Independent Club Whist Meet and Local Society Notes
Prizes won by Walter Smith and Mrs. Marcellus Kirtley at the Independent Whist Club Friday afternoon hosted by Mrs. Van Frank. San Francisco guest Mrs. Brown attended with Mrs. Ben Miller. Luncheon featured tulips and spring flowers. Upcoming entertainments include Mrs. Joseph Knittle hosting at the Newcomb Hotel in two weeks.
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Independent Club
RS. Walter Smith
Marcellus Kirtley
A. M. van. Frank
Brown
San Francisco
Ben Miller
Joseph Knittle
Newcomb Hotel
van Frank
I Will Never Go Off the Handle in War Time
A Daily Chit Chat piece defends women taking first aid and dietetics courses amid war. The narrator recalls a relative ill with pneumonia and credits a boardinghouse hostess with saving her from pneumonia after providing first aid, praising women’s readiness to help.
Black-Draught praised for liver and digestion relief
Springerton resident W F Rister touts Thedford's Black-Draught after fifteen years of use for indigestion sour stomach and constipation. Ad claims seventy years of use making it common in American homes and urges daily use for cleansing the system with a gentle prompt effect. Price 25 cents a package.
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Springerton
W. F. Rister
Thedford
Dees
Salem Evangelical Church Schedule and Evening Anniversary
Salem Evangelical church located on Ninth and State conducted by Rev. H J Leemhuis holds Sunday school at 8 50 a m with services at 10 a m and 7 30 p m Topics morning English Gospel Chimes evening M League anniversary Young People society meets at 7 p m
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Salem Evangelical Church
Ninth
H. J. Leemhuis
Young People’s Society
Pittsfield Plans Fire Ordinances For City District
Pittsfield Illinois April 27 city council held a special meeting to address recent insurance rate hikes in the business district. A 6 person committee of aldermen and citizens was named to draft ordinances to reduce hazards in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsfield
Ill
George M. Smith
F. N. Wells
Bert Ervin
Claude E. Watters
Harry English
R. T. Hicks
B. H. Matthews
Tacy Leeds
Elmer Weaver
St. Louis
Elizabeth Mayer
Prof. Lippold
National Army
Joseph Shastid
Cincinnati
Emmet Murphy
George Kinnamon
William T. Dutton
Galesburg
Margaret Dutton
Mary Stone
State Normal University
Macomb
William Stone
Otto Fisher
Coleridge Binns
Moberly
W. S. Binns
Schimmel-Miller Hardware Company
Pittsfield Grocers
R. M. Maxwell
Chicago
Demonstration on soil fertility near Clayton by ISU official
E Glick assistant in soil fertility at Illinois State University will lead a soil experiment field demonstration near Clayton Wednesday at 1 30 pm. Two demonstrations cover limestone value in wheat and sweet clover effects on soil drainage and organic content. Also notes farm labor contacts and soy bean supply. local conflict over rubbish dumping near Fifth and Payson, with Mayor Thompson promising enforcement and parental responsibility.
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E E. Glick
Illinois State University
Clayton
Adams County Farm Improvement Association
Rusk
Channon-Emery
Sheridan Stove
Thompson
Fifth and
Payson Avenue
Bodies in Ruins at Vermont Milk Chocolate Plant Fire
Three workmen were found dead Friday in the ruins of the Vermont Milk Chocolate company plant in Burlington Vermont after a fire Thursday night. Company officers estimated losses at $1,000,000 and attributed the blaze to spontaneous combustion in the spinning room. The firm employed 700 workers.
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Burlington
Vermont Milk Chocolate Company
Augusta High school tops Camp Point 6 to 5 in season finale
Augusta beats Maplewood High 6 to 5 in the last game of the season at Camp Point. Augusta finished 4 wins in seven games while Maplewood total score for the year reached eighty nine to twenty five for opponents. Glen Taylor praised for a strong batting season with errorless defense.
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Camp Point
Maplewood High School
Augusta High School
Augusta
Glen Taylor
Official Ballots for C. Of C. Mailed
Official ballots for the election of nine Chamber of Commerce directors were mailed to members Friday. Eighteen nominees are named alphabetically. voters must choose nine by marking an X opposite each name. Write ins are not allowed. ballots due by 9 AM Tuesday. tellers Fischer and Appel will conduct the count.
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Chamber of Commerce
Pierson
Joseph J. Fischer
Phil J. Appel
Election Board
A. Otis Arnold
Walter H. Bennett
George A. Binkert
Joseph H. Blomer
Johnb. Carroll
Charles C. Crooks
W. T. Duker
Arthur Dunn
Bishop M. Edward Fawcett
Richard E. Hackman
George D. Levi
John J. Moriarty
H. F. J. Ricker
W. H. Smith
W. J. Singleton
Fred P. Taylor
Thomas E. Thompson
George Thompson
W. J
Singleton
W. T. Duxer
George A. Pinkett
Germans Supervise Finnish Passports
An American seeking a Finnish visa for travel through Finland was told to wait for Berlin's word. The legation official said the visa would be granted if the German authorities certified there was no objection to the applicant.
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Stockholm
Legation
Finland
Berlin
Model Clothing Co Leads City Printing Bid
City bids opened for city printing with Model Clothing Co as lowest bidder. Some bids on job work flagged errors, may be re-advertised or allowed correction. Also news briefs include births, estate filings, appointments, and local notices about summer wear and church events.
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Our Boys
Nainsook Athletic Union
Model Clothing Co
Duke Schroer
Journal
George H. Liesen
State Street
Plymouth Clothing Company
Delaplain
Stern
John Gabel
City
Fifth
Hampshire Streets
Soldiers' Home Hospital
America
Stetson
Albert Berger
Louis H. Berger
Pat O’brien
Armory
Martha D. Raymond
Christopher Uhland
Stannus
Hampshire St
Adams County
Jack
Jim Simmons
Ernest Grubb
Ben Thomas
Marvin McGinley
Joe Lipps
Andy Heisler
France
Louis Balzer
Motor Mechanics of
United States Army
Bal
Quincy
Oscar H. Brackensick
Fort Morgan
Alabama
Boy Scouts To Start Loan Canvass Today
New York April 27 420000 Boy Scouts and adult leaders will launch a nationwide liberty loan campaign prompted by President Wilson and Treasury Secretary McAdoo. In prior drives they raised about 23 million dollars for the first loan and surpassed 100 million in the second. Over the next eight days they aim to set a higher record.
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New York
Wilson
Boy Scouts of America
Treasury
McAdoo
Boy Scouts
Austrian Censor Suppresses Cracow Pogrom Reports
A Reuters dispatch from Stockholm says Austrian censorship suppresses reports of a Jewish pogrom in Cracow. Amsterdam dispatch reported a serious outbreak against Jews with one death and twenty wounded.
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London
Reuter
Stockholm
Cracow
Amsterdam
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Dorothy Quincy
Walter Williamson
D. A. R. Liberty Loan
Martha
Valmere Granadier
R. O. Gibbons
A. C. Dallach
Francis Zimmerman Mourning
Hanna
Triangle S
Presbyterian Sunday School
J. H. Bolt
J. A. Hanna
Camp Taylor
Louisville
Club
Women of
Red Cross
Berrian Mothers’ Club
Arpenue
W. R. OC
John Wood
Lippincott Hall
Ollie Newland
Anna Fellows Johnston
W. S. Tucker
Kentucky Street
Carrie Johnston
Minneapolis
Miss Newland
Leffingwell
RS. C. W. Leffingwell
Houston
Texas
Harold Leffingwell
Camp Logan
General Bell
Conservation and Thrift Committee
Louise Jenter
Otto Mohrenstecher
J. M. Irwin
Rome Arnold
Grace Baumberger
Madison
Parent Teacher Association
Florence Goodwin
Havre, Mont
F. M. Goodwin
Val Goodwin
Jolly Club
John Dennison
United Brethren Christian Endeavor Society
Ruth Cameron
Church News
Maplewood Boys
Isaac Cutter
A. F
A. M
Home Lodge
Kilwining Lodge
Hazel Hart
la Prairie
George Hart
John T. Spence
David Allen
Jane Nations
Frank Zerlong
Golden
Edith Lyons
Florida
Mabel Groves
Hot Springs
Ark
Groves
James Hart
Will Peterson
P. M. Herndon
Saida Meatheringham
Carrie Garrett
Loyal Women of the Christian Church
Ralph Terry
William Cutter
Lawrence Terry
Boulder
Robertson
Mendon
Arthur C. Boger
Hubert Cate
Arthur Cate
Camp Grant
Cate
Gladys Millard
Henry Gross
Maywood
Tip Dodd
Navy
Bryant
Elmer Ward
Gem City Business College
Elnora Zeiger
People’s Bank
Intermediate Endeavors Society
Christian Church
Neva Nations
Trene Reynolds
Aleen Morley
Gretchen Hoke
Mabel Bruns
Alice Moore
Everett Klein
Arlo Hillman
Roscoe Willard
Ralph Chambers
Wichita
Kansas
U.S.A
Henry Welsh
Maplewood
Ethel McClintock
Samuel McClintock
Mary McElroy
Blessing Hospital
Edith Brown
Frank Roberts
Guthrie
Vermont
Edna Guthrie
Emery Simmonds
Altona
Bernice Sutton
Arlie Meatheringham
Nellie Honnold
H. J. Lewis
Margaret Cummings
Annie Cyrus
Lillie Liggett
South America
Sam McClintock
California
Methodist Church
A. R. Grumman
William R. Velte
Denver
Colo
Acenery
Colorado
Bethel Methodist Church
Washington ‘Street
H. W. Trueblood
United Brethren Church
Hicksville
Ohio
Defiance
Fostoria
Lyman McCarl
Indian Grave
John Inghram
Droweiste
O. R. Keefer
F. E. Smith
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