Vacation, engagements and society notes in Quincy
Miss Helen Heuer and her sister returned from a Lake Marie trip near Antioch Illinois guests of Mr and Mrs John Bowles. A summer circus for a small church there drew many visitors. Heuer sisters shopped in Chicago for fall millinery. Various dinners dances engagements and arrivals of guests marked the social week in Quincy with Mrs E A Rogers entertaining and Father Snelton visiting from Highland. Local households hosted luncheon automoble trips and card afternoons as part of ongoing summer social circuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Heuer
Margaret
Lake Marie
Antioch
Ill
John Bowles
Misses. Heuer
Chicago
Emil Reinkendorff
Edmond Balm
Donahue
Frank Bolles
W. E. Lancaster
Rome Arnold
Local social notes and incidents from Quincy area
Miss Lizzie May of St Louis visits Miss Meta Berning in Quincy while Mrs A E Weidner and son Alois visit her parents in Detroit. Karl Weiss of Gardener Governor works takes enforced vacation after fingers mashed in machinery. Mrs James Hamilton returns from visits in Burnside Clayton and Augusta. Mr and Mrs B T Lewis move from Depue Illinois to Quincy at 507 Chestnut. Mrs Thomas Timothy to Memphis Missouri for two to three weeks. Mr Timothy went to Memphis Monday. City directory compilation by Hoffmann & Kackman completed. new books due in a week. Fireman Bill Kruger of the steamship Keokuk has a narrow escape after falling into the river with cinders. rescued by night watchman Jim Maples. Advance boat for Rice and Dore water circus passes Quincy. circus reports strong business upriver but unlikely to stop here again. Reverends Marten and Hamm to return from Missouri synod meeting in St Louis area. Ed Meyer of Meyer Cleaning Co suffers severe burns from ignited match heads in coat pocket. entire hand burned and coat destroyed. Dr Frazier of Palmyra visits. plans trip to Kansas City. Beatrice York visits Ralph Ferris in Springfield. J George Heidbreder and James Summers attend St Antonius church picnic in Melrose township. Quincy Poultry and Pet Stock association to meet Thursday at Labor Temple. Daniel Shenk of Clayton attends Apple Growers meeting. Deputy Sheriff Ernest Grubb of Liberty visits Quincy.
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James Hamilton
South Seventh Street
Timothy
Memphis
Hoffman
Quincy
Marten
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Hamm
St. Jacobi Lutheran Church
Missouri Synod
Ed Meyer
The
Meyer Cleaning Company
Meyer
Mr. Meyer
Dr. Frazier
Palmyra
Kansas City
Beatrice York
Ralph J. Ferris
Carol Herchenroeder
Springfield
George Heidbreder
James Summers
South End
Elks Festival Attracts Citywide Attention This Week
A multi day festival features fireworks and fountain of love displays on Wednesday and Friday events including Chaplin vaudeville stunts and singing contest. Sunday offers a band concert from the Fifth Regiment Band. The event runs September 1 to 3 with lantern decorations and a $50 gold coin prize for gate ticket buyers, attracting Elks from nearby cities. Watch for theHella bills.
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Fifth Regiment
Alks
Hella
After New Channel for Big Creeks Floods in Kinderhook
A new channel for Big Creeks in Kinderhook County floods after surveyors’ work on McRaney and Hadley Creeks. The alteration caused rising water in the surveyed area and prompted local authorities to inspect drainage plans.
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Kinderhook County
New Channel Planned for Two Flooding Creeks in Kinderhook
Reports from Quincy and other Mississippi River cities show flooding, but local conditions are similar to prior summers. Surveyors south of Kinderhook locate a channel for McCraney and Hadley creeks to divert floods. A dredge boat will be used this fall to alter creek channels and protect nearby farms, forming a subdistrict of the Sny Island Levee and Drainage district.
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Kennady
Kinderhook
Quincy
Mississippi River
McCraney
Hadley
Sny ’ Island
Kinderhook Chautauqua Opens September 6
Kinderhook Illinois residents anticipate the September 6 opening of their annual chautauqua session running through September 11. The lineup features The Craven Orchestra, Alpine Singers and Yodlers, Colonial Concert Co., Maude Willis, Ellis Brooks and his military band, Beatrice Weller Co., Chicago Artists Quartet, Edith Strickland Moodie, and Judge G B Alden, with performances daily by noted groups and individuals.
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Kinderhook
Ill
Kin‘derhook
The
Craven Orchestra
William A. Ganfield
William Lloyd Davis
Colonial Concert ‘Co
Glenn N. Merry
Maude Willis
Camp Robertson Tells More on Camp Lincoln Details
The Whig correspondent reports at Camp Lincoln Springfield that a sand table is now used by officers and noncommissioned officers to work out doubts. Each afternoon focuses on movements to be practiced next morning. Conditions are favorable aside from floods and all ranks praise state treatment. The day’s schedule includes close order, Baronet exercise, war strength maneuvers, extended order deployment, and battalion close order.
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Camp Lincoln
Springfield
Lincoln
Dr Kings New Discovery Promises Quick Cough Relief
A vintage advertisement touts Dr. King's New Discovery as a cheap and simple remedy for coughs colds and bronchial and lung ailments. It urges readers to visit a druggist and begin treatment immediately for relief and cure.
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Dr. King
Zion Church Picnic At Mollering Grove Ursa
The German Evangelical Zion church in Ursa will hold its annual picnic on a September date. A chicken dinner and summer amusements will be provided with music by the Freeze band of Quincey. The event takes place one mile north of Ursa in Mollering Grove.
Quincyans to make car trip to Camp Point for chautauqua
About 50 Quincy residents will meet at the Chamber of Commerce building this morning to ride in cars to Camp Point. The trip, arranged by the Chamber to show local interest in Camp Point and its enterprises, will hear reports from stops along the road.
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Chamber of Commerce
Ber of Commerce
Camp Point
Camp ‘Point
Cholera Count Reported in Austria on Aug. 19
Zurich dispatch reports Austrian interior minister says there were 1,566 Asiatic cholera cases in Austria as of August 19. The figure reflects ongoing health concerns amid the outbreak and follows earlier reports from Vienna.
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Zurich
London
Austria
Seventh annual convention of the Minos State Society of Optometrists
More than 200 delegates from across the state attended the opening of the seventh annual convention of the Minos State Society of Optometrists in Chicago. The event reflects widespread participation in optometry matters and professional affairs.
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Optometrists
Chicago
Society of Optometrists
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Broadway
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Circus Mary
Matt Moore
Max Asher
Gale Henry
Alo
House of Cards
Neal
Navy
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Norma. Talmadge
Maurice Costello
van Dyke
Sprooks
Miss’ Talmadge
Wu. Mast
S. 8Th St
Elberta Peaches
Hampshire St
T. Waldfogel
Hampshire Prone
Maine Street
E. N. Monroé
Stevenson
Broadhead
Columbia, Mo
Arch. Rogers
A.B.’ “Rogers
Laurence Bonfoey
Jr. Gardner
Neal Monroe
Jack Ellis
Ella Mills
E. A. Rogers
Elizabeth Bert
Stella Ryder
Washington Street
Clara Heckenkamp
Adams Street
Miss Heckenkamp
J. E. Hutmacher
Helen Hutmacher
Florence
Menke
Marié Menke
Mary Padovic
Margaret Padovic
Helen Corcoran
Nell ‘Daniels
Emma Hasenslatz
Helen Mahoney
George Bakewell
St. Louis
Michigan
Pitman
Dorothy
Bakewell
Katherine Miller
Minneapolis
Edward Bakewell
E.A. Rogers
Rankin Farm
Payson
A.B. Rogers
Keokuk
Clayton
E. K. Stone
Edison ‘Stone
Tom
Adams
Reed Whipple
Henry “Whipple
York Street
David Wilcox
Madison
Wis
Bentley
Hamilton
Peoria
Elisha Hamilton
Maine’ Street
Ella G . Mills
Ladies’ Aid Society of the
First Christian’s Church
Country Club
Laurence Bonfogg
Stevens
Columbia
A. B. Rogers
N. E. Monroe
Father Snelton
Highland
Henry Snelton
Father Gramke
Jacksonville
Helen Levi
George Levi
Washington: ‘University
Barney Schollenberg
South Twenty-fourth Street
W. I. McKee
Pacific Coast
Lizzie May
Meta Berning
A. E. Weidner
Alois
Chaplin
Mcraney and
Hadley Creeks
Sny Itland
Robertson
Ck Fete
Beacon
Yuri
Chautauqua
Ohio
A. H. Pennoyer
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