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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1917
Page
4
Property owners in the Elm Street area urge the city to annex their district after agreeing to widen Elm Street, curb and sidewalk improvements, and city services. A petition drive and a counter campaign to fight annexation are underway as residents demand binding assurances before any action.
The piece discusses expectations that a major show will only be part propaganda and contrasts it with Harper Stowe's moral drama, noting the perceived lack of impact compared to a dramatic horse fall.
Tan Piew Lee of Ann Arbor, visiting Miss Harriet Smith, addressed the missionary society of Vermont Street Methodist church Wednesday afternoon about his homeland and recent changes in China. Lee studies medicine in Ann Arbor and is a junior. Miss Smith taught him in Singapore. Mrs. George Ewes was elected society president, with a slate of officers and superintendents named. The annual missionary tea followed at 6:30, with meat loaf, creamed potatoes, tomato salad, apple pie, hot rolls and coffee, and garden flowers decor.
The Quincy Baptist association holds its seventy fifth annual meeting in Clayton on Sept 18 and 19 with a full program of devotional services readings business sessions and addresses. Notable speakers include Rev. F L Enslow Rev J L Duff Rev E P Brand and Rev L C Taylor.
Rabbi Salkover of Cincinnati will lead services at B Nai Shalom temple Sunday at 10 AM and 7 45 PM as the New Year observance continues Sunday and Monday. A rabbi will be chosen for the church after these meetings.
Adams county supervisors discussed lighting the court house with electric lights and a dome glow, pledging a contract and placing globes atop the central dome. The session also reviewed bridge petitions, road plans, and county printing bids, with road and bridge committee referrals and a dinner hosted by Enoch Selter.
A. J. Polhemus of Peoria Illinois yesterday turned over the deed for 238 acres known as the Snn E Carte club house farm to Seymour Bros. of Payson. The sale followed by another 181 acre tract to the same buyers. All land lies in Pike county. This marks the 20th Delaplain transaction since June 15.
The Scotch Woolen Mills Co will relocate on October 1 to 530 Hampshire street in the room formerly used by Collins Clothing Co. The firm opened a Quincy store over 12 years ago and has spent 12 years in the 400 block Hampshire street, with a two year prior move to the current site now occupied by the Ricker National Bank.
Due to large crowds turned away from the Star theater showing Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the big production will be retained for an extra day. The final show date moves from today to Friday.
Mobilization of the second group of drafted men will probably be delayed until Sept 22. The trip to Des Moines was set for Sept 19. Local draft board expects full orders to be forwarded immediately. A list of men held for service matches the district board’s Wednesday report with no variations from The Whig’s earlier printing.
R W Nance a longtime Quincy stove manufacturer and local citizen died at 9 55 p m Wednesday in Blessing hospital after a ten month illness. Born in Columbus seventy five years ago he came to Quincy as a boy and was connected with the Bonnet and Nance stove foundry before retiring eight years ago. He was husband to Aurelia Kesbe and father to Helen and Frank Beebe with two sisters in Quincy. Funeral plans were not announced.
The Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of the Masonic order will convene in Quincy for its annual session in September 1918. The proposal was approved at Peoria during the order’s session, with Quincy’s Joel Benton representing the city. The opening date was not set, but likely the second Wednesday of September 1918.
The Brotherhood of St. Andrew an Episcopal group met at the church Wednesday evening. It lists twenty three young men as members with nine serving in the National army. Charles Wetzel of the Court House Pharmacy heads a drive to compile a list of male Episcopal church members in the U S army and will submit it to the national office in Boston. The goal is to establish Brotherhood headquarters at each camp to support church members alongside YMCA tents.
The Helen Blair docked in Quincy at 10 30 a m with many passengers and heavy freight amid cold weather. Deck hands labored to load freight, but the ship departed two hours late at 5 30 p m. The Lucia, a government boat, arrived from Keokuk and soon headed to Hannibal.
Mrs P W Cruze and her daughter Alice of St Louis are visiting Mrs Cruze’s brother H J Wempen at 400 12 Jersey street. Mrs Homer Huggins and Mrs Edward Grimmer leave for Palmyra to visit relatives and attend the Marion county fair. Mrs Bertha Daul of Chicago staying with aunt Mrs J E W Fogel at 1227 Kentucky street leaves for home today. Amos Conger Jr former South Side Boat club president and Moose dictator is now in Detroit Michigan working for a large automobile firm in Windsor Ontario.
Immense crowd anticipated on the parade ground as Camp Parker readies for a final dress parade tonight. Indications point to a Friday noon troop break and encampment clearout with trains by daybreak. A large crowd and streetcar plans aim to handle the crowd for the farewell in khaki.
Wins Devon premiums Owen t Fitch of Barry won all premiums offered for Devon cattle exhibits at the Springfield fair. He took ribbons for premier champion breeder and exhibitor and individual premiums for best bull cow heifer and calf and for best dairy herd.
A Miami Florida pupil named his son after J. H. Crafton, vice president of Gem City Business College. The father, a former student of Crafton from twenty years earlier, chose the name to honor his admired instructor as the boy entered college on Wednesday.
Resisted constable Fred Klipstein was arrested by Patrolman Murphy Friday evening for resisting a constable. He will be arraigned before Judge Reardon this morning.
The War Department approves the Illinois Bankers' association trip through the Keokuk dam and locks aboard the steamer G. W. Hill as a major convention feature. It will be the final Quincy outbound excursion of the year, slated to close Saturday noon.
Rev M Edward Fawcett, bishop of the Episcopal church, paid a fine tribute to Dr R J Christie at a 2 PM funeral held at 234 South Sixteenth Street. Many attended including 70 physicians from Quincy and Illinois. Burial was in Woodland cemetery. Active pallbearers were local doctors. honorary pallbearers from the Illinois Clinic association. Out of town relatives included Cassius W Christie of Hollywood and Mrs Christie's sister from Davenport.
Probate records show Frederick Rupp left 5009 to religious institutions and benevolences, with 1000 to St Francis church Quincy 1000 to St Mary's hospital 1000 to St Vincent's Home 1 to St Aloysius Orphans Home 500 to Sacred Heart province for Arizona missions 200 to Pfaffenwiesbach Germany and 300 for masses at St Francis church Quincy. Remainder to widow Theresia if she stays unmarried with provisions if she remarries.
The second half of Camp Parker's soldiers, hosted by Highland Park management, joined by Quincy residents for a farewell gathering. About four to five hundred people attended as the Fifth Regiment danced to the O'Farrell brothers orchestra from evening until midnight. The Eagles and Moose plan a park entertainment Friday evening, Sept. 21, ahead of the season end on Sept. 23.
Shrapnel BS Harvey Fusselman of Quincy enlisted at the local recruiting office over the Princess theater on Fifth street Wednesday afternoon in the Fifth Illinois national guards and was sent to Camp Parker to join soldiers heading south from there.
The Aid society of the First Christian church spent Wednesday quilting and sewing carpet rags to sell. A noon picnic dinner was served. East End Christian church women are invited to the C. W. E. M. meeting this afternoon, with Pay son members as guests, and to stay for supper as the society studies Latin America.
A. I. Polhemus of Peoria sold his 238 acre Sni E Carte farm to Seymour Bros of Payson on Wednesday. He also sold a 181 acre Pike county tract to the Seymour brothers. The Sni E Carte farm lies four miles east of Hannibal near the Sni E Carte fishing club. The transfer was conducted through C. E. Dela plain of Quincy.
PETROGRAD Sept 13 The provisional government declares a state of war exists in Moscow and surrounding districts. A quip suggests reframing a liar as a diplomat may yield the same result in tone and implication.
George Meyer, 49, was wounded seriously by Arthur Thornberry after an argument at Fourth and Maine over street car transfers. Meyer died minutes later at St Marys hospital if death occurs the charge will change to murder. Thornberry was captured two hours after the assault and confessed to stabbing Meyer three times claiming self defense. Both men worked at Gardner severnor works and shared transfer rides.
Illinois expects unsettled but warmer conditions on Thursday with likely light showers in the north on Friday. Missouri sees partly cloudy skies on Thursday and Friday with warmer temperatures. Iowa reports partly cloudy weather on Thursday and Friday with little temperature change.
Inland readings show yesterday's high around 52 at noon while midnight values dipped to 22. River stage reached 33 at midnight with fall conditions noted despite garbled locality text.
Stage of water at 7 A M yesterday shows flood conditions at Davenport Keokuk Hannibal and Louisian ga with rises and falls in feet. The forecast predicts a slow fall of about 0.3 foot over the next 24 hours as the river trends down across the listed sites.
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