Varna News Roundup From Lacon to Hopewell
Local notes recount visits by Thomas Green and others from Lacon Wenona and La Rose. Reports of Mrs Anna Peterson and Miss Laura Cavett in town, a teachers meeting, and a church convention. Marriage notices, school events, storms, repairs, and community engagements across Varna Hopewell and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lacon
Joel Haws
Magnolia
Varna
George Norton
Peoria
M. E. Church
Rosa—Alleen
George Dickey
Fred Dickey
Weenan
H. H Thierry
Ernest Schumacher
Alma
Ervine
Schumacher
Mr. Heine
la Rose
Smith Bars
Vedeen
Emma Schumacher
Alma Schumacher
George Barnes
Washburn
Orrin Whetzel
Charles Ireland
Lucy Foster
I. D. Richmond
Miss Myers Leads Eighth Grade Pupil Finals at Laconast
Miss Myers and her three Eraite pupils attended the final for eighth graders in Laconast Friday. All passed and will receive their diplomas. Miss Eratite Brown visited Saturday night and Sunday with her sister Mrs Lucians Bosdi¢k. Mrs Ed Sharis TM faced more trouble Monday.
Horse Collapse at Bogner Farm After Well Collapse
Joseph Bogner lost two horses when a well caved in during discing on a Saturday. A colt fell into the well and pulled another horse in with it. both animals were injured and one died, neighbors rescued the live horse later. The Bogner family is relieved their boy was unharmed. Cora Baker helps with spring work. Mrs. Bertha Jones of Sparland visited Baker. Sherel Rowe and Elmer Bogner attended a Lacon examination last Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Bogner
Hennepin Notes on Visits and Local Events
Mrs Sallie Hartley and daughter visited her parents Mr and Mrs Thomas Paxson last week. Fifty three passengers boarded the Swain Saturday morning bound for Henry and Peoria. Walter Paxson and family took a Sunday ride to Tonica. Robert Zenor and family visited Mrs H A Bonges in Ottawa. Funeral of Miss Edith Baxendale in Peoria. ME Newburn’s niece was Edith. New gas pump at Henepin drainage plant started. pump to move about 700 000 gallons per hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hennepin
Sallie Hartley
Henry
Thomas Paxson
E.g.paxson
Swain
Peorla
Walter ‘Paxson
Tonicta
Robert B. Zenor
H. A. Bonges
Ottawa
Jasper Cecil
Bi Neal
M. BE. Newburn
Peoria
Edith Baxendale
Edith
Newburn
Henntpin
Local notices from Hutchins to Wil liams area community events
Hutchins and Downey Henry Illinois. Mr and Mrs L H Pinnell and children spent Sunday at J M Williams. O P Carroll and wife moved to their new home in Kewanee. Rev Wakefield moved to Pekin. The township schools closed for a county contest with high school and grade contestants recognized for spelling and exams. Died Mrs Helen Leet of Aurora and A T Fuller of Stark County are noted, along with marriages in Minneapolis and Broadmoor. The Mystic Workers of the World plan moves. scarlet fever quarantine lifted. several locals visit relatives in Chicago Milwaukee Peoria and Elgin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Williams
Princeton
Peoria
Beerwald
Milwaukee
Heminghouse
Blanche Shaw
Chicago
R. Dally
Fred Rickey
Stiss Nellie McEntee
Lacan
Consolidated Schoor
Christenson
Drake
O’brien
Granville
Julia Christenson
Opal Buard
Miss Christenson
Miss Buard
Raymond Keegan
Hiram Gregg
Harold Pennell Ed Sparling
Milo
McClain
Lara Pane
Tuesay
Rev. Wakefield
Pekin
Samuel Chesney
Henry
Frank Barr
Lacon
Glen Ford
Sherman Yarrington
John Ball
F. J. Harvey
Julia
Opal Huard
Ray Strasnider
E. M. Plummer
Kesiance
Elks’ Lodge
Minneapolis
John R. Fate
Pearl Longmire
Broadmoor
Margaret Brown
Daniel Heminway
Elgin
New Opera House
Aurora
Helen Speer Léet
William Leet
Eet
England
Bradford
Herman Ketchum
A. T. Fuller
Stark County
Wyoming
James Cross
D. M. Stauffer
J. W. Pettigrew
J. E B. Noyes
United States District Court
the Natural Steel Tank Co
Emn Joyer
Lincoln
Neb
Chicago drainage blamed by St Louis paper joke
The Chicago Tribune quotes the St. Louis Star ridiculing Chicago for sending drainage downstream to St Louis. It notes many Illinois towns would be blamed for impure water reaching Missouri and mocks Chicago’s odor and claims a cheap school tablet sales line ends the piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Tribune
St. Louis
St.Louis
Missouri
Peoria
Pekin
Havana
Sharp’s Landing
Browning
Frederick
Beardstown
Briggs’ Landing
Merédosia
Naples
Illinois
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Hopewell
Spring Valley
Oklahoma
Otto
Gust Carlson
Ed Holmstrom
Elsie Cross
Amanda Cross
Curryville
Amanda
Elsie
Tax
Poignant
Richland
Walter Suderjan
Hazel Hostetter
Wdtain
Epee
Alfred Swanson
Saskatchewan
Canada
Swanson
Peter
Henry Remley
John Remley
George
Hell
A. Shorts
Dr Hess
Rock Island
Colehower
Crosdick
Odd Fellows
Meier and
Clark
Harry Snell
Bob Daniels
Dr Hubbard
Whasefield Corners
Whitefield Center
Coats & i
Smart Millinery
Milan
Janeway & Carpender
Eaee Ae
Hutchins & Downey
Ill
Buston
Omaha
Cedar
Rapids
Davenport
Galesburg
Fulton
Paorrla-or-Rockford
Repubean
Michelin Tire
Michelin Tire Co
Milltown
New Jersey
State House
Capitol
Springfield
Puritan
Hexter Bros
Alfred Decker & Cohn
Our
Salaas
Marshall
Hexter
BROS
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