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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1907
Page
12
Magnolia news items include Perry Dakin in Peoria and Lulu Otto out of town. John Swaney and J. S. Phillips visited nearby towns. Asa Stevenson and wife visited Magnolia. Charles Wierman went to Chicago. hog shipments and a restaurant sale are noted. Henry Eddingfield took a Granville job as bookkeeper. Ruth Eddingfield returned home with a light scarlet fever.
Strawn hosts Sunday school at 10 a.m. and preaching at 11 a.m. Magnolia holds Sunday school at 10 a.m. Epworth League at 6 30 and preaching at 7 30. Caledonia offers Sunday school at 2 p.m. and preaching on the second and fourth Sundays at 3 p.m. Rev. Mercer of Peoria visited Magnolia charge to promote the Deaconess hospital. contributions were excellent.
The school library gains many titles from the receipts of the local talent play Millie the Quadroon. New works include Dickens, Eliot, Thackeray, Parkman, Prescott, Spencer, Dante, Moore, Emerson and Plato. About $200 in apparatus and school supplies were purchased this winter. Patrons are invited to inspect the collection.
Missouri resident Israel Stansell visited his brothers J B and Horace Stansell while Los Laughlins of Princeton called on Mrs J A McNabb. Abel Mills attends Society of Friends meeting in Lincoln Nebraska and Magnolia residents visit kin and shopkeepers.
An 19th century advertisement touts Dr. R V Pierce Golden Medical Discovery as a blood purifier and tonic for stomach and liver disorders. It lists native roots and glycerine extraction, offers a free booklet, and promotes All-Healing Salve for sores along with non alcoholic composition and Pleasant Pellets for digestion.
Saturday morning callers and Sunday visitors from La Salle Chicago Knox City Nebraska and New York filled Hennepin in the week. Notable notes include Mrs Durley under Dr McCormick care improving and Sheriff Cecil and daughter escorting an adjudged incompetent to Watertown. Ground snow crown and 75 people joined a Henry Peoria excursion. other items cover moves to Granville Urbana and Texas. births and a maiden trip by carrier Frank Monroe May 1.
The April term of Putnam county circuit court closed with two criminal cases on the docket one for assault with intent to commit rape and one for larceny. The first was fined 100 dollars plus costs. the second was continued. Law cases included 14 against the Sanitary District of Chicago all continued. W B Mills treasurer of the Magnolia and Hope drainage district had three cases all continued. Two divorce applications in chancery. one dismissed, one decreed. Mechanics lien actions two continued. one foreclosure. The grand jury, in four days, returned fifteen true bills nine against saloonkeepers for Sunday closing law violations three against Berryman and one against a Magnolia man for selling without a license. Fines in whiskey cases totaled about 820 dollars. Miller and Osborne: a true bill against Miller, case continued at his request until next October unless bondsmen are secured. Osborne not indicted but bound as a witness and released.
Dr. Watson became owner of a new automobile bought in Chicago last week. Mr. Humphrey, visiting, returned to Joliet last Sunday. Mystic Workers of Hennepin staged Under the Spell at the M W A hall to a full house last Saturday night.
Residents from Lacon Wenona and Washburn visit relatives and shop in Peoria. Funeral services were held for Mrs. Milche near town as White Sox beat Washburn Selects 1 to 0 in a Varna ballgame held after the funeral.
Bob Onward a bright bay foaled 1899 stands sixteen hands one inch and weighs 1200 pounds. He descends from Onward blood through multiple mares and sires noted for speed. The 1907 season will see sales at McNabb Wesley Allen's Weona Phillips Magnolia Stinger's Varna with $15 to insure a colt to stand and suck.
Notices of travel to Varna for a ball game, a move to Peru Indiana, and visits by Lottie Smith and Maude Robins. A mix of light anecdotes includes Mark Twain quotes, a spider in a newspaper, schoolroom humor, and wagging remarks about temperance and marriage beliefs.
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