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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1905
Page
3
Prof J R Bouton named Local Representative in Spurland for Testexsky Rerun Cay. all items entrusted to him will receive prompt attention and he is authorized to transact all business connected with this paper.
A compilation of social items from Sparland and surrounding communities lists visits, illnesses, housing work, a church service, a circus trip, harvest of sweet clover, a school building contract awarded to Peter Petri of Lacon, German play attendance, a nine year business milestone for F A Gehr, and a humorous incident involving Henry Ferguson and John Hensley who paid fines after a barroom quarrel in Peoria.
Church notes urge larger prayer meeting attendance and announce Memorial Sunday services. The pastor preaches at Bethel 10 30 a m and Sparland 7 30 p m with citizen attendance requested. A Decoration Day address at Hoppenin next Tuesday and a Children’s Day program are planned.
The second year algebra class adds variation while the Caesar class works on Book V. Miss Marie O Leary is detained at home with the Dutch measles. The first year general history class studies Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in the West. Myra and Alice Wilmot quit school. Tillie and Emma Beck attended ten days since last November in second grade. Earl Hamilton quit school as an eighth grade pupil.
A compact advertisement from Lawton Oklahoma promotes a 10 cent map of Oklahoma and Indian Territory with counties cities towns population railways and streams. It touts a free booklet on Comanche county Lawton minerals land openings and the city’s prospects.
Rev Bartram and Philip Andrew Sheets narrowly escaped a buggy upset while traveling the timber route via Andrew Sheets. A sapling toppled the buggy, breaking the dash board and harness, yet the horse ran free after shafts loosened. the party finished the day with laughter and chicken for dinner.
Local notes list misidentification about a deceased Mrs. Shepard. W B Kirkpatrick of Henry as a recent business caller. Farmers plant corn as spring work continues. The Parsons baby died Monday. Mrs O Crocker was briefly ill. Mary Hart visited her mother's grave and stopped by Crocker’s. Arthur Sheets and others attended Forest Grove church with neighbors over the weekend.
SPEER. Now is the time to buy a type writer with two machines and two agents in town. Buy a machine and get the agency in the bargain. Ladies' Aid in Speer hosted a strawberry and ice cream social Friday at Mrs. Rob Stocks. Large attendance and good time reported. L. R. Green in Peoria Monday. Mrs. J. B. Green and daughter Myrtle also in Peoria. Homer Nichols back from Sterling and Mendota and resumes blacksmith work. Mead Nurse home from Sunday visit, returning to Manlius with Alexander Lumber. Italians return from Chicago with provisions. J. B. Hinman very sick. Oats hauled into town. Grain man pleased. Tom Martin shipped a car of stock. Richard assisted with receipts. James A. Speer shipped two cars of cattle and one car of hogs from Speer. Homer Adrean visited from Princeville for Sunday. Louis Streetmatter and crew busy framing telephone poles for new line.
Moody states Congress has constitutional power to authorize the Interstate Commerce Commission to fix railroad rates. The railroads lose their last prop and may face an upcoming path to establish the rate schedule.
Lawrence Weyand, a Colorado agent, dismissed his $30,000 commission suit against the John S. Thompson estate in Cripple Creek after losing in county court. Other items note a new Chicago drugstore fixture purchase, a saloon license proposal, a separate maintenance suit by Dora Murphy, and various local civic updates in Lacon.
In Lacon the familiar hometown paper notes a local livery barn unusually well prepared to cater to visitors and residents alike with detailed attention to stables horses and coach services as the town eyes modernization and growth.
Court house notices list estate matters including claims approved in the estates of Cyrus Caldwell Elizabeth Broaddus and Henry Vogelsang current reports approved final executrix discharged and real estate transfers across Toluca Wenona Sparland and other areas naming buyers sellers and parcel details. Names include Nellie Mountjoy Willis Ford James Bambrick John Klin ger Wenona Coal Co Jerome Howe Cyrus Wright Anna Wright Morgan Hart sock Henry Duggan Dominick Turigliatti Guisippi Battistella Anton Calvetti and others.
William E. Curtis of the Chicago Record-Herald is celebrated for a remarkable career from reporter to managing editor and government appointee. His global travels and books based on his missions, his leadership at the bureau of American republics, and his influential World’s Columbian Exposition work are highlighted alongside his widely read letters from the Holy Land and other regions.
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