Probate filing shows distribution of Stephen Stone estate
A filed will for Stephen Stone requests $1500 in real estate and $000 in personal property portions. Executors Beverly Blackstone and R. Blackstone receive $1000 each. Mary Eliza Blackstone inherits household goods. Beverly receives a 200 acre farm. other heirs receive various 160 and 80 acre parcels in New Salem and Pennington Point areas with lifetime estates to named siblings and deaths to heirs. Trusts allocate $2000 to Methodist church missions and $1000 to Macomb church, plus $42,000 to McDonough County Orphans Home.
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Stephenstone
Holmes Hospital
M.E. Church of
Beverly Blackstone
Xe R. Blackstone
Mary Eliza Blackstone
George R. Black
New Rin Township
Nettie G
New Salem
Bray
Methodist
Pennington Point
Said Weh
Society of the Methodist Epis
al Chireh
Macomb
Cehureh
McDonough County
Division of personal property among five heirs in estate plan
The passage states the personal property will be divided equally among five children. It warns that any heir attempting to sell the life estate will cause the property to pass as if the devisee had died. If a child of the deceased dies before estate settlement, that share goes to the grandchildren of the deceased child.
Janes 10 gets release on bond after liquor case
Elmer Janes of Industry arrested in Elkhart Indiana on transporting liquor and sentenced at Goshen to ninety days at the state farm and a $330 fine plus car seizure. He will be released on $3,000 bond to recuperate from a nervous breakdown and return in March to serve the sentence. He had used several aliases and 158 quarts of Old Jordan bourbon were found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Janes
Elkhart
Ind
Goshen
State Farm
Rock Island
Jones
Detroit
Roof Fire From Soot Sparks on West Carroll Street
Soot from a chimney at Henry Dorgan's home on West Carroll Street sparked shingles Sunday afternoon. The minor blaze was extinguished before firefighters arrived and caused no appreciable damage as the flames did not penetrate the roof.
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Henry Dorgan
West Caroll Street
Six Family Burned to Death in Ohio Fire
Six members of the family of James Adkins living fourteen miles north of Washington Courthouse were burned to death when a house fire early this morning destroyed their home. Adkins was fatally burned.
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Ohio
Washington Courthouse
James Adkins
Here
Adkins
Explosion Kills Twenty-Five In Memphis Dwellings
AP reports a gasoline tank car explosion in central Memphis set a row of negro housing ablaze. Police estimate 25 dead and about 50 injured as several frame houses were destroyed. Two black workers in the car died. a third escaped. Ambulances and volunteer crews aided rescue amid ongoing fires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Memphis
Tenn
Missouri Bandits Hold Up Train for $9
Four masked men robbed a Chicago and Alton passenger train No 10 about ten miles east of Louisiana Missouri just after midnight. They took $9 from a fireman before fleeing. The bandits, believed to be amateurs, avoided entering sleeping cars due to locked vestibules and escaped after signaling the locomotive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Louisana
Chicago & Alton
Here
Kansas City
Chicago
Mendon man nearly recovered after Camp Point train crash
Gordon Mealitt of Mendon UL spent 108 days as a St. Francis Hospital patient after a fatal Camp Point wreck that killed his wife and several children. Recently he settled with an insurance company for disability and now moves without crutches though he limps. He will give up farming and hold a sale this week to dispose of his implements.
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Gordon Mealitt
Mendon
St. Francis Hospital
Camp Point
New Signs Erected for Atherton Battery Service Station
New signs were placed today for the Atherton Battery service station on South Randolph street and at the entrance of the UK P hall on North Lafayette street, marking updates to local facilities.
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Atherton Battery
South
Randolph Street
P. Hall
North
Lafayette Street
New Nurses in Training at Holmes Hospital
Misses Margaret Freudenthal of Good Hope Willa Graves of Sciota and Mable Chaping of La Trarpe are listed as new nurses in training at Holmes hospital.
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Margaret Freudenthal
Good Hope
Willa Graves
Sciota
Mable Chaping
la Trarpe
Holmes Hospital
Poultry Show Decision Anticipated For Next Year
McDonough County Poultry Association members and interested parties meet at 8 o clock tomorrow night at the farm bureau office on North Lafayette street to decide on a repeat annual poultry show. Officers will be elected and other business will be transacted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McDonough County
McDonough County P Try Association
Farm Bureau
Lafayette Street
Two Negroes Dead After Race Clash
Warrenton North Carolina reports a lynching of two Black men by masked men last night amid rumors of further armed clashes between Black and white residents in the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warrenton
North Carolina
Associated Press
N. C
Lynching Sparks Deadly Clash in Town
A mob of about 150 overpowered the jailer and shot two Black prisoners near the roadside after a dispute over 10 cents worth of apples. Earlier, five white men and three Negroes were wounded in a gun fight, as tension between races rose over several days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison
Flack declines 10 run to retire from mayoral race
Macomb city politics shift as Mayor Charles W. Flack announces he will not run again. B P McLean files to seek mayoral nomination with A Pech circulating signatures. Butterfield also plans to file, while Graves and others line up for local offices. Births note a daughter for Chas Harvey of Aledo and a daughter for Geo Essex of Waq Union.
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B. PB. McLean
Macomb
John Gravytes
A. Pech
Amon
Sheerrens
Ron B. Butterfield
Flack
Charles W. Flack
Messrs
McLean
Butterfield
Graves
James I. Foster
Oscar Champion
George Reid
Byron Butterfield
Walter Nease
E. Bonham
Oral Woods
Charles Hanan
William Purdum
John Burke
Fred Wilsoy
Chas. Harvey
Aledo
Harvey
Theo. Harvey
Geo. Essex
Waquion
Ethel Boote
Good Hope
Macomb Man in Bad Rre Mix-Up at Knox County Jail
Frank W. Dalton of Galesburg sought to regain his railroad job by piling ties on the tracks and signaling a west bound passenger train to stop. After a confession he was jailed in Knox county on bonds. a wreck was narrowly avoided as officials investigated the attempted frame-up.
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Frank W
Spike Dalton
Galesburg
Knox County
Love
Santa Fe
Dalton
J. S. Sapp
Lincoln Street
Tie
Tims
Sapp
Fred Johnson
Chicago
Denver
Burlington
Caleshire
Aurora
Galesbore
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Tephen Blackstone
Janes
Indiana
Senate
Packer
Washington
Gronno
Kenyon-Kendrick
Elow
House
Missouri Bandits
B. F. McLean
B. B. Butterfield
Macomb Man
Spike
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