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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1919
Page
9
Letters from France describe President Wilson's Paris welcome and German captures in Paris streets. Prices at the Mirabeau Hotel are listed, with doorway hardships of wartime shortages noted. Local veterans return home, and numerous residents attend birthdays, church events, social meetings, and outings in Camp Point Quincy and Beardstown.
Grant Wassell travels to Hannibal for rheumatism treatment. Licenses issued for James Ballenger Pearl and Nettie Lathrop Jacksonville. Cicero Peters visits family after Marine discharge from Key West. Mrs Jessie Johnston to visit St Louis for spring stock. Mrs Fred Kibler returns from Evanston. Dr S B Peacock in Chicago. A L McDonnold to California. Samuel and Hattie Morgan to Winnemac Indiana for business. Kibler family with relatives in Monticello Missouri. Auctioneer James Duffield recovering after surgery in Quincy. Mrs Paul Fife visits ill mother Mrs Sarah Hall in Hannibal. Patrick Kane to rent farm near Jacksonville. sold north town farm to John Ducey. Ferne Linville returns to Alton. Emily Andrews ill from paralysis stroke. John Ducey and James A Davis in Chicago with livestock shipments. Judge Harry Higbee in Chicago on business. Fred Kibler ill with influenza. few cases remain. Miss Helen Carey to host Woman's Christian Temperance Union next Wednesday. Gus Klentzle to return to Camp Mcintosh Texas after furlough and illness.
Carthage February 1 John Thomas Sparks, respected local citizen, died suddenly Friday morning on East Main Street at 10:80 a.m. Born October 4, 1846 in Baltimore County, Maryland, he moved to this area in 1867, married Mary Powell in 1870, and leaves five children. Burial will be in Bowen cemetery. funeral services arranged by Sargeant Funeral.
Earl Wilcox and Carman Treated left for Maxwell North Dakota. Ray Treated’s family wintered there. Chicago man Steiner visits his mother Mrs George. Sanderson returns from college for a short visit. Warren Clark of the U S Navy on furlough departs for New York. Mrs Amanda Lemmon wintering in Quincy visits. Bob Hardy and family attend funeral in Adrian. Claude Strickler discharged from Navy aviation corps. Mrs W L Jackson called by death of her mother. Rutledge farm sold to W L Jackson and Mendon Prairie farm to Clarence Trutledge. Loraine school lists over 50 veterans in service flag and records. pre-1901 names hard to trace due to 1901 fire. Mrs John Ewing visits Hannibal. Harold Guseman dies after two days illness. funeral at new cemetery in Lorraine. Miss Mabel Wilcox of Blessing Hospital visits home. Radcliffe College named after Anne Radcliffe donor.
Culver gym hosted a post examination jubilee with students faculty and visitors. acts included art music and expression imitation of a country singing school Galileo by ministerial students a colored Sunday school class by Hawkins Institute songs by Zetolopian Literary Society and a dramatic club one act play. Zetolopian won the crowd vote. dramatic club close behind. Abe Corey and others led chapel exercises. missionary talks followed. Culver-Stockton beat Canton High 30 to 19 in a later practice game and will meet Quincy M A in Quincy Friday January 31.
Palmyra Kaestner formerly worked on a farm in Bear Una city, traveled from Camp Pike Ark to Morr Ville Wis, planned to settle there, but influenza kept him from France. Born in London, he came to America five years ago. His brother, in England, served with the British army in 1914 and was briefly a prisoner in Germany before discharge. Family plans include joining in America. Local notes report two Palmyra colored boys, Julius Davis and Mose Lee, may have died in action in France.
J T Bims of Augusta visited relatives here last week. Jack and James Elliott were callers in Quincy Wednesday. Laura Proctoria is on the sick list. Justin Pullman and his wife visited Quincy Monday. The bad roads kept the “ute out of commission for days. Lawrence, Luella, and Eleanor Boyer were in Quincy Wednesday with the camera. Charlie Elliott and Lela Wells visited Payson Monday. Frank Smith of Quincy to hold a grain sale Saturday afternoon on his farm north of Adams with J B Murphy as auctioneer. Amelia Tandy guests of relatives in Quincy this week. Sawing wood done Monday and Tuesday by Will Wells, Lawrence Boyer, Charila Elliott, James Elliott, and Albert Hartrick. Mabel Boyer and baby visiting her grandparents H T Tandy. Henry Althoff and family moving to a farm near Fall Creek. Earl, Omer Wells and Grant Wells in Quincy Saturday evening. Ten thousand acres of Smyrna fig trees planted in the central San Joaquin valley since the war began.
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