Sunday school attendance and memorial planning updates
The article notes 53 in Sunday school with $194 collected. It details plans for a piano purchase committee, Memorial day events, Epworth league reorganization, and various church society activities including officers, speakers, music, decoration, and a Mothers Day service. Local residents and attendees and several small community notices are included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga Township
Waters
Herbert Doyle
Charles Salisbury
Zenas Graves
Charles Anderson
Robert Kelley
Henry Aukland
Theommittee
Albert Newman
Americas
Marie Cain
Germany
United States
Ethel Cut
Yary
Hawks
Alva Jacobs
Epworth League
Ethel Cutlip
Lester
Lewis
Old Epworth League
Ladies’ Aid Society
Della Hayline
Henry
Burton
Ora Salisbury
Mary Doyle
Herbert_Dovler
Soldier Letter from France April 6 1918 to Miss Humphrey
In a dated letter from France Corporal Roy Van Deventer writes to Miss Mary Humphrey about wartime duties and morale. He reflects on US entry a year earlier and recounts German cruelty in France while praising Allied resolve and American manpower. He quotes a French lieutenant on American sacrifice and ends with garden guidance for planting by season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy van Deventer
Mary Humphrey
France
Sted
U. S
Kulture
Germany
Belgium
Russia
Leutenant
United States
Berlin
Roy VanDeventer
Co E
13Th Eng. Ry
A. BE. F
Royce P.: World War I letter from Fort Sul Ross Oklahoma
Royce P. writes from Fort Sul, Oklahoma in May 1918 describing army routine drills, weapon maintenance, a field accident in Battery D, and an airplane crash. He mentions travel plans, bonds, dental work, a movie outing, and sending cactus, with final notice of a pasture lot for rent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward
Atkins
Royce
Fort Sul
Okla
New York City
Battery D
Douglas
Ariz
New Mexico
Pennsylvania
Long Island
Honolulu
First National Bank
Sam
T S
23Rd Co
Headquarters
Airdome
Mary Pitkford
Douglas Fairbanks
Billy Burke
Berlin
Royce P. S
South Whitefield Family and Community Notes
Local column records visits by Henry and family to relatives in town, with extended lists of neighbors and events. The piece mentions Red Cross fundraising in Henry, notes about a picnic, a piano gift, and plans for Illinois valley racing with dates, purses, and a $10,000 Brimfield community building funded by stock shares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Holler
George Ho
Vincent Merdian
J. ‘Kein
Hena
Ernest Ely
Lia Miles
Miss Maze
J. Whitmer
Henry
F, Ransom
Addie Brown
Red Cross
Great Organization of Mercy
Mendota
Aurora
Ottawa
Brimfield
Lostant Local Notes and Family Updates
Lostant society column reports L C Boger plans to move to Granville with workman skills, notes on local residents including deaths, illnesses, and travels. Mentions Mrs James Davey, Miss Helen Hopkins, Chief Hopkins, and Streator hospital news. Records measles quarantine lift, births, and a wedding anniversary. Includes a missing child’s sweater notice and brief ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. C. Boger
Eye Sk
Granville
I. C. Barton
Cage
James Davey
Oring
B.S Kregor
Penney
Helen Hopkins
Hopkins
T. P.miller
Streator
Walter Gilbert
Mit
Harry ‘Seibert
Knox
Ind
Lostant
C. WePne
Yo Central
Mr. Seibert
Hope Township
Hope Star
Eastern Star
Weber
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Saratoga M. BE
Ao Speer
Ruth Russell
Chicago
B. Russell
Speer
Lila Davis
Lewis Odell
Proctor Hospital
Peoria
Roll Shane
O. G. Hurd
B. B. Davis
Hopedale
James Green
Dr. Wilmot
Edith Stowell
Vivian
Will Stowell
Calvin
Arkansas
Columbia
Glen Oak Park
H. Calerrill
P. EB. Phillips
Chillicothe
Augusta Willard
Ross of
LaPrairie
Grandma Stewart
S. P. Groves
Galva
R. Stowell
State Bank of Sp
Hall Barton
Fred Rapp
WV. 8. Root
C. B. Q. Edgedrop
John Broaddus
Newport
Henry, Tll
Cadillac Owners
Cadillac Auto Company
Leonard Travis
Lasalle,ill
United States Department of Agriculture
Deacon Hill
TS J
Blackburn
Thomas
James Woulf
Percheron Society of America
William Merdian
Ivan Barry
John Antrim
Stephen M. Appr
South Whitefield
Charles
Benny
Earl Wherry
Herman Hofer
T. le Hunt
William Ryan
J. Haeyline
Charles Griffin
Hans A. Otto
Abeth Wallace
C. M. Selles
Anna "Bergantz
Ant
Err Burson School
Irma Wangboop
Harold Whitmer
Pride
Benjamin Hunt
George Moore
William Moore
Sch Street
O H Davis
Hicard Street
O H_ Datis
Met
Segraves’ Drug Store
Henry, Ulinois
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