Oil and Kerosene Lubrication Trade Mentioned
The article notes handling of machine lubricating oil and kerosene within the relevant industrial or trade context. It highlights storage, safety, and distribution considerations tied to these products.
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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1908
Page
11
The article notes handling of machine lubricating oil and kerosene within the relevant industrial or trade context. It highlights storage, safety, and distribution considerations tied to these products.
John Fowler remains quite poor health. Many residents named for visits illnesses and social calls. Taxes due, town basketball game, rail line hopes, and church or lodge events figure in this week’s Sparland Rural Route 1 briefs.
Local notes include Mrs Reynolds health concerns and a southward trip with John Reynolds. A Hull schoolhouse box supper and entertainment is planned Friday. Miss Burnett cousins dine with Grover and Fred Drummond. Luella Hoffman travels to Salem after visiting her sister. Reverend Wilbur Barnes visits Delavan. he promotes anti saloon efforts in two townships.
A jumble of town items reports visits, jurors, shipments to Peoria and Chicago, and local chatter. Notable items include a Keppler murder juror, farm shipments, a marriage at Stange farm, and a Bank of Camp Grove appeal to open checking accounts.
Amanda Morse visits Mrs Elizabeth Chrisman. David Wright returns from Missouri with his sister. Bernice Taylor visits J Kistler on Saturday. Adam Henkins and Alonzo McClane attend Bradford Odd Fellows lodge. Charles Reid Howard Wilson dine with Charles Moore. Harry Moore and P Miller present. Mrs Adam Henkins hosts parents from near Princeton. Thomas Brown of Chicago visits this week. Mr and Mrs Charles Moore spend Saturday at D Wrights.
In South Whitefield Mr and Mrs Leonard Hunter host two weeks of catarrhal fever like illness among children. Miss Etta Wunder improves under doctors care while others, including H Marshall and Opal the baby, are sick. Neighbors enjoy graphophone concerts as several families move property and wait for health to return.
Sunday gatherings at William Johnson's in Saratoga and at Joseph Harrington's with the Lassman Barry and Kelley families. Attendees included Harold Barry and Ruth Higgins. A miscel laneous shower honored Miss Nellie Harrington at Mrs James Barry's home with gifts, light luncheon and good wishes for the bride-to-be Penlas De.
George Barker visits Charles Reid Saturday evening. Roy Stone recovers from mumps and can go out again. Epworth League lecture at Whitefield church featured Rev Haney. Four quarterly conference plans a banquet at Whitefield on February 12. Readers visit relatives and attend services as several families travel or host guests.
Charles Ziegler and bride visited Barney Schwarz on Sunday. Ed Shurts and wife visited William Niblock. Blanch Meilkey and Ethel Borns were with Mabel and Eva Taylor. Henry Applen, Henry Bornsheuer and Ed Shurts traveled to Peoria for the John Holmes funeral. Mrs. James Barry hosted a 50 guest shower for niece Nellie Harrington. About 365 re-
Guests enjoyed music and games, admired useful gifts like silverware linen and glassware. Luncheon featured ice cream lemonade cake and fruit. Guests departed thanking Mr and Mrs Barry and offering best wishes for the upcoming wedding.
Speer and surrounding area residents reported numerous farm shipments to markets in Peoria and Omaha including hogs and Hereford bulls. Local visits and social events featured minstrels, a new bell in the school, a public vote petition, a travel lecture, and family visits.
Mrs. C. T. Newell of Princeville visits daughter Mrs. L. A. Chapin while Charles R. Pinkney returns from the north to mingle with friends. Charles Goodrich ships Hereford bulls to Turnbull brothers and visits relatives in South Omaha. The club held a dance at the public Ball with modest attendance and oysters at Harry Brimmer's. Mrs. Sumner Perkins helps care for the ailing Mrs. Rowe at Nelson E. Rowe's. Minnie Nurss and Mildred Nurss travel from Estherville, Iowa, with Mead and Clifford visiting relatives before returning Saturday.
The undersigned George G. Kear offers coal from the Kirkpatrick mine located four miles and a half southwest of Henry. He notes there is always plenty of coal available at the mine. Date shown 11-21-3m.
Col H F McVicker promotes reliable auctioneering in Peoria Illinois. He specializes in live stock and farm sales and invites written or phone contact before billing sales. Office at 112 N Adams St Peoria with phone numbers 8491 and 9.
Intending to quit farming I will sell at public sale at my farm 14 miles west of Sparland beginning 10 o'clock Friday January 31 1908. Eight head horses cows hogs farm implements and hay and oats straw will be offered with cash and credit terms and notes bearing 7 percent interest. Auctioneers McColl Smith J H Riddell clerk lunch served by Ladies Aid.
The undersigned announces a public sale on February 4 1908 at 10 am listing five horses and a variety of cattle hogs and farm implements from the Patins farm location described. Terms include cash for sums under 310 and credit up to ten months with notes and 6 percent cash discount for other sums. Auctioneers are H F McVicker of Peoria and J P Hickey with Walter H Dodd as principal. Lunch by L Weber.
Whitefield taxpayers are notified by George Holler collector that tax books are ready for 1907 taxes. Books must be returned by March 10, 1908. He will receive taxes at Lundy store on weekdays and at Yanochowski's store in Henry on Saturdays.
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