Petition Urges Wide Salary Cuts for County Employees
A petition with 4000 signees asks the county board of supervisors to implement drastic pay reductions for court house and elective county officers. Proposed cuts include 25 percent for elective officers 40 percent for janitors and jailors probate court clerk pay from court earnings and elimination of most bailiff wages. Controversy also erupts over reappointing Dr Robert J Boyle as county veterinarian amid safety and professional concerns raised by dairymen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Board of Supervisors
Robert J. Boyle
Joliet
J. R. Brown
State Department
Boyle
William Kirman
Lockport
Y M C A Sponsors Final Golf Meet This Week
The Y M C A will stage its fifth and final year golf tournament tomorrow at Big Run Golf Course. The handicap event is limited to Y M C A members with stronger players joining the first state meet at Waubonsie course in Aurora on Friday September 23.
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Big Run
Waubonsie
Aurora
Racegoer Declares Fans Lose Money at Lincoln Tracks
Fred Ross, 53, told Justice Mossman at Crete he aimed to take money from racegoers. He faced a disorderly conduct charge after arraignment on theft allegations and was fined 50 dollars plus costs. Unable to pay, Ross was jailed to work off the fine.
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Fred Ross
Will County
Fred
Justice of the Peace
George Mossman
Crete
Lincoln Fields
Mossman
Joliet Chamber Directors Meet to Discuss Future Policies
Joliet Association of Commerce directors will meet at noon today in the Woodruff hotel to discuss future policies. President J. W. Bartley will preside. A highway committee including Arthur Leach and Gerald Cavanaugh will assist county highway officials in securing roads for this section of the state.
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Joliet Association of Commerce
Woodruff
J. W. Bartley
Arthur Leach
Gerald Cavanaugh
Eugene Lennon
John Ohla
Co. W. Beatty
Dammis DeGuess
John F. Lux
William Carter
Prince Friederich Renews American Greetings in Illinois
While racing toward a lunch with Governor Emmerson in Springfield an auto driven by Prince Friederich burned a bearing eight miles south of Wilmington. He waited in a Wilmington garage for a replacement machine then chatted with townspeople and signed pamphlets. In Joliet he spoke with Woodruff hotel proprietor Paul Schoene.
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Louis L. Emmerson
Springfield
Prince Friederich
Wilmington
Kaiser
Chicago
Prince
America
Joliet
Woodruff Hotel
Paul Schoene
Night of June 13 location smoking scene noted
Clive Brook carries a special case on screen holding four pipes and three tobacco varieties in a location smoking moment from The Night of June 13.
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Clive Brook
Is Pty Nabbed
A Crete track hanger on named Jerry Carson posed as jockey sending fake telegram tips to bettors after the Lincoln Fields fall meeting. Carson, 28, faced Justice of the Peace George Mossman and was fined 100 dollars plus costs, which he could not pay, and he remains in Will County jail.
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Lincoln Fields
Jerry Carson
Crete
Justice of the Peace
George Mossman
Ross
Will County
Pittsburgh Woman’s 28-Word Will Sparks Museum Interest
A Pittsburgh woman leaves a terse 28 word will that may lure a museum buyer. Headlines ponder whether convicted thieves reveal faces or honor in crime their stories.
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Pittsburgh
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Chamber OF Commerce
Bluff and
Jefferson Sts
Adler’s
Jim-Dandy
Frankfurts
Live Springs
Land-O-Lakes
van Camps
U. S
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Claudette Colbert
Jimmy Durante
Ator
Ng News
L. F. Beach CO
Chicago & Cass Streets
Dinet & CO
Ottawa
Cass Streets
Cass Street
Uptown Furniture Coo
Ruby & Summit Streets
Chicago Street
People’s Outfitting CO
Ottawa St
Collins St. Lewis Bros
OWL
Fitzgerald Furniture
Cass St
Sumbaums Cash Market
Ruby St
Ideal Beauty and Barber Shop
D'Arcy
O. F. Sumbaum’s
Lyons Bros
E. Washington St
Lindborg Ice Cream CO
Henderson Ave
D. C
N. Raynor Ave
Arcade Food Mart
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