Quincy Annexation Probe Finds Residents Content to Stay
Aldermen Tompkins Ellis and McNutt sought facts on annexing part of Broadway 2400 block to Quincy. They reported a single resident family at 2427 and others keen to remain with private sewers and city services, indicating little support for joining the city. The committee plans a follow up meeting to prepare a report for Monday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William B. Tompkins
Pery C. Ellis
Broadway
James E McNutt
Tompkins
Ilinois Bank
Quincy
New City
G. G. Wyckoff
Ellis
J. H. Bross
D. HH
Bross
Michael Piggott
Broadway Terminal
Rotarians Complete Scout Fund Drive
The Rotarians have raised $15,000 for Boy Scouts and set a three year financing plan. Equipment and leaders will be funded from yearly budgets, with first year expenses estimated at $4,500 and a 5 percent increase planned for the next two years. T. P. Black, committee chair, thanks Quin Evans for support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. P. Black
Quinevans
Rotarians
Boy Scouts
Early Struggles In Capital With The Demon Rum
In the era of Peggy O Neil and Andrew Jackson Washington saw its first organized push to curb alcohol. The July 4 1835 temperance meeting in Alexandria DC area formed a union to end the traffic in ardent spirits, argued licenses unjust, and urged temperance grocers. They cited costs of drink related poverty and crime, with support from doctors clergy and officials, and noted limited progress in Georgetown.
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Peggy O'Neil
Washington
Andrew Jackson
White House
Alexandria
Tom and Jerry
Here
Baltimore
Daniel Webster
Hayne
Tmperance Union
D. C
Methodist Episcopal Church
District of Columbia
Navy Yard
Rock Creek Parish
Alexandria Tenleytown
Georgetown
Young Men's Temperance Union
First Presbyterian Church
Senator Pinckney
South Carolina
Alout
Union
Cincinnati
John Coyle
Bradley
William Hewitt
William Crane
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Cranch
Early American concerns on crime and temperance
The writer argues that the sale of spirituous liquor drives crime and cites a yearly prosecuting cost of 210,088.14 dollars. He advocates police vigilance and dram shop suppression to halve crime, noting there was no organized police then, only watchmen and constables.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fritz Kreisler
Kreisler
John McCormack
Bagdad Philadelphia
Peter King
Brown Brothers
Irving
Jack Kaufman
Union
Car' Goburn
Washington Times
Ursa Couple Marks Golden Wedding Anniversary
Mr and Mrs John S Grimes of Ursa celebrated their fifty years of marriage with a large picnic supper for about 200 guests in the town hall. They are affectionately known as Uncle John and Aunt Em. Mr Grimes is a longtime church leader and Sunday school teacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John. S Grimes
Ursa
Grimes
John
Christian Church
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