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Newspaper
Dekalb Daily Chronicle
Location
Dekalb, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1925
Page
2
Officers announce ten men needed for the Hewtonerers Company with a chance for design work on food service cards. Applicants undergo character, education, and loyalty checks, prefer high school graduates for technical work, with pay and meals described. Camp Grant schedules and mess details are outlined, praising the camp meals and training quality.
The company seeks additional men to fill the roster at once. Interested individuals may confer with the members or officers for further information.
Many residents from this city planned to attend the Genoa celebration honoring the completion of the cement road between Genoa and Sycamore. The afternoon program featured band concerts athletic events and various stunts on Genoa school lawn. The Route 23 extension from Sycamore to the Wisconsin line will benefit Genoa and surrounding towns as merchants prepared to join the event.
Social items from Sycamore report a sightseeing trip by Mrs Button and companions to Dundee, a Chicago relative visiting, and two couples touring Lake Delavan. Miss Ruth Hall, daughter of Mr and Mrs Hall, is seriously ill after appendix surgery at Sycamore hospital. A large LO O F and Rebekah pot luck supper and dance is planned by Sarah Rebekah lodge tomorrow night.
Sheriff attaches farm lands in DeKalb County following a suit by PF R Smith of Humboldt against H H Sherwood for promissory notes totaling over 100 dollars. The property described covers parts of sections 3 and 4 in township 38 north range 3. The case will be heard at the opening of the October term in the circuit court.
The DeKalb and Sycamore road contract, held by Curnine and Sweeney, faces shipment delays and faulty cement removal as grading begins in the county region. Officials expect material to arrive soon and anticipate completing work before cold weather, with progress speeding once the cement machine is at Electric Park corner.
Members of Eliwool Encampment in session here tonight expect a large attendance as new offers for the coming six months are to be installed. Officers announce business matters to come up for action and refreshments will be served at the conclusion of tonight's session.
A man named Carl Lang from St. Paul was arraigned in a Chicago federal court and ordered committed to the enemy jail for a short period to await trial. Lang listed his occupation as a laborer.
Reports indicate a large Ku Klux Klan meeting will be held this evening west of Sycamoore attended by hundreds. Units from other cities plan to attend with fifteen candidates ordered to appear for initiatory rites. After the ceremonies, refreshments will be served.
Federal Judge Adam C. Cliffe is on leave in Sycamore with his family. They will retreat to a Grand de Tour cottage along the Rock River for two to three weeks, returning after the river outing. Mrs Cliffe recently reopened their Sycamore home.
Ind Brush who has run a barber shop and beauty parlor at the Secaneye Inn for some time plans to relocate to new quarters within the next few days. The basement of the current building is under notice.
A dramatic agitated plea contrasts a woman's wish to marry with a skeletal suitor. The ad promotes Metley's Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets as a miracle weight gain product, claiming dramatic flesh gains in weeks and money-back assurance. It targets thin men and suggests beauty and health through tonic tablets.
Rogers and Smith store renovations upgrade to basement shops with better lighting. Mr Brush expects to move in next week as basement area becomes occupiable within a few days, easing patron access by descending a few steps rather than climbing to a second floor.
A quiet day at the county courthouse finds staff absorbed in routine tasks. In the circuit clerk’s office George A. James and Earl Joiner read and copied documents while the treasurer’s adding machine ran smoothly. County clerk’s office workers held and read copies and the sheriff’s office Chief Deputy Ross Miffett logged entries in the big book. Grounds and building custodians cleaned windows as a calm forenoon passed.
Judge De Selm voided the conveyance of a Denver confectionery store deed to Lois Dolan, a graduate nurse, finding fiduciary relation and undue influence after evidence showed a shared checking account and ties to John Fina. Dolan must return $3,600 in income from the property. the aunt and uncles’ suit to annul the deed was sustained on appeal to the Supreme Court.
Esmond Prank Barnes has his house painted. W G McKenzie Mrs Edith Barnes and Mrs Maspie Gustafson visited friends in Sycamore on Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Arthur Bump were Rockford exiters Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Peter Hyser and Marvin Gunn visited the Ashel ford home in Byron on Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Alex Boyd and son Bobby of Carterville Illinois are visiting Mrs Boyd's sisters Mrs Leslie...
Buell's tent show drew a full house Wednesday night. Esther Wright, playing with other children Tuesday night, fell and broke her arm and was taken to Kirkland where Dr. Kates set it.
Heinrich Strippgen once with Krupps was convicted in Cologne for selling war plans to foreign powers. He received a ten year prison sentence amid a case noted for alleged overseas dealings and wartime intelligence concerns.
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