Murderous Shootings Stir Bureau Village Tragedy
Charles August Hopper, a 27 year old Bureau County resident, is killed in a shooting aboard a train route near Bureau after a confrontation with Jack Wehr. Wehr, arrested by Peoria police with two guns, claims self defense. coroner's inquest returns murder verdict and notes Wehr’s prior record. Sheriff Spaulding moves prisoner to Bureau jail amid a tense, watchful crowd.
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Fecree
Charles Angus Bureau
Deliber Ocieuk
Lilo
Joan
Bothind Jak
Putnam
Peoria
Sheriff Spaulding
Wely
Wehr
Hopper
Bopper
Schendel
P. G. Schendel
Leonard Osborn
Iday
Burelau
Bureau
Peece
Hops_attem
X. Wehr
Wm. Estes
J. C. Don
Schende
Estes
Donahue
Jesse T. Moran
Mr. Estes
Moran
Harrington Restanahue
Jack
Inman
Warrington
Harrington
Murphy
Chicago
Spaulding
Thopper
Spauldi
Henry
Skinner
Folk
Wim. Anderson
Auto
Charles August Hopper
Jack Wehr
Princeton
State of Illinois
A. D
Eugene Carlin
Henry Holmes
Albert R. Stank
William Charles
John E. Dahlstrom
Joe Martin
Live cave man found near Ladd in a hill cave
Hunters John Ciovanni and Mike Collier near Seatonville reported a cave dug into a hillside where a 38 year old Russian man named Mike Payalouk lived. He claimed a wife and child in Russia and said he came from Kewanee about a month earlier to winter there with clay store goods and a bedboard.
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John Ciovanni
Mike Collier
Seatonville
Mike Payalouk
Stolen horse and rig reported in DePue village
A horse and rig owned by Charles Kidd of DePue were stolen from a hitch rack on main street last Tuesday night. The thief was tracked to the Peru Princeton road about three miles north, but the trail went cold. Sheriff Spaulding alerted neighboring towns within fifty miles by noon the next day, but no further information has arrived.
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Charles Kidd
DePue
DePue Pote
Peru
Princeton
Sheriff’s Office
Spaulding
Sheriff’s
Records underway as local exemption office prepares to close
Three workers adjust and organize exemption board records under adjutant general orders. A Decem ber 10 closure was followed by a demand for more statistics before sealing. All 180 district files will move to Springfield's adjutant general office, requiring space, with local offices expected to vanish by year end.
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Adjutant General’s Office
Adjutant General's
Springfield
Returning Soldiers Get Government Help Details
Official telegraph from the State Council of Defense in Washington outlines benefits for discharged soldiers. Each receives one month’s pay and an allowance of three and a half cents per mile from demobilization to home. They may buy an army rail ticket at two cents per mile via the most direct route. Demobilization occurs at the camp near the home majority of unit members.
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State Council of Defense
Council of National Deense
Washington
La Salle Mayor Weds Mrs Fallon in La Salle Ceremony
The marriage of Mrs Aatherine Fallon to Dr H Mo Ocrimayor of La Salle occurred Saturday at six o clock. Rev Father Kelly officiated at St Patrick's parish. Attendants were Margaret Strout and Mc Sy. The couple left for Palm Beach Florida afterward.
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Mayor Orr
Katherine Fallon
Aatherine Fallon
H. Mo Ocrimayor
la Salle
St. Patrick’s Parochia
Father Kelly
Pestora
Margaret Strout
Mc. Sy
McNaara
Palm
Beweh
Florida
Spring Valley Youth Killed in Final World War Battle
Howard Walter Cole of Spring Valley Marine Corps was killed in action on November 11, the day the armistice was signed. He had joined early in the war and sailed overseas about two months earlier, possibly on the same ship as Noah Walkes. A telegram conveying the news reached his family, with officials offering condolences. A published Gazette letter confirms his participation in the Marine battles and pride in not being wounded.
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Thien
Spring Valley
Howard Walter Cole
Howard Cole
Sam
Noesh Walkes
Walker
Peter Fo Cole
Webster Wark
Prance
Kankakee
Howard
Adelai Cole
DePue
Washington, D. C
Peter F. Cole
Webster Park
Howard Water Cole
Marine Corps
Gazette
Harry Cassiday
Belgian immigrant Private De Bobbelaere killed in action
J H Dale of Tampico received a Washington message stating Private Desire M De Bobbelaere was killed in action in November. He was Belgian, born February 18, 1887, came to Moline in 1907 and Fairfield township in 1908, worked for Dale Brothers before enlisting July 1918. Last letter dated October 14 from France. No relatives in the U S. mother and sister remain in Belgium.
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J. H. Dale
Tampico
Harris
Adjt
Washington
Desire M. de Bobbelaere
Dale Brothers
Waterland
Oudeman
Belgium
Moline
Ilinois
Teenage hunter injures foot in hunting accident near Arlington
Edward Stein, son of Mr and Mrs Fred Stein, accidentally shot himself in the foot while hunting near Arlington last Monday morning. The rifle discharged, the bullet passed through the foot and lodged in the shoe. He was taken to Mendota for treatment by Dr Corbus, with the wound healing satisfactorily.
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Edward Stein
Fred Stein
Arlington
Mendota
Corbus
Wounded in Action Letter to Millers from Shefield Family
Mr and Mrs Dave Miller of Shefield received word their son Private Alvin Miller was seriously wounded in action on November 5. A nurse’s note accompanying the notice described the family’s worry and the grim update from the field.
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Dave Miller
Sheffield
Alvin 4L Miler
Millers
Tragedy In Kewanee Baby Burned In Stove
Mrs. Carl Robinder of Kewanee, driven temporarily insane by influen za, placed her six months old baby head first into a heating stove. The child died from burns as the father was in the cellar fetching coal.
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Carl Robinder
Kewanee
Christmas Plans At Congregational Church
The church expects the ban on children gatherings to lift by Sunday with a 9 30 bell summons for Sunday School and an 11 o clock service. A Christmas program is planned and the Endeavor group may meet at 7 P M. Friday features a lecture on The Country of the Coolies with 80 colored views. A Christmas program is hoped for Tuesday December 24 at 7 30 for Sunday School pupils with an Armenian and Syrian relief offering.
Card of Thanks for James Ryan Burke family
Card of Thanks. The Ryan Burke family thanks friends neighbors and florists for kindness sympathy and flowers shown after the death and burial of wife daughter and sister.
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James Ryan James Burke
Lost brown hound in St Paul area offers reward
A small lost dog notice from the St Paul area describes a brown hound like a hound of md and offers a reward for its return. The notice includes a contact point near 10 W St Paul and mentions a person or family seeking the pet.
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W. St. Paul
Ricco
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Laiming
MOB
P. M. Mahoney
M. Mahoney
Mr. Mahoney
Areay
Mahoney
Chillicothe
Weir
Sil
Towa
Phillip D. Schendel
Vilage
Illinois
J. C. Donahue
Leonard Osborne
Mae Shultz
Mrs. Howe
Ladd
Talig
DePue Man
Lasalle
Charles G. Long
Fairfield Township
Perry Percy‘ Noble
Walout
Valma Landers
Walnut
Guy Cokich
Dicenee Secerence
Boga
Benjamin Fernando
Elvira Abeline Alonso
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