Magnolia Community Notes and Holidays Briefs
Magnolia items report Ada Potter returning from Streator and Grace Thompson visiting To luca on Monday. Bab y born to Mr and Mrs J F Titus on December 24. Lectures on electricity set for January 10 1911 and church members to be recognized New Year’s Day at 7 PM. Sunday school contributed 4 to frontier Sunday schools fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inez Judd
Evans
Lundy
J. F. Titus
Dee
Warren Hull
Aid
Okla
Harry Ramage
Jay Dunne
Georgie Hillabrand
Nan Guinea
Kansas
T. C. Bishop
Allentown
A. J. Bishop
N. R. Spencer
Magnolia
Williams
Beulah Beatrice Busby
E. S. Busby
Magnolia Sunday School
Sunday School Attendance Totals Reported
The article notes church community goals and lists Sunday school attendance figures. Magnolia shows 69 last Sunday and 991 to date, Varna 4 percent and 763 total, Lestant 37 last Sunday and 749 total, Hope 24 last Sunday and 411 total, with grand totals for paired schools and from Oct 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magnolia
Varna
Lestant
Hope
Magnolia town notes and holiday gatherings cross Magnolia
Local residents recount holiday visits in Oak Park Toluca Amboy and nearby areas. Social events include dinners at Green Lawn and Flitcraft home, Grange hall entertainment, and school teachers returning home for vacation. Various premiums awarded at Magnolia Mutual Fire Insurance fair with crops and bakery contests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flitcraft
Oak Park
A. B. Wilson
Max Whitney
Nira Beck
Irma Bumgarner
Stockland
J. N. Wilson
Arlene Morris
Amboy
Helen Smith
Mrs. Flitcraft
Henry
Florence Beck
Grange Hall
John Swaney
Miss Hedden
Indiana
Ruth Bumgarner
Reading Circle
O. P. Mills
Walter Pechin
el Reno
Okla
John Davidson
W.H. Francis
Magnolia Grange
I. R. Bum- Barner
Orville Shaffer
Vandalia
H. F E. Beck
James Fairchilds
Clifford Mills
Aledo
Leland Griffith
Woodhull
Enida
DeKalb
Don
Lora Kays
Louisa Bumgarner
California
Farmers’ Institute
Magnolia
T. J. Smith
Henry R
Frank Carruthers
Toluca
Magnolia Mutual Fire Insurance Co
F. £. Smith
Green Lawn
C. B. Flitcraft
Howard Wilson
Mason Wilson
Charles Merritt
Florence Given
George Ditman
Wm. Francis
Haco
Marion French
R. A. Ward
Hattie Hillabrand
Graham
Mary Smith
Ed Defenbaugh
John Wilson
Angel
Laura Smith
Spaulding
Mms
Frank King
Fannie Griffith
Marlon French
Mase Wilson
Christmas Village Notes and Local Visit Highlights
Mt Palatine residents Mr and Mrs Wintermeyer of Pennsylvania spend the holiday with Mrs Sipe. The Dose School box social drew poor attendance due to bad weather but the program was well rendered. Miss Effie Brown returns from Chicago. David Sipe comes back from Dakota. No Christmas church entertainment this year. Miss Pauline Powell returns from Normal for the holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MT. Palatine
Local News and Family Updates in Hennepin
Miss Jones hosts a village entertainment and readers send New Year wishes to The Republican staff. Notables include Miss Pauline Patterson at Christmas, many relatives visiting, and a Soldier’s Home death. The M W A dance, kidney health ads, and a Tonica accident dominate rural notices from Hennepin Granville to Pekin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hennepin
Pauline Patterson
Lostant
Blanche
Matthew McAnany
Maude
Mary Stouffer
Harry Wood
Howard Curley
George Taylor
Nellie Simpson
Chicago
Eugene Simpson
Tampico
Thomas Leech
Granville
Earl Taylor
Buda
van Sickle
W. A. Paxson
Mother Bosley
Tonica
M. I. Church
Santa Claus
C. C. Greiner
Ed Schemerhorn
Pekin
Davidson
Evanston
Birdie Schemerhorn
F. B. Neal
Ed Wonser
Milwaukee
Wis
William Hamm
Wild
Woolly West
R. Bentley
Leta
Dr. Joynson
Alf Johnson
Health official urges home fumigation after scarlet fever cases
Dr. Cradford of Rockford inspected Granville and Standard on Wednesday. He found no severe cases but advised consulting the family physician at first symptoms and fumigating affected homes. Harry weakens at home as scarlet fever concerns persist in the neighborhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry
C. IB. Cradford
Rockford
State Board of Health
Granville
Standard
John Jacob
Denmark
Josephine Johnx
Adam Wagner
Ottawa
Frank Dunlevy
Andrew Wagner
Toluca social honor and a local check forgery tale
A Toluca home celebration honors Frank Carruthers with his new daughter in law Mabel on a birthday as guests enjoy sandwiches coffee and cake and present a silver meat fork and berry spoon. Earlier a local fraud shows two forged checks 11.75 and 12.50 linked to a farmer. the culprit fled toward Venona after cashing the checks and leaving an overcoat. Uncle Eben and Uncle Ezra joke about the faster train as Squire Hoskins mails a letter to his son in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toluca Herald
Frank Carruthers
Mabel
Venona
Eben
Ezra
Squire Hoskins
New York
Collard signal guards rails with air brake trigger
Invented by I M Collard of Danville the non electric Collard signal uses a trap on ties and an air cylinder linked to the train brake to stop a locomotive when a switch or signal is ignored. Portable 10 pound devices warn at danger points while movable units work with switches and signals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. M. Collard
Danville
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Rayo
Standard Oil
Sam Potter, JR
Magnolia, Ill
Magnolia Bank
Illinois
Northern Illinois Co-Operative Burial Association
Allen B. Smith
M. E. Church
W. A. Simmons
Centenary Hospital
Olive Street Bank
Barnes’ University
Medico, Chirurigcal Society
St. Louis
Ina Bank
Ina, Il
EK. F. Mongeau
W. H. Weathers
Chicago Veterinary College
Veterinary Hospital
McNabb Centrals
A. Hecht & Son
Henry, III
Magnolia Department
Herman Potter
Peoria
Ada Potter
Streator
Grace Thhmpson
Grace Thompson
John Frey
N. J. Allen
Albert Horton
Quaker Lane
Miss Jones
Foley
Anna Johnson
A. J. Tronmonger
George Miller
St. Mary's Hospital
la Salle
Miller
Mr. Miller
Nicholas
Leonore
Granville Eeho
American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions
Brotherhood
D. B. Moore
Platte
DR. King’s
T. J. Segraves
Tronmonger
Toluca Star
Caroll
Minonk
Carroll
Star
St. Ann’s Sisters
Molly Sloey
Wenona
Wi. Breen
Anna Fahy
Maggie
Josie Connell
Polly Burroughs
Miss Sloey
Lacon
Wm. McFarland
Ghars Bosch
Bureau
Putnam
Marshall Counties
CG. A. Miller & Go
Spring Valley, Ill
Frank F. Weber
Dwight, Ill
Wimner Schlosser
L. B. Elliston, M.D
R. G. Dakin
Sister Sue
Johnnie
Sue
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