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Quincy Whig

Location

Quincy, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Jun 15, 1915

Page

2

City council to hold Friday night jitney meeting

A special mayoral meeting is set Friday night to discuss the jitney ordinance. Aldermen debate timing and invite interested parties to present, while the dimmer lighting ordinance is referred back for rewrite. Damages requests for flooded cellars are sent to the finance committee for review.

McNutt Hummiert Abbott Ross Schroer Snyder Treet Car Company Quincy Weisenburger Street Railway Bolles Vine Street W. Simmons Vine Streets Finance Committee Church Federation Chester Poling Mar Equate Ninth Hampshire Streets Board of Fire Tabernacle

High School Puts On Midsummer Night Dream at Orpheum

The annual senior class play Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream delighted a full house at the Orpheum theater. Seniors led roles like Theseus, Oberon, and Hippolyta with strong support from Jillian Peter as Puck and Marion Wall as Oberon, while a Webster school fairy choir and local student dancers added charm. The Webster school orchestra and Miss Maud Harding’s guidance enriched the performance, directed by Clarence Lineberger with a cast featuring Roy Lemon, Fred Storrs, Dorathy Boswell, Margaret Allen, Orion Belt, and many others.

Orpheum Theater Webster ‘School Otto Wurt Nellie Balthrope Wilma Schwindeler W. A. Schwindeler Dworck Marion Wall Oberon Vera Sellner Titania Chicago Maud Harding Eleanor Ellis Violet Schwab Clarence Lineberger Theseus Duke Athens Roy Lemon Bryan Fuhrman Snout Elmer Penrose Elmer McLaughlin Donald Steers Hippolyta Vera Puck Lillian Peter Peaseblossom Sylvia Beedles Virginia Biddleston Moth Marion Stanbury Mary. Evans Otto Wurl Mildred Trish Velma Johns Harriet Schwab Ruth Townsend Elizabeth Christie Vivian Garret Mildred Nations Mildred Becker Blanche Carr Alice Huenefeld Dorothy Arrowsmith Mary Bunting Dorothy Weiler Marie Pieper Jane Weaver Carline Eberhard Elizabeth, Buffington Ruth Weiler Virginia Gordon Violet Geschwindner Ruth Heidbrecer

Oscar Arntzen New Chairman Of Supervisors

Adams County board of supervisors convened for its June meeting with Henry Scarborough serving as temporary chair. Oscar Arntzen of McKee township was unanimously elected permanent chairman. The county home committee selections followed, with Selters chosen as minority member. Reports from Probation Officer Nolan and County Home Superintendent Schwank were submitted, and bids awarded for plumbing and heating improvements at the county home.

Nolan County Home Schwank Adams County Board ‘of Supervisors Henry Scarborough Payson Township Fred P. Taylor Quincy Oscar Arntzen McKee, Township Billy Arntzen Amos Sharp William ‘B. Quigg Adams County Home Committee Bader Gibbs Quiggs Seltters Cone Board of Supervisors Clayton Enoch Selters Northeast Joseph A. Simpson Camp Point Alex Thompson Houston George H. Rice Honey Creek Fred Tieken Keene Columbus C. Gibbs Liberty E. J. Grubb Richfield Humphrey Larimore Gilmer Burton James By Cook Payson H. F. Scarborough Ellington Robert McIntyre Melrose John R. Abbott Fall‘ Creek A. H. Heihart Riverside Matthew ‘Dettle Fredie N. Bener Michael Zimmerman J. Cunnane William J. Menke Jeba C. Walker R. B. Kiefer Henry” ‘D. Sullivan Joseph Jacoby Albert Grimmer J. On. .Thebesar F. A. Metzger W. F. Bader John T. Inghram Thomas Nolan Board ‘of Supervisors Akers McCarl Reardon Geneva Ilinois St. Charles Training School John Schwank Courtly County. Home Sullivan Plumbing Company of

Aldermen Back Road Work Over Oil Plan Uptown

City aldermen authorize 200 dollars for macadamizing South Twenty fourth street from State to Harrison streets and oppose oiling at 400 dollars. Judge Epler urges oil and rebuilds. committee to negotiate with the board of supervisors to cover half the macadamizing cost but none for oil.

Fourteenth Street Monroe Adama Streets Abbott Ed Cluth Highland Park Quincy House of Correction Simmonds South Side O’brien and McNutt Fourth Spruce Streets Bitter Ross Board of Public Works Thirteenth Street Ohio Payson Avenue Genenbacher Boeing Twentieth Spring Oak Streets Allan Maine Hamp Shire Board of Supervisors Twenty-fourth State Harrison Streets Owen, O’brien Treasury Epler Bolles Carl. E. Epler Hancock O'Brien Board ‘of Supervisors

Mrs Miles To Spend Summer In Enid Oklahoma

Mrs L Miles of 615 North Sixth street travels to Enid Oklahoma with her husband to live there during the summer. They own property there and plan to reside away from their current home for the warmer season.

North Sixth Street Enid Okla

Pathways to Power speaker at 1915 baccalaureate

Rev James R Smith of the Congregational church delivered the annual sermon for the 1915 high school graduating class before 600 attendees. Music preceded the sermon as he urged mastery of small tasks as the path to power and warned graduates to live life rightly toward the life to come.

James Robert Smith James R. Smith Congregational’ Church Twelfth Mains Streets Christ Kingdom of Heaven

Joint committee advances plan for church union

A joint committee from First Baptist and Vermont Street Baptist churches met at Vermont Street to form a united church. They named H O Channon as chair and D F Wilcox as secretary, proposing a new central building, retention of current First Baptist property for missions, sale of Vermont Street and parsonage properties, and eventual organization of Immanuel Chapel into a Baptist church with co pastoral leadership.

First Baptist Vermont Vermont Street H. O. Channon D.F. Wilcox First Baptist Church Vermont Street Baptist Church Spruce Immanuel Chapel First Paptist ‘Church First

Estate of William Luenninghofer shows small real estate holdings

In the estate of William Luenninghoener deceased Albert Luenninghoe ner, administrator, filed yesterday an inventory listing the deceased as owning two or three small tracts of real estate.

William Luenninghoener Albert Luenninghoener

Constipation and its claimed dangers prompt herbal remedy

An advertisement warns that accumulated waste in the bowels causes illnesses and toxic absorption. It promotes Br King’s New Life Pills as a nightly aid for a full morning bowel movement, selling a 36 pill bottle for 26c through a local druggist.

Letters of administration for Guth estate issued

Yesterday Peter W. Tuffli was named administrator in the estate of the deceased Charles Guth. The court fixed his bond at $2,000.

Peter W. Tuffli Charles Guth Tuffli

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