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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1921
Page
3
Sparland and Henry area social life is recorded with visitors such as Miss Flossie Frisbey and Mrs. Alice Titus. Local travel includes trips to Peoria and Lacon. Church events, bake sales, birthdays, and obituaries fill the week, with community notes on schooling, sports, and a spring road project.
A fiery critique questions cement road policy in Illinois asking if hard roads serve the people or pad cement trusts profits. It mocks the exclusive cement road standard, high prices, material ratios, and cracks in existing cement roads. It ends urging renewed subscriptions.
In Steuben an old weekly note covers Easter hat counts and daily life. Otis Compton’s hospital stay ends with slow recovery. Mrs. Jennie Holmes and Mrs. McCall attend a movie. rain disrupts M E church services. Wallace Brome misses a drug store familiar face. Oscar Medearis and family visit relatives. Elmer Olson buys and moves the old barber shop landmark for a residence conversion.
An exchange between an officer and Mrs Casey reveals her understanding of aviation but she asks what holds up the aeroplanes. The dialogue captures a humorous miscomprehension amid a meet.
A collection of brief items reports spring wheat planting by Charles and Benny Hunt, visits from Floyd Thomas to relatives, road trouble on Crow Creek road with cars stuck, and a teachers meeting held last Thursday and Friday. Family news includes Mrs. Baugh and Harriet visiting at George Waughop's, health updates for Mrs. Will Daniels, new tractor ownership by Benny Hunt and Wlaver Bland, and a piano gift at Fred Schupp's. Also mentions Albert learning to a new home and Benny Hunt aiding famine relief in Europe.
The oath of office administered to Warren G Harding by Chief Justice Edward D White declares that Harding will faithfully execute the presidency and, to the best of his ability, preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
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