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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1920
Page
8
Farmers question husking pay as corn value halves from last year. The discussion centers on 5c per bushel as fair given high daily output and farmer costs. Reports say yields are generally good, with some losses from drought, hail, and wind in pockets.
The man later identified as Ignace Slavich was recovered from the river near the quarry of an Oglesby cement plant after cement worker John Lawler found the body while rowing. Coroner Donoghue led an inquest in La Salle with an open verdict.
Classified notice seeks a male or female agent for J. R. Watkins Company in Spring Valley. Promises big profits with a nationwide reputation and requests inquiries to 57 Winona Minnesota.
The eleventh annual memorial marks the 1909 Cherry Mine disaster with a morning parade and an afternoon program at the village hall starting 1 20 PM. Speakers include Harry Fishwick James Lord A F I Washington Geo L Mercer.
Bureau County Board of Supervisors adopts resolutions to submit at the November 2 1920 general election a proposal for a sixty cent per one hundred dollars tax levy for four years to fund state aid roads and bridge projects. The plan outlines election precincts polling between seven AM and five PM and requires notices and ballots prepared by the County Clerk.
Notice for the November 2, 1920 general election in Bureau County Illinois outlines separate ballots for women and reception of women's ballots under Australian Ballot Law. It also notes a proposed tax levy of sixty cents per one hundred dollars for four years to fund roads and bridges and specifies a separate ballot form for the levy.
Congregational Church notes announce next Sunday at 11 a m a sermon titled Building Wisely or Foolishly by Persell. The note evokes frost and woodland imagery as it invites reverent strolls to a dim cathedral like setting.
A vintage farm rat control ad warns that rats threaten infants in homes on farms. It promotes RAT-SNAP in three sizes with prices 35c 65c and 1.25 and notes availability through Fehr and Cumming and Thompson Drug Co.
A proverb from the Toledo Blade notes a man accepts timely car service for a month with a grunt, but erupts in anger over a ten minute delay, seeking to overturn what is right side up.
A St John chocolate maker told the Canadian Industrial Relations Commission that employees nicked goods valued at 18000 last year. The plant employs 190 people making the per worker loss about 99 dollars, prompting a self help approach by the workforce.
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