Dannelly Jr. Dies After Short Illness at 38
Joseph J. Donnelly Jr. of Evans township died March 28 1920 at 5 10 am after a brief illness from pneumonia following a rainy day incident loading cattle. Funeral held March 30 at St Ann's church with Rev Walch Fr Dickman and Fr O'Dwyer officiating. He leaves Emma Haugens wife three children Joseph Edward Anna Elizabeth and siblings Patrick Michael and Anna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph J. Donnelly, Jr
Evans Township
Donnelly
Evans Sation
St Ann’s Church
Bing
Father Walch
Dickman
Rutland
Ly. O'Dwyer
Wenona
Wm. Burroughs
Phil Martin
Dan Kennedy
Mike Ford
Wm. Fay
L. V. Reichschlager
Anna Donnelly
Frank Reitz
Christopher Costello
Goodrich
Frank
Chicago
Ill
Conroy
Collister
Manhattan
Kansas
James Donnelly
Edward
Ohio Station
Edward Fitzpatrick
Minoak
Joseph Donnelly Jr
Bennington
Toluca
Emma Haugens
Joseph
Anna Elizabeth
E John Donnelly
Patrick
Michael
George W. Reitz
Anna
Card of Thanks for Joseph J. Donnelly Jr.
The family expresses gratitude to neighbors and friends for acts of kindness during the illness and death of Joseph J. Donnelly Jr. They also thank supporters for spiritual and floral offerings and other expressions of sympathy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph J. Donnelly, Jr
Illness of Maurice Fine Deepens
Reports indicate Maurice Fine is gravely ill and not expected to recover soon. The development is a severe blow to his family and to friends and school chums who have followed his condition closely.
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Maurice Fine
Dance at Lacon Friday April Ninth
Invitation to a dance in Lacon on Friday April 9 with music by Murphy's Academy orchestra of Peoria.
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Lacon
Murphy’s Academy Orchestra of
Pejoria
Say It With Flowers at Wenona Green House
Wenona Green House advertises a wide selection of cut flowers for Easter including three to four hundred lilies ginéramas and Easter greetings with the offer emphasis on fresh floral arrangements for the holiday season.
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Wenona Green House
Bake Sale by Loyal Women at Toluca Bank
The Loyal Women of the Christian church announce a bake sale at Toluca State Bank on Saturday April 8. Proceeds will support church activities and community programs.
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Loyal Women of the Christian Church
Toluca State Bank
Women’s Missionary Society
du Plain
Shipplett
Inter Church World Movement
Chicago
Toluca Teams Spark at Marshall Co Tournament 1920
Toluca boys excelled at the Marshall County Basketball Tournament with a first and second team sweep. The second team beat Lacon 21 to 10 then lost to Varna 26 to 16, won 17 to 10 against LaRose, and defeated Varna 14 to 13 in the final. First team lost the final after strong play, earning second place while the second team took first. Donations funded new basketball suits, and the club seeks baseball funds through the Country Gentleman campaign. A Community High School petition aims to form a district high school supported by surrounding areas, with state aid possible under the Smith Hughes law for vocational subjects.
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Toluca
Lacon
Varna
LaRose
Our Boys
Marshall County
Wenona
Lacon Boys
Country Gentleman
Curtis Publishing Co
Community High School
Russia
Board of Education
Bennington Township
Rutland Township
Evans Township
Sale bills printer seeks quick advertising space
Notice from Star-Herald advertising department offers printing services for sale bills on short notice with a prompt call to buy now.
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Star-Herald
Easter Services at St. Ann's Church
The Easter celebration at St. Ann's Church includes an 8:00 a.m. mass with organ solos and choral works by Ruth Shanklin and Albert Flaminio, followed by a 10:30 a.m. high mass with the Senior Choir performing Peter's Mass in D and other liturgical pieces. Easter lilies adorn the repository and altars as Holy Week culminates in the Resurrection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hosanna
Paul Wachs
Traumerer
Schuman
Ruth Shanklin
Albert Flaminio
Alleluia
Fieldhouse
Loretus
Peter
The Masked Rider Opens at Hipprodrome Theatre
The Hipprodrome Theatre begins a new serial next Tuesday April 6 featuring The Masked Rider a fifteen part western starring Ruth Stonehouse Paul Panzer and Harry C Myers. Episode one The Hole in the Wall invites audiences to discover the masked rider as gunplay riding and stunts unfold. Also showing Shorty Hamilton in The Ranger five parts with seven reels total admission 5 and 11 cents.
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Hipprodrome Theatre
Ruth Stonehouse
Paul Panzer
Harry C. Myers
Harry Myers
Chuck
Shorty Hamilton
Marriage in Oregon Unites Grover Hoff man and Lois Bryan
Mrs Pete Staab of Toluca received a letter from the Hoffman family detailing the marriage of Grover Hoff man and Miss Lois Bryan on March 22 in Lafayette Oregon. Grover, known in Toluca, moved to Oregon earlier this year with his parents and Toluca friends extend hearty congratulations and best wishes.
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Pete Staab
Toluca
Hoffman
Grover Hoffman
Lois Bryan
LaFayette
Oregon
Grover
Careful Mothers Insist on Foley's Honey and Tar Compound
An advertisement asserts Foley's Honey and Tar Compound is a safe standard family medicine without opiates, valued by mothers for coughs colds croup whooping cough and similar ailments. Foster Drug Co. is named as the seller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
Foster Drug Co
Treating Oats for Smut Proves Economical
Farm advisor F. E. Fuller reports from Illinois and Iowa Experiment Stations that treating oats with formalin reduces smut. A new method uses one pint formalin per ten gallons water over 80 bushels, covered to contain gas. Drying and careful handling prevent recontamination. five-year data show 5% more oats per acre with treatment and 18% infection without treatment.
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Illinois Experiment Station
Iowa Experiment Station
Illinois Experiment Staton
F. E. Fuller
Vittorio Benazzi & Co Tailors Promotes Spring Wear
Vittorio Benazzi & Co announces ready for showing fashionable spring designs at Main Street Toluca in the old A Barile shop. The firm touts 20 years of quality, hand made suits, durability, character, and satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Also seeks women trousers and waist makers offering permanent work and good wages.
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Toluca
A. Barile
Vittoria Benazzi & Co
Main St
Birthday Party Honors Mrs Stivers at Kennedy Home
Last Friday Mrs. Pearley Stivers celebrated her birthday with a small gathering hosted by her mother Mrs. Alex Kennedy. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Stivers and baby, Mr. and Mrs. Less Stivers and family, Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Foster and family, Margaret Whiteman, Mildred Bonham, and Mrs. Benj Foster of Wenona. Ice cream and cake were served and the evening was enjoyed.
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Pearly Stivers
Alex Kennedy
Pearley Stivers
Less Stivers
Tommy Foster
Margaret Whiteman
Mildred Bonham
Benj, Foster
Wenona
Varna Man Dead
Ed Ricketts, one of Varns best known citizens, died this week due to heart trouble. His funeral will be held Sunday at his late home at 1:00 p.m. Rev Shipplett of Toluca will conduct the services.
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Ed. Ricketts
Varns
Shipplett
Toluca
Wall Paper Samples and Eczema Remedy Ad
1920 samples of wall paper offered by American Wall Paper Co with prices from 24 cents to 4 dollars per double roll. Also an advertisement for Sanol Eczema Prescription described as a famous old remedy for eczema and skin diseases with a 60 cent bottle available at the drug store.
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American Wall Paper Co
Leonard Hedricks
Easter church notes and community drives in Toluca
Toluca church activities include Bible school and services, Easter cantata rehearsals, and social events. Volunteers quilt for orphans in St Louis and Jacksonville, with bake sales and missionary meetings. Donations of food and fabric sought. Nat ional Benevolent Work offering planned. cantata features listed performers and selections.
John Proctor Funeral Held in Toluca Church Service
The funeral for John Proctor, born 1860 in England, was held at St. Ann's church Toluca on March 27 1920 conducted by Rev Father Walsh. Interment followed at St. Ann's cemetery. Proctor, a Toluca resident for 26 years and former mayor in 1901-02, died March 21 1920 of asthma. Survived by widow Kathryn McMahon and children Tessie Gertrude Ryan and John. brothers William Pete Proctor and others attended.
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John Proctor
St. Ann’s Church
Father Walsh
St. Ann’s
James Liston
Pat Hines
Dennis Ryan
Jos
Gerth
Dave Farley
O’dea
Pete Proctor
Muncie
John McMahon
Marseilles
Ill
Wm, Proctor
Barstow
California
John Hick’s
Spring Valley
Dennis
Edward McMahon
Pontiac
Michael Proctor
Viola
Ralph and
George
Rutland, al
Mike McMahon
Decaturas
England
Toluca
America
Braidwood
Kathryn McMahon
Kathryn
Gertrude Ryan
Tessie
John
Arizona
Streator
Family thanks for kindness during illness and death
The family of John Proctor expresses gratitude to friends and community for kindness shown during his illness and passing. They also appreciate spiritual and floral offerings.
Hipodrome Theatre Weekly Program April 3 9
Weekly lineup features Emmy Wehlen in Fools and Their Money and Harold Lloyd comedies on April 3. Montague Love in A Broadway Saint April 4 with two reels more. Antonio Morenono in The Invisible Hand April 5 alongside a feature and comedy. New serial Masked Rider starts April 6. Ruth Roland The Tigers Trail April 7 with seven reels total. Mae Murray The Delicious Little Devil April 8 plus Harold Lloyd Some Boy. Closed April 9.
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Emmy Wehlen
Metro
Harold Lloyd
Montague Love
Antonio Morneno
Admissons
Ruth Roland
Mae Murray
Body of Cert D Rodewald Shipped From England for Burial
John Rodewald was notified by the War Department that the body of his son Cert D Rodewald, who died in England on October 8, 1918 during military service, has been shipped from Paignton England and will reach Hoboken Army pier around April 5 and be sent to Toluca for burial. Mourning paper and birth card designs available at the Star-Herald office.
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John Rodewald
War Department
Washington
Cert D. Rodewald
Paygnton
England
Hoboken Army Pier
Toluca
Star-Herald
Star-Herald Office
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Jos. J. Donnelly, JR
Bake Sale
Toluca High School
Ieaster
Toluca Markets
Vittorio Benazzi & CO
Christian Endeavor
Orphans Home
St. Louis Mo
Old Peoples Home
Jacksonville
Bro Gibson
Miss Twist
F. Fecht
Jerusalem
Colo
C. P. Ball
Frank Fecht
Leta Litchfield
Proctor
Hippodrome Theatre
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