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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1918
Page
3
Local notes from Sparland and Henry detail visits, theater party, and school events. Mentions Miss Hastings, Miss Parsons, and several families. reports on church programs, a mask box social, and a birthday. notes a mining accident and a funeral for John Babington.
Mr and Mrs Carl Barker welcome a son born Sunday February 17. Harley Reese visits his wife’s parents. Mrs Fisher and her young children stay with Mr Swineman to help with summer housework. Charles Reid ships two loads of stock Monday. Ed Hufnagel family moves to John Phelps tenrant house. Guy Shorts visits relatives in Lingoln Neb. Mrs Walter Bentley travels to North Dakota to join daughter after hospital stay for heart trouble. Charles Reid serves on grand jury. Three new pupils join Reid school Alva Piper Hilda and Howard Fisher bringing enrollment to fifteen. Glenn Reed drives a cattle load to Chicago with Ben Montgomery cooking while away. Illness of Mrs Henry Mattison reported but hoped to recover.
An ad praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy from Mrs. Frank Crocker of Pana Illinois noting quick relief for a five year old with a severe cold. The piece also mentions the steamer well known to river men on the upper Mississippi among those lost in the ce jam in the Ohio river and lists G E H Fenwick Funeral Director with date 12-27-tf.
Court notes probate hearings for the estates of Charles Cusac William Rickey Harry Luft and Sherman Sperry with related waivers final reports and administrator discharge. Real estate transfers and marriage licenses also listed including transfers in Venona Sparland and Toluca with couples named Monaghan Lenz Falk Wink and Kincaid Montonye.
A district convention called by Fred Sterling signs to nominate a Republican candidate for the fifth supreme district seat. Delegates from Bureau to Woodford meet in Peoria on March 26 with one delegate per 1,000 votes for governor or lieutenant governor. The current Democrat incumbent is Judge C. Craig of Galesburg.
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