Gomes as a friend not spy declares teaching a profession
C M Gill, superintendent of Quincy public schools, addressed 142 principals and instructors. He urged recognizing teaching as a profession, outlined school year plans, enrollment reports, and field day preparations in Washington Park with police protection and volunteer staff. He stressed rights tied to the child and urged teachers to teach from heart rather than view teaching as a job.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. M. Gill
Quincy
Mr. Gill
Otto Wurl
Washington Park
Woman's Forum
Gill
Board of ‘Education
Musselman
The Quincy Schools Superintendent Address on Service
The superintendent emphasizes discipline through learning, cooperative systems, and ethical teaching. He rejects repression and warns that the superintendent’s fate rests with teachers, who must work as advisers and fellow educators to prioritize child education over mere architecture or fault finding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincey
Board of Education
Quincy
Labor Day Celebrations in Baldwin Park A Union Parade
Twenty three labor groups with families plan a Labor Day celebration in Baldwin Park featuring a long parade starting 9 45 am and a full day of contests races and dancing. Prizes range up to 3 00 for adults and 2 00 for runners with free park admission for women and children and 10 cent charges for men. The parade marshal is Theodore Bisser with a large lineup of unions and bands marching through downtown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldwin Park
Baldwin
Rischar
Imperial Band
Labor Temple
Ninth
State Streets
Theodore Bisser
Trades and Labor Assembly
George N. Schmitt
William Lincoln
Bert Ryan
John Augustine
George F. Ernst
Wm. Lincoln
Geo
Iron Molders’ Union
Tawney Apple Takes In Artificial Quarter At Rialto Palace
Abe Martin notes a recalled local quip suggesting a strong home hinges on a cooperative wife who rises early with a smile to cook breakfast. Miss Tawney Apple, treasurer of the Rialto Film Palace, received an artificial quarter today.
Corn prices vary as farmers feed hogs for profit
Wesley Clair of Mendon and William Funk of Beverly report corn in Adams County fetching $1.25 or more a bushel for hog feeders, while some grain hauled to Quincy earns only 87 cents. They base their figures on exact records, claiming feeding corn to hogs yields higher returns than market prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams County
Quincy
Wesley Clair
Mendon
William Funk
Beverly
Funk
Palmer’ Rusk
Rusk
Camp Point
Honey Creek
Urbana
Farm Improvement Association
Illinois State Agricultural Experimental Station
Frank I. Mann
Gilman
Ill
Republicans Meet Wednesday Night in County Club Rooms
Republicans invite all members to the party at the Republican club rooms 124 South Fifth street Tuesday at 8 PM to plan turnout for primary day Wednesday Sept 13. Charles Cottrell reports strong Hughes sentiment across the county and predicts a Republican majority, noting loyalty of the normal Republican vote and shifts away from Wilson in rural areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Club
South Fifth Street
Hughes
Charles Cottrell
Republican County Committee
Charles E. Hughes
Cottrell
Wilson
Quingyans Attend Big Neck Picnic in Nelson's Grove
The thirteenth annual picnic by the Big Neck camp Modern Woodmen of America drew about 2,000 people from Quincy and nearby areas to Nelson's grove near Big Neck. Mendon defeated Loraine 23 to 2 in a baseball game, with Rolland Wagner delivering the afternoon address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Big Neck
Woodmen of America
Nelson's Grove
Rolland Wagner
Mendon
Loraine
Frank I Mann to Attend Carthage Picnic
Hancock county's Soil Improvement association will hold its annual picnic in Carthage on Sept 12 with free transportation to the grounds and lunch free. The program includes a ladies canning demonstration at 10:00 am, an inspection tour of the experiment station and Mr Kunkel's farm for men, a basket dinner and orchestra at noon, an address on Better Farming by Frank I Mann at 1:30 pm, and a ball game at 3:00 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hancock County
Soil Improvement Association
Carthage
Gardner Farm Brings 165 Acre At Auction
The Thomas D. Gardner farm of 60 acres two miles north of Locust Street on Twenty fourth Street sold for 165 per acre at the court house auction Saturday afternoon. George Moyer harness dealer East Broadway bid it in and turned it over to Herbert Summers, who has adjoining land. Attorney Finlay Carrott conducted the sale, the farm total price 13200 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas D. Gardner
Locust Street
Twenty-fourth Street
Court House
George Moyer
East Broadway
Herbert Summers
Summers
Gardner
Finlay Carrott
Four Contracts Awarded for New Bridges in County
The office of county highway superintendent L. L. Boyer awarded four of five bridge contracts to C. A. Weaver and Son of Clayton. Sines won the McGinley bridge job in Keene township for 1380 dollars. Weaver and Son secured Fifth street bridge 2280 Riverside township Hilton bridge 480 Keene township Hiorah bridge 925 and Dedert bridge 1097 in Mendon township.
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L. L. Boyer
C. A. Weaver
Keene Township
Hiorah Bridge
North East Township
Dedert Bridge
Mendon Township
Suit Does Not Stop Wedding in Northeastern City
Prof Charles Ross Dines, a Dartmouth math professor, wed Miss Charlotte Reed Everett despite a $30,000 breach of promise suit filed by Edna May Grove of Omaha. The couple married Saturday at the bride’s Kenilworth home as plans from Northwestern University decades earlier were carried out. Dines, Quincy native, is well known locally and has taught at Northwestern and Dartmouth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Ross Dines
H. B. Dines
North Twenty-fourth Street
Charlotte Reed Everett
Kenilworth
Chicago
Edna May Grove
Omaha
Dines
Whig
Prof. Dines
Dartmouth College
Miss Grove
Miss Everett
Northwestern University
Prof
Everett
Henry Everett
Emmerson
Jacob Giles
City
Sid
Deughtera
Adams County Farm Improvement meet in South Park
Roy C. Bishop and Miss Florence Hunt will speak at the all day Adams County Farm Improvement association meeting in South Park next Saturday with a basket dinner. The program includes open sessions for executives and members and a public afternoon session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy C. Bishop
Livingstone County
Florence Hunt
Illinois State University
Adams County Farm Improvement Association
South Park
Labor day program omits Jos Thorp name at Seventh and Hampshire
Notice states an oversight by the Labor day program committee left out Jos. Thorp of Seventh and Hampshire who is favorable to organized labor in the Bartenders' Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jos. Thorp
Seventh and Hampshire
Bartenders
County Schools to Open With Notable Staffing Moves
County schools resume Monday with most institutions reopening except those near Quincy. Tuesday classes begin in the mapped schools. Several shifts in principals and teachers occur, transferring leaders like R. N. Stacy to Dewey Quincy and J. W. Lewis to Talulla, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
R. N. Stacy
Coatsburg
Dewey
A. A. Holmes
Bowen
Golden
A. L. McArthur
Bowen High School
la Prairie
J. L. Ensminger
Lima
J. W. Lewis
Olive E. Works
Missouri
Marblehead
Z. ¥. McNutt
Center School
Payson
Mendon
Geo. E. Stickney
F. D. Carrier
Loraine
Leslie G. Fahs
Union School
Plainville
Liberty
Jones predicts record Republican vote in Kansas district
Dr. C. W. Jones of Olathe visits his parents at 302 Chestnut street. He quotes his father J. O. Jones, Republican chairman for the Second Kansas district, saying Kansas will roll up the biggest Republican vote ever known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Jones
Olathe
Kan
J. O. Jones
Chestnut Street
Jones
Kansas
Illinois and Missouri Weather Outlooks
Illinois forecast calls for fair, warmer Sunday followed by partly cloudy Monday with possible showers in the south. Missouri expects partly cloudy skies with possible showers by Sunday night or Monday in the southern portion. Towns: fair Sunday and Monday with likely showers.
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Illinois
Missouri
Town
River Forecast: Minimal Change Near Warsaw to Louisiana
River bulletin notes the water level from below Warsaw to Louisiana will change little over the next 48 hours, signaling stable conditions for the period ahead. No significant rises or falls expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Louisiana
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Gomes
Quincy Schools
C.M. Gill
Brewers’ Union
Beer Bottlers’ Union
Pressmans’ Union
Musicians’ Union
Electrical Workers’ Union
Cigarmakers’ Union
Painters and Decorators
Carpenters and Joiners’ Union
Abe Martin
Leeds
Manalin
Pumaren
Trechen
Tae
Peruna Company
THE
John Hall Printing CO
Big Neck Pickic
Frank I
Mann
Clayton Bridge
C. A. Weaver and Son Company
de A
Weilers Largest Music and Pianos
North Fifth St
Rotary Club
Charlie
Ward Best
Jack Hoeffler
Eddie Buerkin
Best Bros
Hampshire Street
Smith's Cleaning & Dye Works
North 5Th Street
F. E. Smith
Fred G. Smith
Hampshire
Fred Miller
Care Miller Bros. Transfer Co
H. F. Herbert
Care Machinery Motor Co
Rupert Hanser
St. Francia College
G. Gabel
Clayton
Sickman
Jefferson St
O. E. Bryant
N. M. Riggs
Vermont St
Clayton Bank
Clay- M. E. Church
Ton, HL
Hawkinson
Majestic Building
Haine Street
River Bulletin
Fe T. Paul
Des Davenport
Keokuk
Quincy Cave
Hannibal
St. Louis
August F. Stormer
Stormer
Ellington Township
Bloomfield
Studden
Methiny
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