Strawberry Market Bustles With Homegrown Produce
Strawberry time draws housewives to crates of berries while Georgia peaches, cantaloupes, and watermelons arrive. Local pricing shows cherries at $1.50 per crate, onions at 5 to 7 cents per pound, and Florida cauliflowers and cabbage entering markets. The market overall is stronger than last week with plentiful fruits and vegetables from home grown sources.
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Texas
Georgia
Florida
Imperial Valley
Palmyra Church Jubilee Program Details
Palmyra, June 15. Children day observed next Sunday June 17 in the Christian church. The Jesus Forest Children's program features two parts with processional songs, scripture readings, various recitations, and musical numbers. A memorial to R Ray Eldred who died in Africa in 1918 is included along with a pantomime by Catherine Huntress.
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Palmyra
Jesus’ Forest
Margaret
Missionary Dollar
R. Ray Eldred
Africa
Catherine Huntress
San Antonio
Texas
Power
Jesus
House of Correction Commissioners Meet to Elect Chair
The House of Correction commissioners met Thursday afternoon and elected August Schanz as chairman. Frank Crane and J. Will Wall joined him. Routine business was handled and a policy to make public bills audited was set. The Thursday report showed expenses totaling 521 dollars with coal 100, salaries 331, repairs 75, and horse feed 15. Revenue included 60 loads of rock for 90 dollars and 100 days’ work for 175 dollars, totaling 265 dollars, leaving a balance of 256. The note adds that some marriages fail as couples abandon polite falsehood after the ceremony.
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House of Correction
August Schanz
Frank Crane
J. Will Wall
Quincy College of Music Commencement at Orpheum Theatre
The Quincy College of Music holds its commencement at 4 pm in the Orpheum Theatre with ten graduates. Performances include piano, voice, and dramatic art selections, plus a comedy sketch and a reading, followed by the Star Spangled Banner sung with a special tableau. William Smith celebrates his brother Thomas Smith's 64th birthday in Ursa with relatives. the county clerk was excused for the event.
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Quincy College of Music
Orpheum Theater
Lucille Miriam Lillard
Hildegard Marie Menne
Miss Felt
Liszt
Zelda Schwartz
Jeanne d’Arc
Tschaikowsky
Lucretia Hannah Harris
Miss Nichols
Beethoven
Mary Erna Chumbley
Lucretia Harris
Adelaide Flair
Mignon
Thomas
Elizabeth A. Dean
Gale
Flower of Liberty
Dorothy Loudennilk
Marie Heintz
Norma Badgley
Marjorie Morris
Florence Broady
Ellen Cunnane
Martha Granadier
Virginia Tenk
Marie Reidy
Etna Bentley
Marian Chumbley
Eunice Albright
Adalaide Flair
Ball
L. L. Woodworth
Elsa Walton
William Smith
Ursa
Thomas Smith
College of Music to Have New Building
Miss Lulu Felt president of the Quin College of Music has bought the old Woodruff home at Ninth and Broadway. It will be converted for college use with apartments for out of town students and for Miss Felt and her father. City heat and modern conveniences will be installed. Faculty additions include Miss Zelda Schwartz Miss Hilda Menne and Miss Erma Chumbley, all graduates this year.
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Lulu Felt
Quin College of Music
Woodruff
Ninth and Broadway
Felt
Peter Felt
Zelda Schwartz
Hilda Menne
Erma Chumbley
Quincy civic group upgrades Fifth Street walkway
Julius Kespohl and Henry F. J. Ricker of the Civic Improvement association laid granitoid sidewalk along the west side of Fifth street between Vermont and Broadway. The space between street and walk was sodded and a new fence erected along the lumber yard, greatly improving the area.
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Julius Kespohl
Henry F. J. Ricker
The
Civic Improvement Association
Fifth Street
Vermont
Broadway
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Maine ST
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Secy
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Palmyra Church
Christian Congregation
House OF Correction Commissioners
College OF Music
New Eagle Hall
Russia
M. Swartzkopensky
Czar of
Rusa
Siberia
Quincy
Otis Mohn
South Eighth Street
City
Gause
Quincy Lodge
J. Irwin
James Remey
Pany
Hese
Packer
Lazell
Dimities
Voiles
Batiste
Room
Stern Bldg
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