Old City Council Ends Abbott Administration
The outgoing city council closed its term by reviewing official annual reports and settling business. Retiring Mayor W. K. Abbott gave an address as the new council prepares to start with a detailed fund balance list including cemetery and street funds, tax receipts, licenses, and department tallies. The session covered audits, salaries, and special attorney bills, plus notices from the Quincy Fans association and the relief commission. Fifty-three meetings occurred, license totals reached $73,003.97, and town collection receipts totaled $408,205.59 after commissions.
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Old City Council
W. K. Abbott
Fire Department
Department of Public Works
House of Correction
Public Library
Central Market
Board of Local Improvements
Department of City Engineer
Department of Electrical Inspection
Department of Plumbing
Frank A. Jasper
Pey
A. Od. Stevens
Stevens & Verndon
Quincy Fans’ Association
Alderman &. S. Hyatt
Quincy Relief Commission
Mr. Hyatt
Alderman McNutt
Duke Schroer
Pension funds balance reports listed by trustees
Trustees report balances for city pension funds show the fire department fund on hand at 1388.20 dollars and the police fund balance at 713.50 dollars.
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Fireman's Pension Fund
Policemen’s Pension Fund
Plumbing Inspector James H O'Neil Reports Year
James H O'Neil issued 527 permits and collected 1516 in fees during the year Inspections were made and final certificates issued to 1622 Forty five plans have not been passed and 36 certificates have not been issued
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James H. O'Neil
City Treasurer reports May cash and receipts totals
Treasurer Frank A. Jasper cites May 1 cash on hand at 407966.32 dollars and total receipts from all sources of 489671.77 dollars, yielding 987635.00 dollars in the treasury. Disbursements of 957497.50 leave a balance of 30140.58 with allocations 14007.34 water surplus, 2872.20 special assessment, and 13261.04 general fund.
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Frank A. Jasper
State Utility Commission
Springfield
E. W
Consumpton
Market Master reports heavy weigh at city market
Thomas Fitzgerald the market master reported 8 918 loads weighed at the city market with receipts totaling 591 80 dollars.
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Thomas Fitzgerald
House of Correction Annual Report Figures Released
The inspection committee report shows 155 confined, with 123 males and 27 females. End-year totals: 19 male and 4 female in prison. Daily average 15, average sentence 52 days, 8,090 total days of sentence, 5,641 days served. Fines $230.35. Demographics record 81 white males, 17 white females, 42 black males, 12 black females, 3 Mexican males. Ages 16 to 80. Public works hauled macadam and related material: dam work 2,098 loads, riprap 6 loads, slabs 30 loads, gutter rock 30 loads, crossing rock 1 load. Macadam on hand 125 loads, riprap 150 loads. Disbursements $7,223.36.
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House of Correction
Board of Public Works
Police Arrest Totals and Finances Reported by Department
The police department reported 849 arrests in the fiscal year led by Chief George Koch and Clerk George Conrad. White males accounted for 689, colored males 1119, white females 62, and colored females 20. City warrants 157, without warrants 624, state warrants 68. Fines and costs 322, executions 147, work-house sentences 137, probation 21, discharged 63, dismissed by attorney 30, venue changes 8, warrants withdrawn 2, state cases 68, appeal 1, continued 4. Days in the work house 6034. Fines 2203.05, executions 262.75, release 371.25 total 2867.05. Beginning balance 3710.80 expended 35036.51 leaving 1174.29 unexpended.
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George Koch
George Conrad
Police Department
Work House
City Trees Report and City Engineer Paving Notes
City Forester Q I Wheeler reports trees in fair condition with counts: 15 dead removed 246 planted 13 partly dead removed 11 partly dead trimmed 11 removed for sidewalk work 2 and 2 hitching to trees reprimands. City Engineer Chatten adds stormwater sewer work: June 28 1916 and May 1 1917 projects on Lind street between Eighth and Tenth Eighth Street from Washington to Jefferson and Washington from Eighth to Ninth paved with concrete. Twelfth Street 1 400 feet south of Harrison.
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Q. I. Wheeler
Chatten
Lind Street
Eighth
Washington
Jefferson
Ninth
Twelfth Street
Harrison
City completes extensive paving and sewer upgrades
Adams county partners on a major civic project outlining brick paving on Fourteenth Street from Broadway to State and along Hampshire and Vine streets. Concrete paving for alleys, extensive sidewalk staking over eight miles, and sanitary sewers built between Mains and Hampshire, Twenty fourth and Twenty sixteenth, and other blocks including Oak Chestnut and Twelfth Fourteenth.
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Adams County
Ourteenth
Broadway
State
Fifteenth
Twenty
Vine
Kentucky
Venffont
Hampshire Street
Vine Street
Mains
Hampshire
Health report shows 1916 city deaths and births
Commissioner W H Gross reports 1916 city mortality at 637 deaths, with 204 births 102 boys and 101 girls. Of deaths 93 occurred at St Marys hospital, 65 at Blessing, 20 at St Vincents home, 1 Woodland home, 2 Anna Brown home, 6 Altenheim. Beginning balance of health budget was 782.43 after expending 6767.57 from 7750 appropriated.
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W. H. Gross
Commissioner of Health
City
St. Mary’s Hospital
Blessing
St. Vincent's Home
Woodland
Anna Brown
Old People’s
Altenheim
Health Department
Police report totals for juvenile control and aid
Mrs. Jessie Caldwell reports counts of actions taken: 315 children sent home after curfew, 129 girls sent home off streets, 75 girls sent home out of parks, 83 girls reported to mothers, 36 girls taken home, 8 lost children restored to parents, 69 mothers reprimanded for neglect, 25 employment secured for girls and women, 15 women ordered out of Washington park, 5 girls placed in detention home, 1 boy placed in detention home, 742 complaints and calls attended to, 1 man arrested.
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Jessie Caldwell
Parks
Washington Park
City Treasury Balances and Yearly Receipts Details
City Comptroller Glindeman reports the general fund balance at 33,341.11 and the water works sinking fund at 455,162.30, with total treasury 498,102.17. Receipts for the year include 243,553.99 in the general fund, 212,812.50 from water works, and 33,169.43 from special assessments, with outstanding warrants totaling 13,700? 418.30. Net warrants paid 9,743.18, leaving May 1, 2017, treasury balance 30,158.43 and last year expenses at 269,290.09.
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Glindeman
General Fund
Special Fund
Water Works
Citizens’ Water Works Company
General Account
Treasury
FRE Chief Appeals For Motor Apparatus Upgrades
Fire Chief Marriott urges the council to approve 2,000 feet of 2.13 inch cotton rubber lined hose, add one firefighter at engine houses Nos. 1,3,4,5,6,7,8, and install a 750 GPM motor pump and hose car at No. 3. He also proposes replacing horses with motorized gear at four houses and placing a motor combination car at No. 4 to improve the horse free district. He outlines receipts, expenditures, and alarm logs for 1916–1917.
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Marriott
Potak
Walenn
Ey CIA
Ig Ag
Abott Reviews Four Years of Quincy City Work
Mayor W. K. Abbott reviews his term before the council highlighting the water works system gas rate and major city improvements. He notes sewer street lighting and safety projects along with the transfer of the water works to the city and key rate reductions.
Photoplays Today in Seven Deadly Sins Series
Princess-Charlotte Walker stars in Sloth the fourth of Seven Deadly Sins in Universal Screen Magazine. Savoy Herbert Rawlinson appears in The Scarlet Crystal. Other offerings include Gems Showing Some Speed Musty Suffer Be Sure You Are Right From Around the World and The Dummy with Belasco Tack Pickford.
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Princess
Charlotte Walker
Universal Screen Magazine
Savoy
Herbert Rawlinson
Family
Gem
Belasco
Tack Pickford
Quincy
Hank Mann
Rustler’s
The Girl From Out Yonder at the Orpheum
The Girl From Out Yonder drew a large audience at the Orpheum theater last night. Tiny Leone starred as the title character with a bewitching performance delivering both tears and smiles. The ensemble, led by Mr. Ross as Edward Elmer and Mr. Bovie, was described as above par throughout the show.
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Great Reef
Orpheum Theater
Orpheum
Tiny Leone
Mr. Ross
Edward Elmer
Mr. Bovie
Williams Stars In Scenic Production At Local Play
Floteam'sa father delivers sharp characterizations while Mr. Williams, the crowd favorite, sings and acts to elicit laughs. The unusual scenic production features a lighted lighthouse as a highlight. A matinee is set for this afternoon with additional shows Wednesday and a final performance Wednesday night.
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Floteam
Mr. Williams
Ministers Hold Discussion on The Faces of Authority
The ministerial association met in the U. M. Cc. A. Monday at 10 30 oclock with Dr L C Mauch of the Fast and Christian church opening followed by Rev Mr Blartley of the Presbyterian church A round table discussion followed in the business session which pro-
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Ministerial Association
L. C. Mauch
Fast and Christian Church
Mr. Blartley
Presbyterian Church
Last Meeting Sets May 21 For Final Session
The group will hold the last session before summer vacation on Monday May 21 and elect officers then. No sessions of the association will occur again until September. A proverb about silence and weather wisdom appears, followed by a saying about the pudding’s proof.
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Association Wit
Three Generations of Women Endorse Lydia E Pinkham’s Compound
The young women their mothers and grandmother attest that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cures female ills and restores health. The medicine, made from medicinal roots and herbs, contains no narcotics or habit forming drugs. If you suffer from female ills, consider a trial.
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Lydia E Pinkham
Ady
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Scentia
Peter E. Pinkelman
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Brown & Mays Drug Store
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City Forester
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Er Cist
City Comptroller
Utilities Commission
City of
Sewer Department
Public Works Department
South Twelfth Street
Greenmount Cemetery
South Park
Jackson
Harrison Streets
Primrose Park
Seventeenth
Spring Streets
Eighteenth Streets
Jefferson Streets
Tenth
Washington Streets
Citizens’s Water Works Company
Emerson
Weilers
Photoplays
Spalding Sporting Goods
North Sixth Avenue
United States
United States Tire Company
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