Board Approves $115000 Irving School Plan
Irving School board approved plans for a new 10 room school costing 115000 with ventilation study left for Rockford visit. C M Gill and Clyde Sears were re employed with raised salaries, Joel Smith also increased. Plans mirror Dewey and Jefferson designs with 119 by 82 foot footprint, auditorium, gym, science and domestic rooms, to start August.
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Irving
Board of Education
Acm Gill
Clyde Sears
Rockford
C. M. Gill
Clyde L. Sears
Joel Smith
C. M. Gillemme
Quincy
St. Louis
Harrie Teachers’ College
Teacher's College
Ilinois
C. L. Sears
Gem City Business College
National Associations of Business Officials of Public Schools
Iincis State School Board Association
Alma Swope
Effie Stolze
Miss Swope
Miss Stolze
Gill
Wellemeyer
Miss Snape
Mr. Smith
Dr. Germann
D. L. Musselman
Sunday Newspapers Under Assembly Man Condemned
In St Louis on May 20 the 131st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church adopted resolutions endorsing President Wilson A league of nations and condemning Sunday newspapers. They petitioned the Senate to ratify the covenant and urged members to avoid subscribing reading or advertising in Sunday papers. Dr John A McCollum criticized the motion saying the church should seek sincerity while noting many officials read Sunday papers. Other resolutions denounced Sunday games travel and entertainment.
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ST. Louis
League of Nations
131St General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
U.S. A
Wilson
Senate
John A. McCollum
Philadelphia
Ford Libel Trial Hearings Focus on Evidence Scope
In Mount Clemens Michigan on May 20 the Ford libel suit against the Chicago Tribune resumed after a court-ordered pause. Weymouth Kirkland continued the Tribune’s opening statement arguing the case raises a public moral issue of pacifism versus preparedness. Horace K. Tenney rebutted, while Alfred Lucking contended Ford’s public figure status due to advertising, interviews and wealth.
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Mount Clemens
Mich
Henry Ford
Chicago Tribune
Tucker
Weymouth Kirkland
The
Tribune
Detroit
Horace K. Tenney
Chicago
Tribune Forces
Alfred Lucking
Ford
Tenny
Personal notices from Quincy area society pages
Eye Ear Nose and Throat doctor visits and hospital notes populate a long list of local residents. Charles Seifert of United Cigar Stores improves at home after illness. Carl Steinwedell and several others report health progress or hospital stays. Decorations, excursions, and local talks fill the scene alongside travel to Chicago and distant acknowledgments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. F. Stannus
Hampshire Street
Charles Seifert
United Cigar Stores
Eagles Hall
Carl Steinwedell
Green Mount Cemetery
Robert Bacon
Quincy
Memphis
Tenn
Russian In City Arrested For Vagrancy Near Odell Window
Felix Duchineki a Russian arrived from Chicago was arrested by Maine Street policemen shortly before 2 am found loitering around the Odell jewelry store window unable to explain his actions. He was held in jail overnight for further inquiry.
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Felix Duchineki
Chicago
Maine Street
Odell
Christenings Anita Catherine Fischer Named
Anita Catherine Fischer, daughter of Mr and Mrs George Fischer of 903 Vermont street, was christened Sunday afternoon by Monsignor Rempe of Chicago at St Clement church. Sponsors were A J Kasper of Chicago and Mrs Euphemia Fischer.
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Anita Catherine Fischer
George Fischer
Vermont Street
Monsignor Rempe
Chicago
High scores by Quincy babies in health exams
Health department notes top scores from last week’s infant screenings in the Cheerful Home area. Scores published for babies over 95 percent include listed names and addresses with exact ages from two months to 30 months and scores up to 99.5.
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Quincy Babies
Edward Crushon Allen
Chestnut Street
Virginia Starman
Jefferson
Donald Kirk
North Fourth
Jeanette Wiley
North Fifth
Jean Barbara Koenig
North Fourteenth
Robert Lee Fitch
North
Mary Naomi Nichols
Elm
James Orville Smith
Washington
William T. Tapp Jr
Hampshire
Nedro Shaffer
Kentucky
Jean Evelyn Smith
Margaret Robert Inman
Richard Lester Wilder
Jersey
Edward Philips
Cherry
Charles Joseph Burgoyne
Ruth Maybelle Swain
Pete Grant Rost
Lawrence Edmund Green
Spring
Carol Vivian Milgrin
North Second
LeRoy Gille
South Twelfth
Karen Ida Storek
State
Song for Her Fellow Girl Reserves at Emerson School
Esther Appel, pupil at Emerson school, contributed a club song for the Girl Reserves. Music and words by her father J Phil Appel. The song, drawn from the Reserves code, is used at club meetings and sung at the recent all Reserves rally at the YWCA.
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Esther Appel
Emerson School
J. Phil Appel
Emerson girl pledge of Triangle Blue club duties
A devotional pledge from an Emerson girl of the Triangle Blue outlining aims to be gracious impartial learn eager sincere patriotic loyal and reverent to God country and flag as Girl Reserve members commit to self mastery and service.
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Emerson
Rotary Picnic Plans Spoiled by Rain
Rotary club picnic plans were spoiled by a heavy downpour Monday. The outing, planned for Bowles pasture north of the city, will be rescheduled for a later date.
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Rotary Club
Bowles Pasture
Rotarians to Meet for Regular Noon Luncheon
Rotarians will hold their regular weekly luncheon today at noon in the Hotel Newcomb.
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Hotel Newcomb
Baggage Room Eight Hour Shift Set At Burlington Station
Eight hour work schedule instituted in Burlington station baggage room as the final step in placing the entire force on that basis with May 21 effective date. Other departments at the station had adopted eight hour days earlier, with express handlers switching a week or ten days ago. In a separate note, fifty eight boys joined the YMCA swimming lessons for the first of five sessions Monday afternoon.
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Burlington
Free daily swimming lessons for boys and men this week
This week features free boys lessons each afternoon from 4 30 to 5 00 p m and a series of ten men lessons daily from 5 30 to 6 00 p m and again from 8 30 to 9 30 p m through next week.
Birth Announcement for Osterloh Son at Chestnut Street
Born to Mr and Mrs John Osterloh of 7129 Chestnut Street a son was born on Sunday.
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John Osterloh
Chestnut Street
Sunday
German Newspapers Publishing Treaty
Paris May 17 German newspapers publish treaty extracts allied governments say no need for official summary and will distribute exact passages from German papers. Chicago May 20 corn futures restricted to 200600 bushels per trader as directed by the board of trade per Julius H Karnes grain corp request.
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Paris
Chicago
Board of Trade of Directors
Julius H. Karnes
Grain Corporation
Lettish Guards Seize Riga Execute Bolshevik Chiefs
May 19 report from Riga says Lettish guards have occupied the city and killed most Bolshevik commissioners there, according to the Lettish Information bureau.
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LETTS
Riga
Copenhagen
Tlettish
Lettish Information Bureau
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Canton
CG. W. Hill
Morris Bros.’ Shoe Co
T. Duker
Walter H. Bennett
Loraine Methodist Church
Duker
Bennett
Stannus
Charles Raymond
S T. Mary Hospital
Kentucky Street
AL Morest
Trotel Quincey
Wiskitchen
C. ©. James
North Sixth Street
Beatrice
Neb
Margaret
Cc. L. Chandler
Chapman
C. W. Schnering
St. Mary Hospital
Charles Mealey
Springfield
Clifton
Ohio
Frank Peters Amlson
Lurlington
Warry Kroeger
Charles Slack
South Sixth Street
Camp Upton
Ed Specekman
Grand Haven
Mis Clement
Mica
George Stipp
Adams Street
Floyd Ginster
Camp Point
Grace Miller
Tom Gillespie
Stern
Elmer Loammis
Champaign
Peoria
George Mills
J. H. Meyer
Eut Muddendorf
Germany
James Marquiss
Montiveilyo
Til
Oscar Mueller
Luxemberg
General Pershing
Beleans
Scotch Woolen Mills
Hampshire ST
Weiler’s
Bo Aey
Quincy, II
Ment
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