The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.
Compiled and Edited by Virginia Ross
BIGGSVILLE BRIEFS: Miss Martha Smith will represent Biggsville High School at the Bi-County meet at Stronghurst on May 13th and Mr. Earl Rice will go to the Military Tract meet at Galesburg next Friday. Others who will represent the school at the Military meet are the following: Oration-Margaret Whiteman; Essay-Mildred Campbell; Piano-Miriam Person; and Vocal-Bertha Beebe. The athletic team will also compete in the track meet. The 8th grade pupils and the Sunday School class of Mrs. Sam Beebe each held a wienie roast on Saturday afternoon in the woods at the west edge of town. Outdoor games and a fine munch made the afternoon pass quickly. Chaperons were Mrs. Beebe and Mrs. John Gibson. John Hutchinson who for sometime a patient at the Burlington Hospital with an infected hand was brought home and accompanied by a nurse. Mrs. Frank Rowley was called to Burlington to see her brother, Harry Stanbarry, who is quite ill at the Burington Hospital. His mother, Mrs. S. C. Stanbarry of Lovilla, Iowa arrived in Burlington Saturday night.
NEWS OF THE COUNTY: Twin boys were born to Mr. and Mrs. Marion Allaman of Rozella, Ill. on May 2nd at the Monmouth hospital. Mrs. Allaman will be remembered as Miss Louis Thompson, a former Henderson County teacher of the Reed Neighborhood. Miss Maree Johnson who teaches the Brooks school west of the village, closed the school year with a picnic. She has been re-employed for another year. Mr. Ed Stine attended a convention of salesmen of the Economy Cattle Co., Shenandoah, Iowa held at Galesburg the first three days of this week. Miss Dorothy Kemp had the misfortune to break and badly twist her ankle when she was thrown from a horse. Miss Ellen Powell and Miss Marian Chandler are the latest victims of the measles. Miss Stella Marshall closed the Peasley School with a picnic; she plans to leave for Normal, Illinois where she will finish her Teacher’s Training Course. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. McMillan received word from their son, Leslie, an assistant superintendent of the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. at Indianapolis had received a fine promotion. The Loyal Women’s Class of the Stronghurst Christian Church gave their “Five Day Chautauqua” at Raritan last night. Mrs. Fred Chandler was taken to the Burlington hospital where she underwent an operation for appendicitis.
EDITOR OF BURLINTON GAZETTE DIES: George Stivers, editor and publisher of the Burlington Gazette, passed away at this Burlington home. He had been ill for several months; his death resulted from heart trouble. His father purchased the Gazette in 1887 and the business of managing the paper passed to the son’s hands in 1913. The deceased was a good newspaper man and well-liked by his employees.
A WONDER IN STRONGHURST: The African lily owned by Mrs. W. C. Ivins deserves a high place among wonders as it is truly a thing of mysterious beauty. The plant differs from the ordinary varieties. Its stalk ascends from a bulb and in due season insists on growing at a rapid rate although the latter is not nourished by the earth or refreshed by water; it depends upon the food that it can gather from the air.
Upon taken from winter quarters, the lily was placed on a cement floor and then things began to happen. For a period of two weeks, the stalk shot up at the rate of two inches a day and at a height of 3 feet and 9 inches, the top broke out in a beautiful bloom. The flower measured eleven by nine inches and had ruffled edges. The petals were of a leathery grain and a beautiful maroon color. At present the flower is rapidly dying and will be set in the ground. Here it slumbers until removed from the earth the next season to again burst forth in a lively flower. Peculiar? Yes! The African Lily came from the land of mysteries. (Remember, such an oddity was news. Mrs. Ivins was known to look for the unusual.)
ABOUT THE TOWN: Little Carolyn, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Sullivan underwent a serious operation in the Burlington Hospital; she is recovering nicely. Joe Long is redecorating the interior of the M.E. Church and covering some of the floors with new linoleum. Buy your Sunday dinner from the pupils of the Maple Grove School Saturday afternoon at the Benteco Kash Store. Miss Ruth Heisler entertained at bridge last evening at her country home north town. Prizes were won by Lucile Jones and Mrs. Clarence Hartquist. Miss Lena Morey has been employed to teach the Heisler School next year. Mr. Earl Taylor who is employed at Ormondo, spent the weekend with his family making the acquaintance of a new daughter which arrived in the home on Wednesday morning. The little miss will be called Sara Eileen.
Clarence Kern of Ft. Madison, Ia. visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Newton Kern. He is at present firing on one of the Santa Fe fast trains between Ft. Madison and Chicago. He is getting some experience as engineer, having made several runs the past few months. Mrs. C. E. Person and son Jon Edwin left for their home at Genoa, Nebr. after spending two weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Graham north of Stronghurst. Gene Graham was also a guest and left for his home at San Diego, California. Little Marta Jean Rehling and Immogene Jones are numbered among the sick. Mrs. Minnie Peterson recently underwent an operation at the Galesburg Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Worley, Mrs. J. F. Mains and Mrs. Hurf Flanegin motored to Burlington to attend an organ recital at the Masonic Temple. The Roberts Chevrolet Co. received a shipment of four new cars Wednesday. One is a Landeau, another a Touring , a third a Coach and the other a Coupe which was sold to Ray Rankin of Media. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bell spent Sunday with their aunt, Mrs. Huldah Millen who has been seriously ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Arthur McIntyre in the drainage district. Mrs. I. F. Harter and Mrs. Joe Long have placed a large bed of cannas in the village cemetery in memory of our boys who gave their lives in the World War.