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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1916
Page
10
A neighbor longs to fill her garden with started plants rather than seeds. The narrator reflects on impatience and the joy of watching life unfold from tiny seeds, praising the magic of growth and the miracle of planting. If you haven’t yet, buy seeds for five cents and start your own tiny garden.
Sunshades for 1916 range from frilly Dansant parasols to tailored silk umbrellas with long ferrules. Bright contrasts, polka dots, stripes, and fringe trim mark the season, with parasols in royal purple, Belgian blue, greens, yellows, and rose shades. Japanese sunshades and mohair seashore parasols are noted, while faille silk proves durable.
The children of St Marys school will present their ante vacation play in the school hall next Sunday. At the close the prizes will be awarded to the graduates. A large audience is expected.
A school display will showcase the work of the year including needle work, drawing, mathematics and other studies. The crowd is expected to view the collection as the school prepares to close next week.
An old advertisement claims Foley Kidney Pills cure and end nighttime waking. It asserts the user sleeps soundly after taking pills after meals and at bedtime, describing a complete recovery and nightly rest.
Quincy's social notes list RS. WILLIAM K. ABBOTT and Mayor Abbott heading to Indiana for a university commencement and a Democratic convention respectively. Alumni visits, student graduations at Western Military Academy, play rehearsals for How the Vote Was Won, and numerous visits to relatives and friends across St. Louis Davenport and Chicago are documented with multiple names and addresses.
The first regular meeting of the Poultry club of the YMCA will be held in the association building this evening. L. J. Brosmeier will be in charge. Meetings are open to anyone interested in raising and handling poultry.
The Cheerful Home kindergarten class will close for the summer with a party for mothers on Wednesday afternoon. A traffic accident occurred at 5 PM Monday at Twentieth and Hampshire streets when Leo Amen, driving his father Francis Amen’s car, collided with a Gentemann Brothers vehicle driven by Arthur Ridder. The Gentemann car, traveling north, suffered considerable damage as the Amen car attempted an eastward turn and failed to see the other vehicle.
An exam for Sunday morning June 18 at the Armory will select candidates for commissions and battalion staff vacancies in the Fifth regiment. The examining board includes Col. F. S. Wood, Lt Col Co. D. Center, Capt. J. B. Beatty, and Lt. Alexander.
Duty Sergeant Harry E. Meador was promoted to first sergeant and Arthur Shumire to quartermaster sergeant at the weekly drill of Company I, I. N. G., in the Armory Monday evening. Capt. Wingerter led the largely attended drill with Second Lieutenant Elmore as instructor. Twelve members fired Sunday with Meador earning range champion honors, beating Capt. Wingerter by three points with a 236 score.
C H Adel pohl Tony Krins and Otto Bergman travel to Chicago Saturday to consult with Illinois State Retail Liquor Dealers Association executives about securing the next convention for Quincy in September. About 50 delegates attend the event as river levels fall and flood damage affects Missouri and Illinois bottoms. The will of Mrs Anna Schumaker was filed in county court Monday naming the...
The document lists Catherine Laake and Clara Engels as principal beneficiaries with others receiving amounts from the estate. The rector of St. John's Catholic church is left $200 and Anna Schumaker of St. Louis, wife of the deceased son, receives $100. Clara Engels is named executrix.
County Judge Lyman Meefsarl on Monday listened to Wabash railway company objections to the assessed taxes in the county for last year. Attorneys Hubbard and Schmiedeskamp represented the railroad and County Attorney J. T. Inghram defended the county position.
Humane Officer John Fowley walked eight miles along the levee on Sunday to reach Jack Hogue’s upper story home. He found Hogue living there and needing a boat to enter. Fowley learned Hogue would obtain grass to feed the horses marooned on the levee top for days without food.
Come Here for Dog shows full blooded screw tail bull pup sold by Carl Kreitz to E. T. Davis in Bowling Green. Mr. and Mrs. Davis, dog enthusiasts, traveled to Quincy to visit Kreitz's kennels.
The South Side Motor Boat club, mostly members of the South Side Boat club, will hold a match race next week with the exact date unknown. Members practiced Monday evening in a double shell four oared shell and a barge. A dance will be given Thursday night in honor of Parker shows employees.
The YMCA pool received its annual cleaning Monday and was found in better condition than other association pools cleaned semi annually and monthly. Physical Director H. W. Cranmer and day janitor Charles Hendryx oversaw the work. The water, tested monthly by the state water survey in Havana, was pure before cleaning except for slightly low alkalinity, and bacteriological levels were lower when the pool was emptied due to daily chemical treatment.
The Steamer Quincy carrying Minnesota suffragists is hours behind schedule due to dense fog on the Mississippi above Clinton Ta. The vessel expected to arrive about 4 PM instead of 7 30 AM and is bound for the Democratic convention in St Louis.
Sunday gatherings featured Miss Ina Clow and Miss Bertha Ruths at the Kramer home with ten young women. Hearts was played with pink and white decorations and favors for Ruths and Rupe Buesing. A pink themed luncheon followed a three course meal and gifts. Fortune cakes awarded rings and coins to Meta Hillenbrener Ella Ruths and Anna Stille. Grace Whipple chapter No 312 Eastern Star held a well attended semi monthly meeting with three visitors from Hamilton and Chicago orders. The next meeting June 26 will be the last regular session before July and August with a July official visit planned from Mrs Nellie S Humphreys.
The 1916 high school baccalaureate sermon in the Presbyterian church mixed music and oratory. Dr. R H Hartley spoke on The Kit of the Conquering Crusaders, urging graduates to seek a definite life purpose, integrity, and dynamic morality to overcome life’s Goliaths.
Three trustees of St Aloysius Orphan Society were elected at a meeting in St Boniface hall on Sunday. No decision on a new orphanage site, still to be discussed at the next July meeting. Elected trustees: August Dierkes Cornelius Terwische and Chris Freiburg. Joseph Jacoby declined re election and a vacancy will be filled at the next board meeting. Rev Father Degenhardt serves as spiritual adviser and chairman. holdover trustees are John A Sohm Michael Reinart and John T Hummer.
A large display of work by the St Jacobi parochial school pupils was shown Sunday afternoon in school rooms. Parents and friends examined maps of the United States and enlarged general maps. The school is taught by Arthur Diesing Theodore Wilder and Bertha Schachtsiek with Miss Schachtsiek in charge of the first and second grades.
Inheritance tax apraiser R B Siepker reported to the county court Monday that the George Fischer estate has a net value of 105190.42 dollars after deductions. The estate includes real estate 30000 dollars chattel property 30750 dollars stocks bonds notes accounts and credits 60650.50 dollars and cash 7833 dollars. An inheritance tax of 851 dollars is assessed against the widow Euphemia Fischer.
The Vermont Street Baptist church voted Sunday to call a council meeting for the ordination of Lee Lewis. The council includes Rev. A. LeGrand and two ministers from every church in the Quincy Baptist association, with guests Dr. T. E. Goodspeed, Professor Ramson Harvey, Dr. E. P. Grand, Professor Simmonds, Rev. Terfer Miller, and Rev. L. Y. W. Stine. The 2:30 p.m. meeting will proceed with examination on June 20, followed by the public ordination at 7:30 p.m. Lewis, a Knox college graduate and Newton Theological seminary student, plans foreign missionary work.
Charles Clarke deputy state game warden was fined $3 plus costs totaling $15 after arraignment on a peace disturbance charge. John Venghaus testified Clarke used loud profane language and challenged him to fight. Lewellyn Hughes fined $2 and costs for peace disturbance after police were called over threats to kill his wife. E Burnett and Elmer Robertson fined $2 and costs for intoxication.
Ram to Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Miller at 1836 Maine street on Monday June 12 1916 a girl tevins. Born to Rev. and Mrs. R. L. Long of Paulding Ohio a daughter on Saturday. Mrs. Long former Miss Rev. Henry of Camp Point now known in Quincy.
The Ladies' Aid society of the First Christian church will spend all day Wednesday sewing for children in need of summer clothes at the Woodland home. All church women are asked to help and each will bring a box lunch.
Rev S B Owings pastor at East End Christian Church preached his farewell sermons Sunday morning and evening. He will leave this week to resume studies at the Christian University in Canton Missouri and will also take charge of Middle Grove and Liberty Christian churches.
The text argues that using Ivory Soap for the toilet saves money by paying 5 cents for a six ounce cake rather than 8 to 25 cents for smaller soaps, claiming no loss in quality. It frames this as a practical cost-cutting choice.
The Women's Guild of the Presbyterian Church will hold its regular monthly meeting Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. N. Sinnock, 1415 Hampshire Street.
The willing workers of Christ church host a coffee event on Thursday afternoon and evening. Rev Evil Goetz will give a talk on Switzerland at 8eeleck.
The committee in charge of the picnic will meet Friday to complete arrangements. The event is scheduled for June 22.
School officials remind that children aged 14 to 16 must obtain a work permit before summer employment in businesses or factories. Applications for certificates must come from the child’s public or parochial school principal or parish priest. Certificates go to Superintendent E G Bauman for the actual permit. absence of school attendance records leads to a refused permit.
Five Quincyans plan a canoe vacation starting Tuesday in Chicago then Trout Lake Wisconsin to launch on a chain of lakes and rivers for a route of 200 miles or more. A Sturhan and E M Loeffler of Gardener Governor Works, George W French, W G Musselman and H P Behrensmeyer will join. They will travel Manitowish waters to Flambeau river then Chippewa Falls to the Chippewa river toward the Mississippi. Musselman and Behrensmeyer expect a two week stay returning by rail. Other members may canoe longer and perhaps reach the Mississippi.
Chief of Police Koch announced the arrest of James Donnelly in Wyandotte for passing bad checks. A $110 check to Gem City Tire paid $50 in tires and was shipped from Toledo to Wyandotte. Other checks were drawn on Arthur Hardman and William Mutz. Donnelly promised to return without requisition papers.
A burglar, described as colored, was found ransacking the Meyer household at 30114 Maine street Monday at 9:30 pm. Mrs. Walter Meyer saw him in a room, he fled to a rear roof exit, and valuables including a diamond ring and a bracelet with a diamond setting were taken. The room was torn apart.
Mrs William S Murphy of 230 South Fourth Street has resigned as matron in the local YMCA after three years. She accepted a position as matron at the new YMCA in Carthage, where she has been popular with dormitory boarders and friends in the association.
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