Local social and illness notes from Sparland area
Sparland society column records visits shopping illnesses and family events. Notables include Mrs John VanAntwerp shopping in Peoria and Harry Luft improving after tonsillitis. several local residents guesting at homes and dinners. a two months old baby buried. a DeYalt Entertainment company lecture to begin Oct 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John VanAntwerp
Peoria
Harry Luft
Wallace Hoadley
Kewanee
Bessie Ray
Mary Onyan
Robert Murdock
Cook
Charlie Gapen
Ottawa
T. I. Gaeen
R. Sparr
Mamie Campbell
N. W. Tanner
Henry
Lulu Frank
Mayme Green
Lillian
Frank Hill
Moline
Will O'Brien
Peru
Fred Hill
Deyalt Entertainment Company
Community Notes From Sparland Area and Surroundings
Local life notes include visits by Mr and Mrs Henry Franks and family to Joliet relatives, various sisters and cousins visiting in town, and a string of social events. Updates cover church activities, a Sunday school party, a playground trip to Starved Rock, and health news from Rev McLeish and Mrs Anderson after an appendectomy. Bucklen's Arnica Salve is praised for healing minor injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delbert Taylor
Iowa
Howard Anderson
Campbell's
Ladies’ Aid and
Epworth League
Alma McFarland
Hoopeston
Anna
Starved Rock
Dollie Wabel
Leota’ Hunt
Henry
Anna Luft
Toluca
Rev. McLeish
Chicago
Anderson
Royce
Peoria
Earl Shaffer
Earl
Rev. Watson
Flanagan
Baptist
McLeish
Sparland
MI-O-NA and MI-DNA Stomach Tablets Ad
A vintage ad promotes MI-O-NA stomach tablets for nightly relief and MI-DNA tablets for indigestion nausea and related symptoms. It claims a box costs 50 cents at T. J. Segraves and druggists everywhere and emphasizes privacy and discretion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. J. Segraves
Farewell Party for Rose Reinbeck in Saratoga
A farewell surprise at John Reinbeck’s home honored daughter Rose on Friday Sept 15 with games music and lunch. Rose would choose Old Saratoga life over Henry and thanks attendees. The Reinbecks plan to move October 1 and others plan corn cribs and repairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga
John Reinbeck
Rose
Miss Rose
Old
Henry
Ivan
Rena Webber
Castleton
James Corcoran
Peter Lewis
Reinbeck
Henry Geitner
J. L. Gray
Bugsell Place
Bethel Church
Herbert Doyle
Onarga
Rey,Hanes
Wife
Chozen
Rey. H. B. Ward
Local notes from LaMoille and surrounding area
Community roundup lists visits among residents including Miss Ann Bonnell, Miss Elsie Lundeen, Mrs. R. Miller, and many others. Mentions births, farm work, and social events with church notices and a brief health testimonial for King’s New Life Pills. Sunday services led by Rev. Vandervoort and Sunday school at 10.
Wheatland Plowing Weather and Local Moves
It was a chilly Tuesday with plowing the main order of the day as farmers report easy work. Miss Yewell boards with Mrs. Lindsay Anderson. Lottie Kane’s recovery lags behind peers while John Carroll Marguerite John Jr. and Ray Hume visited friends in Chillicothe Sunday. Visitors to Frank Jennett's last week included Mrs. Will Perry Mrs. Judia Hearty of Grafton Neb Mrs. Joseph Dickman of Bradford Mr. and Mrs. A F Hanney of Tiskilwa and Mrs. Matthew Hanney of Spring Valley. Marshall Downey attends school at Putnam boarding with his uncle W Murphy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Yewell
Lindsay Anderson
Lottie Kane
John Carroll
Marguerite and
John, Jr
Ray Hume
Chillicothe
Frank Jennett
Will Perry
Judia Hearty
Grafton
Neb
Joseph Dickman
Bradford
A. F. Hanney
Tiskilwa
Matthew Hanney
Spring Valley
Marshall Downey
Putnam
W. Murphy
Chillicothe Jubilee and Local Farm Notes Highlight Season
Residents attended the Chillicothe street fair as Miss Veda Grove returns to Rock Island for junior year work. Roy Wilcox works his hay baler while adapting corn fodder prep. Mrs. Ella Hunk travels with children. family visits in Princeville. Emily Bragg resumes school leadership and housekeeping. Bert Wilcox sold out, farm rented to a German. Emma and Frederick Wilcox cared for by grandmother. Newton Bragg returns from Michigan vacation. Fruit and sugar prices rise, raising cellar storage expectations. Mrs. Hinman dined with Sumner Perkins. Keiser visits from Morton for sick baby care. Millie Sims recovers, leaves hospital to stay with sisters. New corn shredding for fodder by Roy Wilcox. many jobs at hand. Sumner Perkins crews build carriage house and shed for farm implements. Granger thrift, grit and money evident. Jack Donath joins trip to central Wisconsin to view Bradley estate lands. C and Gaumer Jr. construct new barn foundation after hurricane. rebuilding Alex Russell’s house. more projects loom with showers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawn Ridge
Chillicothe
Veda Grove
Rock Island
Roy Wilcox
Ella Hunk
Lower Hill
Charles Perkins
Princeville
Emily Bragg
Otto Symmes
F. H. Cornell
Bert Wilcox
Little Emma
Frederick Wilcox
Wm. Wilcox
Newton Bragg
Michigan
Millie Sims
Sumner Perkins
Granger
Jack Donath
Wisconsin
Bradley Estate
C. &. Gaumer, Jr
Origins of Township Names In Early Day 1830s Illinois
The article traces how townships in the Lacon area gained their names. It covers Strawn’s Landing becoming Columbia then Lacon, and notes names like Free State Henry Roberts Belle Plain Bennington Evans Wenona Richland La Prairie Saratoga Whitefield Steuben and the influence of figures such as Gen James D. Henry Silas Ramsey and George Scholes.
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City of
Lacon
Henry
Hooper Warren
James D. Henry
Illinois Volunteers
Roberts
Jesse S. Roberts
Belle Plain Township
Col. Belle
Bennington Township
Bennington
Evans Township
Joshua Evans
Wenona
Richland Township
John Strawn
Ohio
Hopewell
la Prairie
Saratoga Township
George Scholes
New York
Saratoga
Whitefield Township
John B. White
George Burt
White
Silas Ramsey
Whitefield
Evans
Ramsey
Steuben Township
Steuben County
Name Origins and Early Settlers in Hopewell Township
A survey of regional names tracing Baron Steuben and Hopewell Township origins with first settler dates. The text blends historical notes on founders, early residents, and a social obituary style aside including a laborer lament about aging, seeking work, and a comic exchange about wills and money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baron Steuben
General Washington
Timothy Atwood
Hopewell Township
Lunsford Broaddus
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Featured in Patient Letters
Waurika Oklahoma and Huntington Massachusetts residents praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier for curing long standing female troubles. Letters claim relief from nervousness insomnia weakness and irregularities after using the remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waurika
Okla
Lydia E. Pinkham
Sallie Stevens
Huntington
Mass
Mary Janette Bates
Lydia J. Pinkham
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Creping Standard Oil Oil Company
J. I. Case
Milwaukee
Keystone
McLaughlin
Sparland, Ill
the Republican
Henry, Ill
Sparland’ Department
Frank Poignant
Henry Franks
Clifton, Jr
Bride
Joliet
Will
Mollie Burwick
Mathias Brothers
van Dusen
Bess Hill
James Hill
H. J. Barnum
Freeville
N. Y
Bucklen
A. J. Ironmonger’s
Ann Bonnell
LaMoille
Charles Doty
Elsie Lundeen
R. Miller
Ralph Maynard
Grace
Maude
Ada
Clara Whited
Roy Maynard
Bertha Welch
Wm. Chesney
Samuel Chesney
Timothy Donovan
Daniel Donovan
Bradshaw
Maxine
Sheffield
Leonard Hunter
Chester Bidwell
Roy Allen
Baby
Pontiac
Wm. Harris
Babe
Dover
Bert Piper
Milner
H. Halladay
Frank Lidgard
Grandma Ray
Henry Smith
Albert Quick
Wm. Piper
Minter Metz
Chambersburg
Robert Patterson
W. P. Spaugh
Manville
SOUTH
MILO
Allen Moffitt
Winnie Taylor
Jacob Copple
Harry Pettigrew
Bertha McClane
Roy Stone
Glenn
Carl Barker
Ladies’ Aid
Clarence Hay
George Montgomery
Douglas
John Reid
Vandervoort
Rock Island Lines
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The
Golden State Limited
Californian
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Mountaineer
O. G. Vale
Warren Cowles
Pass
Peoria, Ill
Chamberlain
A. J.ronmonger
Illinois
Samuel Parker
Chicago Record-Herald
Deacon Flint
Jane
Deacon Skinner
Amos
Abe Skinner
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