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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1916
Page
12
Leaton Irwin outlines improvements for Quincy including better at city limits roads, clear street names at intersections, enforcement of macadam disposal and traffic laws, and a practical street repair system. He urges less preaching and more action to boost the city.
Local brief items list orchestra concert Thursday and related events at St Marys hall and Empire theater. May 8 Monday evening at 411 1-3 Hampshire hall and other community reminders include birthdays travel, hospital updates, hotel registrations, shopping specials and local notices from Oak camp to Crooks Cox and Kiefer’s promos.
John Henry Epping and Helen Korte Brockschmidt of Quincy appear as a licensed couple. John D Laing and Mary Pine of Quincy are also noted in the license entries. A stray line asserts a proverb about speech versus force.
Palmyra May 7 a large barn on the Moritz Happel farm four miles northwest of Palmyra burned Saturday night. The structure and contents were consumed in about twenty minutes, a silo nearby saved. All stock was saved. 400 bushels of corn, five tons of hay and four sets of new harness lost. The barn and currents were insured in Farmers Mutual Insurance of Marion county.
Postmasters on Violetmaster Elmer Lummis went to Paloma at noon Saturday to visit his mother Mrs Elizabeth Lummis and his wife. J W Emery of the Channon-Emery stove works New York will remain there 10 days to attend the National Association of Stove Manufacturers convention. John J Fisher of the Excelsior stove works Teft Saturday night for New York to attend the same convention. Mrs Fisher accompanied him.
The Ladies' Aid society of the South Side Boat club hosts a whist and dance on Tuesday May 16. Afternoon whist for women follows by an evening social with prizes for winners. Poultry men meet as Leo Brosmer and William Fry speak on Raising Baby Chicks at the Quincy Poultry association meeting in Labor temple.
For over a quarter century Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin has been a staple family laxative. The remedy combines simple laxative herbs, is free from opiates, gentle yet effective, and sells for fifty cents a bottle. A Baltimore user praises its relief for indigestion and constipation and a free trial bottle is offered by writing Dr W B Caldwell in Monticello NL.
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