The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.
Compiled and Edited by Virginia Ross
GLADSTONE GLEANINGS: Miss Genevieve Whitmyer is attending Monmouth High School. The Sewing Circle served lunch at the Hedge sale; a net sum of money was taken in and will be used for church purposes. The community Bible class conducted by Dr. Rena Rezner will meet at the home of Mrs. Lena Pence Thursday evening. The King’s Heralds will meet with Miss Elizaeth Hames this evening after school. Miss Fern Mills is employed in Burlington.
RARITAN REPORTS: Percy Veech shipped hogs to Chicago. On account of illness of the teacher, Miss Mary Hayes of Blandinsville, no school was held at the Stanley School. Misses Elsie and Ella Ahlers are attending school at the Macomb Normal. Wayne Wetterling, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Judd Wetterling, was brought back from the Burlington Hospital where he had been taken for treatment and died on seven O’clock Saturday morning. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon and interment was in the Raritan Cemetery. An eight-pound son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Gerald McDonald at the Lofftis Bros. home the evening of March 14, 1927.
AREA NEWS: Mr. Lyman Fort, principal of the high school at Mitchell, South Dakota, visited his parents Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Fort, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. A. G .Sillars of St. Louis, Mo. motored to Stronghurst for a visit with the lady’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Fort, Sr. Frank Johnson was taken to Burlington where he underwent an operation for appendicitis. Mrs. Maggie Anderson will leave for Canton, Ohio, where she will take a course in Nurses’ training in the Aultman Hospital. Her sister is one of the superintendents in that hospital. Alice Marie Mathers, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Mathers of Media, underwent an operation for mastoid on her right ear last week at Mercy Hospital in Burlington. She is now able to sit up in bed. Mr. Henry Adair and family are now located in their new home at Tolona, Ill. in Champaign County. Richard Howell and Meryl Yaeger are busy working at the pumping station at Carthage Lake.
FROM VOICE OF SHS, high school paper: Auld Lang Syne, March 20, 1902-At the residence of Dr. C. B. Wilcox, Colorado Springs March 11, 1902, Peter Groome, Jr. and Miss Elizabeth Higgenbotham were married. A. E. Jones, recently retired from the grocery business, was planning to spend the summer in parts of his native heath in Wales, Wm. Wilsher will accompany him as far as England and Charles Kaiser was going to visit relatives in Germany. The term of court was probably the shortest ever held. But one jury trail was heard, that of the right of property of two hogs in which F. Sandstrom and S. Musgove were contestants. It was decided in favor of Sandstrom. The case was somewhat complicated and the jury was out all night. Nate Groome, who spent the winter in Butler County, Kansas reported the wheat in fine condition. Stock was subscribed for Raritan’s new opera house and work was to commence shortly. H. A. Epping had put in a fine refrigerator in his meat market. Willis Keener of Hopper had rented and moved upon the David L. Good farm near Shokokon. Duck hunting was reported to be the favorite amusement at Lomax.
COUNTY COURT CASES: The People vs Ed Kessinger, Oral Kessinger, William Brainard-Violation of Prohibition Law. The People vs Anna Saben-Information. Violation of Prohibition Act. Sentenced by the court of a term of 60 days and to pay the cost of this suit including $40 analysis fee. The People vs Walter Baxter-Larceny. Pleaded guilty and was sentence to jail for four months and fine $1.00 and costs. The People vs William Brainard, Oral Kessinger-Disturbing the Peace. Fined $5.00. The following were summoned for petit jury: Charles Lyons, Emmett Milliken, Ed Brewer, Hugh Smith, Wm. Hicks, Glenn Marshall, Charles Painter, Frank Wilson, A.S. McElhinney, George Chant, Theo Knutstrom and Robert Ingerson.
AREA NEWS: The March meeting of the Ladies Aid was held Friday evening at the home of Mrs. W. C. Regan. Mrs. Bert Johnson and son, Max, are recovering from ptomaine poisoning. Mr. Charles Shriver has moved to Smithshire where he will be employed on a farm this spring and summer. The Graham Stewart house three miles southwest of Biggsville was slightly damaged by fire Tuesday evening. A few buckets of water extinguished the blaze with little damage being done save a hole burned in the roof. Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Wyatt are the proud parents of a baby daughter born to them at their home near Lomax on March 24th. The little miss will be called Forrest Darylene. Mrs. Wyatt will be remembered as Miss Bessie Billups, a former Stronghurst girl and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Doug Billups.
The community is urged to established more girls’ 4-H clubs. Last year there were four clubs with 51 girls enrolled, 41 completed the work. Mrs. R. N. Marshall, Mrs. Cecil Brook and Mrs. J. W. McElhinney represented the Stronghurst D.A.R. chapter at a conference held at Rock Island. Over half of the $20,000 worth of shares are already sold and all the acreage pledged for the United Food Company factory to build in the area. Rev. C. E. Hawkins, representing the Memorial Hospital at Peoria, Ill. gave a very fine talk at a union meeting in the Methodist Church Sunday Evening. The South Country Ladies enjoyed a pot lunch dinner at the home of Mrs. Hollis Links. Last Friday evening 33 men gathered at the NuVon Hotel for the regular monthly banquet and business meeting of the Fellowship Club. Judge J. W. Gordon of Oquawka has received formal notification of his appointment to represent the War Department in Henderson County as chairman of the committee in charge of the 1927 enrollment for the Citizens’ Military Training Camps b Brigadier General Michael J. Lenihan, Commanding the Sixth Corps Area .