Reception for Mr and Mrs Ellis ME
A large reception and shower was held Tuesday evening at the Grace Methodist church by the Epworth league and the Standard Bearers for newlyweds Mr and Mrs Glen Ellis formerly Miss Loris Rottmayer. Nearly 30 young people attended with light refreshments served and guests from Solomon Kansas and St Louis among them.
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Ellis
Glen Ellis
Loris Rottmayer
Emily Smith
Epworth League
Grace Methodist Church
Rosey
J. C. Dussair
Solomon, Kan
Isabel Swimmer
St. Louis
Women organize for Lowden nomination at Chicago meeting
Organization of women voters across the United States to back Governor Lowden of Illinois for the Republican national convention began in Chicago on Monday with 200 Republican women meeting at the Hamilton Club and creating a temporary leadership under Mrs. Foster 8. Nims. Chicago headquarters at 18 South Dearborn Street opened as clubs are expected to form in other cities soon. The aim is to urge Lowden to run, though Quincy women have discussed organizing without formal steps yet.
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United States
Lowden
Aliote
Chicago
Hamilton Club
Quincy
Women Seek Full Suffrage Rights Across Illinois
Mrs Grace Wilbur Trout, president of the Illinois Equal Suffrage association, writes that partial suffrage limits power and that workers are being recruited for a state wide committee to support constitutional convention delegates. She cites Chicago strikes and riots as reasons for urgent full suffrage.
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Grace Wilbur Trout
Quincy
WEDDINGS Erwin Stephenson and Lynch Collins Married in Chicago
In Quincy news the weddings of Miss Alice Edith Collins to Sidney Lynch in Chicago and Mrs Jennie E Stephenson to La Fayette Erwin at the Soldiers Home are reported. Lynch left for guard duty with Company E in Chicago, while Collins studied nursing before marriage.
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Erwin-Stephenson
Jennie E. Stephenson
Lafayette Erwin
Soldiers
C. L. Losh
Grace Methodist Church
Miners in Belleville Censure Union Leader Farrington
About 2000 Belleville coal miners in a Tuesday meeting censured Frank Farrington, president of the blinds branch, for ordering a return to work. They stand on strike for higher wages and protest fines levied by mine operators, demanding refunds.
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Belleville, II
Belleville
Frank Farrington
Ers
Personal notices and sales fill Quincy pages
Miss Virginia Knox returns from Chicago as several residents reunite or travel. Shoppers await Duker’s August sale with discounts on Djer Kiss powder and Mary Garden cosmetics. Local officials report a diphtheria case in the Requet household and a two week quarantine.
Omaha Spends Money To Cut Price Of Food
OmahaNeb Aug 6 The city commission authorized spending 10000 to buy food supplies to be sold to the public at cost. The mayor defended rapid action saying help the people first then investigate and pledged to do all possible to aid residents amid coal yard criticisms and unrest.
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Omaha
Neb
Cormission
Chautauqua Opens as Town Notes Busy Visitor List
Local items report Lloyd DeLesg leaving for Boise to visit friends and Miss Marjorie Harbison visiting from Quincy. Residents discuss visitors, illnesses, a minor accident involving Mr Daggett of Kellerville, and town-wide chautauqua events with Miss Columbia of Fairyland on Friday. The column notes housing moves, farm sales, and Noah Yeldell family plans, plus a Navy veteran Summer Pallardy home on leave and community sermon by Rev. Omer.
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Lloyd DeLesg
Boise
Idaho
Marjorie Harbison
Quincy
Olin Moore
Pine
Bluffs
Harry Pyle
Rollo Gibbs
Gilbert Syre
Minnie Smith
Mrgaret Easnen
Daggett
Kellerville
John Woodworth
Summer Pallardy
Navy
Norfolk
Will Bradley
Guiney
Ernest Yeldell
Elmer Yeldell
Ebert Weerts
Yeldell
Arnfield
Avey
Floyd Anderson
Pine Grove
Defant
Clayton
John Hunter
Rainy week brings Lima area to life with community events
A string of social and agricultural notes from Lima Illinois details a rainy week lifting farm spirits, a Victory Sunday school picnic near Thornton, visits from Bert Reager and others, threshing progress, crop quality concerns, and upcoming sermons and speeches by Rev G C Maple, Rev Parker Shields, and others. Local residents like Arthur Miller and the Dearly sisters are mentioned with family visits and property moves.
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Coun
Bert Reager
St. Louis {S
Lima
Victory
Frank Davis
Thornton Corner
Lyman McCarl
Quincy
Arthur Miller
Catherine Goelliher
Jeanette
Alberta Schaffner
Warsaw
G G. Maple
G C. Maple
Clayton
Tiewes
Qu.ney
India
Missionary Society
Rocky Run M. FE
Parker Shields
Rocky Run
Chautauqua funds and local news fill Pittsfield duties
In Pittsfield Illinois the Chautauqua program shows a projected $400 surplus after this year. Local residents visit, move property, and attend church union services in the tent. County officials appraise estates, licensing marriage for Willard Rusk and Jesale Hess, and news covers police fines, sales, and vacations.
Local notes from Maywood and surrounding area
Maywood residents report Mrs James Leech and daughter Niss Helen returned from St Louis with fall stock. Dr C B Ferguson came back from a month visiting relatives in Indiana and the East. Robert Churey left Novelty Mo to work on his father s estate after a summer with Mrs Kate Gamm. Mr and Mrs D B Vanarsdall are
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James Leech
Niss Helen
St. Louis
Leach
C. B. Ferguson
Indiana
Robert Churey
Kate Gamm
Novelty
D. B. Vanarsdall
Pierson sisters return from Hannibal visit dates unknown
RICHFIELD LL Misses Mabel and Nellie Pierson returned home Thursday after several days visiting friends in Hannibal Mo. Deputy Sheriff John Carter conducted business here Thursday. Miss Hazel Moore and Willis Stokke of Hull visited Miss Moore's parents Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Brown and family and Mrs. John Tyler visited relatives in Hannibal last week. Mrs. John Redman visiting relatives in Nebraska. P. H. Kistner and daughter Gladys had business in Quincy Saturday. Several from here attended the Heverly picnic Saturday. Misses Hilda and Gladys Kistner attended the chautauqua in Liberty Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Graham of Beverly called on relatives here Sunday. T. QC Moore of Barry was a caller here Saturday. Mrs. J. Rice and son David visited relatives in Payson Saturday. Carl Swan and Clarence Uhland made a business trip to Nebraska last week in their car.
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Amelia Sasenberg
Denver
Colo
Edward Meyer
South 8Th Street
Green
Occidental
Laura Keyser
Tulsa
Okla
Quincy
C. W. Murphy
North Highth Street
Harry Bradney
North Twelfth Street
Detroit
Bradney
Dyer Kiss
Halbach-Schroeder Co
Robert Hartley
New York
Hartley
Army Y. M. C. A
Cedar Rapids
Merrill
Henry Reinold
Vine
Highland Park Pool
Charles Terry
Iowa
J. L. Swartz
Osteopath
Wells
Duker
Djer
Pond
Robert Requet
Requet, Jr
Cherry Street
Officer Requet
Henry H. Garretts
Garretts
Kewanee
Master Painters Association
Chicago
A. Waltin
South Twelfth Street
Canton
Minne Stratman
Florence Castle
Elizabeth
Anna Newcomb
San Diego
Cal
J. A. Davison
Lindstreet
James Davison
Springfield
Davison
Cudahy Packing Company
Lyla Biddinger
St. Louie
Kansas City
Misa Leila Loos
North Thirteenth Street
Lena Garretts
South Eleventh Street
George Schultz
Camp Point
Arch Tenheart
Pittsfield
III
Leroy Davis
Arthur Davis
Focal Committee
Charles E. Johnson
Mary Johnston
Henry Bowers
W. B. Loyd
Andrew Irick
Thomas L. Haney
Cicero Peters
John Peters
Louis Heck
M. Y. McMehan
Griggsville
Ella M. Orr
J. B. Frye
Elmer
Belleville
Kansas
Elmer Frye
J. C. Brown
Methodist Church
Charles A. Heskey
Willard M. Rusk
Barry
Jesale M. Hess
Kinderhook
Fred Long
C. W. Hanson
Board of Commissioners of the
Sun Island
John T. Ingram
George M. Smith
Charles A. Hooner
Robert N
Valley
George Cadwell
R. A. Watson
Ray Thackwray
Louis Flemme
Arrie Johnson
Colorado
George Peters
Wil
William Dunham
Edward Carnes
Great Lakes
William Reed
Nathan Miser
Alex Hunter
Newbury Township
Hardin J. Westlake
Mabel
Nellie Pierson
Hannibal
Moohn Carter
Hazel Moore
Willis Stokte
Hull
Miss Moore
Clifford Brown
John Tyler
John Redman
Nebraska
P. H. Kistner
Gladys
Heverly
Hilda
Gladys Kistrer
Liberty
Public Utility Body Studies Chicago Fare Increase
The state public utilities commission reviewed fare increase applications from Chicago surface lines and the Chicago elevated railways. City opposition and mayoral actions loom as the commission may issue emergency rates. expected surface line fare at 7 cents and elevated line fare near 7 or 8 cents.
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Public Utility Body Studies
Chicago
Case
State Public Utilities Commission
Chicago Elevated Railways
Thompson
Lowden
Overseas Troop Total Reported by Pershing
General Pershing cabled the War Department that on July 31 a total of 98 497 troops remained overseas. Private companies hold most of Siam’s teak forests under government leases while western Canadian farmers advance into exporting high grade stock to improve domestic flocks and herds.
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Pershing
War Department
Siam
Misnulok
Nagar Svarga
Western
Canada
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Forest
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Lincoln
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Missouri
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Huntington
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Peoria
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H. M. Grover
C. S Walker
Cushing, Okla
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Wisconsin
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Theodore Urban
Allan Stillwell
Harding Flynn
Charles F. Fadgler
Book Club
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South Park
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St. Boniface
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Anthony Doblin
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Sarah Thrush
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Woman's Clubs
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Bridge
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Boston
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Marshall Fields and Co
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Will Sprague
Grant M. Curtis
Donald
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Sprague
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Lillian Wetzel
A. Wetzel
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Kentucky
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Havana
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George Thompson
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Washington, D. C
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McCook, Neb
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Ewing
Ewing, Mo
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Baptist Missionary Training School
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Ohio Street
Ed Kipp
Georgens
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Vincent Reed
Chet Gray
Walter Robertson
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Quincvans
Company E
Cook County Training School
Re. Lynch
C. R. Collins
la Belle
Blessing Hospital
Lynch
Ben Hi. Lynch
North Eighth Street
Post Office Department
Tenth Regiment
Farrington
Couns
Icago
Virginia Knox
H. S. Kent
George Westcott
F. B. Little
Elm Street
Clayton, Ill
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Mexico
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Nancy Rolt
Manila
Rockport
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Cuthura
Harrodsburg
Frank Gamm
Bowling Green
Minnie
Catha Garnett
Latham
Kans
Maywood
Blanch Deering
Bette Nesbett
Sallie White
Henry Taylor
C. R. Crabb
W. S. Banta
R. K. Johnson
Rose Cheney
Maywood, MO
Vicks Vapor
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Highland Finest
Brunswick
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