Death Angels Enter Two Homes in Local Notices
Obituaries report the death of Mrs. Anna Martha Gross at 33, tuberculosis, with survivors including parents, child Leonora and stepchild Mabel. Funeral today at Bradford United Evangelical church and Bradford cemetery. Also Mrs. John Bork dies at 58 from heart failure after hospitalizing at Compton. Funeral at St. John’s Lutheran church with interment in Ashton cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Martha Gross
John Seebach
China Township
Henry Gross
Bradford Township
Gross
Bradford
John Bork
Bork
Compton Hospital
Philip Vogeler
Langenhain
Kirchesse
Germany
Gustav Mack
Ashton Cemetery
City Council Proceedings and Resignations Report
The city council met in regular session with J A Roesler serving as pro tem clerk due to the clerk’s absence. They approved bills mainly for cement sidewalks and accepted Henry C Nelson’s resignation as village clerk, appointing Ralph J Dean to the vacancy, and confirmed the appointment. The council accepted a franchise from Illinois Northern Utilities and ordered the marshal to bar the Northwestern gang, described as undesirable citizens and a negro gang laying new steel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zeller
J. A. Roesler
J. C. Wetzel
John W. Randall
Henry C. Nelson
Randall
Wetzel
Ralph J. Dean
Illinois Northern Utilities Company
Marshall
Northwestern
Gang of Negroes
Pegro Gang
Ten Thousand Attend Dixon Rock River Assembly
A Dixon gathering drew about ten thousand people for the Rock River Assembly last Sunday with varied programs. Key events included Ex Governor Glenn of North Carolina, and George H. Fonken on Life on the Bowery. Further lectures and plays filled the weekend agenda. Old Persimmons
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock River Assembly
Dixon
R. B. Glenn
North Carolina
George H. Fonken
the Bowery
Frank C. Bruner
Bill
Harriet
Williams Jubilee Singers
Catha Woodland Players
Bruner
Galilee
H. M. Bannen
Rockford
Palestine
Dr Stanley Foot Specialist to Visit Ashton
Dr Stanley will be at Kelly's Hotel Friday afternoon and Saturday all day August 9 and 10 offering treatment for corns bunions and ingrown nails. He promotes Dr Stanley's U Bet Remedy for foot issues and adjustable arch supports with city wide calls available before 10 am Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley
Ashton
Kelly’s Hotel
Country church revival paints rural Illinois needs
The First State Conference at DeKalb ends with Rev. Warren H. Wilson warning that 1,700 Illinois churches lie abandoned or idle across rural areas. He cites survey data, calls for home-centered country churches, notes farm life inequalities, and urges education reform and less sectarian strife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Warren H. Wilson
New York
Country Life
DeKalb
Wilson
Department of Church and Country Life
Presbyterian Board of Home Missions
Eugeneis
Maine
Palestine
Holy Land
Clair S. Adams
Bemont
Ill
Caroline S. Bowen
Presbyterian Church
Adams
Bowen
Farmers wives praised for cooking challenge to Dr. Wiley
Oliver Wilson of Peoria argues about funding for schools roads and church funds after Dr. Harvey W. Wiley criticizes farm wife cooking. Wilson claims only a few poor cooks exist among farmers wives and vows to challenge the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Wilson
Peoria
Hrational Grange
Harvey W. Wiley
Georg e Stephan for Coroner and local notices
George B. Stephan announces his Progressive bid for county coroner. He is a licensed embalmer with anatomy knowledge and broad local support. Also: post office ban on singing courtships at windows. Franklin Grove Chautauqua week from Aug 18 to 23 with 12 events for 1.00 adults 50 cents children. 2012 trip to Chicago for threshing outfit. Grace Paddock visiting Flagg Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George B. Stephan
Stephan
Amboy
George
Post Office Department
Ashton
Franklin Grove
Grace Paddock
Flagg Center
Churches Unite to Fight Tuberculosis Across Nations
National Tuberculosis Day efforts mobilize churches and religious societies to promote prevention and Red Cross Christmas Seals sales on October 27th or the preceding week. About 10 percent of church deaths are due to TB, with over 52,000 annual deaths among 83 million communicants in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
Conservation
Men and Religion Forward Movement
Red Cross
National Association
Census Bureau
United States
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Death Angel
Martha Gross
St. John’s Lutheran Church
City Council
Panama Canal
Richard Roe
Roe
John Doe
Peter Poe
Mr. Roe
Samuel
Uncle Samuel
Zac Chandlers
Lincoln
Hell
OLD Persimmons
County
Maria
M. Huss
Blue Earth, Farrault Co
Minn
S. C. Gould
Will Hart
G. A. Walter
Harrison Crouse
Mr. Carroll
Oscar Crouse
Earl of Sterling
Boyd Yocum
Paul Pfetzing
North Dakota
Lucy Hart
Ralph Charters
Goodell
Guth- Odlalome
Grand Detour
Sheffield’s
J. W. Griese
Chicago & Northwestern
Rochelle
Carl Stephan
MayBelle Venerich
Minnie Schefer
Henry Reuppel
Elizabeth Hollis
Eunice Reuppel
Dysart
Iowa
H. M
J. A. Kersten
John C. Henning
Henry Salzman
the Gazette
Henry Nelson
Allen
Chicago
Henry
T. H. Quick
Emerson
Fayette
Arkansas
Mr. Quick
M. V. Peterman
F. D. Kelley
Frank Maronde
Ira Trostle
Gazette Book Store
Winn Bates
Hall
Bates
Ernest Meister
Forrest Paddock
Arthur Simpson
Mr. Bates
Geo. Stephan
Progressive
The
Lincoln Chautauqua
Clarence Sanders
Tony Reitz
John A. Reitz
Will Klingebiehl
Gazette
A. W. Rosecrans & Comp’y
Ashton, Illinois
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