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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1915
Page
10
An old remedy claims Sage Tea and Sulphur darkens hair evenly restoring color and fullness. It notes a Wyeths Sage and Sulphur compound at 50 cents from drug stores, applied with a sponge or brush to one strand at a time, with results by morning and after several uses.
Miss Maggie Vernon returns from visit with Mrs Anna Scrimshie. Ida Newton of Ewings visits town. Rev E J Speer held last meeting for conference year at Benbow. Frank Green former resident now farming in Colorado visits aged mother. Scholfield and Deder return from Maibcomb NL. Miss Lucile Spur enjoys over Sunday with Rev Llewellyn family. Ira Orth departs for Illinois bridge work. Potts from Quinty buys horses. Mrs Mammie Pritchard visits from LaGrange for probate court in Monticello. Leta Maddox and Ira Orth visit Palmyra. Master Dean Oaks returns from Kirkwood TL. Ward and Smith bring lumber for Mrs Scrimsher. Mrs Walter Raleigh visits at M B Hubbard home. Ed Vance and wife from Versailles spending week with George and Delmar Vance. Miss Nell Yarborough returns from Maywood. Miss Janey Smith and Nettie Smith visit Mrs W L Hudson. Mr and Mrs Chas Blair of Shelbyville visit Mrs Buckner. Gus Bauman and son in town on business. Home talent club goes to Ten Mile for Those Horrible Twins show. Haying and threshing underway. rain delays. Corn crop improving except on overflow lands. bottom lands flooded ruin crops but wild grass hay emerging. Aunt and uncle return with G E Callendine from Alton. Oscar Holmes visits Geo Ohnemus in Galesburg. Mr and Mrs Hugh Selby visit Mrs Ernst Disselhorst. Frank Ohnemus hosts reunion for Chicago sister. Budell Weisenhorn returns from exposition. Mrs Frank Dempsey and Mrs John Schlipman visit Schlipmann home.
Mrs D C Barber and other city ladies enjoyed a tea dinner at Mrs Lizzie Git’s near Texas via auto. The Bowen Bible School elected H L O Brien as superintendent Harmon Harter as assistant superintendent and others by acclamation. Verneta Stein hosted Standard Bearers on the Bowen Methodist lawn with tableux and treats. Verneta also hosted Bowen High sophomores and freshmen with music games and pink and white decor.
Miss Marie Reidy and Tom Reidy with Mildred Heidbreder visit. Miss Ruth Heidbreder and Mrs Frank Chase of St Louis spend days with Mr and Mrs R A Chase. Her daughter and son have spent their vacation with their family.
Miss Edna Bock of Quincy visits Miss Era Turner of Riverside. The annual harvest home picnic, last held a year ago, drew many from Ellington and Riverside despite threatening weather. Attendees included L. W. Lyford, Dan Wood of Quincy, Marion Simmons, Gladys Adelpohl, Ethel Stork, Mrs. Will Cook, and Mrs. Cora Hulse visiting Carrie Rippel in Camp Point. John Wray is improving and home. Viola and Zelma Glascock visit Florence Wisman of Ursa. Florence Wisman’s niece Bedella Weisenhorn also plans to visit. The World’s Fair gets a mention as worth seeing.
The vicinity is busy with harvest as farmers stack wheat and oats. Visitors include Mrs Henry Younghein of Quincy with her relatives, Roy Eager and wife from Hannibal, and families such as the Klassing and Kinney households. Local residents attend picnics, visit kin in Quincy, Camp Point, Kellerville, and nearby areas, with several lengthy visits planned.
Jacksonville Texas brakeman F A Wootley writes he suffered kidney trouble and rheumatism until Foley Kidney Pills. He says after taking them he was thoroughly cured with no further trouble. Miller Arthur Drug Co reports thousands of similar letters.
E. E. Hedrick and family motored to Rock Island last Thursday to visit his brother Henry. They returned Sunday with Mrs. Hedrick staying a few extra days. Alice Gallimore and Miss Grazie Eshem of near Lima were here Monday on business. Rev. L. B. Simpson preached his farewell sermon to a full house Sunday night. S. West and son Dewey spent Saturday in Quincy. Helen Stipe returned from Quincy Saturday after several weeks with her aunt. Attendees from here joined races at Quincy Sunday. H. H. Weiler family and John Hauceise family attended the chautauqua at Hamilton Saturday. Mrs. W. Vradenburg and family near Basco spent Monday with home folks.
Ancient ad text claims accumulated waste in the bowels poisons the body and causes fevers. It promises gas belching, irritability, and poor digestion, urging readers to take one or two Dr King s New Life Pills tonight for a full bowel movement by morning. The original bottle with 36 pills is advertised at 25 cents from the local druggist.
Aug. 17 in Joliet the state board of pardons met to consider clemency for Evelyn Arthur Lee, known as the absolute life cult leader, convicted in 1912 of contributing to the delinquency of Mildred Bridges, the minor daughter of a Chicago jeweler.
Affidavits show Harm Franzen Margaret Block Catherine Miller Ida Ostendorf Cobus Martens Bertha Martens John Martens and Harm Martens reside out of Illinois. John J Meints as administrator petitions for sale of described real estate to pay debts. Hearings set September 1 1915 at Quincy Court House. appearance required. Also notice for Charles B Reynolds will probate on September 16 1915 at 10 a.m. in Adams County Court. Clerk J C Whitefield. Govert & Lancaster, attorneys.
By order of the Adams County Court Illinois dated August term 1915 Harry J Mulligan executor will sell at public vendue September 4 1915 at 2 PM at the south front door of the Quincy courthouse the real estate of Henry C Mulligan deceased including two parcels in John Woods and Willard Keyes additions together with Julia Mulligan dower interest taxes for 1915. deed to be conveyed after court approval Govert and Lancaster attorneys for the executor.
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