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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1909
Page
3
A January clearance features five cent poinsettias and deep cuts on dress goods. Wool flannel, striped panamas, and wool fabrics are offered at 29 to 69 cents per yard. silk petticoats priced to entice early buying. substantial reductions on underwear, corset covers, and children's wear. Coats, suits, skirts, hats, and waists boosted by special sale prices across the department.
Names of residents visit, travels, and illnesses across Sparland and nearby towns. Mrs. Sarah Osborne and Mrs. Luft travel relatives. Elsie Hoadley returns from Toulon. Emmett Luft funeral at M. B. church. Miss Mayme Osborne teaches in Chicago. watch parties mark the new year. Arthur Wilson and Jessie Ramsey wed in Bloomington. Texas work for Mills Walker. Weather shifts from spring-like to cold wave.
A note urges attendance at Friday night January 8 in the Sparland lodge room for a regular meeting and officer election. The item weaves in local society updates from Lacon and Sparland, church lectures, school resumption, funerals, birthdays and community notices.
SARATOGA Miss Grace Powell visited in this neighborhood last week. Miss Ethel Hollandsworth spent part of the holiday season at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnston. Eisie Wilson has been quite sick but is better. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kelley and daughter spent part of last week in Chicago. Miss Tina Hawksworth visiting Pee and relatives in this vicin. Willis Shearer, Frank Gray and Herbert Doyle returned to their school duties. Mrs. Myers and children spent Christmas at Fairbury. New Year's night a surprise reception for Mr. and Mrs. Carter Shearer who returned from Minnesota. Nearly 50 people gathered for congratulations and a bountiful supper. They departed after wishing the couple many years of prosperity. Itch cure ad follows.
Miss Louisa McManus wed John Cohrs of Milo at home of the bride. The Rev Prohl officiated. They plan to farm north of Milo. A long local social notes section follows, detailing visits, travel, dances, church events, and community life in Camp Grove and nearby areas with multiple named residents and places. The Christmas mass at St Patrick’s was well attended with a new lighting plant and a large offering to Rev J E Roach’s mission.
A Liars notes: George Sims and wife visit Peoria friends while Grant Burdick and family share Christmas with Mrs Burdick’s parents in Wyoming. L J Wilson stays with his daughter Mrs George Perkins in Peoria. Holly Cornell travels from Peoria to spend Sabbath with his mother. J B Green hosts a large Christmas dinner. Fr D Nurss and family visit Mead’s family for a Sunday stay before returning to Peoria area. Ollie Bragg and wife travel from Nebraska to celebrate Christmas with relatives nearby.
A rural notice sheet recalls Rev Curtis Christmas sermon in a fresh, original style. Mead Nurss returns home from Estherville to share the holiday meal as rail traffic remains brisk. Word comes of the death of Mrs Martin wife of Rev D G C Martin, with former Lawn Ridge pastorate noted. Oyster supper at Woodmen Hall postponed due to rain, a moonlit return for theSpeer dance crowd follows. Industrial and Orphans Home at Macon Ga praises Electric Bitters as a trusted medicine for stomach liver and kidney ailments and weak children. 50 cents at A J Ironmonger’s.
A medical note claims sprained ankles heal faster with Chamberlains Liniment. It states typical recovery from two to three weeks on crutches, two to three months fully cured, and advertises relief for chronic and muscular rheumatism. Bottles priced twenty five and fifty cents, sold by A J Tronmonger.
Harry Hinmans visits Chicago and Wheaton while Speer merchants report strong holiday trade. Ora Peterson dies after appendicitis in Iowa. funeral at Wyoming with Modern Woodmen services. Mrs. Evans visits family near Wyoming as Farmers Elevator reelects officers. Ben Shine marries Bessie Wass at the bride’s home in West Halkock.
Mrs William Bentley suffers tonsillitis. Charlie Reid offers three tons of good clover hay for sale. Oyster supper attendance was small but enjoyable with plenty of oysters. Ladies Aid to meet Mrs Robert Conover Thursday afternoon with election of officers. Master Wilbur Griswold from Princeton visited his aunt Mrs William Harris. Lon McClane's sale went smoothly with corn at 59 4 cents and clover hay at 7.25 per ton. M E Sunday school elected officers Sunday morning.
A letter to Mrs. W H Ford wife of the president of the First National Bank was opened and rifled by train robbers near Kansas City. The end of the letter torn off was resealed and forwarded with the note This mail was recovered from pouch stolen at Kansas City Mo Dec 22 1908. A bus fire charred sacks at Lacon post office sending letters to flames. John S Thompson a leading Marshall county advertiser spends over 600 dollars on next year’s ads in 61 papers. The piece ends with a reflection on newspapers supporting their advertisers and editors.
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