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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1915
Page
2
Quincy board meets amid levee work delays as it reappoints veteran teachers and the longtime superintendent. The decision, reached after discussion of budget and staffing, signals continuity in district leadership while project delays loom.
The Quincy board of education increased Superintendent E G Bauman to 2900 per year and Clyde L Sears to 1500, with a 10 month truant officer raise to 90 per month. Mrs Constance Ellis opposed Bauman’s reappointment. The meeting approved teacher salary proposals and listed nominations for 1915-16.
The Streckfus liner Quincy departed St. Louis Wednesday morning with good packet business and fifty two round trip passengers for Saint Paul on its first trip of the season. Traveling Passenger Agent J Betz reported strong reservations from Burling ton Davenport and other up stream cities. The Quincy will return to St. Louis on the tenth and many Quincy passengers are expected to join the trip. Betz predicts heavy packet business this year as inquiries rise. The St Paul will stay with excursion traffic until June 15 then go to packet work. The Quincy Retail Clerks excursion was postponed by rain and a moonlight cruise is planned for August 30. Boat clubs from North and South Side will meet tonight to plan next month’s regatta.
Across the Mississippi near Quincy a vast land reclamation project uses giant machines to build levees and dig ditches, turning sixteen thousand acres wilderness into fertile farming ground. A 100 ton crawler will raise a south levee and a 60 ton unit works north, with multiple machines tiling, draining, and diverting water from the South Fabius and Mississippi to create dry farmland and prosperous homes.
Old river men predicted sixteen foot stage before recession. Quincyans prepared as levee areas and boat houses faced possible overflow. Farmers moved stock and evacuated property on short notice. Smaller rivers north of the scene show net declines while concerns about heavy flood damage persist along the Mississippi.
Judge Perry receives a congratulatory letter from Harry A Schneidker secretary of the Hannibal Commercial club praising his election as secretary of the river terminals committee in St Louis last week. Schneidker pledges strong Hannibal Club backing. Bankers from Quincy travel to Bowen Illinois for Hancock County Bankers association meeting at the Bowen hotel. Woodland Home board of lady managers held their annual meeting with routine reports and no special business.
Work on ditches laterals and levees will drain land between the bluffs west of Taylor to the river and spanning eight miles north and south. J Y Best, president of the district, says every acre will gain at least 100 dollars in value, lifting the land from a low value to more than 1.6 million dollars in total. The W E Callahan Construction Co leads the contract with subcontracts to R W and G A McWilliams and R Morrow Co of Council Bluffs. J W W Radford, Callahan’s general superintendent, and his son R L Radford oversee the project with seasoned expertise.
Margaret Mundt, 16, from Quincy, is detained in St Louis on Mann Act concerns after vanishing from her mother Mrs A G Westenfeld. Frank Elton, formerly of Quincy, is held in St Louis. Mundt says he lured her to Peoria and then to St Louis where she stayed in a Morgan Street rooming house. Mundt wrote to her mother about a Quincy engagement named Charles, but rejects marriage, as police await federal action.
An electric car owned and driven by Dr. M RK Germann was damaged on East Maine street yesterday forenoon when Germann tried to turn his vehicle and was struck by a large car. The fender of the big machine was sprung out of place. No one was injured.
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