The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.
Compiled and Edited by Virginia Ross
HENDERSON COUNTY MOSTLY REPUBLICAN: All of the candidates for county offices in Henderson County were elected by substantial majorities with one exception, the office captured by the Democrats being that of County Superintendent of Schools. C.S. Apt, a Democrat, defeated W. L. Viar, a Republican by a plurality of 561…
ACCIDENT AT WORK: Glen Reynolds, a workman for A. E. Moore, a Stronghurst contractor and builder, suffered an accident which might have had fatal results last Wednesday. A corn crib was being moved up an incline at the Marion Evans farm southwest of town by means of a windless which was being operated by Mr. Reynolds and Clem Jarvis. The crib had been pulled to the desired position and the safety pin set in the windless. However, when the two men let loose of the handles of the machine, the safety pin slipped out and the weight of the crib caused them to whirl around quite rapidly. Mr. Reynolds was unable to get out of danger and one of handles struck him a blow on the side of his head with such force that he was knocked a distance of eight or ten feet. An ugly gash was cut on Glen’s head and he was taken immediately to a doctor’s office in Stronghurst where five stitches were taken in the wound. It was found his skull was not fractured and he is rapidly recovering.
REVIAL OVER: The six weeks’ evangelist campaign in Monmouth under the direction of “Billy” Sunday closed last Sunday evening. From here he goes to Yakima, Washington. A total of 3,405 cards were signed and about half of these being newly converts and the rest rededicating themselves to Christ. The free will offering taken up Sunday night amounted to $8,432.97 ($146,962.34 in today’s values) and represented Rev. Sunday’s salary for his six week’s service in Monmouth. Among those from here attending the closing meeting were the following: Mr. and Mrs. Estal Mudd; Mr. and Mrs. Dave Gibb and family, Miss Maria Dice; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Reynolds and Mrs. R. W. Upton.
ATTEMPTS TO DROWN: : W .F. Bowker, a very aged resident of Dallas City, attempted to drown himself in the Mississippi River Thursday afternoon. Fortunately, two other men saw him throw himself into the water and arrived in time to get him ashore before the “would be suicide’s” life was endangered. Mr. Bowker has always been respected in Dallas City, has been a good worker in the Christian church and his recent attempt to end his own life is accounted for by his many friends and acquaintances by his recent ill health and his extreme old age. Although he is not insane, it is thought that he did not at the time of his suicidal attempt have complete use of his reasoning facilities. It is hoped by all who know him that he will not attempt to end his life again.
SOUSA CONCERT IN MONMOUTH: : Sousa and his Band were at Monmouth Monday and gave an afternoon and an evening concert in the big tabernacle recently employed by “Bill” Sunday meetings. John Phillip Sousa is making his 34th annual tour at the head of his famous band. The organization this year consists of 100 or more members. Sousa is international known and heralded as “The March King.” However, Sousa confines himself to no single class of music, especially delighting in giving the public the best selections known to the musical world.
Among those from this vicinity attended the afternoon concert wee Mr. and Mrs. Del Dixon; Mr. and Mrs. Dr. R. I. Findley; Mr. and Mrs. Russell Carothers and Chester Brooks. Some of those from Stronghurst who were present at the evening concert were Mrs. A. E. Jones and daughter, Lucile, Eileen and Fanny; Dick Jones; Jack Regan; Miss Mary Adams; Miss Mildred Grandey; Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Upton and sons Vincent and Everett; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. LeCroy; Mr. and Mrs. Ferna Davidson and Paul Bell.
WEDDING BELLS-HARTQUIST AND ANDERSON: : Mr. Clarence A. Hartquist of Stronghurst and Miss Cecyle Marie Anderson of Ft. Madison, Ia. were married in Burlington at the home of the bride’s grandmother, Mrs. John. W. Willey, 710 Dunham Street, the ceremony taking place Saturday afternoon, Oct. 30th at 4 o’clock. The single ring service was used with Elder E. R. Williams performing the ceremony. Miss Mahala Bracken of Burlington acted as bridesmaid and Mr. Virgil Blakeway of Middletown, Iowa served as best man. Both the bride and bridesmaid were charmingly attired. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Asa Anderson of New London, Iowa and she is a graduate nurse of the Burlington Hospital Nurses’ Training school. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hartquist of this place and is a young man well known in this community and is a successful farmer and has long been popular in athletic circles in this part of the county. Immediately following the ceremony, a wedding dinner was served to the near members of the families. After a short wedding trip East, Mr. and Mrs. Hartquist will make their home on the Edgar Rankin farm northeast of town.
BIG HALLOWEEN PARTY: : The South Country Birthday Club gave their monthly party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ross on Saturday night with an attendance of the greater part of the club members and several outside visitors. Jack-o-lanterns slyly winking at the guests and lanterns gave the right mystic air of Halloween to the outdoors while the interior on the house was artistically and appropriately decorated for the event.
Miss Mary Hayes and the Mesdames Judd Wetterling and Asa Worthington were the hostesses of the elder folks for the evening and proved their capableness and aptness for these positions in the excellent entertainment and appetizing feast given. The younger folks were merrily entertained by the cleverness ingenuity of the Misses Agnes B. Ahlers, Lois Livermore and Jessie Veech. A witch’s kettle put in its proper setting of ghostly mystery was filled with bits of cardboard on which were written cards for the guests to perform and was among one of the many amusements provided. The old familiar game of “Poor Pussy,” played by the older as well as the younger guests proved to all that no one was too old or too sad to laugh. Even such unromantic things as clothes pins were made to add to the joy of the evening and perhaps here after many of the guests will see romance in the plainest of objects. Now and then when the men folk could be persuaded to leave the alluring entertainments within, there were trial pulls at the pedometer outside, which the Farm Bureau so kindly loaned the club for the evening.
Eleven of the twelve club birthday guests were present with little Dorothy Ross of Roseville as an added honorary birthday guest. Those who were privileged to it around the pretty Halloween decorated table and carry away with them favors were the Mesdames George Brokaw and Ernest Negley, the Misses Helen Reddy, Frances Roche and LaVetta Simonson, the Messrs. Arthur Hartquist, Algert Nolan, Arthur Roche, Earle Wickles and Kenneth Beech (Veech?) and Masters Lee and Wayne Wetterling. All the birthday guests were given orange and black crowns and caps to wear, which made it easy to distinguish the honor guests from the rest of the assembly. A favor was also given to Brutus Ahlers, the only dog in the club who has had the honor of having his birthday observed.
The party being in the form of a hard time affair, nearly every one came in their working clothes and a few added rags to their attire. A lunch of hot dog buns, wieners, pickles, onions, mustard and so forth and pumpkin pie with hot coffee were served. Just before going home, there was considerable discussion on the election.
GLADSTONE GLEANINGS: A wiener roast was enjoyed by the pupils and teachers of the high school and grammar room Friday evening at Shipi pond. Mr. Hall will begin to carry the mail from the post office to the trains today. Miss Josephine Graham has carried it for some time but has given it up because of the coming cold weather. Mrs. Hubbs, who has been sick for some time, took suddenly worse. Unable to get Dr. Eads, a doctor from Burlington was called. Mr. and Mrs. George Ashbury became the proud parents of a ten-pound baby boy Friday; both mother and baby are getting along nicely. The ladies of the M.E. Church served lunch in the park on election day.
GIRL SCOUT NEWS: The Girl Scouts met with Mrs. Gerber Tuesday night. As many of the girls had to leave early, our captain had a surprise for us before they left. Each one that had passed our Tenderfoot test were given a Tenderfoot pin. After the lesson was gone over, we had our patrol meetings. The Cardinals are still ahead with 345 points, the owls with 323 and the Bob Whites last with 277.
LOCAL AND AREA NEWS: Dr. and Mrs. Harter are attending the medical convention in Chicago this week. Mr. C. E. Spiker, who has been employed in painting for several months in Galesburg, has returned to his home here. Miss Dorothea McMillan left for Champaign to visit her sister, Miss Fay McMillan and to attend the Penn and Illinois football game. She will visit friends in Jacksonville before returning to her home here. The pupils of Maple Grove school with their teacher, Miss Agnes Findley, entertained the parents of the pupils at a Halloween party last Friday afternoon. The room was prettily decorated and a very interesting program was given by the pupils The executive officers of the Henderson County Sunday School meet Sunday afternoon at the U.P. Church to discuss plans for the year’s work. Mr. and Mrs. Merle Anderson of Albia, Iowa and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jamison of Hannibal, Mo. visited the home of Miss Emma Marshall. The Jamisons are newlywed being married Saturday evening Oct. 13th at Hannibal, Mo. Mrs. Jamison was formerly Miss Nadine Schroeder of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Duncan are the proud parents of a young son born to them at their home Nov. 3rd. Miss Garnett Burrell who is attending high school in Galesburg, is home on an enforced vacation. She is suffering from an infection on her neck caused by wearing a yellow sweater. Chas. Lukens and Ernie Spiker motored to Aledo last Tuesday evening and attended a play which was under the direction of Harold Lukens. Harold returned with them to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Lukens until he is leaving for El Paso, Ill. for a short stay before going to Indiana. Leslie Lovitt of the south country has purchased the Peasley home in LaHarpe. The Lovitts expect to move next months and their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Thorell, will go with them. Axel Waring will reside on the Lovitt farm. Mrs. Chas. Bell with her junior girls of the U.P. S.S. enjoyed a masquerade party Friday evening at the church. The girls came in costumes and a fine time was had playing games. Refreshments of sandwiches, pickles, cocoa and pumpkin pie were served. Miss Audrey Marsden is back at her desk at the Farm Bureau office after a week’s illness.
THE VOICE OF S.H.S. (school newspaper edited b Lester McKeown) AG CLUB PROGRAM: On Monday morning the Agriculture Club entertained the school. Their supervisor, Prof. VanDyke, after some very wise remarks, presented the club. They then showed us how to call hogs but they only succeeded in getting one or two and we’ll not mention their names. The next part of the program was a dialogue by Oscar Dowell and LaVern Chandler on picking corn for the show to be given by the club on Nov. 23 and 24. The next dialogue was given by Everett Avery and Virgil Jarvis and gave the benefits from bringing corn to the show.
SCHOOL NEWS: The football team took another victory Saturday when they played Media at Media. The last home game will be Saturday Nov. 6th. Two more basketball games with Lomax have been added to the schedule. The annual Halloween party given by the boys of the high school to the girls went off with a bang, a very loud one in fact. Mr. Lukens found a good way to quiet the girls was to shoot off some blank cartridges which would make the girls hold their breath long enough for him to explain the games. A total of 85 students and teachers were present, many of whom were masked. Wayne Claybaugh deserves mention for his outfit as a flapper. A lunch of salad, sandwiches, cake, brick ice cream and cider were served. Biggsvlle’s husky lads of the gridiron were victorious in a game with Stronghurst last Saturday, the score being 12 to 0.
1901 HALLOWEEN PRANKS: The witches were out in force last Thursday night and seemed to have worked overtime. Many buildings were affected with nervous prostration, attacks from which they did not recover until the following day and in some instances ever later. Those who had seen tables and chairs suddenly yanked from the stage and disappear in space as if their own volition were forcibly reminded of such phenomena by the events Thursday night.
A board sidewalk just west of Broadway on Nichols Street which had become somewhat celebrated for its resemblance in a railroad crossing or bridge, was torn up and thrown into the street. The council has decreed that new walks shall be built of brick or cement and it is quite probable that there will be a brick walk in the locality in the future. A buggy belonging to Hinch Thomas was “put to soak” in the big tank near the deep well. Store signs that could be got loose were hopelessly mixed. Some months ago the bandstand was moved from the Main Street and Broadway crossing to South Park and last Friday morning a small unpainted edifice occupied its place at the street crossing. The sight brought shouts of laughter from citizens as they came down to their places of business.
Media Record SOUTH PRAIRIE HALLOWEEN PARTY: : Given Friday night at the South Prairie School, south and east of Media, found the room tastefully decorated in orange and black with numerous Jack-o-lanterns. Following the program, everyone was asked to eat and be merry. Sandwiches, pie, coffee, candy and popcorn, which the parents of the children had brought were sold rapidly. Through this sale, the school realized a neat little sum which will be used for sundry purpose. Miss Hutchins, the teacher, together with her pupils, promise a still better program in the future.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS: The Media Community Club will be entertained Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Dan Campbell with the assistance of her daughter, Mrs. Eva Gilliland. Mrs. Charles Gibson will take care of the social hour. The Community Club Bazaar, Supper and Play has been set for Thursday, Dec. 2nd. The Junior class of the high school held a party Monday evening in which each class member invited a guest. A luncheon of chicken salad, lettuce sandwiches and cider were served. Friday evening, Nov. 5th the annual congregational supper and business meeting will take place in the United Church of Media. A pot luck supper will be served and each lady is asked to bring one covered dish. Financial reports and business matters will be taken care of and this is also the customary time to vote on the minister for the coming year. The Halloween masquerade which took place in the Eldon White home was thoroughly enjoyed by the Young Married People’s Bible Class. Much amusement was created by the unique impersonations. Light refreshment of doughnuts and cider were served. The attendance of the United Church Sunday School is going over the top with an average attendance of 100 people. Mrs. Wm. Cross was taken to Monmouth Hospital Saturday night and is slightly improved. Main Street is being greatly improved by the removal of the old livery and feed barn. The lumber will be put to better use on the Bell chicken ranch west of town.
OBITUARY-MRS. MOLLIE E. COPPER: Mrs. Cooper, who was for many years a resident of Raritan, Ill., passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. J. McIntyre in Kansas City, Mo. last Sunday afternoon, Oct. 31st at about 1:30 pm. Mrs. Cooper, previous to her marriage, was Miss Mollie E. Beard, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Ezra Beard. The family came from Boonesville, Ohio to Raritan at an early date in the history of the village. She was united in marriage on June 20, 1875 to Charles S. Cooper, who for many years conducted a harness shop in Raritan and who passed away Jan. 8, 1925. Two children, both daughters were born to the couple, one daughter, Pearl, passed away some 30 years ago in her young womanhood. The other daughter, Lulu, married James J. McIntyre of Kansas City, Mo. and survives. Mrs. Cooper is also survived by one brother, John Beard of Ohio and one sister, Miss Emma Beard now living in Texas. Mrs. Cooper was a member of long standing of the Raritan Reformed Church and was always active in the work of the congregation. Funeral services were conducted there on Wednesday afternoon with interment in the Raritan Cemetery.