Local notices from Lacon area newssheet highlight obit and community events
Mary Burns Cain dies at 82 after short illness near Lacon in Marshall County. Her daughter Mrs Frank Shafer cared for her. Temperance service at M E church featured a sermon by Rev Smith and members speech. School opens with Prof S C Edwards and strong teaching staff. Clara Vernay has moved to Rutland to teach. County board of supervisors meets with nominations for circuit clerk state attorney surveyor and coroner. Blain e and Logamglee club forms led by F H Stire. former Lacon Garfield and Arthur glee club noted. Fred Peters now runs two barber shops after moving to Tekamah Nebraska with wife managing a hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. E
Eve AS Smith
C. Edwards
Clara Vernay
Rutland
Ublic
Board of Supervisors
James
Wescott
E. D
Richmond
Burt
W. Holler
R. A. Wright
Kansas
Harper County
Kan
Blaine
F.H
Lacon Garfield and Arthur Glee Club
Fred Peters
Tekamah
Neb
Sparland Notes of Visits People and Local Happenings
Mr and Mrs H Campbell and their children visited Maine and returned Sunday. Local residents from Sheffield visit their parents in Sparland. Soldiers returning from Chicago reunion speak of fatigue. principal Brahl arrives with family. Various residents travel to Chicago and Peoria for schooling and family visits. A Sunday school jug drive promises prizes. Misses Burt Jones Sleator visit. James Holler buries his youngest child. Lectures by Mirs Simpson on old settler day at Bethel and Sparland. Local commerce reports sugar, china, flour, bran, and sorghum molasses at Barr's store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Kxine
Chicago
Brasfield
Peoria
Hattie Keller
la Prairie
Clara J. Robb
Mendota
M. C. Parmelee
Little Rock
Ark
A Burnham
Anna Burt
Julia Jones
Clara Sleator
Henry
Charles Hondly
Toulon
James Holler
Mirs Simpson
Rinstorm
Bethel
Sparland
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Barr
Wyoming
F. A. Barr’s
F. A. Barr's
Farm notes and local chatter from a rural page
Weather and crop notes report improved pastures with potatoes cabbage and fruit trees flourishing. A telegram brings news of George Struckler’s sick daughter in Peoria county now convalescent. Local quirks and resident updates follow, including teaching changes and a real estate purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Struckler
Peoria County
Sarah Monaghan
Tom’ Harrington
Adamscorn
Reuben Stringer
Local gossip and colorful notes from Redtown district
A clipped collage of village chatter from Henry and Red town includes Capt. Wm. Bratken’s Blaine and Dogan club rhetoric, humorous misadventures of Lud in a gutter, Tommy Wallace’s cholera morbus recovery, Mollie Maguire’s aunty making faces, and social tensions at camp meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubbard
Leary
Bangsini
Silcis
Wm. Bratken
Putnam
Henry
Cap
Blaine and
Dogan
Grover
Whitefield
Redtown
Camp Grove
Tommy Wallace
Mollie Maguire
Logan
Mineral Springs notes on weather fairs and local life
Heavy rain last week aids fall plowing and field work as farmers drive teams. Local events include dances, sicknesses, a deer park trip, and a sulky plow trial by Duke Bros. at Calvin Shields's. Henry nine defeats Scoopers 65 to 45 under moonlight. Henry boy riders risk a fall. local folks plan fish hook gifts for a fisherman clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Hailey
Varna
James Huber
Chicago
Campbell Shields’s
Alvin Forrest
Kalb
Jakes
Deer Park
D H Johnson
Duke Bros
Calvin Shields
Ill Forbes
B. A. Kline
Shields
Tom
Sotme
Johnny
Ludwig
B. F. Butler
West Fair promises vast exhibits and free freight for exhibitors
The event proclaims every industry in the state will be represented on the Grounds with bicycle races rope walks balloon ascensions and rail and steamboat entries. Freight for exhibitors is carried daily and there is free one way travel for attendees. No charge for children with parents and entries stay open for trotting pacing and running horses with a liberal management aimed to please visitors and aid exhibitors.
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John N. Derr
Biggsville
Henderson
Henrys
Winship
M. B. Lockwood
Lockwood Place
Tonica News
H. B. Lowden
Sutton
T. F. McCoy
Walter Scholes
Greenfield
Iowa
Illinois
Peoria Fair Association
Peoria, Ill
Thezbic
Tae Hite
Gov
Thomas A. Hendricks
John S. Potter
J. B. Barnes
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