City Council Cuts Salaries to Trim Expenses
The council reduced pay for the mayor, city commissioners, treasurer, and attorney and removed one police officer, lowering annual payroll to about 16 290 dollars. They claim total city debt and annual receipts from various funds, salaries, and water works are listed from city reports, with total expenses around 38 674 dollars and a contingent fund near 6 500 dollars.
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Anton Troglio
Anton Faletti
Burnell
Knapp
City Water Works
Nail Down the Kaiser War Bond Event at Pool Hall
R A Treat and James Doyle will host a July 15 event in front of Cassiday Bros. pool hall where participants who buy a war saving stamp receive a chance to drive a nail into a Kaiser coffin with a lid. Miss Elizabeth Casey returns home after tonsil surgery at St Margaret's Hospital last week.
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R. A. Treat
James Doyle
Cassiday Bros
Kaiser
Elizabeth Casey
St. Margaret's Hospital
Spring Valley Fourth of July Parade and Service Flag Dedication
Spring Valley hosted a large orderly Fourth of July celebration with a mile long parade featuring 2000 participants including Red Cross, Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, church societies, and foreign born residents. A City Hall program followed with speeches by C N Hollerich Allen Dwyer Judge Hawthorne State's Attorney Skinner and Rev C C Carpenter who led a solemn dedication of the City Service Flag honoring 300 volunteers. The event closed with patriotic music and a liquor-free, well attended mood.
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Illinois
Spring Valley
Red Cross
St. Peter and Paul Church
Jos. Ciesla
St. Ann’s Lithuanian Church
City Hall
Dakota
Terry
St. Paul Street
Power Street
St. Paul
Erie
City Hall Aark
C. N. Hollerich
Allen Dwyer
Wm. Hawthorne
Woodrow Wilson
Taggart
Cherry
Josef T. Skinner
C. C. Carpenter
Princeton
DePue
Fotowing
National Army
Stars and Stripes
Frank Balzarino
Thomas Kirkman
Fort Terry
N. Y
E. del Collings
Camp Dodge
Towa
Local service flag list grows to 288 names
Readers contributed additional names to the Spring Valley service flag bringing the total from 279 previously published to 288. The note invites further submissions of any missing names such as George Miller Charles Grosso Joe Pecchio Camilo Margherid¢ Ted Reichl Herbert Rathbun Chester Averill George Kulupka Stanley Mutts.
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Spring Valley
George Miller
Charles Grosso
Joe Pecchio
Camilo Margherid
Ted Reichl
Herbert Rathbun
Chester Averill
George Kulupka
Stanley Mutts
War Stamp Record Sets $40,000 Target at Spring Valley
Postmaster Sweeney reports war savings stamps and thrift stamps sales at the Spring Valley post office total about 17,492 so far. Despite competing drives for war bonds and patrol fund subscriptions, officials call the showing excellent and aim to hit $40,000 by year end.
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Sweeney
The
Gazette
Post Office
Patrolic Fund
Spring Valley Post Office
Local Four Minute Men to Speak at Theatres This Month
The Local Four Minute Men present talks at local theatres during July. Speakers include Wim. Hawthorne on July 1 and 15, C. N. Hollerich July 14, Wm. J. Wimbisenss July 17, Peter DeFilippi July 20, Charles T. Hanson July 21, Irving Munson July 24, Rev. Mills July 27, and James P. Doyle July 28. Topics are Danger to America Thrift Stamps and The Meaning of America. Talks occur near the close of the first performance and are limited to four minutes at each venue.
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Wim
A. Hawthorne
C. N. Hollerich
Wm. J. Wimbisenss
Peter DeFilippi
Charles T. Hanson
Trving Munson
Rev. Mills
James P. Doyle
Wim. Hawthorne
America
Draft 1818 Registrants Call for Skilled Men for Exemption Board
The Local Exemption board issues a call for white men of 1918 class to fill skilled roles including auto repair, blacksmithing, machinist work, lumber, and many trades. Volunteers may join from the 1918 class with waived classification limits. if insufficient numbers are recruited, involuntary induction will follow. The June 5 registrants receive call order numbers and will be examined on Monday with No. 10 lead.
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Engineer Corps
Navy
Marine Corps
Frank 8S. Dickson
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