Local city notes and social items from midweek paper
Readable items include social visits, travel notes, theater promos, river excursion plans, interurban service talks, family movements, minor accidents, and community happenings. Mentions include Miss Alta Humphrey, Mrs Elizabeth Dawson, the Star theater, the David Swain excursion steamer, and local civic notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Ryan
BR. Phillips
Savanna
Ill
Star Theater
Darkies
Fred Smith
Wilson Bush
North Street
Meier Bros
Alta Humphrey
Robert Daniels
Elizabeth Dawson
el Paso
Clark Ball
Whitefield
Ethel Zenor
Granville
Alta Htumphre
Crow Meadow
Thomas Wabel
Bureau Co Ly
L. Chit
Chicago
Peoria
Pearl
Illinois
Stanley Hall
Abijah Hall
Rey R. L. Vivian
Wyoming
Modern Woodmen of America
Woodmen
Robert Newton
Illinois River
Ottawa
Depue
Yorkville
Watercott Store Exhibit Promises Broad Fashion Selection
A Watercott store style exhibit showcases season's wear for men and women with gowns suits wraps and hats. The ad touts low prices and value from top makers including Schloss Bros Michael Sterns & Co Hirst-Wickwire and Society Brand, inviting shoppers from Central Illinois to visit and compare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
Watercott
Illinois
Schloss Bros
Michael Sterns & Co
Hirst-Wickwire
Society Brand
Hainois
George E. Keith & Co
W. L. Douglas Co
Duttenhoefer & Co
Queen
Henry Hose to make grass grow and town crews cut it
The item cites J Watercott and Co Henry Hose to grow the grass and town crews to cut it near Meier Bros. It notes Miss Margaret Wracken visiting west of Putnam and funeral arrangements for Mrs Meckvoy in Putnam. The city cleaned streets, frost and ice were reported, with damage feared to fruit trees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles- A
Texas
Dr. Jones
Chicago
Marian Wabel
W.G. Dorsey
Alden Loomis
Lacon
W. C. Dorsey
John Blackburn
Illinois Senate
Lish
Hattie McCulley
Henry
Illinois
Minon
Thomas D Hubbell
Fulton
Alex Daniels
Wm Peterman
Jolly Bunch
Meier Bros
Margaret Wracken
West of
Putnam
Wiss Lina Stickel Rex
Dookie
Mra Meckvoy
Putnan
Henry High School
Swaney Consolidated School
Belle Worley
Coliseum
New York
Worley
Varna
Pédria
Town Hall
Fred Schick
Greeley
Col
T L. Jones
T. 5S. Hunt
Kansas
New York Ladies Adorn Summer Hats and Flowers
A fragment notes popular summer millinery shapes and hats named the Countess Sum mertime Bellcourt Columbia among fashionable wear in New York. It mentions a pretty line of flowers also drawing attention in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ca Vich
Bellcourt
Columbia
New
Versatile finish products and local notices in Henry area
Local ads promote Vernical and Chi-Namel wood and metal finishes praised for color, durability, and no heel marks on floors. The issue also includes town news from Henry and La Con about legal business, school, livery, church repairs, frog protection bill, steamer excursions, dances, and minor accidents with community commentary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Adams
Illinois
Ilinois
Bill York
Peorian Daily Journal
Billy
Henry
Tale-Doran
T. J. Segraves
F Ir
Henry KE. Jacobs, Esq
Lacon
G. M. Brown
Streator
Rev. R. Whipple
St. John’s
J. R. Paskell
Dwight
Cromwell
Harry Mead
Swain
Chillicothe
Forrest
Hiuffstetter
Balloo
Eamitton
Papar
Iafield
Prince’ Tom
Gharies Troutman
Albert Holtz
Hamilton
Oy Gan
Ohio
Also Mentioned on This Page
A Webber
Castleton
Lou Wood
la Prairie
Chester Bidwell
Leonard Hunter
Wheatland Township
Bidwell
Hunter
Rock Island
Robert Colwell
Baby
Robert Hoar
Mr. Colwell
David Swain
Fred
Liv Gie Éeny
A. H. Green
Herald
Peru
Barlville
Green
Misa Myrtle Atherton
Woman's Club
Marlon -Bicker
St Ains
Clift
Princeton
Golumbus Street
Alfred Carlson
Bert Sparling
Henry Fisher
Picheis
Satoonkeepa
Hitehqouk
Henry Burkhart
Blue Island
Burkhart
Blett
JD W Horror
Burkharts
R L Vivian
Deaconess
Robert Doran
Lear
Joliet
Hunter Lumber Yard
Benjamin McBride
Golden Stair
W H Jones
Optician
Main Street
Wita
Herman Hofer
St. Francis Hospital
Edward J. Doran
Carbondale
Kas
Kangas
Miss Drake
Drake’s Grove
la Prairie-township
Lake City
Iowa
Mallzcarrier
George N
Watercott Store
Til
Tindmere Ex Bros
J. Watercott & Co
Magnolia
Epworth League of the
MI Church
Lewis Kraus
Enquirer
Green House
C. E. Smith
David Dwyer
Marshall
Minn
Minnesota
Daniel Marnane
Nebraska
Pekin
McLeish
Sparland
Vandervoort
Péoria Deacoiéss
Ww. H. Weaver
L. A. Meier
Woolley Sisters
Our City
Florida
Nimberries
Weaver
Trenton
N. J
William Ketchum
Inaphe
Kennedy
Ing
Ime
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