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Newspaper

Quincy Whig

Location

Quincy, Illinois, United States of America

Date

May 11, 1917

Page

3

Four Hundred T P A Delegates Arrive For Illinois Convention

Four hundred T P A delegates arrive in Quincy with wives and guests to attend the Twenty seventh annual convention of the Illinois Division. The program opens at 3 36 this morning and runs through Saturday. The Chicago delegation leads arrivals, with events at Hotel Quincy and League Park featuring a ball game and theater party, followed by a parade and sessions at the Empire theater.

Chicago Travelers’ Protective Association Quincy Illinois Burlington Edmond Crawford Post A Hotel Quincey League Park Bloomington Quincey Steving Committee Tetel Quincy Ingner Pall Eighth Vermont Streets

Motherhood Woman's Joy in Lydia E Pinkham's Compound

A reader letter from Poplar Bluff Missouri praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for restoring health and enabling a woman to bear a child. The note claims improved health through the remedy and describes the mother now caring for a baby girl, urging others to seek confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co.

Lydia E. Pinkham Poplar Bluff Lydia i. Pinkham Lydia FE

In Memoriam Delegates Recess For Late State Session

Delegates of the Trav eners Protective association meet in session in the city. The group will recess Saturday in memory of State Secretary W W Welch who died recently in Peoria. Military and local community notes follow including obituaries and transfers among cottages. Port Riley training for a commissioned officer is described.

Traveners’ Protective Association Thes City Ome Ptate W. W. Welch Peoria TL RP. A Harmony Wilson Fisher 103Rd Illinois Infantry Canton Ill Hague Farmington Samuel Berry William F. Tatty Abingdon Thomas Jones Cottage Henderson Gash Elizabeth Farnsworth Roy Martin Quincy Christie Kilburn Long Commission Company West Port Riley Kansas Tie Martin Fuller Airs. Pennington Caraden Juhtson

Memorial Services at Soldiers and Sailors Home

The Soldiers and Sailors Home holds a memorial sermon by Rev GL Losh of Grace Methodist at 2 pm Sunday May 27. A ritual burial service for the dead is planned for Wednesday May 30 at 9 am with Col Shepherd post G A R and Relief Corps marching to the cemetery. An afternoon service at 2 pm in Lippincott Hall will feature the memorial address by Judge Francis M Shenkwiler and music and prayers.

GL. Losh Grace Methodist Church Shepherd Post Lippincott Hall Judes Francis M. Shenkwiler Miu Sie Gem City

Local Notices and Social Briefs from Quincy Area

Dr H F Lafler offers chiropractic treatments at 211 2nd St Illinois State Bank building. Miss Mildred Timmerwilke, daughter of George Timmerwilke, graduates Gem City Business College and joins United Cereal Mills. Community notices include visits by Snyder's Taxi and various residents in Quincy Thursday. Woodland Cemetery association to meet May 11 at 3:50 in State Savings room. Local visits by A H Church Mendon John H Wheelock Hull. Mathers club of South Side mission rehearses Moving Day tonight. St Paul Evangelical aid society held monthly coffee with lilac decor. Edward J Miller Jr quarantined for infantile paralysis. operated on at home for abscess, recovering well.

H. F. Lafler State. Bank Dpildg Mildred Timmerwilke George Timmerwilke Gem City Business College United Cereal Mills Snyder’s Taxi S. F. Chittenden Mendon Quincy C. F. Stecher Aid Society of the St. Paul

Matrimony Sermon at St Rose's Declares Marriage Sacred

Rev Ignatius Conroy spoke to a large crowd at St Rose's church on Matrimony, calling it a divine institution sacred in God's sight. He praised the Catholic church for shaping moral society through penance and matrimony, condemned divorce and race death by own action, and discussed mixed marriages to preserve faith. Knowledge is a power only so far as is practiced.

St. Rose Church Father Conroy Ignatius Conroy St. Rose's Church Church Catholi Church Father Cenrey

Funeral for Mrs Helen Bristol Saturday in Quincy

The remains of Mrs Helen F Bristol arrived from Hinsdale with her son M B Waltz. Funeral services are set for 3 PM Saturday at the Vermont Street Methodist Church in Quincy.

Helen F. Bristol Quincy Hinsdale M. B. Waltz Vermont Street

Reverend Lyman Greenman Speaks at Washington School

Rev Lyman Greenman will address pupils and the public at Washington School this evening on Syria The Laird and Its People. An invitation is extended to all who wish to hear the lecture.

Lyman Greenman Washington School Syria Laird

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