Central Gas Rate Hearing Delayed By Utilities Board
The Central Light and Power Co rate hearing in Chicago was postponed indefinitely after company evidence was submitted. Mayor Flack and City Attorney Switzer said further proceedings depend on the commission order as the city awaits a decision on a proposed minimum gas rate increase from 1.75 to 2.70 per 1000 cubic feet amid a reported 1920 loss of 8895.75 and a monthly loss during February.
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Central Liss Public Service Co
Re J
Public Utilities Commis
Chicago
Flack
Orney T. E. Switzer
Npany
Mpany
New Utilities Commission
Mathers
Associated Press
Iago
B. M. Jewell
Railway Employees Department
American Federation of Labor
Railroad Labor Board
Jewell
W. W. Atterbury
The
Association of Railroad Executives
Eage
Tat
American Association of Railway Executives
Brotherhoods
B. M. Jowell
Pennsylvania Railroad
Mission Meeting for Women at First Presbyterian Church
The Women's Missionary Day at First Presbyterian Church will be Friday at 2 30 P M in Wall Street church hall with topic South America Led by Mrs Rose and Mrs Trendviecks from St Georges Sunday morning services begin at 11 A M Rev H E Burgess of Can will officiate Mrs Chas Scott and husband have returned from Hot Springs and are settling in Illinois The Scotts were arranging for family relatives in Vermont and for their downtown flats Notes of the Scott family in town yesterday and today
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First Presbyterian
South America
Rose
Trendviecks
St. George's
H. E. Burgess
Can
Rand
Chas. Scott
Hot Springs
Scott
Oeif Vila ‘Mol
Vermont
The
Concert at H 8 During Chapel Hour Today
Harold Frank violinist and Mrs Maude Dudman accompanist delighted the high school faculty and students during chapel period this morning with a program of classical numbers including Nomantic Overture Souvenir Springtime Waltz and a forthcoming performance at the high shop in two weeks with a full program plus solos and duets Mittens also featured.
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Harold Frank
Maude Dudman
Dradla
Drumm
Prank
Mittens
Man Stricken as Bushnell Expires in Galesburg
Alex Hendricks of Galesburg died Tuesday at the Galesburg hospital after being rushed here from Bushnell by special train. A native of Sweden, 38, he worked as a car repairer and suffered a first and fatal attack while at Bushnell. He had returned from Chicago after a Christmas examination and had been in the hospital for two weeks prior to death.
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Alex Hendricks
Galesburg
Bush_nell
Galesburg Hospital
Bushnell
St. Francis Hospital
Chicago
Sweeden
Smuts Wins South Africa Election in Union Vote
General Smuts and the Loyalist party secured a victory in the Union of South Africa election held across the country. Returns show Smuts leading the government with British and Dutch backing, while the opposition includes Boers who fought Britain.
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Associated Press
Pretoria
South Africa
Peb
Smuts
Great Britain
Legally Dead Very Much Alive In Louisiana Case
Lonnie Eaton, jailed for the murder of a white man, may be dead legally. Attorney General Coco admitted uncertainty, while parish prison reports show Eaton eating normally. The sheriff told the governor he forgot to schedule his execution on February 4 amid other matters. Cars Collide On West Jackson Street. The Stearns Knight sedan owned by EB T Walker and a Ford owned by W S Pollock collided near Burnham store, damaging wheels and prow.
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Associated Press
Baton Rouge
Lonnie Eaton
Coco
Lonnie
Stearns-Knight
EB. T. Walker
Ford
W. S. Pollock
South Lafayette Street
West Jackson Street
Burnham Store
Philathia Class Plans Friday Meeting at Thompson Home
The Philathia class of the Baptist church will meet Friday night at 7 30 at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson 513 South Lafayette street. All members urged to be present.
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Philathia
The
Baptist Church
Elizabeth Thompson
South
Lafayette Street
Illinois Rail Labor Row Pushes Budget and Armistice Bill
Illinois lawmakers debate party factionalism over old and new committees with a bill to validate April 1920 committeemen and armistice day holiday. Other measures set salaries, bonuses, armories funding, and a probe into profiteers and price fixing.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Republican
Illinois
Lantz
Woodford
Supreme Court
Fox
Kauffman
Oregon
Cruden
Chicago
General Assembly
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Senate
Phillips
Davis
Litchfield
House
Mgaion
Hola
Smejkal
Vernon
Sinn Fein Troops Mass Near Skibbereen Cork
A several hundred strong Irish Republican Army unit reportedly marches on Skibbereen in Cork. Sinn Feiner troops enter the town at night occupying near police and military quarters, discharge volleys, while few police stand by. crown forces arrive after the withdrawal with plans to return.
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Skibbereen
County Cork
Associated Press
London
Crown
Licensed to Wed Chas Stewart and Jennie Larner
Macomb requires marriage license records show Charles Stewart and Jennie Larner of Macomb applying for nuptials as the ceremony proceeds in local records.
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Chas
Stewart
Macomb
Jennie E. Larner
Senate Passes Immigration Measure Limiting One Country
Washington Feb 10 The senate immigration committee approved unanimously a bill restricting immigration from any country to five percent of that country's share of aliens in the United States as of the last census. The bill serves as a substitute for the house measure to halt all immigration for one year.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Senate Immigration Committee
Bergdoll Escape Known by October Says Philadelphia Atty
Charles D. McAvoy district attorney of Philadelphia testified to the house military committee that the Department of Justice knew as early as October that Grover Cleveland Bergdoll a wealthy Philadelphia draft evader had escaped to Germany.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Philadelphia
Germany
House Military Committee
Savas
Charles D. McAvoy
Colby Refuses Senate Japan Information
Secretary Colby refused to transmit to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee details of negotiations with Japan. He said the aim was to fit a new treaty to the situation created by California's anti alien law and discuss it in light of that act.
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Associated Press
Washington
Colby
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Japan
Dallas preacher Rev B Wrenn Webb to speak at First Presbyterian
The Dallas pastor invites the public to hear Rev B Wrenn Webb fill the pulpit next Sunday morning at the First Presbyterian church. Webb is a noted preacher and friend of the local pastor, and the Macomb community is also invited to attend.
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B. Wrenn Webb
Dallas
Texas
First Presbyterian Church
Webb
Macomb
Delegates Attend Road Meeting Amid Gas Rate Hearing
Mayor Flack and City Attorney Switzer attended the C I P S gas rate increase hearing in Chicago and registered at the good roads congress at the Coliseum. Representatives Rexroat Foulke Tiernan could not attend but were appointed to act for the city. Delegates aim to gain road building ideas to extend hard surfaced highways in McDonough county.
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Flack
T. E. Switzer
Chicago
Good Roads Congress
Coliseum
Robert Rexroat
Chas. O. Foulke
C. J. Tiernan
McDonough
Craze drives man to clash with hundreds of officers
In Philadelphia on February 10 a negro who had killed a woman barricaded himself in his home. About a hundred police and firemen fought him with pistols axes high pressure hoses and chemicals. A negro officer entered the house and after a stairway duel the barricaded man fell mortally wounded after six hits.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Wages Cut at Macomb Sewer Pipe Works
Announcement issued this morning that wages will be reduced by 25 percent for all workers at the Macomb Sewer Pipe Works effective February 16. Manager J L Scott cited reductions in prices of factory products as the reason. similar pay cuts had been reported in other clay products plants.
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Macomb
J. L. Scott
Belgians and Germans clash in Aix la Chapelle
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam reports serious fighting between German residents and a Belgian patrol in Aix la Chapelle. The trouble arose when Belgians tried to enforce a closing order in cases.
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Appaeciated
London
Eng
Aix la Chappelle
Amsterdam
Sleep sickness victim shows signs of recovery in Blandinsville
Charles Sweeney of Blandinsville, attacked last week with sleeping sickness, improves as he experiences longer awake periods each day. He alternates between wakeful spells and rests, with increasing duration and frequency of alert intervals.
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Charles Sweeney
Blandinsville
Mayor receives odd request about squirrels in Macomb
A stranger letter to Mayor Flack claims a city story spoke of war on the squirrel family. The writer, Robert L. Tagler, asks how to obtain a pair of the animals to amuse local children near a Cook County forest preserve and school.
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Flack
City of Macomb
Great Forest Preserve
Cook County
Robert L. Tagler
Train wreck near Hot Springs leaves two dead
Hot Springs Feb 10 Two engine men were killed and ten passengers injured, some seriously, when Missouri Pacific train No 17 wrecked six miles east of Hot Springs. Among the injured was Pat Costello of Monmouth with a fractured right leg and other injuries.
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Associated Press
Hot Springs
Missouri Pacific
Pat Costello
Monmouth
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