Pekin News Socials and Elections Rumors Reach Salem
W Q Burns and Weasent Neale visited Salem on Friday and Saturday. Numerous Pekin residents, including Bowers, Cariss Sunder, Purlee, and others, were seen in Salem and Pekin over the weekend. Zink bought Overton residence on High street, Will Bogle and Mrs. Stedelit visited, and election news from Martinsburg and Progressive Jack sign Township noted Teddy and Beveridge leading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.Q. Burns
Salem
Weasent Neale
FP. Bowers
Cariss Sunder
Pekin
Weph Purlee
Mrv
Mrs
W. Drohinson
Wrank Gray
John Blinkenbal
R. FR. Zink
Citizens Bank
J. W. Mead
East Polk
Cory Messer
Knees Wyman
Diveph Zink
G. M. Overton
Higa Street
Electiim
Teddy
Beveridge
Martinsburg
Jacksign
Church Notes from New Pekin and Surrounding Churches
Church notes list social meetings and preaching schedules for multiple congregations including Church of Christ New Pekin Old Pekin and Emmanuel ME. Meetings occur Sundays Wednesdays and specific Sundays in November with times around 10 30 am 1 30 pm and evenings. Names Rev Langford Denny Liling Pastor and others appear with local references and recurring invitations.
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Church of Christ
Observations on School Agriculture and Youth Education
Sy Hayseed laments teachers pushing farming books over practical life skills and questions why schools neglect hands on agricultural training. He recalls a student named John torn between farm life and high school, noting the rising costs and lure of other paths. The column also touches on manners, community notices, and local chatter about weddings and yard updates.
School Budget Notes From Local Grades
Elven Callaway a pupil moved near College Hill. The eighth grade had a lesson on stew bound Monday. School dismissed Tuesday for an election in the building. Laren Wells and Lawrence Hurst were absent Monday. Friday exercises were well conducted with all participating. Fifth grade struggles with fractions in arithmetic. Eighth grade history had a test Wednesday.
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Elven Callaway
College Hill
Laren Wells
Lawrence Hurst
Cemetery Subscription Appeal Hits Tash Cemetery Improvement
Trustees urge readers to send in outstanding subscriptions to support improvements at the Tash Cemetery. Several supporters have not yet contributed, and prompt payments are requested to fund the project.
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Tash
A Good Sermon on Seven Virtues at Pekin Church
Elder Dalton delivered a Sunday sermon from Second Peter focusing on seven required Christian virtues. The text urged diligence and growth in knowledge temperance patience godliness brotherly kindness and charity. The audience, while attentive, was told room for improvement remains in many towns and cities.
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Dalton
Pekin
Blind spot in every eye observed in human vision
A description of the blind spot in the retina, its location at the optic nerve, and how to demonstrate it with simple experiments. Instructions include covering one eye, fixing gaze on a distant point, and noting how a companion or shapes disappear, revealing the map of the blind spot.
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Chirlatian Herald
All Saints Day Revered Heroes Through Silent Faith
A November first meditation on All Saints, honoring humble, unnamed heroes who chose silence over fame. The poem recalls a past with brave, unseen lives and shifts to a present where the poor and afflicted seek mercy, light, and a promised rest beyond. Attributed to James Russell Lowell.
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All Saints
Sparrow Cage Tale and Domestic Duty Critique
A spring morning scene in New Albany follows a lost sparrow trapped in a bird cage, its longing for freedom ending in death as boys forget the cage. The piece shifts to a critique arguing no essential link between domestic duties and intellectual development, opposing sweeping housekeeping instruction.
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New Albany
Brier
Lund
Mary Leet Harknens
Local notices on property moves and family visits
Mr s children of Barden spend time with Jesse Schamel and family. G M Overton has sold his nin property on High St to Joseph Zinh and moves to this Ferm this week. Mr and Mrs John Jacobi near Greenville visit daughter Mrs Jess Schamel and Zemily Sunday. Better paint up shield wagon to withstand bad weather. Johnson sells the right kind.
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Barden
Jesse Schamel
G.M. Overton
High St
Joseph Zinh
John Jacobi
Greenville
Jess Schamel
Zemily
Johnson
Correspondents urged to send weekly news items on time
A note to correspondents asks timely submissions to supply home news for distant readers. It mentions Arkansas Diamond Mine in Pike County as a notable local fact and ends with garbled dialogue about music and a singer.
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Arkansas
Africa
Pike County
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