Social rounds and engagements in Quincy society
Mrs Otto Mohrenstecher entertained at two luncheon parties in honor of her sister Miss Margarthe Kespohl who is to marry Mr Oliver Williams at month’s end. Guests and decorations featured roses, doilies, pink and silver accents, and a four course menu. Also noted are Miss Bernice Tapp's Christmas visit, Miss Maida Lee Folgate's Japanese masque December 3 at Hotel Newcomb, Ms Eugene Yeates visiting from Minneapolis, and several holiday gatherings in Keokuk and Quincy with several families traveling to Chicago for holidays. The Mikado production was postponed due to grip at the high school. The St John’s Guild sale to fund the deanery opens Saturday the eighteenth. Invitations, dances, card parties, and club meetings fill the social calendar amid travel plans and school events.
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Otto Mohrenstecher
Margarthe Kespohl
Oliver Williams
Ill local resident near recovery after grip attack
Frank Dick Jr of 1254 Lark Place has been ill with a severe grip for 10 days and is nearly recovered, with plans to be out in a couple of days. Call 120 with news items for The Whig.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Dick, Jr
Lark Place
Nothing Shrinks with At Home Dry Cleaning Advise
Women readers can dry clean ribons silks satins laces furs and many garments at home using two ounces of salvite in two gallons of gasoline. Rub with the mixture and items emerge bright and fresh without fading shrinking or wrinkles. Do it outdoors away from fire. grocers and garages supply gasoline and two ounces of solvite at drug stores.
Christmas Vacation Closes St. Francis College
The college closes for holiday recess with vacation continuing until January 5. Many students departed the city yesterday to return home for Yuletide observances.
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St. Francis
Yuletide
Dr Bell’s Pine Tar Honey for Children’s Colds
Keep child dry and comfortable and give Dr Bell’s Pine Tar Honey. It soothes antiseptic raises phlegm and reduces inflammation. The first dose relieves symptoms and continued treatment with care prevents serious illness. Don’t delay treatment. Get a bottle today at druggists.
Pioneer resident Sybvester Worley dies in Los Angeles
Sybvester Truitt Worley, born January 19 1832 in Portsmouth Ohio, a former Adams county resident and Keokuk carriage maker, died in Los Angeles California on December 5 age 83. He married Elizabeth Hicks in 1858 and served as a captain in Company A 119 Illinois Infantry. Survived by eight children and two sisters, funeral held in Los Angeles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams County
Sybvester Truitt Worley
Los Angeles
Cal
Mr. Worley
Portsmouth
Ohio
Elizabeth Hicks
Quincy
One Hundred-Nineteenth
Illinois Infantry
Keokuk
W. Worley
Worley
P. Richter
Paul Richardson
California
Methodist Episcopal Church
M. Hall
Evelyn Hall
Agency City
Ebens May Attend Big Good Roads Meeting
Secretary Perry received a letter from W G Ebens of Chicago president of the Associated Good Roads association of Cook County expressing his willingness to attend the major good roads meeting to be held in the city. He could not confirm attendance until the meeting date is known.
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Bernice Tapp
Miss Tapp
Marshall-Field
Company
Chicago
Eugene Yeates
Minneapolis
George Lyford
Mr. Yeates
Perdew Shelden
Irwin-McKee
Stephen Irwin
A.W. D- Weis
Henry Dayton
Dorothy
Dayton
New York City
St. John’s Guild of
Cathedral
Edith Hewett Baker
Betty Castle
Castle
Sixteenth and
Maine Streets
A. .O. Lindsay
Barlow House
Clarence Lineberger
Burr Irwin
Modern Novel Club
W.A. Richardson
Williams
Miss. Brackensick
Lucy
B. Finley
Nneida
Friends
Whig
West
City
American Beauty
M.C. S
F. O. B. ‘Factory
F. O. B. Factory
Adams, Brown, Pike, Schuyler
Hancock
West Helf
Elf of
McDonough
W. T. Gillis
Walter Williamson
Hoffman Bros. E
B. Simmons B. R
Wood
Bowen
Ils
Timewell
Rushville
Basco
Til
Augusta
J. M. Thornber
Emil Coeur
Wilcox & Mead
Leo A. McAllister
Ferris
McCall
J. Carthaze
Colmar
Denver
Ebens
Simmermocker
George Simmermocker
Bonde Cain
Margaret ‘Simmermocker
Bonde’ Cain
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