At i Mugh Land and Snapp the Hope Leaves Family
A brief note from i Mugh Land and SNAPP reports late hope leaving a family. Details are fragmentary and not fully clear in the OCR text.
04 May 1921
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Newspaper
Macomb Daily By Stander
Location
Macomb, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1921
Page
1
A brief note from i Mugh Land and SNAPP reports late hope leaving a family. Details are fragmentary and not fully clear in the OCR text.
Late Mrs. Lucinda Hale of Good Hope leaves an estate valued around 315000 to widow Barbara Snapp and their ten children with a complex division of real and personal property across townships and sections. Executors rearrange lands including 100 acres in Walnut Grove and 80 acre parcels. proceeds support widows and heirs per will dated 1907 with J.D. Meade and Tabula Decker witnessing.
The renowned author and orator William J. Johnson of St. Paul will visit Macomb Thursday and Friday as guest of the Presbyterian Brotherhood. He speaks Thursday at 3:30 p.m. on Lincoln the Christian at the high school, 7:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian on The Moral Welfare of America, Friday 9:40 a.m. at the Normal school on Abraham Lincoln, and noon Friday to the Rotary Club at the Pace hotel on The Community Power House. Admission is free for all events.
Despite cold weather a large crowd attended Kehoe and Davis carnival at the fair grounds. The show runs all week with portions of receipts donated to the Macomb fire department. The company touts an exceptional season with a family troupe, a fire eater, glass dancer, and new features in the lions show. The athletic show includes wrestlers and the midway offers ferris wheel aeroplane swing and a spruced up merrygoround. Drainage is good and no mud inconveniences reported.
Frederick Warren son of Mr and Mrs Frank Warren leaves for San Diego and Los Angeles to seek employment likely in Los Angeles. He had been with Chicano until recently and will pursue work in California.
Springfield reports two anti trust measures targeting building conspiracies and the Kelly system that parcel out community business. Violations carry a 5000 dollar fine or one year imprisonment. The move follows the Dailey commission probe and seeks rapid passage.
Formal notice was sent to the U S district attorney in Grand Rapids Michigan to nolle prose all pending indictments against Senator Newberry. The move follows the Supreme Court decision Monday clearing Senator Newberry as announced by the department of justice.
About 20 000 Polish workers have occupied all of Upper Silesia south of a Kosel Tarnowitz line. A few large towns remain and the workers are moving northward, according to information from the inter allied representation here.
The arbitration board reduces weekly pay for Chicago printers by 4.99 dollars, setting new scales for compositors at 46.65, pressmen 47.05, feeders 89.65, and book binders 42.15 for a 45 hour week. Ralph Reisman of Northwestern University chaired the panel of nine.
Topeka court holds women performing men's work deserve the same pay as men. The Court of Industrial Relations ordered wage equality, a 10 to 15 percent wage reduction in ware prices, and the eight hour day for the packing industry in Kansas in the Wolff Packing Company case.
Seventeen young ladies of the Christian church met at the Ferson home on West Adams street last evening and organized a circle similar to other city churches. No name has yet been chosen. A pot luck supper was served.
The American Railway Express Company informed its 80,000 employees of a forthcoming wage revision effective June 1, signaling cuts or changes to pay scales as part of cost measures. The move was announced by the company in New York on May 4 and affects a large workforce across its network.
A Macomb resident describes a “gasoline alley” in the first ward where residents store wagons and discuss motor oil tires and motordom slang. The crowd includes characters named Doe Walt and Skeezix from the comic strip and the Tri bune, with fear of someone finishing the east by leaving a basket on Walt’s doorstep.
Albert Brenneman and daughter Mildred were beaten and bound by two men who asked for gasoline at their Tropedale area home. Mildred was shot in the hand defending her father. son Jacob was shot in the shoulder entering the home. The suspects fled but were found hiding in a straw stack. one claimed to be Virgil Schneider and the other Seth Marding. Jacob Brenneman was taken to a Peoria hospital for treatment. The pair were jailed in Tazewell county.
George Philander Wilkins a Civil War veteran over 75 died suddenly aboard train No. 16 en route from Quincy to Macomb. Organic heart trouble blamed after coroner's inquest at Camp Point. He had returned to Quincy after visiting his daughter Mrs. Fred Whipple and was born in Macomb area, survived by multiple children and siblings. Body prepared in Macomb awaiting funeral arrangements.
In Lansing on May 3 John Brazell, a farm hand, unearthed a glass jar containing $1.00 in gold on the Patrick Walton farm. The discovery occurred while he plowed a field and is believed to have been buried for an undetermined period.
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