Adams County Seeks Ice Bids for Jail and Court House
The County Attorney’s office in Adams County invites sealed bids by December 20, 1917, at 10 a.m. for supplying pure ice for the county jail, cooling tank, court house offices, and the Detention Home for 1918. Deliveries start at 7 a.m. as ordered. ice must be fit for drinking and approved by the Purchasing Committee. The committee may reject all bids. Quincy Ill December 8 1917.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams
Court House
Said
F. P. Taylor
J. C. Walker
Quincy, Ill
Rockport News Highlights Local Visits and Events
Grant Tedrow repairs and paints his residence while Mrs. Lucy Shaw visits Quincy relatives. Trene Stebbins stays with friends in Rockport en route to Quincy, after two weeks with H. L. Anderson in Summer Hill. FE T C club to meet at Mrs Claude Ator's Friday. Harry and Ida Howe visit from Danville, Indiana, with possible relocation to Rockport. J. N. Carter visits daughter in Chicago. M. E. church bazar and luncheon well attended despite cold. Red Cross proceeds support. Sealed bids on donated piano for Red Cross sale. Mrs J. J. Billings hosts a social. Lilly Miller group completes work. Selah M. Gay and Ford Howard wed in Los Angeles. home at 6009 Wall Street. James F. E. Crenshaw dies in Rockport. tuberculosis noted. Crenshaw traveled widely, educated, mourned by sisters in San Diego and Rockport. Burial at Samuel Taylor cemetery. Italy’s wine crop expected bumper at 40,000,000 hectoliters versus 28,000,000 in 1916.
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Grant Tedrow
Lucy Shaw
Quincy
Trene Stebbins
Rockport
H. l. Anderson
Summer Hill
FE. T. C
Clhiude Ator
Decemer
Harry Howe
Danville
Ind
Mra. Cf
Vo Thuiman
Red Cross
Haines, Rupert and Co
J. J. Billings
Lilly Miller
Selah M. Gay
Ford Howard
Los Angeles
Calif
Christian Church
Howard
San Diego
Wall Street
C. E. Gay
James FE. Crenshaw
E. L. Rupert
Mr. Crenshaw
Nicolas
Zerilla Crenshaw
W. JD. Rapalee
B. L. Rupert
Africa
Mexico
West Indies
Rev. Edwards
M. E. Church
Samuel Taylor Cemetery
Nearby towns note births visits and injuries
Wm. Ewing's new home nears occupancy and a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hawking. Miss Katherine Monly of Alton visited Rev. Peterson. Cecil Hopkins of McIntire spent a week with family. Charles and wife Danner visited at SD Stoner's home. Ernest Conrad and Mattie Pitzer toured Louisiana. A wedding reception honored Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hubbard near Colusa. Fortunes include a hog sale at 104 dollars and a docking loss, eye injury to Mrs. Cohn, and Illness notes on residents. Community events feature a lyceum performance and school entertainments. delegates attend Anti-Saloon League in Washington.
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Wm. Ewing
J. E. Hawking
Katherine Monly
Alton
Peterson
Cecil Hopkins
McIntire
Charles Danner
Tipava
Packard
SD. Stoner
Ernest Conrad
Mattie Pitzer
Louisiana
Leslie Tlopking
Perry Hubbard
Colusa
Andrew Hubbard
Hopkin
John Dickinson
Middle Creek
George White
Carthage
Fred Hamilton
C. A. MacConnell
FR. Cummand
Houston
Texas
S. D. Stoner
Urbana
Frank Cohn
Keokuk
O. M. Hull
Wall
Arsenal
Alfred Miller
Nun
Colo
Walt Miller
J. A. Gibson
Russell
Miss Wright
Lyceum
Lotua Company
Glven
Opera House
Adam Winrich
BE. W. Cottrell
Local social notes include visits and holiday plans
Paul Ross returns home from the Angel club in Arkansas to visit through the holidays before entering Westminster Fulton. George Zimmerman and families, Al Workman and families depart for California, while Mr and Mrs George Flfson and Mrs Warry Rouse and Httleson head to Texas for the winter. Mrs Ben Jones travels to Kirksville to join her husband. La Belle Red Cross box supper at the high school on December 8 raised about fifty seven dollars with various musical numbers and a cake prize for the ugliest man. Mrs Joe Smuolt and daughter visit from Carrollton, and Emmer Hadley, formerly of La Belle, now Town, visits friends. Mrs Herman Augustine returns home.
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Paul Ross
Angel
Arkansas
Westminster
Fulton
George Zimmerman
al Workman
California
Georgee Flfson
Warry Rouse
Httleson
Texas
Ben Jones
Kirksville
la Bella Red Cross
Edna Roberts
Lula McWilliams
Jeanette Smith
Florence Gosney
Pauline Walker
Leota Thompson
R. B. Wilson
Flossie “Lewis
Reta Wilson
America
Wm. Meriwether
D. Mattingly
Joe Sfunolt
Carrollon
R H. Seaman
Emmer Hadley
la Belle
Herman Augustine
Notable Baylis Dinner Hosts Mention Alaska Peak
Gent of Baylis dined Wednesday with Mr and Mrs Samuel Moore and supped with Mr and Mrs Samuel Teds row The article notes Mt McKinley Alaska at 20300 feet as the highest peak in US territory and Death Valley California at 276 feet below sea level as the lowest dry land point in the United States.
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Baylis
Samuel Moore
Samuel Teds
Row
Mt. McKinley
Alaska
United States Territory
United States
Death Valley
California
Freezone Corn Remedy Ad promises painless relief
An advertisement touts Freezone, a tiny bottle from a Cincinnati inventor, as a miracle fluid to remove corns and calluses. It claims instant soreness relief and easy lifting of softened corn or callus with no pain, urging women to buy at drug stores for a few cents.
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Cinemnnati
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