Local society notes from Sparland area residents
Sparland society column lists residents visiting relatives and traveling clients including Mrs. Troy in Rutland, Mr. and Mrs. George Kear on a western trip, Mrs. Arndt of Oklahoma visiting, and others from Henry Toluca Peru and Chicago Heights. Rev. David McLeish to return, Baptist pulpit filled by Rev. Watson next Sunday. Lost chain to nose glasses between home and M C Marshall’s residence. reward implied by owner Mrs Anna Suft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watson
M. E
Emmett Garrett
Peoria
Allison
Harry Maxwell
Frank van Antwerp
Harry Green
Chicago Heights
M. C. Marshall
Anna Suft
Local residents visit relatives and recall Labor Day game
Miss Hunice Garrett visits relatives in Peoria with cousin Miss Anna McFarland and uncle Allison Garrett. Jack Cumming of East Peoria visits family here, while Roland Cumming and wife from Moline stop by. Henry defeats Sparland-Lacon 8 to 7 in the Labor Day ball game. Marie O Leary resumes work at Central pickle factory Peoria after sickness. Gibson of Peoria vacationing with Delber Marshall and grandparents Hafty Marshall. Chillicothe jubilee shows prize winnings for Ola Hunt and Thomas Monier. Earl Shaffer, 17, choked on a plum pit at noon and was hospital bound for surgery. doctors expect a favorable update.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hunice Garrett
Peoria
Anna McFarland
Allison Garrett
Jack Cumming
East Peoria
Roland Cumming
Moline
Marie O'Leary
Gibson
Delber Marshall
Hafty Marshall
Chillicothe
Tenben
Ola Hunt
Thomas Monier
Earl Shaffer
Ed Shaffer
Collins
Earl
Lawn Ridge Notes And Local Happenings
Emily Bragg rooms with Mrs. Otto Symmes and plans to keep house. Mr. and Mrs. John Moore visit daughter Norah and grandchildren from Chillicothe. Newton Bragg resumes work in his shop after vacation. Lewis Streitmatter adds a concrete floor project on Paul Rumbold’s barn. F H Cornell buys Bert Wilcox’s farm property and will manage the farm. Public school opens with Miss Bragg directing. she returns after years away to care for her mother. George Sims learns of a newborn girl who did not survive. burial follows. Mrs. Sims improves at the Peoria hospital. Rev A B Curtis reports his church is reassembled and he resumes pastoral duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emily Bragg
Otto Symmes
John Moore
Norah
Chillicothe
Newton Bragg
Lewis E. Streitmatter
Paul Rumbold
F. H. Cornell
Bert Wilcox
George Sims
Peoria
Sims
Sumner Perkins
A. B. Curtis
Wenona
Gustaf Erikson
Bertrand
Venona
Erikson
Swedish Lutheran Church
A. G. McAdam
Julesburg
Col
W. D. Dunlap
Homer Barney
Lacon
Marshall County
W. C. White
Louis Colehower
J. H. Taggart
Normal
Cora Cummings
Buducah
Mapleeine Co
Thomas Southwell
Ireland
Southwell
America
Clark Downey
Bond Library
H. S. VanHorn
Mildred
Turnbull Builds Dams to Reclaim Fertile Land
Robert Turnbull undertakes a major project to fill a large ditch with three concrete dams and a bed for water flow. The work aims to reclaim several acres of now useless land and improve fertility, illustrating broader schemes to save productive soil.
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Robert Turnbull
Local Social Notes From La Prairie and Area
La Prairie scenes show Mrs. Wm Turnbull of Chicago visiting kin, and many guests and travels among the Turnbull Collins and Gallup families. Nina Edminster and Henry E Stevenson wed at the Edminster home in Blue Ridge with Mendelssohn music, 75 relatives in attendance. The couple plans a homecoming at the S. R. Stowell place in Blue Ridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
George Gallup
Clyde Doran
la Prairie
Linus Root
Peoria
Adelbert Caldwell
Ransom
North Dakota
Herbert Wilson
Everett
Chillicothe
H. S. Edminster
Nina
Henry E. Stevenson
Blue Ridge
E. S. Carr
Edwina Edminster
S. R. Stowell Place
Remedy Adverts for Child Bowel Complaints
For bowel complaints in children always give Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and castor oil. It is certain to effect a cure when reduced with water and sweetened. No physician can prescribe a better remedy. For sale by T J Segraves and A J Ironmonger druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
T. J. Segraves
A. J. Ironmonger
A.J. Ironmonger
Cottage visitors and premiums mark week in town
The column lists a string of Sunday, Friday and Wednesday visits among residents including James Hannum, Francis Hannum, Eddie McMahan, Hiram Allen, Mell Griswold, Willie Perry, P. H. Harty, Ray Hume, Carroll, Margarite, John O Neal, John Henneberry, Emma Kissick and others. Four first premiums were won by Cottage school pupils under teacher Emma Kissick. Also notes social calls at various homes and a local ad for Foley's Kidney Remedy praised for kidney bladder relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Hannum
Francis
Eddie McMahan
John Barry
Hiram Allen
Mell Griswold
Princeton
Willie Perry
P. H. Harty
Grafton
Neb
Ray Hume
Chicago
Carroll
Margarite
John O'Neal
John Henneberry
Cottage School
Emma Kissick
Samuel Heiser
Morton
Joseph Soder
Charles
John Thompson
Arispie
Rudolph Miller and Son
Charles Day
Jacob Stouffer
Day
James Dunlevy
Howard
Wheaton
Henry Smith
Frank Cramer
Texas
Willie Chesney
Hunt
Sparland
Local Social Notes From South Milo Word List
Miss Lulu Sherman visits Mrs Amree Longman and Mrs Fannie Anderson hosts relatives. Miss Dickman boards with George Barker. Mr and Mrs Theodore Clark and Mrs Addie Brokaw visit John Reid. Howard Wilson travels to Iowa. Mrs Mary Halcock visits brother. Mrs George Reid hosts daughters Mrs Sanders and Mrs Enos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lulu Sherman
Amree Longman
Fannie Anderson
Allen Moffitt
Dickman
George Barker
Theodore Clark
Addie Brokaw
John Reid
Howard Wilson
Iowa
Mary Halcock
Charlie Austin
George Reid
Sanders
Kewanee
Enos
Bradford
Sunday school picnic and church notes from Saratoga
The Saratoga Sunday schools held a picnic in Smart Grove on Friday August 25 with about 30 children. The Aid will not meet due to Roy Newman’s death. Rev H B Ward is assigned to Saratoga and La Prairie churches for the coming year, while Rev and Mrs Hanes plan to leave. An early September church entertainment netted 21.90 for the Truitt fund. Various locals and teachers are noted, including Miss Jennie McGee and Foley’s Honey and Tar advertisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga
H. B. Ward
la Prairie
Ward
Hanes
Truitt
Charles Holmes
W. Smart
Clark
Hauger
J. L. Gray
Wm. Rickey
Bauter
Henry
Jennie McGee
Rickey School
Albert Clarence
Vanda Ray
Coulter
Otis Sarver
Maybell Hauger
Doyle
Wenona Engagement of Vinta Wenona Girl to Arthur Wright
Wenona society notes announce the engagement of Vinta Hartenbower to Arthur Wright of Wenona. The wedding is set for early autumn. Local reports detail travels, retirements, and commercial moves in Venona and nearby towns with multiple residents returning from events and plans to relocate.
Scandalous Scotch Butler Case Ends Mornin' Revelation
A doctor treating a dangerous case asks about a master’s fever but the butler admits the master died this morning. The fore noon exchange reveals the fatal turn as the patient’s health worsened from the previous night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald
Chamberlain Cough Remedy Praised in Postal Note
A reader from Poolesville Maine praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for reliable relief. The message notes confidence and success with the product and mentions local seller T. J. Segraves.
Send The Henry Republican for a Year Gift
For 1.50 you can gift a year of The Henry Republican to a friend. The recipient will receive weekly issues with many useful items a letter cannot convey.
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Henry Republican
Local Notes On Finds And Farm Tax Debate At Woodford
Lacon Journal reports two recent finds on Old Settlers Day a pocketbook with money and papers found by H L Hubbard of Henry and a purse with papers and money found by Julius Leckman of Hopewell both returning items to the Home Journal office. Dr Zeller notes Woodford county farm land assessments rising to 100 per acre prompting farmer protests and a staged auto parade around the courthouse. Diarrhoea season warning and a plug for Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lacon Journal
Tom Held
Waldo Held
Hopewell
Clifton
Henry Ebright
Henry
Wm. Garland
Ebright
Marshall County
H. L. Hubbard
Julius Leckman
Lacon Bridge
Home Journal
Old Settlers
Dr. Zeller
Bartonville Insane Asylum
Board of Review
Wood
Illino is books costly says author in Statesman article
Halbert Otis Crews writes that Illinois pays too much for school text books while Indiana buys at similar low prices. The piece surveys opinions of superintendents, notes legislative efforts and hints that state funding could eventually offer free texts as costs come under scrutiny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Halbert Otis Crews
Illinois Statesman
Supreme Court
Indiana
Points On School Law And Student Transfers
The article outlines pupil transfer rules between districts with costs borne by the resident district, plus transport for small districts, and legal consequences for failing to maintain a public school. A quoted aside about Jones and whiskey appears as a non sequitur.
Probate Court Records Streetwise Guardianship and Quiet Title
Probate proceedings deny the petition to probate Hettie Lane's will while appointing conservators for Mary Downey and orders cite distributions and inventories for multiple estates. Real estate transfers include numerous warranty and quit claim deeds in Toluca Lacon Wenona Varna and Sparland with marriage licenses listed for several couples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hettie M. Lane
Edgar V. Lane
Brink B. Lane
Mary Downey
Mary Gabbard
William P. Williams
Wesley D. Patty
William H. Mutton
Hiram K. Mutton
Julia A. George
Frank Spangler
Cecil Spangler
Gertrude Voorhees
Harry Spangler
Mary Elizabeth Spangler
Breece Spangler
Sadie Spangler
Spangler
Emily J. Perry
Florence Della Kerrick
Charles Spangler
Ralph Spangler
Chelsea C. Spangler
Olive Spangler Atwood
Bill
Marshall County
Milton D. Malone
Daniel Knapp
Belle Plain
Priscilla A. Meier
David R. Blackwell
Henry
Russell H. Davidson
James H. Wabel
Holmes and Heacock
Diana Feazel
Mary A. Barnes
Lacon
Fleming
James Lattourette
Johanna Weis
Swan Lake Club
Harry M. Taggart
William H. Parkinson
Wenona
Loren Francis
Emma Francis
Sparland
Dominick Turigliatti
George Rietz
Santa Fe
Toluca
Nils John Austin
John Henry Glaeser
Varna
Thomas Rice
Alice Ann Rice
A. L. Lenz
Jessie Catlin
Lina E. Stickel
John GC
Shields
Roberts
John Carlson
Andrew John Bergstrom
William I. Keay
Chicago
Rosa Danhof
Robert T. Turnbull
la Prairie
Anna WW. Hastings
Henry E. Stevenson
Halleck Township
Peoria
Nina L. Edminster
Joseph Bruisch
Lucy Dobride
Ernest I. Hoebler
Pontiac
Lottie B. Judd
Venona
Robert Russell
Anna Hastings
John P. Calhoun
Mae Reil
John Kummel
St. Louis
Laura Fitzgerald
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J. I. Cash Power
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Keystone
International
M. McLaughlin
Sparland, Ill
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Henry, Ill
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Lawn Ridge
Oscar Wright
Hattie Hunter
Bradshaw
Chambersburg
Samuel Chesney
Frank Lidgard
Ray Farley
Maple Park
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