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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1908
Page
7
A train stops at a village station and an older woman enters the smoking car. She proves savvy, defying a passerby’s assumption about age and car use, and comments on a young man’s overconfidence. Ad text and quotations follow, promoting various products.
M C Johnston former Calhoun county treasurer sits in Hardin jail awaiting grand jury on forgery charges alleging he forged 14 or more notes defrauding about $3000. Arrested on complaint by John Eageny who said his name was forged as surety on a $700 note with Charles Koehner and Jesse Ford named as sureties.
Harrisburg City Council approves a drastic ordinance fining merchants $100 for each mixed tobacco cigarette and charging a $50 yearly license. Anyone under 18 caught smoking faces city jail and fines as tobacco firms protest the enforcement.
Galva fire chief Joseph Pemberton Gibbs age 76 attends the National Firemen's Association eleventh annual convention in Chicago. Known as Dad to firemen nationwide he built Galva's fire department which serves a 3500 population and helped keep low insurance rates. He served in the First Illinois Cavalry during the Civil War.
Louis A. Ryan, 36, shot his child Bude then killed himself in Noble near Olney after bringing Metta Decker to Delphos to marry in this county. His wife, 18, had denied plans for death by their own action despite a note claiming mutual agreement.
Belleville resident Belleville horse dealer Had Deutchmann Sr dies from a combination of diseases including tetanus and ptomaine poisoning after eating liver sausage. Attending physician calls the case unprecented noting latent tetanus germs may have sparked the poisoning. Mrs Griggs saves her husband from a club fire by pulling him from flames and beating out the fire with her bare hands, but he is believed fatally burned.
Barry area in Missouri near Decatur and Hannibal reports San Jose scale infestation in a district several miles square. Inspectors will be assigned to assist fruit growers in eradicating the pest. Will Hold Poultry Show Litchfield. Montgomery County Poultry association schedules its annual show for September 16 17 and 18.
William Jones, a Quincy traveling man, leaped from a moving passenger train near Ottawa to recover a hat blown off his head. He escaped with a sprained ankle and a sore head.
The Sangamon County Woman's Christian Temperance Union will convene its twenty eighth annual convention in Illiopolis on Wednesday and Thursday September 2 and 3.
Trustees of the Illinois Soldiers' Home estimate next legislature must provide 534300 for 1909 1910. Superintendent Summerville reports two year ordinary expenses around 396250 and recommends 114300 for improvements and 420000 for ordinary costs. Wives of inmates to be housed in new facilities soon.
The casket bearing L. C. Porter field who weighed 400 pounds was moved to the church on a baggage truck borrowed from the railroad. The door was too small to admit the coffin so the service was held on the church steps. Porter died of heart disease.
Train officials C P Beamis and E Sweeney uncovered a plot to wreck the Bloomington Roadhouse north bound train near Mason City just before its scheduled arrival. Three rails on a sharp curve were loosened with spikes pulled and fishplates moved aside.
About 50 Italians gathered on the St. Marys hospital grounds unable to grasp the operation planned for a countryman and protested. The next morning the Italian died and a second demonstration was suppressed by police.
Woodstock Albert Sloan secretary of the Y M C A was arrested charged with malicious mischief and altering records bound over to the grand jury in 500. He goes to jail after Y M C A rooms were ransacked a week earlier.
Alton reports painter George Greer fell from a roof and was killed instantly. He had warned resident James Goudie moments before about the dangers of roof work and said he might meet his end that way.
Dr J M Dorman confronts a burglar in his room. the robber fires, wounding Mrs Dorman who lies in bed. She is expected to recover. Three men are detained at the city jail as suspects while the fleeing burglar remains at large.
The body of Edward Olson of Geneseo was discovered beside a railroad track near Freeport with a crushed skull. Authorities believe robbery occurred before he was thrown from a train.
Judge J Otis Humphrey of Springfield was a principal speaker at the farm college under canvas held in Lovington with a tented farm school setting and notable attendance.
In Quincy a fruit jar shattered while a woman, Mrs Henry Snyder, was canning tomatoes and lost sight in her right eye. The accident occurred in her home and authorities report no further injuries.
The fourteenth annual German Day picnic was held in the city park at Harvel. H. Clay Wilson of Springfield J. C. McBride of Taylorville and Frank M. Ramsey of Hillsboro delivered addresses.
Elmer Mason aged 35, married, drowned in the Illinois River at Kingston while moving a barge of furniture to Duck Island. Authorities cannot determine if the death was accidental or related to a personal crisis.
A speaker warns parents must guard their children's thoughts to prevent demoralizing material from corrupting youth. He asserts national prosperity depends on child integrity and calls for vigilant monitoring of school and media advertising. He notes complaints from public schools and success in challenging questionable literature.
An essay questions the overuse of the word system in business and home life. It argues that excessive adherence to rigid systems stifles initiative and may hinder success, citing a successful but compulsively organized manager who cannot work if his desk is even a little disordered. The piece contrasts system worship with practical judgment.
A speaker recalls early faith loss and later revival, warning that rigid daily prayers and rote Bible lessons can dull youth. They stress that personal conviction and a warm, heartfelt approach by teachers better shape a child’s spiritual life than mechanical instruction.
A brief dialogue features a confident hunter named Willie and a companion arguing over a planned hunt. The exchange hints at bravado and crowd-pleasing style as the two discuss what game will be pursued, framed in a folksy, rustic voice.
A Georgia preacher resigns from an unpaid post after failing to collect his salary. In his farewell sermon he says the congregation favored free salvation and their treatment proves they have it. This note comes from the Atlanta Constitution.
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