LACON Community Notes and Farewell Gatherings
A reception honored Mr and Mrs Allen C Brown on their departure from town. The piece lists locals attending events, school staff changes, interscholastic contest interest, and various residents traveling or ill. It notes Mayme Hacker and others in a graduating class, staff rentals, and community movements through Lacon and nearby Varna Peoria and Chicago locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lacon
Thompson
Allen C. ‘Brown
Brown
Varna
Mayme Hacker
Maggie ‘Martin
Lella Noel
Kate McCormick
Walter Luft
Fred. Curtis
Latourette Place
Curtis
J King
Robert Holsinger
South Lacon
Hiram Wilks
Holsinger
John Tuttle
William Fisher
Jennie Sculley
Varona
Mae Pichereau
Chicago
Sundhy
Areéne Pichereau
Sarah
Kate Curtis
Sparland People Attend Mrs Tanworthy Funeral
Sparland residents including Hley Watkins Jennie Watkins and David Ja Well traveled to Strawn Liv ingston Count y on Tuesday for the funeral of their aunt Mrs Isaac Tanworthy. Pete Epworth League held a meeting Sunday night with Duncan delivering a history of the baptist youth organization in an excellent, well delivered talk. E Portman moved into Jac ey’s vacated home and Mrs Portman moved into Oswyn’s vacated residence. Charlie Ackleholm moved to Geneseo for training. They are paving with crushed rock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Sparland
Ey Hley
al Watkins
Jennie Watkins
David Ja
Strawn
Liv
Oon
Isaac Tan- Wary
Pete Epworth
Duncan
Wiste
Aoe E. Portman
Jacey
Louis Dabo
Iso
Oswyn
Mr Portman
Sparland Juniors Defeat In Local Baseball Game
Sparland Juniors beat their rivals in a local baseball game played here. The report notes May and visiting family details, plus travel rates to Rock Island for a rail trip from May 19 to 21. It also includes a physician quote about patient adherence to health regimens and a note on a constipation remedy sold at Dr Powell's City drug-store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sparland
Rock Island
Condon
Peoria
Mia Wim O'Leary
Chicago
Win O'Leary
Tod” No Anderson
Thiry Week’s Items In South Whitefield Community
South Whitefield notes a Tuesday evening event with a pie social to raise funds for Ralph Christovan who lost his foot. A short program precedes pies. admission is small, ladies with pies enter free. Local notices mention visitors, school events, and community changes amid a period of rain and blossom time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Christovan
Sho
Wm Baugh
H. J. Meister
Mre I. Waughop
Chicago
Walter Eale
Johnny Swiger
Familly
Mayme Oxborne
Wim Kuss
Lon Ray
John Dewalt
Mr Ray
Mrs Dewalt
Pdegraff
Goltra
Grayed
Ransom
Jacobs
Kalfer
Lita Lyons
Harry Blackburn
Sugar Grove
Loma Fray
Pid Katter
Kirer
Supe Ay
Breezy Point entertainment at Whitefield Corners Wednesday
Whitefield Corners hosts an entertainment next Wednesday evening at the flat featuring Hively music and comic pieces. The program includes a mixed quartet performance and a humorous rise of a butcher boy act. Fort Worth, Texas visitor M Ed Fosdick is visiting relatives there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitefield Corners
M Ed Fosdick
Fort Worth
Texas
Elstera
Local Notes and Social Updates From the County
Real estate and farming interests mingle as settlers seek oil riches in Northern Texas. Rev Barker’s illness after a Princeville visit sparks concern while Mrs G M Clark recovers at home. Nearby, Harry Clark visits from Chicago, and visitors include Lewis Odell and family from LaPrairie and Ralph Gheigweth from Piskil. A lightening strike damaged lines at G M and Theo Clark. An Odd Fellows talk by Rev Jordan of Wyoming draws a large crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Illinois
Rev Barker
Princeville
G. M. Clark
Harry
Chicago
Lewis Odell
LaPrairie
H. Monroe
Ralph Gheigweth
Piskil
Miss Piper
Chesney
Eh Aastlick
Henry
Carey
G. M
Theo Clark
Odd Fellows
Rev Jordan
Wyoming
Jones
Grady
Fosdick’s
G. Snell's
Ph Bby Duster
Winanifred Pershing
Elthur Pearl
Ashtafl Grant
Gra Brokaw
Fannie Longmin
Mehithie Dooliitle
Flora Ronnells
Dibby
Boalding School
Bernice Vernon
Panene Moffitt
Lauran Leigh
Elsie Clawton
Edith Norton
Emmi Loomis
Clavice Fealaigh
Eva Clument
Mantine
Miss Vernon
Ola Chonn the Gipsy
Hattie Monroe
Zoe
Local Notes From Saratoga Crowded With Health And Rain
Alfred Holmes improves after a sprain linked illness. Mrs Herbert Wilson heals after a foot injury from a rail fall. Herbert Doytes returns from Chicago and shows progress. Decoration services set for June 1 with Rev Birch. Wyoming visitors and local pairs noted. Corn planting underway and Cain’s carpenters constructing a double corn crib. Tom Cain's cow lost Monday night. Another fine rain arrives this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Holmes
Herbert Wilson
Herbert Doytes
Chicago
Rev Birch
Lash Culton
Wyomng
Tom Cain
Beeton
Wm Martin
Cain
Sam Thumnoia
Bob Kelley
Local Social Notes Mention Relatives and Visits
George Reavy and family plan a week of visits with relatives and friends here. Mrs Reavy, sister of Mrs James Barry and Mrs Joseph Harrington, will stay through the week. The Misses Ciertie and Edith Kline hosted a gathering with Fred and Anna Newhalsee Donnie and Cora Kline Bennie and Lena Huffman. Florence Hubbell and Mittle daughter visited Thomas’s brother. Nellie Harrington visited Mrs Joseph Cook. Anna Stark visited Mattie Biekerman in Henry. two children of K visited relatives in Saratoga. Tillie Lillse of Henry called on Carrie Floser. John Haylue serves on the petit jury in Lacon this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Reavy
Reavy
James Barry
Joseph Harrington
Ciertie
Edith Kline
Fred
Anna Newhalsee
Donnie
Cora Kline
Bennie
Lena Huffman
Hubbell
Mittle
Florence
Thomas
Royal entertainers Wor Applen family tied to local social scene
Mrs Nsora True Stout lies ill with Bright's disease as her brothers Clarence and Arthur di assist. Isantha True aids Mrs Wm Yarger but returns home to care for sister and baby. Neighbors and visitors, including Ni tkeom California relatives, share updates on visits, illnesses, and school life with the Applen and Shurts families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Applen
William
Nsora True Stout
Bright
Clarence
Arthur
Mer—Ie
Mera
Isantha True
Ben
Wm Yarger
Ni Tkeom
California
Mra
Shurts
Ed Shurts
John Diverbiss
David Huffman
Henry Applen
Woman touts Cham berlain's Cough Remedy for whooping cough
A Springville Alabama mother recounts how her three children, including a three month old baby, recovered from a whooping cough after using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. She claims her children retained plumpness and health better than others whose parents did not use the remedy. The product is advertised as sold at Dr Powell's City drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Jessie Pinkey Hall
Springville
Ala
Dr Powell
City Drug
German Byrup touted as cure all lung ailments
A German physician Dr A Roschee claims his German Syrup quickly cures coughs colds and severe lung troubles by removing the cause and restoring health. Not experimental but time tested it sells rapidly with about two million bottles yearly. Introduced to the U S in 1668 it is sold worldwide. Three doses said to relieve an ordinary cough priced 74 cents available at Dr Powell's Get Sheen's Special Almanac.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Euys
Dr Powell's City Drug-Store
A. Roschee
Boschee
United States
Large attendance at White-Lett church sermon
North Saratoga reports a large gathering for a pleasant sermon at White Lett church for the Odd Fellows and families. Attendees included Mr Barton and family Wm Applen and wife Robert Conover and Yarger Wm Yarger and wife and Master Robert who spent Sunday evening with the Applen family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White- Lett Church
Odd Fellows
Mr Barton
Wm Applen
Robert Conover
Yarger
Wm Yarger
Robert
Hennepin Local Notes And Death Of Martin Bauman
Jacob Bernhardt of Hastings Nebraska visits his niece Mary Bauman and attends the deathbed of Martin Bauman who died Tuesday night. Funeral today at 1.80 with Magnolia lodge burial rites. Other items note the Hennepin Lecture Association at a Fiske Jubilee concert, Epworth League Beth anniversary, Rex excursion to Henry and Peoria, a Riverside cemetery well completed, mushrooms supplied by Job Rambo and Frank Inman, Nash school box social, and visits by Ed Tluers of Chicago and Rev Chandler with wife in Wheaton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Bernhardt
German—National Bank
Hastings
Neb
Mary Bauman
Martin Bauman
Magnolia Masonic Lodge
Hennepin Lecture Association
Fiske Jubilee Singers
Granville
Hennepton
Epworth League
Ita Beth
M. E
Rex
Henry and
Peoria
Hennepin
Childs
Riverside Cemetery
Job Rambo
Frank Inman
Nash School
Ed Tluers
Chicago
Rev Chandler
Wheaton
Putnam Notes On School Board Funeral And Church Events
Putnam reports mixed village news with updates on grass meadows crops and damp weather delaying corn planting. The new school board lists J H Williams as president Fred Wheeler secretary and William Strosnider as pupil supervisor. Mrs Sarah Ball funeral was well attended at M E church with Rev Cullin officiating. she led the village for nearly four decades and rests in Putnam cemetery beside her husband. Epworth League plans its 18th anniversary service next Sunday with a good program and baccalaureate notes highlight a well received sermon and choir efforts by Rev McCown and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ball
Putnam
Fred Ball
Carlou Chit
Wray
AC. GC. McCown
McCown
Henry
Halbleld
Daisy Smith
John Clawson
Hiram Bracken
Epworth
Epworth ‘League
Magnolia notices and local social updates
Friday May 80 at Masonic Hall an entertainment with vocal and instrumental music and readings will be presented. A good program is promised and the public is invited. Brick and frame houses formerly Mrs Allen property, recently bought by Albert Horton and W Spencer, were torn down last week for new buildings. Local residents, visits, and errands are listed, including Henry, Varna, Hope, Quaker Lane, and La Salle. Red Cross Ball Blue ad suggests keep clothes white.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magnolia
Masonic Hall
T. H. Rolley
Henry
W. O. Balderston
Johnnie Murphy
Olney
Varna
R. W. Spencer
Lightning strikes pigshed at Stansgell farm. no injuries reported
A pigshed at J B Stansgell's was struck by lightning on Thursday but no one was hurt. Various locals including a Mrs Birdie Barr and Merle, Chas Leech and family, Currie and Irena McGee, and others visited, with Mr Williams selling his farm to John Newman and Ida Bluth returning home for a visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Stansgell
Ottawa
Chas. Leech
Henne
Currie
Irena McGee
Tonicn
Henry
H. Laughlin
Granville
Daniel Willams
John Newman
Mish
Ida Bluth
Dr King's New Discovery for Coughs and Colds
A classic claim describes Dr King's New Discovery curing consumption related coughs by eliminating phlegm and mucus to enrich blood and vitalize the body. It warms inflamed throats and treats colds. promoted as infallible for throat and lung diseases with guaranteed bottles and a free trial offer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr King
Hattley
Dr Powell
Milo School Closes After Ver tice Program Treats Pupils
The Milo school closed last Tuesday. Teacher Hettie Whittaker hosted a ver tice program with tee cream and cake for her pupils who enjoyed it. Various locals are listed visiting relatives and attending club meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milo
Hettie Whittaker
D. E. Pettegrew
Geneaeo
N. Shorts
Bessie Ellard
Carl Sherman
Princeton
Frank Brokaw
Whitefield
A. W. Shriver
Henry Smith
Rogers
Kewanee
R. Winters
Libbie Brown
Chicago
J. M. Suard
Mewanee
Duarl Erven
Maria Griswoldsg
Women Beauty and Health Boost with Herbine
If a woman eats insufficient nour ish ing food she cannot gain or keep a good complexion. Food digested is base of health strength and beauty. Herbine aids digestion and gives a clear bright complexion. Price 50 and 75 cents at Der Powells City drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
der Powells City Drug Store
Revival attendance at Princeton Swedish Lutheran church
A large number of locals attended revival services at the Swedish Lutheran church in Princeton on Sunday with reports of good services. John Johnson plans to travel to Princeton for business education. A unclaimed mail from Henry, Ill. and several names are listed for the Dead Letter Office to be sent May 24, 1902.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
Swedish Lutheran Church
John Johnson
Ofice
Henry
Ill
Minnie Davidson
I’. Duck
Wm. Morton Simpson
Henry Bimps Mable Skinner
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John Fitzgibbons
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Della Donleigh
la Rose
Stella Hattan
Louis Duchesne
Tom Breen
H Peoria
Avery Planter Co
Ada Burns Crasper
Guett
St CG
Bullman
Charles Fasbender
Wenona
Laura Curtia
Pearlay
Tim Proving
South Whitefield
Wm Clarence
Pew Road
Watehorn
Kitte Fon
Farling
P Od Klein
Camp Grove
Theodore Kalfer
Rank Ganzer
H. R. Bonham
Ohio
Polar Creamery
Duke Bros
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North
Tori
Hays
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