Varsity Eleven Competes Across Seven Teams In Nineteen
A brief notice reports a varsity squad fielding 11 players across seven teams during the nineteen season. Details on opponents and dates are incomplete in the fragment.
16 Oct 1920
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Newspaper
Macomb Daily By Stander
Location
Macomb, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1920
Page
1
A brief notice reports a varsity squad fielding 11 players across seven teams during the nineteen season. Details on opponents and dates are incomplete in the fragment.
A disjointed OCR entry reports a varsity matchup labeled as a loss with a score around 58 to 50, noting disheartened reactions and mentions of players like Eureka, Carthage, and Croston. The fragmentary text references yard plays, runs, and multiple players without clear context or full names.
Local Elks lodge extended an invitation to Quincy for an initiation event on October 22. The notice requests attendance from members and families, outlining ceremony details and a reception the following morning.
Local neighbors announce an upcoming Halloween social to be held at a community house. Organizers promise a wholesome event with plans to charge a modest entry fee to cover refreshments and decorations.
A fragmented report describes a troubled football squad facing disruptions and internal struggle. The piece hints at uncertain leadership, fractured play, and ongoing tension affecting performance across weeks.
Sheriff notes a stranger spent the night in a Good Hope barn after being refused lodging. Neighbors report a lone visitor who asked for shelter, then left at dawn. Authorities consider a possible link to recent jail deliveries and two escaped prisoners, Hilbert Manninger or Wilbur Scott, though locals do not know the man.
Miss Lois Elliott a trained nurse at Holmes Hospital shows slow improvement after four weeks of treatment. Several local residents are recovering from operations including Lucy Burnham Hazel Sayers Mabel Brown Dorothy Logan Frank Smith and Ralph Birdsall. Elmer Young M C Foster and Frank Smith received X ray treatment yesterday. Lost money sacks belonging to W F Grubb owner of the Tokyo and Grand theatres were lost today and may be returned.
Rev. Dr. J. M. D. Davidson of North Randolph Street has not been well after returning home from a six week treatment at Phelps hospital and is confined to his bed once more.
A sentenceized note claims A P News is most reliable and beats The Associated Press in credibility.
London reports grim preparations for a national coal strike after miners halt work, with Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire already idle. Railway workers weigh a sympathetic strike. Yorkshire iron and steel plants shut, 20 000 jobs lost. Lloyd George vows government action to avert calamity. In Chicago Colby accuses Republicans of stirring xenophobia and radical bias. Cox calls for a national congress to draft social reforms.
Springfield reports the Central Illinois Light Co of Peoria applied to the state public utilities commission for a second Pekin gas rate increase in four months from 1.75 to 2.25 emergency. The company cites August income in Pekin of 59.79. Washington says talks with Japan over anti Japanese land litigation in California are paused until after the November elections.
Mesdames Lomax and Ed Rodgers hosted a four course breakfast for Mrs Francis Herring at Mrs Lomax's home. The previous evening Mesdames Ringar and Orum held a card party for her. Both events were farewell gatherings before the Herrings depart for California for the winter by automobile.
The McDonough County Odd Fellows organization will hold its next regular monthly meeting at Adair Saturday evening October 30. Plans are being made for a big time and good sized delegations are expected from every lodge in the county.
Bushnell friends report George Chatterton formerly of Bushnell has become afflicted with paralysis after removal to California. Ad vices say his condition is quite serious and deeply concerns local acquaintances.
Sunday service at 11 a.m. at 219 1-2 N Randolph St with lesson sermon on October 17. Wednesday service at 7 30 p.m. Reading room open Monday Wednesday and Saturday 2 to 5 p.m. By-Stander "Want Ada" pay.
Constable Mat B. McDonald of Bushnell cut a pine tree on his farm a few days ago. The tree measured 70 feet in height and 14 inches in diameter. It was a Northern pine planted in 1865.
Mr and Mrs Jerome Carress of Los Angeles travel to Adair after the death of Mrs Susanna Wilkins, their mother in law.
Eric G. Leander of Macomb was certified today as Democratic candidate for state senator from the 82nd district by the Democratic caucus after William A. Compton withdrew. Leander, former By-Stander business manager, holds a federal Internal Revenue Service post and has not decided on nomination, with a decision expected before Monday of next week.
William Jones, superintendent of the McDonough County Home, disposed of the hog stock for 1816.35 dollars, handing the check to County Treasurer John Barclay. The farm still has 125 spring and fall pigs and enough large hogs for winter meat. The County Home reports good production with corn and oats crops.
The Republican candidate schedule shows a party rail tour with all state office contenders visiting Canton Bushnell Macomb and Quincy Friday October 22 with events in each city and a night meeting in Quincy The train then stops in Macomb again and proceeds to Monmouth for an 8 o clock gathering the next morning
Mrs Clara Spangler of Henry Pennsylvania and Mrs W B Bolich of Mt Carmal Pennsylvania visit in Bushnell at the home of Mrs D F P Chidister, the latter’s mother.
Mr and Mrs Earl DeMoss of Adair are the parents of a son born Friday October 8. Trade with Advertisers. You say it in The By-Stander.
The Chicago Tribune, a Republican paper, will endorse Democratic candidate James Hamilton Lewis for Illinois governor after bolting the Len Small nomination. An editorial argues that party loyalty should yield to individual judgment and best governance, condemning Thompson Tammany influence in Illinois Republicanism.
Blandinsville farmers formed the Blandinsville Farmers Organize Shipping Co with directors J. E. Stickle Marion Herzog A. L. White Al Reed and Adolphus Lober chosen at a meeting of about fifty people. Officers not named at the session where 35 to 40 joined and one ear of stock was listed for shipment. it is the county's tenth such organization.
Hedding College of Abingdon defeated Culver-Stockton 14 to 7 in Canton, Missouri on Friday afternoon. Allan Wilcox, a Hedding player from this city, visited last night on his way back to Abingdon.
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