Smoke Powers Best Five and Local Cuts
A bustle of small town items includes Smoke Powers leading the local five, Andy McAfee moving to Chicago, Vogelsang Bros promoting fresh fish and vinegar, and Fair Store holiday checks. Social notes mention visits, farming work, a felon incident, and several community events around Henry and Bradford with church services and fairs upcoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smoke
Andy McAfee
Chicago
Vogelaang Bros
Fair Store
Winter quarters and local plans in Henry and vicinity
Jas Chambers takes bachelor quarters in Campbell building for winter and will teach, while residents attend a National Encampment in Cincinnati. Community events include a cream social at Swedish Lutheran church for Sunday school children, millinery moves to Chicago for fall styles, and local business changes at Kraus boot and shoe shop. Public notices mention district meetings, a W U T U convention in Hanna City, and ongoing grade road work. George Blackstone lies ill at his daughter’s home as Belle Worley resumes Lexington school work with nine teachers in the district.
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N Hatever
John Hartley
Catholic Church of
Bradford
Clear Creek
Virginia Law
New York City
Chicago
Geo Stubbles
Chenoa
Andrew Vogelaang
Ed Hummel
Hennepin
Princeton
Fritz
Gerhardy
Howard Bailey
Princeton Republican
Margaret Best
Swein
A. Frommel
M. P. Hayden
Christian Church
Board of Supervisors
Marshall County
Court House
Beulah Young
Washington
B. F. Forrest
Wm McAtleer
Garret Fagan
Saratoga
Thomas Reilly
Jas Chambers
Campbell Building
Earr
Neues Wte
Cincinnati
Putnam
George
Lacon
Henry
Sete Wo
Mra
H. D.watercott
Mary Lewis
Hanna City
George “Blackstone
Marshall Co
John Grieves
Belle Worley
Lexington
Miss Worley
Worps
Perdew & Fairchild
Orr
Hdward Street
J O Moodey
East Park Rowe
Jonas Divelbigs
Whitewood
Dakota
Omaha
R. K. Warner
Emma
Little Warner Scott
Bila Warner Scott
Daly
Edward and
First Streets
Michael Murray
Thalnted
Jones’ Cash
Howard Young
Park Palace
George Warren
Ideal Restaurant
Gunther
John Roberts
Market
Second Streets
Thos Dake
Walter Duke
Bureau
N. A. Wanser
Chet Fulford
Moses Perdew
Republican
Moses
California
Los Angeles
Magnolia
Undercliff
Gentleman’s Aid Society
St John’s Episcopal Church
Theorning
P K ‘Hammond
Hhe Church
Paida Coast
John Spencer
John Herr
Whitefield
Wepons
Big Store Offers Entire Fall Line for One Dollar
Our busy store promotes a fall sale with every item from the new lineup priced at one dollar. Choose among Derbys Crushers Soft Hats and Fedoras as part of the limited offer to stimulate trade.
Special Watch Sale and Fall Goods at the Big Store
Sale opens at 8 a m with a 30 day watch offer featuring Elgin and Waltham pieces in gold filled cases 11 and 18 jewel movements. Prices 10, 12 60 and 165 dollars. Fall capes jackets shoes and furniture arriving with low prices in Central Illinois.
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Elgin and Waltham
Troop 1 loses comrade Carl Sorenson in Lacon funeral
The remaining members of Capt. Fort’s company traveled by morning train to Henry to lay to rest Troop 1’s first casualty, Carl Sorenson, in Lacon this afternoon. The town connected phone lines provided private, reliable service, with a booth at HJ Gregory’s store for messages.
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Fort
Henry
Home
Sweet Home
Carl Sorenson
Lacon
HJ Gregory's
New York
Philadelphia
Joseph Schick
Texas
Barnard
Yeager
Illinois
Gabriel
Tim Wood, Jr
Tim
Chicago
Woman's Club
Mra Grace
Lincoln
Mary L. Hildebrant
Mars Ipa A. Lex
Seo’y
Theodore Hartwig
James P. Hartley
O. Sterrett
Gossip and fires and camp tales fill a village week
A chaotic week brings gossip harming friendships and reputations while a fire insurance company reports prompt settlements. Firefighter John Ford in a crowded hotel escalates a stairwell incident that ends with assistance needed to free two people. Illinois volunteers from Marshall county return from Chickamauga with typhoid cases and a funeral for Carl Soronaga follows a somber week.
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O.r.i&.p
J. A. ‘Allen
The
Rockford Fire Insurance Co
Kirkpatrick
Frank Woods
Henry
Hammel
Hennepin Township
Will Blackburn
Rockford
Camp House
John Ford
Indy
James Obdiligan
Ford
James
Robert B. Fort
Illinois Volunteers
Col Young
Marshall County
Chickamauga
Fred Green
Ralph Dennis
Abner L Bromley
Calvin Starliper
George Morgan
John Green
Louis Silver
Jacob Noll
Green
Vennis
Noll
Starlipor
Oxset Fort
A Ls Bromley
Fort Sheridan
Capt Fort
Carl Soronaga
Lacon
Lock
Rade
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John Kline
Henry, Ill
Che-Benry
Grover Burr
Hiptroxr
Gity and Vicinity
Sparland
Kivans Grange
Vogelsang Bros
Wm Ji Hoyt
Zenor
Will Fraser
Ian Salle
Dennis
Wm Harris
Indian Territory
John Myers
Varna
Henry Lock
Henry Fagleston
DePae
George Becker
Peoria
Dayton
AL Jones
Bros Springs
Peter Heininger
Heiner Bros
Chillicothe
Congregational Church
Lehigh Hard Coal
George Hall
Ohio
Otto Rogers
Frank Weichman
Henry City Telephone Exchange
George, Burt
Colorado
Forrest Bros
Barnard Yaeger
Anton’ Chesser
John Peterman
Henry Oliman
W H.stever
I Kohler
Joseph Beider
George Harvey
W. B. Kirkpatrick
Rockford Insurance Co
Peoria County
Sale
Central Illinois
J. Watercott&Co
Henry's
EA Flutchias
A. Fiedler. &. Sok
Yours
H. Campbell
Manacgee
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