County Supervisors Adjourn for Steiner Funeral in Lorain
Adams County supervisors vote to adjourn 11:50 for funeral of former chair George H Steiner in Lorain. Plan to send six members to attend, discuss night session, approve appointive officers and bridge donations, with detailed accounts of poor farm staff, detention home, and probation work.
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Adams County
Loraine
George H. Steiner
Cairman
Board of Supervisors
Cral
Board of Superisors
Methilist
Burlington Rilad
Lorine
Steiner
Adams Coung
Ajourn
Carl Hofmeister
Quincy
C.T. Tripp
TL Hofmeister
Hot
Jaun- YyoWwerk
Burton
Althoff Ereck
Taylor Lon
Creek
Speckhardt Creek
O. W. Uebner
N. Bener
M. Okmann
Ainattes
Ampany
George Breuer
Erkin
Kaempen
Sullivan
Quines
Centennial Birthday Honored for Amelia Frohme
Mrs Amelia Frohme of Quincy Illinois celebrated her 100th birthday at her daughter in law's home on South Twelfth street. The Illinois Centennial Commission and Illinois State Historical Society sent congratulations in a joint session in Springfield. A telegram from Springfield conveyed best wishes from Jessie Palmer Webster secretary of the commission.
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Amelia Frohme
South Twelfth Street
G. Grefe
Illinois Centennial Commission
Illinois State Historical Society
Springfield
Frohme
Quincy Whig
Care
Quincy
Ill
Centennial Commission and Historical Society
Jessie Palmer Webster
Centennial Commission
St. Paul's Church
Memorial Services by Elks for Two Members
Quincy lodge No 100 Elks held a memorial service for Fred Lieberherr and Ren G Vasen who died in the past year. Rev Ly man Greenman delivered the eulogy with musical interludes by local singers and instrumentalists. The lodge notes only fifty deaths since its founding with varying yearly counts and a single year of one death in 1912.
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Quincy Lodge
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks
Fred Lieberherr
Ren. G. Vasen
Lyman Greenman
Unitarian Church
Myrtle Harrison Reeves
Lillian B. Inghram
Valmere
Martha Granadier
C. A. E. Koch
Carol E. Baker
C. E. Baker
R. H. Hoffman
Moses Kingsbaker
R. A. Gardner
J. E. Wafer
Eddie Pouwter
John A. Steinbach
S. C. Hunsaker
Edward J. Parker
Concordia League Elects Officers at St Jacobi Hall
The Concordia Mutual Benefit league, branch 38, elected officers at a Monday meeting held in St. Jacobi school hall. Officers include President William Zelle, Vice President Fred Peuster, Recording Secretary Henry Verndam, Financial Secretary William Lepper, Local Dues Secretary HF Stork, Treasurer William Stoermer, Chaplain Rev Martens, Auditing Committee George Pipe, Charles H H Ott, and John Schroeder. The next meeting will be at St Johns school hall and the first monthly meeting is Monday Jan 7.
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Concordia Mutual Benefit League
St. Jacobi School Hall
William Zelle
Fred Peuster
Henry Verndam
William Lepper
HF. Stork
William Stoermer
Rev. Martens
George Pipe
Charles HH. Ott
John Schroeder
Bernbrock to Leave for Chicago Training Career
Jimmy Bernbrock, formerly a St Francis College pitcher and a Quincy Three-J League member, will pursue a life in physical training. He plans to move to Chicago near year end to prepare for the work and will play with a semi pro baseball team there next summer.
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Bernbrock
Jimmy Bernbrock
St. Francis College
Quincy
Chicago
Reinbrock
Campaign for 5000 dollar road fund in Quincy
Businessmen of Quincy canvassed Monday to raise 5000 dollars for a People’s Road plan aimed at dragging main roads into Adams county, improving the Twelfth street highway, and coordinating with Marion county. The drive emphasizes swift subscriptions, with a goal to present full funds to the Board of Supervisors to secure county road improvements.
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Quincy
Twelfth Street
Marion County
Board of Supervisors
Adams County
People’s Road Plan
Quincy Motor Club
People’s
Highway Commissioners’ Association of
Frank Curlage
Joseph J. Fischer
Morris Adler
Herman Heintz
R. W. Halbach
W. T. Eddy
A. VU. Lindsay
Julius Kespohl
J. M. Winters
H. F. Jochem
Robert F. Gunther
J. E. Cameron
J. W. My
Charles Crooks
W. K. Abbott
Maurice Vasen
W. VA. Heidbreder
C. F. A. Behrensmeyer
State Street
E. B. Gibson
East Broadway Merchants’ Association
W. H. Pape
Merchants of the Twelfth and Broadway Association
Quincys Older Boys conference returns leaders say
Quincy reports five hundred delegates ages 15 to 20 attended the Older Boys conference in Jacksonville under the state Y and Illinois Sunday School Association. Virgil Kibler says Quincy may secure the southern conference next year and a northern conference is possible. shop meetings will run weekly at Electric Wheelworks Qatas Elevator Gardner Governor works and winter follow ups. Christmas address list incomplete. call 521 or mail missing names to Mrs. Harry Bray for Christmas boxes to soldiers.
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Robert Bunting
Leslie Brewer
William Gerdes
Carl Moellering
Russell Stacy
William Steinbeck
Kenneth Dickson
Roy Doland
Virgil Kibler
Harry Gitgens
Jacksonville
Illinois Sunday School Association
Quincy
Electric
Qatas
Gardner Governor Works
Red Cross Committee
Harry Bray
Vermont Street
William Ebert
Floyd Harris
Ralph L. Mixer
James W. Thompson
Joseph A. Hoffman
Lee Clark
W. T. Pflug
Harvey Fusselman
Farm survey planned in Melrose township districts
To Start Farm Survey Casper Mast food administrator of Melrose township and his helpers met in the town hall Monday to lay out the township into 12 districts and appoint 12 assistants. The survey will begin this morning to map farms and assess agricultural resources. Farmers will fill slips noting acres planted and desired government aid.
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Casper Mast
Melrose Township
Navy Enlistments Amid Exemption Clarification Telegram
Shrapnel Bs reports that registrants called or not called by local boards may enlist in the Navy before December 15 with local board approval. Enlisted Monday at the local recruiting station include Arthur Pendelton Jas Donovan Wm Miles Albert Campbell Z W Lemton N G Bredige. Army enlistees at the same station include Arthur Alexander Clarence Van Deventer Alpher Gruhn and Ralph Gehring. Lieutenant Wheelock and Sgt Langsford from local stations were mentioned. Percy Bernard and Edward Ellermeier of Quincy Naval Reserves are said to be somewhere in France aboard battleships manning four inch guns.
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Navy
Wempen
Ridgely
Arthur Pendelton
Tuscola
Ill
Baker
Jas. A. Donovan
Granite City
Wm. R. Miles
Leon
Albert E. Campbell
Humeston
Z. W. Lemton
Kinderhook
N. G. Bredige
South Fourth Street
Army
Jefferson Barracks
Arthur C. Alexander
North Sixteenth Street
Clarence J. van Deventer
Mt. Sterling
Hospital Corps
Alpher C. Gruhn
el Centro
Cal
Ralph J. Gehring
North Sixth Street
Percy Bernard
Clara Bernard
North Third Street
Quincy Naval Reserves
France
Uncle Sam
Edward Ellermeier
Chicken Hawks On Exhibition Here In Quincy
Mr and Mrs Hawk arrive in Quincy to be seen behind glass walls at 23 Maine Street with passersby eyeing their close range display. Taxidermist August Moentmann predicts danger as the pair face an unwanted city life and possible fate if kept in the spotlight.
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Bluff Hall
Mrs. Hawk
Maine Street Society
Quincy
August Moentmann
Deaths and Funerals Mrs Clara Kerksieck
Mrs Clara Kerksieck died Saturday night at her home from pneumonia after an illness of the last week. Born in Germany November 4, ISSS, she came to Quincy in 1966 and made it her home. She leaves a husband, four sons, three daughters, six grandchildren, two brothers, one sister, with services at 3 o'clock in St. Peter's Evangelical church after a private home service at 2:30.
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Clara Kerksieck
Clara Kerkslee
South Seventeenth Street
Germany
Quincey
St. Peter's Evangelical Church
Ladies’ Aid Society
William Kerksieck
William and
Elmer
Quincy
Louis
Chicago
Frederick
Camp Grant
Rockford
Charles Barnes
Ely
Eben Turner
Louis Auspurg
DuQuoin
William Auspurg
Hattie Echtenkamp
Death notice for Mrs. T. F. Leeper in San Diego
A. B. Leeper of Lima received a telegram Monday reporting the death of his mother Mrs. T. F. Leeper in San Diego California from heart failure. He had been summoned west three weeks earlier for his mother's illness. He found her improved before leaving to return to Lima. The body will be brought to Lima for burial.
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A. B. Leeper
Lima
T. F. Leeper
San Diego
Cal
Leeper
West
Minnie Tuggles Dies of Tuberculosis at 32
Minnie Tuggles colored died at 8 30 o'clock Sunday night in the home of her sister Mrs Sanders 2021 Spruce street from tuberculosis. She was born 32 years ago in Missouri.
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Minnie Tuggles
Mrs. Sanders
Spruce Street
Missouri
Sanitation ordinance change debated by Quincy council
Quincy aldermen considered amending the sanitation rule to abolish the fifty foot clause and require sewer connections within one hundred feet of any street or building. The measure, urged by the ordinance committee, would levy a 100 dollar fine for noncompliance after notice if a privy vault is near a sewer capable location. The ordinance awaits three readings before a vote set for December 17.
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City of
Quincy
Rotarians
Women's Forum
Travelers’ Protective Association
Man Tompkins
Duke Schroer
Polce
Mary White
House of Cnrreetion
Board of Public Works
C. L. Martin
Board of Health
Jackson School
Gill
Martin
Ross
Payson Avenue
Thompson
S. A. Thompson
Rivers and Harbors Congress
Finance Committee
Hyatt
Hannibal
la Newburg
Schroer
Poultry Show Delights crowds at Highland Park event
Officials of the Quincy poultry show report a five day exhibition at Highland park drew more than 1,090 attendees. Exhibitors sold over 300 dollars worth of birds. Joseph J. Fischer, president of the Quincy Pountry Pigeon and Pet Stock association, praised the park and noted higher attendance than previous armory shows.
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Quincy Poultry Show
Highland Park
Joseph J. Fischer
Quincy Pountry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Association
Armory
Eliza Cortez reports Buenos Aires YWCA work
Miss Eliza Cortez, secretary of the Buenos Aires YWCA, spoke at the vesper services describing the association’s activities in Argentina. She outlined separate secretaries for native and English speaking girls, and noted their Sunday meetings classes and social events. She displayed an Argentine flag given by her group. She later spoke to girls at United Cereal Mills and Vermont Street Methodist church and dined with the Geneva Lake excursion party, before leaving for Peoria.
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Eliza Cortez
Buenos Aires
Miss Cortez
Lost Gun Found near Upper Bay Bridge
Ralston of La Prairie found a shotgun in a gan case at the Bottom Pond near the Upper Bay Bridge on Monday. He offers to return the gun to its rightful owner who can prove property.
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Ralston
la Prairie
Upper Bay Bridge
Factory Inspector Chiefs to Speak on Occupational Diseases
Robert N Jones of the state factory inspection department and Dr George Apfelbach of the same unit will give illustrated talks Friday evening December 7 at 8 o'clock in the Labor temple. The general public is invited with no charges. Also noted is routine business from Painters and Decorators Union No 66 and election of general officers on Monday evening December 17 at the Labor temple.
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Robert N. Jones
Chicago
State
George Apfelbach
Labor Temple
Painters and Decorators Union
Weather forecast for Halinois Nissouri Iowa
Halinois unsettled and cloudy Tuesday and likely Wednesday with light rain or snow north and central Tuesday. Nissouri unsettled but generally fair Tuesday with little temperature change. Iowa light snow and somewhat colder Tuesday, then Wednesday generally fair.
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Nissouri
Iowa
River Bulletin Reveals Stage Changes and Forecast
Local river report lists stage of water at Davenport Keokuk Hannibal and Wanous Points with heights and daily changes. Forecasts the river will probably fall tonight depending on Keokuk dam operations.
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River Bulletin
Davenport
Keokuk
Hannibal
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St. Mary’s Hospital
Blessing Hospital
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R. J. Christie
Thomas Nolan
McCarl
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C.garets
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Geneva
Tako
Abe Martin
Tawney Apple
Bea Ams
State Centennial Commission and Historical Society
ELKS
Concordia League
EL W. Peter
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Wee Eee
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Pana
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Torney
Langsford
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