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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1920
Page
7
The Quincy Whig promises up to date baseball coverage with box scores from Three I National and American leagues. It notes training camps and club plans, with Hannibal and Quincy aiming to field teams, and pledges Hannibal updates for local readers.
Hannibal fans await Henry Reidel in Chicago for Three I League meeting to launch a drive purchasing 1500 season tickets at 4 each to bring professional baseball to Hannibal this season. A 7:30 p.m. courthouse meeting tonight invites all loyal baseball fans to participate and push completion within ten days if Reidel approves.
Miss Mary A. Seal of Ilasco died at her home Sunday night at age 18. She was the daughter of James Seal and leaves her father a stepmother and two sisters. Funeral services are set for 2 PM at Marble Creek Cemetery with Rev. John Findley conducting. interment will be private.
Charles I. Bower Sr of Olive street, famed as the Poet Laureate of the Knights of the Grip in Missouri, is publishing a book of poems to benefit the United Commercial Travelers widows and orphans fund. The collection includes The Old Covered Bridge about Bear Creek near Oakwood, recalling boyhood adventures with Rev. Thomas Nfenson.
Attorney Eugene W. Nelson, famed Poland China hog man, has returned from a five day trip visiting sales in Wayland Palmyra Frankford and other Missouri towns where additional public auctions of his hog stock were held after last week’s $15 000 sale.
The Star Theater presents The Birth of a Race as a feature picture at Hannibal Playhouses for a three day engagement starting today. The production features a cast of 10 000 and is promoted as a Broadway Star feature.
Rising employment at Pennant Pearl Button factory and Hannibal Motor Body has driven a housing crisis. The Chamber of Commerce opened a house and room shortage bureau to collect ads for rentals and seek temporary solutions like converting second floors. Builders delay new dwellings due to high costs and uncertain conditions.
L O Vaught of Jacksonville will be in Hannibal to finish plans for a D O K K Temple. Hannibal Knights of Pythias meet Castle Hall at 7 30 tonight to discuss the date and initiation of a class of over 100 candidates from Quincy New Canton Pleasant Hill Shelbina Monroe City New Lincoln Hannibal Vandalia and nearby areas.
The Hannibal Rotary club dispatched fourteen members to the Inter-city conference of Rotarians in Springfield, Illinois, traveling by a special Wabash train Monday night at eleven. Hannibal participants include Robert Isbister H F Roth Alva Gibeon Charles Bassen Everett Gibson J M Walshe W A Jackson E A Parks E L Sparks L J Huegel R E Hall Raymond Rendlen and Riley Hahn.
Four people die when Hannibal operated K line train No 12 collides with a car at the East Grand avenue crossing in St Louis. John P Murphy the Burlington engineer and Mike Anderson the fireman were among crew. occupants Lutzenberger and wife Ida Turley perished. An inquest was held in St Louis Monday.
Republicans of the First Congressional District held a gathering in Macon Missouri on Monday electing Dr Edward Brown Edina Knox County and Edward Leslie Memphis as delegates to the state convention in Chicago next June C L Young Clark County and Mrs J C Hackett Schuyler County named alternates Resolutions endorsed Senator S P Spencer for re nomination and reelection as well as George E Hackman for state auditor The district Republicans opposed the league of nations with amendments until all interests are safeguarded
Harmony prevailed at the meeting with J B Jeffries of Hannibal as chairman and Nat M Lacey as secretary The Marion county delegation included Mr and Mrs J P Hinton Fenton B Morris J B Jeffries John G Jeffries Joe O'Hern Frank Bernhard C F Bulkley and C L Mueller
The well known Methodist minister Rev J Anderson of the Southern Methodist conference died Friday afternoon aboard a train in Casper Wyoming. He was with his wife former Hannibal resident Mrs C E McRae. Remains will go to Monroe City Missouri for funeral services and burial. He was en route to visit his son Dr George Anderson in Wyoming.
The Damon club of the Knights of Pythias will hold a Valentine party next Friday night in Castle Hall on Broadway. Music for dancing will be furnished by an orchestra and the members and their friends will wear fancy and grotesque costumes.
Paul Raukohl of Union Street connected with the International Shoe Company's executive department is seriously ill at his home after an attack of pneumonia his condition Monday was slightly improved and a report notes his illness.
Judge Allen E. Dent of Hannibal united three couples on Monday afternoon. Hall Ferguson and Grace McArthur of Springfield Illinois wed, Russell Duckett of Springfield and Mabel Rudisell of Quincy Illinois tied the knot, and Emil Bolin of New Canton and Goldie Praul of Lincoln Illinois were married.
Charles E. Breeding manager and owner of the Breeding Transfer company has been ill in his room at the Conklin Hotel for several days. His condition showed improvement on Monday, according to his son.
T. J. Evans of Bowling Green, Mo., has purchased the Mark Twain hotel.
Roy Vermillion has assumed charge of a Bowling Green barber shop. Evang, a longtime local and experienced barber, plans to relocate from Hannibal to the west for health reasons.
News arrives from Evansville Indiana of the death February 4 of Rudolph Bach son of Mr and Mrs Oscar Bach formerly of Hannibal He was 19 years old Miss Sallie O Donnell of 115 Glascock street Hannibal received word of the death
Experienced waitresses sought for Pike Cafe in Hannibal Missouri. Apply in person at Pike Cafe Hannibal MO.
For sale improved vacant Hannibal real estate offered by Plowman and Greenville of Hannibal Missouri. Listings include a 146 acre dairy farm three miles from Ilasco and Laverton and seven miles from Hannibal at five dollars per acre. Also 25 acres adjoining the city near the end of the car line with an old house priced at three thousand dollars.
Mrs. Louis Gerleman, who had lived in Hannibal 64 years, died at 8:50 Sunday night at her daughter's home, 2102 Chestnut. Born in Germany, she came to the United States at 14 and was a Lutheran. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock today from the Raible home, conducted by Rev. Theodore Waz. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery.
M. Re White, a Hannibal druggist on Church Street, is ill at home with pneumonia after returning from Rochester Minnesota where he underwent an operation. It is believed he caught a cold on the trip home.
Miss Mildred E Dolbow aged 18 died Saturday afternoon at her home on 2140 Broadway after a brief illness. The body was taken to Pittsfield Illinois for burial after the medical examiner determined the cause.
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