New High School Urged by School Superintendent
Superintendent Charles M. Gill urged the board to plan a modern new high school funded by a sinking fund from the levy to reduce bonding. He noted current buildings are strained despite junior high relief, and emphasized the need for space for library, gym, and expanded programs for non college bound students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles M. Gill
Board of Education
D. L. Musselman
A. §. Ellis
George Gabriel
Quincy
Court House News Told In Brief
G A Urban named administrator of Sarah E Smith estate valued at 15000 by acting County Judge W Y Baker. Petition signed by G W Smith Albert F Smith and Mary S Gobell, relatives. Silas Morton and Lloyd E B Morton filed inventory for Zalumna Morton estate. Elde W Beatty filed bond for Mary Schumacher estate set at 2000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. A. Urban
Sarah E. Smith
W. Y. Baker
Mr. Urban
G. W. Smith
Albert F. Smith
Mary S. Gobell
Silas Morton
Lloyd EB. Morton
Zalumna Morton
Elde W. Beatty
Mary Schumacher
Streckfus Line Defends Methods Before Chamber
The Chamber of Commerce has received shipper synopses in reply to a questionnaire on Streckfus Steamboat Line business. The company denies light patronage stems from no campaign and reports three postal notices plus telephone and personal solicitations. It claims regular service with no missed trips in 20 years except the past week and a half due to a broken shaft. The committee will investigate causes of patronage decline and meet soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Streckfus Steamboat Line
Kidler Appointed 10 Y M C A Assistant Secretary
Virgil C. Kidler was named assistant secretary of the Y M C A by General Secretary Cawthorne on Thursday evening. He succeeds Hunter Rodgers, now secretary of the Army Y M C A at Camp Parker. Kidler will assist Clayton Hoisington, boys' secretary, who has enlisted in the naval hospital corps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgil C. Kidler
Cawthorne
Hunter Rodgers
Army
Camp Parker
Clayton Hoisington
Naval Hospital Corps
Rodgers
Hoisington
Ridler
Brushton, II
Union Christian College
Eastern Illinois Normal
Charleston
Gem City Business College
Kentucky
Frank Metcalf
St. Mary's Hospital
Highland Park
Lexington
Quincy
Campbell Shows Signs Contract With H W Campbell Carni
Fred Loomis of the Quincy Fans association announced last night a contract with H W Campbell shows to perform at Baldwin park next week. A percentage will go to the Fans association. The Campbell shows are rated as the best on the road and advance agent Mr Murphy promises an exhibition to please Quincy residents. The shows are described as clean up to date and worthy of patronage by top amusement seekers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Loomis
Quincy Fans’ Association
H. W. Campbell
Baldwin Park
Fans’ Association
Campbell
Murphy
Quincy
Strike at Morris Bros Shoe Factory Draws Crowd
Alleged strike-breakers at Morris Bros Shoe Factory were escorted from Fourth and Hampshire streets by striking cutters as a hotel proprietor urged they leave. A watching crowd and police kept order while four detectives from St. Louis reportedly returned to their base after learning of the strike. The cutters demand higher wages and shorter hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Bros
Fourth
Hampshire Streets
St. Louis
Negro Fight Ends in Jail for Scrappers
A Thursday night melee of a group of Negro men at Ninth and Jersey streets drew police intervention. G Merritt and David Anderson rode to the station in a Wagon after arrests by Sergeant Hendrix and Patrolman Zang. A seven‑shot revolver was found on Anderson. Merritt held for disturbing the peace. Anderson charged with carrying concealed weapons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ninth
Jersey Streets
G. Merritt
David Anderson
Hendrix
Zang
Anderson
Merritt
Missouri jurist declines to act in kidnap case
Springfield July 6 The motion to dismiss murder charges against Claude Piersol and Cletus Adams was overruled by Judge Gibbons who said he had no jurisdiction as the men are at large and there is no return on the warrant A Greene County jury is set to meet July 9 to investigate the kidnapping case and attorneys for the accused may pursue habeas corpus to obtain their release from the St Louis jail
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Gibbons
Claude Dpiersol
Cletus Adams
Keet
Adams
Piersol
Simons Flats Sold in Major Realty Transfer
P. L. Dickhut reports a large Monday sale of realty consisting of two brick apartments at the N. E. corner of 12th and Kentucky Street and a nine room brick house at the N. W. corner of 4th and Lind Street. Purchasers L. L. Schooling and B. T. O'Donnell. Total price $17,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. L. Dickhut
N. E. Cor
Kentucky St
L. L. Schooling
N. W
Quincy's Plan to Form National Guard Company
Quincy groups urge young men to join a new state guard unit. Meetings in factories and businesses will explain benefits and duties, backed by the Chamber of Commerce and General Henry R. Hill. Letters solicit contributions to fund recruiting and equipment costs for the home guard company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
National Guard
Chamber of Commerce
New Guard
Henry R. Hill
Hill
Quincy Chamber of Commerce
Geo. D. Levi
C.F. Perry
Quincy, Ill
Home Guard
East St. Louis
Zoller
Capt. Zoller
Ilingis State Bank
State Savings Loan & Trust Co
Ricker National Bank
Suffragists On Trial For July 4 Demonstration
Thirteen women suffragists faced police court on charges of disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly after a White House protest claiming a peaceful patriotic Fourth of July celebration. They will resume the trial. detainees were released on their recognizance. Also explained is Purim meaning lots and a note on the Jewish festival. Also reports a large shipment of fawn machinery from International Harvester to Norway, then Russia, valued near 1 million dollars, including reapers binders tractors and motorplows, Savannah to Liverpool prior shipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
House of Detention
Savannah
International Harvester Company
Norway
Russia
Liverpool
Old bachelor quotes on prudish coquette comparison
An aging bachelor remarks that a prude is a coquette who has withered, offering a witty social jab on flirtation and restraint. The remark contrasts lively charm with restrained behavior in a single quip.
Playgrounds to Open Monday in Three Schools
Franklin, Washington and Webster school grounds will open Monday at 9 am and operate daily 9 am to 5 pm. A supervising schedule was arranged at a Cheerful home meeting with Miss Marjorie Southwick. Volunteers will oversee rotations by day and by school through Saturday with named tutors listed for each shift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
So Iis
Adams
Berrian School
Jackson School
Jefferson School
Lincoln School
Dewey
Emerson School
Franklin Schol
Irving
Madison School
Washington School
Webster School
R. E. Hackman
Quiner
Board of Education
Franklin
Washington and Webster
Marjorie Southwick
Tda Hapke
Beulah Prante
Edmee Ertel
Reena Urban
Eleanor Nielson
Margaret Lau
Marion Wall
Margaret Wells
Georgian Ertel
Webster
Dorothy Boswell
Dorothy Durant
Ruth Appleton
Georgena Cottrell
Frances Eldred
Mildred Hirth
Margaret Wisherd
Pauline Hart
Edna Duker
Eleanor Ellis
Belle Bray
Aelen Reticker
Quincy Hannibal golf match postponed to July 12
The return match between Quincy Country Club golfers and Hannibal was moved from July 10 to July 12 due to conflicting dates. Many players expect to make the trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hannibal
Quincy Country Club
Wanted Carrier Boys for North Route
Help wanted for a vacant north route carrier position. Applicants must be 14 years old. Apply at the Circulation Department Whig Office for details and submission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Part
Whig Office
Rolland Wagner Named Delegate to Buffalo
Rolland Wagner past worthy master of the local order of Eagles was elected delegate to the Eagles national convention to be held in Buffalo New York the week of August 13 at the meeting Thursday evening in the new Eagles hall. Seven candidates were initiated. Plans were completed for the benefit dance this evening in the hall for John Rottman who had a stroke of paralysis last November and has been an invalid ever since. After re meeting a fish fry was enjoyed by all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolland Wagner
Order of Eagles
Eagles
Buffalo
N. Y
John Rottman
Desperate trio seeks lodging at city jail after long journey
Mrs Minnie Johnson and two children plus Anita Johnson age 17, all Negroes, arrived at the city jail seeking shelter. They traveled from Wever Iowa after living with Mrs Johnson's husband who works cutting brush there. Anita had a healed stomach wound from a prior attack in St Louis. The assailant who shot her received a ten year sentence in the Missouri penitentiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie Johnson
Anita Johnson
Wever
Iowa
St. Louis
Missouri
Jefferson City
Red Cross Pledges Urged For War Relief Funds
The Red Cross finance committee calls for immediate payment of recent campaign pledges. Treasurer H. C. Sprick requests supporters mail checks to State Street Bank care, with four installment givers urged to consolidate payments into one. Payments cover July to October and support war relief efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Red Cross Finance Committee
H. C. Sprick
State Street Bank
Navy recruitment poster urges enlistment in WWI era
Shrapnel reports several individuals from Brice, Gray, Bovey, Rutherford, and Wyle enlist in the navy or infantry locally. A new navy poster printed in red and blue on white paper will urge recruitment with a big gun image and the slogan Where are you Man the guns of the navy Get in the Game Enlist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Lenora Liesen to Become Sister in Missouri
Miss Lenora Liesen daughter of Mr and Mrs Bernard Liesen will enter the order of Sisters of the Precious Blood Wednesday in O Fallon Missouri. She is a member of St Marys Catholic church here. Four sisters from St Marys parish school previously left for a teaching methods course in the mother house of the order. Upon their return three more sisters will go there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenora Liesen
Bernard Liesen
Order of
Sisters of the Precious Blood
O'Fallon
St. Mary's Catholic Church
St. Mary's
Order of the Precious Blood
McMann’s Nellie Mack Places Second at Hull Race
Martin McMann of Eighteenth and State streets entered his horse Nellie Mack in the Fourth of July meet at Hull Tl. Nellie Mack ran well and finished second, earning a $15 purse. McMann plans further races hoping for better results. Speeders fined in police court include L A Coons and W Hemphill, each $295 plus costs, and Frank Simms and Pannie Sims with $5 and $3 fines respectively. Other cases discharged or dismissed after witnesses failed to appear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin McMann
State Streets
Nellie Mack
Hull
McMann
Speeders
L. A. Coons
W. Hemphill
Motorcyere
Akers
Frank Simms
Pannie Sims
Bud Adams
Lawrence Peterson
John Allensworth
Indian's Donation to Red Cross Denied
Henry Vetta, Creek Indian Barnett of Oklo worth about 1.3 million dollars was barred from donating 50 000 to the Red Cross mercy fund. The interior secretary in Washington rejected the request to permit the gift, citing Barnett as an incompetent whose funds require probate court approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Vetta
Oklo
Tackson Barnett
Red Cross Mercy Fund
Secretary of the Interior
Washington
Barnett
Fake draft numbers circulate in Quincy causing panic
A wild rumor claimed the draft numbers were drawn for national service prompting hundreds of calls to The Whig office. Officials denied any official list or drawing, branding the tale as a huge fake. Renumbering by city and county reduces to two countywide lists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Army
Quincy
Washington
Adams County
Additional names added to Red Cross funds by Letter Carriers
Thursday night announcements list 28.24 in memberships and 45.50 in contributions from numerous townspeople and postal workers. Names include Mrs Adeline Stucker C A Stucker Walter Haner G G Hoener Marie Hoener Mrs A D Smith and many others with small gifts and note about buttons replacements and anonymous contributions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Adeline Stucker
C. A. Stucker
Walter Haner
G. G. Hoener
Marie Hoener
A. D. Smith
A. J. Herring
Button
M. Arnold
J. A. Walz
John Stegeman
Bertha Lubbe
Ed. H. Meyer
E. A. Emery
Cora R. Montgomery
J. F. Bacon
Kate Ross
R. E. Hackman
Carl Degitz
George Heberling
Walter Stockbeker
Margaret Person
H. B. Sommers
A. H. Beckgerd
M. L. Lehbrink
Carnegie Foundation Annual Report 1917 Endsowment Figures
New York July 6 The eleventh annual report of the Carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching shows a total endowment of 1425000 and accumulated surplus of 1327000 and an annual expenditure of 779000 of which 687600 was for retiring allowances and pensions. Thirty allowances and pensions to 16 widows were granted during the year the average being 1703. The foundation has expended 4910000 for these purposes since its organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Birth of daughter to Mr and Mrs V G Musselman
A daughter was born Thursday morning at Blessing hospital to Mr and Mrs V G Musselman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
V. G. Musselman
Blessing Hospital
Weather outlook for Illinois Missouri and Iowa
Illinois and Iowa forecast partly cloudy Friday and Saturday with local thunder showers in some areas. Missouri outlook partly cloudy with unsettled conditions, warmer Friday. Extended warm trend noted in eastern and southern portions, with regional temperature rises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Missouri
Iowa
Eriday
Rise Fall River Forecast From Warsaw To Louisiana
The river from below Warsaw to Louisiana is expected to fall about 0.2 feet over the next 24 hours, signaling a continued decline in water levels across the stretch and potential impacts on river conditions and navigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Louisiana
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NEW High School
S. H. Richardson
American Seating Co
Chicago
Kate Sanders
Joseph Mushold
Berrian
William H. Miller
Martin Post
Emerson
George Thompson
Robert Burrows
High
James Bryant
Edward Fooks
Charles E. Kaltenbach
Jackson
Hugh A. Davis
Merriman Row
Franklin School
Educational
Gill
Abe Martin
Court House
Streckfus
Kidler
Politio
Contract Campbell
Carnival Company
Simons
A. E. Zoller
National Guards
2Ellet
Persia
Haman
Franklin, Webster
Milton Throw
Dean
Muegge
Thron
Knights of Columbus
John Brokamp
Automobile Blue Book Company of Chicago
Quincey Chamber of Commerce
C. Lawrence Weiss
Carson, Pirie Scott and Company of
Pierson Mfg. Co
South Park
Tom Jones
Augusta
Jess Willard
Mr. Jones
Jack Curley
Willard
Jack Johnson
Jones
T. E. Musselman
Homer Swope
Clarence F. Smith
Smith
South Third Street
Father Zurbensen
India
W. K. Brice
City
Cecil L. Gray
Littleton
Noah L. Bovey
James H. Rutherford
West Frankfort
Wesley L. Wyle, Fowler
Infantry
Regular Army
Albert F. Gresham
Olive, II
The
Red Cross Fund
Foundation
Mt Ewes
Cees
Seren Ee Paul
Davenport
I Keokuk Ae
Quine
Reese
Ousiana Sae
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