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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1888
Page
6
In Lacon communities residents celebrate rain reducing dust. Reports mention visiting relatives, local lectures on temperance and Mormonism, school funding worries, and the water works referendum tie. The paper notes efforts to build a new school and details about a local dispute and a controversial statement in town.
Spariand. Rev Windsor travels this week. Burlington area activity includes weddings talks and visits. Mrs Saggers returns from Mineral. Mrs Marttard to St Louis to visit daughter. Comrade Sol Noll and daughter visit. Oyster supper at Bethel church Thursday. Geo Tarbill gravely ill with brain trouble. Mamie Tarbill hires Annie Timmons to teach while caring for father. Atwoods arrive for Knight funeral. Mrs Athay concert praised but smaller turnout than a negro show.
Whitefield John Vail slowly recovering. Lyons grove dance last Friday night a success. David Stockton lost two cows by overeating Al Shafer’s corn. Francia tipped over with hogs last Saturday, badly bruised but no bones broken. Ball and Wright, Democratic candidates, were at Burson’s shaking hands. John Gregory exercised animals and grapes at the farm. Lois Dunlap improved after four months of illness. Marry Marshall of Saratoga attended Burson sale. Cemetery cleanup planned at Whitefield Canter on Sept 27 at 8, bring tools. Henry Mobler injured hand feeding threshing machine. amputation of finger discussed but not done. Henry improving gradually.
The Willing Workers plan a Corn Fete at the M E church on Friday evening Sept 21. William Fountain is under doctor care but hopes for recovery. Printed menu uses corn themed Biblical verses and foods such as corn mush corn bread corn cake and corn pudding to raise funds and cheer.
Mr Vail and others have been making hay on the Island. Alf Knapp returns to Rush Medical College in Chicago next Monday. Knapp and his sister visit Tonicna for a week. Archie Williams and relatives attend Wenona fair by boat to Lacon. Fred Dawson leaves for Colorado to claim land. Walter Motter and friends trap rabbits. a neighbor’s spring chicken is killed. Mr Sparling runs a busy sugarcane mill. Miss Sparling helps. Adams' butcher shoots a beef, animal escapes, later found fat. Mrs Stickler and children of Peoria visit relatives. Miss Specht of Lacon visits Laura and Katie Heinrich. Mrs Stocking visits her mother. Tim Woods celebrates birthday with neighbors and treats.
iWenneprye Mrs Dr Ramsey returned from Iowa Tuesday. Allie E. Eddy visits sister in Chicago. Citizens attend Friends yearly meeting at Clear Creek. Mrs J. W. Markley and Carroll Neb. relatives visit in town. Rev Whorrel of M E church preached farewell and left for Chicago. J H Seaton reports trip to Indiana. Mail delivery to Bureau resumed today. Mrs Nicholas Bernard of Bureau died suddenly of heart trouble. Buried in Hennepin Tuesday at 10. Leaves husband and six children. Geo Young repels two assailants near Princeton fair. escape unharmed. Albert Boyle noted as a wealthy local figure.
Ty died at his residence near Honepin on Wednesday evening September 12 after a bout of pneumonia. Funeral services were held Friday at 10 o clock conducted by Rev H M Burr. Boyle served as school supervisor and director and left a wife and six children. The Republicans of Hennepin and Granville held a grand rally in Honepin Saturday night with about 170 in procession. Hon R B Edwards of Lacon gave a lengthy address. Some youths disturbed the crowd and the writer urged better police order at future gatherings. Crecelius.
Frosty start to week as John Hailey leaves Bumgartner's and Wayne Ham returns from Kansas. Quaker meeting well attended and Wenona fair drew many locals. Death comes to Norris whose father passed away Saturday, September 15, with community mourning and prayers.
In Blaine era notes the next Sunday lesson centers on the death and burial of Moses with Deuteronomy 34 1 12. Readers report baptisms marriages and accident reports while church events plan for hitching posts cleaning and a Sunday school convention address by B F Jacobs.
The letter recalls a revival at the Christian church ending with baptisms and calls for Christian restraint from worldly pleasures. It criticizes prohibition opponents and party politics, urging unity for temperance and moral service against whisky traffic, citing republican and third party tensions. A priestly editor signs off urging duty and faith.
A column from Belleville recounts frost events and church meetings while reporting on political talk. It details Andrew J Bell’s nomination for lieutenant governor and a ticket misread on a quilt prize, raising questions about the governor’s handwriting and the committee’s reading.
Local items report light politics in Milo with election day coming. Families travel for fairs and visits, including Sutherland and Irey to Arkansas and Indiana relatives. Townsfolk attend the Princeton fair and a Sunday school convention at Anderson’s grave proceeds smoothly.
Bucklen Arnica Salve advertised as the best salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers and all skin eruptions including piles with a money back guarantee. 25 cents per box available at Dr Powell's drug store.
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