Local notes share news of births sales and public matters
Community news item details a family birth at Camp Pike Little Rock Ark notes a painter convention in Peoria and agency interest from Jansen Joosten a large farm sale in Putnam County farm transitions by J N Wilson and mention of seed corn prices and seed corn shortages across Illinois. Weather cold it’s Red Cross efforts and paper suspensions in Bureau County amid wartime strain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stoerate
Adolph Klein
I Mills
John Nader
Olia Township
Henry
Meedna Greenlee
Brown
Business College
Srenter
Hunter
Vis Brown
Chicago
Edward Hall
Uquary
Camp Pike
Little Rock
Ark
F. B. Coe
Association of Master House Painters
Peoria
H. E. Moore
Music House of Jansen & Joosten
J.N. Wilson
McNabb
Putnam County
State Seed Cor
LaMoille
Uing
J. B. Bartholomew
Avery Manufacturing Company
Rock Island
State Utilities Mission
Peobroomday Journal
Chillicothe
Fon Company
Salvation Rescue Home visits and charity notes in letters
A San Antonio letter dated January 28 describes visiting the Salvation Rescue Home founded by Emma Mercian. It mentions care for many babies and expectant mothers, Emma’s death and grave visit, a generous donor adding 5000 dollars to expand the building, and plans to inform Emma’s family. The writer travels through Battle Creek Memphis New Orleans and Long Beach, discusses hotel costs, vows to write, and asks for prayers and visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Mercian
Wrisen
San Antonio
San Antonios Tex
Jush
Salvation Rescue Home
Emma
Emmy
Battle Creek
Memphis
Vicksburg
New Orleans
California
Florida
Seaside
Fred
Long Beach
Fred H. Moore
Linden Ave
Cal
Wardens Confiscate Record Fish Haul in Illinois River
Illinois river wardens halted a shipment near Beardstown, seizing 3,000 pounds of bass and catfish bound from Browning to Hannibal for St Louis. The load, owned by S. P. Dodds, traveled in a Beardstown truck. after its engine failed near Woodstock township, driver and employee Fred Sherrill stayed with the truck while wardens trailed the illegal catch and found the fish southwest of Rushville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois Game and Fish
Illinois River
Beardstown
Browning
Hannibal
S. P. Dodds
George Armel
Woodstock Township
Wiles
Rushville
Armel
Fred Sherrill
Fish theft and court action mix with Red Cross drives
The report details fish seized by Sheriff Campbell near Rushville and later donated to Home Charities, the county home, and state institutions. It covers a preliminary hearing for Fred Sherrill on larceny charges, questions of market value for illegal Illinois species, and adopts a neutral stance on the case amid broader Red Cross and wartime school activities and community programs in Henry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Browning
Campbell
Rushville
W. L. Talbot
Pontiac
Game and Fish Department
Home Charities Commission
Fred Sherrill
Lewis
Mr. Dodd
Somewhere in France stage drama at local opera house
The Friday program at the opera house featured Mrs Anna Culter Hall directing with the Henry orchestra and singers. A short farce Rosberry Shrub followed, then a vivid war drama Somewhere in France showing a French family, a Red Cross nurse and a returning blinded soldier, ending with the arrival of American troops and a patriotic finale. The program also included a high school quartet and a musical selection Keep the Home Fires Burning. The service at Bye Methodist Episcopal Church lists a 9:45 Sunday school, 11 am worship, 6:30 Epworth league, and 7:30 evening service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Allen
Red Cross
Whitefield
Henry
Lst
Lincoln
Washington
America
Opera House
Anna Culter Hall
Henry Red Cross
Mabel L. Steimle
Cromwell
Cornell
Tilton
Bll Wright
Judson Ong
Louis Kraus
Will Meiers
Isaac Gilpin
Bert Weimer
Eva Harrison
Army
Hannah Dewey
Sarah Jane
May Young
Jennie
Deweys
Marian Bickerman
Bob Taylor
Alvin Hofer
Marjorie Duke
France
General Pershing
Pierre Graudet
George Harney
Madame Graudet
Gladys Glenn
Jean
Arthur Newell
Nanon
Helen Stewers
Lizette
Rosalind Hall
Mary Dale
Grace Hartley
Mary
Montaine
H. W. Adams
Methodist Episcopal Church
Epworth League
V. L. Loomis
Glenn E. Tilton
Winter Mass Schedule Changes at Local Churches
St Josephs Church updates Sunday masses to 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. with weekday mass at 7:30 a.m. Rev Brendan. St Marys Church lists Sunday masses at 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. with 2:30 p.m. vespers, weekday mass at 8:00 a.m. and Saturday 7:00 a.m. Rev Schauer. St Johns Episcopal holds church and Sunday school on Sunday February 10 led by Rev Saun Meeus. Nurse Braden from the hospital visited Louis Ely Friday through Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Joseph's Church
J.brendan
St. Mary' S Church
Andrew Schauer
St. John's, Episcopal Church
St. John’s Church
Saun- Meee
Miss Braden
Louis Ely
Local War Time News and Oddities From Laurens
A miscellany from Laurens Iowa covers wartime food concerns and morale notes. It recalls a Belgium service member August Vandra Voorde’s homecoming, bird feeding on winter porch, a mule phonograph trade tale, and Laurens Red Cross drive success with donors totaling $9462.94, highlighting community patriotism and local pride amid shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Loger
Toluca
Hva Blankenship
Ottawa
LaSalle
U. S
Spain
Jane Harl
Harry A. Wheeler
Federal
Illinois
Washington
Wheeler
Henry County
Charles Vandra Voorde
Annawan
August
Yser
Belgium
Herman Shaft
Richard Joles
Herman
Eiliott
Putnam
Kaiser Sorrels
Tuacon
Dick Joles
Maxfeis
Wherman
Whittle Dick
Samuel Thumma
Laurens
Iowa
Wesley Doyle
Laurens Sun
Red Cross
Towa
the Sun
Drive the Sun
Royal Patriotic
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Farsonals
the Salvation Rescue Home
Marshall County
Augustine Lemus
Frank Gonzales
Mihmad Gollp
Jose Ontiferous
Randan Nahmed
Najib Rushan
Noah Watson
Welly Tezola
Martin Conn
Feliciano Munoz
Juan Barajas
Rassin Ahmed
James Brooks
John R
Isidoro Bedolea
Ernest H. Jackson
Juan Diaz
Clarence Harris
Harry W. Dresser
John Harper
Apolonio Chavez
Court House
Lacon
Eyan Frank Phillips
Magnolia
Jefferson Barracks
Our City
RED Cross News
Lincollns
Anna Hall
Sir Galahad
Theodore Kaiser
David Dwyer
Ness
Earl Hubble
Miss Travis
Zeta Hofer
Margaret Helper
Zlta
Clifford Merdian
Bing Kline
Kenneth King
Clarence Duke
Walter Helper
Braden
Carpenter
Barius Wabel
Marguerite Herr
Ainstan Kuss
Helen Zenor
Clara Downey
Vera Wall
Helen Slewers
Emma Mae Schwarz
Roba Vall
Marie Smith
Mayella Peterman
Edna Gray
Verdi Rowe
Kenneth Bill
Theodore Clarence
Ralph Wabel
Mildred
Clit
Vera
Ader
Viola Rowe
Edna Shimel
Papa
George Halblelb
Martin
Uus
Puslut
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