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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1925
Page
4
The anthracite operators and miners' talks collapsed after a July 9 deadlock. Negotiations are halted with outside intervention seen as the only path to avert a strike affecting about 154,000 miners. Miners demand include 19 percent contract raises, $1 daily for laborers, check-off, and an eight hour day.
Boy Scouts invite members to a Friday program at 6 30 p m George Condie will share adventurous tales of the wild west All boys urged to attend and hear the stories from the storyteller Scoutmaster notes the time and place.
Carl Nelson a prominent farmer living a mile north of McNabb is hospitalized at St Margaret s Spring Valley with a crushed pelvic bone and possible internal injuries after a wagon wheel passed over his abdomen. An operation was performed and his condition is critical but improved with a fair chance for recovery.
Joe Bender of De Pue III states he will not be responsible for any bills unless they are contracted or signed by him.
Atlas Oil Company seeks sales representatives in agricultural sections to sell lubrication in drums and half drums on 30 day terms to farmers threshers truckers and industrial concerns. Must own auto age 30 to 55. employment by personal interview. Cleveland Ohio. 8-13
A Buick sedan owned by Vincent Coughlin, who lives a mile north of Cherry, rolled onto its left side after he swerved to avoid a group of boys darting into the road at 8 am Sunday. The accelerator allegedly stuck while he shut off the gas, leaving Coughlin with minor bruises as bystanders helped. The car, with a shattered windshield and crumpled left fenders, was driven to a nearby garage.
The Ladd Moose challenge any local ball team with a substantial side bet. Ladd recently beat Marseilles, which beat La Salle Indians last Sunday. La Salle declines to play Ladd. Ladd boasted they could drub the Princeton Tigers or Peru Boosters and defeated the Peru Orioles 17 to 3, with Negro allowing six hits.
A Buick sedan owned by Peru mail carrier Albert Smyslony and a Ford roadster driven by a Princeton resident collided on the concrete highway east of Spring Valley at 9:00 p m Sunday. The Buick crossed the tracks into a ditch after a sideswipe. the Ford rolled off the south side. Smyslony and passenger Ralph Foeckle reported the Ford lights were not dimmed. The Buick sustained a damaged fender tire and cracked crankcase. the Ford had a broken fender and radius rod, taken to a Spring Valley garage.
Miss Olive Norberg hosted a six o clock dinner at East Fourth street Thursday evening for guests including Mr. and Mrs. Otto Johnson of Pasadena California. Mrs Mary Lewis Iola and Robert Lewis of Princeton along with several Norberg family members attended the event. The Johnsons will leave for home Monday and Irene and Olive Norberg will accompany them for a three month visit in California.
Ida Schmitt and Henry F. Linnig announced their wedding days before leaving for a six week trip through the West. The ceremony occurred at Sparland on Thursday July 30, performed by Rev. E W Albaugh of Sparland M E church. Both are prominent in Peru where Linnig leads a local jewelry business and civic life.
Oscar M. Pierson of Fairfield township files in Circuit Court to annul his marriage to Irene Sorenson Pierson begun March 30. He says they knew each other three weeks before marrying and that she claimed chastity while widowed. He asserts he was unaware of her condition at marriage and that on July 16 she bore a child not fathered by him. The wife currently resides with relatives in Whiteside County.
Spring Valley notes report Mrs P M Mahoney and daughters Lucille and Madelon and Mrs E J Maurer and son Edmund left for a Kansas City and Iola trip. Hand embroidered mattex towels offered, plus cut work and maderia pieces. Jennie Tarro advertises goods and a lost tire reward. Fire department attended a minor blaze at John Osborne home caused by a match. Mrs Louis Vande Velde returns to Chicago after visit. For sale: Simmons bed Davenport table piano electric washer ice box and more. Residents return from St Margarets hospital and beauty trade meeting discusses new law effective Oct 1. Farrow Chix poultry catalog promotes stock and prices for Peoria Illinois.
Mrs. G. C. Quigley of Liberal Kansas reports discovering relief from eczema after using ZENZAL. She says it is used by her whole family for skin healing and infections. The product is promoted as a potent germicide suitable for cuts burns and wounds and bears the signature of Nels Darling. Thompson Drug Co. in Spring Valley and other druggists sell ZENZAL.
In Life on the Mississippi a boastful young pilot suffers a prank by the crew who fake depth readings. Frightened, he orders the ship to back as the leadsman cries marks or twain, hinting at the humorist’s pen name.
In Shanghai, theaters stay active beyond performances as Chinese merchants use the spaces during dark hours to engage customers and prospects, converting idle venues into social and commercial contact points.
The article recalls Pierre Cambronne, a celebrated French general at Waterloo, credited with the line The guard dies but never surrenders, reportedly spoken when pressed to surrender.
The University of Illinois College of Agriculture runs about 200 investigations across agronomy horticulture dairy animal husbandry farm mechanics and management with the aim of higher profits and better farm living. The "Permanent Systems of Soil Fertility" project analyzes 82 soil fields to prove rotation and soil care lift yields and reduce costs while enabling the same production from less land.
It is estimated that between 10,000 and 12,000 people visited the university college of agriculture in the past two years to inspect its work, indicating wide public interest in its programs and research.
A major blaze swept through the H. S. Caskey warehouse at Canal and Marquette streets after 10 pm Monday, reducing the old store building to ruins. The fire consumed 25 tons of baled hay and 100 barrels of flour along with other goods. insurance partly covers the loss.
Gilkerson's Union Giants fell 8 to 3 and 2 to 1 to Sterling Legion in Iowa after a win over Clinton. Crowds booed the team for a return meeting planned. They schedule a game next Saturday against the La Salle Indians at La Salle.
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