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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1918
Page
9
Wet manufacture all kinds and sizes mattresses and feather beds converted to feather mattresses. Koetter Mattress Co Rear 628 Kim St. Phone 2651.
A stream of social updates from Emerson Missouri and nearby towns details visits and family gatherings. Names such as Libbee McPike Inlow Schroeder Jarman and Maywood Milton Phillips and Russell Pettit appear along with trips to Quincy Pietopora and Weekuk. A General Electric man contributes twenty dollars to war causes from his weekly envelope.
F C Burton has moved to Kansas City. Geo Jule of Chicago conducts Baptist services this week. Mrs Geo J Wilson and son Walter head to California. Eugene Chamberlain of Pittsfield attended Nan Rowand’s funeral. Decatur instructors visit during holidays. Several residents travel to California and Oakland for work. McConnell’s health declines. Mrs Blufftu man visits Seattle to see her son. John W Buttz attends his aunt's funeral in Liberty. A party from Griggsville visits. Rev Dabney returns from St Louis with Eufi Gouddis who remains unwell. Theresa Wobis to marry Thomas J Hughes Jan 10 in this city. Mrs John Lippincott scalded. Francis Woodward Sr dies near Lawton. Fire damages T A Retallie residence. Ice-cutting accident on Hadley Creek injures a man’s foot. Gladyve Strubinger and Loraine Sultaman to wed in Peoria. bride is J A Struttnger’s daughter. Nan Rowand’s remains arrive from San Antonio. funeral at J McTucker’s. Soldiers home include Werdorff, Kenton, Clarkey, Gieker, Kaylor, Hulse. Wrestling match: Budd Snider defeats Carter in 40 minutes.
The Palmyra county court approved monthly accounts and ordered six month dram shop licenses for many Hannibal and Palmyra vendors. Ed ward O Beadles of Hannibal was sent to St Joseph institute. The court also added I L Kelly as probation officer and set a coroner inquest fee of five dollars. Assessor George W Moore filed a five thousand five hundred dollar bond for income tax. Losson Brothers closed Palmyra garage. plans to move into Virginia. Reigle named assistant metallurgist at Mitchell Motor Co Racine. Bessie Hawkes, student, visits home.
Mr and Mrs Ray Sims hosted thirty friends at a Monday watch party with games and a midnight lunch. Walter Wells and family plan California travel. Kate Bayer opened a groceries hardware shop in Mrs I Den Tett's store. Pullman family changes residence and fall illness noted. Several locals visited Quincy events and a thrift stamp sales meeting chaired by Postmaster Lummis and attended by Grant Wells.
Liberty Illinois residents attended the annual New Year oyster supper of the Tille Lodge No. 87 independentGreer Odd Fellows Tuesday evening. Proceeds totaled between fifty and sixty dollars as the lodge, with Rebekahs and other members in costume, offered songs, readings and refreshments amid a large turnout.
Cleera Peters visits Springfield with his parents Mr and Mrs John Peters. Miss Mary Robinson returns to Macomb to resume work at the state normal school after holidays with Mr and Mrs Robert Adram. Miss Flolen Shriver goes to Quin cy for shorthand at a business college. Mr and Mrs George Laxone of St Louis take posts at Pittsfield hotel. Sunday school officers elected: Superintendent George Weaver, assistant superintendent Prof Joseph C C Shastid, secretary Pearl Carlton, assistants Loren Stoner and David Williams, enrolling secretary Clara Obst Johnson, treasurer C Donald Haskell, pianist Emily Burbridge, assistants Ethel Storck Lenore Nelson, orchestra Elmer Benson Leroy Paull, chorister Merle Barber Edward Glanidon, Mrs Emma Wassell to entertain W I M society. Mrs red Pangert and children go to Cazenovia Wis where Mr Bangert bought a dairy farm to operate. harvest underway. Miss Tou Stone and Morris Scanland Turner wed at the bride’s mother Phoebe Stone’s home. Rev C G Kindred officiates. The couple will live in Pittsfield. Glenn Hoover leaves for Camp Taylor Ky after furlough with parents Thomas and Mrs. Hoover. Born to Mr and Mrs John Tsher-
New Year festivities by the local Red Cross featured a banquet with many attendees, a charity sale of donated articles, and a crowded evening performance in the opera house by the Toikson family orchestra of Quincey and soloists Miss Mather Reeder, Miss Marguerite Jackson, and Mack Bennett. Profits neared 400 dollars.
Irving Akers comes home from an eight day furlough to learn his father died on his arrival day. In Denver Illinois, KS chapter No. 262 of Mrs Browning elects officers for the year with Mattie Scott and J CW Fleming among the leaders. A two course banquet followed the installation ceremonies with Prof. Vodon Fleming of Chaurpatyin present.
Leslie D. Puterbaugh, director of the department of public works and buildings in Governor Lowden's cabinet, died in Springfield. His funeral in Peoria will be Monday at 2 PM at the Shrine temple with Rev. J. H. Morrow presiding. the body is due to arrive today.
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