Moonshine Raids Net Still Equipment in Spring Valley
State's Attorney Skinner's dry squad found a complete moonshine still and outfit in a lean-to behind Anton Laugal's Spring Valley home. Deputies Spaulding and Applen seized the apparatus and two jugs of liquor, and Laugal was summoned to appear before Judge Prichard for violating the eighteenth amendment. Officers also searched for Moros near Marquette, recovering one jug of liquor at his home.
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Atorney Skinner
Anton Laugal
Spring Valley
Len D. Spaulding
Jack Applen
Laugal
Prichard
Z. Moros
Marquette
Moros
Lost His Lid Hat Fire Sparks Sept Reminder
Fritz De Filippi stored a prized straw lid on the counter. minutes later a friend alerted him to a backyard fire, where his hat burned. The incident nods to the end of straw hat season on September 1st.
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Fritz de Filippi
Fritz
Boy Scouts Meet For Saturday Evening Hike
Native Scouts plan a hike this Saturday at 6 30 p m sharp. All scouts are urged to attend as weather may worsen. Scoutmaster urges readiness and punctuality for the outdoor activity.
Congregational Church Notes Prepare Labor Day Sermon
The September meeting of officers teachers workers and friends of the Bible School is this Thursday at 8 o'clock with the Junior department in charge of the program. The Sunday before Labor Day the sermon will discuss The Religion of Industry.
Auto thieves caught after cross country thefts in Iowa
Three Battle Creek youths stolen cars across the country and attempted to steal fuel at a Wilton Junction filling station. They were arrested and confessed to stealing two cars including one owned by Phil Newmyer of Sheffield.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Wilton Junction
Iowa
Phil Newmyer
Sheffield
Auto Races At Mendota For Labor Day Prizes
Mendota hosts a Labor Day auto racing event with $4,000 in prizes. Top drivers including Cliff Woodbury and forty others attend. Races begin at 1 30 with three five mile heats a five mile match race a five mile junk car race and a final 25 mile event.
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Mendota
Cliff Woodbury
Warning to Hunters at West End Gun Club Grounds
Notice forbids hunting fishing or trespassing on West End Gun Club lands including Rein ke's Konneck's and Mud Lake. Trespassers will be prosented.
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West End Gun Club
Reinke’s
Konneck’s
Mud Lake
East Mine Strike widescale halt over wage talks
Anthracite mining is at a complete standstill as 148 000 miners respond to John L. Lewis United Mine Workers call for a strike after failed wage contract talks. About 10 000 workers stay on as maintenance. The old contract expired at midnight. Officials foresee a possible two to four month tie up and a large 7 500 000 ton reserve to avert a coal famine.
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John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Lewis
Middle Atlantic
New England
The Pencil Makes a Farm Pay Better
A 1920s farm finance piece argues farming is a business needing books. It cites Illinois and Iowa farmers who profited from records, inventories, and cost control, noting better profits and loan prospects when annual statements reflect asset and income changes.
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Illinois
Iowa
J Hetherington Dies in LaSalle
J Hetherington a longtime LaSalle resident died at 775 Eleventh street at 4 15 PM Monday after a paralytic stroke suffered Saturday evening He was born in LaSalle and spent his life there He worked 40 years with LaSalle County Carbon Coal company retiring last November after leaving the firm
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John Hetherington
LaSalle
Eleventh Street
Mr. Hetherington
LaSalle County Carbon Coal Company
Isham Jones Orchestra at Hicks Park Labor Day
Isham Jones and his world famous orchestra will headline Hicks Park on Labor Day Monday Sept 7. Park manager Harry Champley says the act comes at enormous expense and is the highest priced orchestra to ever play in this city. Spectators can expect a top master of melody in fresh syncopations with ample parking and accommodations for all.
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Isham Jones
Hicks Park
Labor Day
Harry Champley
Legion Proposes Religious League to Curb Bias
Charles Schick of Illinois Legion proposes a new Religious League uniting Protestants Catholics and Jews as a reserve force to fight prejudice and internationalism. Schick and Father Joseph Longeran have visited lodges of K of C and Masons for months to recruit members for this effort.
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American Legion of Illinois
Charles Schick
Department of Church-Legion Co
Mr. Schick
Legion
Schick
Joseph Longeran
Illinois Legion
K. of C
Masons
Hull sails for Pan American Highway Conference
Congresswoman Hull embarked with a seven member commission appointed by President Coolidge to attend the Pan American Highway Conference in Buenos Aires from October 3 to 13. The delegation comprises road building experts and Hull is noted as the sole congressman chosen, a leading advocate for hard roads in Illinois and national road legislation.
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Coolidge
Buenos Aires
New York
Congressman Hull
Illinois
State to Show Work at Kankakee
Illinois state government departments will present striking exhibits at the Kankakee Inter-State Fair September 14 to 18. Nearly every department including health agriculture highways waterways welfare will showcase efforts with direct impact on citizens’ lives.
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Illinois
Kankakee
Kankakee Inter State Fair to Offer Free Week of Entertainment
The Kankakee Inter-State Fair runs Sept 14 through 18 with five days of continuous free entertainment. More than 25 musical vaudeville and circus acts are planned, plus races and a horse show. Col. R. Miller, president of the fair association, has secured an 80 person musical revue to headline the free attractions.
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Kankakee
Col. ©. R. Miller
The
Fair Association
Kankakee Inter-State Fair to Stage Million-Dollar Livestock Parade
The Kankakee Inter-State Fair will run September 14 to 18 featuring a Million-Dollar Livestock Parade on Livestock Day. Ribbon winners from weeklong exhibits will march at 4 PM, drawing hundreds of breeders and prize winners from major state fairs to Kankakee.
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United States
Kankakee
In cities you are neighborly when you don’t glare at your neighbor
A note from the Louisville Courier Journal advocates courteous urban living, urging residents to show neighborly restraint and avoid hostile stares to foster a friendlier communal atmosphere.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Bankers Aid Seed Testing and Community Agriculture Efforts
Bankers in Monrovia Indiana assist farmers by testing seed corn in a basement lab last season. About 25 000 cars were tested for fifty six farmers and one quarter of seed tested was unfit. This year higher failure rate expected under supervision of a high school agricultural teacher. A surplus seed corn is anticipated. Banks in Conway Arkansas offer 150 first prize and 50 district prizes for best one acre of marketable sweet potatoes. County Bankers Association plans to fund full time county leader for boys and girls club work in Calhoun Cherokee and Buena Vista counties Iowa.
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Monrovia
Ind
High Schoe
Conway
Ark
County Bankers Association
Calhoun
Cherokee
Buena Vista
Iowa
Motor light law violators fined in LaSalle roundup
State investigators Adams and Cox of Springfield rounded up eleven violators in LaSalle for failure to carry lights as prescribed by law and eight paid fines of five dollars plus costs. Named offenders include Buczynski Ross Woodrick Ratajczak Allen Kurtz Kerp Ambrose. Continuances were set for Hoffman Eisentrager and Zarnowski.
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Adams and Cox
Springfield
LaSalle
Frank Buczynski
David Ross
Oglesby
William Woodrick
Louis Ratajczak
Carl Allen
Kankakee
John Kurtz
Peru
Adolph Kerp
John Ambrose
Spring Valley
George Hoffman
Walter Eisentrager
John Zarnowski
Emily Glessner Weds Thomas Ford in Peru Ceremony
Mrs. Emily Glessner became the bride of Thomas Ford in a St. Joseph's parish Peru ceremony held at 2 15 pm Monday afternoon. Rev. Father Florian performed the rites with Mr and Mrs Otto Hoffman as attendants.
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Emily Glessner
Thomas Ford
St. Joseph's Parish
Peru
Father Florian
Otto Hoffman
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J. Hetherington
WM. E. Hull
America
Richman
Charles Pomatto
St. Paul Street
Soldier’s Orphans Home Band
LeRay Bros
Len Small
McNabb
Ladd Moose
Frank L. Smith
Barnyard
Ford
Goodyear Tires
Coveny'’S
Ford Sales and Service
Dakota Street
Spring Valley, Ill
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