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Belleville Lodge Organized Among Illinois News Items
General news items report a Belleville lodge of the Order of Elka organized recently. Danville population listed at 14,000 with 17 miles of brick streets and five public buildings. A headless lamb born near Virden deemed a freak. The Cass County silo house destroyed by fire with no injuries. Illinois Sunday School Association will meet in Decatur May 16 to 18. Carlyle paper mill experiments with slough grass producing paper success. Farmers Institute of the 18th district to meet in Litchfield in December. Nokomis area reports a disease like Prairietown disease. Marriage of David Baughman and Ellen McNary in Markshall. ChamPagne farmers harvest 540 acres of hemp. Murphysboro mail delivery service extends four miles. Thirteen wolves killed near Pinckneyville with bounty certificates issued. August Sievers dies in Staunton at 75. Dr. C. U. Dake of Belleville commits suicide. Monmouth saloon defeat spurs new town with breweries backing race track. Albion Journal claims county circuit court record for two semiannual terms with no petit jury trial. Carbondale to gain mercantile protection agency and blue book risk ratings. Union miners plead guilty to railroad hold-up. jail term remitted. Staunton cage accident damages awarded to injured miners. Begole place murder near O’Fallon shocks locals. two farmhands involved, one dead, the other escaped.