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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1916
Page
3
The Quincy Whig in Quincy Illinois provides editorial and news room contact numbers and delivery information. The notice lists Main 120 for editorial inquiries and Main 251 for business office and delivery orders, notes postal mail handling, and requests reporting any irregularities to the office.
The Mt Sterling High School baccalaureate address was given at the opera house by Rev J L Muff with the class motto Onward Upward and Forward. The twelve graduates, eight girls and four boys, heard hymns and prayers led by Rev P R Powers and the high school chorus led by Miss Ruby Radcliffe. Memorial day services followed at the opera house with Gov Dunne's proclamation read by Percy Ingram and recitations by Marcellus Hagel and Ruth Crawford before a large audience.
Wiring to connect the plant and Versailles is near completion. Once linked, Versailles will be dismantled and the city will receive current from this plant. The W C T U will meet Wednesday with Mrs P V Morris at Heisman, with Mrs William Aben as leader. Roll call on current events features Why the Liquor Traffic Must Go. Scholarships awarded for Normal graduates from eighth grade finals in Brown County include Buckhorn Lillie McHatton, Elkhorn Rita Northern, Lee Angus Chaprian, Cooperstown Dean Fuqua, Missouri Charles Bordenkircher, Mr Sterling Beulah Snyder, Pea Ridge Russell Brady, Ripley Ivan Powers, Versailles Harold Vandeventer. The Brown County band played at Cooperstown Memorial Day. Mt Sterling High class day exercises program includesInvocation Rev A T Shaw, piano solos, salutatory, readings, music, orations, and a reunion scene. Various local residents and visitors noted, including Eileen Patton, Clara Buss, Zeta Six, Pauline Gaddis, Roy W Edwards, Hazel Bond, Mrs Ed Geschwindner, Mrs Josephine Thomas, Miss Regina Smith Smith, Robert Devlin, Clara Turner, Mrs George Draper, Rollo Witty, R R Turner, Mr and Mrs Samuel Wilcox, A E O'Hara, and Mrs Charles Redmond. Observations on women and spring fever appear amid local notices and a child's cough remedy promotion for Dr Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey.
Camp Point and nearby communities report visits, family gatherings, hospital and surgery updates, travels, and church events. Residents and relatives from Jacksonville Quincy Bowen Augusta Galesburg Minneapolis and Clinton share news of births illnesses travel and social gatherings across the region.
Receipts in the local market were small due to the Memorial day observance. Hay and oats dominated the load, selling at prices unchanged from the previous day. Hog prices stayed steady in the stock market. With rain easing and favorable weather, farmers expect timely corn planting and a potential bountiful crop.
Hay and grain prices listed including No 2 wheat at 1.03, corn 0.70, oats 0.35 to 0.40, various hays from 7.50 to 14.00, clover seed at 1.00 per bushel, and mill products with flour prices from 3.30 to 6.00 per cwt. Hog quotes show several weight ranges from 8.00 to 9.55 per cwt, with livestock and poultry quotations from local butchers and regional yards, plus a Young People's meeting update and notes on animal shipments, poultry, eggs, and wool prices. Sunday market listings include sheep, lambs, veal, and miscellaneous hides and byproducts.
Chicago May 31 market summary shows Hogs receipts 10,000 steady to higher with bulk around 95599.75 and light 9.10 to 9.75. Cattle receipts 3,000 steady with native beef cattle 8.20 to 10.75 and western steers 8.60 to 9.50. Sheep receipts 4,000 steady to unevenly higher with ewes 4.75 to 7.50 and lambs 8.10 to 10.25.
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