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Fragmentary note from a GAM sports section references a school event. Readable words include game and school but full details and entities are missing.
23 Sep 1920
Page 1
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Newspaper
Macomb Daily By Stander
Location
Macomb, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1920
Page
1
Fragmentary note from a GAM sports section references a school event. Readable words include game and school but full details and entities are missing.
A fragmentary report notes a season of competition among Monmouth area schools with key performances by teams including Monmouth Normal and others. It mentions venues near Teoria and Jinedon and names several figures such as Haan, Yard, and Murphy in a sparse outline of results.
Start of a local exhibition is announced with displays from Rexall and a drug store. Event spans from the railway area to Union Chapel with train-related attractions and a focus on community interest.
Mrs. Mary Boyd of East Elm Street learns the body of her son William Boyd will depart New York at 10:00 this morning after arriving overseas. The remains are expected to reach Chicago soon with funeral services likely to be held there Sunday. Further word will confirm the final arrangements.
Brookfield Laughlin, arrested Sept 17 at Bushnell with 900 morphine and heroin tablets, is held on $3,000 bond by a U S commissioner in Peoria. Federal agents say he robbed doctors in four central Illinois towns and trafficked drugs while operating as a magazine and tobacco salesman. He faces Harrison narcotics act charges and is suspected in a theft of about $150 in Beardstown clothes.
Dr and Mrs J B Holmes Dr S F Russell Miss Suttle Hicks and Easley arrived home from a ten days visit at the Mayo Bros hospital in Rochester Minnesota The trip was by auto Dr Holmes went to Chicago by train to purchase new equipment and supplies for his hospital.
Macomb churches host a Friday night reception for Normal School and High School students. Students may attend Sunday school and church at the church of their choice.
Charles Wright a former Macomb resident with farming roots and later wealth in Greenwood Mississippi was killed by a train this morning. He left a wife and an adopted daughter and was described as a leading local figure after moving south in the eighties.
The Christian Church annual convention for McDonough County will convene in Colmar NL on Thursday Sept 30 in two sessions. A large attendance is expected and each church is to report at the 1920 session. Supper and overnight accommodations are arranged. Activities include devotional periods and district programs with speakers from Blandinsville Monmouth Galesburg Sciota Macomb Old Bedford.
Bushnell photographer F. J. Bartch is laid up with a fractured wrist after cranking his van last Sunday. Miss Walton of Prairie City is assisting at the studio while Bartch recuperates.
Warren Terry sold the large hardware and implement business owned by C. W. Hodges in Tennessee to Byron Nillum of Carthage LL. Hodges accepted as partial payment a 62 acre farm west of Plymouth.
In Cook County official canvass John G. Oglesby leads the Republican nomination effort with large gains among country towns. Managers project a possible statewide plurality near 1000, erasing an earlier 4000 margin for Len Small and signaling Oglesby’s path to victory.
George White, Democratic Party Chair, urged a $900000 match the president fund with a thousand League of Nations supporters to subscribe $500 each to back Cox Roosevelt. Also reports on a dynamite find and a Senate inquiry into Republican financing.
Knox fraternity news notes Henry Hermetet pledges Phi Gamma Delta at Knox College Macomb. Freshmen guests meet, and pledges list includes William Simpson Phil Stearns Howard Custer Bob Adams Bob Swank Herbert Weeks Raymond Mitchell Archie McMaster Charles Statler Houry Hermetet.
The straw vote tally from Rexall drug stores across the country shows totals for men and women with a combined figure of 3677 respondents in Illinois. The report lists Harding Rabace and WA Cox among figures in the nationwide tally.
M Gustice of Bushnell leaves tomorrow for an indefinite visit in California. He was Macomb caller today.
The public library adds Atwood Back to the Republic and Our Present Day Economic Problem for readers of politics and economics. Breezy outdoors books The Out of Doors Club and uncut John Burroughs volumes invite families to explore fields and woods this October with recommendations from L F GUMBART.
Prof E L Jay resigns after six years on the State Normal school faculty. He led geography for two years and served as assistant and director of athletics for four. The resignation takes effect October 1 and the Jay family plans to move to Ladysmith Wisconsin to pursue agriculture. President Morgan has secured a replacement, name to be announced later.
The advisory stresses vaccinating every child and giving a thorough examination by the family physician at the start of the school year to prevent trouble and set the year on the right course.
Hilbert Monninger and Carrie Tranchell face grand jury indictments linked to auto thefts and a Bushnell case. Monninger pled guilty to auto theft related to H A Allison, while Tranchell and husband Paul Tranchell confront separate charges and bonds. Bail and hearings proceed as cases advance this term.
Gov Cox presidential campaign train wrecked about 30 o clock fourteen miles north of Phoenix Arizona. Engine and four cars derailed forcefully shaking the party but no serious injuries. Engineer Charles A Nichols suffered a broken leg after leaping from the cab as the engine toppled. Railroad men blamed spreading rails for the wreck forcing cancellation of the Prescott address and upsetting the itinerary.
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