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Newspaper
Dekalb Daily Chronicle
Location
Dekalb, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1920
Page
2
Local social items describe visits by Cortland residents Beem and Goldie Stoule among attendees at a town event. Couples from DeKalb and Groga join Mrs. Louriteun and others for Sunday gatherings, with extensive naming of local residents and families.
The fragment lists births and deaths in Maple Park and nearby towns, notes a marriage planned for October 1860, and mentions relatives in Cortland, Genoa, Sycamore, and Milwaukee. It shifts to general items about music, honey production, and Christmas customs, plus a New Orleans alligator hide fact.
At Rochelle around 2:00 am a westbound Chicago train carried payroll shipments on the same line. Postmaster Emery I Neff checked Sunday mail funds and reported nothing missing after reviewing the Rochelle post office.
In probate court report and sale confirmations, estates of Turk Hanaughan Whittaker Becker Wagner Newitt Miller Simmons Skau Norton Relyea Willis Walker Sergeant Griswold and others show final accounts approved, inventories and appraisements filed, notices to creditors proved, executors discharged, and bonds approved. Diana Dringas permitted to return to father and discharged from state training school.
Probate entries list estates of Morris H. Westlake Charles T. Stuart Wm. Rood Daniel Olson Julia E. Henwood Evelyn L. Anderson and others with hearings, inventories and guardianships. Property transfers include lots in Waterman Edwood's and other parcels. various apportionments, appraisals and executors named. Industrial notes report Britain produced fifty million dollars in machine tools and Africa coal finds Port Gueydon. rubber seed oil tests but no decisive outcomes.
Three Republican women will sit in the Kansas legislature this winter. New York City organizes a women’s Republican clubhouse. An author Marie Majereva is named director of Prague’s National theater. Boston plans eight police women to guard the Common and Newport’s Mrs. James J. Brown reportedly holds a record life insurance policy. An English press debate questions why women seek power.
A collage of remarks on women's roles. Free Masonry in France since 1785 and Spain admitting women in many lodges. Swedish girls praised for strength. Tetrazzini notes eight as unlucky. Edith Philip Smith first Oxford degree recipient visiting the US for botany study. Mrs. John Russell runs a London dress business. Helen McMahan linked to James Cox Brady. Miss L Bellard heads a firm in Havana.
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