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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1908
Page
11
Dr Royce visited Chicago. Mrs Hoagland returns home for holidays. Readers share New Year resolutions and Christmas visits. Charlies in the area attend weddings, funerals, and church events as winter weather and scarlet fever concerns persist.
Last Wednesday at 3 o clock a quiet wedding joined Miss Mayme McLaughlin and Fred Harvey at the home of Oscar McLaughlin with Rev. Rist presiding. The couple will live on Mayme’s mother’s farm, and many relatives shared Christmas notes and visits across nearby towns. An advertisement for English Spavin Liniment promotes blemish cures for horses with a price savings claim.
Christmas visits and social events fill Camp Grove in a January column. George W. Ward, J P Code and many locals are noted with trips to Granville Peoria and Bradford. engagements weddings sales and a ball are announced alongside a humorous quip about churning and a death.
Seasonal notice invites readers to place orders for farm produce and implements to be sold at auction. The Henry Republican offers prompt, careful service and reasonable prices for turning goods into cash.
Christmas cheer fills Lawn Ridge with visits home from Brown's and Polytechnic students. George Perkins starts as city mail carrier in Peoria. Modern Woodmen plan January 8 installation with a Peoria speaker. A church Christmas gathering features a toy filled hour for Sunday and weekday students. Robert Green and Jessie Timmons wed near Wyoming and celebrate with a home reception in Stark.
South Carolina Congressman George S. Legare, a House Patent Committee member, says he is fully recovered from consumption after a year of illness. He cites six months on Lung Germine from the Lung Germine Co of Jackson Michigan and reports a 26 pound weight gain and restored strength.
The undersigned is prepared to furnish coal at the Kirkpatrick mine four miles and a half southwest of Henry. Always plenty of coal out at mine. George G. Kear. 11-21-3m.
Probate records show inventories and waivers, final settlement and administrator discharge for James M. Corcoran in bonds. estates of Patrick Collins Edward Bade Henry Allen with appraisals and widow Augusta Bade claim. Real estate transfers include Teresce Gibson to Lydia Dutton and multiple conveyances in Lacon Wenona Lombard’s addition, Toluca and La Prairie plus adjacent parcels.
Thomas Hubbell conducts a public sale on January 8 1908 at 10 am on the Robert McDonough farm in Saratoga township Marshall County Illinois. Five livestock groups including nine horses seventeen cattle fifty hogs and extensive farm machinery and household items are listed with terms of sale requiring cash for sums up to ten dollars and credit on larger amounts with 6 percent interest if paid late and a 5 percent cash discount on larger sums. Lunch service by Charles Wood. Auctioneers McColl and Smith. Clerk J C Hill.
Winfred Watts 23 of Dana and Winifred Brown 23 of Wenona. William Loomis 31 and Mary Rogers 32 both of Wenona. John B E Christman 27 and Edna Pearl Newell 19 both of Sparland. Charles E Anderson 25 and Blanche B H Taylor 23 both of Henry. Fred A Harvey 26 and Mary J McLaughlin 19 both of Steuben.
William Jacobs R K McColl and Leslie Smith Jr announce a public auction at the Wilam Schmidt farm located one mile north and two and a half miles east of Camp Grove or eleven miles west and one and a half miles south of Henry. Sale starts 10 a m with ten horses and mules six head of sheep hogs farm implements household goods and more. Terms include cash for ten dollars and under and 12 month credit on amounts over ten with six percent interest and six percent discount on large sums. Luncheon by the Ladies Aid.
The undersigned will sell at public auction on Friday January 10 1908 at 10 oclock sharp at the old King farm one mile south three miles and three quarters east of Camp Grove two miles north six miles west of Sparland Ill. The list includes seven head of horses and four milch cows thirteen head of stock hogs four tons of timothy hay and farm implements. Terms cash with 12 month credit on bankable paper without interest if paid when due 6 percent interest if not paid when due five percent discount for cash on sums over ten dollars. Property to be removed by sale day. E Tyler H F McVicker Auctioneers J C Hill Clerk Lunch served by Charles Wood.
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