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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1918
Page
9
Newark Missouri brief social column records visits and gatherings across area families including the Callaghans Abbott McEntire and Janney. War activity pages note sons enlisting and training moves to Jefferson Barracks and Camp Funston with references to Red Cross drives and the 54th infantry medical department. Community prayers and local fundraising are cited alongside minor business and auction details.
Sunday rain aids crops as farmers finish first corn planting while some plant again due to seed quality. Powell and Noll families visit Palmyra. Moorman salesman interviews locals. Ward family bereaved after Mrs. Henry Ward dies following weeks of illness. Driving horses valued. accident injures two in Jouvenpert area. scarce news staff in area.
Mrs J T Teslie returns home after a hospital stay. Forty one Lewis county residents plan to report on Saturday and depart for Camp Dodge. Mrs Catdwell and family motor to Pittsfield Ill for a visit with Mrs Kibler. No church services due to heavy rain. Mrs Harvey and two children visit relatives in Laeust, Davy Vreen and Ella Morrow attend funeral in Fort Mundi ton. Leonard Smith from aviation corps visits home. Hart Lupton visits on furlough from Camp Funston. J W Wenderson leaves for Canton after a short visit. Lucile Anderson stays with aunt Emmett Uriscoe.
A roundup of small-town movements and visits: Mrs Willy Miller spent Friday night in Louisiana for a class play with High School seniors. J S Myers and son Harry are erecting a modern farm home for C Sh Gay on his Atlas farm. Mrs Jas McGreevey and daughter Maleta returned to Pittsfield after a week with the former's parents, Mr and Mrs Wrank McMullen. Mrs family Pryor returned from Brewster after visiting granddaughter Mrs Joe Wallace. Liverett Myers sold north town property to Dr Welch in Monday’s deal. Allie Wendall, in training at Camp Taylor, is home on furlough for agricultural reasons. A patriotic Red Cross drive meeting occurred in Haines hall Monday night. Dr I S Gay had gone to Portland.
Ark residents with band interests hosted by Mrs Irather Grigsos visiting Newt Carter in town. YT CGC club gathering at B D Gay home with Miss Coache I Wyatt as hostess. many lacieys attended and refreshments served. Grant Tedrow injured when his son’s rifle discharged. bullet hit arm. doctor could not locate bullet. X ray used. not serious. Wm HW Gas elderly farmer ill. community mourns death of Attny G N Anderson of Pitesfield. court action noted. obituary referenced.
May 25 dispatch states a French front war office note mentions a detachment penetrating south of Cannes and near Latigny while enemy artillery exchanges occurred west of Vardar and around Lake Ohrid. an attempted German attack in the Cerna Bend sector and near Lake Ohrida is noted.
The war department reports two ordnance department contracts for picric acid plants. One near Brunswick, Georgia, costing 7,000,000 dollars, and another around Little Rock, Arkansas, at about 4 million. A separate item notes a West Bath Maine lumber camp crew with a pet pig that followed workers and villagers.
Chicago May 26 A government record in the 312 defendant trial links California town fires to IWW activity after U.S. entry into the war. Prosecutor Nebeker says correspondence shows a broader plot to disrupt war prep from Chicago HQ. Documents describe clashes with authorities and westward organizing efforts. James Elliott of Fresno, a defendant, cited strikes in California orange districts in April last year.
Industrial workers in Seattle say the strike is rapidly spreading as tinant farmers scab against canning their demands. They insist on an eight hour day and refuse wage raises, noting farmers must work 16 hours daily. Members are urged to join the One Big Union.
Washington May 25 President Wilson pitched the first ball in a game between Washington and Detroit for the benefit of the Red Cross. The President accompanied by Mrs. Wilson occupied a box draped with the national colors. In an adjoining box were President John C. amen and other American League officials. The notice also mentions flora and tree origins in a fragmented digression.
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