Pierson Retained as Secretary Business Manager
Truman T. Pierson was reelected secretary and business manager of the Chamber of Commerce for one year. Directors will meet weekly and hold a weekly luncheon at various locations. The first regular membership luncheon is planned for Thursday May 16 with Mr. Fagan as speaker. A committee will arrange the dinner and delegates will attend the Mississippi Valley Waterways convention in St. Louis May 14 and 15. The Memorial Day observance will include Chamber participation. A committee will file articles of incorporation and review by-laws at the next meeting while a finance committee is named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman T. Pierson
Chamber of Commerce
Pierson
Fagan
W. H. Bennett
Bishop Fawcett
R. E. Hackman
Mississippi Valley Waterways Association
Chamber
St. Louis
Memorial Association
Geo. D. Levi
John B. Carroll
Duker
George Binkert
Jack and Jill comedy at St Boniface hall
Fine three act entertainment by St Boniface Young Ladies sodality led by Miss Alvina Fox as Joyce Dyne and Miss Helen Moenning as Jill. Over 200 attendees enjoyed the plot where Jill returns after ten years to her parents via a gypsy. Cast featured Marie Jansen Freiburg Hartman Ehrhardt Jansen Winking Heideman Loebbing Benning Schroeder Steinkamp Lohansing Entrup Whollmeyer Coletta Meyer Musholt Schwartee Seifert Steinkamp Terliesner Thieman Wansing Wiskirchen Jansen Johannes Rakera Terwische Wachtel Wavering Wilde Winking Wiskiechen. Music by Young Ladies orchestra with solos by Dorothy Rehm and Bessie Dean. May Pole and Rose Drills followed by extensive drill participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Jill
St. Boniface
Alvina Fox
Joyce Dynecourt
Helen Moenning
Marie Jansen
Margaret Freiburg
Agnes Hartman
Catherine Ehrhardt
Magdalene Jansen
Gertrude Winking
Augusta Heideman
Edith Loebbing
Helen Benning
Elzabeth Schroeder
Edith Sibbing
Adelaide Maeehienfeld
Regina Weisenhorn
Young Ladies’ Orchestra
Dorothy Rehm
Bessie Dean
Elizabeth Entrup
Edith Whollmeyer Coletta Meyer
Margaret Musholt
Helen Schwartee
Mary Seifert
Anna Steinkamp
Edith Terliesner
Bertha Terliesner
Estelle Thieman
Alma Wansing
Elsie Wiskirchen
Gill Attends Meeting of Superintendents
Charles M. Gill superintendent of schools returned from Macomb Friday after attending a meeting of the school superintendents and principals of the military tract. Gill delivered an address on the Effects of the War on Schools before the convention in Macomb Thursday night. The meeting was interesting though attendance was not large.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles M. Gill
Macomb
Gill
T. P. A's Off for State Meeting in Champaign Today
More than 30 members of Post A. T. P. A. depart at 5 o'clock for Champaign to attend the Illinois Travelers' Protective Association annual convention. The group will join a parade, wear top hats and frock coats, and back Emil Leipold for state director. After adjournment, Morest and Hackman will visit the Great Lakes training station in Chicago before returning to Quincy Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post A. T. P. A
Champaign
Illinois Travelers’ Protective Association
C. A. E. Koch
L. A. Morest
W. H. Smith
R. E. Hackman
Quincy
Emil Leipold
Morest
Hackman
Chicago
Great Lakes
Quincy Boy Enlists in United States Tank Service
Charles W. Miller of North Eighth Street, employee at Reid Automobile Accessories, becomes the first Quincy youth accepted into the U S tank service after passing exams. He will report to Jefferson Barracks soon and then train with the 6604th engineers in Vancouver, Washington, before heading to France via the Panama Canal. Capt. Harry Mitchell noted urgent need for tank service recruits during his inspection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Miller
North Eighth Street
Reid Automobile Accessory Company
Quincy
United States Tank Service
Langsford
Miller
Jefferson Barracks
Harry Mitchell
Peoria
Vancouver
Wash
France
Panama Canal
Potter son earns marine corps lieutenant commission
Mr and Mrs John Potter of 1 39 Broadway announce their son Harold Potter has received a commission as lieutenant after nine years in the marine corps. He has served abroad including a period stationed in the Philippines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Potter
Broadway
Harold Potter
Marine Corps
Philippines
First Illinois volunteer unit to join state militia
Andrew Musholt, instructor at St. Francis parochial school, is the first to enroll in the Great Lakes naval training station officer program from Quincy and will enter the summer school starting in June. The First regiment of Illinois volunteer training corps will be mustered into the state reserve militia next week, per Adjutant General Dickson. The regiment will form a headquarters company and a supply company after muster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Musholt
St. Francis
Great Lakes
Quincy
Illinois Volunteer Training Corps
Dickson
Enright Returns Home Before Naval Training Call
Francis Enright, a Quincy High School graduate now at the University of Illinois, visits his parents at 323 South Sixteenth Street while awaiting orders to report to a naval auxiliary training school in Detroit, following his enlistment last Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Enright
Quincy
Illinois University
M. W. Enright
South Sixteenth Street
Naval Auxiliary
Detroit
Soldier stationed in Brooklyn writes to Quincy friends
Miss Leona Fisher of 720 North Twentieth Street receives a letter from Charles Mathews reporting he is now stationed in an army camp in Brooklyn New York. He says he likes army life and asks to hear from his Quincy friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leona Fisher
North Twentieth Street
Charles Mathews
Brooklyn
N. Y
Quincy
Victor D. Winters Assigned at Wilbur Wright Field
Victor D. Winters is posted to the Wilbur Wright flying field near Dayton Ohio after successfully completing a ground school course at Cornell University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor D. Winters
Wilbur Wright
Dayton
Cornell University
Training News From Fort Morgan Sees Warm Weather
Carl Witt and Edward Blivens write from Fort Morgan Alabama that the weather grows warmer and the boys train harder, signaling preparation and increasing intensity for upcoming duties or events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Witt
Edward Blivens
Fort Morgan
Ala
Quincy
Local youths enlist in navy at recruiting station
Six men enlist in the navy and depart for Peoria this morning. Roy E. Anderson of Kirksville Missouri becomes yeoman. Richard O. Rhea of Camp Point serves wireless. George E. Ward of Camp Point trains as radio electrician. Oba O. Angel of Canton Missouri begins as hospital apprentice. Hershel B. Coller of Epworth Missouri serves wireless. Carl Louis Abbott of 1604 Jefferson Street becomes radio electrician.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Peoria
Roy E. Anderson
Kirksville
Yeoman
Richard O. Rhea
Camp Point
George E. Ward
Oba O. Angel
Canton
Hershel B. Coller
Epworth
Carl Louis Abbott
Jefferson Street
Soldier dies in gravel slide at Kelly Field
Private Lille M. Dodge of Kelly Field was crushed to death in a slide of earth and rock at the field gravel pit near San Antonio Texas. Two other soldiers were slightly hurt. Dodge's home is in Brule Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Texas
Lille M. Dodge
Kelly Field
Dodge
Brule
Wisconsin
Promoted Officer Linked to 63rd Division Train Command
Lieutenant Colonel C D Center of this city, now in France on special duty, is to be advanced to colonel and command a regiment in the 63rd division. Dispatches indicate Gen Bell plans Center to command the 130th infantry, with Col Fischer moving to command the 108th ammunition train and Col Cninin taking charge of all ammunition trains. Center, a leading Quincyan physician, has long served in military affairs since his youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. D. Center
France
63Rd
Camp Logan
Ol. Center
Bell
Walter J. Fischer
Chicago
Milton Foreman
Clinnin
Col. Center
Fifth Illinois Infantry
Col. Clinnin
130Th Infantry
Quincy
F. S. Wood
Old Fifth
H. R. Hill
Severe storm wrecks Bluffs Morgan county area
May 10 two women, Mrs. Ben Burch and Miss Bessie Hart, died when a chimney toppled on their Franklin home as high winds struck the vicinity. Eight year old Howard Nunes drowned at the south side pumping station after the storm flooded land. Heavy property damage reported across Morgan county and nearby Scott county where hail accompanied the storm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Ben’ Burch
Bessie Hart
Franklin
Howard Nunes
Emanuel Nunes
South Side
Funeral for Samuel Johnson in Camp Point Church
The funeral for Samuel Johnson who died at the state hospital in Jacksonville will be held this afternoon at 2:30 from the Christian church in Camp Point with burial in Camp Point cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Johnson
State Hospital
Jacksonville
Christian Church
Camp Point
Funeral services for Mrs Amelia Lippe this afternoon
Funeral services for Mrs Amelia I Lippe will be held this afternoon at 2 30 o clock from the residence 1531 Ohio street Burial will be in Greenmount cemetery Friends are invited to attend
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amelia F. Lippe
Amelia I. Lippe
Ohio Street
Greenmount Cemetery
Infant Mexime Payton Dies After Pneumonia
Infant Mexime Payton daughter of Mr and Mrs John Payton living at 918 Adams street died Thursday night at 9 45 o clock after a brief illness pneumonia. Survived by parents a brother Jack a sister Elsie maternal grandparents Frank Stoops Busch Mo paternal grandmother Emma Payton Hannibal. Funeral from the family home Sunday at 2 pm interment Greenmount cemetery friends invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexime Payton
John Payton
Adams Street
Jack
Elsie
Frank Stoops
Busch, Mo
Emma Payton
Hannibal
Greenmount Cemetery
Lee family funeral and fundraising whist for soldiers
S J Lee of Bristol Indiana died at 83 5 of old age. S J Lee leaves wife two daughters Jennie Drain of Ligonier and Mrs Henry Sanger of Bristol. Quincy Loan Co manager C Lee returned from Bristol to attend. a whist party and evening dance planned for May 21 to raise a company fund for soldiers headed to France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Lee
Quincy Loan Company
Bristol
Indiana
S. J. Lee
Lee
Jennie S. Drain
Ligonier
Ind
Henry G. Sanger
Quincy
North Twelfth Street
France
Knights of Columbus
Singing Army Slogan Drives YMCA War Work Plan
The YMCA adopts a singing army slogan to lift soldier morale in camps. Major General Bell calls a singing army a winning army and 38 top song leaders are at work in US cantonments organizing soldiers by company and barracks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Central Department
National War Work Council
Franklin J. Bell
Army
Marshall M. Bartholomew
Germany
Japan
Shermans Bound Over for Murder in Columbus Township
George Sherman and his son George Jr face murder charges after a preliminary hearing recounts Coroner's inquiry evidence. The 14 year old was bound to the grand jury without bond. his father’s bond set at 5000 dollars. The boy admitted striking Dr. Henry D Siegfried during a struggle over the doctor’s farm vacation. Cases to be called in May term. Wolfe and Wagner for defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Sherman
George, Jr
Henry D. Siegfried
Columbus Township
Siegfried
Sherman
Wolfe
Wagner
Sherman Sr
Enlistment Shortfall in Central Illinois District
A Peoria recruiting letter reports central Illinois districts show the lowest navy enlistments last month with only 26 in this district. Omaha and Des Moines posted 86 and 103 respectively, while the navy seeks 150 men this week and 500 for May. Ensign Ridgely of Peoria requests citizen help to boost numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Middle West
Omaha
Des Moines
Illinois
Ensign Ridgely
Peoria
Col Wood May Be Reinstated In Army
Houston papers claim Col Frank Wood who was honorably discharged last month will be reinstated He has just returned from Quincy and says he has no information validating the rumor and cannot confirm it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Texas
Frank Wood
Col. Wood
Quincy
Marriage Licenses Listed for Four Couples in Missouri and Illinois
Stephen Williams at Soldiers' Home and Mrs Emaline Morgan of Quincy are issued licenses. D P Ellis of Bevier Missouri and Miss Veronica Formento of Keota Missouri also listed for marriage licenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen Williams
Legal
Soldiers’ Home
Emaline Morgan
Quincy
D. P. Ellis
Bevier
Veronica
Formento
Keota
Ask The Whig By Telephone Then Read The Answer Next Day
Readers can call in questions to the Whig during the day and late night hours and find the printed replies in the next morning edition. The feature invites public inquiries across topics, promising prompt responses in the newspaper.
Grandstand collapse during 1888 fall celebration on Twentieth Street
On the evening of October 10 1888 a grandstand on the vacant lot between Twentieth and Twenty second streets and Broadway and Hampshire streets collapsed during a municipal fireworks display. About 4000 spectators were present. several were injured but no fatalities occurred. The stand was built on the slope to the north near where Vermont street lies today. The spectacle rumored as The Fall of Pompeii occurred the following year in 1889 without a marring incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twentieth Street
Twentieth
Twenty-second Streets
Broadway
Hampshire Streets
Vermont Street
Pompeii
Big send off for drafted men from Quincy and Adams county
A parade led by police and the Illinois State band will honor 26 men from Quincy and 17 from Adams county bound for Jefferson Barracks. The march starts 9 45 am from the post office, follows Hampshire Street to Park and Fourth or Fifth to Oak, then to Burlington station. Cadets, inducted men, Boy Scouts and civic groups will join. George B. Cawthorne of the Y M C A will accompany the party to St Louis. County board notes extensive draft appeals especially from married men placed in class 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois State Band
Quincy
Adams County
Jefferson Barracks
Burlington Station
Hampshire Street
Park
Fourth
Fifth Street
Oak
Rotary Club
Bender of Commerce
Felows
Illinois State
Chaddock Boys School
Boy Scouts
George B. Cawthorne
St. Louis
Springfield
National Army
Board
Council Set To Review Budget At Saturday Meeting
The city council will hold a committee of the whole Saturday evening to review an appropriation budget that is nearly completed. If acceptable the ordinance goes to the council for adoption next Monday night. Significant excess appropriations have been cut but further reductions are needed across funds.
Carthage Hit by Severe Hail Storm Damage Reels City
May 10 Carthage endured a fierce hail storm that struck at 11 30 pm then at 2 am, damaging crops and breaking hundreds of windows. Hawker Crumgreen and Hartman studio suffered heavy glass losses. drugstores ran out of glass. Farmers delay planting corn as heat invites another visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carthage
Hartman
Crum Green House
Autos Promised For Red Cross Speakers
Attorney George H. Wilson, chair man, and a number of members of the speaking corps met in the Chamber of Commerce Thursday night and discussed methods of transporting the speakers to meeting places in the township in the Red Cross speaking campaign. A number of Red Cross workers attended this meeting and sufficient automobiles were promised to insure a conveyance for each speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George H. Wilson
Chamber of Commerce
Red Cross
Births and newborn sons listed in local notices
Mr and Mrs Walter H Degitz of 1030 Payson avenue welcome a son. Mr and Mrs William J Landwehr of 1217 South Twelfth street welcome a son. Mr and Mrs Hayden Yeargens of 824 1 2 Maine street welcome a son. Mr and Mrs Joseph Schoonover of 1617 North Second street welcome a son. Mr and Mrs Archie Schelp of 1026 Payson avenue welcome a son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter H. Degitz
Payson Avenue
William J. Landwehr
South Twelfth Street
Hayden Yeargens
Maine Street
Joseph Schoonover
North Second Street
Archie Schelp
For Trade Property In A Railroad Town In Illinois
Trade notice offers a ten room two story house with fruit trees concrete walks a good barn two cisterns on two 80 by 160 foot lots. Seller seeks Quincy property in a small railroad town on the Wabash line about 40 miles from Quincy Illinois. Well maintained and freshly painted. See Company E Delaplain rooms 89 Stern Building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Wabash
Illinois
E. Delaplain
Ooms
Stern
Instructions for Registration of German Women
Preliminary instructions for registering German women fourteen years old or older are issued with Marshal V Y Dallman directing. Police Clerk R S Benedict will supervise registration. Adams county registries outside Quincy handled by postmasters. Registrants urged to monitor newspapers for further orders as districts cover 25 counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.S. Benedict
United States
V. Y. Dallman
Quincy
Daily Press
Marshal Dallman
Adams County
Red Cross Shops Report Large Output From City and County
The hospital supply committee led by Mrs. Joel Benton reports 544 workshop pieces locally and 688 county items outside Quincy. City totals include 54 bed shirts 115 pajamas 29 bath robes 103 underwear 14 socks and 215 bedding pieces with county contributions from many towns and schools. A total of 215 garments and 3 complete layettes were turned in for refugee work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hospital Supply Committee of
Red Cross
Joel Benton
Quincy
Antioch
Burton
Bluff Hall
Camp Point
Columbus
Clayton
Ellington
Loraine
Lima
Liberty
Mendon
Marcelline
Melrose
Pajoma
Pavson
Plainville
Ursa
Payson
Madison
C. W. Breitstadt
Unitarian Church
Ida Schwenke
Tatum
Engaged 8 Years Sues For 50000 Breach of Promise
Ella B. McCutcheon of near Gregory Missouri files in Hannibal federal court a 50000 breach of promise suit against Robert M. Boulware. The petition says he promised to marry on October 8 1910 and was to wed within a reasonable time, but has not kept the agreement. Boulware resides in Oklahoma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gregory, Mo
Ella_ B. McCutcheon
Gregory
United States Court
Hannibal
Robert M. Boulware
United States District Court
Boulware
Oklahoma
Calvary Cemetery Association Elects Officers
The twelfth annual meeting elected Rev. Joseph Postner as President Rev. Didacus Gruen holz as Vice President William Middendorf as Secretary and John T. Hummert as Treasurer Trustees named were John H. Geers and Louis J. Freese. Cash funds total 2,463.17 in maintenance and 169.79 in general. Seventy burials occurred this year totaling 220 for the cemetery with eight child interments last year. Plans include oiling Eighteenth Street north from Locust to the cemetery and constructing a chapel shelter house vault crucifixion group fences and improved roads and paths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calvary Cemetery Association
Joseph Postner
Didacus Gruenholz
William Middendorf
John T. Hummert
John H. Geers
Louis J. Freese
Locust Street
Clayton Vicinity Visited By Storm
May 10 Clayton area suffered a severe wind and rain storm destroying two barns belonging to Ray Adair and George Rosson, tearing off Lew Shank’s garage roof, and removing part of the Methodist parsonage roof. A hotel in Golden lost windows and other damage occurred locally. Hundreds of chickens drowned due to the heavy rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clayton
Ray
Adair
George Rosson
Lew Shank
Bankers In Hot Springs Begin Spring Conference
In Hot Springs Arkansas on May 10 about 250 members of the executive committees of the American Bankers association gathered to arrange reports to be presented to the executive committee. The convention will continue through today and include discussions of association business and reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bankers In
Hot Springs
Ark
The
American Bankers’ Association
Harry Sweet Denies He Is a Drunkard in Divorce Suit
In circuit court Harry Sweet denied being a drunkard as his wife Cornelia testifies to heavy whiskey use. The divorce hearing, started Thursday, seeks reimbursement of about 9000 of her 12000 from oil stock losses and housing costs. Mother of the defendant defends him, while John Wall and George Govert represent the parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Sweet
Cornelia Sweet
Miss Kreitz
John Wall
George Govert
Large Plate Glass Installed At Halbach Schroeder Store
Large plate glass panes, touted as the biggest outside Chicago, are being set in the new Halbach Schroeder store front show windows. Some panes measure 19 12 feet long and eight feet nine inches wide. Missouri couple wed here. Justice of the Peace E J Bonney unites D P Ellis of Bevier and Miss Veronica Sr Formento of Keota. The couple returns to Bevier to reside. Sheriff takes girl to school. Fern Woelfel sent to state training school in Geneva after trip to Chicago. Wife causes arrest. Fred Reinert charged with assaulting wife. case continued to May 14. Lineman Humphreys, who fell 15 feet from a pole, improves with head wound and bruises. Lack of equipment halts Front street line schedule. new motors expected to restore service as franchise dictates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halbach-Schroeder
Chicago
Missouri
Justice of the Peace
E. J. Bonney
D. P. Ellis
Bevier, Mo
Veronica Sr. Formento
Keota
Bevier
Fred Reinert
South Fourth Street
Reinert
Weather Outlook for Illinois Missouri and Iowa
Illinois clears and turns much cooler Friday with showers near Lake Michigan. Saturday mostly fair and cool. Missouri sees generally fair weather Friday and Saturday with a sharp cool down Friday. Iowa expects fair weather Friday with much cooler conditions east and south, Saturday fair and somewhat warmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Lake Michigan
Missouri
Towa
River Stage and Flood Bulletin Show Varied Yesterday
Local river bulletin lists stage readings at Davenport Hannibal and Louisiana with heights around 7 to 12 feet. Forecast notes river will rise or fall depending on rainfall, warning of potential flood changes through the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wenaseen
Senate Aeevereg
Gee Davenport
Hannibal
Louisiana
Louis
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SECY
Abe Martin
Tell Binkley
Farmers Country
Jakes
Wile
Bluffs
Tlinois
Pather
John Coens
Fern Woelfel
Geneva
Thomas Humphreys
Knollenberg Milling Company
Eighth
York Streets
W. A. Martin
John A. Thompson
Front Street
New Motors
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