Floral designs and social notes from Sandoval list
Floral designs for funerals are noted among social items. Vernon Thomason, William Lewis and Parnell Robertson of Chicago visited Sandoval, with many locals hosting relatives and attending tea, bridge parties, or teaching assignments in nearby towns. A long list of visitors and residents appears with frequent travel to St Louis, Chicago, and other Illinois towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandoval Flower Gardens
Vernon Thomason
William Lewis
Parnell Robertson
Chicago
Joe Alford
M. Wy. Friend
Vivian
Evelyn Stiles
Carbondale
Leon
Jean Sherman
St. Louis
Charles Brown
Walter Abling
Leland
Adele Voellmecke
Edgar Brown
Lucile Brown
Vivian Kimpler
Oklahoma
Fred Huff
Harvey
Ed Gibson
Olney
Emma Gibson
Walter Switzer
Harold
S. W. Opp
Collinsville
Ida Opp
Guy Mabry
Jack
N. C. Harris
California
George Ward
William Skeen
Russell
Harvey Vsted
Howard Poole
Toledo
Ohio
Marjoe
Jane Wilson
Emma Tracy
Elizabeth Kennedy
Jennie Ruby
Hazel Koutz
Florence Cain
Thelma Holtslaw
Jeanne Junkerman
Elizabeth Andereck
James Talbott
Donald Lee
Ralph Jensen
Lloyd Green
Mora
Misses Sherman
Muriel Lewis
Barnes Hospital
E. G. Lewis
Indianapolis
Hos
Community Reminiscences Highlight Local Visits and Illnesses
Mrs Jennie Williams and family join Edward Meridith and relatives. numerous gatherings with Ross, Breakfield, McClelland, and Holtslaw households. Sick list includes Betty Rostance with typhoid and John Dilg very ill. Shanafelt, Meridith families feature in weekend visits and caregiving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie Williams
Hazel
Glen
Merle
Edward Meridith
Isaac Ross
Edwin
Fred Ross
Maude Austin
Melvin Austin
Phyllis
Chas. Breakfield
Albert
Sarah
Flora McClelland
Wanda
Ethel Holtslaw
Nellie Holtslaw
C. A
Centralia
Emma Breakfield
Ruth Breakfield
Ernest Daggett
A. C. Austin
Sandoval
Custer Geary
Roosevelt Austin
Mason
Robert Holtslaw
Jas
Shattue
Jas. R. McClelland
Joshua Hicks
James McClelland
Addie Kretzer
Etta Day
J. R. Holtslaw
Helen
Pheebe
Mason Holtslaw
Susan McClelland
Fannie Deadmond
Shanafelt
E. Newman
Chicago
McClelland
Flora
Howard McClelland
Betty Rostance
Esther Meridith
John Dilg
Rosalie McClelland
Stella Meridith
Louise Bundy
E. C. Newman
Peebe
Alvin Zoeller
Gas tax funds released for state road building
Garrett Kinney announces the dismissal of the last four 1927 gas tax cases, freeing 6 195 750 70 to the State Highway Department and 102 counties for road building. County allocations list Cook County at 1 206 221 89 and Kane County at 66 814 97 with further per county figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garrett Kinney
Department of Finance
State Highway Department
Shaffer Oil Company
Sinclair Refining Company
The
Texas Company
Mid-Continent Petroleum Company
Cook County
Kane County
Cook
Adams
Alexander
Bond
Boone
Brown
Bureau
Calhoun
Carroll
Cass
Champaign
Christian
First Corn Harvest of 1930 Stirring South Texas Field Show
South Texas farmers watch the Gleaner corn combine perform a single pass harvest. Demonstrations near Keller and Mangold farms show the machine cutting, shelling, and cleaning ears at about 1.25 miles per hour, handling twenty acres in a day and promising rapid gains over the old method.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Texas
Gleaner Combine Harvester Corporation
Independence
Illinois contest offers prizes for high school fire prevention slogans
The Insurance Committee of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce invites Illinois high school students to submit two slogans each by September 25 1930. Prizes total 100 with awards from 25 to 1 dollars. Winning slogans to be announced during Fire Prevention Week October 6 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Insurance Committee
Illinois Chamber of Commerce
Illinois
The
East Wacker Drive
Chicago
I C R R Believes in Advertising Good Will Message
Illinois Central System marks its eleventh year of monthly good will advertising with a message from L A Downs president. The piece argues railroads faced suspicion and regulation then, but now enjoy a public attitude based on goodwill, improving service and a strong record over the last decade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. A. Downs
Illinois’ Central System
Old Fort Dearborn to Be World's Fair Building
The Chicago World’s Fair contract to erect an exact replica of Old Fort Dearborn was awarded to Erskine-Sipchen Inc. The project, near Twenty-Sixth Street, will cost about 75000 dollars and use original 1808 drawings by Captain John Whistler. The fort will feature two stockades, two block houses, barracks, officers quarters, stores, a powder magazine, and a central parade ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Dearbornwich
Otto L. Schmidt
George W. Dixon
N. A. Owings
Lenox R. Lohr
John Whistler
War Department
Historical Society
Century of Progress
Money demand letter targets wealth match and cigarette man
A black hand missive threatened to kidnap a wealthy man’s wife unless $25,000 was paid. A laborer of the same name, misdelivered the letter, replied he had no money but showed interest in the proposition.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Patoka
Ill
Register
Herman ‘Reed
Joe Hathaway
Vernon
Mary Hathaway
Mae Peters
Irena Strang
Decatur
James Talbot
N. Vine St
E. C. Toothaker
J. G. Bellamy
Marion, Ky
Jessie Sherman
Mora Sherman
Irene Strang
Mesdames C. C. Burnett
C. C. Bellamy
Galen Gibson
John G. Bellamy
L. L. Green
Clark
Clay
Clinton
Coles
Crawford
Cumberland
DeKalb
DeWitt
Douglas
DuPage
Edgar
Edwards
Effingham
Lee
Livingston
Logan
Macon
Macoupin
Madison
Marion
Marshall
Massac
McDonough
McHenry
McLean
Menard
Mercer
Monroe
Montgomery
Morgan
Moultrie
Ogle
Peoria
Perry
Pratt
Pike
Pope
Fayette
Ford
Franklin
Fulton
Gallatin
Greene
Grundy
Hamilton
Hancock
Hardin
Henderson
Henry
Troquois
Jackson
Jasper
Jefferson
Jersey
Jo Daviess
Johnson
Kane
Kankakee
Kendall
Saline
Sangamon
Schuyler
Scott
Shelby
Stark
St. Clair
Stephenson
Tazewell
Union
Winnebago
Woodford
Albert Holislaw
Mr. Brown
Indiana
Day
Helen Ross
Emma Ross
Sarah McClelland
Ethel Austin
John Kretzer
O. Uhls
Newman
Allie Johnson
Rev. Day
Terry Day
Odin Township
Alden
Mickie
Evry
Old Fort Dearborn
BY Margaret Turnbull
Burnett
West Sandoval
Sandoval “Y
C. A. Globe Lumber Company
Glove Lumber Co
Sandoval, Illinois
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