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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1925
Page
5
The Barlow Shows bringing one hundred fifty people will visit Hicks Park for a week from June 1 to 6. The company will spend about three hundred dollars daily locally, with staff lodging in hotels and dining at area restaurants.
County Investigator M R Smith, a liquor sleuth for State's Attorney Hanson's office, was shot on the Ottawa Streator highway. A suspect, Joe Latino of Ottawa, is being sought after a volley struck Smith in the right hip and grazed him, with Smith firing only after stopping on the road. Smith is hospitalized in St Marys, and a broad search for Latino continues.
The Hall Township High School graduation program at the Auditorium features orchestra, violin solo by Marguerite Noles, a girls quartet, and the address The Measure of a Man by Supt. C. E. Fisher. Class night is Tuesday June 2 with 41 graduates listed, including Elizabeth Abrahams and Joseph Barchi.
Cherry residents visit family and friends including Jay Thirlaway and Miss Jessie Dunn with several trips to Rockford La Salle and Chicago. A baby girl arrived for J Grycoffi. Cherry theatre showcases The Storm Daughter Some Noise on May 28, The Acquittal and Kumalas Hawaiians on May 31, Don Dare Devil and Wolves of the North on June 2, The Dixie Handicap on June 4.
Mrs. Hattie Church of 215 Putnam Street Syracuse reveals how she was saved by an operation with Sorbol Quadruple a colorless liniment manufactured by Sorbol Company Mechanicsburg Ohio sold in drug stores including Rathbun's Drug Store Syracuse.
A badly decomposed male body retrieved from the Illinois river at Peru remains unidentified. Police noted possible age 50 to 55, height 5 feet 3 to 4 inches, weight 130 to 135 pounds, with dark hair and no shoes. a dime was found in a trouser pocket. An inquest offered no clues to cause or entry. Immediate burial followed.
Cold weather caused all ball games last Sunday. Next Sunday Spring Valley Tornados meet Ladd Moose at Hicks Park. The teams are evenly matched with a bitter rivalry, promising a great game.
Sheridan Lodge No 198 Knights of Pythias will meet at Moose hall on the second and fourth Monday evenings each month at 7 30.
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