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Newspaper
Dekalb Daily Chronicle
Location
Dekalb, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1923
Page
2
The Chronicle is represented in Sycamore by Harvey Fant who will take orders for delivery. Subscribers not receiving the paper regularly should notify Harvey at phone L-691.
Coach Gibson expects a strong season with 19 scheduled cage games. The Little Seven schedule lists games from Dec through March against Geneva Dundee Wheaton Naperville St Charles Batavia Sycamore and Naperville with open dates including Dec 8 Dec 28 Jan 4 Jan 12 Jan 19 and Mar 14 among others.
Loyola University football stars Donald Coffey and Charles Braidwood arrived yesterday to spend the remainder of the week with their parents. Both have been students since fall. Braidwood played a key role in the Thanksgiving win over DePaul. Coffey missed the DePaul game due to injuries.
Memorial service announced for tomorrow at the Sycamore lodge of Elks with public invitation. Services begin at 3:30 p m, arranged by Exalted Ruler Cassius Faust and Elks officers. program promises notable attendance.
State's Attorney Cassius Poust plans to oppose John B. Trainor in Joliet as Trainor appears before the board of pardons on Monday seeking a 4 pardon. Poust will argue to keep Trainor in prison for the Somonauk bank robbery of 1915 and related flight.
Four inmates from DeKalb including R. H. Parker Boney Rainbow S Ford and Fran Duff were released yesterday afternoon by Sheriff E E Crawford. They had been jailed for violating national prohibition laws. Dutt received a 60 day county sentence two days after a prior release from a similar term.
Sycamore Post number 99 of the American Legion issues ten notices about the annual meeting to elect officers for 1924. Members should gather at the Legion club rooms at 6 30 for the banquet and election. reports must notify committee members Townsend Hemenway Poust Lindstrom by December 5.
Rev. George Mu rara, a South American minister, will preach at Sycamore Methodist Church Sunday morning. He is an eloquent speaker and comes with a close friendship to Rev. James O May from their university days. In the evening Queen Esther Standard Bearers present "A Japanese Fete" in aid of a festival.
Rev. F. J. Bishop of Sycamore will exchange pulpits with Rev. A. J. Barnard of Elgin for tomorrow morning. Barnard, a strong preacher in the association, will speak in Sycamore. Bishop returns in the evening with a sermon on the Ku Klux Klan titled The Negro, Jew and the Stranger Within Our Gates.
Reports from town say Sycamore merchants through the Chamber of Commerce will donate a Christmas tree for the town. Details on official confirmation and tree delivery are not yet announced.
The plan was proposed by the board of directors at a special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and is expected to be clarified with more details in a few days. The move follows a pattern similar to previous Sycamore mer chants efforts.
County Clerk J F Darling and Hannah Chamberlain of Cortland received the first wedding license of December this morning. R W Huntley and Mrs Maton of Rochelle obtained a license late yesterday afternoon. Officials noted November was not a busy month for licenses.
Last evening the Boy Scout troop one met at the Armory with good attendance. Scoutmaster Ward led the session and plans for the next meeting are still undecided. A speed demon loves to drive an elevator because no one can pass him.
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