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Newspaper

Quincy Whig

Location

Quincy, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Oct 17, 1917

Page

8

Engagement and Wedding News in Quincy Society

Miss Rosalia Stroot and Carl Kollmeyer plan a 7:45 a m wedding at J Francis church with Stroot to Lincoln Neb to settle. Attendants include Helen Street and Helen Kollmeyer with Edward Kollmeyer best man. Breakfast for twenty five then car trip. Also notes on social clubs, card parties, engagements and upcoming weddings of local residents with multiple out of town connections and club meetings.

Rosalia Stroot August C. Stroot Incoln Neb Mr. Ollmeyer Lincoln Quincy Stove Company Valley Swansonias Kollweyer F. S. Kopsecker Fort Wayne, Nd Clara Maas George Haddenhorst Chicago Des Moines Allen Maas St. Peter's Catholic Church Edith Maas Albert Miss Maas John Maas North Twenty Seventh Street Mr. Haddenhorst Mary Haddenhorst Kentucky Street Haddenhurst Gas Company

Church News Highlights Local Society Meetings

The L M E Missionary society met with Mrs Hi Condit for a social afternoon. East End Christian church Sunday school teachers re elected Mollenhauer as superintendent with Perry as assistant. The Mollenhauer couple received a bound Bible dictionary. Vermont Street Baptist women organized Queen Esther society to study home missions. St Johns Dramatic club to present The House Next Door November 12. Pleasant Grove church dedicated 12 miles east of Quincy with acetylene lighting and city ministers present. Rev Underwood praised for promising future.

St Rose Church Marie Margott John Schwab Atherine Quinlivan Bat Curry Hugh Ernst East End Christian Church Vermont Street Baptist Church H. W. Cramer North Sixteenth Street Queen Esther Society Pleasant Grove Church Quincy Broadway Road R. A. Grumman Camp Point H. W. Valmier Perry Monson Paloma G. L. Losh F. A. McCarty Geo. R. Stewart Mercer Liberty Underwood Mr. Underwood

Velvet hats for Americans with velvet trims and ostrich tips

The article describes two fashion sketches for American hats. The upper style uses velvet foundation with a velvet edged bandeau and shirred velvet brim, trimmed by a feather pompon or ostrich tips, shown in beige purple sand emerald green deep blue and black. The lower hat favors soft velour or felt shapes held by bead bedecked quills, with shortages pushing use of wool fabrics and chenille textures.

Happiness Must Come from the Heart in Daily Life

An account of how people chase perfect happiness through changes like boarding houses or maids, only to find new annoyances. The piece argues lasting serenity comes from inner acceptance, not external circumstances, and urges cultivating cheerfulness and habit of taking annoyances in stride.

Holls Keeping

Revenscraft and Stevens Wed in Sixth Street Parlors

Miss Cecil V. Revenscraft wed Oren R. Stevens in a 4 pm ceremony at the Bonney home in Sixth and Hampshire Streets. The couple, from Hannibal, were unaccompanied. The note closes with a whimsical line about memory.

Revenscraft-Stevens Cecil V. Revenscraft Oren R. Stevens Jurdie LE. J. Bonney Sixth Hampshire Streets Hannibal

Twenty Million In One Subscription In Liberty Loan

New York October 17 a single subscription of 20 000 000 by the National Bank of Commerce plus smaller New York district subscriptions brought district totals to 329 007 950 for the second liberty loan. The district lags its 1 500 060 000 quota but agencies foresee a strong final drive to meet the goal. The first abroad subscription was reported by the Guaranty Trust Co.

New York National Bank of Commerce New York Federal Reserve District Guaranty Trust Co

McAdoo and Grayson Fly Over Rockwell Field

William G. McAdoo secretary of the treasury and Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson joined a liberty loan tour flight from Rockwell field with passengers including Mrs. McAdoo and Major Henry J. Damm. The plane climbed to 5,500 feet then 6,000 feet before a nose down dive and gentle landing.

San Diego Cal William G. McAdoo Secretary of the Treasury Cary T. Grayson McAdoo Rockwell Field Signal Corps Aviation School Henry J. Damm Admiral Grayson Robert Airesse French Flying Corps

Chicago Loan Totals in Seventh District Rise

Chicago reports Liberty Loan subscriptions totaling 225,000,000 for the seventh district at day end. Several cities within the district show heightened activity in bond distribution as the drive continues.

Chicago Liberty Loan

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Miss Stroot Carl Kollmeyer Nebr Katherine Strs Robert McFadon John Kendrick Bangs, Jr Quartermaster’s Corps Camp Custer Miss McFadon W. A. Richardson Here T. E. Musselman Galesburg Haesry T. Snyder Hampshire Street Tell Ind Rosa Smith Snyder W. T. Snyder Miss Smith Mathew Smith Hanball Albert Swink Virginia Apartments Shakespeare Club George Gabriel Alice Osborn Hedges Henry Schmiedeskamp Utility Club E. E. Hollister St. Vincent St. Vincent Society Mary Ullman W. J. Reis Rudolph Tenk Pauline Mr. Tenk J. Will Wall Mrs. Garnett Heitz John O'Hare Mr. Heitz Mrs John Heitz Garrett Schuler St. Louis Phoenix Ariz Joseph Willey Cherry Street Willey Dean Richardson L. Emmons Alice Marston Mary Richards Joseph Barlow Carthage Thomas Dunn Richardson Nature The Friends In Council Guido Jones Richard Jefferies Philip Schingenhaus Henry D. Thoreau E. S. Thomas Loren B. Seymour George Gardner Pan American Union Chamber of Commerce James Beckwith Mexico Joseph Shurtleff Revere Mass T. D. Woodruff A. N. Durant Ed. Hermeling D. W. Mumper Hermeling Don Hoover George Binkert W. S. Tucker Snahpro Dia Frank van Dorn Philip Christ America Uncle Sam Army Navy Shnova Shinola Company Church News L. M. E. Missionary Society Hi. L. Condit North Sixth Street Ollie Ferguson St. John's Dramatic Club Ruth Cameron National Bank of Commerce of Commercial Union Assurance Co., of London M’adoo Grayson T&s Tre Marty Wrigley Pioneer Butter Pioneer Creamery Co Spring ST
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