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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1911
Page
2
Experienced and courteous clerks are ready to assist you as Bergner provides ample daylight and an expansive single level layout to ensure comfortable shopping for customers.
Magnolia merchant H. E. Jewell advertises coal with two cars arriving offering best quality lump and washed coal. R. W. Spencer promotes lumber sawed to order at his mill four miles northwest of Magnolia for twenty dollars per thousand board feet, with oak and red elm excluded.
Local notes report Mr and Mrs Charles Merritt at Friends meeting. W G Griffith shelled corn. C B Flitcraft and son Stanley visited A B Wilson. H B Beck enjoyed duck shooting. Miss Esther Kern under medical care. Violet and Esther Boyle stayed with F B Smith over Sunday. Frances Willey returns to Cedar Rapids I A after two week visit. F B Smith installs a new home light plant by Edward Hayne of Ottawa. Two basketball games at the school house this week Alumni Wednesday and Washburn Thursday. W B Mills won corn premiums at Tonica fair. Dr and Mrs C C Mills visit Abel Mills and attend quarterly meeting. Mrs Mary G Smith of Hoopeston visits then heads to Lincoln Neb. Families W W Griffith, A B Wilson, Jeanette Flitcraft and Hdna Wilson to Oak Park for Thanksgiving turkey and livestock show. Mrs Ed Studggin arranges a Chicago trip for her boarders. Reading circle met at W L Mills with large attendance.
Harold Sutherland visited his brother Wilber in Chilli cothe Missouri for Thanksgiving. Ruth Bumgarner spent a week in Decatur with relatives. J M Bumgarner had a runaway incident blamed on a woman. Mrs Mildred Whitney and son Charles visited Mary W Smith. Laura Smith joined them homeward near Varna. Oliver Wilson of Peoria was elected Worthy Master of the National Grange at Columbus. Henry Atherton attended a Friends meeting. Cordelia Wilson visited Granville. Corn husking declines as harvest proves bountiful and stores brim with corn.
Walter Henning Lostant and Beryl Barber returned from Chicago business travel. Mrs. Julia Dugan Parrett of Farmer City visits family. Miss Clara Bryen returns from Peoria. Eastern Star meeting in Rutland. The Spinster's Return From Klondike set for Dec 8 at Lostant opera house. Farmers husking daily ahead of weather. Mrs. Charley Hays ill. Alma Hartenbower moves to new farm home. A J Wills to move into vacated house. Weirman couples travel to Venona for funeral. Anna Toemmes active reader at Friends meeting house and W A C. Auctioneer Child visits Granville. Local jury duty in Ottawa. Mrs. Mary Whitney visits sister in Rutland. Edna Barr returns from Magnolia after jaw operation. doing well. John W Kennedy and wife leave for LeMars. John Shields and wife travel to Varna after visit. Marshall Shields and Blanche Patterson visit and move into new home. Teachers and Dr Schoeneshoefer entertained by Florence Kelley. Shoppers to La Salle. Helena Miller born in Germany and dies in Lostant at 5:30 p m November 18 1911. Family details of Weber, 12 children, 35 grandchildren. Funeral at St John s Lostant led by Rev Hand. Flowers at casket.
Present at the funeral were all children named earlier except Frank. Also present were sons in law and daughters in law G Cartwright John Lehnhausen Nick Norbus Robert Jones George Reinman Mrs William Weber Mrs Fermer Weber and William Brogan along with most grandchildren and Mrs Sophia Burkhart and La Salle’s daughter in law. Interment occurred at Richland Catholic cemetery.
The Chicago Record Herald recounts a Sept article by Victor Murdock visiting Lundy’s grave near Magnolia Illinois. Four men including Hawthorne Ward Parrett and Murdock ponder Lundy’s abolitionist example, noting his solitary fight for liberty before Garrison Lovejoy Seward and Lincoln.
A reflective obituary note from Wichita dated Sept 8 1911 honors Benjamin Lundy describing his abolitionist campaigns and influence on Lincoln and Webster. It recalls Lundy’s travels and writings that helped spark moral opposition to slavery and imagines a monument near Magnolia by Granville to keep his name alive for future readers.
An advertisement asserts Foley's Honey and Tar Compound stops coughs at once and relieves throat irritation. It claims to prevent colds from developing into bronchitis or pneumonia and urges households to keep it on hand, endorsed by A. J. Tronmonger.
The state news reports 14,500 participants in Kane county competing in an old fashioned spelling bee for the county title. Elimination begins in September with room champions, then township and city winners, leading to a Geneva finals with top finishers from 16 townships and five cities. Also reported are a Geneseo straw load selling for 10 dollars, claimed to be the highest price in the city, and Greenbush township hiring a road worker at 1000 dollars a year to oversee grading and maintenance.
Stark county spans 290 square miles with a density of 34.8 persons per mile. County population has shrunk since 1870s, reflecting an agricultural area. Other counties cited include Bureau 49.9 per square mile, Knox 64.9, Marshall 39.6, and Peoria 157.6 with rural densities 78.2, 33.9, 48.2 respectively. Peoria Star notes towns above 2500 are excluded from rural counts.
T. J. Segraves guarantees MI-O-NA to end indigestion or stomach distress or money back. It relieves upset stomach in five minutes and covers belching gas distress after eating foul breath biliousness and more. Claims include waking the liver aiding heartburn and curing various symptoms. Fifty cents a large box at T. J. Segraves and druggists everywhere.
A lengthy promotional notice urges readers to ask physicians about Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for coughs colds and related ailments. It touts physician approval years of use and household adoption. It also recommends Ayer's Pills to relieve constipation affecting liver function, produced by the J C Ayer Co Lowell Mass.
A papal mandate orders Catholic parishes to be incorporated per civil law to align church governance with American practice. It shifts temporal duties toward lay leadership while parish property must be held by the bishop, vicar general, one priest, and two laymen. The note cites Archbishop Ireland and other clergy.
H B Kings public sale at Hoyle farm two miles southwest of McNabb Ill on Monday December 11 1914 starting 10 am includes twenty three horses and mules thirty eight cattle twenty head sheep forty head breeding ewes and a full line of farm machinery and equipment with terms cash for under ten dollars and credit for larger sums, discount for cash and notes with security.
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