Magnolia notes and church plans in June 1913 town
The Republican of June 26, 1913 reports Magnolia residents visiting from nearby towns, church admissions of new members, store hours cut after 6 pm, a lightning barn fire at Clifford Haws farm, local trips by C. L. Wierman and others, and upcoming sale clears from Hoge Monser & Co. It also mentions telegraph and telephone staff changes, community events, and a note on U.S. Treasury funds to banks at 2 percent interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey Ramage
Hennepin
Avery
Bloomington
Herman Potter
C. L. Wierman
Chicago
John Merritt
Haven
Kas
McNabb
Harry King
Allen Coe
Levi Gunn
Great Bend
Magnolia
M. P. Lackland
Marie
Gladys Wilson
Emporia
Burl Simonton
C. B. Griffin
Varna
Griffin
Lucile King
Clyde Monroe
Gertrude Ramsey
Streator
J. G. Clemens
New York
Clemens
R. A. Ward
Leininger
Roe and Lackland
Starved Rock
Fred Pritchard
Lawrence
Ottawa
T. J. Smith
M. J. French
Peoria
Helen Funk
Ollie Spencer
DeKalb
Charles Anderson
Ellen
Roy Waite
Tonica
Waite
la Salle
M. J
Ward
Patoka
Independent Telephone Company
Franklin
W. H. Skelton
T. L. Skelton
C. L. Wier- Man
Marsha
Marion
Eva J. Sweet
C. D
Gladys Ray
Margaret Balderston
Mary Peradotti
Frank Hoge
Hoge, Monser & Co
Wenona
Standard Bearers Hold Fourth Meeting At Mathis Home
The Standard Bearers met for the fourth time at EB A Mathis residence. The program featured song America vocal solo by Gladys Ray reading by Ollie Roberts and instrumental solo by Ralph Edwards. A moonlight woods picnic was voted for August and lawn games followed. Lunch offered strawberries ice cream and fraufraits on a Japanese lantern lit lawn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EB. A. Mathis
America
Gladys Ray
Reading
Ollie Roberts
Ralph Edwards
Martha Emma Price obituary and family ties in Illinois
Martha Emma Price born October 12 1845 in Putnam County Illinois moved to LaSalle County as a child and later lived on a family farm for 49 years. She married John B. Price January 11 1871 and had five children Edith M P Mills Mary Elizabeth Stockhaus Grace Hya Benjamin Franklin Thomas Price and Catherine Florence. She joined the Society of Friends and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and died June 18 1913 aged 67 years 8 months 6 days with funeral at the Friends’ yearly meeting house and interment at Clear Creek cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quaker Lane
Bess Davidson
Helen Smith
Irma Bumgarner
Kathryn Griffith
Max Whitney
Varna
FE. C. Gunn
Allen Ash
Regal
Peoria
J. J. Tomlinson
Jeanette
Anna Fittcraft
Oak Park
W. G. Griffith
Rachel Barton
lLostant
Milton Mills
BR. R. Bumgarner
McNabb
Chicago
W. B. Mills
Bloomington
Jessie
Nora Robinson
Lostant
C. GC. Mills
Decatur
Ford
Cordelia Wilson
Seattle
Washington
Reading Circle
Josiah
Alice Tomlinson
James Bush
Hennepin
Charles
Arthur Wilson
Winona Lake
Ind
Hal Laughlin
Griffith
Missouri
I. A .Madden
Normal
F. B. Smith
Ernest Mills
Jeff Moore
Fred Pritchard
Baby
Ottawa
T. J. Smith
Mason Wilson
William Chestnut
Granville
Friends’ Meeting House
Roy Mills
Abel Mills
Bumgarners
Smiths
Cadillac
Glen Dark Park
Tonica
My. Hecht
University of Illinois
Experiment Station
A. B. Mills
H. R
Swaney
Martha Emma Price
Thomas and
Phebe Hartley Flowers
Putnam County
Ilinois
la Salle County
John B. Price
Baltimore
Spirit Land
Edith M. P. Mills
Mary Elizabeth Stockhaus
Grace Hya Benjamin
Holder
Franklin Thomas Price
Catharine Florence
Better Land
Elizabeth F
John W. Price
Breen
Col
Society of Friends
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Friends’ Yearly Meeting
Friends Cemetery
Clear Creek
Isaac Wierman
Crossing the
Tennyson
Porter Stouffer Wedding Unites Mackinaw Pair at Home
Charles Porter of Mackinaw and Miss Mary Allen Stouffer married at bride’s parents home in Hennepin. Rev. C S Boyd officiated. Attendants included Maude Stouffer and Howard Porter. Flower girl Vivian Anderson. After a four course dinner, the couple left for a West tour and will return to Mackinaw around Aug 1. Both graduates of Wesleyan. Porter in livestock breeding and Mary pursuing further studies. guests from several states attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Porter
Mackinaw
Mary. Allen Stouffer
John Stouffer
Hennepin
C. S. Boyd
Maude Stouffer
Howard Porter
Vivian Anderson
West
Porter
Illinois Wesleyan
Wesleyan
University of Illinois
Mary Porter
Nina Briges
Anna Shellen-_berger
Milner
Frank Anderson
San Antonio
Frank Best
Mary Best
Oklahoma City
Grace Cayins
Miss Richards
Normal
Homer English
Bloomington
Mary Hartenbower
Douglas
Kan
Willard Hamm
Henry
Hennepin Levee District Votes Land Assessment and Pumping Plant Move
The Hennepin Drainage and Levee district meeting with 2400 of 2600 acres represented approved cutting off the Krafft land and moving the pumping plant to the bluff. Land will be assessed at $15 per acre totaling about $39,000, with R. P. Van Dusen overseeing engineering and bids to be invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hennepin
Krafft
R. P. van Dusen
Pekin
Ailing Women of Middle Age Endorses Lydia E Pinkham’s Compound
Mrs Edward B Hut Bert of Fleetwood Pennsylvania credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relieving severe menopausal symptoms including hot flashes dizziness headaches and sleep trouble. She urges others to try the remedy and publish her letter. The advertisement notes warning signs and promotes the product as strengthening the nervous system and aiding the change of life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fleetwood
Qat
Lydia E. Pinkham
Edward B. Hut Bert
Small Farm Plans and Local News From Granville
James Mc Cutcheon notes drainage district work to begin. Granville Echo reports Dr. Wilson’s new house rising, Koehler returning to Putnam county, and local visits. Choir and church services noted along with social calls, a lightning strike on the M W belfry causing minor damage. Local events include a Grand Diamond W C T A contest in Pontiac and a July 29 chautauqua.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Granville Echo
Stouffer-Porter wedding and Hennepin notices
Miss Blanche Patterson attended the Stouffer Porter wedding from Granville and hosted Granville friends at her home. Judge Green held a circuit court adjourned term in Hennepin ruling against a new trial in the Surface et al case. Local officers attended Princeton’s soldiers monument dedication. about 200 soldiers present and 1700 registered. Trimble Green House furnished roses and ferns for décor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hennepin
Blanche Patterson
Granville
J. A. Whitney
Lostant
Trimble Green House Company
Murphysboro and Herrin Folio U S Geological Survey
United States Geological Survey releases a folio covering Murphysboro and Herrin quadrangles in Illinois. The map provides topographic and geologic data for Johnson Perry Franklin and Williams counties in the Muddy River basin with carboniferous rocks formed from ancient swamp vegetation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murphysboro
Herrin
Ilinois
United States Geological Survey
Illinois
Geologic Atlas of
United States
Johnson, Perry
Franklin
Williams Counties
Muddy River
The Great Ice Age Drifts Across Illinois
A geographic history describes how carboniferous material formed coal, then erosion exposed beds. A late glacial advance swept stones and dirt into northern United States and Canada, reaching southern Illinois and leaving drift across the state. Bowlders originate from Canadian beds, traceable to their parent lodges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Canada
Illinois
Kickapoo Worm Killer Advertises for Children
Most children suffer worms says an ad urging mothers to treat with Kickapoo Worm Killer a pleasant candy lozenge that expels worms regulates bowels tones up the system and makes children well. Guaranteed. Available from druggists or by mail 25 cents Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. Philadelphia and St. Louis. A J Segraves and A J Ironmonger Adv
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kickapoo Indian Medicine
Philadelphia
St. Louis
A. J. Segraves
A. J. Ironmonger
Sleep Producing Bullet Invented By Pittsburg Man
United States army officials test a morphia filled bullet by Alexander F. Humphrey a Pittsburg pattern maker. The sleep producing bullet supposedly renders a wounded soldier calm and sleepy while remaining effective. Burglar targets are said to be captured as sleep overtakes them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Army
Alexander F. Humphrey
Pittsburg
Humphrey
Army
Also Mentioned on This Page
Magnolia Department
Coggshall
McAdoo
Scott
Scott & Bowne
Bloomsfield
N. J
Peck-Williamson
Scat
Gall
Bureau
Putnam
Marshall Counties
Illinois River
Putnam, Ill
M. M. Henkins
Hennepin, Ill
Hennepin Drainage and Levee
James McCutcheon
Secheres
Porter-Stouffer
Mrs. Brown
Mrs. Green
Mrs. Hilbert
Sec
Hennepin Drainage and Levee District
John Skeet
Anna Lind
Edna Kranz
C. A. Whitney
Wm. Parret
Minnesota
Albert Gealow
Troy Grove
John Weber
Charles Wendt
Blue Harth
Victor Baker
Kate Fraher
Margaret
Mary Bilis
Rich Hill
Bertha Henning
Mendota
H. C. McKenzie
Hassie McKenzie
Anna Toemmes Tomlinson
Pontiac Chautauqua
The
Ayer
Lowell
Koss
McCormick
Fairbanks-Morse
U. S. Windmills
U. S
Harper
Hyerett
Climax Furnace
Apex
J. F. Wolf
Z. Frank Titus
Magnolia, Ill
Albert Pletsch
Mcnabb, Ill
McNabb Central 183
A. Simmons
Centenary Hospital
Olive Street Bank
Barnes’ University
Medicone Eal Society
Ina Bank
Phone McNabb
I. Hennepin, Ill
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