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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1903
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR passage links a misread motto The Sign You Should Conquer to a Knights Templar theme. It discusses honesty as a jewel and success in outshining competitors, but overall content is unclear and lacks concrete events or names.
Mr Carl Sultemyer visits Mrs Tesmer and friends. Rev Jonathan Ferrell, father of Mrs Timothy Van Antwerp, dies of heart failure and is buried. Ulysses Barton and wife from Peoria visit relatives. Buckleys from Peoria stay with Mrs Osborn. Families arrive for Christmas. new organ installed in grammar room. quarterly meetings scheduled for June 11.
A Winnie Virginia reader cites Dr King's New Life Pills curing her two year sick headaches. The ad claims relief from headache constipation and biliousness and directs purchase at Dr Powell's drug store. Local names appear in a roaming paragraph of town folks and travel mentions with scattered dates and places.
Mr and Mrs Jas Weeks hosted Vera Weeks birthday party with schoolmates and neighbors on Christmas night. Darline Zenor won pin the tail on the donkey, with Jennie Larson as booby prize. Adam Deck hosted a select dinner for 14 with Lyle Durley, Sophia Oleson, Blanche Patterson, and others. Gifts, church holiday events, river ice conditions, and assorted local news conclude with best wishes for the New Year.
Mrs Geiger of Ankerton Iowa says she tried many medicines for stomach trouble and constipation but Cham berlai's Stomach and Liver Tablets gave her relief. Sold by Dr Powell.
Bucklen’s Arnica Balm touted as a universal healer for burns scalds cuts bruises and skin eruptions. Claims include curing ulcers boils felons and removing corns and warts with a 95 cent price at Dr Powell’s drug store.
Magnolia has transformed from a desolate town to a growing center with 80 new buildings in two years. Developments include two stores and three dwellings moved in, a depot, elevator, lumber office, and several brick stores and houses. Builders named include R W Spencer, Albert Flor ton, John Thornton, Lee, Curtis, Wells, Balderston, Coe, Roberts, Graves and Sives, with Defenbaugh and Siger completing houses.
Local notices recount new tenants and improvements at houses built by Dakin and RW Spencer, Magnolia progress, a December 23 wedding at the bride’s parents home with Miss Daisy Haws and Marvin Jennings, and various holiday visits, celebrations, and social events across Magnolia and nearby towns.
A home party at Mr and Mrs O Bumgarner on Christmas Eve honors their son John with many young guests despite rough roads. Local families including Gallahers and Wilsons host receptions and visit relatives as holidays unfold with Christmas trees, travels, and school breaks across McNabb and nearby towns.
A purported testimonial from H A Tisdale of Summers, C occurring in 8 C, offers $100 per box for DeWitt’s White Hazel Salve. He claims twenty years of piles cured after trying doctors and medicines, praising the salve as curing blind, bleeding, itching, and protruding piles and related skin ailments.
Hutchins Lincoln Co announces a great clearing sale of all winter goods beginning next Monday and continuing for ten days. Read the ad elsewhere in this paper.
Town hall hosts a Christmas program with a gift laden evergreen tree and candy donations. Miles Quinn directs a crowd pleasing program as Sunday schools cater to youngsters. School closes Jan 4 for holiday break. Community choirs, plays Anita's Trial, and Epworth League events feature church activities and youth outreach.
A Whitefield Corners gathering is planned for Friday evening to organize a literary club. All interested in education are invited, with the exact meeting place to be shown by the crowd near Whitefield Corners. The notice references local residents Lizzie Moffitt and Mrs Janie Anderson and mentions holiday hospitality from the Anderson and Moffitaend families.
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