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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1908
Page
2
State Board of Live Stock Commissioners warns of a new tuberculosis threat where pigs linked to dairy cattle may harbor the disease. The report to Governor Deneen urges mandatory health certificates or quarantine for cattle entering the state to curb spread and protect human health.
The Kankakee marshes once famed for duck hunting and geese roosts have been drained and converted to productive small farms. Nine years of drainage work yielded a giant onion bed with irrigation ditches and river dredging, turning a hunting paradise into a prosperous agricultural region managed by local clubs and farmers.
The Kankakee marsh farms yield rich onion crops with 10 000 bushels from a field and 1200 from 1 5 acres. Fifty one car loads of onions and thirty six car loads of potatoes shipped from Hamlet last season. A barge line from St Louis to New Orleans proposed to cut grain transport costs, seeking $2 000 000 capital for four towboats and thirty steel barges to move 100 000 bushel boats at reduced rates.
The Frank Fowler saloon in DePue was burglarized recently with $80 in nickel plated wire nippers taken. A collection of short local notes mentioning nearby cities and civic issues appears in the same clipping.
The attorney general rules that in anti saloon territory no drug store may sell intoxicating liquor without a permit for the four specified uses. Municipalities may regulate permit grants but discretion rests with the local government. Physicians are not exempt from anti saloon laws and may be subject to penalties for selling liquor. A revenue stamp remains prima facie evidence but can be overcome with other proof.
The text traces a broad grassroots push across farmers teachers lawyers and citizens seeking a fourteen foot channel through the Mississippi valley. It argues for a trunk route from the Great Lakes via Chicago to New Orleans and calls for a redirected water system, reservoir and slackwater improvements to boost trade and national unity.
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