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Compiled and Edited by Virginia Ross
COUNTY COURT CASES: The People vs Ed Kessinger, Oral Kessinger, William Brainard-Violation of Prohibition Law. The People vs Anna Saben-Information. Violation of Prohibition Act. Sentenced by the court of a term of 60 days and to pay the cost of this suit including $40 analysis fee. The People vs Walter Baxter-Larceny. Pleaded guilty and was sentence to jail for four months and fine $1.00 and costs. The People vs William Brainard, Oral Kessinger-Disturbing the Peace. Fined $5.00. The following were summoned for petit jury: Charles Lyons, Emmett Milliken, Ed Brewer, Hugh Smith, Wm. Hicks, Glenn Marshall, Charles Painter, Frank Wilson, A.S. McElhinney, George Chant, Theo Knutstrom and Robert Ingerson.
AREA NEWS: The March meeting of the Ladies Aid was held Friday evening at the home of Mrs. W. C. Regan. Mrs. Bert Johnson and son, Max, are recovering from ptomaine poisoning. Mr. Charles Shriver has moved to Smithshire where he will be employed on a farm this spring and summer. The Graham Stewart house three miles southwest of Biggsville was slightly damaged by fire Tuesday evening. A few buckets of water extinguished the blaze with little damage being done save a hole burned in the roof. Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Wyatt are the proud parents of a baby daughter born to them at their home near Lomax on March 24th. The little miss will be called Forrest Darylene. Mrs. Wyatt will be remembered as Miss Bessie Billups, a former Stronghurst girl and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Doug Billups.
The community is urged to established more girls’ 4-H clubs. Last year there were four clubs with 51 girls enrolled, 41 completed the work. Mrs. R. N. Marshall, Mrs. Cecil Brook and Mrs. J. W. McElhinney represented the Stronghurst D.A.R. chapter at a conference held at Rock Island. Over half of the $20,000 worth of shares are already sold and all the acreage pledged for the United Food Company factory to build in the area. Rev. C. E. Hawkins, representing the Memorial Hospital at Peoria, Ill. gave a very fine talk at a union meeting in the Methodist Church Sunday Evening. The South Country Ladies enjoyed a pot lunch dinner at the home of Mrs. Hollis Links. Last Friday evening 33 men gathered at the NuVon Hotel for the regular monthly banquet and business meeting of the Fellowship Club. Judge J. W. Gordon of Oquawka has received formal notification of his appointment to represent the War Department in Henderson County as chairman of the committee in charge of the 1927 enrollment for the Citizens’ Military Training Camps b Brigadier General Michael J. Lenihan, Commanding the Sixth Corps Area .