The Graphic

August 4, 1927

$200 LIQUOR FINE:  At the regular term of the July court postponed to the August 1 date.  The People of Illinois vs Gene Williamson was tried for having illegal possession of intoxicating liquor.  He waved trial by jury and pled guilty to both counts.  Consequently, he was fined $200, cost of the proceedings, and a $20 analysis fee for the chemist analyzing the sample.  The sheriff was ordered to destroyed such evidence.  Bert Pickering was also charged for possession of intoxicating liquor.

NEW BRIDGE AT FORT MADISON IS LONGEST IN WORLD:  The formal opening of the big new Santa Fe combination railroad and other vehicle causeway connecting Iowa and Illinois at Fort Madison was held at four o’clock Thursday afternoon.  The rails had been switched over the first of the week and motor and horse vehicles had already been using the big bridge several days so the workmen could get started removing the old bridge which had been doing service since 1887.

S. T. Bledsoe, general counsel for the railroad, made the formal dedication speech and reviewed the history of both bridges and enumerated some of the difficulties overcome and enormous expense of items making up the budget for the new span.  When all is done the cost will be about $5,500,000. The painting alone cost $103,500.  There are 29,000,000 lbs. of metal in the structure and it required 45,000 cubic feet of concrete for the foundations and piers as well as 600,000 feet of creosoted lumber for cribbing, etc.  The bridge has the largest draw span in the world and the driveway is over head and entirely clear of the rail traffic.  The entire drive resembles a finely graveled boulevard.  It is a fine example of fine bridge architecture and is well worth any person’s time and money to see…No toll was charged on that day and large crowds of people assembled to hear the dedication.  Photographers from Moving Picture companies were present to film all the happenings of the day for distribution throughout the nation, for this bridge is the largest one of its kind on the Mississippi. Three hard roads of Illinois will meet at this bridge sometime in the future and this will be a gateway between east and west.

THIEVES STEAL TIRES:  Thieves, who judging from the remaining evidence of their actions, were preparing for a “buggy ride” visited the southeastern part of Henderson County Friday evening, July 29th, and succeeded in getting away with 20 new automobile tires after unsuccessful attempts at stealing several cars.  The identity of the thieves is not known, but several clues have been obtained which may prove valuable.  The authorities have been notified and the burglars will no doubt be captured in a short time.

Access to the Seed Company building was gained by prying a rear door open.  The tires seem to be all that is missing.  The barn doors were forced open at the Frank Gustafson farm south of Stronghurst on the same evening and it is believed with the intentions of stealing the new Ford sedan belonging to Carol Gustafson.  However, the doors of the car were locked and the thieves could not get into it and drive it away; nothing was molested.  The thieves made their next stop at the Walter Nolan farm.  Here by received more encouragement, getting away with a Jewett touring car belonging to Mr. Nolan, but their joys ended all too soon.  Saturday morning the car was found abandoned about one mile from Media.  The Jewett had only about one gallon of gasoline in the tank and when the supply became exhausted, the thieves must have thought it wise to continue this buggy ride in the same rig as they came in.

However, we hope no good neighbor will feel offended if some acquaintance in some absent-minded moment happens to make a remark about “Where did you get that new tire on your car?” for we have no reason to suspect any good resident of Henderson County.

CALF CLUB SHOW HERE: A committee from the Henderson County Farm Bureau composed of C. Hartquist, Charlie Peasley and Ernest Walker met with A. E. Jones, W. C. Ivins and W. C. Regan representing the Stronghurst Fellowship Club who accepted the invitation to hold their annual Boys’ and Girls’ Baby Beef Club Show here  on September 17th.

CROP DAMAGE: Some of the crops around Macomb were totally destroyed by hail last week.  Others were only slightly affected.
PRODUCE SHIPPED OUT:  The 96,000 cabbage left Stronghurst today as two carloads of that particular vegetable were shipped out over the Santa Fe by the United Food Company located here.  This brings the season’s total shipments up to nine carloads, approximately 144 tons of 288,000 pounds.  As about $15-$18 per ton is being paid the growers for cabbage, it can easily be seen that incomes in this community are being substantially raised.

About six or eight acres of cucumbers are being grown in this community.  They are doing nicely and will certainly mean a lot of pickles.  Cucumbers are now being pickled and put in brine here.  Tomatoes look as it they should be ready to can in about three weeks, but everything depends upon the weather.  Present indications ae for a big crop and the Stronghurst cannery will no doubt be a busy place this fall.

The big 150 horse power boiler is being installed and it is a very exacting job.  It’s size may be imagined from knowing the fact that one whole car was taken to ship it here.  The cookers arrived today and will be installed shortly.  Still considerable tedious work is to be done before the factory is ready for operation, but things are advancing so rapidly as had been hoped for and friends of the enterprise have good reasons to be elated.

CHAUTAUQUA AUGUST 30th: Chautauqua will open here Tuesday, August 30th, and will continue until September 3 with five days and nights of royal entertainment.  The Cadmean, the same bureau that furnished the program last year, has been engaged again this season and judging from previous records, this year’s entertainments should be of the highest order. Officers have been elected: Mr. J. R. Mains , President, and Mr. Grover Rehling, Secretary-Treasurer. (Culture is coming to the home town.)

SCOUTS TO CAMP:  Plans are being made for the Girl and Boy Scouts of Stronghurst to take an unusually enjoyable and profitable camping trip the latter part of this month when they will leave Aug. 25th for Athens Illinois where they will camp for several days and visit Springfield and attend the State Fair.  Scoutmaster Estel Mudd of the Boy’s troop and Mrs. Estel Mudd, leader of the Girls will accompany the group. Rev. and Mrs. Lester Berber, former leaders of the local scout troop and now located at Athens, Ill., will also be with the party. 

Most of the three days will be spent at the beautiful camping grounds at Athens, but on Saturday afternoon a visit to Springfield, 12 miles distant, is planned.  Here the state capitol buildings and the various places of historical interest about the city will be visited. Upon returning, the Boy Scouts plan to go to Camp Harter on Monday, Aug. 29th, a first-class condition and camp for two or three days.  They will be working on merit badges and pass various tests pertaining to scouting.

RARITAN REPORTS: Miss Mildred Randall of Blandinsville has been employed to teach Union School for the coming school year.  Mrs. Cavins and son Roy left for a visit to Garrettsville, Ohio. Dean Cortelyou is driving a new Chevrolet truck, making hauling and threshing look easy for him. Miss Anna Ahlers accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Arhtur Anders and daughter, Mary, on an automobile trip Sunday to Muscatine, Iowa.  Joe Roche is a victim of malarial fever.  Cox School will hold a special election of Saturday for directors.  Harold Neff and John Watkins spent Saturday night and Sunday in the latter’s home in Mt. Sterling, Ia. 

BIGGSVILLE BRIEFS: Mr. and Mrs. Howard Berry of Abingdon celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary on last Sunday being honor guests at the picnic held in the Galesburg Park.  Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Lyons, Mr. and Mrs. James Stevenson, Mrs. Charles Graham, and Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Wiegand.  Mrs. N. Q. Welch is serving meals to threshing crews in this vicinity and is being kept busy as the farmers have discovered that it is cheaper and less work for the housewife to bring them to town. 

The picnic and reunion of the former school mates of Mrs. Mary Folmer held in the gymnasium of last Thursday evening was a joyous event.  A large number of the former pupils failed to be notified and other could not be present, but those who were, enjoyed the social hour and the bounteous supper which was served cafeteria style and the impromptu speeches given by the pupils.  At the conclusion, a speech of appreciation by Mrs. Folmer and the singing o “God Be With You” and ‘Till We Meet Again’ Closed the evening’s entertainment.

The teaching force of the High School has been completed when Miss Madge Thompson of Coffey, Mo. accepted the position as the instructor in Latin, Biology and Music for the coming school year beginning, Monday, August 29th.  Friends of Mrs. Eliza Beebe are glad to hear that she is recovering from a serious operation which she recently underwent in the Burlington Hospital.

LOMAX LINGERINS: Mr. Baughman, the airplane pilot who was so badly burned here a short time ago, is recovering as well as could be expected at the Burlington Hospital.  An eight pound son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Haggarty Tuesday evening, Aug. 5th.  Quite a crowd enjoyed a picnic at Crapo Park last Sunday.

CARMAN CONCERNS: Several of our citizens ventured out for airplane rides last Sunday. All seem to enjoyed being in the air.  Several attended the Sells-Floto circus at Burlington Monday.  Mr. Richard Howell is painting the school house and sure is making quite an improvement on the building.  Mr. Frank Marsden is now taking employment at the Aeroplane Factory in Lomax.  The County Sunday School Convention will be held here next Sunday.

ILLINOIS STANDINGS: It stands second in stereotyping and electrotyping not done in printing establishments.  It ranks second in the manufacture of printing materials.  It holds second place in the manufacture of saddlery and harness.  It is second among the states in the manufacture of scales and balances.

OLENA OBSERVATIONS: At a called meeting at the Olena Church, it was decided to hold the Annual Homecoming Picnic on the Olena church grounds on Saturday, August 20th.  This is just the day after the Biggsville Picnic-conflicting dates made this choice necessary.  A chicken dinner at 40 cents a plate to young and old was the decision of the committee.  Miss Nellie Johnson had been at her sister’s Mrs. Pence, near Lomax helping to cook for their threshing crew.  Miss Pauline Marsden has returned to her work in the Galesburg hospital after a two weeks’ vacation with home relatives and friends.  Mrs. Paul Lant and children, who have been spending a few weeks at the Mrs. Jessie Lant home, accompanied by Mrs. Browning and son Joseph left for Mrs. Lant’s home near South Bend, Indiana last week.  They spent a few days with Mrs. Lant’s sister at Bloomington, Illinois.  Mrs. Browning and son expect to visit Chicago relatives on their return trip. Blackberry season is now on and it is said a good yield available from the briar.  Mr. Will Hicks and John Lant are marketing their last year’s wheat crop.  The Sunday School at Hopper that was recently organized had an attendance of 40 on the last Lord’s Day.  The annual reunion of the Dowell families will be held at the home of Dary Dowell, Aug. 14th.

COLOMA CLIPS: The threshing season opened last week.  The recent rains delayed it several days but were a great help to the corn and gardens.  Oquawka is one hundred years old this summer, the first house on the present town site having been built in 1827.  In commemoration of the event there is a home talent Chautauqua this week, terminating in a review of the early days in a dramatic manner on the third day and a home coming and fish fry on the last day. Miss Adelyne Stevenson and Helen Sterrett, delegates from the Biggsville Society of the United Presbyterian Church returned home from Kansas City where they attended the Y.P.C.U National convention.  Mr. and Mrs. George Galbraith and family enjoyed a picnic dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Bigger of near Carman last Sunday.  Mrs. James Stevenson has received word of the marriage of her brother Harold Bainter and Miss Frances Worley, both of Stronghurst on last Sunday.  The Country Club held its regular monthly meeting Thursday afternoon in the home of Mrs. Gertrude Gibb with Mesdames Rose Moffett, Mame Marsden and Mabel Sanderson assisting hostesses. Mrs. Carl Swedlund and daughters, Ruby and Mildred, attended the Sunshine Club Wednesday afternoon in the home of Mrs. Ed. Knustrom of South Henderson neighborhood.  Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Curtiss, Mr. and Mrs. William Weir, Misses Lois Curtiss and Ida Jamison motored to Rock Island and Moline Sunday morning and visited the Smith Fruit Farm.  C. A. Martin of Little York has been in this vicinity selling the McNess goods.  Orin Milligan who has been attending Fort Madison Business College has gone to Chicago where he had a position. 

HE COINED THE WORD, “CHIROPRACTIC” Monmouth, IL: Rev. S. H. Weed, A. B., A. M., B. D., who died this past week at the age of 84 will be mourned by chiropractors because it was he who suggested the name of “Chiropractic.”  While talking with the late Dr. D. D. Palmer of Davenport, who originated the new science, Rev. Weed suggested “Kiro” meaning done by hand and Praktik” meaning done skillfully, Greek words.  So “Chiropractic means done skillfully by the hands and was adopted in 1895. 

Rev. Weed served during the Civil War and was one of oldest United Presbyterian ministers in the state at the time of his death.  He is survived by seven daughters, two sons and 16 grandchildren.  In recent years, he translated the entire New Testament from the original Greek.

LOCAL AND AREA NEWS: Mrs. Sam Claybaugh is ill at her home with an attack of pleurisy and is being cared for by her mother, Mrs. Milligan of Biggsville.  L. E. Andrews returned from Chicago where he has been a patient in the Speedway Hospital.  Chas. M. Bell, who has been enjoying his three weeks ‘vacation in Kansas, is expected home tomorrow evening.  Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Beaver left for an automobile trip to Chicago and points in Michigan where they will visit his three sons.  Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Simpson of Chillicothe are now living in the residence of Miss Hortense Harbinson.  Mr. Simpson is brakeman on the work train and his stay here is indefinite.  The entire Graphic force was among those from Stronghurst to attend the Sells-Floto Circus in Burlington. 

OBITUARY: MRS. FRANK GRAHAM:  Carrie Donzella McMillan, eldest child of William L. and Susan Small McMillan was born March 2, 1858 near Biggsville, Illinois, and passed away at the Burlington Hospital after lingering illness on Friday, July 29th at one o’clock pm.  She was united in marriage to W. F. Graham on March 6, 1879 and for nearly 50 years they have walked the pathway of life together.  She is survived by her husband and nine children, namely: Maude Booth of Red Oak, Iowa; Lillian Pearson of Genoa, Neb.; Rachel Ribas of St. Louis, Mo.; Mary Glenn, Lena Kilgore, Frank Jr., and Ruby Graham of Biggsville; Luther M. of Morning Sun, Iowa and Gene of San Diego, California.

She is also survived by the following sister and brothers: Mrs. Jennie Weir of Biggsville; Sumner H. McMillan of Burlington, Iowa; Charles W. McMillan of Gladstone; James S. McMillan of Okeechobee, Florida and Herbert I. of Minneapolis, Minn. and also 16 grandchildren.  Her parents with one sister, Mrs. Zettie Sanderson have preceded her to that better land and were there to welcome her coming.

She was a dutiful daughter, a faithful wife, a loving mother and a consistent Christian having joined the United Presbyterian church in early young womanhood, the church of her parentage and the one ever dear to her where she was a faithful attendant as long as her health permitted.  She had lived near the allotted time here given to man-70 years and ever thoughtful of others rather than of herself.  Funeral services were held at the home on Monday afternoon with interment in the Biggsville Cemetery.  All the children were present at the funeral except Gene who spent several weeks at home last spring.

ILLINOIS FACTS:  Chicago is the largest airline center in the United States, more than 6,000 miles of air routes centering there. One out of every twenty working women in Illinois is a telephone operator.  Springfield, Illinois, led all cities of the United States in the increase in postal receipts during June 1927.  The first shipment of grain from Chicago to the Atlantic seaboard was in 1838.  One hundred bushels of wheat were sent.  Illinois uses more than twice as much electricity as the eight countries: Finland, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Spain and Portugal combined.  Chicago is the hub of the nation’s freight traffic, there being more than 35,000 cars moving in and out of the city daily in 609 trains.

MEDIA BROADCASTER, part of the Stronghurst Graphic: SOCIAL NOTES: About 5:30 o’clock last Thursday afternoon five well loaded cars of young people left Media enroute to Crapo Park for a picnic supper which the young lady’s class of the United Church gave in honor of the young men’s class.  The supper was somewhat interrupted due to an approaching storm, but everyone seemed to have a good time in spite of the weather conditions and many interesting things happened during the course of the trip which will make July 28, 1927 a day long remembered.  Those present were as follows: Robert Steffey, Roy Baskett, Clifford Adair, Beryl Mink, William and Graham Pogue, Wilfred Johnson, William Lewis, Floyd Suitor, Mrs. Lewis Vavins, Free Mathers, Goldie and Ailene Heap, Lillian Mink, Maxine Hickman, Eva Dixon, Mabel Drain, Mary Anderson and Ruth Howell. (I wonder what happened?)

HERITAGE BANQUET FOR M.E. LADIES:  Members of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society gathered at the Methodist Church Friday evening to honor the young ladies who are members of the Standard Bearers, and others by giving them a Heritage Banquet.  In conformity to legal terminology, W.F.M.S. Founders leave a heritage, the young folks particularly are the heirs, and as such had received legal notice to be present on this occasion.  The dining room of the church was beautifully decorated with baskets of flowers in profusion and the tables looked very attractive in the colors of white and blue, the Standard Bearers’ colors.  The favors were miniature candles at each place. At appointed time, members and guests were escorted to the dining room by hostess, Mrs. Ernest Walker, and all sang the “Doxology.”

A three-course menu was served consisting of pressed chicken, potato chips, spice salad, pineapple sherbert, angel cake, coffee and ice tea.  Mrs. Ruth Wood, Toastmaster, announced the speakers.  Mrs. James Hicks read the will and testament from the W.F.M.S. founders to the Standard Bearers and presented to the same to Eloise Mc Millin, representative.  Mrs. Morgan spoke on the “Heritage” handed down through the Founders of this noble work.  In 1869 amid difficulties and obstacles, six women met in Tremont Street Church, Boston, and formed the group, which, although small in number, but strong in faith had a vision which put into actions has since reached to the uttermost parts of the earth.  Mrs. Decker spoke on doing our part of the missionary work.  Miss Effie Lynn, guest in the McClure home, brought greetings from the missionary works in Cleveland Ohio.  Mrs. Walter Gregory, our much beloved president of last year, was also a guest of the evening and spoke on how much she enjoyed the occasion.  While everyone sang “The Morning Light is Breaking,” each guest lighting the candle at her plate as aa symbol of how the light is gradually brought to the dark corners of the earth.  All joined in the Missionary Benediction.  All felt that it had been good to meet together as a band of workers interested World Wide Missions.

WEDDING BELLS: Mr. Albert Nicholas of Industry, Ill. and Miss Ethel Seaton of Little York, Ill. were united in marriage Thursday afternoon, July 28,th at the home of the bride’s father.  The single ring service was performed by the groom’s father, Rev. W.H. Nicholas, Pastor of a Baptist Church in Springfield, Ill. The bride is a graduate of Monmouth high school and Monmouth College and is a member of Phi Delta Sigma sorority.  Since her graduation, she has been teacher of English in Stronghurst High School.  During the three school terms spent here, she took an active part in community affairs and made many friends. Mr. Nicholas is a graduate of Carthage College, a member of Phi Kappa Delta fraternity and for the past three years has hold the position of coach and teacher of mathematics in Stronghurst High School.

After the wedding, the happy couple left for a two- or three-day’s trip to Chicago after which they will continue their honeymoon trip with a fishing excursion in Minnesota.  When they return, they will make their home after September 1st at Industry, Ill. where they have positions in the community high school there.  Mr. Nicholas has been engaged as principal and his wife as a teacher of English.