Reliable Goods at Low Prices Promised by Seller
The ad claims to guide buyers to good reliable dry goods bought with care. It asserts others may offer quality, but this seller emphasizes superior selection and low prices.
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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1889
Page
6
The ad claims to guide buyers to good reliable dry goods bought with care. It asserts others may offer quality, but this seller emphasizes superior selection and low prices.
Being Republican. Obituarian. MRE MARY E. SCHUSTER. Mary E ODay born in Clare county Ireland March 18 1980 came to South Bend in 1867 where father died and was buried. She married Otto Schuster in 1878 and one child died. She suffered eight years from consumption and died at home. Funeral at St Josephs church with requiem Mass and sermon by Rev Lockney. Interment at St Patricks cemetery. Pallbearers listed and mourners from We stona La Balle. ELIZADEUS DALENSELFEN died after weeks illness born 1899 Ottersheim Bavaria came 1857. Married Maubach 1858 with ten children. Later married Balenselson and had three children. Funeral at St Marys church with Rev Father Bank officiating. Large attendance. husband Balenschen grateful for support.
The obituary notes the death of a Henry Illinois area resident born in Somerset County New Jersey on April 27 1828. He moved with family to Allensville Indiana then Putnam County Illinois before settling in Riverdale Minnesota where he lived until death from Brights disease. He was a devoted Baptist, husband and father, and funeral services were conducted by Rev S H Bransted at the family home. The report also covers a Putnam Grange Pomona Fair with exhibits, a baptism by immersion at the Illinois river, and various local society notes.
Kacen and T M Orton family visit town and expect to stay until cold weather. Auction bells ring, Solomongs sell at cost, Frances M. Johnson heads to Ann Arbor for study. Allie Wescott and Jennie Thompson visit Allen and travel to Kentucky by boat. Mrs Ramp goes to Kansas to aid a son’s family. Ellis Ford plans a Washington trip. Hewitt buys a plane while away. Thompson’s horse dies, young and gentle. Holiness attend We nona by rail. temperance meeting and union Y P S C O B. Original Tennesseans give a concert. ticket price 50c. Jonathan Dillinger ill with bowel inflammation. recovery doubtful. Horticulturists show off fair premiums. Blackstone and son win. Wayland Thompson visits Chicago. works in a drug store. Horticultural exhibit slated October 2 and 8 at Myers Hall. Pumpkin contest interrupted by theft. Grange Fair anticipated. Magnets to grounds transport suggested. George Hutson of Streator to assist with horse trading. Continuous local notes through AUg.
Delays aside, residents attended the state fair this week. Kaptaun boys sell creamer while Oll Hunt plans to buy a York farm. Whitefield Center hosts Sunday school convention at 1:30 p.m. Port Martin and wife return from Nebraska and consider moving near York. John Huffeino reports poor Nebraska crops after frost and crops. Chauncy Barnes in Oklahoma writes of deer game and plans to return home. Kirk of Lacon, a marble craftsman, builds a six foot monument for Mrs Troma and does other lettering for neighbors, keeping busy in his shop.
The piece reports promising school prospects in Naguelin and a Wyoming hunting party expected home in about ten days. Harry Beck may teach vocal music locally. James Shields received 100 dollars from Rockford Insurance for a horse killed by a night dog.
Quaker Lane phrases include H K Smith making molasses and farmers serving as a bulljog clover for days. A social hop at Walter Griffiths marks Saturday. Mason Wilsons welcome a daughter born last Fr. Clarence Mills heads to Chicago for veterinary studies. Joshua Mills and family depart Fro extended east trip and Ottawa to Fairbury. Joshua Mills Jr and wife return home after visiting. Joshua’s patent shingle sale nets 4200.
A frost last week damaged vines and late corn. Anton Margason and wife visited his brother John. H C Hailey and family spent Sunday with Mrs Leid’s parents. Mrs Hunter from Nebraska visiting. Mrs C H Ransom had a narrow escape when a horse spooked near a bridge, throwing her companion. Mourning the death of Mes Ballenselfen nee Manbach, mother of 11, laid to rest in Henry Catholic cemetery.
The regular temperance lesson scheduled for next Sunday is rescheduled to Sunday evening October 6. Exercises start promptly at 7:80. The meeting at the M E church invites all to attend with friends and family. Program includes songs readings prayers and talks on alcohol related dangers.
The Central Illinois Methodist conference will meet next year at Pontiac. Appointments list presiding elder and many charges including Canton Chillicothe Cuba Dunlap Elba Center Elmwood Farmington Jean etc. Miscellaneous names及 locales follow with several churches and parishes listed for reassigned duties.
An early health ad extols the nervous system as central to life and mind noting nerve damage causes paralysis and a host of ailments. It touts Dr Miles' Nervine as a universal cure available at Dr Powell's Drug Store.
Mrs Roxius Mack Mapp writes from Winfield Kansas in 1889 reflecting on her memories of Marshall County and the people who have passed, reporting on crops a plentiful harvest and the county fair. She notes threshing crews with cook houses on wheels and prices for wheat, and shares updates about Sunday School conventions and local civic life.
Week new arrivals of seasonable goods beckon shoppers to visit and trade. Promises right treatment as cold weather approaches with suits, overcoats, woolens, and fine cotton batting at 10c. Calicos at 4c yard. Boots and shoes stocked. Merchant tailoring touted as most successful in the region. Come early and often, economy for customers.
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