The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.
Compiled and Edited by Virginia Ross
BIG DAY AT STRONGHURST: With Lester B. Colby’s visit the outstanding future speech and supplemented with a big rodeo Saturday, Sept. 25th is looked forward to as “the big day” in Stronghurst by both the townspeople and the inhabitants for miles around. Mr. Colby will already have visited the other towns in Henderson County when he is here and wishes to make his visit a fitting climax to the revelation of the glories of Henderson County. As previously published, Mr. Colby is from the State Chamber of Commerce and is here to receive facts for a write-up which will appear in 261 newspapers in the state. Those knowing of any especially good points in this community, or suitable stories of interest would do well to write them up and hand them to county chairman, Mr. Allen Annegers or present them to Mr. Colby themselves.
The Stronghurst Fellowship Club will hold its regular monthly meeting at noon at the NuVon Hotel at which time Mr. Colby will be present. Those wishing to attend this meeting and banquet dinner at that time should reserve plates now at fifty cents each from club present, Mr. Estel Mudd. Afterward, the group will adjourn to the school auditorium where Mr. Colby will speak.
Later, the rodeo is to be held at the D. Wasson farm grounds on the northwest edge of town. The rodeo with nine riders and a large number of real wild bucking bronchos will be worth coming miles to see. In the evening the Stronghurst band will give one of its splendid concerts. The community club rooms will be open all day so that those wishing to bring their lunches may eat them there.
OQUAWKA NEWS: Dennis J. Wodard of Hale, Missouri and Nellie M. Craig of Gorin, Mo. secured marriage license and were united in marriage by Justice of the Peace, Wm. E. Shorts. Earnest Wiegand is having his house newly shingled. Both Marion Pearson and Opal Fryrear are attending school at Macomb. Sunday at Schell’s field south of town was even better attended than last Sunday. The day was rainy but it had no effect on the crowd or ridders. The horses again put up some wild fight, but the reckless riders rode the nevertheless. Phillip Brokaw is attending college at Monmouth. Little Geraldine McClinton has been quite sick with malaria.
OLENA OBSERVATIONS: As Rev. Hubbs was attending the annual conference at Pontiac, no church services were held in the village on Sabbath Day. Olena met its finances very nicely and an earnest appeal was sent to the conference for the return of Rev. Hubbs to this charge. Mrs. Dan Burrell is reported as not quite so well again and her daughter, Mrs. Calvin Lant is at their mother’ bedside. Mrs. Ruth Lant and daughter were among those who spent a few days visiting in Monmouth. The tabernacle there has been completed and the Billy Sunday meetings opened last Sabbath Day. (Billy Sunday was a famous evangelist.) The ladies of the Olena Church have served dinner for the threshing crew of Mr. Vern Likely and to dinners for Mr. William’s threshing crew. They are asked to serve again as soon as weather conditions will permit.
Mrs. Lura Lant drove north to the hard roads Sabbath morning to meet her husband who was returning from a two-weeks run over the Wabash Road from Keokuk to Bluffs. He reports conditions over this run quite bad as many fine homes are surrounded by water and many fields bare of grain. The railroad facilities are quite crippled. Harvey only got to remain a few hours with his family leaving on the afternoon train for Quincy, Ill. Mr. Lizzie Reynolds and son left to join her husband, O.E. Reynolds, in Colorado; they went by auto. Everyone was shocked to read of the disastrous storm that swept parts of Florida recently. (A hurricane hit the state. They paid attention to Florida as several from Henderson County have moved there.)
LOCAL AND AREA NEWS: Mr. W. M. Potts and family of Moline are moving to Stronghurst where Mr. Potts will be the new agent for the Standard Oil Co. in this vicinity. Mr. A. E. Jones returned from his two-months’ vacation from England where he had a wonderful trip sight-seeing and visiting his brother, W. Melville Jones and other relatives. Miss Ruth Heisler was hostess to a number of ladies at her home last Thursday evening. The time was spent playing Five Hundred. Miss Ethel Hartquist received first prize and Miss Hortense Harbinson, the consolation prize. Chester Brokaw and Alfred Shallenberger are attending business college at Ft. Madison. Harold Bainter left for Ann Arbor, Mich., where he will study law in the State University there. Mrs. Ed Hurd accompanied her son Emeral to his home in Galesburg where she will care for her daughter-in-law who just returned from the Galesburg hospital where she underwent a surgical operation. It is rumored that a new bank “with money to loan” is to be opening in the future in the George Chant building recently vacated by the school.
MEDIA RECORD IN THE STRONGHURST GRAPHIC: Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Beresford have named their new son who arrived last week Billy Ernest. Miss Harriet Jaeger of Gladstone is caring Mrs. Shelby Vaughn. Mr. and Mrs. Emory Cavins and son Donald arrive home from Chicago. Mr. Cavins resumed his work on the rural route Monday morning. Miss Mary Anderson of Galesburg is helping with the house work in the E. G. Lewis home. The Stronghurst Boy Scouts and their assistant scout master, Edward Beardsley, enjoyed an all-day outing and picnic at Wever Lake Club on Saturday. The road oil for the Media Township roads has arrived and the good work will commence at once.
FASHION TIP: Lacy, sheer and extremely ornate-these are the three graces which cast a glamor of loveliness over the new lingerie. This delectable bit of black silk lingerie worn by Pauling Starks in her latest production, “Love’s Blindness,” charmingly illustrates the trend of fashion toward greater elaborateness for milady’s undergarments during the coming months. (Picture of the daring fashion included in this issue.)