Henry Dance at Henry Opera House New Year Eve
The Henry community advertises a big dance at the Henry Opera House on December 31 to ring out the old year and welcome the new. Local society notes include visits from Peoria relatives and various notices about social events and local commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Garland
Peoria
Henry Opera House
Belle Evens
Iowa
Welte & Wieting
Adams St
A. J. Gladstone Dowle
John Alexander Dowie
Zion
Episcopal Church
Gideons
Earl Osborne
Hartley
Osborne
W. F. Hamm
Old Seminary Road
Hunter
Henry B. King
The
Oxbow
Bloomington
Magnolia
Henry
Grant Trone
Mt. Vernon
Illinois
Local business school ad promises courses and openings
An advertisement from a business school notes classrooms and capacity gains with 102 more students than last year. It lists offered subjects and dates for new classes starting January 5 and enrollment through January 15. The ad emphasizes a three dollar value and invites enrollment.
Local Notices and Ads Run Through Busy Holiday Week
A mix of business ads and brief notices includes Brown's Business College promotion for Mrs. Charles Bell's Christmas goods, cattle loss blamed on cornstalk disease near Sheldon, and news of improved Public Service electric service planned for Chillicothe and Henry. Also featured are cleaning and dyeing ads from Columbian Dye Works Peoria and a Plymouth Rock hen with extraordinary egg production from Ottawa. A letter from Rev H W Burger of St Anthony Idaho describes summer travel, weather, farming, seed pea business, railroad hopes, and church activities including a growing Sunday school and plans for a Christian Endeavor group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. H. Bradley
Peoria
Ill
Welte & Wieting
Adams St
King
Stephen Appel
Henry
Joseph Malone
Missouri
Stark County
Camp Grove
Oscar Bass
J. W. Renwick
Harrisonville
J. D. Paull
Wyoming
Ollie Roberts
Magnolia
Jacksonville College
C. B. Griffin
Lancaster
Cook
Hennepin
George Lutes
Shelbina
Shelby County
Charles Bell
W. W. Ross
Sheldon
W. J. Martin
Kankakee
Patman
Columbian Dye Works
Main St
J. C. Ebersol
Ottawa
H. W. Burger
St. Anthony
Idaho
Presbyterian Church
Yellowstone Park
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Schloss
Baltimore Lothes
Central Illinois
Haly Seay
J. Watercott & CO
Martin King
J. K. Ball
Wabel
J. J. Barnes
Woman's Relief Corps
Lookout !Mountain No. 2
Warl Enos
Feature
Springfield
J. SK. O'Neil
Barnes
J. R. Blaisdell
G. A. Marsh
Bradford
J. C. Blaisdell
Lilian
Minnie Roberts
Ollie
Center Church
Dunlap School
Ruth Griscel
Daniel Horrom
L. W. Woodward
Bureau County
Happy Sieh
Sieh
Arcola
Burleson
Department of Public Instruction of
Wisconsin
Elmira
C. High
Willard Mallary
Walker's Spot Cash Grocery
Henry, Illinois
Brown’s Business College
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