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Illinois State News Roundup of State Events and Deaths
A wide outline of Illinois events includes Ot tawa drowning victim Raymond Grooms, Rockford commencement speaker Arthur H. Vandenberg, and Betty Vandenberg. Edgar boy Alonzo Trout dies after a selfinflicted wound, Springfield mayor Hal M. Smith passes, and a Madison County roominghouse raid nets arrests. Also noted are a Rockford police court fine for Scotty Campbell, a Monmouth College address by Melbourne Evans Aubrey, a Willow Springs CCC camp quarantine, and reforms at Joliet and Stateville prisons.
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Raymond Grooms
Ottawa
Fox River
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Michigan
Rockford College
Betty
Alonzo Trout
Edgar
Paris
William
Scotty Campbell
Rockford
Hal M. Smith
Springfield
East St. Louis
Madison County
Mary Virginia Niehart
Pana
William Niehart
Los Angeles
St. Louis
Melbourne Evans Aubrey
Baptist Union of Great Britain
Monmouth College
T. H. McMichael
Civilian Conservation Corps
Willow Springs
Joliet
Stateville
Arl E. Botsford
Elgin
Kane County
S.botsford
K. XII
Ellen Bundy Botsford
Fox Valley
Yale University
Joseph Mazer
Jo- Net
Rock Island
Hickory Creek
Tony Leone
Nelson Miner
Robinson Grade School
Miner
Joliet Penitentiary
Nicholas Skrsnick
Thurage County
A’ Barnes
Flatt County
Lincoln Memorial Commission
Fifty Sixth General Assembly
Abraham Lincoln
Governor Horner
Robert S. Abbott
Chicago
Oliver R. Barrett
James J. Barbour
Evanston
Howard Doyle
Decatur
John Www
Fling Wyoming
Hugh Green
Jacksonville
Logan Hay
John H. Hauberg
Wallace Karraker
Jonesboro
John C Lowe
Florence Lowden Miller
Effie Landen
Cairo
James C. Mayer
la Harpe
Arthur Roe
Vandalia
James Rosenthal
W. T. Raleigh
Freeport
Adelbert I. Roberts
H V_ Teel
Rushville
William G. Thom
L. C Williams
Clinton
Illinois Liquor Control Commission
Department of Finance