Adams III Social Event Supports Red Cross
The Paplist church Saturday night event was a social and financial success, drawing a large crowd and netting a neat sum for the Red Cross. Mrs. Oscar Diker visited Quincy with her brother and family. Mrs. Will Boyer hosted relatives for her natal day. Mr. Ira Schnur and Mrs. Flora Vennett’s daughter, Cora Boyer, and others were noted in local visits and gatherings around Quincy and Payson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Finchum
Frank Whitney
WH Fillett
Quincy
John Ferrier
John Carr
Craigtown
Fannie Enlow
Misses Proctor
Mary Likes
Hull
John Winget
Pike County boys head to Hattiesburg for training before France
Down in Pike County 146 boys left Pittsfield for Hattiesburg Mississippi to prepare for service in France. Local notices report a farewell, town electricity rate dispute filings with the Public Utility Commission, a Crab Apple Schoolhouse pie supper, Elm Grove School Sunday organized with A B Call as superintendent, and Red Cross drive solicitors J I Johnson E A McAtee. Decoration Day services were held at the till cemetery led by Capt Gamble. News from the warfront notes transports landing in France and Cantigny garrison casualties, with German surrender and fatalities described.
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Pike County
Pittsfield
Hattiesburg
Miss
France
Central Hindi Public Service Company
Public Utility Commission
Crab Apple
Elm Grove School
A. B. Call
Ed Anderson
Quincy
Pike
Till
Capt. Gamble
Gen. Lippencott
Joe Moore
Alta Corys Operation In Quincy Reported
URSA ILL Miss Alta Cory spent last week in Quincy and underwent an operation. Several from here attended the convention on Marcelline Sunday afternoon. Miss Fern Taycock returned home Thursday after a few weeks visit with friends at Jacksonville. Mrs Raymond Shepherd and son Wayne are suffering with tonsillitis. Mrs Gen Shultz entertaining her mother this week. Mr and Mrs Grover Dyke preparing to move to Quincy. Mrs Bert Candland suffered a slight stroke of paralysis last Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Gen Colvin and children and Mr and Mrs John Grimen spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Richard Tout. Mrs John Meyers spent last week in Quincy with friends.
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New Salem, III
Sam Curless Priday
Pert Conkright
Ada
Jacksonville
Verner
Roy Fichman
Denver
Til
St. Louis
Vic
Army Life
Jefferson Barracks
H. J. Andrew
St. Mary’s Hospital
Riley Griffeth
Geo. E. Moore
Quincy
Wendell Wheeler
Helen Andrew
Nellie Prable
Eva Gray
Pittsfield
Mildred Toole
Freda Arnold
Cloyd Woodward
Baby
B. G. Woodward
Glen Hillman
Casper
Wyo
Glen
Red Cross
Universalist
Trula Ray
Jake Hohe
Ursa
Ili
Alta Cory
Fllis Venter
Wm. Daugherty
Fowler
Wm. Groves
Chevrolet
Adam Gredell
Fred Flack
Martin Nichols
Frank Flack
Marcelltine
Fern Taycock
Raymond Shepherd
Wayne
Gen. Shultz
Grover Dyke
Bert Candland
Gen. Colvin
John Grimen
Richard Tout
John Meyers
Ed Agard
Ben Nichols
Prisoners Taken By Americans In France
May 30 report says German prisoners captured by the American army include Bavarian and Silesian regiment men. Some are 17 or 18, others 45 to 50. They are poorly clothed and underfed as they trooped out of their lines in France.
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France
German Offensive On the Aisne Compared To March
London May 30 reports that the German attack on the Aisne shows similarities to March but lacks the previous danger to the allied line. Allies retire orderly to the Ahrne as Anglo-French forces pull back in unity while the sixth French army bears the brunt under Gen Meist. Petrograd notes 38,000 divorce applications filed since the revolution.
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London
Aisne
Ahrne
Gen- Meist
Petrograd
High Water Causes Troop Train Wreck Near Aplington
Waterloo Iowa May 30 Four people are dead and at least twenty injured after Illinois Central passenger No 11 westbound wrecked near Aplington thirty miles west of Waterloo when high water disabled a bridge. Engineer Alderman and Fireman Golvinaux of Waterloo killed. Two mail clerks reported dead. Injured were rushed to Waterloo hospitals. The engine crossed Beaver Creek bridge, structure fell, locomotive plunged, and the chair car tipped on its side. Passengers faced flying glass as ground around the wreck became a miniature lake. The Pullman car occupants were uninjured.
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Waterloo
Illinois Central
Aplington
Here
Alderman
Golvinaux
Beaver Creek
Pullimans
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