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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1920
Page
3
A Sunday baccalaureate service drew a large attendance from the countryside. The article lists numerous local residents and families visiting, with details of decorations, church events, and the high school and eighth grade commencement programs. Residents include Henry Olson, Mrs. Collins, Mrs. Tanquary, Miss Clara Ely, Miss Josephine Ely, Mrs. McLaughlin, and Rev. Day, among others.
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The M. M. club hosted a Wednesday evening shower for Miss Sarah Marland at Mrs. A L McLaughlin’s home with Mrs. William Pribble and Misses Edna and Nellie Thomas assisting. The program featured a commencement with class history prophesy and a class will, diplomas presented by Mrs. Julia Royce, and 36 members plus 8 guests.
South Whitefield items report Charles Hupt shipping cattle to Chicago today. HJ Meister ill with rheumatism unable to work. Misses Gladdus Crystal and Margaret Chester visited Mason City with grandparents. Grace Hunt suffers ear infection. Dr Royce treated Mildred DeWalt. Aunt Harriet visited Harvey Nighsanger. J Hayline hosted guests. John Deck at Peoria hospital after lip cancer surgery. Eckhoff and Baugh doing road work on lower mile road. Graduation invitations from Vada Waughop and Edna Miles. Adolph Bauer visited Wishall home. Ford Schupp visited Spring Bay. Fred Ely of Henry visited Wishall family. Willig Farting spent weekend with east side relatives. Peter Wishall visited from Pesatum. Mrs Ely of Henry celebrated birthday. Leslie Watking and babe visited. Schupps visiting. cake gifted to mother.
Court House News lists marriages, army discharges, and real estate transfers. Entries include Douglas Hawse with Reba Blunk in Henry County and Francis Durham with Theresa Farley in Toluca, plus numerous quitclaim and warranty deeds across Lacon Toluca Evans and Henry townships. Probate matters cover estates of Lash Foster Holmstrom Harris and McVicker with hearings scheduled into May and June.
A fragment from Putnam records mentions Jerry Harrington spending Sunday at Frank Jennett’s in Henry and Laura Hufnagel returning home after helping Mrs Emmett Finnegan with housework. Other items note Hazel Downey entertaining and Maxine Murphy visiting, with Walter Henneberry returning from Nebraska and a Brimfield News brief about a sow dropping nineteen piglets with fifteen faucets to care for them.
Frank Jones and family visited relatives at South Pekin Sunday. Mrs. Harry of Camb Grove visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. John Poft. Clifton and family drove to New Bedford Sunday. Mrs. Van Deventer of Morse was a visitor at the home of her daughter Mrs. George Port. Ariel Thauma, attending Brown's Business college in Peoria, visited over Sunday with home folks. Mrs. Henry Churchill drove to Peoria Sunday returning Monday afternoon with her brother Lee Charlton and Mrs. John Charlton and daughter. Misses Helen and Grace Newton of Rock Falls were guests at the home of their aunt Mrs. L. E. Clifton last week.
The Saratoga M D Church invites all to attend the Memorial Day service Sunday at 3:00 PM. Mrs Kennedy's class decorates in red white and blue, Herbert Doyle leads the musical program, and the choir performs with a mixed quartet including Jesse Clement, Mrs Arno Reinbeck, Mrs Jessa Clement, and Charles Anderson.
An address by Rev Kennedy will deliver a stirring graveside service led by Arno Reinbeck who will oversee decorations. Soldiers are urged to attend to honor fallen comrades and ensure a strong impression, inviting all to be present. Also reported is a theft case at Ote Lane where five thousand dollars in express matter vanished from Rock Island railroad baggage rooms, with Italians linked to the crimes and earlier thefts totaling thousands more under investigation.
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