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Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 3

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EVBWNGTELEGHAPC MONDAY. APRIL 3, 1916. -vn MEETINGS AND inments Alb Society Meeting. Tho regular meeting of the Ladles' Aid society of First M. church will be held at the church Wednesday afternoon.

No Christian Endeavor Meetlna. No meeting of this 'Christian Kn- donvor society of the Twelfth Street Presbyterian 'church will be held this oh account of tlie numerous other meetings in town, use Third Ward Shrub Sale. The -ladles of the third Ward will hold their spring shrub sale Thursday, April at the residence of Mrs. William Plynn on Langdon street. Anyone in tho ward desiring to pur- chape shrubs at wholesale price Hh'oiijd comb, to the Flynn home on Thursday afternoon.

Entertained With Luncheon. Miss Harriet Burnap entertained this noon at on College avenue with- a prettily appointed luncheoti in honor of the Monticello girls who today concluded their spring "vacation in Alton. Places today laid for fourteen guests. Will Entertain Sunday Schfcol Class. 'Frank Stobbs will entertain Suriday School class of the College venue Baptist Church, Tuesday at her home.

The program which will, begin at 1 o'clock', will include talk by, Mrs. George M. Potter 1 tm the subject of the Crow Indians. Thft itteeting is jield in the 'evenlhg to give the husbands and male tho ladies opportunity! to attend. Vaudeville Rehearsal Resumed.

Miss Donavah who is in charge of the' society vaudeville which will be given at the Temple Theater on May 2 has returned from Chicago and this evening will again begin, rehearsals. The, young' ladies taking part are highly', enthusiastic and one of the most entertaining, entertainments of the season is being looked forward by those interested. Bridge Party. Mtes Beujah Munger of State street ladiies. with' a small "bridge party at her home on Friday afternoon.

The guds'ts included a number of oeilo girls who are Iperid- ing' their vacations today. Two tables were occupied at bridge. After several hours at cards dainty refreshments were served by the charming hostess of the afternoon who entertained in a very manner. Farewell Reception for Mr. and Mrs.

A. F. Blossey. The members of the' First Methodist Church will give a farewell 're- cpption on' Wednesday evening at the homo of Mr. and Mrs.

William Fredeking on Langdpn street for Mr. and Mrs. A. I- 1 Blossey who leave shortly for Cadott, where they will make their future home. Since cpm- friEf" to'Altori a number of years ago, Mr.

and Mrs. Blossey have been prominent in church work and the members of the First M. E. Church regret sincerely their departure from Alton. church under the auspces of the Ladles' Aid society.

Everybody Interested are cordially invited to attend. Thursday evening 'at eight clock regular prayer meeting will be held followed by the monthly official board Monticello Seminary Girls Return This Evening. To-day ended the spring vacation at Monticollo Seminary and all of the young lady students who spent the past ten days at home will return to tho seminary bpfafe this Among the Alton students returning aro the Misses Mary Cald- Well, Elizabeth Merl- velher, Sadie Meriwether ar.d Elsie Hurtmann as will MW8-Isabel Norton, HMt-rlan at the'JSeminary. The Misses Ophelia Deadly, riolse Binna, and Elizabeth Duncan of Pittsburgh, who spent the holidaye with friend's and relatives in AltOivaiBo will return this evening. During their spring vacation t'hV young ladies have enjoyed a delightful end pleasurable round of social activities.

Upper Alton Aid Society. The Indies''Aid Society: pf the. Upper Alton 'Presbyterian 'Church will ben entertaitied on 'Wednesday, April by Mrs; Derbas Long, of 2711 Pow- hatpn street. cannot too soon to Ivory Soap, for ing fishes. sooner you do, the sooner youf will fsave your hands from the the usually' used Ivory Soap being made for toilet, bath arid, very fine laundry purposes, contains only the highest grade It cleanses the dishes but d6es not injure the; handtp.

They softer, smoother and whiter TRAVELING'OCULISTs" A SUICIDE. Dr. E. B. Straus Shoots Himself Hotel at Jersey- vllle, III.

In Municipal Dance. The municipal dancing party will be held Wednesday night at Dreamland hall oh'Belle street with Mrs. Sherwood 'Of chaperonie. On account of few remaining dances a large crowd is expected to attend and enjoy 'another 'pjeasant evening-' as. has been enjoyed for many months in Alton.

Browning Club Met Today. of Franklin ave nue was hostess this'afternoon to the ladies of the Browning Club. After the papers 'of the afternoon were reac dainty refreshments were served. Tea for Monticello Girls. Geprge Duncan of, East Twelfth street entertained with a small 6 tJ'cloote tea-'- Sunday afternoon for Monticello girls who are spending the spring vacation with frjends in Alton.

PERSONAL Mrs. James Braithwaite, of Chictf- go, is the guest of her parents; Mr. and H. Taylor; lot Prospect street. Bornr-suriday evening, to Mr.

and Mrs. James Barrett, of West Ninth street, a little daughter. The little one Is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tonsor of East Broadway.

'Mrs! Mae Donnelley of State street Entertained Monticello Girls. The Misses Katherine and Sadie Meriwether will entertain with an Informal dinner party at the of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. G.

Meriwether, of Grove utreet. Their guests will include a number of their classmates at Monticello Seminary. Shortly after dinner tho'ybuns ladles will return to llcello Seminary wjiero they will re- BUttid tlieir school work after a ten days 1 spring vacation. Their this evening will be the Misses" Helen" 'Detzens, 'Rock' Island; Dorothy Hayes, Hot Springs, Arkii Ruth Twitchell, Belleville; Doris Early, Edwardsvllle; Helen Ptewart, Decatur, and Ophejia Beazley, Marianna, Ark. Miss Beazley spent the ten day spring vacation with.

WfgB. Sadie Meriwether. Full Week at the Washington Street M. E. Church.

This evening the monthly official board meeting of the lipworth League will bo hold at the homo of Mr. and Vertls Wheeler on Pearl Btreet in Ittvper Alton. meeting IB called for eight o'clock. On Wednesday afterjioon the Aid society will hold an all day muotipg at 'ihejio'ifto of Mrs. I'otofoi' 'at 1020 Diamond street.

All members of the Aid Bdoloty. and their frlenda are Invited to, aJlonO, On WednoiJduy ov- miingat olBlU o'clock there will bo an American Hvanlng held in the The body of Dr. E. B. -Straus, oculist, who shot and killed himself in his room at the Colonial Hotel in Jet- seyville, Friday, was sent yesterday fo the home of his brother, David Straus, in Amsterdam, N.

Y. Dr. Straus owned property at Springfield, Whitehall and Jersey- For more than 20 years he had been traveling through Central Illinois. i Pain from an abscessed tooth is said to have caused him to drink heavily. Tlife porter of the hotel said Straus had asked him to open a trunk and get out a revolver so he could kill himself, last Monday.

A. F. Bitt of Jerseyyille haa been appointed executor of the 'estate. Henry Bramsteln Dead. Henry Brumstein, formerly of West Alton, died at Bethalto yesterday aft- after a short illness.

Only a short time ago Mr. Brumstein moved from West Alton to Bethalto to make his The funeral will be morning from the Nazareth Home to' the St. Joseph's Cemetery. WANTS GOOD ROADS. EFFORT RENEWED.

Kansas Edward Mono- ban married Miss Vernie McHenry March 13. Two. days later they separated, and he has brought suit for divorce. But he doesn't blame 13th he blame's his wife. the Louis Koch, of Highland, Sends Word to Alton That Ho Thinks Alton Ought Try Again.

The hard roads bond issue proposition has not yet died, at least it is in the minds of some of the proper 1 ty owners in the county that the proposition ought not to be given up. Louis Koch, of Highland, does not believe that the good roads boosters in Alton should become discouraged with the failure to get special election ih the county and he says so. Others are beginning to think that the project ought not be dropped and that an attempt should be made to get the bond issue submitted at the regular election November. roads law in Illinois requires-that a majority of votes casP'on tho proposition be obtained, and not a majority of all the votes cast at the election. tl iti Natural Color left today for Cairo where she will spend the next ten days with relatives.

Mrs. Prank Page of State street and Mrs. Albert Schmidt of Hamilton street spent today with friends in Jerseyville. Mrs. Emily Buder, and Miss Alma Senn of St.

Louis were Sunday guests of the Misses Nellie and Lucy Jones "of 1000 Alby street. Mrs. Frank Kemper returned, to her home Kemper this after spending the past week 1 end Alton as the guest of relatives. Misses Emily and Agnes Powell arrived, home this morning from Car- rollton'after spending the week end as the guests of Miss Vernie Mclneruey, Mr. MqCar- thy and Miss Hamlet left last even- ing for their home in Texas after attending the funeral of Miss Loretta Mclnerneyv Miss Alice Mclnernay and Miss Lucy Mclnerney will spend several days in Alton before returning to their Mrs.

Henry Clarke has returned from a two weeks visit with relatives in Docatur. Miss Inez Harrison, has gone to 'agreement which was contrary to the Torre Haute, to spend a few agreement entered into by tho repre- weeks visiting of the companies and the Miss Dollio Fairbanks is home m6n at their last wage conference. The' from Iloodhouse where she vlalted blowers, however, offered to go to relatives for three weeks. I work pending any agreement'which Mrs. George McCJuire has gone to might be reached at the national conference to be bold in Atlantic City on July 10.

No agreement was reached this morning but it Is hoped that some settlement of the matter will be made. Harry Levls, Wm. llichards and Arthur Levin represented the company'at tho conference this morning, while the blowers were represented by John C. Voll, Walter Day, Chas. Boedokor and Harry Halton.

If tho factory IH openotl It will lie used in tho manufacture of between throe and twelve gallons. NO AGREEMENT ON OPENING FACTORY. Conference This Morning Resulted in UNo Agreement Being Reached No Agreement Being Reached Between Representatives. The representatives of the Illinois ilass Co. and the committee from the Glass Blowers Union reached no agree- nent at the conference which was held hip morning in regard to opening glass factory number nine.

The offered to put twenty men to work, two in a shop in glass factory number nine if the union would agree to suspend the summer rule. The representatives of tho union stated at the conference this morlnng that they were unable to make an STRAY SCRAPS. Hard Supreme Court of New Jersey has just decided (that "hard cider is intoxicating." judges get 510,000 a year too fdr. telling and a iew other known facts. There isn't a grown Itid the entire country, apples grow and cider is who cotild- not have given that decision 'Without costing the taxpayers anywhere near as much as the judges of Supreme Court cost them.

A speaking of the decision says: cider is more than intoxicating! It throws ita temperarious consumer into transports of delirious in which butting a stone with his head of a loved one. That court, spokti with judicial cognizance', perhaps, but without practical. knowledge." Three drinks of hard cider, and a small glass of wine have been known to make a man try to steal for himself, and the guy who first called it "hard," had a spleriidid conception'of tlie eternal fitness things. "Hard" is right. Hammond, to spend a few weeks with relatives.

CLEANZIT at P. W. Schneider's. Vote for Fred C. Moll for Assessor, Election next Tuettday.

The Chicago man who is serving a year's sentence in tho workhouse for utoallns about hundred automobiles doubtloBB would hnvo been sent to tho pen at'JOllet had he stolen a ham or a suit of Courier." Buiie Still Ir.iprpvlng. Supervisor pick DUBBO, Imminent a few weeks ago, and who had himself, ul- moat given up all hope, is recovering Bteiifjlly ijow at his home in Henry And all Indications point tohin Dorraanent recovery. This will be od hefts tP'hJs hundreds of friends Mra. Galloway Dead. Mrs, Galloway, colored, aged died at nor home yesterday morn- Ing, af(or lingering illness.

CHILDREN WHO ARE SICKLY wUo valuu thuir own coiufuit and lliu TABLOID TALES. New No longer is the strictly fresh egg sure of its high social standing. It may lie' a common "bac- teriam pollorum," says the John D. Rockefeller Rese'arch Itistltuto. Denver, Colo.

Twelve dollars a week and no work on Sundays, shorter hours and better treatment are some of the things the Denver Housemaids' Union is going 'to demand for its members. Live Oak, According to Henri Lo Bugi, a local trapper, he has delivered an order of bat skins from a large New York fur house for which he has been trapping for The skins were secured from a peculiar species Of bats found in a large cave in Marysvllle Buttes. The bats were secured during the winter months, the trapping consuming several months in tlmlr preparation for shipment: He says hn received a check for $100 from the New York firm and a letter thankm? for securing the bat skins. The- tiny pelts were used to make a collar for an expensive coal, which cost tlm owner $2,500. Warm Contest Among Candidates in To-morrow's Election.

To-morrow is election day for Wood River township, and thcro Is a possibility that there will be quite a spirited rivalry among the camHdatPS for the olHcoH of assistant supervisor, col. lector, and tovi.i'hlp clerk. Tho" assistant wiporvlsor candidates are Louis Willl, Vcrn Hurley and Fred Berry; the collector candidates, William C. StoITt, Walter Fox. Frederick Bowman and Joe Helens; the assessor candidates, George H.

Ringerlng, Louis Bright and Simon Halloran; the township clerk candidates, George F. Smith and J. I'. Eckman. J.

W. Kelly is running alone for constable and John E. Frlck for school trustee. The wet and dry question will not be voted on as the town clork recently refused to put It on the ballot because of the alleged defect in getting up the petition. Louis Moore Found Dead In St.

Louis. Louis Moore, for many years a resident of Bethalto and well known this vicinity, was found dead in tho yard of his home in St. Louis, accord- Ing to word received from St. Louis. He is a brother to Mrs.

John Culp and Herbert Culp went to.St. Louis to-day on hearing of Moore's death. Five More Candidates Out For Village Council. Five new candidates were out this morning as members of the village council. The Law and Order League put a ticket in the field last week.

The five candidates are said not to be affiliated with the Law and Order League. Their petitions are now being, circulated. They are Roy HU1, T. L. VanPreter, Louis Bauer, SanTschultz and Homer Lawrence.

Colburn Suit Set For To-day In Edwardsvllle. The trial of the suit of Mrs. J. A. Colburn vs.

the Clover Leal Casualty Company for insurance for the death of her husband, who was killed in a powder mill explosion while superintendent of the Equitable Powder Company, was set for to-day in the Circuit Court in Edwardsville. Many witnesses from East Alton went over. Among them were August Frey and Charles Young, who were working near the powder mill at the time of the explosion. Notes. An entertainment and dance will be given to-morrow evening in the Hale hall by A.

C. Schroeder of St. Louis. An April Fool party was given Saturday night at the home of Fred Mc- Cauiley in East Alton. Among those present were Mr.

and Mrs. W. M. Woods, Mr. and Mrs.

B. Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. R. Ford, Mr.

and Mrs. Barney Robertson. Games were played and was served. Mrs. Seago of Louisiana, was sister, Mrs.

Henry Feldwisch, yesterday. John VanPreter, Henry Feldwisch and Louis Bauer went to Alton yesterday to attend the funeral of Joseph HoII. Thcinas Walrond of St. Louis was visiting to-day in East Alton. Baptismal services were held Sunday night in the East Alton Baptist Church.

Three persons were taken into the membership of the church by baptism. Mrs. M. Brown of Louisiana. became quite ill at the home of her grand daughter, Mrs.

Joseph Eckhard, in Alton ast night and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Robinson and Mr.

and, Mrs. L. P. Cooper were called to Alton by her illness. She is much better to-day.

W. W. Benjamin will go to Bloomington in a day or so to bring to East Alton the automobile which he left there a week ago because of the rainy weather. Miss Naomi Jones is ill with an attack of measles. Miss Laura Wind, who has been in Madison for some time while recuperating from an illness, has returned to East Alton, George Franklin of Upper Alton was visiting his parents in East Alton last night.

Horace Trump has been laid off from his work for a few days by an attack of biliousness, Notice. Ladles and aid asking you for your vote us they will bo appreciated, i have been housed up for the last 10 weeks from an accident of cutting off a finger, so I was unable to make a house to house canvass. I am out for reelection as assessor of Wood Hiver township. Yours as ever, GEO H. RINGER1NG.

He does, if you simply'phone or me a loaf of bread." Get the best for your money, always specify Takes Yo Loaf for Quality and Economy That kind of a living that the world owes every man is hardly worih having. of iiu without a Mother Hray'n Hwoetrowdcnfur UhllilMiii Fur UK) Uiroiigliont ttiu nemtoti. Jltvik up Ookln, UtilloVB wolfuru box of be ii 1 ROBERT EDESON -FQRAAVOMANS Safe Honue Remedy for Skin-Troubles ringworm, and other itching, liiirning skin oruptkiiiH an; no cusily iiiiulu wurso by inijirupur treatmont Hint one hay to very careful. There is oiii 1 method, however, that' you nci'd never hoSitatu 1 to line, even on a Iwby'H tender tho ren- in'ol treatment. Iteni- iiol in the prrHcriptiiin of.a Bidtiiiiciii' put up in the form of reuiuol ointment and rt'Biiiol wijij).

'Diis jirovi-d HO remarkulily BIIC- i'1'dnful, tlv.it thoiiMuiidH of otlicr nliy.si- cluns have it coiiBtnJitly 'for over twenty yearn. (ieiKTully ri'siixil Btupn KeliiiiK at unce, and healu tin' eruption quickly nndt at liltln coit. lieBiuol uintiuent and rrainol uonji can bought at ituy druggiBt'B. Reainol Soap in not only unusually tlc'Unsiiig and Hoftenlng, but its regular' Vie given to the skin and hair that ural beauty of perfect lieuHh whiuli puiy imitfttv. Younger Days" You can always identify this name is on the waxed wrapper, which also insures clean delivery.

lOc at Your Grocer AT ALL Baked by NOLL'S GROCERS PERSONAL Effective midnight April 15, 101C, prices of tho 3400 r. p. m. Chalmers models will be as follows: Touring Car, $1090 Detroit Oahriolct, Detroit Roadster, $1070 Detroit Tho present these models lows: prices on are as fol- "ouring Car, $1050 Detroit Cabriolet, Detroit Roadster, Detroit Anyone desiring to purchase any of these models before April 15 will save a good sum of money. Chalmers Motor Car YOU SHOULD SEE OUR Beautiful New Neckwear for Spring Our display has never been quite so extensive as at Hie present lime.

Beautiful Vestee's of Organdy, Net and Georgette Crepe, cuff and collar sets, of Organdy and Crepe de Chine. Special attention is called to the beautiful line of collars, collar and cuff sets and vestees, which we are offering al the special price of 50c. Btillmeru amVSmart jFumitfliiiuis 313 PWH In any conflict, one can (Icpoinl on a rurtaln dogi'd- ol' oowariliti' in HID othor fellow but iiow im.i'h? Notice. Any and all kinds of lino photo work. J.

A. NEDERKORN, Kast Alton, 111. Klnloeh 428-J FOR SALE White rod: OtfgB, $200 pnr 15. While Wyamlofto eggs, $1.50 por 15, frons prlzo winners Alton Hhow. so white Wyandotte hoiiB kerols.

Win. Ohor- -tor. 111. Bell 85-W. Notice.

You can buy all size sewer pipe and connections, also lime, come sand and Btoue at Cartwrlght'a Lr' To Vote Against the Saloons To Vote Alton Dry You Vote Don't Irt yourself bo confuted, you arc voting on (ho proposition of holng Anti- Saloon territory and TO VOTK AtJ.m.ST T1IK HAU)ONH AM) KOIt DRV VOi: VOTK YES..

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