County Supervisors Honor Billy Jones at Dinner
McDonough County Board members praised county farm superintendent Billy Jones and his wife with a gift of knives and forks after a full county home inspection. A hearty dinner followed, while the board toured facilities noting well kept crops, stock, and machinery. discussion also covered braces for a Sanitarium resident and road, tax, and aid matters.
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McDonough Witity Board of Supervisors
William Jones
Jones
Foster
Jae
Colchester
Sid
Ile
Billy Jones
Tulasi
Matilda Bowen Apfora
Billy Baker
Robe
Hendricks
Plymouth Man Fractures Heels In Barn Fall
Orin Stump of near Plymouth fell from the barn gable while fixing a hay rope pulley. He dropped about 20 feet and fractured the heel bones of both feet. The ladder slipped and he fell. Dr. Dillon had him treated at the Macomb clinic with X rays by Dr. Startman and later moved to Holmes hospital for fracture reduction.
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Orin Stump
Plymouth
Stump
Dillon
Macomb Clinic
W. M. Startman
Holmes Hospital
Inquiries Flood American Legion Essay Contest
Indianapolis June 14 Many inquiries flood national essay contest on How the American Legion Can Best Serve the Nation open to all school boys and girls ages twelve to eighteen. Numbers indicate strong interest despite vacation period. Additional details available from American Legion national headquarters Indianapolis.
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Indianapolis
American Legion
Legion National
Girls Leap to Safety as Train Wrecks Auto near Peoria
In Peoria on June 13 Marguerite Tilst 16 and Frances Ililst 38 were saved when their car was struck by a Toledo Peoria and Western train. They jumped from the auto as it was hit and hurled over a hundred feet, the vehicle demolished.
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Peoria
Toledo-Peoria& Western
Marguerite Tilst
Frances Ililst
Celebration Plans for Veiled Prophets March in Rock Island
Rock Island, June 14. Plans outline miles of rope to enclose the line of march for the Mysterious Reverend Prophets on the night of June 28. Forty bands to provide music while twenty patrols add color to the parade path. This marks the closing of the order's session in Rock Island on June 26 and 27.
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Rock Island
Prople
Jury Probes Bullet Holes as Greek Murder Trial Continues
In Quincy on June 14 the Adams county court heard rebuttal testimony in the murder trial of twenty nine Greeks for killing three Schuyler officers. Witnesses described bullet holes in Frederick and near a box car shelter while disputing whether Utter shouted before he was fatally wounded. Maggie Wilcox testified Marc Wilcox was at home the night of the shooting and John Trent, staying near Harry Wilcox, said he heard firing. Trent claimed he saw neither Wilcox nor his brother that night.
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Quincy, II
Adams County Court Room
Schuyler County
Frederick
Utter
Maggie Wilcox
Hen Wilcox
Marc Wilcox
John Trent
Harry Wilcox
Trent
Wilcox
Oil shipment lost for Macomb streets prompts tracer
A tracer is sent after two car loads of street oil for Macomb city streets that were expected days ago but have not appeared at the freight yard. Company reports say the oil was shipped as agreed but has been lost. Meanwhile Mrs. Glen Painter and son Charles depart for Chicago and Omaha for a visit before returning to Middleton Idaho. Mrs. Painter’s grandfather N. Jolly recently died.
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Board of Review
Chas. O. Poulke
F. W. Tarris
Good Roads Bureau of the Commercial Association
John Ullrich
Wilse Stoneking
Stoneking
Macomb
Glen Painter
Charles
Chicago
Omaha
Middleton
Idaho
Galesburg teen sets school attendance record
Galesburg Illinois June 14 Nest Simmerman who just graduated from high school this year had a remarkable attendance record. He missed only one day of school in twelve years and was tardy only twice during that period.
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Galesburg
Ernest Simmerman
The Fear of Millennium Outsprinting Normalcy
A brief Augusta era note from the Asheville Times hints at a public sentiment that the coming millennium could outpace a return to normalcy, reflecting local concerns on era change and stability.
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Asheville Times
McDonough County Coal Co discusses reorganization and expansion
Stockholders meeting in the Union National Bank assembly room considered reorganization of the McDonough County Coal Co which operates mines in the Spring Creek area. They discussed purchasing a compressed air drill to boost output to 1000 to 1500 bushels daily and to improve service during a strike. The Spring Creek coal is praised for quality by waterworks engineer B. B. Newell.
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McDonough County Coal Co
Spring Creek
Union National Bank
B. B. Newell
Franklin County
Water‘works
La Follette Accuses Supreme Court of Tyranny at AFL Talk
At the AFL convention in Cincinnati Senator La Follette denounces the Supreme Court over rulings on child labor as typical of favoring the wealthy. He brands the court as the aerial ruler of the people and claims it rewrites the law and constitution to fit nine judges.
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Associated Press
Cincinnati
Organized Labor
American Federation of Labor
Supreme Court
LaPollette
Wisconsin
Congress
LaFollette
Supreme Tribunal
United States
Strike Sympathizers March On Open Mines
A crowd of about 400 motorists left Terre Haute to close every coal mine in operation between Cerra Taiute and Brazil, ten miles east of Terre Haute. They stopped at the Howes mine near Staunton where two men loaded with coal were seized and the contents dumped onto the road, according to reports received.
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Terre Saute
Ind
Cerra Taiute
Brazil
Here
Howes Mine
Staunton
Vreworts
Tramps Save Family From Burning Train Inferno
Three men jumped from a passing freight train early Tuesday morning to smash open a depot restaurant door and wake Jeff Authouse, his wife, and their child, rescuing them from a fierce fire.
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Jef Authouse
Elgin Moves Water Supply From River to Deep Wells
Elgin officials announce a shift to deep wells near the city to supply the water system. Several wells have been drilled in recent months to replace river water now in use, with completion expected soon.
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Elgin
Massachusetts Representative Denounces Shipping Wine List
In Congress Representative Gallivan of Massachusetts attacks a wine list on a ship, while President Busch of Anheuser-Busch accuses the U S of becoming the world’s biggest bootlegger for selling liquor on ships beyond the three mile limit. Lasker replies the liquor sales on ships are legal and needed for the merchant marine.
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Associated Press
St. Louis
United States
AL Busch
Anhauser-Based Co
Lasker
Bowrs
Haynes
U.S
Newval
Adolphus Busch
Kaiser
Anhauser-Buseht Company
Washington
Shipping Board
Three Mile
Adolphus Busch Jr
Laskey
America
Germany
Representative Gallican
Massachusetts
Peninsula
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Celebration Rock Island
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Labor Federation
Gallivan
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