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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1919
Page
5
Mrs Emma Kemp aged 50 of 1132 Broadway slipped on a y walk near Tenth and roadway Thursday and suffered a hip fracture. She was taken to St Marys hospital after ambulances and police attended. She is the wife of printer W C Kemp.
Street car workers of Local 854 held annual election of officers Thursday night with results: President O C Dace, vice president Ed Amen, Financial secretary and treasurer A H Rothgeb, recording secretary R E Patrick, warden Thomas Crawford, gentinel Joseph Teague, conductor Tomas Haley, correspondent Mart Lyons, executive board O C Dace George T Morris R E Patrick B F Collins Ed Amen, delegates to central body H Brass.
A water main broke beneath paving in front of the Davidson Millinery store on Hampshire Street between Fourth and Fifth streets Thursday night. The force of the water caused upheaval in the wooden block paving and water surged through crevices like a spring during the night.
The Quincy Pulse YW. 4.C. A. Board met Thursday evening to complete routine business, continuing their monthly session.
Pitts burgh Post issued Dec 12 without display ads due to newsprint shortages. The morning daily, usually 20 pages, ran only 12 pages and carried fewer than two pages of classified ads as seven local papers face the paper shortage.
Fourteen of fifteen Massachusetts cities voting on the liquor question favored license in late returns. Melrose remained dry. A week earlier twenty cities supported license. Since the license year starts next May, no liquor can be sold even if wartime prohibition ends.
Harriet Ellingman aged 90 died at her home in Chicago on Thursday. She arrived in 1835 as a six year old from Buffalo aboard a lake schooner and was one of the citys oldest settlers, spending time near Fort Dearborn for protection from Indian raiders.
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