The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.
Compiled and Edited by Virginia Ross
Stronghurst Graphic Sep 6, 1923
A CORRECTION: Last week the paper mentioned the death of the three year old daughter of John Middleton of Gladstone from what was supposed to be the effect of eating “shadow-grass.” It now appears that the child’s poisoning arose from eating night shade berries. Last Sunday another infant member of the household was called by death. The family have the heart-felt sympathy of everyone in their double bereavement. The father, John Middleton, will be remembered by people here as the artist who spent several days here last summer painting scenic views at the Regan furniture store.
LOCAL AND AREA NEWS: George Beckett and family and Charles Beckett of Carrollton, Mo. have been visiting relatives. Mrs. Geo. Fisher of Roseville who is now doing practical nursing work has been employed to care for Mrs. Sarah Alpaugh at her home in Raritan. After completing his work of mail delivery on route 3 last Thursday, W. B. Gregory loaded Postmaster Mains, Wm. Patterson and Perce Veech in his car and drove to Kahoka, Mo., a distance of 75 miles where the party took in the Clark County Fair before returning to Stronghurst in the evening. While Jack Bowen of Terre Haute accompanied by his little granddaughter was driving through the village last Friday, one of the doors of the auto came open. While turning a corner near the L. A. Wilson home, the little girl was thrown out. Somewhat bruised up and badly frightened, the little one was not seriously injured.
Anyone wanting the genuine Indian Herb Tablets can get them of L. A. Wilson. (These were Parker’s K&B (Pink) Herb Tablets sold for 50 cents a box to help with constipation, headaches, rheumatism and stomach trouble.) P. T. Lovitt is recovering from a four weeks illness following an attack of ivy poisoning. Miss Reba Thompson of California, while enroute to Kentucky where she is employed as a teacher, stopped off here to see her aunt, Mrs. L. E. Pogue. Miss Eva Shafer, in company with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Germanicus Bowen of Terre Haute, spent about two weeks visiting relatives at Rock Island and at Rock Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cochran who were residents of Stronghurst some twenty years ago, are expected to make their old time friends a visit. Charlie will be remembered as a printer in the Graphic office in former days. Robert Wilson who has been employed by the Western Union Telephone Co. at Morris, Ill, stopped to visit his mother before taking up work with another company at Hammond, Ind. Mr. Warren Johnson and two children returned from Texas recently where they have lived for some time. Since his arrival, he has secured employment with J. W. Rankin in the logging business and is staying in the home of his brother-in-law, Fred Mudd. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. T. Pearce of Bloomfield, Iowa, who left Henderson County some twenty years ago, have been visiting relatives. Mr. Pearce is making a specialty of raising Duroc hogs and pure bred sheep.
Vernon Mackie, the 17 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mackie, wealthy and well known residents of Niota neighborhood in Hancock County, died at a Fort Madison hospital as the result of wounds inflicted by the accidental discharge of a sixteen gauge shot gun while he was hunting in a field near his home. Congressman Graham has decided upon the appointment of Edward M. Boswell as post master at Carthage, Ill, upon the recommendation of the Republican Central Committee of Hancock County. Thus he is settling a question which has been the source of considerable bitterness between opposing factions in the city for several months. The Misses Opal Stine and Marie Mudd of this place have been employed by the Cadmean Chautauqua Bureau of Topeka, Kans., to help finish up the circuit season. Miss Stine will do the advance work while Miss Mudd will assume the work of Junior Superintendent. Phillip Mains came down from Polos Park, Ill., where he has been living, to help out at the post office. Miss Ruth Mains retuned from her vacation amongst the mountains of Colorado and has resumed her position in the First National Bank. Miss Frances Worley went to Burlington to enter the training school of the Burlington Hospital where she will prepare for the profession of a trained nurse. Dr. O. R. Gents reports that Mrs. Belle Williams has been a sufferer from appendicitis for the past week or more, but that her case is responding to treatment and that she is on the road to recovery.
It is reported that Mr. Ed Wanders who has recently made his home in Galesburg and Chillicothe, has in connection with his brother, leased the NuVon Hotel property and that they will open up the same again for business. Harold Lukens resigned his position as clerk in the Grandey store to accept a position with Schramm and Schmieg, wholesale dry goods firm in Burlington, Iowa. Howard Marshall, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Marshall, underwent a surgical operation at the Burlington Hospital for the removal of a portion of a small bone of the nose; he is recovering nicely. Erman Dodds, who is employed in the zinc field in Western Missouri and his brother, Dale, who is working with an oil drilling outfit near Wichita, Kans. were called home by the death of their grandfather, Mr. Math Huston. “Arthur Loomis was operated upon at Mayo Bros. hospital for the removal of gall stones and we understand the gall bladder and appendix were both removed. It was a very serious operation and his condition has been very critical. However, his fever was down and he seemed considerably improved.”—Dallas City Review
TOO MUCH LIQUOR: “O. B. Hamburg of Stronghurst, Ill. was arrested last night just as he and a companion were preparing to enter a launch on the river front and was charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. When his automobile parked on Front Street was searched, a jug of liquor was found in the back end.
Hamburg, driving a Ford racer, ran into an automobile driven by C. A. Thompson of Burlington on Main Street earlier in the evening. After having some words, Thompson came to the police station and swore out information against Hamburg, but when officers went to look for the Stronghurst man, he was gone and could not be located. .
He and his companion were picked up by Officer Aston on the river front a little later and brought to the station where Hamburg was booked. Police say that both men had been drinking and a jug of what officers believe is wine was found in the rear end of the racer. Earlier in the evening it was reported that two men answering the description of Hamburg and his friend had been fighting near the gas plant n North Main Street. They were driving a Ford racer. Hamburg will have his hearing in police court.”—Burlington Hawkeye