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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1920
Page
2
The decision drives saloonkeepers toward closure as Quincy locales cease operations or switch to other lines. With Jan 16 looming, few will endure, and most will abandon soft drinks for good. Hard cider becomes illegal after the amendment, and export stoppage leaves dealers with unsold stock.
Chief of Police Tom Ryan and Quincy officers locate Ellis Hoffman, father of Jennie Hoffman, an inmate of a Delaware Ohio girls’ industrial school. The girl's mother is dead. she had been under MecDavitt care in Quincy before being fostered away. Hoffman's discovery follows a newspaper story and many tips from the public.
Officers of St. Barbara, St. Michael and St. Andrews branches of the Western Catholic Union were installed at a joint ceremony in St. Francis Catholic school hall. William Ott presided, Waldin Fitch led the entertainment, a playlet Wax Statues was performed, and 20 tables of cards followed with prize winners Frank Darius, Frank Zolph, Miss Christian Graves, Miss Clara Siegel, and Miss Elizabeth Hansman.
In Clinton county politics the Missouri novelist J Breckenridge Ellis was named for county treasurer but, while in his library, he learned the public will not have him as a candidate. He then clarified through friends that he is not seeking office. The incident follows praise of Ellis in the Kansas City Star noting his wheelchair bound perseverance and literary achievements.
Twenty five deaths occurred in the Soldiers Home during December per Superintendent Andrew’s report. Twenty two were Civil War veterans and three were women. The list includes George W. Johnson age 86 Co E 174th Pa Inf, David A Donavan 63 Co E 6th Ill Inf, William W Kokensparger 80 Co F 98th Pa Inf, John Heberling 74 Co G 89th Ill Inf, William Morehead 73 Co G 161st Ill Inf, Jacob Vogt 85 Co A 15th Ill Inf, Joseph K Sharp 80 Co E 68th IL Inf, William J Hamilton Co D 13th Ill Cav.
A fragment lists ages and names of veterans from Civil War units: Newton W Young Co A 30th Pa Inf aged 70, John M Farlow Co G 87th Ill Inf aged 90, Geo H Bragoni er Co H 2nd Md Inf aged 87, John N Underbrink Co C 38th Isl Inf aged 92, Newton Todd Co K 113th Inl Inf aged 72, John N Leeard Co B 59th Ill Inf, John G Stillwell Co H tachetan Inf aged 72, Henry Rule Co G 144th Til Inf aged 71, Christian Lock Co D 148th Ill Inf aged 70, Robert Nichol Co K 79th Pa Inf aged 73, Wm T McGowan Co D 26th Ill Inf aged 87, George W Thomas Co E 1st O L Art aged 78, Leroy Lawhead Co I 69th Til Inf aged 72, Peter Gross Co E 50th Til Inf aged 54, Women Anna M Nachett aged 75, Julia Johnson aged 65, Sarah J Wurtz aged 72.
Ed Young colored paid a 65 dollar assessment in police court on Monday afternoon and was released from a lengthy work house sentence. Jeff Kinney, also assessed 65 dollars, awaited possible release as friends prepared to assist him. Both had been convicted of stealing four rugs from Porias Furniture on St Hampshire between Third and Fourth streets last Wednesday and selling them to Minnie Schafer of 511 12 Maine Street.
Rugs were handed to Young, a saloon porter, to sell. Young sold the rugs for 25 dollars but allegedly only remitted 17 dollars to Kinney, who claims he did not receive the full amount.
A census bureau bulletin reports that among 227 U S cities with populations over 80 000, more than half or 188 had municipal markets in 1918. The finding highlights widespread city market systems across the era.
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