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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1916
Page
3
Pastor Luther Memorial Church members hear that the college proposal is turned down. Bingaman 10 remains here. The sermon notes the decision and outlines next steps for the congregation.
Dr J W Bingaman declines Carthage College call to be assistant president and field secretary, preferring to stay as Luther Memorial Church pastor. St Mary’s School pupils staged a large Sunday program with recitations drills and sketches including A Wonderful Christmas and Dorothy. Mrs Hartley spoke at the YWCA vesper service while Misses Mabel and Bertha Michael hosted the event.
Under the joint auspices of the Quincy Church Federation and the Y. M. C. A, Charles Stelzle will deliver sermons in the Presbyterian church on Sunday January 28. He will address The Big Meeting for Men in the Y. M. C. A in the afternoon and speak at the Vermont Street M. E. church in the evening. Stelzle, a longtime New York City labor reformer and writer, has spent twenty years in the East Side tenement district and for years directed the Presbyterian Bureau of Social Service. He is known for his advocacy of the American labor ideal and his mass meetings across major cities, including remarks before the Presbyterian general assembly.
He directs a staff of specialists in church efficiency sociology publicity and industrial problems who conduct surveys of cities communities or special industries under his guidance.
Y M C A calendar shows events from January 18 to 22 with club meetings tribal lunches sleighing party basketball leagues junior and senior games and music groups including an orchestra and glee club among church and dormitory activities for the week
An old advertisement promises a one day cure for colds using Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails. E W Groves signature appears on each box and price listed as 25 cents.
Harold O Porter of Bennet Nebraska and Audentia Vandruff of Kansas City listed with Gordon Wallace of Keokuk and Verna Ina Bogue of Keokuk in a marriage license notice.
Solomon Bequette of Flat River Missouri describes severe back pain and limited mobility before using a 50c box of Foley Kidney Pills. He praises them for clearing swelling backaches headaches rheumatic pains and tiredness attributed to kidney trouble. Miller Arthur Drug Co.
Edward Meyer proposes six submit cleaning bids to keep downtown streets clean at a rate of 24 dollars per block, noting present cost is 40 dollars. The item highlights bids and potential pricing for municipal street cleaning services.
City hall deferred awarding the cleaning and flushing contract for downtown streets after bids opened. Six bids were submitted with Edward A. Meyer as the low bid at 24 dollars a month. Merchants and the city split costs, with Markillie previously at 40 dollars monthly and favored by merchants to stay. A second meeting is set for 2 pm Tuesday to finalize the award, with Mayor Abbott and Aldermen Owen and Simmonds present.
Old advertising copy warns of dangers from coughs and colds and urges Dr King’s New Discovery as best aid. It claims 45 years on the market and stresses prevention of bronchial and lung diseases, urging readers to buy from druggists.
A postcard by Jap DeCrow displays an immense effort as 45 600 letters are written with lead pencil on a single United States postcard. The phrase Musical Education is repeated so many times the count reaches the stated total, though it is barely visible without magnification.
The weather delays sidewalks at the Jefferson school site but board walks will be installed for patrons. In spring cement walks will be laid. Business Manager Clyde Sears requests electric light fixtures window shades and remaining supplies as work progresses toward completion by the first of next month.
Two thousand two hundred members of the Chicago Excavating Hauling and Asphalt Teamsters union voted Monday night to accept a wage raise to three dollars a day and will return to work. A related hours question was also settled.
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