Memorial service and rail funds in Carthage halt
In Carthage on June 1, the IOOF held a memorial service at Moss Ridge cemetery with Bentley lodge and Rebekah sisters. Rev. Diehl spoke, “Some Sweet Day” was sung, and the crowd, including many autos from surrounding counties, paid tribute to departed members. County notes report railway and farming efforts boosting local turnout for a soil improvement meeting on June 16.
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Carthage
IT. O
Moss Ridge
Bentley Lodge
Rebekah Degree
Jacob Diehl
Trinity Lutheran Church
I. O. O. F. Lodge
Burlington
J. B. Lawson
C. B. & QO. Railroad Company
Chicago
C.B. & CO. Railroad Company
Lloyd
Hancock
Nauvoo
Warwick
Austin
Akers
Calaboose
Mosely
Ed Boeddeker
John Johnson
Gertrude Lammis
Quincy
C. A. James
Dorothy
Judsce James
Keokuk
Oquawka
H. B. Boyd
James
Lulu Ayers
Warsaw
Maggie Ayers
Bowen
Denver
Len M. Fletcher
Bank of Hope
New Mexico
Wm. A. Fletcher
Kansas City
Perry Will Have New Light Plant
Perry voters grant an electric light and power franchise to Iftner Vertrees who starts erecting a 20 by 46 foot concrete building for a new plant. A 40 horsepower Fairbanks Morse gasoline engine will drive storage batteries to produce juice as the town prospers with a new high and graded school and a soon to come state road. Other notes report local contracting firms Lane & Holman winning four house contracts, residents and visitors from nearby towns, and rails threatened by mine cave-ins at Spaulding as coal mine formations rumble under the tracks.
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Eva Swain
Silver City
New Mexico
Alampngordo
N. B. Boyd
Glenna
Francis Smith
Blandinsville
Gwentlemnson
Rhidinsville
Anna Funk
Mendon
Tillie Hoch
Marcellus Rohrbough
Omnuna
Nebr
National Conference of City Development
Meveland
Ohio
Detroit
Mich
Chicago
Carthage
O. H. Rohrbough
Rohrbough
H. Pp. Hoover
Keokuk
Pittsfield
Perry
Iftner Vertrees
Win
Vertrees
John Helman
King Mill
Lane & Holman
Ile
Char’tte Crouch
Bea Beedle
Zannibal
James Beedle
Samuel Knox
National Stock Yards
East St. Louis
Paul
Irene Windmiller
Pleasant Lil
Chas. Akers
Town
Illinois Central
Springfield
Spaulding
Joseph Anderson
Susan Hennessy
Emma Morgan
Harry Long
Pleasant Pill
Alpha Doane
Pleasant Hill
John M. Francis
Litchfield
Minn
Ellen Wolf
Milton
Wiliam J. Hillman
Atlas
Telma L. Baker
Atlas, Ii
Fred E. Wibler
Pearl M. Meyers
Barry
A. G. Crawford
Hughes
Monroe Markley
Longmont
Colorado
Congregational Church
Orvey Williamson
Markley
F. L Hanscom
F. L. Shriver
Macomb
Lewis Hainsfurther
M. Hirsheimer
J. R. Ward
Mt. Vernon
Dora
Mary Ward
St. Lewis
St. Louis
W. T. Will
John Spann
Denver
Colo
Lo Spann
Robert Morgan
John Ward
Evanston
KL Ueda
Palmyra Rector Resigns to Take New Field
The Rev. Robert J. Long, rector of St. Pauls Episcopal Church, told his Palmyra congregation he has sent his resignation to the diocese and presented it to his board for July 1. A 31-year-old graduate of Sewanee and Seabury, he will become the youngest archdeacon in the United States, serving a missionary role from Kokomo.
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Palmyra
Robert J. Long
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Long
Indiana
Kokumo
United States
University of the South
Sewanee
Tenn
Seabury Theological Seminary
Farabault
Mann
St. Louis
Benj
Jaydon
Marshall
del Fontaine
Hannibal
Legion of Baseball
Funeral of M. L. Clark Held in Denver Church
The funeral for M L Clark was held Saturday at 2 p.m. in a Denver Christian church with D C Barber in charge. Clark died in Keokuk hospital Thursday at 8 p.m. after kidney surgery. He was 79, lived in Denver nearly 50 years, and supported community enterprises. He leaves a wife and daughter Mrs Iva Jenings of Basco and W L of Denver, with interment at Harmony Cemetery where Masons led graveside rites.
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Denver
M.L. Clark
Christian Church
D.C. Barber
Clark
Keokuk Hospital
Iva Jenings
Lawrence
Basco
W. L
Harmony Cemetery
Masons
Mrs Isaac Gibbons Passes Away Friday
Philadelphia dispatch reports Mrs Isaac Gibbons of Warren died at home Friday night after a long illness from a complication of diseases. Formerly Sallie Coleman, she married Fenton White and bore five children, with Grant Fenton deceased two months prior. Widowed years earlier, she later married Isaac Gibbons and leaves surviving kin. Former Baptist, she was a Mennonite at death, described as a good neighbor and devoted wife and mother, nearly 71.
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Philadelphia
Isaac Gibbons
Warren
Sallie Coleman
Fenton White
Grant Fenton
The
Baptist Church
Mennonites
Dr Kings New Discovery Advertised for Cough Relief
A vintage advertisement touts Dr. Kings New Discovery as a long used remedy for hacking coughs. It highlights soothing pine balsam with tar to heal air passages loosen mucus aid natural sleep and curb coughing.
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Dr. King
Soldiers and Sailors Home Veterans List of Moves
Readmission notices and transfers at the Soldiers and Sailors Home listing cottage assignments passes and furloughs for numerous residents. Lebrecht Thieme of Co F 69th Ohio Infantry dies at 80, burial set at home cemetery Tuesday 1 pm with sister Mrs Wunderlick of Lower Salem, Ohio present.
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Moses Huling
F. M. Bean
Louisa McCune
William Prater
Pass
Elizabeth Luman
Catherine Lamber
Patrick O'Brien
Cottge
C. M. Reed
John Watterson
Mary E. Hord
James B. Shipp
Richard E. Noonan
Alfred J. Howard
Henry C. Bryan
Erastus D. Baugh
Lebricht Thieme
Co. F. 69Th Ohio Infantry
Meaner Wunderlick
Lower Salem
Ohio
Home
Farmers meet in Clayton Thursday
Farmer Rusk invites Adams county farmers to a soil fertility lecture by Jr Cyril G Hopkins of the University of Illinois at the southeast limits of Clayton Thursday after noon June 15 at 3 o'clock. A practical talk with open discussion on soil problems, to be held rain or shine in an open area or machinery shed.
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Rusk
Adams County
Clayton Thurday
Cyril G. Hopkins
University of Illinois
Cleansing the Blood Eases Rheumatism Says Ad
An advertisement promotes S. S. S as a blood purifier that renews life and stimulates circulation to expel germs and impurities causing rheumatism. It cautions against nostrums, urges a blood bath, and directs readers to seek the booklet What the Mirror Tells and Swift Specific Co in Atlanta for treatment.
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S. S
Swift Specific Co
Atlanta
Adv
Valuable Lecture Draws Busy County Man to Meeting
A busy county resident believes the lecture will repay the longest drive by promising high value. He plans to travel many miles to attend, underscoring the event’s significance for local professionals and leaders.
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Lieves
Local Pickups and Visits Highlight Weekend Travel
Local car dealer notes Dodge Brothers vehicles with advanced clutch systems. T. C. Nichols Motor Car Co reports Mrs. John Tracy and grandson Junior Crow plan a month visit to Macomb to see a brother. Halbach Schroeder Co extends the Annual June Clearance Sale through Saturday June 17. Mrs. Anna K. Duker heads to Boston for summer with daughter Mrs. Arthur J. Fischer.
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Dodge Bros
T. C. Nichols Motor Car Co
John Tracy
Junior Crow
Vine Street
Macomb
Halbach-Schroeder Co
Anna K. Duker
Boston
Arthur J. Fischer
Man from Mendon Endorses Tanlac in Local Campaign
A Mendon area testimonial supports Tanlac saying it restores vigor after indigestion and fatigue. Frank Dear of Edgewood Stock Farm near Mendon touts improved health, energy, and sleep after taking Tanlac, praising its effects and urging others to try the remedy. The Tanlac Man promotes the product at Brown & Mays Drug Co., with pricing at $1.00 per bottle or three for $2.75.
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Quincy
Edgewood
Mendon
Dear
Adams County
Ile
Tanlac
Brown & Mays Drug Co
The Crime of Silence and Dr Strohl Cure Claims
Suffering is endured by many thought to be well as unknown vital organ issues threaten homes. Dr. Strohl treats sexual neurasthenia and related ailments with electricity, drugs, serums, and gland extracts in Quincy with daytime and evening office hours.
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Stroht
Quincy
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Odd Fellows of
Hancock County
Rev. Diehl
Elizabeth R. Trawton
William A. Symonds
George ¥. Black
Jessie A. Black
Elizabeth R. Loomis
Henry F. and
Arthur H. Black
Elizabeth J. E. Booz
Evaline Gibbs
Lenora Reno
Joseph M. Booz
Emma W. Cloud
Dora M. Clowes
Will M. Booz
Zilpha F. Davis
Eva
Lillian
Emma Cloud
Burton Cannon
Jacob Creen
Hannah Steckel
Tgt
John I. Shultz
William Y Plender
Henry T. Steckle
Esther Steckle
Jewell Warner
Trinity Lutheran Church of Carthage
John W. Wiliams
George FE. Aleshire
Ray Vetter
St. Charles
Illinois
Otto Carle
Glenwood Manual Training School
Glenwood
Marion Hale
Roy Hale
Vernie Hale
Jessie Hale
Viola Hale
J. H. Helms
Virgil Hale
Oscar Linn
Robert Long
Northern
Clayton
Rive
Mississippi River
Helen Blair
Rock Island
Davenport
Black Hawk
Muscatine
H. Pennoyer
Agt
White Collar Line Steamers
Frank O. Dear
Dr. H. Strohl
Lfe
Hampshire Street
Pliny
Dioscorides
Tacitus
Sophocles
Archilochus
Arch
Ruff
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