The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.
Compiled and Edited by Virginia Ross
GIRLS’ BASKETBALL GAME: Smack! Those girls sure could smack that ball. Referee Painter had to duck every time there was a tossup or he would have needed first aid! Eileen Jones, playing standing forward, tossed three of the baskets for the Jun.-Sen. Team. Eileen had a hard time getting the ball as Eloise McMillan, the guard on the Sophomore team, was as good as they make them. Dorothy Knutstrom at center was a good floor worker, tossing two of the baskets besides feeding Eileen Jones the ball. Rhoda Howell played one half of the game and Winibeth Rankin the other. They would feed to Eileen to shoot also. Pauline Stine and Ida Ruth Sandy were the guards for the Jun.-Sen. Team. Margaret Burg shot the two baskets for the Sophomores who were a little wild in their shooting as they shot about as many times as the Jun.-Sen. Team. Their coach gave them a going over between the halves, anyway, they showed a better brand of basketball in the second half. The two teams deserved a lot of credit for their playing as they started just a few weeks ago. They seemed to learn the games faster than the boys. Jun.-Sen. won with a score of 10 to 5. Jun.-Sen. team: Rankin, Howell, Jones, Knutstrom, Sandy and Stine. Sophomore team: Smtih, Brook, Burg, Nordstrom, Beardsley, Grandy, and McMillan. (I remember Blanche Galbraith talking about playing basketball under a Miss Fricke.)
LOCAL AND AREA NEWS: Mr. and Mrs. H.A. Epping are the parents of a daughter born Jan. 28th. J. W. Decker, auctioneer, went to Seaton Monday to cry a sale the next day. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gilliland are again residents of Stronghurst having moved into the Jones property in the east part of town. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Peterson and family moved from Stronghurst to the Evans property recently vacated by C. A. Anderson. Mrs. Leo Sullivan is recovering nicely from the gall stone operation she underwent at the Burlington Hospital. Miss Winifred Jones is at Bradley Tech in Peoria. Dr. Wm. Butler of Lang, Canada, a former dentist at La Harpe, was calling on friends in town. Mrs. Percy Penny left for her home in California. Clinton Nelson, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Nelson, underwent an appendicitis operation at the Burlington Hospital. Miss Blanche Sullivan, telephone operator was sick last week. The Roy Shook family who have been having a siege of grippe are improving. The next excursion of the Santa Fe to San Francisco will be Feb. 5th for $28.50 ($517 in today’s values). Robert Wilson is employed by Western Union Telegraph Co. at Toledo, Ohio. Friends received word of the death of Mr. James Mark Graham of Kirkwood; he was highly respected citizen and a brother of Miss Bessie Graham who has many Stronghurst friends.
F. L. Fager, dealer in men’s and boys’ Thorogood shoes and expert doctor of dilapidated footwear, moved from the McElhinney building to the rooms in the southwest part of the George Chant Building formerly occupied by K. E. Yoakam, jeweler. Mr. Fager has already made his new place of business look very attractive and has a fine display in his spacious show window. F. G. Tweed is redecorating the interior of his Hardware store and re-arranging his stock. Foster Lazear has redecorated the interior of his drug store.
Dr. Jackson R. Brown of the Division of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture of Chicago will be in Stronghurst on Feb. 8th. The purpose of his visit is to meet with County Veterinarian, Dr. Wm. E. LaCroy and the Board of Supervisors of Henderson County to outline the work for future T. B. Testing among cattle and to arrange for the placing of Henderson County on the accredited list.
VOICE OF SHS (school paper); Irene Shallenberger returned to school after an absence of four weeks when she was under quarantine for scarlet fever. The Junior Class will hold a bake sale at the NuVon Hotel Saturday afternoon at 1:30. The Senior Class will present their class play, “Ann’s Little Affair,” on Feb. 25th. The orchestra has been having strenuous rehearsals in preparing for the Chamber of Commerce banquet.
FROM YEARS PAST-Jan 30, 1902-Fatalty at Carman: David C. Good, an old resident of Carman, was instantly killed Friday afternoon. Assisted by Elzi Archer, a neighbor, Mr. Good was cutting down a big dead tree near his home. The tree stood on a hillside and leaned toward the bottom of the hill. Mr. Archer was at the upper end of the cross-cut saw. Mr. Good at the lower end when without warning, the tree gave way and Mr. Good was crushed beneath its ponderous weight. The unfortunate man’s head was literally crushed to a pulp. He was a native of England, 45 years of age and had lived near Carman for 12 years during which time he had become the possessor of a fine farm. He was survived by a wife and three sons.
MOTOR CAR JUMPS THE TRACKS: Gladstone-Quite an accident occurred Monday when a motor car jumped the railroad track near the L. N. Graham home. The occupants of the car were four of the signal men who have been here working for the “Q” and living in boarding cars for the last two weeks. One of them was injured badly, but as yet it is not known how seriously. The fast rain No. 9 was stopped and he was taken to Burlington to receive medical attention.
OBITUARY-JOHN W. SUYDAM: John W. Suydam was born at Farview, Fulton County, Illinois March 5, 1852 and died at Oquawka, Ill. Feb. 7, 1927, aged 76 years, 10 months and 29 days. At a very early age he moved with his parents to Raritan, Ill., where he continued to reside for about 25 years. In 1887 shortly after the Santa Fe Railroad was built through Illinois, he moved to Media, Ill. where he erected one of the first buildings on the new town site and where he resided until shortly before his death. He opened and operated the first hotel and the first restaurant in Media and was the first rural mail carrier out of Media. During the Civil War he served as drummer boy at recruiting rallies in Fulton and nearby counties.
He served the community in an official capacity at different times, having been elected constable and township collector by his fellow citizens. He was for may years prior to his death a member of the Media United Presbyterian Church. He united in marriage to Miss Emma Curtis at La Harpe, Ill on July 16, 1876, who preceded him to the great beyond about three years ago. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Lillian Murray of Burlington, Iowa and one son Bert Suydam who resides in California and five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held at the Stronghurst United Presbyterian Church with burial in the Stronghurst Cemetery.