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Various Local Notes from the Wenona Area
The Henry Republican reports reunions and encampments at Princeton with dates in September and August, a private asylum placement for Dennison Avery, and local farming and business updates. It notes a Spring Valley depot fire, a rope-cutting event at a county meeting, a estate death near Eureka, religious revivals, jail for incest in Peoria, Mormon missions, wheat yields, and development plans in the region. It also mentions the Lotus seizure boat, zinc work at Wenona, cooperative store opinions, and cattle foot and mouth quarantines in Wenona area farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Military Tract
Princeton
Dennison Avery
Wenona Fair Ground
Beecher & Ong
Lanigan
A. J Kohler
Tom McGrath
Lee Goodell
Washburn
Robert Hester
Gondell
Washburo
Thec R.1.&pr
Spring Valley
Taylor
LaSalle County
Charles Ford
Board of Supervisors
Geo Callander
Eureka
Callender
Johnson
Toulon
Peoria Prospect Park Race Track Association
Peoria
John Warner
Warren R. Buckley
J Woolhoer
Vw.ct U of
Rockford
Rey Morse
Soldiers’ Orphans
Normal
Lacon
la Salle
LaSalle Democrat Press
112Th Regiment
Woodbull
Henry County
Theodore Trapp
Trapp
Boyer
Canton
Christian Church At
Chandler
Geo Lewis
North Chillicothe
Bulletin
W. B. Davison
Fairbury
Balt Lake
Adam Mattern
Mt Palatine
Sherwood
Venona Coal Company
Indian Territory
Lotus
U 8
Fish Commission
Federal
Chicago
Post-Office
Treasury
Customs’ Offices
Court of Justice
Government Service
Wenone
Missouri
Polots
Meno
Index
Aurora
Kendall County
Saya
Union
Pavillion Jail
Illinois
Oklahoma
Texas
Bond of
Btrestor
Wenona
Charles Griffin
Robert Mann
Mrs Allen
Mann's
Griffon