Local News and School Notes from Magnolia
Local representative R A Ward oversees Henry Republican items. Magnolia schools report enrollment, a new furnace, and a 20 member Magnolix Tennis Club with a regulation clay court. Funeral of Jesse Kirkendall noted. sale ad ends with carriage and buggy harness for sale at A Doelzer & Co shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. A. Ward
Magnolia
Henry Reublican
Magnolix Tennis Club
Marie Dunne
Mar‘cella Dunne
Helen Roberts
Margaret ‘Roberts
Anita Roberts
Goldie Simonton
Ollie Spencer
Ione Borden
Dora Dillon
Messrs
Harry ‘Ramage
Ralph Hecht
Everett Hecht
A. Doelzer & Co
Magnolia and Toluca Social Notes and Local Updates
Harry Skelton of Toluca visited Magnolia and Allen Defenbaugh of Leeds called in Magnolia earlier this week. Miss Ora Brown of Chicago and Miss Maggie Henderson and Mrs. Wm Defenbaugh were in town visiting. A new concrete sidewalk project has begun. The Magnolia lecture course guarantors plan a meeting at the Masonic hall Friday Sept 21 at 8 o clock to conduct important business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Skelton
Toluca
Magnolia
Allen Defenbaugh
Leeds
Bert Heitrick
Maggie Henderson
Wm. Defenbaugh
Ora Brown
Chicago
Henry Dakin
Cincinnati
Nomen Fields
Dr. Dakin
Fiddock
Chatsworth
Masonic Hall
Magnolia School Opens With 107 Enrolled In All Grades
The Magnolia School commenced September 3 with a total enrollment of 107 and full coverage from first through twelfth grade. Miss Dillon handles first to third grade while Miss Borden teaches fourth through seventh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweany
Magnolia
Miss Dillon
Miss Borden
McNabb Area News Dense With Calls and Local Events
Local notes record visits from McNabb residents and nearby towns, including Granville, Magnolia, Florid, and Tonica. Baseball results show McNabb taking two of three games, while dignitaries and families attend church, funerals, and social events. A poetry piece and a notice about Frederick Douglass memorial funding via Booker T. Washington appear among community items.
Town Patients and Visitors Highlight Lostant Notes
Lostant items note several locals ill this week including Mrs Rudolph Mrs H Myers Mrs Emma Phillips Miss Elsie Zilm Wm Jones and A W Merritt Jessie Robinson visits Dwight Mrs Mary Reynolds of Chicago visits P C Mortenson Mont Avery travels for Deering Harvester L Henning family visit from Mendota and Mrs McKensie and Elsie accompany them home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deering Harvester Company
L. Henning
Mendota
H. C. McKensie
McKensie
Elsie
Jesse Kirkendall
Hope Township
J. W. Barbour
Hope Cemetery
Jessie Miller
Ottawa
Dominic
Iowa
Fred Perdew
Tom Flannagan
Lostant
Mrs. Flannagan
Mr.Flannagan
Ed McKinzie
Merritt & Bangs
Clarence Petitt
Viola Hannum
Mae Lippincott
T. F
Julius Kahn
Amos Wilson
Magnolia
Magnolia Grange Fair
Bud” Kays
Streator
Garfield
Grundy Wilson
Chicago
Opera House
Metropolitan Orchestra of la Salle
Atlas of 1809 Maps Reveals Early Illinois Geography
A review notes Dr. S. J. Caswell’s 1809 atlas by Matthew Carey of Philadelphia contains 49 maps. One map, compiled in 1795, shows Illinois and surrounding regions with then unfamiliar river courses and a pretend mountain range, illustrating early American geographic knowledge and misperceptions.
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Prairie State
S. J. Caswell
Rockford
Matthew Carey
Philadelphia
United States
Mississippi Valley
Chicago
Ottawa
Rock Island
Joliet
Amboy
Gales
Illinois
Wisconsin
Indiana
Missouri River
Missoury
Missouri
Tennessee
Kentucky
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Florida
New Republic
Hatchet in Walnut Tree Believed Legend Says Not True
Dr J W Standish of Galesburg summarizes a Chicago Daily Tribune story about a 50 foot high hatchet found in a dead walnut tree near Barbourville Kentucky. The piece argues that trees grow from terminal cells and limbs cannot extend the trunk, countering the Boone tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Standish
Galesburg
Chicago Daily Tribune
Daniel Boone
Barburville
Growth patterns in trees and a Boone hatchet tale
Explanations of how trees grow by adding cells at the branch tips and not within the trunk. A skeptical note questions a hatchet embedded in a tree as a possible Boone relic, then a domestic scene with a wife directing a tired husband and a later line about paying for a dress.
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Morphew Hardware Co
Magnolia, Ill
Magnolia Departant
Putnam County
Henry C. Mills
Henry E.eddingfield
A. E. Wonser
Jasper Cecil
George W. Hunt
J W. Barber
Mr. Kirkendall
Frankfort
Ross County
Ohio
Sarah Jane Downen
Laura Barber
Zilpha
Kirkendall
James
Lizzie Kirkendall
Robert Downey
Allen Coe
Rolley
Magnolia Personals
McNabb
Walt
la Salle
Illinois Life Insurance Company
W. L. McFall
Ethel Short
Dr. Watson
Florid
Massie
Zebley
F.E. Smith
Harrison Edwards
Marie Gallaher
Beatrice Massie
Edith
Edna Harkins
J. E. Bowman
J. M. Downey
J. C. Sutherland
F. D. Peterson
Seneca
Hansen
F. E. Smith
Henry
Lucile King
Toaica
Edith Harkins
Jn Granville
Gladys Ruble
Joe Baldwin
Tonica
Fred Mudge
Priscilla
O. F. Conklin
Jacksonville
Emma Giffith
Mabel
Monrovia
Cal
Griffith
M. A. Tomlinson
Mt, Palatine
C. W. Curtis
W. A. Barr
G. O. Davis
T. E. Gallaher
Georg Puffer
Woodbury
Odell
Josiah Puffer
Henry Hackman
Peru
Johnston
Gardner
California
F. E. Powells
Wilkins
Baby
Joe Bing
Luscomb
Jes
Fred Douglass
Anacostia
D. C
Frederick Douglass
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee
She Was
West End Avenue
Miss Blake
Blake
Kate
Jennie
New York Sun
W. H. Brown
Pittsfield
U. S
Evans Grange
Magnolia Fair
Schroeder
Perkins
J. G. Clemens
New York
R. W. Spencer
THE
Magnolia Bank
Robert G. Dakin, M. D
Ill
W.H. Weathers, M. D. G
Ili
Chicago Veterinary College
Lash Place
Ramage House
Magnolia Central
J. H. Massie
Fresh Bakery
Griffith’s Laundry
Michigan
Oceana
Newaygo
Hesperia Real Estate CO
Hesperia, Mich
John Vanness Standfish
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