Local notes from Sparland and surroundings
Daily Sparland items report visiting relatives and local activity including Mrs Wither dloor assisting in care for her father Mr Smith Ed Shafer returning from Iowa trip, river affecting John Riddell pasture, Milby Marshall named rural mail carrier with 95 average, revival meetings continue, Lincoln male quartet in town, and Edward Peters seen praising the county clerk with references to Mendelssohn and Sparland social scene.
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Leslie Waugh
Waugh
William Kinne
Roseville
Anderson
West James Tanquary
W Tanner
St John
Milby Marshall
Mal Carier
Sparland
Lacan
Milby
Lincoln
Boys of the Old Brigade
Tennyson
Buble
Poe
Annabel Lee
Blotchy
Hugo
Peru
Petérs
Mendelssohn
Peter
Weather Confronts Town with Sudden Winter Grips
Last week a heavy cold snap struck bringing snow and ice across the area. Officials warned residents to stay indoors while crews worked to clear roads and restore power after outages.
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Svety
Mra Gértie
Sparland Town Gossip and Community Happenings
Sickness spreads as the grip dominates town. Revival meetings at the M D B church continue for a third week. People travel, work, and shop from Sparland to Peru and Peoria while neighbors care for ill relatives and discuss local plans. Christmas weddings, ferry plans, and electric line rumors mingle with school programs and local entertainments.
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Theer
Aggie Larson
Mosgele
She-cane
Anna Spath
Peoria
High School Lyceum Program for Feb 1 Afternoon
The high school lyceum program on Friday February 1 at 2 30 pm features Swanee River with a school choir reading Forty Years Ago Grace Aitchison recitation A Practical Joker by Mabel St John medley by Stella Leary and Frances Nightwonger reading Fort y Years Ago by Grace Aitchison recitation Jimmy Butler and the Owl by Ethel Watkins review of high school Doing by Willie Aitchison and Wilson Jarman essay The Negro in America by Minnie Olson and a debate on repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment affirmative Mabel St John and Robert Waugh negative Lina Jarman and Thomas Marland.
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Lyceum
Swanee River
Mabel St. John. Medley
Stella Leary
Frances Nightwonger
Grace Aitchison
Jimmy Butler
the Owl
Ethel Watkins
Willie Aitchison
Wilson Jarman
America
Minnie Olson
Mae-St- John
Robert Waugh
Lina Jarman
Thomas Marland
Sparland High School Visit Described by Mrs Tesmer
Mrs Tesmer visited Sparland High School and praised the pleasant atmosphere and happy students under teacher J R Boutai. She commended the polished program published in the Lacon Home Journal and recalled memories of the students’ confident performance despite a stormy setting.
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Sparland High School
Lacon Home Journal
Lacon News Roundup Includes Odd Jobs and Local Trials
Postmaster examined eight applicants for a rural free delivery route No. 2 with results not announced. A Wenona riot indictment had an Italian prisoner in jail awaiting trial. A $383 judgment was awarded in Stanley vs. Kelley with Kelley shooting Staines while hunting. City council revises ordinances aiming to raise saloon licenses to 500 annually. The Six Knobs club hosted by Mayor John Thompson included members from Wenona and Varna. A pontoon incident sent Charley Beebe around via Henry to reach home. Constant Carlson of Varna jailed on wife abandonment charges awaiting April term.
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Will Kinney
Barr
Frank Anderson
Roseville
Wallace Headley
Randy Tanner
Ahewsboy
Elsie Cumming
Peoria Journal
Wilbur
Peoria Star
Iarnett
Sparland
Peru
Duncan
McCall's Magazine
Dora Hoadley
Mary Tanner
Henry
Miss Blotch
Milby Marshall
John Cerva
Essie Hoadley
Grip Mrs Royce
Lylah Tanner
Trumpeter
Macon
Lacon
Hacker
Eix
Charles Kuhl
Wenona
Will Grey
Robert Grey Oscar Peinter
Indiana
Conrad Peinter
Stanley Vs
John Thompson
Six Knobs Club
de Witt Stateler
Charley Kane
James Sommers
Henry Worling
C. N Ong
Homer Barney
Thompson
Fd Norton
Varna
Mr. Norton
Six Knobs
Kane
Norton
Ong
Barney
Sommers
Stateler
John I
Constant Carlson
Constant
Conrad
Hopewell
Watertown
Carlyon
Worth Saving Claim on Rheumatism Remedy
The notice promotes a homemade mixture claimed to relieve rheumatism backache urinary disorders and Bright's disease. It lists Blood Extract Dandelions Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla and Karyon with instructions to take a teaspoonful after meals and at bedtime. An authority is cited praising herbal, harmless ingredients available at low cost.
Free Lincoln Birthday Dinner Planned at Local Hall
George Chapman moves feed and farm machinery to Camp Grove for next year's occupiable farm. A big free Lincoln birthday dinner is being perfected at the hall. Miss Alma Caldwell, a Brown's business college student, is selected as soprano in the Gypsy Smith union evangelistic chorus. Dick Green sustains a compound leg fracture, Charley Golden dies after a lumber incident, and several locals visit Peoria and Champaign County as spring farming begins.
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Lawn Ridge
George Chapman
Camp Grove
Lincoln
Miss Smith
Cecil Shafer
Peoria
Buster Brown
George Johnson
Charley Neff
Powell
Pritchard
Lucretia Stewart
Northpore
Braley
Dick Green
Will Shane
Charley Golden
Kendall
Lewiston
Charley
Alma Caldwell
Ransom
Brown's Business College
Gypsy Smith
Wyoming residents prepare for winter by storing ice
In a brief note from Wyoming, residents are cleaning and making preparations to store a large quantity of ice in the near future, signaling readiness for cold months ahead.
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Wyoming Post-Herald
Court House Notes. Roundup of local trials and filings.
Circuit Court adjourned and reconvened. Edward Kaiser convicted of burglary and larceny after a long trial. John Stanley awarded 333 for damages in a saloon shooting case. Polish gang from Wenona paid fines after pleading guilty. Probate Court reports estates and letters testamentary for Higgins and Twitcher, with real estate transfers listed.
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Thomas Higgins
Pinal
Mery-Twitcher
Prea Ofswill
Chester Bidwell
Elizabeth Fischer
Gruw
Richland
Ames
Ontram la Sa Belle Auder
Allen
Lot
la Prairie
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