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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1908
Page
2
A roundup of residents visiting relatives and attending events in La Salle and nearby towns. Mentions include Ruble and wife in La Salle Ottawa, Venona visits, family visits from Peoria Dwight Mendota Henry Tonica and other locales, births, teaching, arrivals, cattle loss, colt losses, royal neighbors ice cream supper, and late planting with hope for a good crop.
Miss Bila Breed of Peoria is visiting Mrs V Breech for a few days. Vera Weeks and Ja Hamm of Peoria called Saturday and will stay until after Hennepin High School commencement. Lydia Tures returned home to care for her ill niece Arlene Waugh and plans to return this summer. The ferry resumed service as waters receded. Tom Webb and Peorians dined at Hotel Cecil with Mr and Mrs George Burt of Henry. Local lodges decorated Riverside cemetery graves. rain interrupted the Odd Fellows and Royal Neighbors ceremonies but they completed them afterward. Rebekahs could not join due to damp conditions. James and William Durley left for Kearney Neb to visit wife and daughter, then return to the Soldiers’ Home at Quincy in September.
Social visits and entertainments mark the week with Miss Enid Carroll's recital at the Epworth League and student graduation set for Hennepin High School. Notables include Rev Kluck hosting visitors, Toluca sport results, and local council actions on water bonds.
The Wenona board named the superintendent Prof R B Henley of Libertyville Ind as chief. Miss Nellie K Calhoun becomes assistant principal and Miss M I Himmelrich, Miss Claire Foster, Miss Charity Moulton, Miss Parepa Wood named grammar grammar preparatory intermediate and primary educators respectively. Pentecostal meetings begin June 6 in a tent on the L J Hodge lot for ten days with Rev B G Taylor of Mooers N Y as preacher and Mrs Hattie Livingstone of Chicago and Miss Mune Ridon of Albia Iowa among helpers. A Burmeister exhibition in the city featured five young foxes later driven away by a foe after being fed as meat. previously they played like kittens and grew violent after eating.
At the Paris Academy of Teachers Authors and Professors of the Dance Professor M E Giraudet outlined a statistical study based on 2600 pupils. He proposed six and a half hours to master the ordinary waltz with reversing movements and detailed the steps distances and counts needed to reach proficiency, including 22 revolutions and a total distance of about seven miles.
Bright bay horse Sixteen hands one and three quarters high and weighs twelve stones. Pedigree traces through Street Hanson and Happy Heir lines with multiple sires noted. Dam Becca G and second dam Ava show connections to Onward 1411 and Shiloh line. Describes sale days Monday to Friday at various locations and mentions expected speed and style.
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