Commencement and social notes from Chautauqua week
News notes from Chautauqua June events include commencement at Henry Opera House with a class of 14 girls and six boys led by Prof. Conger, a community sing by the Henry Choral club, and dental student Wilbur Lane’s Chicago College of Dental Surgery graduation. Attendees span Miss Charlotte Allen, Miss Carrie Teagarden, Mr. Troubaugh’s funeral, and various local families.
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Chautauqua
Charlotte Allen
Carrie Teagarden
Teagarden
Boulder
Col
Lester
Addie Brown
Samuel Clift
Casper Huffman
William Ketchum
Troubaugh
Henry Opera House
Conger
William
Wil‘bur Lane
Chicago College of Dental Surgery
Henry Choral Club
J. K. O'Neil
Peoria
Cristal Photaplay Studio
Cristal Photplay Co
Raymond Schroeder
Warrensburg
F. A. Raymond
Ivan Clark
Ivan
Richard Waughop
Edward Street
Isaac Lane
J. E. Wa
Wilbur F. Lane
Elizabeth Ketchum
War Department
Medical and Dental Colleges
Lane
United States Army
France
Ketchum
Chicago
Association of Commerce
H.addington
la Palma Cafeteria
Jefferson Avenue
Court House
Addington
Glenn Oak Park
Dynamite Found in Henry Lock Pond Stirs Town
Henry residents panicked when 66 sticks of dynamite and caps were found in a pond near Banter ice house. Detective sergeant from Chicago traced origin to Clyde Banter who admitted placing the explosives years ago while using part to blast a bank.
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Lock Pond
Henry
Banter Ice House
Adam Brown
George L. Trafton
Chicago
Pace
Clyde Banter
Clyde
Howard Stoner
Tornado Strikes Charleston Letter From Florence King
Florence King reports a tornado hitting Charleston at 3 35 PM tearing through the business district and north town. She describes flying debris, a 20 minute wind storm followed by a severe electric storm and huge hail. Central and Western schools damaged. depots and lumber yard wrecked. gas and water plants down. Red Cross aiding injured. one 91 year old woman and her son killed. Florence and friends helped at a hospital before returning home.
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Florence King
Henry
Lena
Jessie
Charleston
Red Cross
Patriotic Program by St Marys Parochial School for Memorial Day
Pupils of the German parochial school performed a Memorial Day program at People's Hall featuring patriotic songs plays and recitations with instrumental solos and duets. The Sisters teachers and Fr Schauer addressed patriotism as a Christian virtue and character obligation.
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People’s Hall
Hilda
Clara Louis
Margaret Hennefeld
The
Stars and Stripes
Opal Sale
Flying Spray
Dorothy , Russ and
Berniece Hofer
Red Riding Hood
Eleanor Hofer
Winnifred Green
Florence Bogner
Lily Polky
Dorothy
Ella Hofer
Ralph Zierler
Joseph Maubach
John Haws
Barbara Fiedler
Hilda Louis
Mduet
Witches’ Flight
Lillian Hartley
Our Country
Uncle Sam
Ralph Ziegler
Betsy Ross
Miss Nell
America
Schauer
Bible Gift to Lookout Mountain W R C No 2
C EB Smith presented a memorial Bible to Lookout Mountain W R C No 2 Auxiliary to G A R Department of Illinois. The inscription honors Marguerite M Smith mother of C E B Smith, former chaplain who died October 30 1908. Ella McAtee commends such acts keeping memory of those who served.
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C. EB. Smith
W. R. C. Corps
Lookout Mountain
Department of Illinois
Marguerite ‘M. Smith
Ella McAtee
Press Cor
The Warrens of Virginia at Henry Opera House
Lasky-Belasco presents The Warrens of Virginia starring Blanche Sweet in a grand Civil War drama. The film features authentic battle camps, ambushes, charges, and trenches with precise period uniforms. Army units on screen compete for epic scale and realism. Henry Opera House shows it Wednesday June 6.
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Virginia
Lasky-Belasco
Warrens of
Virgina
Blanche Sweet
Lasky
Warrens
Henry Opera House
Brokaw Family Reunion At Lee Brokaw’s Cottage Home
W R Brokaw and wife attended a family reunion at son Lee Brokaw’s Cot tage home last Sunday. Mrs A N Steir and her son of Trivoli joined the group along with their daughter. Also present were Mrs Henry Mohler of Wahoo Nebraska and Miss Ploretta Peters of Henry.
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W. R. Brokaw
Brokaw
Lee
Cottage
A. N. Steir
Trivoli
Henry Mohler
Wahoo, Neb
Ploretta Peters
Henry
Obituary of Zora Daley Hinton of Fisher Ill
Zora Daley Hinton wife of Robert Wirt Hinton of Fisher Ill died May 23 1917 at Brokaw hospital Bloomington Ill after a third operation in three months. She was born July 31 1886 in Dewey Ill and grew up in Henry Ill where she played basketball and graduated in 1905. She married April 5 1911 and had daughter Lyla Marie now four. A Christian woman active in church and local clubs she died after a lengthy illness with her funeral in Fisher attended by many and burial at Mt Hope Champaign.
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Zora M. Hinton
Robert Wirt Hinton
Fisher
Brokaw Hospital
Bloomington
Til
Hinton
Zora Daley
Dewey, Ill
Hiram Daley
Alice Daley
Alice Ketchum
Zora
John
Sidney Ketchum
Ill
Henry
J Ar Bloomington
Champaign County
Lyla Marie Hinton
Hilton
M. B. Church
J .W. Dundas
M. E. |Church
Andrew Scott
Christian Church
Mt. Hope
Champaign
John M. Daley
Richard
St. Louis
George Daley
Owosso
Mich
Mary Potter
Clara Kass
Mary Phillips
Henry B. Jacobs
C. N. Newlin
Peoria
Nellie Pierce
Gibson
J. J. H. Lamond
Danvers
Funeral for Miss Katie Forbes Held at Main Street Home
The private funeral for Miss Catherine Forbes known as Katie will be at her Main Street residence Friday at 3 p.m. Rev. R. W. Martin officiates with friends admitted 10 to 12 a.m. The family requests no flowers. Miss Forbes, a cancer sufferer for 18 months, died May 30 at 1 a.m. She was 66. Brothers William of Nebraska and Frank of Peoria attend. The Forbes family has resided in Henry since 1851.
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Catherine
Katie) Forbes
Main Street
R. W. Martin
Miss Forbes
Forbes
Henry
William
Nebraska
Frank
Peoria
Dey Cease
Passenger rate change announced by Rock Island agent
G Y Severs says a new passenger rate takes effect today raising the line rate to 21 cents per mile from 2 cents. New intra state and inter city fares listed include Henry to Peoria 82c, Chilliothe 36c, Sparland 17c, Putnam 14c, Bureau 34c, Chicago 3.07. Intrastate rate raised to conform with prior interstate rate.
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G. Y. Severs
Rock Island
Henry
Peoria
Chillicothe
Sparland
Putnam
Bureau
Chicago
Children’s Day at the Christian Church Program
Next Sunday June 8 the Christian Church presents Children’s Day under Mrs Effie Rowley at 1 45 a m with a program including songs prayers readings and children’s exercises by Opal Sale Miss Opal Board of Putnam Leslie Deck and others, a free will offering for foreign missions, and a second event June 3 at 8 p m in Putnam inviting all.
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Effie Rowley
The
Christian Church
Opal Sale
Opal Board of Putnam
Chicago
Reading
Leslie Deck
Missionary Dollar
Frank Sivell
Miss Buard
Helen Bracken
Elsie Wherry
Uncle Sam
Merritt
America
Putnam
Weekly church services schedule announced
The church announces services for the week starting Sunday June 3. Sunday school at 9 45 a m with A B Smith as superintendent, morning worship at 11, Christian Endeavor at 7 p m, evening worship at 8. Prayer meeting each Thursday at 7 30 with choir rehearsal after. Welcome extended by Pastor Rea W Martin.
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A. B. Smith
Christian Endeavor
Rea W. Martin
M E Church Sunday Schedule Card
Sunday school 9 45 a m with Mrs Wheeler superintendent. Men’s Bible class during the hour. Public worship 11 a m. Evening service 7 p m. Epworth League 8 o m. Prayer meeting Thursday evening followed by teachers’ meeting. cordial invitation to all services. Pastor J E ercer
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M. E. Church
Wheeler
Epworth League
J. E.ercer
St. John’s Episcopal Church Holy Eucharist Sunday schedule
St John s Episcopal Church lists a 7 50 a m Holy Eucharist a 9 45 a m Sunday school meals and an 11 a m Holy Eucharist with sermon conducted by Priest in Charge F W Haist.
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F. W. Haist
St Marys Church Mass and Sermons Schedule
St Marys Church holds Sunday Mass and English sermon at 8 o clock, high mass and German sermon at 10, and 2 30 p m vespers and benediction. Weekday mass at 8, Saturday 7. Rev Fr Andrew Schauer, Pastor.
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St. Mary's Church
Andrew Schauer
St Joseph Church Schedules First Mass and Red Cross Chapter Formed
St Joseph Church announces first mass at 8 a m and second at 10 a m with weekday mass at 7 30 a m led by Rev M J Brennan. A Marshall County Red Cross chapter is organized under Central Division authority with Wallace J Black as chairman and Keene Richards as secretary, listing numerous officers and directors. The chairman will name committees soon and urges patriotic support from Marshall County citizens.
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St. Joseph Church
M. J. Brennan
Red Cross
American Red Cross
Marshall County
Wallace J. Black
R. M. Barnes
Lacon
Lloyd Jones
Henry
Keene Richards
Charles Burgess, Sr
Venona
Frank Potts
Toluca
Glenn B. Harper
la Rose
Hattie Wescott
Gillespie
R. D. McCulloch
Varna
Roderick
Royce
Sparland
Mary Smith
Waldo Held
Held
L .R. Phillips
A. W. Bradford
Minnie Wright
Bessie McCartney
Fred W.potter
Personal notices and locals from a rural Illinois paper
Mrs. H O Miller and a relative from Granville visited her parents Mr and Mrs R B Reyenaugh over the weekend. Judson Ong stayed in Chillicothe with Mrs Ed Heath, and Miss Anna Hufnagel plans a two month Illinois visit after two years in Boulder Colorado. A local note urges gardeners to can surplus for winter. John Haas injured by a blast while limbs were blown from a stump near rendering works. Pope Benedict appeals for a just peace in June. Bishop Dunne confirms 150 at St Marys Venona and two Catholic churches at Toluca, with priests from nearby parishes. George Hillabrand stationed at Jefferson Barracks writes about the army mess hall. John Milner visits The Republican. his brother George Minier lives in Milo township. John is 72, disabled, visiting Princeton and Henry. Total residents at the Quincy Soldiers’ Home reported as 1200 men and 250 women.
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Col
Illinois
Colorado
John Haas
Edgar County High School
Hume
C. O. Klontz
Cora Wyckoff
Thomas Finnegan
Putnam
Normal University
Prof. Klontz
G. M. Clark
Rockaway
N. Y
Harry
Rockaway Park
Long Island Sound
Rome
Pope Benedict
Vatican
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Venona
Dunne
Brennan
Henry
Toluica
St. Ann's
George Hillabrand
United States
Army Commissary Department
C. A. Pratt
Jefferson Barracks
George
John Milner
Quincy
146Th Ill. Reg
Princeton
George Minier
Milo Township
Daniel Minier
Arispe Township
Bureau County
Iowa
John
Hoe
George Freer
Milo
Soldiers
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C. F. Hallfarth
ST. Mary's Parochial School
Zora Daley Hinton
Katie Forbes
the Christian Church
Presbyterian Church
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