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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1923
Page
2
First copies of a memorial volume honoring President Harding arrived in Washington. The edition is limited to 2,000 copies for friends of the President. The item notes a broader quick digest of world events and policy briefs from the era, touching on government inquiries, disarmament, and social programs.
In a letter to voters, Representative John C. McKenzie announces he will retire at the end of this term after representing Illinois Thirteenth since 1910. Also Ford-for-President agitation ends as Henry Ford declares no candidacy and pledges full support to Coolidge. Lee Yuk Lin arrives in Seattle to study U.S. currency, and a Dixie Miver engineer is killed in a Marietta railroad wreck with no injuries to passengers.
Former Judge Rufus B. Smith sixty nine longtime University of Cincinnati board chairman and noted attorney died in Cincinnati Ohio Sir Lambert Heypenstal Ormsby renowned surgeon and Irish senate member died in Dublin Ireland.
Four towns are reported wiped out with 3000 dead and more than 23000 homeless along the Ecuador Colombia frontier. Government in Paris launches campaign against rising cost of living. Roald Amundsen plans to use at least three seaplanes in polar expedition.
Rockford real estate totals reach 11790,000,000 in value with per capita ownership at 1,638. Elmer Welgie, 25, killed by an acetylene gas explosion while refilling a carbide reservoir at Blackstone. Zion church cornerstone laid in Marion amid large audience. Charles R. Finley elected for the third time president of Vermilion County Farm Bureau at Danville. Mrs Iva G Abernathy of Concord awarded 500 in slander case against Mrs Hattie G Graham of Springfield. Dixon police equipped with rifles for emergencies and training. Walter C Cochran of Belleville found guilty of murder. death penalty by hanging. State Supreme Court invalidates graft grand jury indictments from Chicago. Springfield asked to annex about 800 acres for sewer service. University of Illinois women rifle team challenges ROTC infantry to match. Rockford directory lists 84,000 population. Scandinavian names predominate. Arrests in Peoria tied to elopement case in Kane County. Most Illinois cities over 8,000 maintain school nursing. 850 smaller communities have school nursing. Bardolph bank failure looms over McDonough County case in Macomb. Bootlegging and illicit prescribing contribute to 1922 mortality rise with 194 alcohol deaths in Illinois. Danville chiropractor Max M Walder found guilty for practicing without license. case under appeal. Fourth annual Illinois utility coin show entries due in Urbana by Jan 7 with premiums prepared.
Lee Frazier longtime Shelby County school superintendent and educator dies at 69 in Shelby. Springfield hosts a spring muster of the Military Order of Cooties with representatives from all pup tents expected. John Ivanecksy of Ellisville revived after being presumed dead in an undertaker’s basket. Twelve men plead guilty to tar and feathering A H Dickens during a railroad strike in 1922. A wolf killed near Athens prompts note on hunting season. Aldem Ti. Vandeveer 75 dies at Edinburg. former Morrisonville banker and prominent local figure. Carroll C. Boggs dies in Fairfield. former district attorney and judge. Freak ear of corn found at Coleta farm. City boys shown to raise pigs better than rural youths at Galesburg show. Illinois Implement Dealers’ association elects McKenzie president. Stone and Thrift named officers. Snow white owl shot near Aledo. wings span four feet. birds help control pests. Prohibition agents score 78 percent success in tests under Percy Owen. Grant highway expansion to open route to East Dubuque next spring. Bloomington fire bucket changes to conical buckets at the Chicago & Alton shops. About 30,000 people reside in state charitable and penal institutions. disease costs cited by the state health department.
At Clinton the De Witt County Farmers' Protective league passes resolutions asking Sheriff Taylor to appoint a deputy sheriff in each township to arrest hunters trespassing on farm land without owner permission. Deputies are to serve without pay and be drawn from league members. The note adds population context from Illinois health figures, stressing the need to keep well people productive.
The United States Chamber of Commerce urges a January conference in Washington with leaders from agriculture commerce education finance and industry to discuss building an adequate national transportation system. Topics include growth forecasts regulation capital needs rate fairness highway water routes and private initiative.
Sydney reporter notes George Penrose a Canadian born miner was killed by natives in Dutch New Guinea during a shooting expedition 400 miles inland. The party of Penrose and thirty Papuans saw three Papuans killed seven wounded and Penrose stabbed seventy times before witnessing the cannibal feast of the slain. The Dutch government dispatched an expedition to punish the murderers.
A high German finance official said more than 2 billion dollars moved from Germany to the United States and even larger sums to Holland England and South America with much of it likely reaching New York, in remarks on reparations commission experts' work.
In Pensacola Florida James Burleson thirteen months and Ida Bell Vann eighteen months died after chewing fireworks called dancing devils that resembled chocolate. The objects exploded causing fatal wounds and bleeding.
In St Louis Charles Crowe twenty two, a gangster once arrested 91 times, was killed during a tobacco store holdup by four masked youths. Harry Abern thirty three was seriously wounded when he and his brother refused to be robbed.
Seventeen year old Tenny Starling Ricker was captured after a chase and jailed in Greenville on a charge of prying props from beneath a schoolhouse causing it to topple. Police report bloodhounds aided the pursuit in Greene County.
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