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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1918
Page
6
Citizens are urged to conserve coal as shortages persist and the war continues. Practical home measures include regulating fires, avoiding drafts, maintaining dampers, keeping soot cleaned, and using ash pits properly to prevent heat loss. The piece stresses cooperation with coal dealers and views coal saving as essential war work.
From Cook County comes word that a Chicago Democrat will run for Superintendent of Public Instruction on the Democratic ticket. Returns show 15,000 ballots eyed, with speculation Robt Kuimville, secretary of the Teachers' association, may lack a formal nomination despite support from many within the Teachers' group.
Unofficial returns show a Cook county man with 8,000 votes and Chicago figures for superintendent nominee Straus, with Blair the Republican state superintendent receiving upwards of 60,000. Officials expect Emmerson to announce the official primary totals this week as downstate results are complete and Cook county figures arrive.
The Anniston Star notes newspapers helped conserve gasoline by promoting auto less Sundays without government orders. Across the country readers forewent pleasure driving, aided by press virtue, with no paid ads or mailings, illustrating the press–people pact for war efficiency and saving resources.
The Kaiser's letter to Frau Meier praises sacrifice for the Fatherland and offers a photograph with autograph. Abraham Lincoln writes to Mrs. Bixby, mourning five sons in the Civil War, offering consolation and pride in their costly sacrifice for freedom.
Letters from relatives of German U boat crews interned in the United States arrive in London. They give little light on German internal conditions but reveal amusing ignorance of the United States. One wife writes hope for the return of her husband.
A fragment recalls a curious exchange noting fears of Indians or cowboys and a quip about appealing to the king of America. The passage mocks the idea of a royal remedy to frontier dangers and questions who counts as an Indian.
The article extols Japanese tea quality highlighting strict sanitation rules among growers and workers. It notes local associations inspect health standards and tea processing, including coring, and asserts filer teas are never artificially colored unlike some foreign teas.
A Scotch minister was asked to pray for rain and his plea was followed by a downpour that damaged crops. An old farmer quipped that the request to a minister who knows nothing of agriculture was to blame, reflecting on the storm’s consequences.
Team of horses wagon and harness formerly used by the City of Spring Valley Talley as the City Team. Bids to P. M. Mahoney City Clerk opened October 14 1918 at the regular City Council meeting. Council may reject all bids by majority vote. CITY OF SPRING VALLEY
The administrator of Antonio Golfo deceased announces appearance before Bureau County Court at Princeton Court House for December Term on the first Monday of December. All claimants must attend to have claims adjusted. Total debts to be settled with the undersigner. Dated August 26, 1918.
The Miller Cemetery trustees in Spring Valley request local residents to volunteer on Saturday September 28 for a clean up. Bring sickles scythes and rakes or any tools to help tidy the grounds for the resting place of departed loved ones.
State Highway Superintendent S. E. Bradt argues the good roads bond should be approved now to ready postwar work, aligning with Wilson’s postwar planning and aiding reabsorption of war labor into peaceful industries. He asserts the measure cannot be postponed and that voting yes reflects patriotism and prudent policy.
A landowner builds timber land mills and yields new wealth. a shipbuilder adds value to raw materials. Illinois faces a November vote on a 860,000,000 bond to build permanent highways. If investment creates equivalent wealth and bonds are repaid by users and taxes, roads benefit both investors and state, boosting commerce and mobility.
The estate of A W Klemm now represented by the executor of the last will and testament announces his appearance before the Bureau County Court at Princeton for the November term. Claimants are asked to attend to have claims adjusted and debtors urged to pay promptly. Dated September 1918.
An airplane landed at Mendota fair grounds on the Simpson farm around noon Saturday. The aviator, after stopping at Fahler Garage for oil, invited Dr. J C Corbus for a ride. After a ground test and motor adjustments the plane lifted off skimming over Mendota, heading northwest toward Vreeport.
Attorney General Brundage informs Secretary Emmerson that three ballot propositions derive from the constitution and thus women cannot vote on them. Only votes for University of Illinois trustees are open to women, leaving a $60,000,000 hard roads bond issue and a constitutional banking law amendment unavailable to female electors.
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