Smith to Speak at County Graduation Exercises
Bycamore hosts a countywide graduation and promotion exercise for 875 seventh and eighth grade pupils from 123 country schools at the Sycamore Community Center. Attorney Lowell B. Smith will deliver the address, with music led by Miss Florence Wollensak as group singing adds to the night.
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Bycamore
DeKalb County
Sycamore
Warren Hubbard
Community Center
Lowell B. Smith
Florence Wollensak
Hubbard
Golf Links At The City Park Get Addition
Workmen expand the Sycamore park course by nine holes on 40 acres. Five maintenance staff including Cassier oversee drainage to eight new creeks with plumbers laying pipes. A tractor grass cutter remains on duty. old creek beds are being drained to reduce lost balls. About 20 pews from the Universalist church will be converted into green benches for weary golfers.
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Sycamore Park
Cassier
Universalist
Chronicle Delivery Guaranteed in Sycamore
The DeKalb Daily Chronicle promises full responsibility for carrier delivery in Sycamore. Subscribers missing copies can call Mr. Otto Fellinger for special delivery. Complaints will be investigated and carriers paid weekly to cover costs and profit.
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DeKalb Daily Chronicle
Sycamore
Otto Fellinger
DAR chapter entertains at Mrs. Johnson home in June meeting
The General John Stark Chapter DAR met at Mrs. F W Johnson’s Saturday June 1 with 35 members and two guests. Regent E H Wells presided as minutes from May were read. A kitchen orchestra from DeKalb performed and refreshments followed. The meeting closed with the October return note. The Charter Grove Ladies Aid plans a meeting at Mrs. Wylda Carlson’s home tomorrow afternoon.
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John Stark
Daughters of the American Revolution
F. W. Johnson
Johnson
Floyd Gravelin
T. M. White
E. H. Wells
Aden
Lois
Dixon
Gravelin
United States of America
White
Angel Island
United States Immigration Station
San Francisco Bay
War Department
DeKalb
Wilberger
Wright
Page
Love
McEwen
Keith
Telford
Miss Wood
Annie Laurie
Swanee River
Wells
E. H. Stark
Charter Grove Ladies’ Aid
Wylda Carlson
Lintner Busy Figuring The Herds Status
County veterinarian Obed H. Lintner oversees a retabulation of DeKalb county dairy herds with six state testers in the field. Revised lists shrink untested herds toward zero as townships reduce the gap. Local social notes mention visits, entertainments, and weekend guests in Sycamore, Rockford, and nearby households.
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Vetermanan
H. Lintner
DeKalb County
Florence Wollensak
Sycamore
Guild Hall
Sycamore High Adds New Agriculture Courses Under Terrell
Sycamore high school expands its agriculture department for ten years under R. W. Terrell. Next year two new courses will cover farm management and animal husbandry. A short course in agriculture for adult farmers is planned. The department has long served rural boys and interacts with local seventh and eighth graders and many adult farmers.
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Sycohi
Department of Agriculture
Sycamore High School
R. W. Terrell
Agriculture Department
Terrell
James Joslyn Honored as All-Little Seven Quarterback
James Joslyn distinctively contributed four years of football and basketball at Sycamore, earning all-Little Seven quarterback honors and earning fan admiration as a modest leader despite never making an all-star team. He is remembered as a key guard in basketball and a pivotal offense and defense presence.
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Sycamore
James Joslyn
Socohi
Joslyn
Jimmie
Resident From Near Sycamore At Mayo Clinic
Mark Wesnake of a Sycamore area farm, patient at Mayo Brothers Hospital in Rochester Minnesota, has undergone one major operation and faces a second. An earlier accident when a box car crashed into his truck left his spine injury with no circulation to hands and feet, but recent notes from a spine specialist and Mayo Clinic say two operations and treatments may restore circulation and save his life.
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Mark Wesnake
Sycamore
Mayo Brothers’ Hospital
Rochester
Minn
Mark Westlake
Cox Classifies Industrial Prospects For Chamber
John Cox secretary of the Chamber of Commerce develops a system to classify all industrial prospects. Each firm is tabulated on key points and stored in an indexed file so the committee on industries can quickly access information on every concern.
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Cox
John Cox
Chamber of Commerce
Sycamore
Chamber
Committee On Industries
Secaneye Inn Closes for Redecoration by New Owners
Elmer Cookey Krause and Alvin Peterson assume ownership of the Secaneye Inn and have closed the establishment for redecorating. The popular inn will reopen once work is complete.
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Elmer “Cookey"” Krause
Alvin Peterson
Secaneye Inn
Workers in Overalls Revamp A Soda Fountain Interior
They wore overalls and set to work energetically, altering the look of the soda fountain and its surroundings to refresh the place's appearance.
Hold Funeral Services For Mrs Darling
Funeral services for Mrs William C Darling were set for 2:00 PM at the late home with Rev Robbe of Federated church and Rev Spicer now of Oak Park conducting. Interment was planned in Elmwood cemetery mausoleum. Some guests arriving late raised a chance the rites could be postponed to tomorrow.
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Darling
William C. Darling
Robbe
The
Federated Church
Spicer
Sycamore
Oak Park
Elmwood Cemetery
Bowlers Take The Alleys In City Contest
The opening of the bowling tournament at the Community Center saw the business men's team led by Joe Halsted defeat the First National bank No 1 team by a wide margin. Halsted’s team totaled 2362 to 1986 as competition began in an elimination format where any team can win until defeated.
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Joe Halsted
First National Bank
Halsted
No. 1
Anaconda Wire Company
Airplane Use By Students Draws Interest At School
A Cleveland YMCA School of Technology report shows students skipping classes to fly to Detroit and view Ford airport and aviation industry. One student owns a plane and others study flying hoping to obtain pilot licenses. An aviation group has formed at the school.
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Cleveland
Y. M. C. A. School of Technology
Detroit
Ford
Congress Debates Immigration Act Repeal and Monopolies Inquiry
Congress debates discharging the immigration committee from Resolution efforts to repeal the nation origins clause while the interstate commerce committee weighs Couzens resolution authorizing investigations into monopolies in radio telegraph and telephones. London reports sailors at Portsmouth favor canaries as ship mascots aboard the battleship Nelson and set to distribute the birds to families. a Croydon air freighter carries twelve monkeys and a baby bear from the East Indies to a London private dealer. The note adds that female lightning bugs are the only ones with lightning power.
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Nye
Interstate Commerce Committee
London
Portsmouth
England
Croydon
East Indies
Amsterdam
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Iowa City
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Fred Millard
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EF. H. Wells
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Mrs. L. R. Richardson
Sycamore-De- Kalb
Dinner Bridge Club
R. H. King
Rockford
Helen Byland
Repeating Rifles
Marlin Repeating Rifles
H. and
Remington
Prescott
Lincoln Highway
Alma Mater
Mayo Clinic
Prodern
E. L. Smith
E. Ling
Lewis & Palmer Music Store
Fe Eka
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Illinois Power Co
South Third Street
DeKalb, Ll
Congress Today
Ferate
House
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Hart Schaffner & Marx University
DeKalb, Illinois
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