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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1917
Page
4
Major James B. Adams reports a bulletin from the Military Training Camps Association urging full public mobilization for registration day on June 5. The plan calls for mass meetings, patriotic services, bells, parades, flags, posters, and district committees to enforce and publicize the registration rules and penalties for noncompliance.
Noted Quincy chef J E Wallace teams with J F Enloe at the Illinois Cafe inviting friends and former patrons for a meal you can relish. They promise sanitary preparation and guaranteed satisfaction with no charge if customers are not perfectly satisfied. Prices reflect market conditions and aim for lowest possible.
Louis Kaltenbach 37 and unmarried, son of Mr and Mrs Emil Kaltenbach of Pavson area, died from injuries after a Riverton Minnesota automobile crash. Details await his mother and brother Joe who went to Riverton for the body. His family is noted in the county.
Edward S. Reimbold of Nauvoo, captured in San Francisco while about to sail to Australia and brought to Quincy by Sheriff Coens, will not face trial in June. The grand jury failed to return a true bill on embezzlement charges involving about 400 to 600 dollars tied to the A. Urban and Dick Brewing companies. The money was later returned to the liquor firms. Attorneys Hartzell Green and Cavanaugh had negotiated a settlement terms with the companies. Reimbold operated a Nauvoo to Ft. Madison truck line and acted as agent for the liquor concerns.
A telegram reported by August Bergman states Tom Allen Carnival is canceled for the week of May 28 in Quincy under the South Side Boat club. Allen, currently in St Louis en route to Washington, plans to report reasons and seek a June or July reschedule.
Government notes the use of Sinimsipei in Oregon Til to comprise 2 acres for a cantonment. References Illinois quota of the national army and related action. No further readable details available.
W C Wallace a converted Burlington convict will speak at 11 oclock Sunday at East End Christian church on Horrors of the Minors and Wisconsin Prisons Rev Abraham LeGrand former pastor of Vermont Street Baptist spent hours in Quincy Wednesday en route to Kansas City from Cleveland where he attended the National Baptist convention His present pastorate has 650 members The feast of the patron saint of St Mary hospital was observed Thursday morning with 9 oclock chapel services by Rev Father Aurlius celebrating Mary Help of Christians.
Work began on the gardens of the association clubs Thursday afternoon The Drop In club met in the association rooms and planned a picnic for next Thursday.
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