Amal Meet Highlights 90 School Field Event
Readable notes show Amal Meet noting 90 school placement in field event at Saturday meet.
16 May 1921
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Newspaper
Macomb Daily By Stander
Location
Macomb, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1921
Page
1
Readable notes show Amal Meet noting 90 school placement in field event at Saturday meet.
The Macomb track meet featured standout performances across events led by Kirkwood and Knox ville. Athletes from Galesburg Normal Drake and others posted top times and distances including a 1 minute 40 second half mile relay and a 9 feet 6 inch standing broad jump with medals decided by tie.
The will filed for probate states Chas M. Stackhouse of Walnut Grove township left $3000 in personal property to his widow Lizzie Stackhouse who is named executrix and guardian of children Elizabeth Nell Allen Eugene and Sannee Virginia. The will dated September 23, 1920 and witnessed in Bushnell by Chas Henry Verner Hall and Geo Hillyer. Stackhouse died April 20 of this year.
The civic bureau will meet this evening at 7 30 to discuss important topics including examination of cows in Mucoml i for tuberculosis. Chairman A Reno urges all members to attend.
The government asked the Supreme Court to treat asset value as part of corporate profits for taxes. The court sustained the ruling that ore lands bought for 190 000 in 1904 must be shown at 10 million in 1917 profits, involving hundreds of millions in excess profits tax. The decision was unanimous with one concurrence. The ruling also holds that the prohibition amendment was ratified within seven years and became effective January 16 1920. Dillon was arrested January 17 1920 for transporting wine.
Senator Sutherland urged Secretary Weeks to issue the proclamation signing martial law in West Virginia and Kentucky strike zones. Weeks said federal troops were not yet needed, noting 300 deputy sheriffs and two Kentucky National Guard companies were restoring order. Fire opened near Merrimac as troopers moved in from Williamson.
Rotary club committee in Macomb reports continued progress for a boys band. Instrument houses will send sample instruments for committee and parent review with the first shipment expected today and to be displayed in a public window.
Leading milk dealers in Macomb announce a controllable price cut set to take effect tomorrow. The notice appears in By-Standey and signals a drop in milk costs for consumers.
Bloomington Illinois May 16 official inquiry into the Chicago and Alton Hum mer wreck last night shows the Chicago to St. Louis fast train was deliberately derailed by an unknown person. General Manager Titus and the dispatcher exonerate the engine crew while noting tampering at a siding switch. The fourteen car train with many Pullmans was steered into a siding and hit a freight train. Lights were extinguished and passengers panicked.
M Powell came home from Pearce Nebraska where he visited his son Clarence. He will stay at the home of his son in law Blaine Dougherty for an undetermined period.
Floyd Mowrey of Bushnell a 21 year old deaf mute was placed on one year probation by Judge Harry M Waggoner in circuit court after pleading guilty to forging a check at the Crane store. If conduct remains satisfactory he will be permanently released at the end of probation. Four divorces were granted this morning Gladys Matthews vs Herbert Matthews Henry H Pegg vs Gertie Pegg Flora Smith vs Emmons Smith Emma B Stevens vs Wm Stevens. A continuance was granted in People vs Harriet Carnes and John Carnes burglary and larceny.
London May 16 A great magnetic storm disrupted telephone and telegraph lines in the British Isles and northern Europe paralyzing wire transmission in the United States over the weekend. Cables between England and the United States were affected with delayed transmissions as the unusually bright northern lights caused widespread trouble for telephone and electric light line companies.
John I Quirk cashier and his father M C Quirk president of Arcola State Bank were arrested after the bank closed amid a reported 400000 shortage. Warrants issued by P B Lyons vice president of Champaign led to the morning arrests.
European champion Georges Carpentier arrived in New York to begin training for his world championship fight against Jack Dempsey scheduled in Jersey City on July 2.
Potatoes and tomatoes along with other garden crops in the Fox River valley were frozen last night. Temperatures dropped below freezing in several localities, reports from Aurora say.
Dublin reports that Lloyd George has offered to meet Baamon D Valera or other Irish leaders without conditions. D Valera said he would respond with a public reply if the premier made his statement public.
Ralph V. Carson of Colchester remains unsure if the two prisoners held in Peoria county jail for a Bloomington area crime are the same men who robbed him of his Ford touring car near Colchester. Clarence Copeland and Ed Vaughn, with Deputy Wilson, visited the jail and questioned the pair but no definite identification exists. The article recalls the Colchester highway robbery and a Bloomington crime reviewed in Saturday’s By-Stander.
Saturday a bystander reported the arrest of Art Helms on forgery but failed to note he is a Canton resident. The Canton man runs a meat market and grocery with his father on West Jackson Street, and those who know him insist he would not be involved in such trouble.
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