Local notices and social happenings in Peoria area
The Republican notes Dec 1896 events and social items from Peoria and nearby towns. Married couples Douglas, Daniels and Brown-Lottie, Mrs Kline attends Kline Women’s Press Association in Chicago, and county clerks halt Sparrow head bounties. Captain York linked to a liquor law incident on an excursion boat, not in Peoria city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Republican
W. H. Makutchan Carriage Co
Catters
Ayer
Power
York
Chillicothe
Jeffersonville
Ind
Clark Ball
Whitefield
Thomas Hubbell
Clara Daniels
Beat
Hartley
Cook County
Wartley
Nimrods
Geo Nicholson & Co
Depot
Fairbank
Cal Stone
Carde
Lester Brown
Lottie Bell
Adam P. Brown
Henry
John Kline
Chicago
Klinda Women's Press Association
Kline
National
Hosstors Association
St Augustine
Fis
Mra
Zoller
Hhey
MBH, Ald Society
Arletta Jones
Samuel Clift
James Harrison
Brit
M. I
Lsten
America
T. W. McVaty
First M. B. Church of
Iagleston
A. Worley
Ark
Music teachers of Marshall county hold successful convention
The Marshall county music teachers held a two day convention at the Presbyterian church with an afternoon and evening program. Delegates from Ottawa La Salle Wenona Lacon Sparland Toluca Varna and other towns attended. Notable guests included Dr H S Perkins Bicknell Young Madame Mazzucato Young and Prof W S Wallace who spoke and performed. The session featured piano, violin, clarinet, cornet, and vocal numbers, a paper on modern composers, and plans for a future meeting in Lacon in February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall ‘County
Presbyterian Church
Althe
Ottawa
la Salle
T.jones
Lucy Dean
Lacon
Frank Martin
Bertha Beckwith
Wenons
Mary Thomas
Henry
W. H. Jones
Wenona
Nettie Becher
Sparland
Earnest Grigsby
Brown, Page & Hillman Co
Peoria
W. W. Dean
Kate Burke
Janie Murray
Nashville
Tenn
Susy Dean
Daisy Shaw
Spencer Ellsworth
Misa Gertrude Smith
Boarland
Venona
Grace Hankinson
Lillian Runnels
Anna Huffman
Whitefield
Saratoga
Tenry
Mesars
Will Meier
Wilbur Moon
Chas
Frommel Cornet
Abram Stapp Basy
Miss Kellogg
Mnaic
P. K. Hammond
Mualo
Edith Cooke
Miss King
Gertrude Smith
Will Thompson
T. J. Jones
H. Jones
Spencer
Mendelssohn
Ellsworth
Holy City
Miss Dean
Grlag
Eternity
Liszt
Lacan
W.8
Wallace
Mr. Young
Young
England
Gaynor
Chicago
Molly
Madame Young
Faust
Pretty Jane
Rosaint
Mr Young
Iis. Parkin
Local notes from Marshall county and surrounding towns
The article covers community happenings in Marshall county including the first meeting of the Marshall county MTA in Galesburg on June 30, farewells and welcomes, an accident involving M G Cotney, praise for the Rockford Morning Star, local fire at Reid school house near Whitefield Corners, upcoming court appearances, Santa Claus visitors, church socials, illness and recoveries, travel by several residents to California, a near-drowning incident, Mystic Shrine meeting in Peoria with George F. Hawthorne elected Illustrious Potentate, and local sales and business notices including a cutter and bob sled sale and a D B Turner land survey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M.G. Cotney
Saratoga Township
Western Ave
David McDonough
Cotney
Rockford Morning Star
Roscoe Chapman
John Riley
Henry
The
Star Co
Star
Charles Lamb
Milo
Reid
Whitefield Corners
G. M. Clark
Dennis Hartley
Anamosa
Iowa
B. F. Scott
Lacon
Bigamist
Santa Claus
Powers’ Fair
Congregational Church
Clara Williams
James Burt
Bila Worley
James Swift
Homer
Elk
Swift
T. W. MoVety
Peoria
Wallace
A. J. Diehl
Roy D. McLeish
Diehl
Ayer
McVicker
Jonas Divilbiss
Miss Smith
California
Santa Fe
Chillicothe
Pacific Slope
Charley Shurts
Fred Shurts
O. R. Jones
L. VY. Smith
Terre Haute
Ind
Michael Doherty
Fr Finn
Harvey Hanter
Wheatland
Willis
W. H. Spencer
D.B. Turner
Hennepin
W. H. Makutoban Carriage Co
Princeton
Saxton Sisters Musical Comedy Company
Golden 50th wedding anniversary for Mr and Mrs Bi Albertson
The 50th anniversary on December 10 marks fifty years since their vows in 1845. A large family and relatives from Lacon and Chicago joined to celebrate. The note ends with community news and a venison dinner planned for New Year’s Day 1896. A birth is also recorded for W D Movicker in Santerh township.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mra Bi Albertson
David Owens
Lacon
P. D. Francia
Chicago
A. L. Hupp
Thomas Hubbell and Clara Daniels Married in Whitefield Township
In Whitefield township on December 8 at high noon, at the bride’s home Mrs Clark Ball, by RevCare, Thomas Hubbell and Clara Daniels wed. Also a ceremony near Lostant on November 27 by Rev EB Mecham joined William M. Griffin and Ioka, daughter of Casper Webber, in marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitefield Township
Aieter
Clark Ball
Ov Care
Thomas Hubbell
Clara Daniels
Lostant
Ruv EB
BE. Mecham
Lwilliam M.grifvith
Ioka
Casper Webber
Mra Kiphalot Kotonuim
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Geoxror
Venry, Ill
Laursday
Erert
Vue St. Jacobs Oil
Galesburg
Marshall County
M.T. A
Bork
Santerh Township
W. D. Movicker
Edwards Street
Douglas Chance
George Bickerman
Plymouth Rocks
Poland
Apely
George Vail
FR Sale
Hloga Norfeaty Bonithy
I. M. Forbes
Henry, Il
Henry City Bridge Company
Bridge Cog
Til
Woolookaa
First National Bank of Henry
Haid
Ir Henry
Charles
Jones
J. W. Finnegan
East Park Row
Utenry
Tul
Hutchins
Ek. A. Hatching
Mali
L. A. Meier & Sons
P. S
L. A
Clark
Silecia Aos
DeLong
I AM
Busine
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