Sparland News Rounds Up Local Happenings
Sparland residents report social visits and trips to Peoria and La Prairie, notes on lumber and rail work, and a busy ice cream social. raspberries fetch 18 cents a quart, and river flooding worries fish. Epworth League news and a boat show draw crowds. a runaway horse incident is recorded.
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Trompeter
Mabel Goehr
Peoria
Lily Simpson
Annie Becker
Oscar Harvey
Henry
Oscar McLaughlin
Harry Marshall
la Prairie
Frank Marshall
Dave Timmons
Tanner
Harry Frisbey
Will Wild
Chillicothe
Lacon
Grace Simpson
Myron Lester
Marian Ofacon
George Impson
John Rooney
Church Street
Mr. Olson
Princeton
Epworth League
Whitcomb
Bloomington
Tesmer
McCartney
New Works
Cain
Shoop
Angie
Nettie Baughman
Lily Martin
Montana
Martin
Hopital
Mystic Workers
Tom Marland
Elmer Olson
Sparland
Happy Hooligan
Fred Gehr
Frank Poignant
Campbell
Trumpeter
Doctor Away From Home When Most Needed
An article advises keeping Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy at home for cramps cholera morbus and diarrhoea when a physician is unavailable. It claims the medicine is the best choice and may save life and urges purchase from A J Ironmonger Druggist. The Henry Republican mentions wedding stationery printing services.
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A. J. Ironmonger
Bradford business callers and Peoria trips loom in local notes
A jumble of small town activities runs through Camp Grove and nearby Wyoming with Brad ford visitors, Peoria trips, livestock shipments, an ice cream fete, a slugging incident at a Bradford lunch room, a wagon crash, a fishing party and a humorous baseball tale. The week features social calls, repairs, farm chores, and a shared sense of community life.
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Camp Grove
J. P. Cook
Bradford
Pearl Fling
Wyoming
Bert Duncan
David Casey
Peoria
King and Dugan
J. B
Fites
Lee Peugh
Misses Shearer
John Shearer
Olive Dillman
Jas Wabel
Sparland
A. P. Freeman
Broadmoor
Amos Reed
Willie
Minnie
Rosie Conrad
Houseman
Hendrick
Cal Starliper
Mr. Starliper
Robert Kelley
H. E. Fehrenbaker
Ben Smart
H. F. Doyle
Smart
Cook
Robert Burns
Weise's
Peter Horner
Princeville
George Geitner
Winne Bros
Ruenzi Bros
Sparland Girl Topic of Marseilles Coroner Inquest
An Ottawa reporter outlines the inquest into the death of a Sparland girl born in Marseilles. Deputy Coroner Donohue investigates a case tied to Miss Jessie Harris of Sparland and a Spring Valley man, noting the sad circumstances of a life begun in tragedy. The piece contrasts local gossip with a moral lesson about the wages of sin being death.
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Marseilles
Ottawa
Donohue
Blanchard
Jessie Harris
Sparland
Spring Valley
Secret churn of the stomach gullied by potions promise
The passage likens the stomach to a churn and warns that a foul stomach taints all, urging Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery to cleanse the stomach and blood. It promises relief from biliousness indigestion and related symptoms and offers a mailed booklet with ingredient details from Buffalo New York.
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Dr. Pierce
Aemont Mious
Pierca
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Local notes from Lawn Ridge and area visitors
Lawn Ridge and nearby towns report visits from Mrs Nickerson of Chillicothe and other relatives from Farming ton and Burlington. Oats and corn thrive amid showers while clover hay crops face weather. A Santa Fe brakeman, Fred Brimmer, tours Chillicothe for his daughter, and local improvements near the Booth farm proceed.
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Lawn Ridge
Nickerson
Chillicothe
Mead Nurss
Alfred Hall
Camp Grove
B. Green
Fred Brimmer
Theodore Roll’s
Santa Fe
George Johnson
Henry Aman
Booth Farm
Edelstein Central
Anna Trim
Saratoga
Chicago
Amelia Winkler
Burlington
Probate Court names executors and administrators in multiple estates
The Probate Court records include Letters testamentary for Mary Schmillen and Letters of administration for Birdie Stella Conrad in a $4000 bond, plus guardianship for Wikoff minors, and administration for Martha Bumgarner and Lena Wiertz. Hearings and adjustments of claims are scheduled, with several terms set for September or August.
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Michael Schmillen
Mary Schmillen
George V. Conrad
Birdie Stella Conrad
Jenefer Ann Parnard
George P. Geihel
Jean Samuel Pairan
Beulah
Edward
Mary
Elizabeth
Cornelia Wikoff
Guardian
Beulah Marshal
Martha Bumgarner
Mary Bumgarner
Bend
George Kreider
James Barrett
Peter Zimmerman
Edwardo Dicenzi
Angello Dicenzi
Lena Wiertz
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