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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1913
Page
2
Magnolia Department reports a flurry of visits and sociable events. Residents and guests including John Breen, Dr. Mongeau, Leslie Skelton, Miss Elsie Dean, Mrs. Price, Miss Anne Jessen, and many families attended school dedications, conferences, and neighborhood get togethers through August.
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The Magnolia public school dedication on Wednesday August 20 featured a 1:30 program start with school children parading from the park to the auditorium. Rev Bell led prayers and J W Street of Mackinaw gave a three-part talk on farm and business education and rural life. The event highlighted the $24,350 school building cost and emphasized the school as a center for social and intellectual life in Magnolia.
The Magnolia community marks the school dedication with speeches by W E Hawthorne, Prof. King, and W G Paxson. Magnolia Alumni present a new piano to the school and pledge support to the district while a ball game and various races conclude the afternoon.
During the August dedication exercises a Magnolia Alumni meeting awarded a Jesse French piano to the school. Mrs. Cora Dakin presented the key to the school board president after raising funds for five years. The piano is to be used for the school’s benefit.
Magnolia Alumni association presents a winter lecture series in the school auditorium. The Boyds perform October 1 followed by The Lewis Co on December 19 with Wallace Bruce Amsbury as lecturer on February 16 and the Maurer sisters in late April. Tickets from Mrs E Dakin or the telephone office.
A column of social news lists visits and trips by local families including the Wilson, Mills, Bumgarner, Griffith, and Tomlinson households. People attend shows in Peoria and Lexington, visit relatives in Washington and California, and join summer schools in Benjaminville. The piece closes with a funeral notice for Mrs Mary Ann Tomlinson and a humor exchange about fashion costs.
Mrs Willard Graham of Elstown T Tuttee Bovina Center N Y says six years of poor health after childbirth improved after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She now does most of her own work and urges suffering women to try it, noting its herb origin and no narcotics. A confidential advice offer is extended by the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Mass.
McNabb Sidney Webb of Randolph visits his father George Webb in Bloomington with Elsie Dissinger also in Granville for two weeks. Horace Webb tended the tower during the Bloomington visit. The schoolhouse interior is being painted and cleaned ahead of next week. Mary Seibert returns to work at the bank.
Local notices detail numerous visits and travels among residents of Lostant Ottawa Utica and surrounding towns. Individuals and families from Birmingham Buffalo Freeport Des Moines Rochelle and Chicago are mentioned visiting relatives friends and attending institutes and funerals. Several minor injuries and travel plans are noted as well.
Retiring from dairying, Ennis Dakin sells at Magnolia Ht. Tuesday Sept. 2 1918 at 1 p m. Twenty Jersey cows and heifers, full blood and registered from Isle of Jersey. Four fresh, seven to fresh before Dec 1, two before sale. Six horses including draft mares 1500 pounds bred to Percheron, a 4% year old draft gelding 1600 pounds, a 6 year old road horse by Seven Plumes, and a pacer colt with lineages Archy Audubon and Belle McKinley. Cash or note with approved security due six months, 6 percent interest. Auctioneers George Borgstede. clerk Henry Dakin.
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