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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1899
Page
3
Local notes report a rising Beaver River affecting fishing, pleasant travel and social visits, and updates on town residents. Mentions Henry Johnson interest in a business venture, a stock train for Detroit, and various returns from trips, plus charitable bequests and a general interest in community happenings.
On Thursday July 13 a village procession of carriages gathered at Andrew Hanter's yard to surprise Mrs Hanter on her 63rd birthday. About sixty ladies distributed fragrant flowers, shared refreshments, and listened as Miss Libbie Brown presented a black wool dress gift with warm remarks about Mrs Hanter's friendship and character.
A cheerful evening hosted by Mrs Haenter drew friends from Creston Peoria Winchester Putnam Milo and Tiskilwa who extended wishes for future reunions. Other notes include Dr Storer of Princeton visiting the street and several residents visiting relatives in Milo Providence Tiskilwa Bradford Wyoming and Henry.
A Riverside reader disputes frost damage reports and touts strong returns from oranges and alfalfa. He notes net "about 300 per acre" from dry home block citrus, high yields from naval oranges, and a thriving irrigation system, claiming millions in fruit revenue and multiple crops per year.
The article advertises Dr Miles of Chicago offering free treatment and an “Incurable Cases” cure course for heart disease and dropsy. It cites a testimonial from Rev J W Stokesbury praising past relief and invites readers to request the treatment details and address at 69 State St Chicago. It also mentions Judge J Ong promoting an irrigation and settlement project near DeBuque, Colorado with land set aside for a church school park and a Quaker settlement plan.
Five races highlighted by trot and pace events with stakes listed. Entries close at 6:30 p.m. August 8. The program notes no professionally trained horses, and notes ban on stallions and hopples. Frank and Don referenced as act or entrant.
The Henry City Cornet Band performs popular airs with numbered tunes including Trot and Pace pieces. Promoters advertise a lively afternoon in the old town with a large crowd expected and a hot time promised as lookouts warn of excitement from prank and don.
Friday August Sith 1899 features music by the Henry City Cornet Band. The racing program includes pace events No 9 2 19 No 10 Free For All Pace or Trot and No 12 running one mile novelty with $26 to the winner each quarter. Look for those Free For All Pacers.
Lafayette Turner died after a long illness at 75. The private funeral was held at his residence with services led by Mr OG Richards. Turner was born April 6 1824 in Tramersburg New York and later lived in Des Moines Cedar Rapids Center Point and Henry Iowa. He was a cattleman, canvasser and Singer agent, married in 1884 to Mrs George Schaefer.
A suit in ejectment before Esquire Kirchman involved William Bracken and Samuel Wild. The house, sold by Wild to Bracken, left Bracken seeking possession while Wild claimed a year to occupy with rent. After hearing evidence the justice ruled for Bracken and Wild signaled appeal to the aircaill court.
Newark New Jersey dealer De Powell reports strong sales of Chamberlain's cough remedy. Druggist Charries Holzhauer praises its safety and effectiveness for coughs colds and hoarseness.
Secretary James Wilson visits Seattle to promote Washington butter and tin can exports to China Japan and the Philippines arguing the coast will become a great world market. He expects expansion to unlock Pacific trade and urges early manufacture for self government in the Philippines along with broader Pacific coast agricultural growth.
A Nebraska Bee dispatch reports A W Bladen his wife and eight children drowned Monday night near the Minnesota line in Iowa. Their emigrant wagon and team were swept from camp by a cloudburst flooding a creek. Parts of the wagon were later found in treetops downstream. Mr Bindes had lived in Tekamah county twenty years.
Edwin, formerly the manager of a stationer in Weis's block, arrived yesterday as a traveling salesman for cigars and tobacco, representing the National Cigars & Tobacco Co. He has been with the firm for a number of insertions.
The Roanoke reports12 members of the Elk expedition perished along the Selawick to Koyukuk trail near St Michael. Scurvy then starvation and frost killed crew while Mrs W H Bens of Bay City Michigan survived.
The state grand master of the Knights and Ladies of Honor aged 46 ended his life Sunday evening by leaping from the steamer Bald Eagle three miles above Copperas Creek Dam. Domestic trouble is believed to have triggered the act. He also served as a state official in the A U U W.
Two youths, John W. Allen aged 12 and James Glenn Joiner aged 13, quarreled at Meyer nine miles north of Quincy. Joiner struck Allen on the jaw, killing him instantly with a blow on the chin.
The tally of fatalities in and around New York since July 4 reaches 32, with most victims being boys wounded in the hand by toy pistols. Three boys died in the city on Sunday. In Des Moines a grocers’ combine was formed by Illinois, Jewish, and Missouri wholesalers to buy goods in bulk.
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