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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1919
Page
8
Public notices and personal items from Henry Illinois including a Christmas dance at Henry Opera House with 20th Century Jazz Orchestra, census pay increases, Armington basketball, Saxony gift packages, Henry civic improvements, church and club events, WCTU meeting notes, lodge installation plans, and local humor with community happenings.
A 73 acre farm near Princeton sold to J E Monier of Milo township at 600 dollars per acre with plans to move next spring. Obituaries note the deaths of Thomas Foley Sr and Mrs Anna Conlin. L H Eldridge shipped 30 full blooded Buff Orpington chickens to Mays Lake farm for 300 dollars. An Illinois motor vehicle law makes interstate car theft a federal offense with up to five years in prison. Christmas services at Whitefield M E church are set for next Sunday at 11. Gov Lowden touts farmer states as ideal. Belgium Holland Denmark and Switzerland combined total area is smaller than Illinois. A local coal banker offers cheap coal to town customers. Subscriptions praise farmer advertising in home papers. A December 2 1848 Peoria event inspired a birthday dinner for L C McMurtrie with family. Rev Van Leers sermons warn against doomsday predictions for December 17 1915. A forceful sermon and fine music followed.
Director J Searle Dawley brings Marguerite Clark back in an adaptation of a Hans Christian Andersen tale titled The Seven Swans. The cast features Richard Barthelmess Daisy Belmore William Danforth Augusta Anderson and others. Clark as Princess Tweedledee delivers a winsome whimsical performance. The show runs Friday night at the Henry Opera House on December 21 with nightly screenings through the weekend.
A lecture by Elwood T. Bailey at the opera house impressed with eloquence and war memories. High school program notes and Christmas Eve exercises at the M. E. church are listed. Henry chapter Red Cross directors election set for Friday at the opera house. The Peoria nine o’clock morning train resumes on Sundays and joins the regular schedule.
Rev H G Dusenberry leads all services next Sabbath with a 11 am sermon A Christmas Suggestion and 7 30 pm The Aftermath of Christmas Special choir music and a 6 30 Christian Endeavor session The Sabbath school at 9 45 am will host its annual Christmas entertainment with stereopticon pictures music recitations and a Santa Claus visit Gifts will be distributed Everyone is invited to attend and support community service.
The article notes Christmas masses at Saint Joseph with a low mass at 8 and a high mass at 9, confessions from noon Wednesday, and calls for communion as a key observance. It quotes Rev. M J Brennan urging devotion and blessings for the year ahead.
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