City Council Adopts Auto Purchase and Street Paving
An adjourned city council session approved buying a Chevrolet touring car for the police at 615 dollars from Sawyer & Sons after bids. An ordinance was passed to seek bids for paving South Sixth Street from Grove to Franklin. The finance committee may issue bonds for a well project reaching 300 feet and a rear city hall building for ambulance storage and the police auto.
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Chronicle
Sawyer & Sons
South Sixth Street
Grove
Franklin Streets
H. B. Goodison
Man Hunt For Italian In Chicago County Building
United Press reports a man hunt in downtown Chicago after a bushy haired Italian entered the city hall and county building and fired at Detective Curran. Curran resembles State's Attorney Crowe. police suspect the motive is revenge for the arrest of two gunmen and the crackdown on the Genna gang of bootleggers.
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United Press
Chicago
Loop
Crowe
Curran
Genna
Plower Store Announces Special Sale on Baskets and Boxes
The Plower Store invites shoppers to a special sale on Wire Hanging Baskets Porch Boxes and related items on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. Limited quantities and discounts advertised at the 163 address.
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Plower Store
Fern display at Custers Gardens
Ferns are offered including Boston and Whitmanii varieties at reasonable prices by Custer’s Gardens. Phone 996 for details.
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Custer’s Gardens
DeKalb Man Is Honored by Evanston Police Chief Choice
W A Wiltberger of DeKalb has been named chief of police in Evanston succeeding Mayor H Bartlett. A UC Berkeley Vollmer School graduate and crime expert, he is Alden Wiltberger, son of W F Wiltberger. He studied criminology at Chicago and Berkeley and previously helped DeKalb police. His appointment is welcomed locally with expectations of strong crime suppression.
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United Press
Chicago
Evanston
W. A. Wiltberger
DeKalb
Charles Leggett
H. Bartlett
University of California
August Vollmer
H. F. Adler
State Criminology Department
Alden Wiltberger
W. F. Wiltberger
Wiltberger
California
Berkley
Millinery Sale Opens at Holmes Hat Shop
Friends Our June Millinery Sale starts today. Lovely models greatly reduced with patterns as low as $4.50. Come early. Holmes' Hat Shop. 163 Come up and set our collection of Father's Day greeting cards and gifts. The Elsa Gift Shop.
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Holmes’ Hat Shop
DeKalb Park District election to decide boundaries and board
A July 7 election will decide creating the DeKalb Park District and elect five park board members for the city and park district territory. The boundaries include Pershing park and Annies woods, aiming to preserve the natural forest around DeKalb. Judges and clerks volunteer to serve. the effort is led by local civic groups to secure park land at minimal cost or by donation.
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Park District
DeKalb Park District
William L. Pond
Chamber of Commerce
Baumgartner
DeKalb
Malta Road
Galt
Hiland
Sycamore Road
DeKalb Cereal Company
The
Piano Company
Ellwood
Jacob Haish
Pershing Park
Annies’ Woods
Country Club
Sycamore
Condition of LaFollette Not Very Good
Washington reports Senator Robert LaFollette's condition worsened today with doctors saying he is holding his own. He has bronchial asthma and a lingering cold, worsened by prior pneumonia and illness two years prior. His sons Robert Jr and Phillip arrived to be at his bedside as physicians issue one daily bulletin.
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Unites Eres
Washington
Robert LaFollette
LaFollette
Robert LaPollette, Jr
Phillip LaFollette
Bob
Bible Schools In City Show Big Increase
Four city vacation Bible schools report increases since opening last Monday. Methodist church leads with 92 attendees. Congregational school reports 65. First Lutheran school has 50. Swedish Mission church records 32. All are union or citywide programs open to pupils from multiple churches.
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Methodist Church
Methodist Church School
Congregational School
Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church
E.G. Winsted
Band Concert At Huntley Park Draws Large Crowd
Last evening’s opening band concert at Huntley park attracted many residents from the surrounding community and was greatly enjoyed. The same band from prior years performed, with future concerts expected to be well attended. The program was shortened slightly by the death yesterday of Pierre Ollier, a former city band leader whose home is nearby, and organizers said the show would not have proceeded had he known.
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Huntley Park
Pierre Ollier
Olker
Foresters of DeKalb to Attend Chicago Session
Foresters from DeKalb will travel by auto in four loads to Chicago, leaving Saturday afternoon for the Municipal Pier session. Seventeen men are expected to attend with Camp Korns opening Sunday afternoon June 21 at Municipal Pier Grand Avenue and Lake Michigan. Camp HQ and Forester quarters will be in Municipal Pier buildings with free meals sleeping quarters auto parking showers and other facilities provided. Foresters will parade in downtown Chicago and drill review in Grant Park on the lake front.
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Foresters of
DeKalb
Chicago
Municipal Pier
Grand Avenue
Lake Michigan
Foresters
Grant Park
Lake Front
Mrs Dodge to Wed Lumber Dealer in Detroit June 29
Mrs Matilda Dodge widow of the late car maker John Dodge will wed Albert Wilson a lumber dealer on June 29 in Detroit. After a European tour they will reside in the 4 million dollar Gross Point home under construction by John Dodge. The Flower Store advertises 25 percent off on trellises and garden furniture on selling days.
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United Press
Detroit
Mich
Matilda Dodge
John Dodge
Albert Wilson
Europe
Gross Point
Custer's Gardens Sells Flowers at Reduced Prices
Announcing an annual sale of Salivas Asters Snapdragons Scabiosas Verbenas Double and Single Petunias Geraniums and Coleus at reduced prices. Located at Custers Gardens contact phone 996 166.
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Custer’s
City Buys a Flusher for De Kalb Streets
De Kalb will buy a modern power pressure street flusher from BE b Emnyre & Company of Oregon Illinois through Carlson Anderson Implement. Purchase price is 6950 with merchants expected to cover about one third. delivery in a week to ten days. The city plans a two year contract with three payments tied to merchant pledges and regular flushing of main streets for sanitary cleanliness. The flusher has two water streams and a 1500 gallon tank.
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DeKalb
BE. B. Emnyre & Company
Oregon
Ill
Carlson, & Anderson Implement Company
Pastor from Oak Park Is Found Guilty
Dr Case, pastor of an Oak Park church, was found guilty in a divorce case. Mrs Leland admitted intimate relations with the pastor, and the appellate court upheld her husband’s divorce claim, accepting her testimony over the pastor’s denials.
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Unlea Pressy
Chicago
Case
Oak Park
Leland
Rotary Club Hosts Telephone Men at Noon Meeting
Rotary Club guests today were the district association of the state telephone men, meeting in this city for its annual convention. The Inn ovation grill room hosted a luncheon as Charles Powell led the session while President J Stanley Brown was away.
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State Association of Telephone Men
Rotary Club
District Association
Innovation Grill
Rotarians
Charles Powell
J. Stanley Brown
Doctor Being Held Charged With Murder
Dr John Young plans to repudiate his confession that he strangled his wife by gas and hid her body in a cistern He will claim an accomplice carried out the crime and that a double resembling him shadowed by a second man did the deed Attorney John Cooper announces the defense will focus on shifting blame to the alleged double and accomplice
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Los Angeles
Cal
John Young
Four California Boxwoods on Sale This Week
The Flower Store advertises four California Boxwood plants remaining from a standard price of $12.00, now offered at $8.85 each in a three day sale Monday Tuesday and Wednesday at location 163.
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California
Death Toll Still Grows In German Excursion Wreck
Prophetstown June 17 The Lackawanna excursion train wreck is listed as one of the worst in years with 43 dead and many others burned. Most victims were Chicago area travelers bound for Hoboken to sail for Germany. Investigations are under way by multiple agencies.
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United Press
Prophetstown
Lackawanna
Hoboken
N. J
Germany
Public Utilities Board
Interstate Commerce Commission
Railroad
Chicago
State Meeting Attends Farm Advisors Session in Champaign
County Farm Adviser Thomas Roberts and assistant Raymond Nelson, with four active local youths, attend the annual state farm advisors meeting in Champaign. The group reports on discussions and is expected to return to DeKalb late Friday night or early Saturday morning.
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Thomas Roberts
Raymond Nelson
Champaign
Roberts
Mr. Nelson
DeKalb
China warned over anti foreign spirit rising in note
Pekin notes issued by the diplomatic corps warn China to realize the gravity of the situation and to take necessary steps to cope with it. The note declares that the anti foreign spirit is growing and causing the gravest apprehension.
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China
Pekin
Planted Hanging Baskets At The Flower Store
The Flower Store at 163 BAKE SALE by Congregational Church Saturday June 27 at Leslie's Store offers planted hanging baskets for sale. Proceeds support church activities.
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Congregational Church
Leslie’s
Swedish Minister to Speak in DeKalb Friday
Rev. L. Hallen of Upp sala Sweden visits DeKalb next Friday to address the Swedish Mission church as part of the 41st annual conference of the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America in Rockford. He will be joined by Rev. E. G. Hjerpe and Rev. Ledin, with services at 7 30 p m and special choir singing. public invited.
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Sweden
DeKalb
L. Hallen
Uppsala
Swedish Mission Church
Rev. Hallen
Swedish Evangelical Mission Convent of
America
Swedish Evangelical Mission Convenant of America
Rockford
Hallen
E. G. Hjerpe
Swedish Mission Covenant of America
Ledin
Lake View Mission Church
Chicago
Chemicals outlawed by league signers worldwide
Geneva June 11. A protocol outlawing gas and chemical warfare was signed today by 27 nations including the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Canada, Japan, Brazil, India, Chile, Denmark, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland, Turkey, and others. France did not sign. Burton led the effort and urged further action if needed. A separate arms trade restraint convention was signed by 18 countries including the United States, Great Britain and France.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Burton
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Canada
Japan
Maly
Brazil
India
Chile
Denmark
Spain
Esthenia
Ethiopia
Finland
Greece
Lithuania
Luxemburg
Holland
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Salvadore
Serbia
Turkey
France
Coolidge Wold
League of Nations
Funeral services for Pierre Olker conducted locally
Funeral services for Pierre Olker were held at 2:12 P M today at his residence with Rev Upson officiating. The remains were taken to Aurora and placed on a train at seven this evening for Mackomb where final services will be held tomorrow.
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Pierre Olker
Upson
Episcopal Church
Aurora
Macomb
Weather: Fair Tonight With Storms East and South
Generally fair conditions expected tonight with thunderstorms in the east and south portions. Ceoler in the south and central portions tonight and Thursday bring unsettled skies.
Court hears testimony in Shepherd typhoid murder case
In Chicago on June 17 the state tried to link William D Shepherd to Billy McClintocks death by typhoid germs. Witnesses said Shepherd claimed Billy knew he had typhoid before diagnosis, a key point for the prosecution. Albert Allen identified notes of Shepherds questioning. Dr Farman was to testify on the afternoon schedule.
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United Press
Iminal Court
Chicago
William William D. Shepherd
Billy McClintock
Shepherd
McClintock
Billy
Crowe
Albert Allen
Allen
Faiman
Miss Pope
Isabelle
Farman
Senate Passes Hamilton Measure for College Building
Springfield reports the senate approved the Hamilton measure to fund a symposium and manual arts building at the state college in this city. The state appropriated 225000 dollars for a men’s building with a gymnasium and manual arts department, awaiting Governor Small’s signature.
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Springfield
Senate
State College
Hamilton
Governor Small
Tom Murray Ill During Past Few Days
Thomas 8 Murray, manager of the wrapping paper department at DeKalb Chronicle Publishing, has been confined to his home for four days with neuritis. He expects to return by week’s end. Chronicle offices provide service by calling 263 for wrapping paper inquiries. Dance Friday Elva. New and old time dances, Good wane.
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Thomas 8. Murray
DeKalb Chronicle Publishing Company
Murray
Chronicle
Chronicle Business Office
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