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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1890
Page
6
Local notes from Lacon and vicinity record visits to family in Chicago Peoria Milwaukee and St Louis. a new Equitable Loan branch opens. infant death. elderly couple Golden Wedding. trips to Kankakee and Peoria. a public well accident. and community events including a charity tea and church activities.
Sparland reports Bim Walkers sick again and George Duncan renting a house. residents attend the Peorm fair, Andrew Smith of LaPrairie Center is buried, Fred Siebold visits Nebraska, a murder and suicide ripple in Lacon, Charles McClanahan to Chicago pharmacy school, John Flanigan quits blacksmithing with George Robimon taking his place, Fred McClanahan buys poultry and produce, Roy Hearne moves to Bentley, John B. McClusky visits Missouri, Hamford Sparr returns to Pueblo with Telmer Campell, Mr Gillette moves to Church Street, Snow spoke on War on the farmers, Samuel Dey builds a large livery stable, Mrs W E Haskins plans California trip, post office to move to A J Athay drugstore, thanks to former occupants G E Oras
Abandoned well work and new construction in Wesley Runnells vicinity. Sunday school missionary concert planned at the Corners church next Sunday evening. William True building a new house noted as an improvement to the Corners. Mrs Eliza Smith travels to Nebraska to visit a sick son, typhoid mentioned. Book agents canvassing neighborhood with cheap books in erected wagon. Telegraph Grange buying foundation stone for a new hall west of Mr Snell's walnut grove. Losses for Worthington’s horse and John Herr’s three year old horse reported. First quarterly meeting of the year set for Oct 11 12 at Whitefield Corners M E church with C O McCulloch delivering sermons. Rey Dille away at regimental reunion in Kankakee county.
Momence notes October events in 2a and 8d as a reunion connected to the Inter-State Hay Palace exposition. Mr Dille plans to be home in time for his regular appointment next Sunday.
Still a few new scarlet fever cases persist in local families. Mrs James Root travels to Colorado for health. Andrew Smith, a lifelong bachelor with a large estate, dies after brief illness. Rev Thos Martin delivers burial discourse as townspeople reflect on his life and 50 years in America. People visit from Saratoga and Denver with others heading to Peoria for the State Fair.
An advertisement urges readers to ask friends about Kemp's Balsam as a cure for coughs and colds. It touts past community success, claims pure quality and high effectiveness, and notes large bottles cost 50 cents to $1 with a free sample bottle available at all druggists.
August Hall’s children suffer scarlet fever while neighbors boast of Bad baseball and cheap goods in Henry. J H Huffman music, Derby Miller promoter. J R Newman recalls old friendship. Niblocker family seen. Huffman’s Oct 18 birthday party promises a lively gathering with southern tunes.
Hennepin residents report Andy Nixon in Chicago this week and Florence Cecil visiting Peoria. I Barton Davis and mother spent Wednesday in Peoria. Nellie Simpson assists Carla Rousseau. Charley Wood starts in a Chicago grocery. Rev Kerr preaches as MEF minister new to the parish. Charles Nash and Annie Sutcliffe wed at a Putnam county home and plan immediate housekeeping on their Hennepin Prairie farm.
Dick Spencer travels to Missouri for several weeks while teachers resume schedules after a month. Many neighbors head to Peoria for the State Fair. Ruble Brothers prepare a ground floor store room in the Odd Fellows building and hint at a pugilistic syndicate with many stockholders and no premiums. Local men visited Magnolia for an entertainment and observed without participating.
The best salve in the world for cuts bruises sores and all skin eruptions and it effectively cures piles or no pay required. Guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale at Dr Powell's drug store.
Quaker Lane reports on sorghum making and lumber hauling, a farm sale at public auction for $65 to Lawrence Daze, Missouri farm sale profit, and a packed Friends Meeting at Long Point with speakers J J Cornell Matilda Underwood and Joseph M Powell plus annual business and letters read.
A vintage advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for an incurable catarrh claim not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It cites B S Dumnzy & Co and West Truax Walding Kinnan as Toledo wholesalers. The ad asserts the remedy is taken internally and acts on the blood and mucous surfaces, priced at seven cents per bottle.
A September attendance record lists students who were neither tardy nor absent in several classrooms. Room 5 under Lucy J. Mateer includes Frank Ganzer Wayne Hupp Harmon Mons Willie Ponser George Smith George Stubbles Ada Bush Lora Field Mary Hawley Edna Motter Lizzie Ziegler Nettie Hyer Pearl Heath. Room 4 under Stella Motter lists Lawrence Gregory Isaac Gilpin Warren Hoyle Max Lytle Alfred Dayton John Lock Willie Manski Fred Williams Rosa Balloweg Edna Clark Mabel Dennin Maud Lambert Biy Anderson Margery Moss Edith McBride Ina Nevitt Agnes Dennis Ella Horner Clara Horner Zoe Young. Room 8 under Lucy Ballewex includes Maury Limbert Emma Ponz er Vina Noll George Koch Mamie Brown Zackie Gilpin Willie Green Grant McBride Sadie Hupp Gertie er com 2 Elise L. Helper under Austin Clark Horace Heath Bennie Hoyle Harry Murray Earnest Wild Caleb Horner Fred Nicholson Ray Sperry Walter Simons John Green Cora Hyer Ethel Stubbles Stella Walters Maude Mose Fanny Siewers. Room 1 under Sidney Clark lists Anna Allen Glen Hupp Onarie Coleman Sammie Horner Fred Noll Luell Hadden Anna Koch May Niblock Anna Yanochowski.
The Llinein Peace Society organized in 1878 held its 18th annual meeting at Clear Creek, Putnam county. Leaders discussed international arbitration, opposition to war, capital punishment, and anti electric chair methods, with talks by Chas Stabler and Aaron M. Powell. Officers include John Swaney president and Allen J. Flitcraft secretary.
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