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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1916
Page
8
Flood waters surge through Quincy area as the Mississippi River hits historic highs. Levees along the Illinois side buckle while workers rush sandbag fortifications. Cattle and poultry losses mount as farmers rescue stock. trains slow and cautions rise amid uprooted lights and swamped riverfront.
Local items list hospital recovery for Miss Helen Hentz and visits by residents including Edna Ryan planning a San Francisco trip Mrs Amelia Sassenberg visiting Denver and cousin in city. Hats sales at Davidson Millinery with several names and travel notes across St Louis Chicago Fresno and Arkansas City connected residents.
Police raided 624 Walnut alley and arrested Minnie Payne and Leonard Lannon, a couple held on vagrancy charges. They allegedly ran the badger game, luring white men with an seduction ruse where the man posed as an injured husband to extort money, with at least one victim losing $20. The pair, in city for eight months, are described as undesirable and drug addicts.
A wounded nation faces rapid change and partisan strain as the speaker, a leader in Washington, reflects on how officials grow or swell in power. He stresses the need for balance, discipline, and disinterested service, insisting America must act in world terms and seek peace while retaining moral influence. He warns against uninformed micromanagement and urges reliance on informed statecraft.
County officers from Payson Loraine Fowler and Quincy attend a convention school of instruction led by president Mrs Elmer Lummis with Mrs Hazy Edwards as vice president recording secretary Mrs BE Randell and treasurer Miss Flora Baker. Devotionals and president's year in review open the morning with a noon luncheon followed by discussions on pure food women suffrage and state laws.
The high school team will play Mendon High school this afternoon at Baldwin Park. The game was rained out last Saturday. Local players seek revenge for a prior defeat, promising an exciting matchup.
Rev Joseph Sawyer of Ellington traveled to Quincy with his wife en route to Hamilton for a Rushville Presbytery special session to install a pastor at Bethel Presbyterian Church. Mrs Sawyer proceeds to Louisville to visit relatives.
A brief birth notice reports the arrival of a child to Mr and Mrs Hears Whit tes af dington a som. The scant readable text confirms a newborn within a family but specific details remain unclear due to damaged OCR.
An old advertisement praises Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey as a cough syrup that blends honey pine tar and glycerine with other remedies. It claims it stops coughs, soothes the throat, and is suitable for all ages, urging insistence on the product at two cents from druggists.
Seven boys named Richard Asav Easton, Edgar Erwin Lebanon, Earl Fisher Miles City Montana, Edwin Pitch Greenville, Edwin Reed Green Ridge Illinois, Clyde Whitaker Peoria, Otto Wilts Waterloo Iowa will graduate. Commencement begins 2:30 PM June 7 with Prof. A W Nolan delivering the address. Baccalaureate sermon June 4 at Vermont Street Methodist by Rev. Merle N English. No class day exercises this year. Musical program planned. no honors awarded.
An ad for Weltin Shoe Store misprints prices and address. It lists shoes at 3.50 4.00 4.50 and 3.00 while the correct store name is Weltin Shoe Store. The address should read 104 N Fifth Street rather than LOL N Sixth.
La Belle residents hosted visitors from Newton, Canton, and Knox City while others traveled to Columbia and Edina for high school exercises and Yeomen work. Notable mentions include Rev. and Mrs. Jones attending estate matters in La Belle, Miss Arvilla Collins retiring from a millinery post in Shelbina, and the baccalaureate service at Christian Church followed by eighth grade exercises. The community also gathered for missionary society meetings and local visits to relatives in Lewistown Maywood and Pomeroy Washington.
The senior class of the high school announced the cast for Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines a modern three act comedy to be staged in June. Students auditioned Monday night before English judges with the final list released Tuesday naming Austin Terwische as Captain Jinks and Mildred Knapheide as Jinks’s wife among a large ensemble of roles and dancers.
Reverend A LeGrand pastor of Vermont Street Methodist leaves Quincy to attend the Northern Baptist Convention in Minneapolis from May 16 to 24. He is the lone delegate from Quincy.
In Muscatine Iowa on May 17 amid Mississippi River floods a crew of river men drag the river bed opposite the city seeking the body of Harry Rogers an engineer at the Drury township pumping plant who drowned when the launch carrying his family to safety capsized in midstream The Rogers family had been living in a barn hayloft since the levee break Mrs Rogers saved their four year old child and was later found near willows
Stillwell Illinois reports heavy weekend rain delays farming and late corn planting. The estate of late Jas Cox sold for 400 dollars to John Nelson. Eva Cox heads to California to live with an aunt. Olen Emery digs a deep well for Frank Carr. Harve Tanner buys a Ford from Zinn and Mensendick. Harvey Crear and H I Lunt attend Overland banquet and lecture in Quincy. Dorothy Hapson and Adelia George to teach next year. Principalship offered to a Monmouth graduate. Alvin Carr and wife depart for Forbes North Dakota for summer. Carmen Hopson returns home from Quincy cars. James Logan back in town repairing watches and clocks.
The Orpheum offers The Country Boy with Pictures Family presents Saved by Wireless and The Prisoner at the Bar. Bijou shows Number 13 Westbound and Their Vacation. Quincey presents The Man Who Called After Dark and Tusks. Star screens Hero Submarine D-2. Gem shows A Bathhouse Blunder. Savoy Alas closed for repairs. Belasco offers The Serpent featuring Theda Bara.
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