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Newspaper
Joliet Free Press
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1913
Page
3
William Mce Laughlin resigns as head clerk at Uptons after eight years to buy Dan Vision's store. He plans to restock and offer a full grocery line. Local notes report church and lodge events, births, visits, and community notices with several officer elections and social gatherings.
Four year old Princess Juliana of the Netherlands hands decorations to a royal coachman and delivers a taught greeting to mark her first public act a moment of ceremonial congratulations with Queen Wilhelmina present reported from St Louis Cambridge and London December 11 The piece also notes funeral costs for Adolphus Djiaseh and Harvard class day oration honoree Alexander L Jackson a Black student and athlete from Englewood New Jersey
State's Attorney Robert Martin leads a crackdown on games of chance amid a revival of candy cards and punch boards in Joliet and other Will County stores. The sheriff releases a formal notice warning that all such devices and any property disposed by lottery or raffle are gambling devices and nuisances, subject to seizure and prosecution with fines up to 2000 dollars.
Victor Barnhart a high salaried steel worker in Gary Indiana was arrested by police for alleged involvement in Rosie Ryan's disappearance in Hammond. He admitted owning the car used the night of November 30 and checking in with the girl at the Broadway hotel but denied knowledge of her location.
The Parent-Teachers' association of seven ward street schools will host a spelling match this afternoon at 2 30 o clock. Fourth grade teams from Woodland Longfellow and Richards street schools will compete in the event.
On December 11 the Illinois attorney general and the Illinois and Michigan Canal Commission learned from the Department of Justice that federal intervention is possible in the Chicago to La Salle canal case. A War Department request is needed to proceed with the suit. Lucey and the commissioners will meet the secretary of war tomorrow.
A. A. McCormick urged that immigrants from Europe be exempted from a literacy test before admission. Galesburg board struggles over state aid for roads. Carmi school official C. W. Smith dies in Norris City. John Baptiste attempted to resurrect his daughter in Riverside Cemetery. Harvey Fields convicted of murder of Dr. E. E. Gordon and sentenced to twenty years. Everette W. Cook, Cook Brewing president, dies in Evansville.
The Cuban Special No. 1 traveling from Chicago to New Orleans passed Peoria and a coach caught fire upon its return. Residents mistook a comet like glow for a passing object before the blaze was spotted by conductor A. E. Hoover and extinguished by Peotone residents forming a bucket brigade.
The Fraternal Reserve Life Association forms Joliet No 243 offering death, accident and old age benefits. Application for membership to William Schulenberg at 611 Cass Street or Joseph Budzinski at 306 Meeker Ave. The association seeks two Joliet deputies. apply at Schulenberg's Cass Street location. A runaway accident injures Harry Baumgartner left hand as milk wagon crashes near George Mahoney's residence 804 North Joliet Street.
Willow Avenue Presbyterian schedules Bible School at 9 45 Morning service at 10 45 Christian Endeavor at 6 30 Evening service at 7 30 Prayer meeting Wednesdays 7 30 Miss Charlotte Muschette organist Miss Marion Finney choir leader Also Central Presbyterian invites parishioners to morning sermon Two Exciting Scenes in Ephesus and evening Stephen the First Martyr with special music Rev Charles Dutton Jacobs to lead services
Sunday morning hosts Our Three Judges by the Service of Epis Lutheren church. Evening program presents Do We Need It as part of the church’s observance.
At J T H S the civil engineering club held a large meeting Wednesday. The report notes strong progress and potential to become the school's best student organization. Members and alumni were urged to seek membership and participate fully.
The message announces upcoming incentives for football players and hints at Easter gifts. It mentions a plan to train students as volunteer fire fighters, noting the school would be unique in the state for this action. The note ends with a brief farewell and a local setting.
Dixon reports that the south side school board will employ a visiting nurse to monitor contagious disease within the district. The nurse will contact all cases and report any new outbreaks to authorities.
Cars leave Joliet at 6:05 am 8:05 am 10:05 am 12:06 noon 2:05 pm 3:05 pm 4:06 pm 6:05 pm 8:05 pm and 9:50 pm with direct connections to Grand Ridge and Streator for Rockdale Minooka Morris Seneca Maregeilles Ottawa Utica LaSalle Peru Spring Valley Ladd Marquette Howe De Pue Bureau Princeton Grand Ridge Streator.
Ten cans of perch fry are promised for distribution soon. A petition seeks a permanent injunction to stop city construction of a walk before Tul Lock property at Scott and Jefferson, opposite Union Depot. Judge Campbell heard the matter in Circuit Court. hearing to continue for days. The case, started weeks earlier before Judge Dorrence Dibell, argues the city lost title to a four foot strip and granted it to a tenant.
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