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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1906
Page
2
Mr G A Gearhart delivered his second season lecture to a Henry audience. He praised true Christianity as the bedrock of character and the life of Jesus as a model for success. He denounced strikes, lynchings, corruption and other 20th century evils, urging moral reform.
State Game Warden J A Wheeler appeals to farmers to protect liberated southern quail and pheasants through winter weather. He urges leaving unplowed margins and fence corners for nesting, proper feeding and water, and warns of collaboration with the state commission to boost bird numbers amid harsh cold. Notes also cover local society items and community updates.
The Alpine Stock company opens February 12 at Hears Opera House with A Tone Kentuckian, a drama praised for road success. The week adds comedies and dramas including Life a hypnotic crime drama and The Gambler set in Idaho, plus On the Swanee River, A Family Affair, A Chicago Tramp, and acts of special entertainment.
Classified notices list second class furniture for sale five room house and barn near the Andrew Kent homestead rent options for Mesabo property with rent details, farmland tracts 150 and 80 acres with prices per acre, multiple exchanges offered, and a seven room Henry county rental with six acres of land. Listings reference John Hartley and John Vertiay as contacts.
Public sale on February 15 at the Barnhart farm one quarter mile north of Putnam New Jersey. Auction lists two horses nine milch cows a Durham bull ten brood mares Poland China boars and various farm equipment plus about 160 bushels corn and four tons Timothy hay. Terms require cash for under $10 and credit with bankable paper for larger sums. 6 percent discount for cash over $16. Auctioneers and house services provided.
Auction announced by Col. A. P. Child & Son with W. G. Griffith as clerk. Sale includes dairy cows, yearlings, spring calves, brood cows, a black mare, farm implements, wagons, harness, seed, hay, oats, corn, stove wood, and household items. Terms: cash under 10, credit 9 months on bankable paper, 4 percent discount for cash over 10. Lunch served.
An OCR fragment lists a seven room rental on Main street with unclear contact names and dates. It also mentions a Spencer farm of 75 acres and Boots and shoes inventory moving by February 10, plus a restaurant and building references, all with garbled names and locations.
By authority of the late John L. McGullige estate, Thomas A. Nisvitt, executor, offers 740 acres of farm land near Broadmoor South of the Northwestern Railway. Includes two houses, a barn, sheds, granaries, well watered, fenced. Sale by tract with ten percent down. balance due March 2, 1906. Auction February 24, 1906 at 1 o’clock pm. Abstract furnished. title ready.
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