Nine Bureau county boys die in war likely to be remembered
A county page memorializes nine Bureau county soldiers who died in training camps and in France during the past week. Names include Robert Patterson of Spring Valley Chas Greene Lloyd Knowlton of DePue Paul Wiltz of Princeton Leslie Cohrs Milo Meredith and Frank Webb of Buda plus others from Princeton and Cherry. Reports detail illness and death at Camp Dodge Grant Hancock and in France with funeral notices and local mourners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Patterson
Spring Valley
Chas, Greene
Andrew Adamaitis
Cherry
Lloyd Knowlton
DePue
August Fred Hartig
Princeton
Paul G. Wiltz
Leslie Cohrs
Milo
Lawrence Meredith
Buda
Frank S. Webb
Bureau County
France
Fairfield Township
Lloyd
Princeton High School
W. S. Knowlton
Seelig
Camp Grant
Camp
Hancock
Georgia Camp
Sheffield
Dallas
Call for Change in Bureau County Sheriff Leadership
A letter urges voters to limit long tenure by current Sheriff and deputies. It cites forty years of combined service by three men and argues qualified alternatives exist, naming Len P. D. Spaulding as the Democratic candidate for Sheriff. The piece endorses a political renewal at the coming election.
Spring Valley Forms Public Health Visiting Nurse Service
Mrs. George Dyer is appointed visiting nurse for Spring Valley and begins duties next Monday October 21. The Woman's Club organizes the program to provide in home nursing, hygiene and sanitation guidance at low cost with physician oversight and village support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Club of
Spring Valley
Spring Valley Public Health Nursing Organization
Nurss
Woman's Club
George Dyer
W. Devlin St
Dyer
Influenza Spreads Across Bureau County In 1918 Burst
Amid illness in Spring Valley and DePue, Bureau County reports vast flu impact. Health department notes 15 000+ cases locally with statewide totals rising. Chicago leads in cases. Authorities close theatres moving picture houses schools and public amusements. urging masks, isolation, and medical care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau County
Bureau
Gazette
State Health Department
Chicago
C. St. Clair Drake
State Department of Public Health
Illinois
State Department of Health
Drake
Ilinois
Cook County
Miner Killed by Rock Fall at Spring Valley
James Gianone 41 Italian coal miner at No 3 nine Spring Valley died Thursday afternoon when 1 1/2 tons of rock collapsed overhead in his room as he finished repairs. Born in France to Italian parents, he had lived in Spring Valley fifteen years and worked as a miner. Fellow workers removed the fallen rock after arriving at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Gianone
No. 3
Nine
Spring Valley
Gianone
France
Death of W Heilgeist Jr. noted in Spring Valley
William Heilgeist Jr. died at his West Minnesota Street home Sunday afternoon after bronchitis developed into pneumonia and brain fever. A Spring Valley Coal Co. veteran and star football player, he worked at the Ladd mine until five days before his death. He was 29, married Clara Zabel in 1912, and leaves wife, three children, parents, two brothers Bruno and Paul, and two sisters. Funeral held Wednesday from his home with burial in Peru city cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A G. Wiltz
Andrew Wiltz
Princeton
Gosse Homestead
Camp Grant
Rockford
Til
Paul
Miss
Va Gosse
Gosse Wiltz
Ile
Gosse
West Penn Street
Wm. Heilgeist, Jr
West
Minnesota Street
Mr. Heilgeist
Ladd
William Heilgeist, Jr
William Heilgeist
Spring Valley
Spring Valley Coal Co
Clara Zabel
Kewanee
Peru
Heilgeist
Bruno
Martin Sadnick
Peter Cavaletto
Neponset School Head's Wife Dies by Her Own Hand
Ada M Bird Deich wife of Charles E Deich Neponset school superintendent died Sunday morning by drinking chloroform. The death followed a note to the school board alleging her husband favored a housekeeper Miss Bradley aged eighteen who had lived with them. Neponset coroner and authorities investigated while Deich claimed she was mentally unbalanced with a history of violent fits and threats to kill herself and children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada Deich
Charles E. Deich
Neponset
Miss Bradley
Deich
Princeton
Abingdon
Evanston
Vernon
Ind
Malm
Abinngdon
M. & Church
Colfax
Ada M. Bird
English
Ralph
Charles
Florence
Harold
DePue Native John Gurnett Dies After Long Illness
John Gurnett 79 a longtime DePue resident died at St Margaret s hospital Spring Valley after two years of illness from injuries in a fall He was an Ireland native and survived by three sons and three daughters His funeral was held at the Church of the Immaculate Conception Vall rs7
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Gurnett
DePue
St. Margaret’s Hospital
Spring Valley
Mr. Gurnett
Spring
Also Mentioned on This Page
Charles Greene
Chas. Grene
Chappie Greene
Camp Dodge
Tvan Bell
R. M. Atcheson
Mary Stenger
Mendota
J. R. Murry
Peoria
Private Leslie Cohrs
Albert Cohrs
Milo Township
Henry
John
William
George
Edward
James
Albert Woodin
Minnie Cohrs
Rey
Uber
George Zackett
Camp Green
Charlotte
N. C
Andrewartha
New Bedford
Mt. Bloom
Tiskilwa
S. J. Webb
Bradley Institute
Frank
Army Training Corps
Ambrose Perrin
Practor Hospital
Gaile Akin
THE
Voters OF Bureau CO
Trimble
Calgary
San Antonio
Texas
Len PD. Spaulding
SPG
Valley
Woman’s Club
Crest
Felix Serena
Mary Sault
Meissent
Chas. Kruchinski Wim _ Heilgeist
Jseph Prokop
Robt
Cantwell
John Garnett
Andrew Barto
James Lynch
G. Monterastelli
B. Monterastelli
Claude Manson
Paul Gouidorini
Frank Perisi
Assumption
Greenup
Kankakee
Cairo
Marengo
Nokomis
Bloomington
Hhe State Health Department
William Heilgeist Deal
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