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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1912
Page
2
Magnolia contains a flurry of local notices from health ailments to visits. Miss Lucille Macy and Miss Jennie Kranz visit relatives, while many residents travel to Dwight Toluca Normal and Champaign. A February social at Potter's Princess theater and a Father’s Day themed party are highlighted with dance, prizes, and box social plans.
A Washington themed gathering featured hatschet hunt prizes and a poetry piece on Washington. Speakers Prof Case and Mr Clark addressed mutual aid, the value of individuality, teamwork, and life as a game. An audience of local residents and students heard about self knowledge, practice, and coaching.
A ledger of weekly happenings from Quaker Lane and Mt Palatine includes attendees at Friends meetings in Chicago, farm sales and travel to DeKalb and Toluca, movements of residents such as Mary W. Smith and Antone Paulson, a new tenant house near Abel Mills, and a series of visits among neighbors. Edna Beck and Pearl Heflin visit Granville. Huth and Schubert illnesses linger. schooling updates include a new pupil at Miss Elna Davis' school and Miss Westerlund's Magnolia reading. The piece notes social events, entertainment at the schoolhouse, and local preparations as residents relocate or homestead.
Oliver Wilson of Peoria aster of the National Grange will address Magnolia Grange members next Saturday afternoon March 2 at their hall. A series of lectures and moving pictures on improvements of country roads will be shown March 7 8 p m at the Congregational church Granville then Friday at the Masonic hall Magnolia and Saturday at 2 pm in Magnolia Grange hall. A corn show at Swaney school offers silver cups and grand sweepstakes for best white and yellow corn with entrants from Putnam county. Entries must be made by March 8 10 am and no corn samples already premium awarded elsewhere will be admitted.
Walter W. McAllister of Wenona wed Irene Springer of Centralia Mo at the Presbyterian manse in Mexico. The bride arrives as a newcomer but well recommended. The groom is the youngest son of Samuel McAllister and a prosperous farmer. They will settle on a farm six miles NW of town. Also, Ed Haugens of Evans and Mayme Kelley of Varna married in Toluca on Feb 20. The bride is from Varna and the groom is a son of Barney Haugens and manages the grain elevator in Evans. They will live nearby after a short wedding trip. Relatives in Wenona mourn Wright McCullo m of Montana, a former Wenona boy and nephew of A. C. Garvin, leaving a widow and one son. Wesley Allen was in El Paso on business. Edna Wilson of McNabb visited Miss Pearl Heflin. Earl Sargent and family from Pennsylvania arrived, planning to live on Mrs. Sarah Kemp’s farm NW of town. Evangelistic services are at the Presbyterian church by Rev. D. S. Toy and Frank Dickson. Bert Lambourn plans to quit the grocery business and close out his stock. Roy Hamilton of Pomona Cal had an appendectomy and is recovering.
Notices announce Lostant area voters will pick a new mayor and council on March 1. Local society items mention visits, illnesses, marriages, baptisms, births, and a charity gathering. A fatal appendicitis case in Minnesota is noted, with interment planned in Wenona.
The undersigned states he has received the books and blanks and is ready to receipt for Magnolia township taxes. Will Beats McNabb Thursday of each week and the remainder of the time at Robert Mann & Co.'s store. Fred L. Defenbaugh, Collector.
Describes HYOMEI vapor inhaler use to treat catarrh colds and throat illnesses. Details a bowl method with water and ether, suggests nightly use with inhaler for faster relief. Notes cost of HYOMEI bottle at 50 cents and complete kit at $1.00 with inhaler.
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