DAILY DISPATCH, MOLINE, ILLINOIS: TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1933. 11 News of the Day from Rock Island, Henry, Whiteside and Bureau OF GENESEO CLUB HAVE STAG Annual Meeting to Be Held November Directors to Be Chosen. Oct. 24. Men of the Geneseo, Geneseo Outing club enjoyed a stag party in the clubhouse last evening.
and enjoyed games of cards. Entertainment was provided, the group Refreshments and smokes were served. Annual Meeting. Annual meeting of the Geneseo Outing club will be held November 8, the Wednesday of the month, according to bylaws of the club. Annual reports of officers will be heard, and directors will.
be elected. Present H. Atwood, John D. Wood, Frank F. Guild, Edwin Pebler, John Prichard, George L.
Wood and J. 4 A. Bradley. Mrs. Laura Von Ach Of Hampton Passes 76th Anniversary Hampton, Oct.
Laura Von Ach, well-known resident of Hampton, is celebrating her 76th birthday, anniversary has in resided her in home this locality todayany years, although she lived with her parents in Cedar Rapids, as a small girl. Her early recollection of Hampton is that it was a soldiers' training camp and an Indian post. The saldiers sometimes amused themselves by putting the large sized pennies in split stakes to serve as target for the Indian lads to shoot at. She remembers the day when the train stopped here with the coaches all draped in black. The men who got off the train wore black mourning bands on their arms.
On asking the reason, she was told President Lincoln had been assassinated the night before. After the war. was over, she recalls seeing an open railroad coach pass, in which were a group of haggard, unkempt men with long beards, dressed in gunny sacks. She spoke of them as "wild men," but her mother explained that "they are our men," prisoners from Andersonville, where the confederates had a prison for Union captives. At the age of 7, she visited her grandmother on a farm near Hooppole, N.
Here hops were harvested, put into large trays and prepared for sale. It was a Shaker community, and she remembers that her mother learned to make Shaker bonnets of willow and to card wool, spin it and weave it into yellow, blue and white blankets. Mrs. Von Ach says she sometimes tried carding wool, but it generally knotted up for her." She was born Oct. 24., 1857, at Cincinnati, O.
She was married to Fred Von Ach, Nov. 12, 1874, at Rock Island by Justice Pinkley, who was a former teacher of her' husband. Mr. Von Ach died five years ago. He conducted a coal mine at Hampton Bluffs many years.
Mrs. Von Ach is, the mother of twelve children. Three died in infancy and two, Fred and Bert, died after reaching maturity. The surviving children Henry and Gus of Cuba, Clarence and Perry of Camp Grant, near Rockford, Joseph of Quincy, John of Hampton and Mrs. Clarence Schroeder of Davenport.
Joseph and John served in the World war, being in an artillery company stationed in thee Argonne woods at time of armistice. Clarence served in the army of occupation in Berlin after the armistice. Mrs. Von Ach is in health. She does her own housework, and often helps an obliging neighbor with her work.
Carl Bannas Dies In Son's Home at Annawan; Aged 69 Annawan, Oct. Bannas, aged 69, died in the home of his son, Otto Bannas, five miles north of Annawan, at 12:15 Sunday noon. He had been ill a long time and bedfast the last week. Funeral services will be held in P. L.
Wilson's funeral home at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon and in St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran church in Kewanee an hour later. Burial will be in Pleasant View cemetery at Kewanee. Mr. Bannas was born June 5, 1864.
in West Prussia, and was married to Miss Bertha Luecke Jan. 3, 1889. He came to in the Germany United States in 1902, settling in Geneseo first, and living there until 1924, when he went to Kewanee, and later to Annawan. He was a member of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran church in Kewanee.
Survivors are the widow; three sons, Otto, Carl and William; three dore daughters, Mrs. J. Ague, Mrs. Theoleib; fifteen Lempke and grandchildren Fred and Neu- two -grandchildren. GENESEO DUCK HUNTERS REPORT FAIR SHOOTING this locality Oct.
24. Sportsmen last of Geneseo, two or three days report have seen some fair duck shooting. Quite a numing, of the fowl have been ber passin their annual migration, and some of the more fortunate of hunters have profited. Honduras is aiding aviation. Lynn Grove School Reporter Tells of Projects of Class Coe, Oct.
Boardman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hollister Boardman, has been appointed school school. Her reporter for Lynn Grove report for the first month is, in part, as follows: "Our projects have dealt with corn, canning and potatoes. We a field trip to the farm operated took, by Hollister Boardman and, in studying an acre of corn on this farm, that one acre of ground will found produce 55 bushels of corn.
We are planning a corn contest to be held soon in competition with other rural schools in the Cordova Community high school district. "Mrs. Frank Coe gave a demonstration on canning tomatoes. We also dried apples and stored them in paraffin bags for winter use. "We have played three softball games this year, winning over Fairfield school by a small count and losing games to Cordova by large margins.
"Those having perfect spelling lessons for the first month are Betty Ross and Marian Boardman. "The school nurse, Miss Jewel David, and her assistant from a Moline clinic visited the school one day recently the pupils a physical examination." GENESEO Moline Dispatch Soffice at 121 8. State KENNETH SMITE. City Editor. Office open between hours of 8 and 12, 1 and 6, week a days.
and 9 and 10. and 6. Sundays. Telephone 140 and 355-W Geneseo, Oct. and Mrs.
James D. Darnall planned to return to Geneseo from Chicago last night, after spending the weekend in city. Mr. Darnall attended a meeting of the legislative commission of the Illinois High School Athletic association, of which he is a member. and Mrs.
S. Fred Calhoun, John' Glassburn, Marian Petersen and Doris Withrow drove to Chicago to spend the weekend attendingra, Mary Century of Calhoun Progress, of Stockport, visited her brother and sisterin-law, Mr. and Mrs. S. Fred Calhoun, a few days last week.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hanna and daughters Margaret and Elizabeth returned yesterday after a trip through Ohio and Kentucky. Raymond White, coach and director of athletics at Geneseo high school, and four members of the football -squad went to Iowa City Saturday to see the Iowa -Wisconsin game. R.
L. Parker, Albert Brutsche and Dale Nicely went to Iowa City Saturday, to visit Bob Parker, a freshman in university, and to see the football game. Mr. and Mrs. William Haaga, Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Butzer, William Haack and Miss Beatrice Ehlers attended the World's fair in Chicago Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Fulk were in Chicago attending the fair Sunday. Miss Tillie Goldsmith of DeKalb came to Geneseo to visit Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard H. Little are parents of a daughter born in the city hospital yesterday. Robert L.
Parker, manager of the Geneseo Cooperative Telephone company, went to Springfield night to attend the annual convention of the Illinois Telephone association. He will attend a directors' meeting today, and sessions of the convention tomorrow and Thursday. Mrs. Henry Bolte has returned to Geneseo after visiting in Chicago. Miss Nellie Gorman has resumed her duties at the telephone office after an illness.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Shaw were visitors at the World's fair during the weekend. Mrs.
Augusta Pritchard has leased her home to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Lamont for the winter. Mrs. Pritchard will stay with her son and daughter-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Pritchard east of the city. Barbara Fehlman and Frances McConnell in a represented declamation Geneseo contest in Rock Island high school yesterday afternoon. Rev. Willis E.
Hogg and Howard and Lawrence Hadley planned to go to Chicago today, where the Rev. Mr. Hogg will address students of the Presbyterian Theological seminary. Originally, the Rev. Mr.
Hogg and Howard Hadley expected to leave yesterday morning, but they changed their plans. Arrangements are being made to hold a parish supper in the Unitarian church soon. Royce Atwood and Dr. and Mrs. P.
J. Doering spent the weekend attending the football game between Wisconsin and Iowa teams in Iowa City. Bowknot club will meet tomorrow evening in the home of Mrs. Leo DeCrane, Mr. and Mrs.
Arvid Dirck, have moved from this community to 151f Tenth avenue in East Moline. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Johnson and son Cecil Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Mishler and daughter Joan of Hinsdale spent Sunday visiting Mr. and Mrs. Warren Cherry. Herbert Weary of Milwaukee, has been visiting his aunt and uncle, M. and Mrs.
Delbert Cherry. Funeral services for Mrs. John F. Bromley, who died in the Moline Lutheran Hospital Saturday morning, were held at 2 yesterday afternoon in the Myers chapel. The Rev.
Willis E. Hogg. pastor of the Presbyterian church, officiated, and burdal was in the North cemetery. John Jess of Aurora sang during the rites. Pallbearers included six cousins of ACCIDENT LEADS TO $10,000 SUIT Defendants Are Ralph Sand and Harley Clementz of Geneseo.
Cambridge, Oct. Sand and Harley Clementz of Geneseo are defendants in a suit for $10,000, filed yesterday in Henry county circuit court by Helen A. Wiche of LaGrange, Ill. The complainant charges that the car in which she was riding was struck by a truck driven by the two men, in LaGrange. She further charges that she incurred both internal and external injuries, that her limbs were broken and dislocated and that she incurred severe bruises and was ill a long time Attorneys for the plaintiff are George E.
Fink and Louis Hogue of LaGrange and E. A. King of Cambridge. Mrs. Bromley, Fred Reig, George Reig, Edward Reig, Gilbert Reig, Elmer Wagle and Percy Dean.
Boy scouts of Troop 31 will hold their regular, meeting this evening in will be the final session before the district boy scout party, which will be held Saturday night in the scout cabin. Wesleyanna society of the Methodist church has elected officers as follows: President- -Miss Ethel Nelvice secretary Mrs. Fred Searle, and secretary-treasurerMiss Shirley Clark. Members of the committee in charge of the annual Hallowe'en festival and mummers' parade in Geneseo are making arrangements for the affair, which be held Hallowe'en night, Business men are donating prizes to be given in a treasure hunt. As usual, it is expected that many of Geneseo's residents will be dressed in costumes in keeping with the Hallowe'en season.
STUDENTS GIVEN WORK IN GENESEO SCHOOL LIBRARY Geneseo. Oct. Student assistants have been named for library work at Geneseo high school, to aid in keeping volumes in order. Each morning books are checked in and out after the shelves are opened. Lenora Carlson and Marian Petersen are in charge of this work.
The shelves are closed by Louise Lager, and Rosina Voss handles the typing for the library. Miss Corinne Henderson is faculty adviser and supervisor of the group. The twelve assistant librarians are classified as period assistants, magazine caretaker, bulletin board caretakers, statistics section, opening and closing section and typist. The period assistants check attendance a and keep order in the library during the absence of a teacher. They include Dale Nicely, Nina Erickson, June Adams, John Mahlstedt, Marian Hogg and Alice Nelson.
Sherman McAvoy and Betty Hoit have charge of the magazines, Lucille Gotthardt supervises the bulletin board, and Margaret Kleinau has charge of statistical work. CONTRACTS LET FOR TWO BUREAU COUNTY BRIDGES Mineral, Oct. R. Beard of Lamoille was awarded contracts for construction of two bridges in Bureau county at a meeting in the office of R. L.
Schoenberger, county road superintendent, Friday afternoon, One of the contracts calls for construction of a and brick bridge over the drainage concrete. ditch north of Mineral, and the other calls for construction of a bridge south of Buda. The contract the former was let at $4140, and for the latter the cost will be $3427.80. Supervisors Bolman, Brown and Callahan attended the meeting. Construction of the bridge north of Mineral is expected to start within a short time, GENESEO NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS Geneseo, Oct.
24. New officers for the Neighborhood club of Geneseo have been elected for the coming year, as follows: President--Mrs. Theresa Wilson. Vice president- Mrs. Olive Hulting.
Secretary-treasurer Mrs. Josie Parson. Members of the program committee are Mrs. Louise Magee, Mrs. Alice Ringle and Mrs.
Amelia Hulting. The club is celebrating its 30th anniversary this month. The November meeting will be held Friday, November 3, in the home of Mrs. May Selner, where a luncheon will be served. GENESEO SCOUT DRIVE WILL OPEN THURSDAY Geneseo, Oct.
24. Members of the group which will participate in the campaign for funds for boy scout work in Geneseo will meet for an opening breakfast, Thursday morning. Thursday will be the initial day of the drive, which is expected to be pushed to completion in two or three days. B. E.
Sommers, chairman of the Geneseo district boy scout council, will be host to the workers Thursday morning, BROGHAMMER FUNERAL TO BE HELD THURSDAY MRS. MARY- BROGHAMMER. Cambridge, Oct. Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Louise.
Broghammer of Cambridge will be held at 9 Thursday, morning St. Malachy's church in Geneseo, with the Rev. Father Francis E. Walsh in charge. Burial will be in Oakwood cemetery in Geneseo.
Mrs. Broghammer was born in Atkinson March 23, 1861, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Rumler. She vas educated there.
Her marriage to Jacob P. Broghammer took place in 1879. Since 1882 the family has resided in Cambridge. She is survived by one daughter Mrs. George H.
Brown of Cambridge. There are four grandchildren and one great grandchild. There are two sisters, Mrs. J. S.
Iman of Woodside, and Mrs. John Catour of Atkinson. CAMBRIDGE GE Moline Dispatch Office at 205 3 North Prospect Street H. W. MORRIS.
EDITOR Telephone 234 Cambridge, Oct. 24-Mr. and Mrs. Arthur V. Anderson and son Arthur jr.
and Miss Inga Anderson spent the weekend in Chicago, where they attended the fair. This is. the second large fair that Miss Anderson has seen, as she saw the Swedish exposition in 1923. Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Swan and Mr. and Mrs. DeLance Cook and family of Rock Island and Mr. and Mrs. J.
Roy Cameron of Cambridge were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. V. J. Poppy.
Mr. and Mrs. William Brown and family spent the weekend with Mr. and E. A.
Lindbeck of Woodhull. Mr. and Mrs. K. O.
Swanson of Rockford and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Peterson daughter Edith Morrison were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Anderson.
Mrs. Laura Lyons and her nephew, Lawrence Sandquist, of Pasadena, arrived Sunday to attend funeral services- for after- Miss Sandquist Sunday noon. Mr. Sandquist will spend a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Sandquist, before returning to his work in California. Mrs. Lyons will remain for a longer visit. Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde Harrison of Minneapolis returned to their home yesterday after visiting Mr and Mrs. John Peterson and Mr. and Mrs. John McCahon. Mrs.
May Demar, also of Minnesota, will remain here for a longer visit with relatives and friends. The Harrisons and Mrs. Demar were returning home from attending the fair at Chicago. The Rev. William Pearce of is a guest of Mr.
and Mrs. McCahon this week. Mr. and Mrs. William Ringle of Cambridge were honored on their 60th wedding anniversary Sunday when more than 200 people called throughout the afternoon to extend congratulations.
Cards, telegrams and messages from all parts of the United States were received. Flowers, gifts from friends and relatives, were received by the dozens, and the large Ringle home was filled with baskets and bouquets. One choice gifts, of crystal, was presented to them by relatives. MARRIAGE LICENSES FOR HENRY COUNTY Cambridge, Oct. licenses recently issued in Henry county are as follows: Harry Sargeant, 22, and June Berry, 23, of Cedar Rapids, Ia.
William A. Rodgers, 25, and Anna Laura Cox, 18, of Kewanee. Samuel H. Kramer, 31, and Milda M. Peterson, 21, of Kewanee.
Herbert Rochoel, 24, and Velma Krahn, 25, of Kewanee. Isaac P. Zimmerly, 27, of Paris, and F. Kathryn Wiseman, 26, of Galva. Robert L.
Warner, 24, of Alton, and Margaret J. Houghton, 28, of St. Louis. Robert McBroom, 22, and Mildred Whittaker, 23, of Chicago. Extreme congestion of shipping has caused the temporary closing of the port of Jaffa, Palestine, AGED CAMBRIDGE WOMAN IS DEAD Mrs.
Mary Boltenstern on 94th Birthday Anniversary. Cambridge, Oct. 24. -Mrs. Mary Boltenstern, who had been ill for some time, died in the home of her son, Victor Boltenstern, shortly after midnight.
Today would have been her 94th birthday anniversary. Mrs. Boltenstern was born in Sweden Oct. 24, 1839. When she was a young girl she came to this country, and the family settled in Henry county.
She had lived in Henry county eighty-two years and in Cambridge forty-one years. She was married to William Boltenstern June 27, 1857. He died in July, 1892. Mrs. Boltenstern is survived by three sons, Theodore Boltenstern and Victor Boltenstern of Cambridge and Henry Boltenstern of Galesburg, six grandchildren and.
one great-grandchild. Funeral services will be held in the Victor Boltenstern home at 3 Thursday Pearce afternoon, The Rev. W. E. of Dunkirk will officiate, and burial will be in the cemetery at Andover.
Friendly Folks' Group Is Among Newest in Town (This is the ninth article of a series about Port Byron clubs and societies written by Miss Eunice Knapp, Moline Dispatch reporter.) Port Byron, Oct. Folks' club was organized in January, 1933, with twenty-seven members. The following officers were elected: President- -La Verne Pearsall. Vice president -Edd Miller. Secretary-Luella Miller.
Assistant. secretary--Helen Nicholson. Treasurer- -Otto Anderson. Chaplain W. O.
Fish. Escort Mrs. Charles Pearsall. Doorkeeper--Herbert Nicholson. This club holds its business meetings the first Tuesday in each month and has socials first and third Saturdays of each month.
At then present the meeting place is Odd Fellow hall: The aims of the club are fostering clean fellowship in social meetings and promoting upright citizenship and loyalty to the bible. The club is supported financially by free will offerings, and has never had an empty treasury. Through diligent and careful efforts of its members, the club has increased the membership to a total of forty-one. LUTHERAN MEN. The Lutheran men's society was organized in 1923 by the Rev.
Edwin Manson, who now is pastor in Madison, Wis. The club started with twenty-three members. Only six of the original number is left but the club has many visitors and friends, who attend the meetings. It was organized for the, general welfare of the Lutheran church of this community, but it serves other churches as well. The club gives entertainments and socials with free will collections, all receipts going for the welfare of the Port Byron Messiah Lutheran church.
The present officers are: Chairman Walter Engdahl of Moline: -George Wilkins. Treasurer--Victor Carlson. Vice chairman-Arthur Long. The club meets on the third Saturday of each month in the homes of various members. MORRISON BRIEFS Morrison, Oct.
and Nina Hurlbert of Cass Lake, are visiting relatives and friends in this city. They resided in Morrison many years before moving to Minnesota. The second panel of jurors, which reported for duty in circuit court yesterday morning, was excused until Thursday morning. The case of Millard Lamont, who is held on manslaughter charge, has been postponed until Monday, October 30. Miss Grace H.
Arians of Morrison and Lee W. Thompson of Fulton were married Saturday evening in St. Peter's Lutheran parsonage, by the Rev. Theodore Dierks. The bride's two sisters, Mrs.
Jesse Knox and Miss Eleanor Arians, attended the couple. A marriage license was issued yesterday to Nora Pease and Allen Stowell, both of Fulton. John F. Seavey, one of the two remaining Civil war veterans of this community, celebrated his 91st birthday anniversary yesterday. Results in the farm bureau tax petition drive had far exceeded expectations in Whiteside county yesterday.
The farm adviser, F. H. Shuman, set the county goal as 2000, but ventured hope that 3000 signers might be obtained. Yesterday morning there were 4810 names on file as agreeing to the petition, in Whiteside county. The drive was made by 116 men, who spent seventy-two hours visiting farmers.
The petition asks that the revenue clause of the state constitution be revised to meet present day needs. A boy training course will open in Municipal building in scout, Morrison at 10:30 tomorrow morn- Henry County Huskers Will Meet On Thursday for Annual Contest tional champion, having won his crown in Mercer county in 1925 when he shucked 35.8 bushels. Wendell Holmes is Harold's brother. Lanes Outlined. The committee is working on the Ratliff farm today, outlining lanes for the ten contestants and making other arrangements.
The contest will begin promptly Thursday morning, the huskers will race for an hour and a third before their loads are weighed and net results are computed. Mr. Ratliff will fire the starting gun. The contest field is flat, of good quality corn. The following committee chairmen have been named: Gleaners John West of Kewanee.
Marshals -Albert Doy of Galva. Wagons and teams William Oliver of Wethersfield. Judges -H. E. Myers of Wethersfield.
Weighmaster Frank Martin of Kewanee. Starter--Eli Ratliff of Kewanee. Robert Armstrong of Kewanee. The chairmen will select their own committees. Women of the Kewanee.
will serve lunch at noon. MERCER CONTEST. Aledo, Oct. 24. Ninth annual Mercer county cornhusking contest will be held tomorrow on the Clem Brown farm in Suez township, just from the Frank Cole farm, where the first national cornhusking contest was held.
The field is a mile north and a half-mile west of Burgess. Corn in the contest field will yield well, and the stand is good, although there are some weeds. There is a large open field near the corn which can be used for parking purposes. Present Mercer county husking champion is Elmer Sundvall, who won the 1932 county event by setting a new local record of 33.19 bushels. Sunday morning, were held at 9:30 this morning in St.
Mary's church with the Rev. T. O. Maguire, pastor of the church, in charge. Interment was in St.
Mary's church cemetery. Survivors are three sisters, Mrs. Martin Barrett of Tampico and Frances Elizabeth Cooney of Chicago, and seven brothers, William, Patrick and Thomas of Tampico, John of Deer Grove, Walter of Iowa and Peter and Michael of Chicago. MRS. GEORGE BLAND OF ALPHA HURT BY WRINGER Alpha, 24-Mrs.
George Bland incurred severe injuries to her left hand when it was caught in an electric wringer in her home yesterday morning. One finger on her hand was crushed, and the others and the wrist were severely bruised. Mrs. Bland was given attention by Dr. Robert, local physician.
ROBERTA JOHNSON OF GENESEO DEAD Field of Twenty Entrants Reduced in Elimination Trials. Cambridge, Oct. of Henry county's mightiest huskers will meet Thursday on the Eli Ratliff farm, two miles south of Kewanee, to settle ownership of the county cornThey are follows: husking crown. for another year. William Rose of Wethersfield.
Earl H. Noard of Kewanee. Ross Noard of Galva. Floyd Noard of Kewanee. Edward Roman of Atkinson.
Camiel Rose of Galva. Alfred Lief of Lynn Center. Elmer Williams of Kewanee. Wendell of Woodhull. Harold Holmes of Woodhull.
Twenty Entrants. Twenty men had submitted entry blanks when the deadline fell yesterday noon. Only ten will be permitted to compete, however, so half the would-be starters were eliminated as test records of the score of huskers were compared. The ten men who did not win the right to compete are Conrad Erickson, Edward Vincent and Delbert Blood of Cambridge, Victor Wanckett of Annawan, Earl Anderson and Wallace Westerlund of Osco, Kenneth Andrist and Leon Grubb of Kewanee, Reynold Peterson of Ophiem and Edward Cauwells of Erie. H.
K. Danforth, Henry county farm adviser, conducted the preliminary tests which led to reduction of the starting line. Each entrant husked for the 80-minute period, after which 100 ears taken at random from his load were graded, to determine his net record. Of those who qualified, Harold Holmes is the defending champion, and Elmer Williams is a former na- ing, and will continue to the same hour tomorrow night. It will be in charge of O.
H. Benson of New York City, and is for all scout leaders of Whiteside county. Mrs. Henry Longanecker, formerly of Morrison, died in her home in Rensselaer, Sunday morning, following an illness of long duration. She was about 58 years old.
Survivors are the widower and two sons, Frank and Walter. Mrs. Longanecker was Miss Jane Maxwell before her marriage. Remains will be brought here burial tomorrow. Funeral services will be held in the home of Mrs.
Longanecker's sister, Mrs. Ed Longanecker, in Rock Falls, and burial will be in Grove Hill cemetery, in this city, MORRIS DEWITTE AND BRIDE GIVEN SHOWER Erie, Oct. and Mrs. Morris DeWitte were honored at a postnuptial reception in Burchell's hall Sunday evening. Approximately 175 persons attended, including friends from Geneseo, Hillsdale, Port Byron, East Moline, Erie, Morrison, Joslin, Prophetstown, Atkinson and Annawan.
The evening was spent dancing. Morris DeWitte, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond DeWitte of Erie, and Miss Bertha VerHulst, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Alphonse VerHulst, were married last Wednesday in St. Mary's Catholic church in Ottumwa, by the Rev. Mr. Decker, pastor of the church. They moved into the house on the Frank Besse farm, which has been occupied by Mr.
and 1 Mrs. Albert Griede, Saturday. Mr. DeWitt has been hired to pick corn on the Besse farm. Miss Mary DeWitte entertained seventy-five guests at a shower for Mrs De Witte Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. De Witte received many gifts. FINAL RITES ARE HELD FOR MARGARET COONEY Tampico, Oct. services for Miss Margaret Cooney, who died in Mercy hospital in Chicago DAIRY CATTLE and FEEDING STEERS At PUBLIC SALE! The undersigned will sell at public sale at the Stock Yard, Geneseo, commencing at 12:30 P. on THURSDAY, OCT.
26, 1933 50 Head Extra Good Jersey and Guernsey Cows and Heifers consisting of fresh cows, heavy springers and heifers from yearlings up. 2 Jersey bulls ready for service. 75 Head of Extra Good Southern Steers pounds. These steers are half fat weighing from 800 to 1200 and just the thing for a short feed. They are two cars of as good yellow hammer steers as you have ever seen sold at auction.
25 Head of Montana Horses colts Ranging to mature horses, about in age from weanling half of them are broken to harAIL heavy boned draft ness. stock. TERMS CASH HARRY C. KEARNEY, Owner Robt. Wayne, Auctioneer R.
S. BOLLEN, Mgr. Ten-Year-Old Girl Succumbs After Brief and Unusual Geneseo, Oct. Johnson, 10, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Arnold Johnson who live northeast of Geneseo, died about 7 this mornSt. Luke's hospital i in Davenport." She was taken to the hospital Saturday morning, after having been found unconscious in the basem*nt of her home Thursday morning. It was first believed that she had fallen down the stairs, and that hemorrhage of the brain resulted in a blood clot. No marks or bruises indicating a fall were found, however. The little girl told her mother that she felt dizzy, before she was found unconscious.
She was born on the farm, Oct. 30, 1923, and attended the Jackson school. She was a member of the Grace Evangelical church Sunday school. Survivors include the parents; one brother, Marvin, of Geneseo, and a grandmother, Mrs. Mattis of Minneapolis, A brother, Dale, died about eight years ago, at the age of 10.
Group Will Give Play at Lyndon; Cast Announced Lyndon, Oct. 25. Young people of the White school district will present a three-act play, Lookin' Lovely, in the Lyndon town hall at 8 Friday evening. Admission will cost 10 cents for children and 20 cents for adults. Carrie Harriman, teacher in the school, is directing the play.
The cast of characters will be as follows: Pessimmon. faithful colored servant in the Bordine home Dora Newendyke. Winnie Bordine. who has inherited the debt-ridden Bordine farm- Lillian Lenhart. Amarilla, village postmistress and broadcaster--Margaret Lenhart.
Buddie and Clytie, Winnie's brother and sister- Orville Brandt and Faye Overly, Jennie Mathews, stage friend of Winnie- -Viola Mae Wood. Speed Hawkins, sheriff whose one desire is to "catch" Amarilla-Kenneth Benters. Esther Hastings, who has been abroad-Pauline Brandt. Bill Baker, promoter looking for something to promote Julius Brandt. Dugan, his pal and fellow promoter- Jay Newendyke.
Cholly, young Englishman and dramatic- Marion Lenhart. Moe, theatrical producer Loyal Brandt. AUCTION SALE of 900-STOCKERS FEEDERS. CALVES-900 from the DAKOTAS, MONTANA AND TEXAS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28 Sale Starts at 12:30 Noon Promptly, at the C. B.
Q. Feed Yards at Galesburg, Ill. Galesburg, Ill. the niain line of the Burlington railroad and on all paved highways, In this offering we will have 900 head of cattle, consisting of some good Texas and Montana Hereford calves and yearlings. Also Hereford, Shorthorns and Angus from the northwest.
All sizes and weight, good-doing cattle, thin cattle. fact 8 general assortment to suit the needs of all buyers; the money-making kind. Cattle will be graded and will be uniform, and SOLD BY THE POUND in any number to suit the buyer and weighed immediately after being sold over the Railroad tested scales. They will be loaded and taken care of free of charge until shipped or trucked, Cattle will arrive Friday noon, October 27th and will be ready for inspection Friday afternoon. This sale will be held under cover, rain or shine, and every steer will absolutely be sold to the highest bidder.
WERTHEIMER CATTLE COMPANY, F. G. Johnson, Manager Telephones: Residence 5642 Blue; Yards 5773 Main WAGON BOXES 36 Inch to 38 Inch Deep Best Quality Lumber Priced to Sell $21 to $25 ABC Washing Machines I Will Trade for Old Machines Orion is located on Route 80. My store is block from end of stub. I invite you to come and see me.
I sell and trade all kinds of equipment- Radios, Farm Machinery, Tractors, Paint, Oil, Hardware, and Stoves. The store is open every night. We'll be seein' you. G. A.
GUSTAFSON Orion, Ill. of 40 120g.
