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The 1925 Graphic

Compiled and Edited by Virginia Ross

Stronghurst Graphic: May 28, 1925

LOCAL AND AREA NEWS: Miss Naomi Cooper reports that her brother Perry at Crandon, Wisconsin is improving from a severe illness. Mrs. Ed Wanders and her daughter, Rozella, who have been making their home with the lady's parents, Mr. and Mr. John Staley left with their household goods for Streator, Ill. where Mr. Wanders is employed in a pickle factory and where the family will make their home. Mr. and Mrs. Staley accompanied Mrs. Wanders and her daughter to Streator by truck. Mrs. Kate Barnett, daughter of Mrs. John Barnett, early settlers of Henderson County, died at her home at Red Oak, Ia. Last week. Congressman J. C. Allen, postmaster James Scott, E. C. Hardin and another gentleman stopped in Stronghurst for a short visit with friends on the way to Carthage. J. O. Randall, who has been in the U.S. Navy for the past year and recently stationed at Pearl Harbor in the Pacific, was on leave visiting with his father, C. M. Randall and his sister, Miss Fleda. The bills for the licensing of Chiropractors were defeated in the lower house at Springfield. The Warren County Sheriff and several deputies raided a dozen places in Swan Creek early last Sunday morning and rounded up nine men who were taken to Monmouth and jailed on charges of violation of the prohibition laws. Several gallons of hootch, a still, gambling paraphernalia and fourteen men playing poker were found at a rooming house conduced by Clarence Murphy, while booze and gambling tools were discovered in various other places visited. The crowd of men taken into custody have been under suspicion for a long time.

KILLING FROST: Winter took what it is sincerely hoped will be its final slap at this section of the state last Monday night when the mercury took a swift decent to a point below the freezing mark. Ice of the considerable thickness formed and the tender leaves of all vegetation in unprotected areas were frozen stiff. Within a few hours after the sun came up on Tuesday morning, corn fields and gardens presented a sorry spectacle with their blackened dropping vegetation and expressions of lamentation were heard on every hand. Many farmers at once began preparations for replanting their corn, which in most cases was showing nicely in the row while other decided to wait a few das to see when the ultimate effect of the freeze would be. The Lewis Seed Co. of Media was deluged with orders for seed corn from this and the surrounding area before the day was over. A car load of corn which had been consigned to Chicago seed market was diverted to Media in order to partially meet this sudden demand.

MEDIA MEANDERINGS: Mr. and Mrs. J. Ben Hurrell of Burlington attended the track meet here and spent the night with Mr. and Mrs. Eldon White. A district Sunday School Convention will be held at the Raritan Reformed Church on Sunday and the congregation of the United Church will attend and remain for the union services of the two Raritan churches. Miss Faree Mathers closed a very successful term of school as primary teacher at Smithshire. Mrs. Norman Grossman who has been quite ill with the flu is better. Mr. and Mrs. Winifred Keith are the parents of a baby girl born Wednesday morning. Mrs. Mildred Beall was appointed by the county to fill the office of County Supt. of Schools made vacant by the death of her husband, A. L. Beall; she entered upon her duties at once. Members of the Community Club will give a home talent play, "Black Mammy Judy or A Southern Cinderell" at the Academy Thursday evening, Mary 28th.The Ladies of the U.P. Church missionary Society will meet the first Thursday in June at the home of Mrs. Lewis Cavins. Mrs. Elizabeth Rankin will assist her daughter, Mrs. Cavins in entertaining.

Commencement exercises for the graduating class of Media Wever Academy and Media Community High School will be held Saturday evening at the auditorium of Wever Academy beginning at 8 pm. The class is composed of Mildred Lant, Roy Cavins, Zelma Campbell, LaVerne Gilliland and Agnes Erickson. Dr. John L. Conger, head of the Dept. of History at Knox College will deliver the address. He is much in demand for lectures throughout Western Illinois and Eastern Iowa. During the seventeen years that he had been professor of History at Knox College, he has spent several of his vacations at the summer session of the Universities of Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and California. Only last year while on leave, he spent the entire year in teaching at Harvard University. He is democratic and direct in his addresses. Having been raised on a farm in Iowa, he is in sympathy with what people in rural communities are doing to do.

Baccalaureate services for the grading class were held at the U.P. Church with Rev. W. H. Cross, pastor of the United Church, delivered the sermon "Work in Your Own Garden," giving splendid suggestions and advice to the class. Rev. Mr. Cross was assisted by Rev. Riddington, pastor of the Raritan Baptist Church. The church had been decorated in the class colors, pink and orchid by the junior class with some serving as ushers during the evening.

The musical comedy presented Thursday and Friday evening by members of the high school directed by Miss Mary Dixson was attended by a large crowd on Thursday but a storm diminished Friday's attendance. Everyone was patience after the lights went off, but the players proceeded with difficulties. Flashlights were substituted and the show went on. The amount cleared was $43.33 which was used to establish a music fund at the high school. Miss Dixson had several friends from distant cities attending the comedy. After the show they accompanied her to her home in Stronghurst for a weekend house party.