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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1919
Page
8
ISS SPRING and Mrs Earl W Smith celebrate joint birthdays at the Smith farm on South Thirty-sixth Street. Miss Spring adds a greener glow to fields and Mrs Smith hosts a dinner. Guests include L. A. Morest and Mr. and Mrs R. E Hackman as the entertainment unfolds.
Jefferson school fathers night featured speakers Charles Eichenhauer and John Carroll urging support for a new Irving district building. The program included songs by Thomas Grimmer Samuel Levi and grades six seven performing scenes from Uncle Tom's Cabin and Jessie Bentley solo. Proceeds from sandwiches and coffee aided the French orphan adopted by the Parent-Teacher association.
Fathers of the Madison school district took full charge of an event labeled Madison Dads Night, organizing activities and overseeing arrangements as described in the readable text. The item highlights community involvement by local fathers and the school community.
Dads Night featured community singing led by George Cawthorne with songs such as K K Katy and Keep the Home Fires Burning sung by the audience. D Brown led a quartet, Mrs Rome Arnold sang, John Korn had overall charge, and light refreshments were served.
Mrs. A L Stiller hosted the Adams school Parent Teacher association Friday with readings and songs from grades one through five. In honor of Mrs. Anderson Lee leaving the district the group gave a social hour and a hand decorated salad bowl. The association voted to support Irving school’s new building project. A bake sale last Saturday at Muller and Arthur drug store cleared 23.95.
Church News reports Sunday services at 3 PM in the Interchurch Civic Center with Rev. Robert Van Meigs delivering a chalk talk on Sewing and Reaping. A youth taf fy night and moving pictures The Last Day of Pompei follow, as Baptists push a national victory fund aimed at 6 million dollars this year.
The Central Baptist church apportionment is $1473 but leaders hope to reach $2000 by March 30. Dr Fred P Saggard, general director of the Baptist victory campaign, forecasts six million dollars raised by April 1. The drive seeks to unify the denomination and educate nonattendants and non-givers in religious duties while the local church raises its full apportionment and may request over and above gifts to boost its standing in the Northern Baptist convention.
The Muscatine First Baptist and Central Baptist Sunday schools compete with on time and extra points tallies. Quincy leads 4085 to 3021 after collections of $9.56 for Muscatine and $15.54 for Quincy, with Muscatine at 286 present and 206 on time. The contest continues.
The Women’s Foreign Missionary Society holds a jubilee service with a offertory sermon by Rev. F. A. McCarty. Proceeds go to support Montevideo, South America schools.
The official board of the First Christian Church will meet Sunday afternoon after noon.
Born to Mr and Mrs Albert Koch of 1127 Jersey street a son Friday morning in Blessing hospital Mrs Koch formerly Miss Bertha Hergdorf and Mr Koch a barber at the Hotel Quincey barber shop
Rev David Wahl of Kentucky Street Methodist is in Canton Missouri for special meetings. Mrs Neal Munroe travels to Fort Worth Texas to visit her husband in service. Mrs Ellis Brooks to San Francisco for her mother’s illness. John Welsh recently back from France goes to Fort Sheridan for gas treatment and will be discharged in about two weeks. Miss Helen Statle of Hannibal visits Quincy. Mrs John Bauerichter and daughter of Ewing shop in Quincy. Mrs Nell Middleton and her mother Mr Cook plan to come from Crescent City Florida to spend the April summer at 2600 Maine Street Quincy.
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