblers and vireos targeting caterpillars, and flycatchers swallows and night hawks feeding on flies. Hawks and owls patrol daylight and night for small mammals, aiding crops and trees.
W W Twist and family return from an auto trip through Iowa Missouri and Kansas. The Toluca bank building north of the bank nears completion with a plate glass front. A special city election on August 30 asks voters to approve a $400 bond issue to create a city park on the Fahy block near Main Street. County court in Lacon awarded Mrs Michael Cronin $1050 against the late Henry Peters estate for eight years of care and maintenance of his daughter.
An elderly man in a poorhouse tells a visitor he has no income but boasts strong backing from one of the state’s wealthiest counties. In another item a Kansas editor vows to tell the truth for a week while doctors foresee a hospital discharge in about three weeks.
In re John H. Dean minor petition for release as surety on bond filed. Guardian's report approved and recorded with new bond. Writ ten order dis charging Frank F. Specht as surety. In re estate of Sarah White Johnston White leave to sell 191 crop of grain rent granted. Estate of Henry L. Peters petition to sell real estate to pay debts. guardian ad litem EB D Richmond appointed for infant Rachael L Peters. Supplemental inventory and amendments filed. Claims allowed: Cronin 1050 Paskell 87 Link 37.25 Duke 168. City of Lacon sidewalks special assessment petition. Isabella Hayline insane. jury finds insane and commits to South Barrington hospital. warrant issued. Ann Downey insane. jury finds insane and commits to Central Hospital for the Insane at South Bartonville. warrant issued.
A colored man pleaded guilty before a police judge to stealing chickens and received a sentence. When asked how he lifted the birds under the owner's window with a guarding dog, he replied in dialect that explaining would be useless and warned the judge to stay on the bench.
A Chicago resident, A. M. Stewart of 1084 Wolfram St, reports great relief from hay fever during hot months using Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. The letter endorses the remedy and cites widespread benefit for others with hay fever or summer colds.
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