Continues Victory Drive in Tournament
A team extends its winning streak in a tourney beating an unnamed opponent by a narrow score. The report notes continued momentum and progress through the event stages.
12 Mar 1921
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Newspaper
Macomb Daily By Stander
Location
Macomb, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1921
Page
1
A team extends its winning streak in a tourney beating an unnamed opponent by a narrow score. The report notes continued momentum and progress through the event stages.
Local high school faced Canton High in a tense district basketball game. Eagles broke away in the second half to win easily 43 to 20 as stars Simon Murphy and Durr led with multiple baskets and strong team defense.
HNN reports a total corn donation exceeding 5,000 bushels as part of relief efforts in McDonough county. Figures for some districts remain unreported while others show specific sums, with 5,191 bushels noted for Nate and related areas awaiting tabulation.
Report lists yields by town with per location totals: Scotland 306, Macomb 395, Prairie City 841, Bushnell 305, Mound 308, New Salem 724, Eldorado 296, Walnut Grove 440, Sceiota H83 -83 bushels note, Hire 282, Blandinsville 457, Emmet 389, Lamoine 1 district 60 bushels.
The state will move to take the Chicago White Sox throwing case from call and delay trial until after the baseball season ends. Judge Landis said he will place all indicted players on the ineligible list, barring them from playing until the trial concludes.
Galesburg prospectors believe oil underlays Emmet township. Leases increased today by about 800 acres. Conelly and Rinella hold the leases, on file here. Landowners and acres listed include William Waller 170, Jasper Waller 170, Chas Arnold 170, Fred Wilson 125, Margaret Callahan 135, Ernest Arnold 87 14, John Callahan 180, John Johnson 4.
The Johnson Co oil truck became stuck on a road just south of Chautauqua Park yesterday afternoon. Two teams hauled it out this morning as the stretch outside the city limits remains in bad shape due to a broken culvert permitting flood water over the surface.
Inclement weather last night reduced attendance at the Plymouth Girls Band concert at the Clinois theatre. The performers delivered an excellent program and those who attended praised the group's accomplishments.
George Harvey editor of Harvey's Weekly is expected to be named ambassador to London by President Harding to succeed John W. Davis who is returning home. The nomination may go to the Senate before the extraordinary session ends.
Deputy Collector L. H. Pratt will be in the revenue office at the post office Monday and Tuesday of next week to assist in making income tax returns. License To Wed shows Wm. BK Brummell Colchester and Eula B. Clark Macomb.
Chicago reports unemployment ratios surpassing two to one with some lines showing 700 applicants per 100 jobs, especially sharp in construction and common labor. Rock Island records the highest regional ratio, while Rockford shows relative relief with 103 applicants per 100 jobs.
At Mohill Ireland on Friday evening thirty Bedfordshire regiment men traveling from Cannock on Shannon to Ballingmore were attacked with rifle fire and bombs. Six attackers wearing Irish Republican Army uniforms were killed and one mortally wounded before the military response ended the assault.
Washington reports the average plowed land value at 83.78 per acre, down from 90.01 last year. The department of agriculture notes the figure remains higher than any year before 1920, with values ranging from 261 per acre in Alabama to 200 in town. Trade with savertiners.
President Harding urged Americans to do everything in their power to relieve famine in China. He described the Chinese distress as tragic and said the United States must uphold its long friendship with China by contributing as generously as possible.
In Ardmore Oklahoma on March 12 a dying statement by Jake L Ham an oilman and Republican National Committeeman from Oklahoma alleges Clara Smith Hannon shot him as he lay in his hotel suite. W D Nichols ex police chief testified he was pressured not to reveal the statement.
A salesman for a Chicago photo enlarging firm, identified as Lafferty, was warned by police after complaints about his aggressive conduct to potential customers. He chose to leave town rather than continue solicitation with a milder demeanor. A. P. Neve 16 most reliable.
McDonough county farmers gathered for the annual Farm Bureau meeting with two speakers J M Beckett of Blue Mound and V Vaniman of the University of Illinois extension department. Officers were elected later as reports on adviser work and county farm bureau activities were presented along with extensive statistics on visits, demonstrations, publications and orders of seed limestone and rock phosphate.
At Ma comb Lodge no 1009 meeting officers were elected for the coming year Exalted Ruler E S Slusher Leading Knight A J Leander Lecturing Knight Harry I Ingram Loyal Knight E H McDonough Leci Robert Gorbach Tyler Robert Black Trustee 3 years Chas Hanan Representative to Grand Lodge E B Slusher Alternate James Provine Representative to State Convention R B Gorbach
Deputy Wilson, with Floyd Durham of Hannibal, Missouri, escorted a naval deserter to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station today. Sheriff Sapp canceled his planned trip due to illness from the cold.
The city marks the birthday of Mrs Ambrose Harlan today. The item appears in the community notes column of The By Standed Bigged selicra.
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