Local notices and social happenings mix with health and lectures
Community items report several illnesses including Mrs James Gallup and Mrs Emler with a progress note for Geo Holler 18. Wm A Gallup builds a new farm house while A V Goltra works on it. Church plans add on and bell, May lectures at Boarland May 12. Socials planned May 16 and local visits noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Gallup
Mre Emler
Geo Holler
Wm Riddel
Will C Levere
Boarland
Spain and Coal
Churea
Good Templars
Martin's Hall
Lacon
Sparland
Oliver Case
St Louis
Mra Martleod
Yio
65Th
Children's Suits at Low Prices in 4 Styles
A local ad lists children's Latinet suits from 90c to 1.60, solid cassimere suits at 2 to 3, jersey suits from 2.25 up, and a Child's Short Pant Suit with West Front. Exclusive sale noted for this model and boy's school and black cheviot suits priced 2 to 3 dollars.
Whitefield Corners Notes on Charms and Chores
The article recounts local happenings at Whitefield Corners including family illnesses at Herr’s farm, frost protection for peach trees, and a new fire and lightning insurance office run by True Worthington with a $1000 policy on the parsonage. It covers church events at the M E church Boyd’s Grove May meeting and officer elections, plus plans for a May 16 orchestra program led by the Whitefield Corners Orchestra with varied acts and admission 20 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitefield
John Herr's
Jonnie
Kila Christmas
Ia Grippe
Willis
Fountato
Snell
Worthington
A Hartley
Peoria
Alan
M. E. Church
Boyd's Grove
Johnson Fate
Laura Colwell
Offcern
H. Hinman
Corbin
Adarown
Mary Griswold
James Christman
Whitefield Corners
Marshall Downey
Pearline
Fannie
Winnie Dille
Mary Shorts
Bugler
Fortune ‘Celler
Comrie Quartette
Ed Shorts
Garden City
W Townsend
Kenyon and
Dille
Florence Fountain
God
Schottische
C. A. Dille
J. W. Townsend
Joseph Kenyon
Wm Wright
Community Notes and Local Appointments
Saratoga residents visit Robert Kelley and Ethel Tanquary travels to an uncle near Sparland. A resident urges cattle be kept in pastures. Rev Miller to speak on The Model Woman at Epworth League benefit May 10. Granges educate three youths in degrees. Local ads promote Miles Nerve and Liver Pills from Powell Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel Tanquary
Sparland
James Andrews
Ford County
Thompson
Whitefield
Saratoga
Miller
Epworth League
Grangers
Graham
Miles
J. E
F. A. Powell
Henry Ils. Ly
Hennepin Local Notes From Independence and Nearby
Hennepin reports Callie Rousseau with a toothache Virginia Maloy listed sick Florence Cecil visiting Independence Iowa Nellie and Alice Seaton in Henry W Deam from Independence in Hennepin this week Mary Leoph visiting sister Mrs Camp of Henry James Alexander a colored resident painting his house J A Seaton attended a drainage meeting in Springfield Theron Loose claims forty fathoms of river depth after a skiff accident Mrs Mahlon Newburn in Chicago for cancer operation says to be going well W C Patterson cashes sale of late Dr J M Cowen estate properties High street buyers Mr Jasper Cecil Court street buyer Dr B Davis Seventh annual Hennepin High School commencement May 8 at M E church graduates Grace Cunningham Edith Smith Mattie Willis Ethel Zenor Lida Tuers Bessie Read Theron L Loose Dr W J Thomas V S mentioned as attending service
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence Cecil
Independence
Iowa
Nellie
Alice Seaton
Henry
Deam
Hennepin
Mary Leoph
Chas Camp
Henry James Alexander
J. A. Seaton
Springfield
Theron Loose
Mahlon Newburn
Chicago
W. C. Patterson
Putnam County Bank
J. M. Cowen
High Street
Jasper Cecil
Court Street
Lively horse bucking ride ends with doctor unhurt
The doctor attempted a ride on a spirited horse last Tuesday. The animal bucked fiercely sending him into an unknown space where visions of distant friends and wing fluttering overwhelmed him. He sustained no serious injuries beyond needing camphor for relief and later recovered to about normal.
Pleasant showers and frost dot West Oxlow notes
The West Oxlow area records a Saturday shower with light frost. Community updates include visitors such as Mr Regenald and Fannie Riddenbaugh, Elder Sallie from South Wayne, and Mr Achorn of Peoria. Death of Sam Allen noted. Sunday school praised. stray mare colt reported. church events set for June with preaching and attendance invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Regenald
Fannie Riddenbaugh
Anton Morgens
Sallie
South Wayne
Wisconsin
C H Ransom
Achorn
Peoria
Andy Morse
the Bow
Andy Roath
Canada
Castoria Slogan About a Mother's Remedy Through Generations
An old advertisement style couplet recites a mother giving Castoria to her children at various life stages. It emphasizes trust in the remedy by linking it to care from infancy through adulthood and motherhood.
Bargains In Grocery and Household Goods From J F Gates
A long catalog lists sugar flour beans coffee tea soap baking powder and cleaning items with bulk prices and multi item deals. The notice closes with praise for Gates’s long running countywide bargain listing and signs by J F Gates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orleana
Bey
Oborce
Ohborce
Crown Axio
Gillett
Bell
Ives Family
Harney Bros
Ivory
Elze Kirk
Japan
Kidney disease cured by skim milk diet era
Robert Schenck a former Ohio congressman and later general and minister to England fell ill with Bright's disease. He lived 26 more years on skim milk on a Vermont farm, prompting a patent medicine claim for Reid's German Cough and Kidney Cure sold by Sylvan Rememoy Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Schenck
Ohio
England
Bright
Gen Schenck
America
Vermont
Reid'serman
Sylvan Remezoy Co
Main St
Peoria
J H. Atkinson
Henry, Bt
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Bloomington
Joanie Thompson
Judge Burns
Streator
Tnet
C N. Thompson
Spencer Ellsworth
Frooch
Buoday
Templars
Knights of Pythias Lodge
Goo Harper
Phil McEntee
John Fay
SOE
A. Powell
Boston
Clothing
Vonue Mens Suits
QUR Annex Shoe Room
Lestant
Magnolia
Bradford
EATRA
Hamilton
McCormick and Atowers
Ken McNeal
A. P. Webber
Robert Kelley
Hennepin Callie Rousseau
Virginia Maloy
West Oxlow
Sam Allen
Eli Allen
Asunday School
Pool School
Otis Leech
Newwenty
Wm A. Smith
Quaker Lane
Lls
Sallee
Baptist Church
Brother Wheeler
Pitcher's Castoria
Castoria
Iery
Whl
J. F. Gates
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