Mrs Rees Has Club Card Party Highlights
RS Henry Rees hosted a Thursday card party at 1414 Spring Street with bridge and club prizes won by Mrs Sherman Irish and by Mrs Frank Averkamp and Mrs Emos Kriegs hauser. A luncheon followed and future entertainments were announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rees
Henry Rees
Spring Street
Sherman Irish
Frank Averkamp
Emos Kriegshauser
Phil Wittmeyer
Des Moines
E. I. Lynn
SOL Broadway
Brady
Paul Brady
Kentucky Street
Price West
Leo Wiskirchen
Elmer Feld
Heintz
George Heintz
Anton Tofall
Herman Heintz
Being Fellow Townsmen Is Not Necessarily Being Intimate
A town tale contrasts quiet honesty about known limits of friendship with the bold claim of closeness. A young businessman recalls a neighbor who claimed to know a railroad vice president, only to be reminded that meeting a few times does not prove deep acquaintance. The piece urges underclaiming over overclaim to avoid ridicule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. G
Doings of the Webster Adams Franklin Adams School PTAs
Webster School mothers invited to attend an afternoon program where Miss Katherine May and Miss Elizabeth Schrieber will present papers on reading in public schools. Dr. S. H. Dana will address Franklin school PTA and pupils will perform readings. Rev. I. W. Bingaman speaks at Adams school PTA with all members urged to attend.
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Liberty Lassies
SSS
Helen Brown
Madison School
Gertrude Parr
Marlyn King
Webster School
Katherine May
Elizabeth Schrieber
Parent-Teacher Association
S. H. Dana
The
Congregational Church
Franklin School
Adams School
I. W. Bingaman
Chandler Goodwin wedding at Keokuk city hall
Mrs Kate Goodwin and George Chandler of Keokuk wed in city hall with Judge P W Reardon officiating. The couple plans to reside in Keokuk. Ellen Dunbar and Grant Jones wed in Wichita Falls Texas last week after meeting in Camp Parker. Jones, discharged, works for an oil firm in Electra Texas. Dunbar, a YWCA alumna, studied in Chicago and was active in Christian Endeavor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Committee
Women's Committee
Lesle G. Hall
The
Presbyterian Church
Clifford H. Bunch Arrives Home From Overseas
Clifford H. Bunch of 828 Spruce Street returned safely from abroad aboard the battleship Rhode Island which docked at Newport News on Thursday. He departed Quincy with selective service men in September, headed to Spartansburg, S. C., and sailed a month later with the 5th Anti Aircraft Machine Gun Battalion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford H. Bunch
Spruce Street
Rhode Island
Newport News
Quincy
Spartansburg
S. C
Mr. Bunch
Eagles Officers Host Big Lunch With New Leaders
The Eagles held their regular Thursday meeting with newly elected officers as hosts. Roast pig and potatoes highlighted the repast. A masquerade is planned for the 30th in the ballroom, aided by a planning committee. One candidate was initiated and three applications received. Plans covered attendance at the national Eagles convention in St Louis next June with many expected. A note warns against misnaming individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagles
Aerie
National Convention of Eagles
St. Louis
Whipple Elected President of Quincy Country Club
Dr Henry L Whipple was elected president of the Quincy Country Club at a Chamber of Commerce meeting Thursday night. J M Winters named vice president with Edgar T Musselman secretary and Thomas Burrows treasurer. Winters becomes a director in place of Fred Scudder who leaves for St Louis. Existing directors E B Hillman Ira Calkins and W A Fifer are re-elected to serve until 1922. Plans include new grounds of 100 acres between 24th and 30th streets with leases in place for two years and a summer club meeting to present final decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry L. Whipple
Quincy
J. M. Winters
Edgar T. Musselman
Thomas Burrows
Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Winters
Fred Scudder
St. Louis
E. B. Hillman
Ira Calkins
W. A. Fifer
Whipple
W C U Branches To Seek New Members
The Western Catholic Union executive board offers a $100 prize to the members who bring in the most new supporters in a campaign running to September 1. The distribution method is to be decided. The first year meeting at St Boniface school drew delegates from branches. An invitation to install St Anthony branch No 30 at St Marys school hall next Monday was accepted, as was a Quincy Catholic Union lecture by Father Optatus on Indian Missions next Tuesday.
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Western Catholic Union
St. Boniface
St. Anthony
St. Mary's School Hall
Quincy
Catholic Union of Illinois
Father Optatus
Local notes from Hull and area reflect community notices
Sunday visits, church events, and health updates headline a busy Hull scene. Mr and Mrs J F Lacey spend Sunday in Pittsfield while Rev A S Flanigan plans preachings and a revival as MLE church hosts its second quarterly conference on Feb 1 and Feb 2. John East suffers a mild stroke but shows progress. A new editor, John Maher, is slated for the Hull Enterprise after a handover. Widespread social updates include visitors, sickness, travels, and a new train schedule. In Boston, a molasses tank disaster adds to the day’s grim tally with twelve dead.
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J. F. Lacey
Pittsfield
Federated Church
Anderson Foreman
Harry Hackard
Lena Hampton
MLE
A. S. Flanigan
Quincy
M. FE
E. D. Palmer
John Renicker
Ira Corder
Redden
Don Rickeys
Everett McKee
Hannibal
Marcus Hardy
Johnson
Everett Lawrence
Payson
John East
John Biddle
Louise Wells
Monroe
Russell
Dry Workers Begin World Campaign
Chicago on January 17 reports prohibition leaders declare a dry world is the objective now that the dry constitutional amendment has been ratified by enough states. Virgil G. Hinshaw calls America dry at last and envisions cooperation with Australia Japan and other nations in a world dry federation. The W C T U marks the milestone with a wreath at Frances Willard statue and vows continued reform work in the reconstruction era.
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Chicago
Virgil G. Hinshaw
Prohibition Party
America
Mr. Hinshaw
Eugene E. Chafin
Sydney
Australia
Tokio
Japan
China
Great Britain
Scandinavia
Italy
France
Russia
India
South Aemaica
West Indies
Central America
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Evanston
Ills
Portland
Maine
Anna Gordon
Washington, D. C
Frances IX. Willard
Statuary Hall
Capitol
Miss Willard
Miss Gordon
Tragic Death on Tresten Near New Salem Ill
Pittsfield residents report the death of Miss Sarah Whitten of New Salem who was struck by a freight train while crossing a trestle between Maysville and New Salem. Her companion survived, and the incident prompts notes on local officials, bank officers, tax collections, and community notices.
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Pittsfield
Sarah Whitten
New Salem
Maysville
Bert Whitten
W. S. Foreman
Julius P. Heek
Higbee Bowers
First National Bank
Harry Higbee
L.D. Hirsheimer
R. T. Hicks
Alonzo Leonard
M. D. King
H. E. Williams
Robert A. Shive
Lloyd Willsey
Martinsburg
Leslie Ward
Henry Bush
United States District Court
Springfield
Jacob Strauss
Beaumont
Calif
Alexander
Regina Carr
Sun Island Levee
Merrill Junter
Tanton Station
New Canton
Sinn Feiners Plan Irish Assembly On Tuesday
WURLIN Jan 17 Sinn Fein members fix next Tuesday for an Irish republican parliament session. Only urgent matters will be addressed in the absence of imprisoned members of the organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irish Assembly
Wurlin
Sinn Fenners
Ink tablets offered with Pan Dandy bread and local notices
Brief items report Pan Dandy bread promotion offering 10 cent ink tablets with each loaf. Community notices cover Knights of Maccabees meeting in Moosehall with two initiations, two membership applications, plus an announced whist. Other snippets name locals in transfers, auctions, military returns, hospitalizations, and social visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moosehall
Knights of Maccabees
H. F. Lafler
State Bank
Iron Molders’ Union
Wisherd
Herbert Ehrhardt
T Ehrhardt
Vermont Street
Camp Pickton
Ark
Camp Bragg
N. C
Wm. C. Abbott
N. Sixth Street
Roland Boswell
Seattle
Wash
James Shannahan
Chicago
Quincy
Shivago
F. R. Morgan
Ilinois
H. Stickman
Eugene Kelly
Camp Grant
Ralph Craig
Camp Gaunt
E. F. Stannus
Hampshire Street
Dora Baker
Payson
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Miss Dana
Mary Stone
Mabel Dana
Exeter
New Hampshire
Freiburg
Margaret Freiburg
Maine Street
Frances Bolles
Trene Barry
Veneta Schumate
Alma Swope
Esther Koch
Myra Worman
Barry
M. J. Barry
Irene Barry
Ellen Cunnane
Miss Bolles
Buschmann
Herbert Buschmann
Arthur Daugherty
Mrs. Irwin
Stephen Irwin
Keokuk
W. S. McKee
Mrs. Wilcox
Chester Wilcox
Alfred Botsford
New York
Charles Bartlett
Charles Gay
Vesta Hassan
Archer Rogers
A. O. Lindsay
J. A. S. Ehart
Mrs. Miller
Wave Miller
Frank Raisbeck
Moline
Raisbeck
Masonic Temple
W. F. Kirtley
Hedges
Dan Hedges
Twelfth
Jersey Streets
Women's Forum
J. W. Weserman
Gill
Charles M. Gill
Jersey Street
F. O. B. Club
Isabel Grimmer
South’ Twenty-fourth Street
Katherine Brown
Henry Arp
Edward Arp
Brown
Walker
J. R. Walker
George Riedinger
Dave Riedinger
Sodality
St. Peter Catholic Church
Carnes
Birdelle Carnes
Pittsfield, Ill
J. H. Crafton
North Sixth Street
J. M. Meador
Kirk Shango
Mrs. Winters
Friends
R. M. Morton
Green Castle
J. E. Dorsey
P. S. Jones
J. M. Dunlap
Presbyterian Sunday School
True Blues
Henry Whipple
Heag
Hull, III
Boston
Ill
Clarence Walbring
Oak Park
Mary Taylor
South
Sixteenth Street
George Spencer
Carl Speckhart
Fall Creek
Viola Johns
Maywood
St. Mary Hospital
Jennie Dickhut Taylor
Jefferson School
Omaha
Neb
M. R. Lehman
Peoria
Lambert Lodge
Adam Kropp
A. D. Bates
Camp Point
W. S. White
North Fourth Street
Jap DeCrow
Aloy Adams
Palmyra
Shelbina
Archie Bert
Neal Monroe
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Archie
Navy
Miller- Helake School
Miller-Helhake Shoe CO
Quincy, Hlinois
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