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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1918
Page
3
The Quincy Board of Education voted Monday night to abolish the Easter holiday period. Superintendent Gill highlighted the $3,659 annual value of paid nonworking days for teachers, and the board agreed to keep schools in session during the Easter week.
Local songwriter Pot Pfeiffer, famed for I Knew Her When and Wait for Your Honey Boy, headlines the Orpheum bill this week in Quincy. He appears as second act after Olympia Des Vall company, with a varied lineup including Novell Brothers, Wilson and Wilson, and Otto Kachner.
British official communication states twelve thousand rounds were fired at hostile troops transports and targets and nearly three tons of bombs dropped on various objectives. Six hostile aircraft were downed and two driven out of control. one British aircraft is missing.
Mrs Virgil Farrington visits relatives in Barry. Miss Welen Shriver goes to Quincy for business college. Henry Stilphen Jr on furlough from Camp Dodge. County clerk grants marriages: Charles H McKenna Virginia le Jacquin and Simeon C Williams Myrtle Six. James Clancy visiting. James Nash hired for plastering Pittsfield High. Judge Higbee returns from Quincy circuit court. Judge Akers presides Pike circuit court. Minnie Ducey joins Harry English dry goods. Dr Roy A Bauch to Tennessee as government veterinarian. Rev N L Nordsick returns from Hillsboro. James Tippetts and daughter Faye back from Moline. Pittsfield Lodge 95 I O F installed officers. Rev J I Dabney of Fl Dara to supervise war savings stamp drive. Deputy Game Warden Adolph Kastner injured by cold while patrolling near the Illinois river. Carl Main to Chicago for jewelry firm traveling sales.
Snyder's Taxi solicits calls while a committee led by Edward Ernst Karl E Luthin and Clement Lugering organises the Plumbers and Steamfitters union first big dance in Labor temple on Wednesday night Jan 9 at 8 o clock public affair with O Farrells orchestra.
Palmyra Missouri January report says John Scothorn and Joe Bier left Davenport to recover a Ford car stolen in Hannibal near the Mark Twain hotel. Iowa investigation found suspects from Keokuk amid draft evasion. Also: Joe Wood jailed for stealing a restaurant ham. William Sullivan shoots a hog near the junction. W J A Meyer buys Philippine embroidery for the Red Cross.
Nielsen and Mr Meyer donate fifteen dollars for work while Miss Frances Connell county superintendent visits Hannibal on official business. Deputy Burgdorf reports a failed dwelling break in on Sunday night. Elmer Thing, Palmyra High graduate now in the army, has landed in Liverpool with his father William Ihrig receiving a cablegram Jan. 2 confirming the arrival.
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