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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1911
Page
10
A large auction in Putnam IJ offers a ten foot dining setup six rockers a full bedroom suite and numerous household items plus tools and farm equipment. Included are a Parlor lamp wash bowls jars and a Pure Bred Percheron Stallion Illinois license A 6563. Cash terms. Chas F Anderson and H L Case Auctioneers.
Blood bay stallion Bayard foaled May 23 1908 weighs 1800 pounds registered Percheron Stud Book America No 58410 inspected by Dr W Hanson McNabb declared free of disease licensed to stand in Illinois expires June 6 1912 J K Dickinson Secretary Stallion Registry Board season 1911 at Magnolia Ill Terms 12 50 insure living owner Charles Wierman notes insurance forfeiture if mare moved or county left and no liability for accidents
Magnolia items note J H Price visiting, Big Bend Reunion dates, a birth July 10 to Mr and Mrs Arthur Dean, visiting relatives and friends in Spring Valley Lone Tree Great Bend Colorado Peru Kentucky, Chicago trips, and family visits. Community announcements include illness in Keokuk and a Sunday school attendance contest with Magnolia Varna Lostant and Hope counts totaling 3 219 2 348 2 481 and 1 133 respectively.
Lucile and Anna Carruthers of To luca visited John Wilson. Nira Beck is unwell and doctor visits continue. Bessie Davidson visited relatives in Henry. Will Griffith and Mrs. Caroline Griffith joined John Swaney’s visit. Olive Willey visited grandmother Mrs. Hill in Henry for a fortnight. Harry Stansell visited Tonica friends. Helen Smith stayed with Max Whitney near Varna for a week. Edna Wilson and Enida Griffith returned from Woodhall. Mrs. James Jerrow and children visited Bureau and Hennepin. Will Wierman returned from Seattle and greeted neighbors. Mrs. Amanda Mills hosted sister in law Kate Reynolds from Indiana. John Swaney returned home from Hinsdale sanitarium. Mr. Garrett oversaw University experiment station interests here. Sanctioned visits included Max Whitney and family at Varna. Luella Flitcraft and three sons visited from White Lake Michigan. Irma Bumgarner went to Champaign for two weeks summer school. James H. Price visited Streator farms. Edna Wilson traveled toward town with Mrs. Max Whitney. Abel and Elizabeth Mills returned from an eastern trip enjoying their time away.
McNabb Lash Wallin and family returned from Hot Springs where Mr Wallin has been receiving treatments. Several residents visited Depue Granville and Streator for shopping Chautauqua and boat shows. A buggy accident near home left Mrs Lee Webb and baby unhurt. Rosa Travis to summer school and visitors to Miss Jessie McNabb. Read The Republican for full news.
The Lostant community held an 8 p m reception in the opera house for Mr and Mrs J A Whitney. Mary Mortenson led planning with help from several women. The event featured music, floral decorations, a parade of couples, readings, and congratulations to the newlyweds with refreshments served afterward.
H. B. Martin of Port Harrelson North Carolina recalls a near fatal battle with consumption and a dreadful cough. After failing with a Georgetown doctor’s treatment he credited Dr. King's New Discovery with a complete cure. A trial bottle is offered free at local druggists A. J. Ironmonger and T. J. Segraves.
Lostant news notes William Page of Bloomington traveled by train Monday. Joe Comisky spent the Fourth in Indianapolis. Lostant shows strong attendance at the Streator Chautauqua. Miss Walger from Chicago stayed with Miss Frieda Hensel. Geyer’s show drew a large outdoor crowd Saturday night. Adolph Miller receives treatment at Streator hospital. Isaac Merritt and family of Hoopeston visited relatives in Lostant this week.
A reader defends Foley's Honey and Tar Compound and Foley Kidney Pills as standard medicines. A 1910 letter from Henry Atherton recalls a frost that revived Oregon apples, cherries and fruit trees by reducing worm infestation, calling calamities blessings. The piece ends with a note promoting Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy sold by A J Ironmonger and T J Segraves.
W H Herron U S Geographer leads field planning for topographic mapping around Ottawa covering about 240 square miles centered on the Illinois valley. J R Bilis already conducts field work with a party as mapping resumes past Utica bridge toward Starved Rock. The project expands to map the Starved Rock region beyond the river, building on deep waterway and sanitary district surveys.
A physician endorsement promotes Foley Kidney Pills for kidney and bladder ailments and urinary irregularities. It claims quick and permanent relief along with tonic strengthening effects. A. J. Ironmonger signs the ad.
The text lists numerous measures passed by the forty seventh legislature including civil service extension, workmen's compensation, occupational disease laws, city and county reforms, new armories, highway and rail measures, consumer protections, and court expansions. It notes reforms in parks, public health, education funding, and pension provisions, with various regulatory actions and new laws affecting cities, counties, and state agencies. It ends with an advertisement for Dr King’s New Life Pills and local drug stores.
L H Shyrock a republican committeeman from the district has been named fish warden by Governor Deneen. The nine district system gives Shyrock district 74 including Bureau La Salle Stark Putnam Marshall Peoria Woodford Kendall Grundy with five deputies Edward Briggs Albert Bilbrough John Ries J C Blaisdell John R Goring. The office pays 900 yearly plus 50 monthly travel, total 1500. Deputies earn two dollars daily and 25 dollars monthly.
Ed B. Smith of Henry purchased reli es of F O Puryl ance to add to his collection. W C Patterson and family attended a Whitney reception at Lostant with their daughter Blanche. Lizzie Zenor and Lena Stanton visited after a boat trip. Willis Danley, former Hennepin boy, renewed old ties and plans a California move. Mrs Matthew Hansen died near Hennepin July 1 age 37 leaving five children. community extends sympathy.
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