Meek Campaign Opens In Henry Amid Sparse Attendance
Democratic candidate L F Meek spoke in Henry at the city park but only a few audience members appeared. The meeting moved to the Opera House after a cold wind and lack of band members. Meek praised Roosevelt, attacked tariffs, and faced questions about Ed Hull and J W Graff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L.F. Meek
Peoria
Congress
Henry
Henry Township
W. H. Forrest
Sixteenth
Roosevelt
Republican Party
Mr. Meek
Bryan
Parker
Ed Hull
J. W. Graff
Graff
Meek
Journal
Silent Reaper Claims Mrs Isabel Potter After Long Illness
Obituary notes Mrs Isabel House Potter born June 25 1844 at Grand Detour Illinois. She married Frederick Storey Peter April 29 1874 and leaves three children Gertrude H Sarah Elsie and Fred W Potter died January 12 1903 and after a California sojourn she passed September 54 at Altadena. Burial at St Johns church with Rev R F Reicher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isabel House Potter
Grand Detour
Ill
Dixon
Oregon
Rock River
Henry
Frederick Storey Peter
Gertrude H
Sarah Elsie
Fred W
Mr. Potter
Fred
Altadena
GC. R. Jones
St. John’s Church
R. F. Reicher
Local Chatter Highlights City Visits and Events
Peoria resident Thomas Irish and family visit Chicago, while local residents and visitors attend church events and social gatherings. The Presbyterian chicken pie dinner is announced, and a note on recent baptisms in the Christian church. The piece records moving, illness, family reunions, and a mix of politics and local commerce. Historic names include Watercott Hocheidt, Coulter, and Waughop with a wide array of Henry Illinois community life.
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Clara B. Waughop
Edith Watercott Hocheidt
Peru
Julius Watercott
J. H. Magoon
Lacon
J. P. Sparling
Evanston
Bayne
California
The
Presbyterian Church
Wels
Clifford Haws
Jesse Anderson
Henry
Ill
W. J. Coulter
J. W. Camery
Fred A. Raymond
Sadie Wable
Christian Church
Coulter
Lester Brown
Peoria
Curtis Coulter
Jennie Endsley
Powell
Horace Allen
Holland Patent
N. Y
H. H. Allen
James Smith
St. Paul
Gertrude
Elsie Potter
J. S. Fosbenner
Wm. McAleer
Main Street
George Schneider
Lower School Street
M,ee
D.S. McCown
Johnson Lutes
Mary Hopper
Lexington
Ind
Lutes II
Whitefield
Thomas Monler
St Marys Fair and Bazaar Planned for Oct 22 27
St Marys church hosts a week long fair with nightly entertainments including dramas recitations singing and dancing along with suppers. Admission is 25 cents for adults and 10 cents for children on Monday Wednesday and Thursday. other nights are 10 cents. Proceeds benefit the church with a $30,000 church project planned for Henry.
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St. Mary’s Fair
Henry
Memorial for Mrs. W. J. Coulter
Obituary recounts Hannah Peterson Coulter born March 30 1829 died Sept 30 1906. Describes a long Christian life over seventy years as a Sunday school worker and vows, noting her husband bears the deepest sorrow as the couple’s sacred bond endured through life’s trials.
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Hannah Peterson Coulter
Gethsemane
Star of Hope
Death of John A. Perley at Twin Lakes farm
John A. Perley aged 73 died Tuesday evening at Twin Lakes farm seven miles southwest of the city. Survived by wife and by son H. K. Perley who manages the farm. He previously ranched in Black Hills and Montana and earlier worked in hardware in Illinois and St. Joseph, Missouri. Funeral at family home with Rev. D. B. Whimster, interment Oak Grove cemetery. He was brother of the late Peleg S. Perley.
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Republican State Central Committee
Grand Pacific
Chicago
Great Northern
Wd St. Clair
West
JH. H. Allen
Allen
A. C. Allen
Honeaye Walls
Horace Allen
Holland Patent
N. Y
Henry Ellingwood
East
Penbroke
Frederick Allen
Winchester
John
Patch
Capt. Wallace
Illinois
Peoria
D.’S. McCown
Walter Wyatt
McCown
la Salle
Bureau and
Putnam
Sanitary District of
E. Hofer
John Hartley
John A. Perley
Twin Lakes Farm
H. K. Perley
Montana
Black Hills
St. Joseph
D. B Whimster
Oak Grove
News
West Plains
Peleg S. Perley
Lacon
Popular Rate Excursion to Chicago Saturday
Special train will leave Henry at 8:35 a m Saturday Oct 13 and return from Chicago Sunday Oct 14 at 6:80 p m Round trip tickets are 2 50 good on the special train only Returning tickets good on special and all regular trains from Chicago from No 3 Oct 18 to No 3 Oct 14 but not honored on trains 48 41 and 11 Don t miss this last low rate excursion of the season to the city
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Henry Times
Henry
Meek
Chicago
Transfer of Tickets Policy Raises Admission Costs
The H H S lecture management asks patrons to avoid transferring tickets to others to prevent extra course entitlements. They note transfers inflate costs and undermine contracts. Purchasers with complaints can request refunds by contacting manager J Carl Stine. Racine stocking feet at Mrs Kin near's.
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J. Carl Stine
Mgr
Loss of Two Red Pigs At McNabb Farm
Two red male pigs found in a cornfield on Sept. 22, 1906 at the farm of T. W. Hubbell McNabb Illinois Route 1. Owner may claim by paying feed and advertising charges at this office. Printing services offered.
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T. W. Hubbell
McNabb, Ill
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L. F. Meek
Henry Public School
New Opera House
Juanita Boynton
Miss Boynton
Ethel Johnson
Pallas
Annie L. Vivian
Irvin Wiliam
Thomas Gorman
Denver
New York
Colorado
H. E. Barbour
Swein
Henry Republican
North
Adams Street
Magnolia
North Peoria
Averyville
the Silent Reaper
Mrs. Ef, S. Potter
New Jerusalem
Thomas Irish
Robert Shields
Dawson Glenn
Dorothy
Millie Grawburg
Richard Waughop
Messrs. Gregg
Howard
B. Frank Perry
Curtis
J. T. Trowbridge
Don Quixote
Cervantes
St. George
England
G. A. Henry
G. A. Henty
Red Brigade
Eugene Wood
W. O. Stoddard
Max O'Rell
Marie Corelli
Wolf the Saxon
Jessie Fothergill
London
Opie Read
Edward I F. Harkins
Stephen Calinari
Julian Sturgis
Frances J. Lynde
Racine
Mrs. Kinnear
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