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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1913
Page
13
Sparland items detail visits by Mrs. F H Gehr and others, a postponed supper and apron sale, multiple travels to Missouri Peoria and Bloomington, church services, funerals, illnesses, and marriages including Emma Francis and James A Wilson without romance. Local residents named include Mrs. Culver Laura Carver Mrs. Addison Tanquary and others.
Bertha Viola Davis daughter of Mrs. Robert Davis died Saturday morning after a bout with bronchitis. Born in November 1910 she was a little over two years old. The mother widowed less than a year ago and two young brothers survive the family.
HARM SUPPLIES offers a full line of machinery and tools including planters, plows, wagons, manure spreaders, grain dumps, cream separators, washing machines, tank heaters, wire fencing, buggies, whips, oils and greases. Also features pumps and tanks as a specialty for farms.
The community mourns as funeral services were held at the Baptist church Sunday at 2 p m for a woman who died recently. Rev Klotzsche conducted the rites while Mrs McCartney Mrs Lewis Webster and Messrs Webster and Smith led the singing. The small white casket was adorned with carnations and interment followed beside her father in Sparland cemetery.
A February 21 program from the high school feature portions of songs, instrumental solos, recitations, biographical sketch, stories and dialogues honoring Washington. Performers include Nellie Aitchison Milford Marshall Leeda Gergie Carl Cumming Emma Cumming Mary Humphrey Louise Osborne Lillian Van Antwerp Hensley Hoskins Geraldine Hoskins Vivian Evans Velma Campbell Lula Kenney Frances Rae and others as listed.
On Feb 3 the high school boys organized an athletic club in the office and elected Director Smith, President Chester Van Antwerp, Secretary Fred Aitchison, Treasurer Jyle Duncan, Sheriff Howard Anderson, Janitor Leslie Christman, and Reporter Jim Watkins. A training room is readied in the school basement. Active members must be students. outsiders may join as honorary members, with 27 honorary members listed. Two substantial trapezes were installed.
School notes report second graders crafting doll house kitchen cabinets and shield booklets made by first and second graders last month. Andrew Costelli leaves first grade due to family move to Missouri. Blues lead Reds by three in second grade spelling contest. Miss Vineta Sparr asked to play organist this week. Miss Lula Kenney absent Thursday last week due to illness. Miss Mabelle Pelz detained Friday for high water in the creek.
Miss Vineta Sparr Miss Rose Ely and Miss Frances Rae appointed reporters for Sparland high school this semester. Freshmen study Third Punic War Glaciers and Chinese Japanese geography. Several visits and absences noted. English II III German II and grammar room activities described.
An advertisement touts Dr Kings New Life Pills for four weeks to stimulate the liver aid digestion cleanse blood and clear pimples with claims of improved well being. Sold by A J Ironmongers and T J Segraves. A humorous exchange about marriage contrasts escorts and matrons.
La Prairie Epworth League presents When a Man's a Man at the town hall Friday February 28 with Misses Calder Webber Calder and Ruth Een e and Messrs Brown Longman Calder Greene. Repeat at Speer hall March 1. Norris Root visits due to his father Jemel Root's illness. Community notes include farewells, births, moves, and local visits plus a travelogue interruption at Orchestra Hall. Foley's Honey and Tar urged for coughs and colds.
Local column from South Whitefield reports extended phone outages, a Hofer sale drawing a large crowd with property selling well, and well-wishes for a moving family. Several social visits, arrivals, and farming moves are noted including Mrs. Hunt and Miss Chesney, Miss Ely assisting in moving, and families visiting Lopeman brothers.
An advertisement claims Dr King’s New Discovery cures coughs colds throat and lung ailments with a money back guarantee if it fails. A.J. Ironmonger and T.J. Segraves sell it in Floydada Texas with an endorsement from J.R. Wells who says it cured his cough and cold and helped him gain weight.
Wilmer Lyon remains under medical care with slow improvement. Joe Richard renovates rooms above the Cornell store and will move his family there for the season. Local housing demand rises as residents plan rework. Ice delivery plans derailed by warm wind from Mexico and rising politics. Millard Judd of Glen Elder Kas. visits, renting his Kansas farm to Norris Root who left the Texan Panhandle. Bert Shane and family also plan to rent nearby farm. Aid society held a Valentine social at Mrs. Thomas Collins home with good turnout. Rooms decorated with hearts and emblems though their meaning remains private. A program featured music with Sandy’s bones and Odell sisters recitations. Light lunch served. social pleasantries noted.
A. J. Kistler of Camp Grove visited Broadmoor with friends. A. E. Reese attended a Camp Grove shooting match. Mrs. Margaret Hemmingway from Dlgin visited home folks for ten days. Miss Nora McMannus of North Dakota stays with aunt Mrs. Nellie Powers. Mrs. A. W. Shriver visited relatives in Putnam. Samuel Benham and family moved from southern Indiana. Miss Laura Brown and Mrs. Hemmingway were Peoria visitors. John X. Brown and wife traveled to Missouri where they bought a farm and plan to stay in Illinois for now.
In a letter from William T. Gapen of Lacon Illinois he reports backache kidney pain and irregular kidney action improved after using Doan's Kidney Pills. The ad urges readers to buy the 50 cent remedy from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY and remember the name Dean's.
Circuit Court entries list attachments guardianship and probate actions for Otto Nollys Jacob Hoffstetter Fred Gehrys James Medearis Esther Rebecca Croft Rebecca Klees Dorothy Evelyn Skelton John Shubar Henry Kirchman and estates. Real estate transfers include multiple parcels in Toluca Lacon Wenona Toluca and Santa Fe Ist additions with various grantees and quitclaim deeds recorded.
A party wall is described along the north line of lot 14 and the south line of lot 18 in block 74 Toluca. Otto A. Scherer and wife quit claim deed to C B Dorsey. Marriage licenses issued for Herman C Folken and Anna Felt. Isaac Clayton Walker and Ethel Maud Hines. Walter W Kanive and Josephine E Stonier.
A. J. Ironmonger of Ady cites a family doctor recommendation and his own experience with Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound. He says it provides the best satisfaction for his children’s cough needs and urges others to try it.
Farmers weigh the risk of smut in next season’s oats and learn a simple formalin treatment. Mix one pint formalin with 30 to 40 gallons of water, wet the oats, cover 24 hours, then dry. Alternatively soak sacks of oats in the solution ten minutes and dry. Cost runs two to three cents per bushel.
L C Hames of Marbury Alabama praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy noting it works like a charm for colds and whooping cough and that his children have used it as well. Sold by T J Segraves and A J Tronmonger.
Brown sells his dog to White for 10. White sells to Green for 10 percent less than paid. Green sells at a 10 percent loss. Gray then sells to Black who also takes a 10 percent cut. Black sells it for a price that leads to a final outcome tied to the dog biting a leg.
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