The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.
Compiled and Edited by Virginia Ross
GLADSTONE GLEANINGS: The Rev. and Mrs. Bournan, Rev. and Mrs. J. Hubbs and sons, Mr. Leland Fisher and Chas. Petherbridge started to Olena Sunday evening but found the roads too bad to finish their journey. Rev. Bournan and the evangelistic party were to be in a revival meeting there; however, they had the misfortune of getting stuck in the mud. They secured a team to pull them out and after much difficulty they returned home. Mrs. Anna Saben who lives north of town was arrested for selling liquor and was taken to the Oquawka jail, but was removed to the Monmouth Jail Thursday. The men coming from the south of here, Olena and thereabouts, are riding horses this far and taking the train to Oquawka. Wm. Graham hauled hay from Burlington. The members of the Sewing Circle will hold an apron and bake sale at the post office Saturday.
Mrs. Jesse Smith is quite sick. Mrs. John Mills was taken to the Burlington hospital quite ill with pneumonia. Mrs. Cora Thomas and children have just recovered from very bad colds. Mrs. Geo. Lewis is suffering with poison on her face. Miss Josphine Graham and her mother, Mrs. N. Graham, have been sick for some time with the La Grippe. Mrs. S.H. Thomas went to the Albert Saben home near Lomax to care for her granddaughter who has the measles. Her mother is a patient at the Burlington Hospital with sinus trouble. The Len Ditto family left for their new home in Missouri.
OLENA OBSERVATIONS: The roads which were just getting fairly passable are again in very bad condition caused by recent rains. Mr. and Mrs. Gear Peterson have been on the sick list the past two weeks, but their condition has improved. Mrs. Charles White, who is spending the winter with her daughter, Mrs. Charles Lyons, has been quite sick but is reported better. Mr. H. O. White and family moved to Burlington where they have purchased a rooming house partly furnished. Mr. Fornell has moved from the Wm. White farm to the Black farm south of Olena vacated by Mr. Hulet who moved to Decorra. Donald, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Lant, who was recently stricken with infantile paralysis, has passed the crisis and is now recovering nicely. Miss Winifred, their oldest daughter, has been quite sick with La Grippe
In the recent “guessing’ contest put on by Gulick-McFarmland Co. of Burlington, Mr. Charles Tharp of Carman won first prize and Mrs. John Lant, 2nd. The prize money, however, is only available if applied on payment of one of their musical instruments. Mr. Martin Jacobs was shelling and delivering his corn crop last week preparatory to moving to the late Meyers farm near Biggsville recently purchased by Ceil Brook. Mr. Ralph McIntyre of near Raritan has moved his family to the Artz farm in the drainage district. Mr. Daryl Dowell and family of near Morning Sun, Iowa are moving to the farm formerly owned by Mr. Art Hedges. Mr. Hedges goes to the Green Bay district in Iowa. Miss Golda Davis states that she is again rooming in the B. G. Widney home in Chicago and is still employed in the long-distance telephone booth.
LOMAX LINGERINGS: Mr. Joe Walker of Lomax move his household goods to the Durham neighborhood. Mr. Fred Cox and Miss Clara Eckhardt were united in marriage at Burlington last Saturday. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Pell of Niota passed away at their home. Miss Pell will be remembered as Miss Madge Logan, formerly of Lomax. The Farmers Wife Club held their regular meeting at the home of Mrs. Victor Logan. About thirty young people enjoyed a birthday party for Miss Beulah Hazen at the Freeland Hall. Last Thursday evening Mr. Faye Willey and Mr. Oscar Sayr lost their good milk cows by death.
BIGGSVILLE BRIEFS: Dr. and Mrs. R. O. Mudd of Lewiston and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Essex who have been spending the winter at the Mudd home, drove over and will again become Biggsville residents. Miss Ellen Gibb, who holds a business position at Louisiana, Mo. was a visitor at her home here. Mrs. Libbie Sloan, a former resident is quite ill at the St. Francis Hospital in Burlington. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Boyer are rejoicing over the arrival of a son at their home on Saturday morning. This is the third child, but the first boy. A Chevrolet Sedan turned over on the state highway west of town Sunday afternoon. The car was traveling east and the driver, in trying to pass another car, drove one wheel off the pavement onto the shoulder which was soft from recent rain. When the car stopped, it was headed west with all four wheels up in the air. The passengers, two men and two girls, escaped injury and the car was not seriously damaged-a broken fender and broken glass being the extent. The Hazen wrecker was called and righted the car after which it was driven to the garage.
RARITAN REPORTS: Miss Martha Lucille Brokaw, daughter of C.S . Brokaw and a student nurse in the hospital at Emporia, Kansas, is a victim of scarlet fever. The Missionary Societies of the Baptist and Reform Churches held a prayer meeting at the Reformed Church on Friday afternoon. Corn belonging to Earl Brokaw and stored at the place leased by Ernest Negley was shell and hauled to Percy Veech. Junior Jacobson is recovering from pneumonia. Lambert Manning, a former resident of the Raritan neighborhood, died at the Monmouth Hospital last Friday morning and was brought to Raritan for burial.
CELEBRATES 35TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY: Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. John Lant were guests March 2nd at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clas Carlson, helping them celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary. A splendid time was reported with all the good eats obtainable. Their guests left at a late hour wishing them many returns of this happy occasion.