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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1916
Page
1
Local edition covers Chillicothe jubilee activities with parades and speeches, Henry Chautauqua stockholders meeting deficit resolved by donations, booster visits on the Burlington Way routes, and community updates from Henry township churches. Includes obit of Helen Gail Heininger and messages on Sunday school planning.
The Central Illinois M E conference adjourned in Peoria as Bishop Thomas Nicholson announced church assignments. Rev J E Mercer returns to Henry parish with several near assignments listed including Granville Magnolia Harvey W Young Minonk and others across the region.
Dr George A Zeller monitors Miguel Vasquez the state's only leprosy patient at Rock Island Watertown state hospital He reports striking improvement from chaulmoogra oil treatment first used since March Vasquez once disfigured by horn like growths now shows near disappearance of sores The patient was found on a Mexican Section camp of the Rock Island railroad and has been quarantined on site with state aid workers.
Esther Hunter is pianist this week as botany and physics classes report experiments and field study. Lawrence Hunt's farm visit inspires interest in horses with score cards. other notes cover new pupils Kathryn Royer and Mist Biekerman, classroom reading lists, lunch safety, and NEA standards for school health and cleanliness.
The Marshall County Woman's Christian Temperance Union plans a convention in Lacon on Tuesday at 2 30 PM at the Congregational church with a mitas meeting that evening. State president Miss Helena Hood of Chicago will speak. public invited.
A minor collision occurred this week two miles west of town involving Mrs Carrie Foster and Ralph Miln. Mrs Foster approached from the east while Miln traveled west in a report from We n ons correspondence to the Peoria Star. Simon Divelbiss and his Kansas family visit Salina natives and seven brothers, with one son deceased. The Divelbiss party includes wife and daughter of Salina Kansas and six sons with farming and carpentry careers. Their two week visit is enjoyed, traveling by their own car.
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude to hive members and neighbors for support after the death of Dorothy Lucite Graves. The Henry City Cornet Band presented Theodore Dinosway a watch chain and fob inscribed by the band for his many years of service. The item notes local personal notices, births, and community happenings with multiple named residents and events in Henry county.
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