Ough County Ad Its Quota Sealed with $5 Minimum
Republicans were issued a minimum of five dollars each under the quota. The notice confirms the collection and sets the per person amount required.
08 Sep 1920
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Newspaper
Macomb Daily By Stander
Location
Macomb, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1920
Page
1
Republicans were issued a minimum of five dollars each under the quota. The notice confirms the collection and sets the per person amount required.
Readers report a controversy over campaign fundraising suggesting letters sent to voters urged donations with a stated target of five dollars to raise funds for the presidential race. The national party and involved counties are cited as sources, with talk of disclosures and Senate investigation extending to timing and totals.
Members of the Macomb lodge of Royal Neighbors visited Bushnell lodge last evening. The local degree team exemplified the work and initiated five members into the order. Eighty five members attended, twenty one from Macomb. Refreshments were served after the initiation. Local attendees included Frances Maguire Lizzie Hoge Mabel Benner Mary McGuire Elizabeth Massey Sara Hoyt Kate Purdum Kate Whalen Maud Butterfield Louisa Greer Nellie Butterfield Maysie Comstock Fannie Butcher Seril Ida Fuller Ida Wade Grace Allen Clara Braun Verda Smith Louise Senn Nellie Allen and Mrs Mable Benner gave five readings.
McDonough county receives 22436.18 from the state distributive school fund this year based on residents under 21. Nearby counties totals include Adams 93294.96 Fulton 47323.85 Knox 7668.06 Hancock 25180.26 Henderson 7823.44 Mercer 15749.98 Rock Island 57880.17 Schuyler 13813.08 Warren 17726.98. Statewide total is 5413047.11 with an additional 3288052.89 added to the teachers pension fund.
Leo Chenowith of Marietta had a skull fracture seven years ago after being kicked by a horse. A brain operation was performed this morning by Dr J B Holmes at the hospital to relieve severe head pain and possible mental trouble. The brain area was scarred and a bone defect could not be removed, but no paralysis is expected from the condition.
London September 71 The Daily Mail reports new activities by Sinn Fein Republican army units. Officials believe armed outbreaks are planned and likely to begin around September 25.
The Macomb Commercial Association approved supporting civic proposals and pledged cooperation with city officials to improve waterworks park, roads, and a camping area for auto tourists. They authorized posters to promote Macomb within eighteen to twenty miles and discussed moral support for a local slaughterhouse project, noting past outflow to Chicago and other cities.
A meeting for Macomb's new independent football team is scheduled for 8 o'clock tonight in the Commercial club reading room. All interested, including those who signed up to try out, are urged to attend as matters of importance will be discussed and supporters and team members are encouraged to participate.
Miss Dorothea Vance, who left for school in Oquawka, has returned home as the board of health imposes a one week quarantine on all public gatherings due to scarlet fever cases.
Rome dispatch reports hundreds killed and many injured as earthquakes hit the Massa region between Florence and Modan. At Monmouth, John Huston spoke on public necessity and the shift toward industrial growth, stressing livestock feeding and farming interdependence.
In Kansas City on September 8 a woman asked Officer W H Scott how to reach an address. She thanked him then bit a plug of tobacco and was arrested for disturbing the peace. Judge Kennedy dismissed the case saying if women may vote why not chew.
Lieut and Mrs Robert McDonald plan to leave next month for France, home of Mrs McDonald’s parents, to visit until spring before returning to the United States. McDonald recently arrived from Denver where a bronchial ailment from wartime service improved. the couple will visit here with plans for their future in Europe.
Chicago reports that aerial mail between New York and San Francisco was officially opened today with four divisions carrying 600 pounds each. The system advances delivery by 60 hours over rail and mail from New York to Omaha is delivered before sunset the same day it is mailed.
Terrence MacSwiney, Cork lord mayor, entered the 27th day of a hunger strike after arrest by British authorities. Prison reports say he was brighter this morning but growing weaker.
Washington reports corn prospects for 1920 rising to 3,181,000,000 bushels, 28,000,000 above August 1 projections and well above prior records. Yield per acre at 30.2 bushels, a rare peak in recent five years. Illinois bulletin notes slow progress for week ending September 7 due to cool weather.
A son weighing 9 pounds was born to Mr and Mrs Adolphus Hare of Fast Murray Street recently.
Chicago reports reveal testimony that Cuyahoga County set a $400000 quota for the Ohio GOP fund drive and that the national committee sought to raise more than Georgia’s $250000 state goal. Ohio steel interests and Youngstown executives figure prominently as contributors in the recount of campaign financing for 1920.
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