Supervisors Attend Chicken Dinner at Adams County Home
Adams county board of supervisors held its annual visit to the Adams County Home near Paloma as rain threatened outdoor plans. The June session closed after selecting Grand Jurors for September term and debating South Twenty-fourth Street repair funding with city and chamber propose partial aid. A request to build a new county courthouse entry room was referred to the buildings committee, and a memorial for L A Richardson, late county surveyor, was presented with sympathy to his family.
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Adams County ‘Board of Supervisors
John ‘Schwank
Adams County
Palama
Board of Supervisors
County Home Committée
Circuit Court
Clayton
Craig
Cunnane
McIntyre
Board of “Supervisors
Twenty-fourth Street
State
Harrison
Chamber of Commerce
Lilburn A. Richardson
O. P. Buffington
Sunshine Needed to Save Crops in Adams County
Adams county farmer visiting Quincy reports crops damaged by excessive rain as weeds overrun fields. He says sunshine is crucial for relief, with plowing hindered by soggy soil and the harvests at risk if dry spell does not return within a week or ten days.
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Adams County
Quincy
Quincy Pulse Playground Meeting And Music College
Quincy hosts a playground planning meeting aimed at improving summer activities for children. Graduation exercises for Quincy College of Music senior pupils conclude with a full program at the high school auditorium. Local churches plan numerous picnics this month and mid-summer. Simon Parrish, a Quincy youth, is gaining renown as band and orchestra director at Ontario Beach Rochester, a first for a person of color in that role.
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Music College
The
Quincy College of Music
Proggram
Whig
Quincy Boy
Rochester
Simon
Parrish
Quincy
Ontario
Beach
Gregor Family Finds Home in Quincy
Have Located Here H P Gregor and family of Kansas City Mo arrived in Quincy Tuesday and will make this city their home Mr Gregor is an electrician and has accepted a position at the Electric Wheel works.
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H. P. Gregor
Kansas City
Quincy
Mr. Gregor
The
Electric Wheel Works
Ill in Kansas hospital case linked to Quincy kin
Mrs M L Hughes of 1214 Vine Streetio left yesterday for Topeka Kansas where her brother Bert Neetter formerly of Quincy lies seriously ill in a hospital Doctors believe he is on the verge of typhoid pneumonia
Time for Saloon and Pharmacist Licenses Issued
The year starting July 1 nears with license numbers issued. John Vosse of 4389 North Twelfth Street paid $250 to City Clerk Schroer and received license No 1 for saloon duties. John W Reed at Fifth and Hampshire streets, a druggist, is the first to obtain a pharmacist license for the new year and also holds license No 1.
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John Vosse
North Twelfth Street
Schroer
John’ W Reed
Fifth
Hampshire Streets
Music Committee Appointed For Labor Day Picnic
The picnic committee of organized labor interests met Tuesday night at the Labor temple to plan the annual Labor day picnic. The music committee consisting of Herman Schelp Bert Ryan and William Muldoon was appointed. Secretary George Schmitt was instructed to write to various labor unions in the Mississippi valley region to seek representation at the Quincy Labor picnic.
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Organized Labor
Labor Temple
Herman Schelp
Bert Ryan
William Muldoon
Park Committee
George Schmitt
Mississippi Valley
Quincy
Funeral of J. H. Wolfmeier Held At Salem Church
Funeral services for the late John I. Wolfmeier were held Tuesday afternoon from the residence at 637 Jefferson street and at Salem Evangelical church. Interment followed at Green Mount Cemetery. A large attendance gathered at both church and cemetery.
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J. H. Wolfmeier
John I. Wolfmeier
Jefferson Street
Salem Evangelical Church
Greenmount Cemetery
Drainage Hearing Set For June 30 In Indian Grave District
A rerehearing in the Indian Grave Drainage district is scheduled for June 30. All landowners in the district are urged to attend a meeting at Rock Creek school on Saturday June 19 at 8 p m. The call for the meeting was issued by M N Reinhart.
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Rock I Creek School
M.N. Reinhart
Po-Do-Lax Claims Quick Relief for Constipation
An old advertisement asserts sickness is wicked and promotes Po-Do-Lax with podophyllin May Apple as a remedy. It claims it arouses the liver, increases bile flow, and that constipation and related ills disappear overnight with one dose. The pitch urges getting a bottle from the druggist today.
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Nature
Quincy High Closes Year with Awards and Plans
Quincy High School ended its term with remarks by Principal Smith, who thanked students for cooperation and urged return next fall. Eight small and eight large Musselman penmanship medals were awarded, along with Q letters for athletic excellence in baseball basketball and track. A school edition of the High School Q was issued, and plans were announced to open public playgrounds on school grounds with supervisors to guide children’s activities in summer.
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Smith
Heidbreder
Lummis
Enright
O'Donnell
Grieser
Brown
Wich
Neva Linneman
Musselman
Grace Meyer
Richard Morris
Pick-Ups and Local News From Quincy
Local listings note summer term start for Quincy College of Music on June 21 and open registrations. A routine meeting of workhouse commissioners occurred at the mayor’s office. High school tennis finals proceed today with D L Musselman set to attend a Playgrounds meeting at Webster School this evening. Funeral services for Frederick T. Bross were held yesterday with burial at Greenmount Cemetery. Mrs Engel Anderson of the north side is a typhoid patient at St Mary’s Hospital. The steamer Black Hawk docks today on its regular trip. the Keokuk arrived yesterday with good packet business and a fair passenger list. Water works intake pipe work progresses with another extension laid by Captain Falcon. Thomas Chatterson of Macon Missouri was a business visitor yesterday. Dr W Burch travels to Chicago for a surgical operation and expects about a three week absence from Quincy.
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D. L. Musselman
Chamber of Commerce
Webster School
Frederick T. Bross
Washington Street
Bethel M. E. Church
Greenmount Cemetery
Engel Anderson
Maud Muller at the Orpheum by Oliver Players Today
The Orpheum opens with Maud Muller, a Tennyson drama, praised as a superb production with strong comedy. Oliver Company adds Edna Cecil Daly from New York stock companies to bolster the cast. Starting Sunday, The Stranger by C T Dazey, directed by Dazey, is billed as the year’s theatrical highlight with parties planned in his honor.
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Maud Muller
Orpheum
Oliver
Tennyson
Oliver Company
Edna
Cecil Daly
New York City
Bronz Theatre
Miss Daly
Los. Angeles
Cal
Castle Square
Boston
Mass
Poli
Washington, D. C
Mr. Dazey
Lost items notice from The Whig newspaper
A fragmentary item from The Whig urges readers to telephone a lost items ad for any missing watch parasol or similar object, indicating a classifieds notice approach for recovery and contact.
Engaged couple mourns as motorcycle crash claims Emma Meyer
Emma Meyer, 24, was killed in a motorcycle collision near Twelfth and Harrison. Her fiancé Hugo Koeller, 23, driving the machine, is hospitalized with injuries and has not yet been informed of her death. Coroner Haley awaits Koeller recovery to testify on the accident. Meyer’s death comes as Koeller held rumors of nuptials this summer. the couple had discussed wedding plans. Meyer survived by her parents and eight siblings, and she was active in St Jacobi church and Sunday school.
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Emma Meyer
Twelfth
Harrison Streets
Hugo Koeller
St. Mary’s Hospital
Koeller
Miss Meyer
Haley
William
Harry
Otto
Lawrence
Charles Kroll
Ida
Freda
Iréney
St Jacobi
Two Hundred Attend St Peter’s School Picnic
More than two hundred pupils from St. Peter's Catholic parochial school attended yesterday's annual picnic at South Park. Parents joined the excursion, traveling on special street cars from Eighth and Maine at 9 am. Boys played baseball while girls joined bean bag and foot races. A noon basket dinner was served by the sisters with help from parents, and the event concluded around 6 pm as the special cars returned to the school hall.
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St. Peter's Catholic Parochial School
South Park
Eighth
Maine Streets
Feist
Foley Kidney Pills Restore Kidneys To Health
A medical note urges early treatment for kidney and bladder issues. It claims Foley Kidney Pills restore healthy kidney function, reduce pains and sleep disturbance, and prove effective from the first dose, recommended by Miller & Arthur Drug Co.
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Foley Kidney
Miller & Arthur Drug Co
State Agents Appointed by Governor Clarke
Des Moines, June 16. Governor Clarke announced the appointment of three state agents to aid the attorney general in enforcing prohibitory and other laws. The appointees are George E. Bidwell of Des Moines, formerly deputy U S marshal, G A Brunson of Algona, and O D Rock of Logan. The first two are named to take up their duties.
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Des Moines, Jr
Clarke
George E. Bidwell
Des Moines
Depuy
United States
Av Brunson
Algona
Uncle Joe Hall Celebrates 86 At Rockford Baseball
In Quincy local park stands fan known as Uncle Joe Hall of the Soldiers Home. He endures rain and heat to watch his favorites, including Rockford games. After celebrating his eighty sixth birthday, he predicted Manager Castle and his Speed Boys would win the rag this year.
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Joe Hall
Quincy
Joe
Rockford
Examiner from Labor Department to inspect naturalization applicants in Adams County
An examiner from the U S Department of Labor will be in Quincy next Monday to interview applicants for naturalization papers in Adams County. Seven names appear: Ezra Weinstein Claudius Vernaud Konstanty Fidelis Brynarowski Israel Raizen Otto Ruebe Max Harrisb urg Victor Restle. Arrests and licenses follow in a local roundup.
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Erde Beatty
U.S. Department of Labor
Quincy
Adams County
Ezra Weinstein
Russia
Claudius Vernaud
France
Konstanty Fidelis Brynarowski
Israel
Raizen
Otto Ruebe
Germany
Max
Harrisburg
Victor Restle
Twenty Seven Autos Shipped from Cleveland to Irwin Overland
Twenty seven automobiles, filling nine cars, were shipped Tuesday and yesterday from the Overland factory in Cleveland Ohio to the Irwin Overland Automobile company in this city. The new machines will arrive in a few days and will be taken to the Irwin garage on Maine Street between Third and Fourth streets. Most of them are already sold.
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Overland
Cleveland
Ohio
Irwin-Overland Automobile Company
Irwin
Maine
Movie Man to Catch Banquet Donors at Chamber Dedication
The movie man will attend the July 8 dedication of the new Chamber of Commerce building. Donors who funded the project will be photographed at the banquet table, with images circulated at a local theater. Medcats must reserve by June 23. any leftovers cost $1.50 per plate.
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Chamber ‘of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Honor Bestowed German Sub Commander Lauded by Kaiser
London report cites Elsinore correspondent that U-21 commander Idr wereding Herzing received the Order Pour le Merite from the Kaiser for the torpedoing of the Lusitania. The news notes the decoration as recognition of the U-21 action.
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London
Lusitania
Elsinore
Denmark
Evening ‘Star
I Darett Herzing
Star
Navy reports Buford unloads corn and beans for Mexico City
Washington dispatch states the transport Buford landed 61 000 bushels of corn and beans at Vera Cruz for Mexico City. The ship was due at Galveston on Thursday and had taken aboard sixty Americans and a few Europeans at Tampico. Carranza agency said Geil Obregon’s wounds would heal in eight days.
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Washington
Navy Department
Buford
Vera Cruz
Mexico City
Galveston
Tampico
Carranza Agency
Geil Obregon
Eagles Parade In South Omaha At State Convention
Fifteen hundred members of the Fraternal Order of Eagles will parade this evening in South Omaha Nebraska as part of the state convention. State President W J Moran said in his address that the ideals of fraternity would make war impossible.
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Eagles
South Omaha
Neb
Order of Eagles
Order
W. J F. Moran
Graduation Exercises at the Academy Celebrate Five Graduates
The academy’s commencement featured five graduates from the college prep program and three from the School of Music. Music features highlighted the event with a program of performances as students received diplomas.
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School of Music
St Marys Academy 1916 Graduates Attend Ceremony
The St Marys Academy 1916 class graduated last night in the academy auditorium before relatives and alumnae. Graduates, mostly from Quincy with two exceptions Miss Heitimann of Clayton and Miss Batson of Tennessee, received diplomas and gold medals. Valedictory by Pauline Tenk and salutatory by Emma Heinmann highlighted a program featuring a full orchestra and various musical numbers.
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St. Mary’s Academy
Academy
Quincey
Heitimann
Clayton
Batson
Tennessee
Academy Orchestra
Margaret Dick
Juliana Meyer
Burlington
Iowa
Piel
Ida
Pfeiffer
Alma Lepper
Julianna
Meyer
Frances Dick
Odelia
Freiburg
Martha Kenning
Margaret. Ernst
Effie ° Smith
Regina Weisenhorn
Ruth Kiem
Catherine Schroer
Pauline Michael
Willa Carlile
Valmere
Granadier
Margaret Baxter
Faust
Gounod
Emma Heimann
Chopin
Violet Schwab
Pauline
Burchard
Helen Engels
Bess Batson
Mary Adams
Quincy College of Music commencement at High School Auditorium
Public invited to the Quincy College of Music commencement Thursday June 17 at 8 15 p m in the High School Auditorium. Jesse Powell arrested for wife abandonment and released on his own recognizance after a county court appearance. Blue Ribbon Buffet hosts a Baked Ham lunch at 4 p m. Edward O Wild and O W Crawford, Quincyans, oversee a monument project for Edward Wisner. Robert Smith recovering well after surgery at Passavant Hospital.
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Quincy College of Music
Jesse Powell
Lyman McCarl
Powell
Hampshire
Edward O. Wild
O. W. Crawford
New Orleans
Edward Wisner
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County Board
Supt
Schwank
South Twenty-fourth Street
Inghram
Court House
Bener
Taylor
Scarborough
Camp Dewey
United Spanish War Veterans
L. . Richardson
Zens Smith
Quincy High School
Zens, Smith
Chicago
University of Chicago
Welfare Federation
Federation of
Board of Education
Board of Censorships
Associated, Charities
Cheerful Home
Sweeds
Miss Ever
ST. Peter’s
John Coens
Ernie Grubb
William Lister
Missouri
Lister
Justice of the Peace
E. J. Bonney
Bert C. Peremeny
Minnie S. Werly
Ollie Thomas
Cairo
Ill
Emma Banfield
Barlow
William J. Bauman
Ella M. Slingerland
Robert’ Edgar’ Neal
College Preparatory
Pauline, Ann Tenk
Emma Sophia Heinmann
May Pauline Bernbrock
Margie ‘Cecelia Morris
Mary Margaret Lusk
Violet Edith Schwab Helena Anna Engels Bess Batson
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