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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1914
Page
7
Ice service offers at 2.60 dollars monthly for box delivery, 2.00 dollars for daily door delivery, 1.25 dollars for alternate day box delivery, and 1.00 dollar for alternate day door delivery. No. 20 cents per 100 pounds for family use and 15 cents per 100 pounds for business refrigerator delivery. Banter Bros. 6-7-tf.
Plan a restful week or two in the Colorado Rockies with stays from seven hundred dollars per week. Business groups in Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo vouch for trusted hotels and boarding houses with free sights nearby. Travel via Rock Island Lines to Colorado Springs and Pike's Peak region with comfortable Sleegers reclining chairs and reasonable meals. Our travel experts help arrange economical trips and hotel details. Low fares run June one to September thirty.
Veterinary surgeon and dentist service advertised by a Chicago graduate. Prompt day and night calls with office at Hunt's Feed Yard. Tel 291. Henry Illinois.
Mrs H Kennedy of Broad St Lacon Illinois reports severe back aches and kidney distress that kept her from resting well. She used Doan's Kidney Pills as directed and found relief, price 50 cents at dealers, distributed by FosterMilburn reps Buffalo New York.
The Hoyt cemetery once Henry cemetery near the old seminary grounds was cleaned by Henry Cemetery Association formed in 1868. E. H. Hutchins led as president with directors George Nicholson and Ed B Smith and Dr. F A Powell as superintendent. A cemetery fund now exceeds 6000 dollars, invested for security. Dr Powell is credited for the city’s well kept grounds and public spirited service.
Dr F A Powell born 1842 in Pekin Illinois. He moved to Metamora as a youth and later Logansport Indiana. He studied at Ohio Medical College Cincinnati and practiced in Burroughs before settling in Henry County in 1871. He ran the drug business forty years in the same building and retired after selling to A J Ironmonger. He and his wife lived on Richard Street in a fine home.
C F Snyder, born in Pennsylvania, worked in his father’s grocery, later trained as a railroad locomotive engineer and moved to the city around January 1 1910. He bought stock in the 1 O O F P building at Third Street and East Park Row, offering fresh, clean groceries daily to a growing crowd. He lives with his wife and baby daughter in a western city home and serves as a civic resident by fulfilling lawful duties.
Dr. A Hall, a Kansan native, trained at Kansas State Normal in Emporia and Rocky Mountain Denver, studied medicine at Denver and Gross School, married Anna Cultar, and settled in Henry in 1898. He is known as a diagnostician and expert in remedial agents. patients become his personal friends.
The article profiles Mrs. Alice Kincaid Bell native to this area, a former public school pupil and Henry school graduate who married Charles Bell in 1898. It notes her two children and her training in hairdressing facial massage and manicuring at E Burnham school and furthering studies in hair hood manufacture, preparing her to offer personal adornment services in Henry.
ERANK WOOD known as Uncle Tim Wood owned Dry Hollow farm near Walnut Grove. His son Frank Wood born 1854 in Wisconsin moved with family to the area in 1855 1858 when the homestead became a fishing headquarters for Senachwine Lake. Frank and Olive Powers married reached prominence with Swan Lake club organizing 1885 and managed its clubhouse for 16 years. The club includes Chicago and Peoria capitalists owning thousands of submerged acres. Frank Wood claims to have caught killed and shipped more fish and game than any local resident, worth about 150000 dollars in thirty years.
Terre Hautes of Peoria fans travel on the Columbia to Henry where Claude and Herman form a strong battery. Claude limits the Greys to four hits and a narrow loss with nine Hoots safeties, while Benn’s seventh inning error allows a single Grey run. May 31 becomes Henry's Jonah Day as the Hoots announce a rematch later this season.
An advertisement promotes Chamberlain's Liniment as a cure for rheumatism with claims of terrible pains in arms and shoulders. A user testimonial says they were entirely cured after using the product, available from dealers.
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