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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1915
Page
3
Residents, visitors and workers frequent La Prairie and nearby Peoria, with updates on schooling illness and social events. Notables include Misses Hoskins, Miss Elsie Trompeter, Mrs. Tesmer Campbell, and James Smith obituary notes. Community ties show church services, funerals, revival meetings, and plans for spring labor and milk wagon rumors.
SOGIH WHITEFIELD reports Frank Miller from Camp Crowe visiting the Wishart and Ely homes while Dewey Lopeman begins work for Claude Doran moving Harriet and Isabel Green. Edgar Johnson and Ray Whitmer quit Bonham school amid moves. Charles Sellers of Tiskilwa notes pink eye nearby. George Waughop and family relocate to a new home with planned improvements. Thomas Lopeman returns from Oakley-la and moves his sister and daughter to his home as Eckoffs take charge of Lopeman and Dwyer homes. Mrs. Walter Pride visits DeWalt home. Scott Osborne ships to Colorado. Bert Farling recovers from grip and works for Al House. Fred Ross becomes right hand man at L. Waughop home. Glen Wagner returns to Dakota after winter with Walter Holler’s family.
Sunday gatherings at the Chesney home featured Reynolds, Lidgard, and families planning to move into the vacated Robinson and West properties. Mary Morris is ill with pneumonia, cared for by a nurse from Pekin, while Mary, Helen Hunter, and Lyle visited. A youth–adult contest ended with the young defeating the adults. a supper is planned at J R Jarline's on Friday, March 2. The Ashton Methodist group hosted a donation party last week and left the house in good order for a family in need.
Circuit court proceedings include estate actions for John Klevesat Jesse Hall and others with probate hearings and executor appointments. Real estate transfers list numerous lot sales in Varna Toluca and La Rose. Marriage licenses issued for several couples and births recorded for families in Sell Plain and Lacon.
A mixed local item notes Lyman Vincent’s granddaughter under grandmother Mrs Louis Nightwonger in Spailand, Mamie Jacobson delivering a Ford from Macon, Miss Winnie Macon returning from Foust Grove, and various school and household changes with several residents moving or entertaining. The piece also mentions a Young People’s meeting, a Peoria trip, and local remarks on health remedies as a weekly miscellany.
Harry Clark of Stark County Power Co. leaves Saturday night for Quincy for a one week vacation visiting his mother and sisters. John and Mrs. Barres of Camp Grove area welcome a baby boy born February 22. Mrs. Thomas Gubbins shows improvement after illness. John Malone visits Blue Earth Minn and likes the country and sleighing. Wess Ault loses two fingers in a wood sawing accident and receives prompt medical care.
A Youths Companion note highlights a sleeping porch or open bedroom as a specific against colds. It recommends a cold-sponge bath in the morning and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to help when a cold strikes, claiming it aids recovery and is widely available.
A reminiscence explains how cream becomes butter through agitation. The piece describes fat globules, surface tension, and granular fat structures forming and rising to the cream’s surface as churning proceeds. It blends lay explanation with historical quotes and notes on alfalfa, Pine-Tar-Honey, and other items.
A 1967 advertisement recalls Mrs Carrier of Pitts, who credits Doan's Kidney Pills with relief from backache and kidney secretions after a January interview. The notice promotes the product from F. Dean Co. in Buffalo, New York, urging readers to request the same remedy.
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