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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1912
Page
11
Local notice page lists Christmas travels and shopping in Henry Sparland and Peoria. town residents, school events, a doorway accident, and community notices. Christmas cantata at Baptist church, cantata details, classes praised. nursing request, musicale date January 1 1913, and general holiday updates.
Advertises Booths HYOMEI for night and day use to relieve stuffed heads and congestion. Inhaler provided with a vapor method using boiling water, claims to heal sore throat and catarrh, refunds offered by T. J. Segraves.
Full line of machinery and tools including Moline plows planters and implements. International wagons manure spreaders Schroeder grain dumps dairy equipment Peoria power washing machines and more. Cowboy tank heaters wire fencing oils and greases husking pegs pumps and tanks advertised.
W Baggs returns from Iowa. Lyman Vincent moving to South Leuben to work on Mrs Jacobson’s farm. Miss Della Taylor gains a new Strauss piano from Steigle Co. in Chicago. Four new pianos placed in homes. Glen Wagner’s father ill in La Porte Indiana. grandmother ill and detained. Milton Holler at Union station baggage dept visits ill mother. Frank Russell’s New York bride a local talk of the town. Christmas trade brings patrons to the depot. Widow Archie Compton seeks washings for support of five children.
A winter and spring pneumonia warning describes Dr King’s New Discovery as the best medicine to drive off colds and grip. Endorsed by Mrs. George W. Place of Rawsonville Vermont, it is guaranteed for bronchial affections. Prices 50 cents and 1.00 with trial bottles free at local drug stores.
Christmas brings fresh delight to young and old as South Whitefield extends holiday wishes to editors and readers. Robert Rickey and family visited George Rickey. Fred Ely and wife visited their children Frank and Mrs. Miller in La Prairie. Oscar Heller packed and left for a Kota home with his belongings. Lopeman Bros. install a new corn shelter and offer prompt service. Miss McGee of Burson school presented a Christmas program and hosted a free Monday night. Peter Neuhalsen visited. Miss Mary Ely helped Mrs. Harry Johnston feed corn shellers. Ely shines in domestic arts. Corn shelling and butchering are key farmer tasks.
Shorter daylight passes as winter tightens. Mrs. George Holler and daughters Bernadine and Armilla visit her parents Mr. and Mrs. John Klein while Grandm a Holler remains ill. Mrs. McLuskey spends time with her. Benny learns to be a Miller and Ralph grows into a Marvel. The McLuskys and Edna with a friend visited Peoria Saturday.
Miss Marie Gerber of Sawtelle California contracted a severe cold settling on her lungs. A friend recommended Chamberlains Cough Remedy. After one night she was relieved and within a week free of cough and lung soreness. For sale by T J Segraves and A J Ironmonger.
Ruth Turnbull hosts sisters and friends from Peoria Danville Northwestern Princeton and Font du Lac while visitors from Antioch Edelstein and Monmouth join the community. Christmas gatherings include the Martin-Wescott nuptials in Chillicothe and a Ferris Concert. A January 17, 1918 lecture by the International Harvester company on The Dawn of Plenty will benefit Hull school with motion pictures and colored views.
Saratoga notes show daily corn shelling in fine weather and visitors including Harry Holmes of Peoria. Local residents report family visits, children’s illness, and social calls over the weekend with Christmas and New Year wishes.
An old advertisement claims MI-DNA cures stomach misery caused by fermenting food. It states the stomach irritation affects the brain via a great nerve and promises relief or money back with a 50 cent box sold by T. J. Segraves and druggists.
The Epworth League plans a Friday social at Mrs John Harris home on Dec 27. Miss Viola Herr returns home for three weeks. Miss Louise McAllister leaves teaching for housekeeping. Pastor's special meetings start in January with a musical evangelist. School students excel at a spelling match at town hall with prizes. Mrs Mary Harris Falk recovering from appendicitis at Willis Harris home. Winship family visiting Srl Johnson. plans for new Minnesota home. Harry Snell drove to Peoria for car repairs. Officer elections to be held after Sunday school. Sunday school includes home department and cradle roll.
A public sale on the Jonas Diverbiss farm in Saratoga township, 6 miles east of Camp Grove and 9 miles west of Henry, Illinois, occurs Monday January 6 1913 at 10 am. Auction features horses cattle hogs and farm implements with terms cash under 10 and credit terms over that amount, buyers to provide secure notes. Lunch to be served. Auctioneers Lisle Smith and R K McColl. Clerk J O Hill.
A local note highlights court filings and estate actions including many probate filings for the deceased Sidney Freeman Rebecca Klees Granville Matthews Louis A Lenz Harry Be Skelton Catherine B Hill Amanda F E Ketchum and others with hearings and orders. Real estate transfers and a large public auction near Henry Illinois list livestock farm implements and household goods with sale terms and dates.
Martin A. Locke 52 of Lacon and Emma Francis 58 of Sparland. Frank H. Raguet 22 of Lacon and Mamie Hutchinson 16 of Lacon. Henry J. Hawksworth 21 of Henry and Alta M. Humphrey 18 of Henry. Primo Marchesi 26 of Toluca and Paulina Guidotti 18 of Toluca.
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