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EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF EMANCIPATION DAYFor 18 years tho colored population of Quincy has celebrated Emancipation day at Baldwin park on August 4. Tho colobratlon begins at noon and ends a midnight. The day marks tho anniversary of tho freeing of tho Negroes In Cuba and is generally observed.Edward Duncan has beon in chargo of the celebration for the, paat.olgbt years and this year plana have been made to entertain a large number of guests.Thoro arc a number of out of town gucBte from Hannibal, Louisiana and neighboring cities present today and it is expected that the crowd will bo much larger this afternoon.A program of athletic events, addresses, music and amusements of various kinds has beon arranged. Dr. 8. A. Ware, of Springfield and Rev. R. M. Dehonoy, of tho First Union Baptist church, are tho principal speakers. Thcro will bo a donee at tho park this evening.MAN DENIES HE EVER HAD CASE FULL OF BOOZESaturday evening reports came to the police that a man was accusing cundry persons of stealing from him ono Buitcase filled with booze, and tho story told by the police this morning of what happened after that is like this:E. T. Shinn of LaBellc, told several persons, the police say, how ho had secured the case, filled with a number of half pints of whisky, at Eighth and State streets Saturday evening, when a red-headed man in a car hearing an Iowa license had sold it for $50, and how it had beon stolen after 8hlnn’s party had absorbed part of tho contents.Lator the suitcase was found qt tbo Burlington station by Detectives Harvey and Ford, who ordered that the case be not delivered to tho man who had checked it Shinn, a little tho worse for drinking, was arrested as he boarded tho train for homo. When taken to tho station ho denied all knowledge of tho boozo, said he never had a suitcase, so ho waB fined $2 and costs for being drunk, paid his flno and leftThe police said this morning that the liquor would ho confiscated by the police and thrown Into the river this afternoon.Joo Wills, arrested by Officer Eickelschulto Saturday night, pleaded guilty to a charge of Intoxication In tho police court this morning and paid a fine of $2 and costa.NO INSTRUCTION HERE ON SELLING FOOD TOOEORIPostmaster Lummis Expecting Information in Pew Days,TRAINMEN ON ILLINOIS TRACTION MAKE GRANGEPostmaster Elmer LummlB has recolved no word from Washington as to tho plan to sell food supplies now held by the war department, direct to the peoplo.' It is expected that'lnstructlons will be forwarded Soon. Salo, it is apnouhccd. will begin August 18 to consumers through tho. postmasters..Range of Trices.Pricos will range from 23c for a oho pound can of corned beef to $2.20 for a six poound con of roast beef, in meat, and from 7c for a small can of baked beans to 48c for a large can of atringless beans, depending on slzo.To tho basic prices “will bo added the cost of shipping tho food by express from zono storage houses to post offices, and tho regular postal rate for carrying the food from podt office to consumer. Thu postage rate will bo lc a pound in most cases.Tho minimum amount of food that will be sold Is one can. Thcro Is no maximum. Prices will be far below those charged in tho open market, tho war department' promises.Prices per dozen cans of vegeta-bloq are:Baker boons. No. 1 cans, 89c; No. 2 cans, $1.62; Ntf. 3 cans, $2.14.Strlngloas beans, No. 2 cans, $1.34; No. 10 cans, $9.7jJ. .Corn, No. 2 cans, $1.44.Peas, No. 2 cans, $1.36.Tomatoes, No. 2 cans, $1.28; No. 2Vi cans, $1.60; No. 3 cans, $1.80; No. 10 cans, $5.94.Pumpkin. No.. 2 cans, 75c; No. 3 cans, $1.13; No, 10 cans, $2.85.Squash, No. 2 Cons, 72c.Corned beef, No. 1 cans, $3.60; No. 2 cans, $6.96; six pound cans, $24.Roast hoof, No. 1 cans. $3.48; ono pound cans, $4.92; two pound cans, $7.92; six pound canB, $26.40.Corned beef hash, ono pound cans, $2.76; two pound cons, $4.80.Bacon, iiy cratos, 34c per pound. In tins, 36c per pound.MOTORISTS LAND IN SON-IN-LAW IS SLp. Nffmm UNCERTAIN; MAMORNING; NO DIMMER SJILL IN JAIL* * f ■ \ Mrs. Callaghan to Face Husband in Trial Fri-* day Morning/ •Cases against threo. motorists charged with ^riving, their cars without dimmers wereicalled in tho polico court this, morning. Joe Borneth pleaded guilty to the obarge. against him and paid a ffne of $10 and coBts, .while the caBea against Mrs Frank Bird and J; J. Freiburg wore continued , until Tuesday morning. t ..Tho1 caso against B. F.' Gwynn, arrested ten days ago, charged with failure to have,a 1919 license tag on his car, was dismissed this morning when it wbb shown that Gwynn had a 1919 Texas license on his car, which he had beon told was all that would he required. ‘RISING TENDENCY IN RIVER FOR 36 HOURSFrom Keokuk to .Louisiana the river will have a rising tendency for the next 36 hours according tp the report of B. L. Waldron, of the weather bureau. The river from below Muscatine to Louisiana will change but little during that time, according to the reportThe full report follows:Stations. Flood. Stage. Ch’ce.TENTH REGIMENT NOT TO GO INTO GAMP AT SPRINGFIELD NOWThe Tenth regiment, Illinois national guard, of which Company E of Quincy 1b a unit, will not go into camp at Camp Lincoln near Springfield as planned, according to a special telegram from Spring-flold to Tho Journal this afternoon. Tho messago sayH that Adjt. Gen. Dickson had issued orders todaySt Paul ...3.70Davenport .4.5—0.2Keokuk ....4.5' xO.lQULYCY ......14li.OxOJHannibal ..5.8—0.1Louisiana ...4.8St Louis .....307.4x0.2POPULAR COUPLE WEDS TODAY IT HANNIBALMiss Ethel .Weaver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Weaver, 634% Broadway, and Walter A. Robertson, chief clerk at tho post office, slipped off to Hannibal this morning and were married there this afternoon.John Bqsb.Funeral services for John Buss took place at 3 o’clock Sunday aft-ornoon in the homo, 635 Payson avenue, Rev. I. W. Bingaman, pastor of the Luther Memorial church, officiated. Interment was in Grcenmount cemetery.The Iron Molders’ union. No. 44, of which Mr. Buss was a member, wero out in a body to a^ond tho services. The pall bearers, all members of tho union, were: David Ross, Lester Willis, George Beals, L. Christ, L. Callahan and C. Thompson. *■ Mrs. H. C. Suman and Miss Ncttio Fredericks sang.‘Out of Urwn attendants included a slflter erf Mr. Buss, Mrs. Andrew Petry, and Jacob Ludwig and daughter, Helen; Lillian Teny, Frank Teney and Charles Buss, all of Keokuk, and Elmer Atkinson of Pesrla. Another sister, Atas. Jacob Ludwig, of Keokuk, was finable to attend the services because of sickness.William Waller was wandering, about tho court house thia morning to learn whether tho Cftse of Mrs. Callaghan was to come up this morning. Saturday afternoon he visited the sheriff’s offica fpr tho purpose of bailing her out. Ho was accompanied by hlB girl wife, who had evidently provalled upon him to como to tho rescue of her mother. Judgo Wolfe was out of the city Saturday and Sunday, so he could not sign her release, and she remained In jail. The woman's caso is to be tried Friday morning, when Bho is to answ'er to contributing to tho deprindency of her four children. 9Husband To Bo Here.Thomas Callaghan, the husband of the woman, is to be here. He says In a letter that he Is willing to take over the children, but as for tho wife, he says she has forfeited all claims on him.Probation Officer Nolan has a letter from relatives of Mrs. Callaghan, who resent tho implications and Innuendos which Bhe has cast upon them, and. particularly upon her mother.JOLLEYS HAD ANYTHINGBUTCOUNTY COURT CLEANS HOUSE THISJORNINGJudgo Fred Wolfe wiped 29 old cases from the docket this morning,. They have been on the records for several years and he put them up to tho state's attorney'^ office, who entered a nolle prosique in each one. This leaves six criminal and 14 civil cases to bo tried this term. Tho docket is to be called noxt Monday for the sotting of cases.Attorney John E. Wall, representing Walter H. Bennett, filed a demurrer in the- caso of D. W. Mumper against Bennett. Argument on tho demurrer is to be made later in tho weetf.* This -is tho case in which Mumper sues Bennett for the recovery of a portion of attorney's fees which Mumper paid Bennett in the settlement of an estate.A special venire of six jurymen will be called for Friday morning of this woek when tho case of Mrs. Callaghan is to como up under the charge of aiding in the dependency of her four children.GLEANING WOOD BLOCK PAVING READY TO OILWithin ono month after Bhe was married Mrs. Pearl .Jolley says her husband gftvo'her anything but a jolly time. ' She alleges that hq' struck her in the face, knocked her down, choked her and wpund up by'threatening her life. They ware married on January 4 of the present year, and his first vicious assault she said was upon her Feb. 5. Then a little more than a month' later, she alleges ho amusod himself by repeating Lho first performance, only winding it up by forcing her out of tho house. That waa on March 15.Then there waa a lull In the domestic storm for a period of about three weolcs, but broke out with renewed vigor Bhe claims on May 8, when ho beat her over the* head with his fist. /Took Wedding Ring.All hopes of . future happiness were shattored, sho says, when on July 31 ho grabbed her by the wrist with one hand, twisting it so that it is still sore and prevents her from performing her household duties, and with the other he wrenched the wedding ring from her finger, adding to this rough work a threat to kill her.This proved the last straw and this morning she sought tho cir-cuitcourt whore she filed a bill for divorce, JubI seven months from tho time of her wedding to Jolley. The case will como beforo the September term, and she azfcs that ho bo made to pay over a sufficient amount to cover lho coBts of the suit and assist in her support.PADGETT STILL WAITS FOR THE CUP HE WONCliff Padgett Is still waiting for the cup he won with Miss Quincy” at the racing regatta in Moline on July 4.The cup has been Bhipped from Moline, and should have been here before this, but has failed to arrive. The cup was turned over to the Moline chib a few days after the regatta there by tho man who then hold it. and word from Moline July 29 said the cup had been shipped from there.When Commodoro Pugh of Chicago won tho cup at the Peoria races he gave a banquet to celebrate his victory and during tho banquot the cup disappeared and Pugh replaced It at a cost of $1,000. When the cup arrives, It will bo placed on exhibition In some show window here.• IS STAMP DEPUTYSamuel Y. Baldwin of this city has boon appointed aBBistant stamp' deputy by tho local federal revenue office, according to Information received there this morning. During tho war Mr. Baldwin was an instructor in the aviation school in the camp In Houston, Texas.
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Quincy Daily Journal
Quincy, Illinois, US
Mon, Aug 04, 1919
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