Personalities and local notes in Henry Illinois
Local briefs cover visits by Harry Mills and John Nader of Magnolia on business, Edna Greenlee's weekend with parents, and Hather Hunter with Miss Brown of Chicago. Birth announced for Edward Hall Jr. at Camp Pike. F B Coe attends Peoria convention while J N Wilson plans farm handover. A large farm sale yields several thousand dollars. Seed corn warns of low-quality stock. high prices persist in Iowa. Cold Maxbass weather and Red Cross efforts noted. Tiskilwa Chief suspends, LaMoille follows, as wartime strain hits papers. Tractor debate cites 600000 horses on six million farms and food use. Night train service loss at Rock Island depot criticized. calls for action. Chillicothe spring prospects include new homes, double-tracking by Rock Island, and Interurban rail expansion delayed by steel shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph Klein
Western Catholic Union
Harry Mills
John Nader
Magnolia Township
Henry
Edna Greenlee
Brown's
Business College
Hather Hunter
Miss Brown
Chicago
Edward Hall
Camp Pike
Little Rock
Ark
F. B. Coe
International Association of
Peoria
H. E. Moore
Music House of Jansen & Joosten
J. N. Wilson
McNabb
Putnam County
Eckhardt
Iowa
Illinois
Mary H. Price
Maxbass
N. D
Red Cross
Tiskilwa
Bureau County
LaMoille
J. B. Bartholomew
Avery Manufacturing Company
France
Rock Island
State Utilities Commission
Peoria Sunday Journal
Chillicothe
City of
Rock Island Railroad
Bureau
Salvation Rescue Home letter from San Antonio 1918
A 1918 San Antonio letter to Edward Merdian praises Emma’s Salvation Rescue Home founded for at risk girls and babies. The writer visits Battle Creek Memphis New Orleans and California, notes mothers seeking aid, mentions a $5,000 gift to enlarge the building, and urges prayers and support. Also printed is a long delinquent list for Marshall County and local notices on medical exams at the courthouse in Lacon Illinois and soldier Frank Phillips’ furlough in Henry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tex
Salvation Rescue Home
Emma
Battle Creek
Memphis
Vicksburg
New Orleans
California
Florida
Homan
Emme
Seaside
Fred
Long Beach
Fred H. Moore
Linden Ave
Cal
Marshall County
Augustine Lemus
Frank Gonzales
Mihmad
Golip
Jose Ontiferous
Randan Nahmed
Najib Rushan
Noah Watson
Welly
Tezola
Martinsonn
Feliciano Munoz
Juan Barajas
Rassin Ahmed
James Brooks
John R. van Dusen
Nahmed Brain
Alice Brain
Rafael Gonzales
Anton Hamick
Ismail Garcia
Salih Suliman
Jose Montelli
Frank Lewis
George Kolarick
Trig Wilbourn
William Jackson
Wilbourn T. Goff
Frank Phillips
Magnolia
Jefferson Barracks
Henry
Our City
Wardens Confiscated Fish Near Beardstown
Illinois river wardens seized 3,000 pounds of bass and catfish en route from Browning to Hannibal for shipment to St Louis. Auto truck owner and driver were stopped near Rushville after the fish spoiled an engine failure and a tip about illegal shipment. The fish were donated to local and state institutions. driver Fred Sherrill faces larceny charges though the fish have no market value under Illinois law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois Game and Fish
Illinois River
Beardstown
Browning
Hannibal
St. Louis
S. P. Dodds
George Armel
Woodstock Township
Rushville
Armel
Fred Sherrill
Campbell
W. L. Talbot
Pontiac
Game and Fish Department
Home Charities Commission
Lewis
Illinois
Dodd
Somewhere in France at the city opera house 1917 program
A Fort Wayne entertainment review describes a Friday night program under Mrs Anna Culter Hall with Henry orchestra and performers. The night opened with The Star Spangled Banner then a farce Rosberry Shrub featuring Hannah Dewey and Sarah Jane. A wartime drama Somewhere in France follows, showing French and American characters, a Red Cross nurse, and a test revealing a blinded soldier’s return. The show ends with a celebratory scene as Americans arrive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Allen
Red Cross
Whitefield
Henry
Lincoln
Washington
America
Opera House
Anna Culter Hall
Henry Red Cross
Mabel L. Steimle
Eli Wright
Judson Ong
Louis Kraus
Will Meiers
Isaac Gilpin
Bert Weimer
Eva Harrison
Army
Hannah Dewey
Enid Chase
Sarah Jane
May Young
Jennie
Deweys
Marian Bickerman
Bob Taylor
Alvin Hofer
Melinda Johnsing
Helen Compton
Abraham Ebenezer White
Ruth Compton
Bess Fisher
Dorothy Gromwell
Ora Mae Klein
Elizabeth ‘Weaver
Inez Anderson
Marjorie Duke
France
General Pershing
Pierre Graudet
George Harney
Madame Graudet
Gladys Glenn
Jean
Arthur Newell
Nanon
Helen Siewers
Lizette
Rosalind Hall
Mary Dale
Grace Hartley
Mary
Boy Scouts
Local Happenings Highlight War News and Community Anecdotes
Saturday January 19 witnessed the marriage of David Leger of Toluca to Eva Blankenship in Ottawa with plans to reside in LaSalle. The piece notes U S Army strength and wartime contrasts, food conservation measures, a Belgian front veteran’s family update, a mule phonograph trade tale, and the Laurens Red Cross drive raising 9452 94 with a substantial turkey contribution and donor directory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Leger
Toluca
Eva Blankenship
Ottawa
LaSalle
U. S Army
Spain
Jane Hall
Harry A. Wheeler
Illinois
Washington
Wheeler
Henry County
Charles VandaVoorde
Annawan
August
Yser
Belgium
Herman Shaft
Richard Toles
Herman
Mr. Elliott
Putnam
Kaiser Sorrels
Lacon
Dick Joles
Samuel Thumma
Laurens
Towa
Wesley Doyle
Laurens Sun
Red Cross
the Sun
The
Sun
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Salvation Rescue Home
Edward Merdian
Ramam
RED Cross News
Cromwell
Cornell
Tilton
J. A. Williams
Ong Orchestra
George Halbleib
Anna Hall
Sir Galahad
Theodore Kaiser
David Dwyer
Earl Hubble
U. S. Department of the High School
Miss Travis
Zeta Hofer
Margaret Helper
Bebs
Zita Hofer
Hofer
Mrs. Carpenter
Sophs
Percy Swift
Charles Williams
Clifford Merdian
Bing Kline
Kenneth King
Clarence Duke
Walter Helper
Braden
Carpenter
Bernice Wabel
Marguerite Herr
Lillian Kuss
Helen Zenor
Clara Downey
Vera Vail
Emma Mae Schwarz
Reba Vail
Marie Smith
Mayella Peterman
Edina Gray
Vera Rowe
Kenneth Bill
Theodore Clarence
Ralph Wabel
Mildred
Clift
Vera Ader
Viola Rowe
Edna Shimel
Jenee
Ee Methodist Episcopal Church
Epworth League
V. L. Loomis
Glenn BE
St. Joseph's Church
M. J. Brennan
Ea St. Mary's Church
Andrew Schauer
St. John’s Episcopal Church
St. John's Church
Saunders
Miss Braden
Louis Bly
Mae
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