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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1915
Page
11
Sparland residents report visits across Chillicothe Rutland Henry and Wenona. News covers hospitality at Held and Nightwonger homes, a large ice box installation, Scout baseball and monthly tramp, lawn party at Riddell, and a runaway from Kankakee asylum.
Mrs T VanAntwerp and her niece Miss Ferril visited Chicago to spend time with family including sister and other relatives. Rev and Mrs D McLeish returned home from a three week vacation, traveling by Page-Detroit car via Watseka and Vincennes Indiana. They were hosted at the home of Cannah and Jones in Vincennes with their son Lloyd and wife and later entertained the Jones family before departing for Watseka.
In La Prairie Mrs Lucy Bradford of Lacon visits her sister Mrs Charles Collins. Various guests travel through Sterling and neighboring towns. local social events, church notices, and upcoming union meetings fill the week. The community notes several visitors, a few illnesses, a new birth, and church announcements including lay electoral delegates, new members, and planned evangelistic services across La Prairie and area churches.
Household guests include Frank Libeck and daughter Clars Uianeha with Mrs. Stephen Meritt, Charles Hunt and Timothy Hunt, and Will Chesney Jr. Chester Bidwell and Leonard Hunter also listed as visitors. Gladys Javdine attends a Teacher's institute at Princeton. Will Piper's family visits Hollowayville. no church service. Rev. Stevens away on vacation. Harlan Fields visiting Mendota area this week.
Mrs Eva Perkins visited friends in Peoria last week and Dr Kelly was buried in Chillicothe. Mildred Nurss visits Camp Grove. Don Burdick harvested 18 acres yielding 71 bushels per acre. Sumner Perkins financed tooth carpenter work and paid. A shower disrupted threshing. a mare refused food due to oats. Mrs Gross of Peoria hosts the Cornell home, Freddie enjoys Hod and Ethel Burdick. Roy Wilcox attended a Powers-Stiles-Lewis reunion at Cottonwood Inn. The gathering looked back on old times and changes.
Mrs George Hon of Macedon New York describes dizziness headaches and fatigue followed by despondency. After three months she began Chamberlains Tablets used two bottles to relieve the trouble. Advert. Obtainable everywhere.
South Milo reports Wilbur Griswold returning to Princeton after visiting his uncle William Austin. Frank Barkman and family and Mrs Myrtle Stevens visited Mr and Mrs Jonathan Pette grew. Mrs Orin Sherman and daughter visited Peoria. Ross Hanchett Harold Reid and Claude Schneider plan a northern sight seeing trip. Hah and Irma Newton hosted the K K klub with a dainty lunch. Chau tauqua attendance in Bradford was noted and relatives from Indiana visited Mr Schneman and family including Hoff Vogel and others.
Sol Williams of Jesse Tennessee praises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He states he sells more of it than any other preparation of like character, has used it himself with relief, and asserts it is obtainable everywhere.
A Muscatine Iowa inventor patented a 40 foot long clam digging boat floated on two pontoons with an engine between them. The engine powers the vessel and drives machinery that raises shells, replacing prior manual methods with automated operation.
A Henry retiree Anton Frey testifies that backache dizziness and kidney symptoms began the moment he tilted over. He took two boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills and was cured. Price 50 cents at all dealers. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY props.
Crow cCAdow reports Albert Quinn begins his Thursday night trip for the San Francisco fair. He plans to travel north, stopping at many places including Yellowstone Park. E Most, employed by James Burt, is at home with a heavy cold. Mrs. Lucy Crum and her son Lateer, visited with sister Mrs. Edmund Quinn and brother James Burt recently. John Engelbrecht is ill with a cold. Miss Violet Balleweg starts at Quinn school next Monday. The schoolhouse has been cleaned and prepared for the year. Mr. Balser, summer helper for George Harney, returns to Chicago. Heith Moore aided Clark Ball with threshing preparations.
A note advises using Cham berlain's Liniment for sprained ankles and following directions faithfully to heal faster, claiming availability everywhere and quicker recovery.
Court notes in Cook and Livingston counties show citations for heirs, hearings on estate claims for Kunkle Humphrey Ketchum Foster and Kelly, sales and distributions ordered, widow’s award fixed at 900, plus numerous real estate transfers and licenses. Also included are oddities: claims about wireless photography and a child’s horse radish joke.
A clipping recounts the infamous 1816 summer, detailing an extreme cold wave across New England and New York. Diaries from New York record a winterlike May and June, with snow in Vermont and New York, crops failed, and many faced hardship while fish and game sustained populations.
A business mindset favors buying stock at cut rates and saving on living costs by watching newspaper ads for bargains. The piece argues families can cut living costs 10 to 25 percent by shopping in the cheapest market and avoiding indiscriminate purchases. It notes that many already monitor ads, while some households still resist bargain hunting.
A Kansas reader laments a disastrous season with April promising, May and June bringing 274% inches of rain, heavy July downpours, crops drowned and replanted multiple times, and a hard ground that bakes. If rain does not come soon, only hay may be raised.
Two British sailors with tickets to the show gaze at a Skye terrier so furred it resembles a woolen rug. They joke about the dog's hair and which end is its end, one asking and the other guessing while they consider poking it with a pin to see which end barks.
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