Social Affairs and Entertainments Across Town
Mrs Cate hosted the sewing circle with whist prizes won by Mrs Paul Meise Mrs J P Chandler and Mrs Curtis Anspaugh a two course luncheon and a spring flowers centerpiece. Other notes cover book club meetings baby welfare demonstration euchre gathering and upcoming weddings and socials across multiple households and clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cate
Otis Cate
Mooseheart Legion
Paul Meise
J. P. Chandler
Curtis Anspaugh
A. B. Sibbing
Before They Were Born And Why We Love Life
Reflections on time and fate show how present choices and chance moments shape future lives. A narrator recalls moments of missed plans, surprising reunions, and how places become home, with a hopeful note on life’s infinite possibilities.
Japan devises underwater electric magnet for salvage
A new underwater electric magnet devise from Japan promises to aid salvage of sunken vessels, with large scale recovery operations anticipated following its development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Return Home From C N D Meeting
Delegates from the Quincy women s committee of the C N D have returned from the state meeting in Chicago with several notes on sessions. Mary McDowell from the University of Chicago settlement spoke on foreign districts and work, while discussions addressed child labor laws and equal pay. Basil Clark shared a Brussels perspective on German occupancy in 1914, and Mary Van Kleeck and Mary Anderson led a Hull House conference for chairs in women and children in industry. Adams County aims to win the banner for baby welfare as chairmen are appointed and registrations begin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy Women's Committee
Chicago
James Riggs
Ray Oakley
R. W. Alexander
Mary McDowell
University of Chicago Settlement
Raymond Robins
Elizabeth Maloney
Women's Trade Union League
Basil Clark
Brussels
Hull House
Mary van Kleeck
Mary Anderson
Red Cross
Frank Lowden
Florence Lowden
Adams County
Many Babies Examined In Cheerful Home
Babies crowded the Cheerful home settlement for health checks on Thursday. Nurses and doctors worked steadily, with extra physicians invited for help. Pearl Ringland demonstrated proper baby bathing, using a examined infant. Weighed and measured youngsters filled Halbach Schroeder store window while kindergarten groups were weighed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Ringland
Blessing Hospital
Halbach-Schroeder
Sadie Pitts
Berrian School
Muriel Brasie
Edward Rovd
David Shontve
Merrill-Price Wedding Held at Justice Office
Miss Clo Price daughter of Edward W Price and LL W Merrill daughter of Mr and Mrs Jack Parson hosted a wedding Thursday afternoon in Justice Bonney s office. The couple will live at 1201 North Twelfth Street and 511 South Seventh Street. Merrill owns the Sanitary Meat Market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merrill-Price
Clo Price
Edward W. Price
North Twelfth Street
LL. W. Merrill
South Seventh Street
Office
Justice of the Peace
Bonney
Jack Parson
Maine Street
Merrill
Sanitary Meat Market
Million and a Half Rifles are Produced
Washington June 7 more than a million and a half rifles have been produced for the United States since entry into the war. Anounced by the war department the figures include 1 140 590 modified Enfields 176 796 Springfield model 1903 and 251 270 Russian rifles. Besides rifles made since declaration there are 600 000 Springfield model 1908 in use. Only about half the soldiers carry rifles and the ordnance department has enough rifles for an army of about two million men allowing wastage for one year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
War Department
Ordnance Departments
St Mary Catholic school plans June entertainment program
The St Mary Catholic school outlines its June 9 show with acts from all grades, including a cantata, a five act drama, and a patriotic drill. Rev A Zurbensen to give address. medals and diplomas awarded. farewell song to close. Webster PTA meets for last time this year while Washington PTA meeting postponed to Monday after teachers’ meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary's
St. Mary Catholic School
Lawrence Bleasing
A. Zurbensen
Webster School Parent-Teacher Association
Washington School Parent- Teacher Association
Emma Beckwith
Ver mont Street M. E. Church hosts Greenup family concert
The Ladies' Social union of the Vermont Street M. E. Church presents an evening entertainment in the church parlors featuring the Greenup family orchestra with vocal and instrumental numbers readings and impersonations in costumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Social Union
Vermont Street
M. E. Church
Greenup
Various Local Society Notices From Globe Area Meeting Nods
The Globe tent No 97 Maccabees voted to buy $25 in war savings stamps at Moose hall Thursday night with two new members accepted. Lambert lodge Masons discussed degree work and business at the Fassnic temple. Dr. Pendleton announced care in Stern Building. Mrs. Joseph Dicks of 1201 North 28th street to move from Blessing hospital today. Foresters Gem City camp dance drew 300 plus at Eagles Hall with O’Farrell orchestra. Mrs. J. J. Williams admitted to St. Mary’s hospital. Nathaniel Upton, veteran of Soldiers’ Name, hospitalized after a fall at Sixth and Sycamore. Rev F H Lathrop to preach at Grace Methodist and Vermont Street churches June 16. Quincy banks to close at 3 p.m. starting Saturday June 8. Mrs. John Sunderman confined at home with illness. Henry Rehschler transferred to Belleville. J R Wheeler and Mrs. Robert Burrows in Quincy on business and travel. Mrs. Ray Menke, husband in Rock Island arsenal. Mrs. Chauncey Wood’s brother Capt Thomas Jones sailing for France. Rotarian ladies’ flats arriving via Crooks Bros. School Children’s Aid meets at YWCA. Rev W O Shank’s farewell tour to Clayton. heads to New York then France as Y M C A secretary, visiting Everett Shank in Newport. Advertisers note usable electric fixtures, pricing by Delaplain, phone 406.
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Pendleton
Stern
Joseph Dicks
North Twenty-eighth Street
Blessing Hoepit
Stannus
Hampshire St
Foresters
Gem City
Modern Woodmen of America
Eagles’ Hall
O’farrell
Henry Rehschler
State Board of Health
Belleville
Ill
J. R. Wheeler
Fry
Chicago
Robert Burrows
Quincy
Elijah Shepherd
Ursa
Brookfield
Crooks Bros
Ray Menke
Rock Island
Chauncey H. Wood
Thomas Jones
Kewanee
Camp Funston
Kaw
France
Everett Shank
Newport
R. L
Delaplain
Board of Health Monthly Meeting Tonight
The monthly meeting of the board of health will be held this evening in the office of Mayor John A. Thompson. With the small pox situation well in hand nothing of importance is slated to come before the board. Dr H F Lafler Chiropractic treatments 201-204 Ill State Bank Bldg Alderman A C Bickhaus who is attending the national convention of fire chiefs in Chicago is expected home today. Mrs Otis Murphy wife of the first sergeant in the police department is much improved from a recent operation in St Marys Hospital and expects to return home in a few days. Miss Irene Schaffner North Fourth Street who recently underwent an operation in St Marys hospital is showing daily improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Health
John A. Thompson
H. F. Lafler
State Bank
A. C. Bickhaus
Chicago
Otis Murphy
St. Mary’s Hospital
Irene Schaffner
North Fourth Street
St. Mary's Hospital
No Tuberculosis In American Army Now
Boston June 7 The United States army is almost free from tuberculosis Col George E Bushnell reports at the national tuberculosis association session. Fewer than one per cent of the soldiers re examined since June 6 1917 were found to have the disease. He notes each returned tuberculosis patient costs about 5000 and that 875 hospital beds have been provided for reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
United States
George E. Bushnell
Army Medical Corps
National Tuberculosis Association
Dress Goods Friday Special at Cream Ward Sale
A Friday sale advertises dress fabrics including 450 wards of wool and cotton in cream. It markets Preneh serges, poop, Trenvietta and other desirable weaves with a special price for the Friday sale, highlighting yard by yard value and tie.
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Wisconsin
Hugh Abrams
Blair, Wis
Gullick Wyrland
J. J. McGraw
Book Club
Margaret Geschwindner
J. A. Carter
Blue Bird Club
State Street
Ed Meyer
Miss Lusk
Genevieve Lusk
Germann
Melinda K. Germann
Aldo Germann
Northwestern Medical College
American Medical Society
Beatty
Stephen Bean
H. M. Warrison
HW. Gouvert
Dorothy Daston
Elizabeth Channen
Charles Eaton
Ruth Eaton
Georgeanne Castle
Arsene Weis
Helen Eaton
Agnes Girton
Chicagoo
Ohio
H. J. Phillips
South Twelfth Street
O. P. Elrich
Orville
Irma Bastert
Reed Whipple
Harvey Richardson
Oklahoma
Carolyn Jennings
Mt. Vernon
Elizabeth Logan
Edgewater
Gay Braxton
Cheerful Home Settlement
John Thompson
Lyman McCarl
Lyman Greenman
Social Workers
Social Workers’ Club
Congregational Church
Social Union
Edward Hopke
Ladies Social Union
Luther Memorial Church
Webster
America
Sued
Nicholas Kohl
Lucille Langhanke
Marjorie Stanbury
Robert Guill
I. W. Stinaff
South Pifth Street
First Christian Church
Woodland Home Board
J. W. Gardner
Leslie G. Hall
Browning
Elizabeth Thompson
Helen Hall
McKennan
Esther McKenan
Kansas City
FE. T. Edwards
Jersey Street
S. T. Henley
Edith Baker
South Park
Ruth Cameron
Mother
Church News
Globe Tent
No. 97
Maccabees
Moose Hall
Dr. Harrison
Majestic Building
Lambert Lodge of Masons
Fascnic Temple
J. J. Williams
City Ambulance
Nathaniel Upton
Sixth
Sycamore Streets
Institution Hospital
Upton
F. H. Lathrop
Camden, Il
Grace Methodist Church
Vermont Street Methodist Church
John Sunderman
Castoria
Duker
Ues
Duker’s
Paris
Venice
Batiste
Wright
Niese
Sanaigla Cc
Armour & Company
W. T. Duker CO
Poudre de Riz
Wel Duke Company
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