Local Notes and Visits Across The Region
City and vicinity items include Fair Store promotions for tin fruit and gun shells, Vogelsang Bros and F A Fiedler at Fresh Fish Friday, and Evans Grange Fair events. Visits feature Dr Motter, Mrs Adam Peterman, John Morgan, R O McWilliams family, Nicholson & Co shipments to Chicago, and Peoria convention attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vogelsang Bros
Cannah-Jones
F. A. Fiedler
Sthen
Evans Grange
Motter
Adam Peterman
Tiskilwa
John Morgan
Chillicothe
R. O. McWilliame
Chicago
Nicholson & Co
Townsend & Smith
Sparland Coal
R. C. McWilliams
Joseph Ball
Washington
Thomas Vogelaing
Peoria
Sidney
Ketchum
Fisher, Champaign Co
John McVicker
Peoria County
James P Hartley
Joseph Heath
School For the
Jacksonville
Clara Baer
Frank Baer
Mra Baer
Forrest Bros
Ernest Panzer
Champaign
Pearl Heath
Evanston
Northwestern University
George Warren
Archie
Bracken
Wichita
Kanaag
York
Henry Notes and Local News Gleanings
Henry Illinois community notes include visits by C F Adams of Aurora, births, marriages, and engagements. Local business bids and sales appear with timber, millinery, and a wind mill for sale. Roads, steamer fare promotions, cemetery tidiness, political notices, and upcoming theater.
A Few Warm Ones For Chilly Weather
A local advertisement promotes fall overcoats priced from four to nine dollars and full suits from four to eight dollars. It touts linen stock of furniture and carpets at the Big Store and urges shoppers to compare bargains.
Henry Woman's Club to Host District Federation Meeting
The Henry Illinois Woman's Club will meet Friday afternoon September 16 at regular hour with Mrs Laura A Kline to finalize plans for entertaining the District Federation and address other business. Local items note a marriage witnessed by Squire Kirchman and several community updates including a millinery opening at J Watercott and Co and a farewell party for Master Will Hammond headed to Portland Oregon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura A. Kline
District Federation
Mary L. Hildebrant
Ipa A. Lee
Seo Y. Michael Ballenaseifen
Hopewell
Mary Jensen
Henry
Squire Kirchman
Jack Robinson
G. L. Vanfleet
York
Neb
McKlutte Bros
Patnam
Henry and Undercliff
Miss Weaver
Chicago
J. Watercott & Co
F. P. Gagerty
Charles A. Jacobs
Soldier Boys
South Whitefield
Jacobs
I. W. Wangboop
Will Hammond
George Keller
Will
Portland
Oregon
H D Watercott
Mary Lewis
Death of Henry telegraph operator Collings Utica
Word comes that LH Collings once a telegraph operator at Henry station died in Utica last Thursday. He was 36, married with two children, held a $2,000 MWA policy, and left friends in Henry who mourn his loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Parker
Chicago
Capt Fort
D. R. Durflinger
Venona
Minoak
P. A. Cunningham
Baby
Rawson
Phillip Thomas
Henry
LaSalle
Theodore Bickerman
Michigan
Henry Cemetery Association
John Kline
Magnolia Grange
F O Sterrett
Florisant
Heim
Lacon
French
Darwin W. Esmond
Newburgh
New York
W. £. Willams
Galva
Oneida
Utica
Woman's
Mary L. Hildebrant
Colling
iCollitiss
M.W.A
Avman
Baker
Peoria
John Sparling
Senachwine
Mrs House
Fred
Potter
Jones
FC Sterrett
Electric Light Co
George Hall
Irl
Helper&Adams
Geo Halper
Worth McVicker
Adams & McVicker
Adams
McVicker
Mesars Adams
Helper
Iowa
Undercliff
Middle West
Jackson
Miah
Religious notices and community updates from Bureau County
Congregational church notes invite Mrs B W Ruggles for Wednesday prayers while Methodist preachers will be on the anxious seat after conference. Reverend Abel Milla to preach at Mt Palatine and again at the Congregational church on Sunday the 18th. The MBH church reports a kerosene outage during a transformer fire and a 1000-person Yearly Meeting with leaders E Coale and David Brunner. Obscure local sermons, farewell to Rev Hammond from St John Holocopaij, and hunting property disputes prompt reader notices on landowner rights and legal protections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. W. Ruggles
Abel’ Milla
Mt. Palatine
Congregational
The-M. BE
Nebraska
Bureau County
MBH
Joan Rogers
Michigan
Baptist Church
P K Hammond
St John’s Holocopaij
Dr Boal
J. R. Chapman
J. O. Law
Li. T. Wood
M. M. Mallary
Mesdames
Anna Chapman
Henry Fisher
Katherine Piper
Hammond
Portland
Oregon
Henry
Rey’ Hammond
O. C. White
Henry's Biggest Bar Gains In New York Chicago Trade
Henry's store reported a large stock push last week with fall and winter goods direct from New York and Chicago. The assortment includes dress goods ladies wraps silks velvets trimmings cloaks capes jackets skirts prints and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
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Hutchins
Lincoln
Houtchins & Lincoln
Henry, Ill
C.F. “Adams
Aurora
Mra
P. Hill
Wenzell
Harvey
Jos N. Krenz
Bert Tomasson
Hennspin
Ray Zinser
Edna
Henry Hartenbower
Tonica
W. J. Davis
Gomber Yard
Clara Slater
B. H. Hutchins
B. F. Fornest
Plam Dayton
Granite City
Wm Longman
Harry Fairchilde
Englewood
H W Ruggles
Frank Fairchilds
Thomas
Ill
Robert
Fred Law
Ann Arbor
Harvard
Boston
Massachusetts
Archie Lytle
7Th Volunteers
Elias Herr
A. O. Christern
Riverside
Cal
Dureka
John Howard
Robt Theidohr
Mondey
Howard
Henry Township
John
Fall Geads
Illinois
J Watercott &Co
Henry, IL
John Gregory
Chas Vogalsang
Fred Potter
J.J. Gresser
Phillip Steimle
Dawson Glenn
Dawson
Miss Sleater
Ull
A. Fiedler & Son
Yours
H. Campbell
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