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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1913
Page
13
Sparland notes recall visits by residents to Henry, Chicago and Des Moines. Decoration Day honors with school processions and cemetery decorations. Families share dinners, church events, and community ties as residents travel for visits and perform acts of remembrance.
Case and Moline plows planters and implements. Full line of International wagons and manure spreaders. Schroeder grain dumps. Dairy Maid cream separators. Peoria power washing machine. Cowboy tank heaters. Wire fencing. Buggies. Whips. Oils and greases. Husking pegs pumps and tanks a specialty.
A large crowd attended Steuben township Sunday school convention with high order singing papers and addresses. Township officers were re elected for another year as the work remains prosperous and effective. Rev Rist and wife visiting near Ottawa Kas met former friends and attended a reception at the M E church where the new Mrs Rist was introduced. Ladies served frappe and wafers during the events.
Miss Myrtle Russell of Steuben to wed Harry Mathias of La Prairie on Wednesday June 4 at 8 pm. The Steuben Baptist church gears up for Children’s Day on June 8 as local families host gatherings. Friends and relatives visit in Sparland Chillicothe Lacon and Halleck with multiple social calls and illness notes reported.
La Prairie hosts weekend guests from Peoria and Kansas City while families visit relatives in La Prairie and Lacon. Wedding plans at M H church include entertainers and ticketed admission. La Prairie Township Sabbath School convention set for June 17 with devotional notes and talks on civic righteousness and teaching methods.
A church program listing events for an evening session includes talks on marriage and divorce by Rev Busby, devotion led by the new president, and guidance on cultivating missionary interest in the Sunday School. Soloists Estella Kyle Beulah Busby and Celia McCartney Dorothy Scott perform, with a duet and an offertory by R J Martin and Dorothy Scott.
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Camp Grove residents hosted visitors from Bloomington Edelstein and Bradford attended Decoration Day services in Saratoga. Paulist choristers concert in Peoria drew Mr and Mrs J Fennell and others. St Patrick parish dance netted 73 dollars with 60 couples. Lot gift winner was W Betz. craft prizes went to John Cleary and John Flynn.
A colonial style advertisement urges families to keep Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for summer illnesses and notes local sellers T. J. Segraves and A. J. Tronmonger. The second fragment is a cartoonish joke about an engagement broken due to the mother calling the fiancée a bad cook.
Henry citizen John Tumney of Third Street Henry Illinois reports relief from a lame back and kidney pains after using Doan's Kidney Pills. He warns that backache and kidney disturbance can lead to dropsy or Bright's disease and urges readers to ask for Doan's Kidney Pills at local drug stores. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY backs the remedy.
Workmen are pouring concrete abutments for a new steel bridge across the creek just north of the John Sweetman place, and the road is closed to traffic. Miss Hosler took her seventh and eighth grade class on a Peoria outing with a Glen Oak Park picnic and theater in the afternoon, with Rose Wilcox Pearl Wilcox Velma Odell Ruth Foster Myrle Chapin among the students. Mr and Mrs F D Nurss hosted Peoria friends at the Nurss ranch for a weekend gathering of nine, a country garden picnic and social, with the party traveling home Sunday. Mr and Mrs Spinner Perkins entertained Peoria guests including Clarence Gill Orville Pease Annette Young and Cora Perkins, joined Sunday by about 15 Perkins family members for dinner before the Overland return the next morning.
Cottage society reports visits among locals including the Allens, Bergs, Chesneys, and Vollers. A May 31 daughter born to Byron and wife. Roy Maynard honored on his birthday. several residents attend gatherings and picnics. Miss Mabel Minier graduates early from Tiskilwa high school. Henry Hunter ill with appendicitis near Henry.
Local residents visit, host calls, and social visits dot the week. Families from Henry and Dover, plus Wheatland Township road work and a school program highlight community life with renewals and a merit for Miss Dalber.
Marshall County circuit court entries include interpleader and divorce actions among W. W. Dewey & Sons, Clyde Vail, Higgs, Rowe, and Susan A. Clark as executrix of Louis J. Howge. Probate proceedings cover estates of Henry Fisher, Lewis J. Hodge, John McManus, James Duffield, Susan Johnston, Artemus Swartz, and others with hearings, demurrers, and letters testamentary issued. Real estate transfers listed for Toluca, Sparland, and Toluca Coal Company dealings.
John Leonard Reid born October 16 1841 in Scott County Indiana died May 28 1913 at his Whitefield area home aged 71 years 7 months 12 days He was the eldest son of Matthew M Reid and Sarah Ann Reid He married Fanny Moore in 1864 and had six children Charles Jennie Sadie Hattie and two infants Surviving are his widow a son and a daughter He was a farmer and stockman and served as township road commissioner He belonged to Gem lodge I O O F and Modern Woodmen He funeral was at Boyd's Grove Church with burial in Mound Cemetery Interment honors and expressions of sympathy followed by a card of thanks from Mrs John L Reid and Charles Reid
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