Sparland News Roundup Highlights Local Life
Local representative J R Bouton of The Henry Republican voices prompt attention for Sparland items. News covers store returns, construction near Hlmer Frisbey, street work, Mystic meeting results, fishing idle days, and upcoming July 4 celebration plans with parade, speeches, and fireworks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R. Bouton
Sparland
The
Henry Republican
Bis
John van Antwerp
Hlmer Frisbey
Wm. Gallup
Ruby Olson
East Peoria
Isabelle McCartney
Tesmer
Lacon Journal
Lewis Webster
New York
Lewis
Chicago
Scarce fruit and storm damage hit local town
Strawberries sell for 15¢ a quart with few supplies, cherries scarce. Storms unravel cables leaving town dark until repair. Gardens thrive, pumpkins beets to can. Community notes include visitors from Salida and Toluca, church preaching by Mr. Briggs, Mystic Workers picnic at Ottawa with Sparland lodge, and upcoming baseball games between local teams in Peoria and nearby towns.
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Peoria Journal
Nellie Thomas
Chicago Pentroralty
Mr. Briggs
Chicago University
Mr. Chessman
Yankee Street
Gimlet
Mystic Workers
Ottawa
Sparland Lodge
Gapen Drug Store
Mystic Hall
Chautauqua Park
Peru
Lacon
Peoria
Prairie social notes and church schedule crowd La Prairie
UA PRAIRIN Mrs Webster Greene and Ruth visit in Lacon with Mrs Alice Wood. Carl Leigh home from Onarga a Grand Prairie seminary graduate. Rev Black conducted Sabbath services in Aledo so no U P church. Mrs Barnes Delavan visits son Rev Barnes. Agnes Powell guests Miss Adams Bloomington. Mrs H N Wilmot and Ambro Wilmot visit Mrs Stagg Wyoming. Misses Mary and Alice Scoon host twenty girls for dinner with pansies as favors and a toast to a bachelor. La Prairie to celebrate the 4th.
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Webster Greene
Ruth
Lacon
Alice Wood
Carl Leigh
Onarga
Grand Prairie Seminary
Black
Aledo
U. P
Barnes of
Delavan
Rev. Barnes
Agnes Powell
Miss Adams
Bloomington
H. N. Wilmot
Ambro Wilmot
Camp Grove Notes of Visits Marriages and Misfortune
Oliver Finch visits from out of town while John Winne and George Cluskey call on friends in Peoria. News covers local visits births a daughter to Mr and Mrs Thomas Hawkins and a runaway accident injuring Mrs Joe Schwarz plus a wedding at Bradford and Grant Kilgore’s mill updates.
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Nancy A. Fouts
Castleton
Wm. King
Charles Halsted
Canova
W. J. Owen
Peoria
Wm. Conrad
A. A. Webber
Stock
Samuel King
Arthur Paull
James Winne
Barton
Toulon
Willie Crutchett
G. L. Schultz
Thomas Hawkins
Jap Schwartz
J. A. Eyer
Kewanee
Albert Conrad
Camp Grove
Joe Schwarz
Dr. Blough
Thomas Curran
B. Verna McGuire
St. John's Catholic Church
Bradford
P. H. McCarron
Grant Kilgore
Grant
Wm. Mills
Funeral for Charles McCurdy Held at Valley Cemetery
Burial took place Sunday at Valley cemetery for Charles McCurdy with relatives J H Fites and son Ivan in attendance. The piece also recalls a dramatic town incident with a wild bull and rope, local farming notes, and a July wedding in Wyoming.
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Valley Cemetery
J. H. Fites
Ivan
Charles McCurdy
Fred Francis
Wyoming
Mr. Garden
Webber & King
Gill
Jack King
Smith
Blough
Weery Willie
Uncle Sam
John Eagleston
Peoria
Samuel Roof
C. J. O'Brien
May Hanley
John McManus
H. H. McBride
Grant Kilgore
Peter Herberger
James P. Hickey
St. Dominick’s Catholic Church
John Barnes
Miss Matilda
W. James Owens
Thomas Daniel Kennedy
Miss Bessie
Francis Murphy
la Prairie
Albert Lane
Moulton Named San Diego Chief of Police
Announcement that George W. Moulton brother of county assessor Montgomery M. Moulton will be chief of police in San Diego surprises political prophets who had listed other candidates. He is praised as well educated energetic and capable with detective instincts from years in eastern newspaper work. He is expected to begin duties without delay.
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George W. Moulton
Montgomery M. Moulton
San Diego
Moulton
East
Chinese Lotteries Spark Calls for Reform in City
The San Diego Herald urges abolishing Chinese lotteries operating openly in Chinatown and cites lack of arrests of proprietors while noting punishments for agents. It also mentions Chief Moulton's rise to a high police position and reports community notes from Saratoga on weather, illnesses, barn painting, a birthing and marriage plans.
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Chinatown
Ad Jake
The
Herald
Moulton
San Diego
Camp Grove
Social Visits and Community Gatherings Reported
South Milo resident Mr. Barker called in Princeton last week. Edna Smith spent Thursday with Mrs. Fuller in Milo. Bessie Pettigrew and two Princeton children visited Mrs. Fannie Barkman. Charlotte Clark hosted cousins and their mother with Mrs. Bentley and Sarah Reed group. Ice cream and strawberry sociable at Whitefield drew many locals. Mrs. McClane and Emma Austin visited sister Mrs. Swarthout in Princeton to see her paralysis case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barker
Princeton
Edna Smith
Fuller
Milo
Bessie Pettigrew
Fannie Barkman
Charlotte Clark
Conover
Hill
Longman
F. Bentley
Sarah Reed
Whitefield
McClane
Emma Austin
Swarthout
Probate notices and real estate transfers in local court
N B Whitney and Michael Schmilien deceased estates listed for probate with letters testamentary or administration. minors named with reports. Real estate transfers include parcels in Richland, Toluca, Sparland and other towns. several lot descriptions and bond noted for administration. Also a patent medicine ad for Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy at A J Ironmonger's Drug Store.
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N B. Whitney
Charles Whitney
Michael Schmilien
Charles R. Davis
Ethel Davis
John Ichfield
Emily Litchfield
Beulah
Edward
May
Elizabeth
Cornelia Wikoff
Glenn
John
Henry
Vera Mason
Henry Lesch
M. Owen
Richland
Frank Owen Et al
Edward Stephens
Flora R. Hoyt
Adam
Martha Lowe
Lacon
Stanislaus Smith
Anna Smith
Toluca
Walter Joseph
Dora
Anna B. Hunt
Sparland
John Roth
Clara B. Hayline
Chamberlain
A. J. Ironmonger's
Fine line of buggies wagons robes and whips
A local dealer promotes a range including buggies wagons robes and whips. The Marseilles Grain Dump is cited as the best on the market along with oils and kerosene. The ad invites trade and promises fair dealings and customer satisfaction.
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Marseilles
The Tongue the Pen and the Ballot Rulers of the Republic
A collection of aphorisms and opinions on governance, labor, and national progress. The text laments political reform via ballot boxes, praises Rockefeller’s munificence, notes longevity from toe dancing, and asserts a shift toward rural improvement and fuller life in America.
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John D. Rockefeller
Republic
America
Premature Burials Cited by Dr. Alex Wilder
Dr. Alex Wilder a professor of physiology in New York warns against complacency over reported deaths. He cites cataleptic trance and drug-induced states as factors that can mimic death and urges stricter verification before burial.
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Alex Wilder
New York
Connecticut Democrat Remarks on Trusts Stir Campaign Talk
A Connecticut Democratic paper notes that the Republican administration is making a record on trust issues. It argues that the administration will render the topic unprofitable for opponents on the stump in the next presidential campaign.
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Connecticut
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Mildred Greene
Peor
Eunice Durham
Toluca i
Dorothy Scott
UA Prairin
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the Burial League of the
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Charles Clifford Doran
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Thomas Salisbury
Minnie Headstrom
Sutton
Mabel
Will Diverbiss
Miss Moulter
Will McAfee
Joe Johnson
Joe Swartz
Johnny Barnes
Miss Owens
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