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Farmers' Weekly Review, 24 April 1929
ILLINOIS BREVITIES
Mrs. Sybil Meade, fifty-six, wife of Benjamin Meade , a prominent resident and business man of Milford , fell dead in a restaurant at Hoopeston.
Minnie Dimery, seventy-year-old circus performer, died at her home, in Galesburg . Miss Dimery was four feet in height and weighed 45 pounds.
Mrs. Ella Smith, fifty-one years old, wife of Melvin Smith, a farmer living one mile west of Pearl, was burned to death as a result of pouring kerosene on a dying fire.
Members of the Illinois division, Travelers' Protective Association of America, will meet in Champaign for the thirty-ninth annual state convention of the order May 17 to 18.
One hundred and fifteen young women, selected by the various county farmers institutes in the state, will attend the thirty-first annual Illinois state fair school of domestic science in Springfield August 9 to 23.
Mrs. John Smith of Hillsboro, was subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury as a witness. She informed Sheriff Hill that she would not appear until her baby's afternoon nap was completed. She did not.
Jerome Heath, of Ottawa, motorcycle patrolman, suffered a broken collar bone when the motorcycle on which he was chasing a speeder, skidded and overturned. The speeder escaped .
The inter-fraternity council on the University of Illinois campus has elected Edward Choelscher, Jr., Chicago, president for next year. L.A. Watt, Winchester, was named vice president. R.F. Hahn, Chicago, secretary; H.C. Pattison, Monmouth, treasurer, and Richard L. Moore, Chicago, sergeant-at-arms.
A dispute, said to have been based on possession of a violin, ended in the shooting of Noah Overton, thirty years old, and his wife Beulah in a resort they opened recently near Long lake , east of Granite City. Witnesses say the shooting occurred when Howard (C)lppert, a musician, who resides near East Alton , went to the resort to recover a violin .
The South Central Illinois Golf association was reorganized in Pana for the season. Members are . Pana , Hillsboro, Vandalia, Centralia, Greenville Salem, Effingham, and Shelbyville . Opening matches will be played May 30, as follows: Shelbyville at Hillsboro; Effingham at Pana; Vandalia at Salem and Greenville at Centralia. The annual tournament will be played August 29 at Greenville. The outcome of all games will be determined by the results of the first four foursomes.
Mrs. H.S . Juntgen of Kansas, III ., Was elected president of the Eighteenth district, Illinois Federatnon of Woman's clubs at the closing session of the annual meeting in Momence . She succeeds Mrs E.O. Herman of Momence . Mrs. A.L. Nickerson, of Kankakee was named treasurer, and Mrs. Caxton Link, of Paris, corresponding secretary. Other executive officers were retained. They are, Mrs. F. Brown, of Cissna Park, vice president, and Mrs. F. McGrew, of Kankakee, recording secretary.
An invitation to International Rotary to make a pilgrimage to the tomb of Abraham Lincoln at the time of the world-wide convention in Chicago in 1930 was extended by central Illinois Rotarians at their annual meeting in Springfield. Dr . A.T. Peters of Peoria was presented at the banquet as governor-designate of the district as a result of the withdrawal of Candidates Thomas H. Williamson of Edwardsville and C. R. Davis of Auburn. Doctor Peters will be formally elected governor at the international convention in Dallas in May.
A wolf attacked Harvey C. Hetlaud , Aurora, as he walked through Phillips park, the city's principal recreation grounds. Before he could fight off the animal, which had escaped from the park zoo, Hetland was bitten seven times. He was taken to his home where he is being attended by Dr . George W. Hahn, the city health commissioner. Park employees ordered everyone out of the grounds while they hunted the wolf with rifle and shotgun, but it escaped them. It appeared later at the country home of Frank Burton, a mile away, and was shot by Mr. Burton's gardener .
A gift of $ 100,000 to the city of St. Charles for the erection of a model community hospital was announced by Lester Norris, who said the gift had been made by his wife, Dellora Angell Norris of St. Charles, heiress to millions of late John W. Gates. The structure will be of artistic design , and will overlook Fox river from the east. Work will be started this summer, with completion set for early fall. It will be of 50-bed capacity. A committee of citizens has been selected to perfect plans, including Charles S. McCornack, oil dealer, chairman; Miss Lois McCornack, attorney, Harry G. Hempstead, and Mrs. Norris .
William Strong, of Peoria, the man who could compute figures with the speed of an adding machine, and never knew how he did It , is dead . He would stand beside a railroad track as a long freight rolled by, observing the car numbers and when the caboose flashed past, he would announce the total as correctly as the tabulator with paper and pad who stood beside him. Merchants employed him at inventory time, in place of using adding machines. Strong died on a railroad viaduct where he was in the habit of going daily to perform the feat of boxcar numbers.
Mrs. Sybil Meade, fifty-six, wife of Benjamin Meade , a prominent resident and business man of Milford , fell dead in a restaurant at Hoopeston.
Minnie Dimery, seventy-year-old circus performer, died at her home, in Galesburg . Miss Dimery was four feet in height and weighed 45 pounds.
Mrs. Ella Smith, fifty-one years old, wife of Melvin Smith, a farmer living one mile west of Pearl, was burned to death as a result of pouring kerosene on a dying fire.
Members of the Illinois division, Travelers' Protective Association of America, will meet in Champaign for the thirty-ninth annual state convention of the order May 17 to 18.
One hundred and fifteen young women, selected by the various county farmers institutes in the state, will attend the thirty-first annual Illinois state fair school of domestic science in Springfield August 9 to 23.
Mrs. John Smith of Hillsboro, was subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury as a witness. She informed Sheriff Hill that she would not appear until her baby's afternoon nap was completed. She did not.
Jerome Heath, of Ottawa, motorcycle patrolman, suffered a broken collar bone when the motorcycle on which he was chasing a speeder, skidded and overturned. The speeder escaped .
The inter-fraternity council on the University of Illinois campus has elected Edward Choelscher, Jr., Chicago, president for next year. L.A. Watt, Winchester, was named vice president. R.F. Hahn, Chicago, secretary; H.C. Pattison, Monmouth, treasurer, and Richard L. Moore, Chicago, sergeant-at-arms.
A dispute, said to have been based on possession of a violin, ended in the shooting of Noah Overton, thirty years old, and his wife Beulah in a resort they opened recently near Long lake , east of Granite City. Witnesses say the shooting occurred when Howard (C)lppert, a musician, who resides near East Alton , went to the resort to recover a violin .
The South Central Illinois Golf association was reorganized in Pana for the season. Members are . Pana , Hillsboro, Vandalia, Centralia, Greenville Salem, Effingham, and Shelbyville . Opening matches will be played May 30, as follows: Shelbyville at Hillsboro; Effingham at Pana; Vandalia at Salem and Greenville at Centralia. The annual tournament will be played August 29 at Greenville. The outcome of all games will be determined by the results of the first four foursomes.
Mrs. H.S . Juntgen of Kansas, III ., Was elected president of the Eighteenth district, Illinois Federatnon of Woman's clubs at the closing session of the annual meeting in Momence . She succeeds Mrs E.O. Herman of Momence . Mrs. A.L. Nickerson, of Kankakee was named treasurer, and Mrs. Caxton Link, of Paris, corresponding secretary. Other executive officers were retained. They are, Mrs. F. Brown, of Cissna Park, vice president, and Mrs. F. McGrew, of Kankakee, recording secretary.
An invitation to International Rotary to make a pilgrimage to the tomb of Abraham Lincoln at the time of the world-wide convention in Chicago in 1930 was extended by central Illinois Rotarians at their annual meeting in Springfield. Dr . A.T. Peters of Peoria was presented at the banquet as governor-designate of the district as a result of the withdrawal of Candidates Thomas H. Williamson of Edwardsville and C. R. Davis of Auburn. Doctor Peters will be formally elected governor at the international convention in Dallas in May.
A wolf attacked Harvey C. Hetlaud , Aurora, as he walked through Phillips park, the city's principal recreation grounds. Before he could fight off the animal, which had escaped from the park zoo, Hetland was bitten seven times. He was taken to his home where he is being attended by Dr . George W. Hahn, the city health commissioner. Park employees ordered everyone out of the grounds while they hunted the wolf with rifle and shotgun, but it escaped them. It appeared later at the country home of Frank Burton, a mile away, and was shot by Mr. Burton's gardener .
A gift of $ 100,000 to the city of St. Charles for the erection of a model community hospital was announced by Lester Norris, who said the gift had been made by his wife, Dellora Angell Norris of St. Charles, heiress to millions of late John W. Gates. The structure will be of artistic design , and will overlook Fox river from the east. Work will be started this summer, with completion set for early fall. It will be of 50-bed capacity. A committee of citizens has been selected to perfect plans, including Charles S. McCornack, oil dealer, chairman; Miss Lois McCornack, attorney, Harry G. Hempstead, and Mrs. Norris .
William Strong, of Peoria, the man who could compute figures with the speed of an adding machine, and never knew how he did It , is dead . He would stand beside a railroad track as a long freight rolled by, observing the car numbers and when the caboose flashed past, he would announce the total as correctly as the tabulator with paper and pad who stood beside him. Merchants employed him at inventory time, in place of using adding machines. Strong died on a railroad viaduct where he was in the habit of going daily to perform the feat of boxcar numbers.