River Flood Recedes Reassuring Farmers Amid Levee Damages
The Mississippi water level dropped to 17.9 feet by Wednesday after peaking at 18.6. Farmers report marooned stock fed and increased safety, while 30,000 acres across Fabius Gregory and South Quin cy districts flood area. Rail traffic resumes. railroad tracks to be reballasted as waters recede. Oliver Hedrick confirms his Cottonwood island home remains dry.
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Mississippi
Greaer
Fabius
Gregory
South Quincy
Quincy
Easil
Theater
Quincy Power Boat Club
Broadway
Somers Landing
Oliver Hedrick
Cottonwood Island
Hedrick
Quincy’s Pulse Dancing Party at Arcade Hall
East Broadway hosts a season finale dancing party at the Arcade hall Friday night with invitations issued two weeks prior. Also note Twenty noncommissioned officers of Company F reduced to privates for missing the annual hike and war game. An Armory exam tonight under Capt. Wingerter precedes other community notices.
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Arcade Hall
East Broadway
Shumate
Meador
Wingerter
Elks Clear Good Sum On Carnival
Elks club reports a neat sum raised by the Allen carnival for a new building. Exact amount unreported due to tickets yet to be reported to the secretary and treasurer. The meeting was well attended and members discussed plans for the new home to be started this summer.
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Elks Elit
Allen Carnival
Jackson School 10 Serve Big Supper in May Fund Drive
In Quincy schools the Jackson school Parent Teachers association met to plan a May 26 event. Mothers will serve a supper from 5 to 7 for 300 people, followed by an outdoor gymnastic demonstration by all grades. Proceeds will fund a school piano. Event chairs are Mrs. Crafton Herman and Mrs. Fry White.
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J. H. Crafton
George Herman
Harvey Fry
Clara White
May Run Special Train for Knights in Hannibal
The Quincy commandery plans a special train to Hannibal for the Grand Commandery Knights of Temp lar of Missouri conclave on May 23. About 80 local knights and their wives may ride the Wabash train leaving at 8:30 am to reach Mound City in time for the all-day session. Commander J E Caldwell coordinates the arrangements with a decision expected that day.
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Quincy
Grand Commandery
Knights of Templar of Missouri
Hannibal
J. E. Caldwell
Quincy Commandery
Quincy Knights
Mound City
Board to Consider Pensions for Blind in Adams County
Friends of blind residents in Adams County look to the board of supervisors in June to decide on pensions for the blind under a 1903 Illinois law. Attorney Henry Schmiedeskamp pushes for enforcing the act providing quarterly $150 benefits from county funds to eligible blind residents.
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Quincey
Adams County
Board of Supervisors
Henry Schmiedeskamp
Illinois General Assembly
Rose Croix elects officers for year
The Quincy Rose Croix chapter at the Masonic temple elected and appointed officers for the ensuing year. Officers include Master James Edwin Blackburn Senior warden Thomas A Brown Junior warden J A S Ehart Orator C Lawrence Wells Treasurer Samuel W Eldred Secretary E S Mulliner Master of ceremonies W R Stanbury Hospitaler C D Cole Guard W A Hendley Tyler G O Thompson. Moonlight Hike a success for Y M C A older boys with about Mi attendees hiking Indian Mound park returning by 10 PM.
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Quincy
Rose Croix
Masonic Temple
James Edwin Blackburn
Thomas A. Brown
J. A. S. Ehart
C. Lawrence Wells
Samuel W. Eldred
E. S. Mulliner
W. R. Stanbury
C. D. Cole
W. A. Hendley
Tyler
G. O. Thompson
Adams School 10 Fathers Day Program and Sale Notice
Annual Fathers Day observance Friday evening at Adams School features a school program with songs by grades three and four folk dances by grade two dramatization of Hans and Gretchen third grade folk dance by grades four and five songs by grades one and two field day exercises and an after program ice cream coffee sandwiches cones popcorn and soda sale proceeds fund the Mothers' club treasury. Madison School will hold its regular Friday meeting with Eva Frields of Chaddock Boys' School expected to speak but unable to attend.
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Adams School
Hans
Gretchen
Mothers’ Club
Madison School
Parent-Teachers' Association of
Eva Frields
The
Chaddock Boys’ School
Annual election of officers to be held at meeting
Fragmentary line notes that no replacement chosen yet and that the annual election of officers will occur at the upcoming meeting detailing no candidate chosen to date.
Arbor Day Observance in Irving School Friday
Arbor day exercises will be held at Irving school Friday afternoon with a march at 2 o'clock. Children will plant a tree as part of a program that follows the usual May-time school activities. The public is invited to attend.
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Irving School
Berrian Program Friday At School Event
Berrian school to present a Friday program with an apron sale and ice cream social under the Mother's club. Teachers oversee the program with entries from first through eighth grades including singing games festival dance recitations and a spring awakening playlet featuring pupils Lena Vinsent Marie Weber and others.
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Berrian School
Marie Weber
Lena Vinsent
Eight grade chorus and younger students event
The eighth grade program begins at 7 30 with chorus from fifth and sixth grade pupils to follow, then the apron sale and social.
Dewey School Plans May Party With Uncertain Details
Dewey school schedules a May party for May 26 but plans remain indefinite with few concrete arrangements.
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Dewey
Amusements Today Ad Highlights The Fatal Wedding
Orpheum and Bijou programs feature star names Clara Kimball Young and Mabel Taliaferro in new attractions. Pictures, captions, and serials mix with acts like The Lig Bearer and Susie the Clean.
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Clara Kimball Young
Orpheum Sets Stage For The Fatal Wedding Dramatic Run
The Country Boy bid farewell to Orpheum patrons on Wednesday night. Tonight The Fatal Wedding debuts a mammoth production with an enlarged cast and elaborate stage settings, culminating in a dramatic church wedding scene that proves fatal.
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Orpheum Theater
The Fatal Wedding on Four-Day Run Promises Stage Drama
A melodramatic program features Ethel Romaine and John winapeat in a life sorrow theme with comedy as Toto and Jessie in the play. The Fatal Wedding runs four days with a matinee on Saturday and Sunday, promising memorable performances.
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Bill
Ethel Romaine
Mr. John
Winapeat
Toto
Ethelyn Lewi Guiney
Jessie
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