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PAGE SIX i Soil Conservation 'Days' Announcec For Sept. 20 to 22 IMan Inspection Tours to Farms Showing Projects sept. 9 (Special) "Soil Conscrvatlo Days" for Madison county fanner and persons interested in erosloi control and soil improvement wll he observed from Sept. 20 to 25 it was announced today by th Madison County Farm Bureau. Inspection tours to farms, wher soil improvement and erosion con trol methods will be studied, wil he conducted dally during the ob srrvance under auspices of the Soil Conservation Service and th Farm Bureau.

Fnrm Adviser T. W. May and K. Meyers, project manager the Soil Conservation Service, wil have charge of the tours and pro grams, which will be the same each day in order to give those who wish to attend a selection dates. Tours will start each morning at 9 o'clock from the Farm Bureau office here and several farms wil be visited.

Touring parties wil have lunch at CCC Camp Wheeler here at 1 p. following which programs will be given to discuss problems of soil conservation before adjournment at 3 p. Five Carrollton Students Injured CARROLLTON, Sept. 9, (Special) -Five Carrollton High School stu- rienU were injured at 11 p. m.

Friday when a "whoopee" automobile in which they were riding overturned when it failed to turn a corner. George Witt of Carrollton, the most seriously injured, sustained a pelvic fracture; James Meek, also Carrollton, sustained a dislocated knee. Buford Haddock and Bill Witt of Carrollton and Richard McLane of Kane sustained cuts and bruises. Following treatment at the office of a local physician George Witt wag taken to a Jacksonville Hospital. The others were able to return home.

The accident occurred on a "short-cut" between Route 108 and the home of Alva Meek, father of James. In taking the little-travelled road the boys said they had forgotten a corner and when they approached it they were moving too fast to stop or to turn successfully. ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH Wed Friday Night Ministers, Wives To Hear Wimmer Alton's ministers and their wives nre to hear Shurtleff College's new president as the Ministerial Association resumes its meetings for the fall and winter Monday evening. Dr. Guy Wimmer, the college head, will speak at the association's scheduled for 6:30 p.

m. Monday at the Cherry Street Baptist Church. A committee headed by Dr. E. J.

Vance, First Presbyterian pastor, prepared the evening's program of entertainment, on which Miss Lillian Rasar, soprano soloist at the First Church, and the Rev. C. E. Shepard, Christian pastor, and baritone, appear. Robert Spicer Dies at Age 24 After an illness of three weeks, Robert Spicer, .24, an employe of Alton Mineral Wool died this morning at 6 o'clock at Alton Memorial Hospital where had been (i patient for two Spicer was born Oct.

15, 1915, at Fisk, where he had resided 1935 when he moved to Alton. He was mnrried last July 1, and among survivors are his bride- wife and a sister, Mrs. Loran Chadwick, both of Alton. His wife- before her marriage, Miss Virginia Monroe of Alton. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 at Streeper fun- era! home.

Burial will be In Oakwood cemetery. Friends may call i'I the luneral home' to view the body niter 6 p. today. Canny Canine Removes Cap, Laps Up Milk Alcide Manns and Miss Mildred Davis were married at Manns' home on Bradley avenue. The couple's attendants were Miss Helen Davis and Edwin Manna.

Reiss photo. jtiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiniu I CLUB8 PARTIBa TEAS DANCES RECEPTIONS Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifr Police patrolmen Friday made search for an Intelligent dog that bhowed ablllly to use his brains to the benefit of his stomach, The search was occasioned by complaint of Hall at 930 East Fourth street that he had been -finding inl'k hot ties and emptied after they were left early In the day oa his porch by the mllk- man.Disappearance of the milk wan explained, he said, when he saw a dog bite out the paper cap of a bottle with his teelh, (hen overturn it, with evident intention of lapping up the contents RS the fluid gurgled out. The complaint reminded a policeman of an incident which came to light last spring when a resident of the eist side of town was puzzled to find capu missing his milk bottles and part of the cream Bone. Theft of the cream finally was explained when the -milkman A peck the cap from a foodie and ntiui drinking, To Attend Kline-Sitton Wedding: Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Zimmermann and Mr. and Mrs. A. Rudolph Jreen will attend the wedding 01 C. Kline and Miss Margaret Sitton, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs W. N. Sitton of 7255 Maryland avenue, St. Louis, this afternoon al ive-thirty o'clock. The wedding take place at the Sitton coun- ry home, Clarkson Valley Farm, Chesterfield, and the ceremony wilt be performed by the lev.

Herman G. Heuser of the Normandy Presbyterian Church, Pasa- ena Park. Following the marriage a reception will be held in the gar- en. Mlm Mildred Davis Weds Miss Mildred Davis, eldest daugh- er of Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Davis, ecame the bride of Alcide Manns Trlday evening, the wedding taking lace at seven-thirty o'clock at the Davis home, 3313 Badley avenue. Before the wedding Miss Jean Jersey, of Moro, niece of the played two piano numbers, The Bells of St. Mary's" and "A 'erfect Day," and as the bridal arty entered the living room the redding march from Lohengrin. The bride was preceded into the vlng room, where the wedding ook place, by her sister and bridesmaid, Miss Helen Davis. At a prettily improvised altar Davis was joined by her lance, Alcide Manns.

Mr. Manns' rolher, Edwin Manns, was best The single ring ceremony was erformed by the Rev. C. E. Godard, pastor of the College Avenue "resbyterian Church.

Palms and large baskets filled vith fall flowers were used in ecorating the home, and provided attractive setting for the wed- Ing. Miss Davis wore a pink lace rock, finger tip length veil of pink, icld in place with a pearl wreath, nd gold accessories, and carried link carnations and baby breath. The frock was fashioned with a birred bodice, short puffed sleeves nd a full floor length skirt. The kirt was ornamented with a taffe a bustle effect bow. Miss Helen Davis was attired in blue satin gown, made similarly the frock worn by the bride, he carried pink carnations and elphinium, and her accessories were gold.

A reception, attended by sixty uests, followed the wedding. Mr. Mnnna and bride left last light on a honeymoon trip, plan- Ing to visit points of interest in lie Ozarks. They will reside at the iValtnit Grove Dairy, on the Fos- erburg Road. Mr.

Manns is associated with his William Manns, who Is en- aged in farming. Mrs. Manns is an islrurlor at the Central Illinois ieauty College on He'nry street. Retail' Dance In St. Louis Beta Gamma Upsilon Sorority let with Miss Rita Schwegel last evening, and discussed plans for a dinner-dance to be given in St.

Louis September 27. Plans for a pay dance, lo be theld this fall, were also outlined, Sorority members were recently entertained at a buffet dinner by Miss Rosemary Lnucr. Minn KiiprUtlni Miss Ruth Cousley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul B.

Cousley of Boliovlew avenue, entertained ten Kiiostn at lunrheon today at the home of her parentx. Oupsls were Kpated around the diniiiK room table which had as a centerpiece pink and lavender shrub In a crystal bowl. Place cards wore lavender painted with a rose design. During the afternoon the guests, Including Miss Phyllis Gorvlg of Belleville, formerly of Alton, played bridge. Zetas With Mini Zett Beta Put Sorority willmeet evening at seven o'clock with Minn Lora Mae Ward, at her home on Summit street.

Mrs. Bowe Honored Miss Eunice Jenkins of 1008 Elliott avenue gave a party Friday evening, honoring Mrs. Paul Rowe, whose marriage occurred on May 19. Mrs. Rowe, who was before her marriage Miss Dorothy Ward, was presented with a lace table cloth.

Bunco was played, and the evening was brought to a close with the serving of refreshments. Among the guests were the Misses Eileen Lawrence, Eileen Jones, Pauline Cory, Evelyn Belt and Doris Ohley, and Miss Jenkins awarded prizes to Miss Lawrence, Miss Jones and Mrs. Rowe. Who's New Club Who's New Club will meet Monday at' two o'clock in the Young Women's Christian Association The meeting will be the first of the season, and officers will be elected. Following a business session bridge will be played.

Bowman-Trower Wedding; Miss Alberta Trower, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Trower. of 2309 Amelia street, became the bride of Virgil Bowman, of Alton this week. The marriage ceremony was performed in Kingshighway Baptist Church in St.

Charles, Mo. by the pastor, the Rev. C. C. Ellis The young couple were attended by Miss Marian Yotter and Floyd Robertson, of Alton.

The bride's parents were present at the cere mony. Mrs. Bowman was graduated from Alton High School with the class of 1936. She attended Shurtleff College and held a position with Owens-Illinois Glass Company. For a number of years she had been active in church and Sunday school work at Upper Alton Baptist Church.

Bowman is employed by Carter Brothers Automobile Company. Mr. and Mrs. Bowman will make their home at. the Trower residence on Amelia street.

Brlden-To-Rf Honored Miss Cynthia Jane Watkins and Miss Nell Randle Gere were honored guests at a luncheon and bridge party given Friday afternoon by the Misses Ella and Mary Pfeiffenberger at their home, 463 Bluff street. Among the fifteen guests were the Misses Marjorie and Carol McCarthy of St. Louis. Miss Carol McCarthy is to be a bridesmaid in the wedding party when Miss Watkins is married to Platt Okie, next Saturday afternoon at four-thirty o'clock. Guests were seated at the dining room table and an additional smaller table which had as their centerpieces yellow and orange marigolds.

Place cards were yellow with a marigold design. Following luncheon bridge was played, and prizes were awarded to the Misses Gladys Watkins, Nell Gere, and Marjorie McCarthy and Mrs. R. Herchal Jones. The hostess presented Miss Watkins and Miss Gere with a loose eaf cook-books, filled with recipes from each of the guests, Miss Gere is to be married to Donald Mathew Menke of Kirkwood, next Saturday morning at 10 o'clock In St.

Mary's church, Miss Watkins' marriage to Mr. Okie in first Presbyterian Church. Rainbow To Naiufi Offlenrt Alton Assembly, No. 8, Order of Rainbow For Girls, will have a covered dish dinner Monday evening at six o'clock. The dinner will be followed by a business session, and during the meeting officers will be elected.

Mint Marjorie Suhre Honored Miss Marjorie Suhre, who will leave next week for Bowling Green, where she will take an assistant teaching position and start on graduate work, was honored last night by eleven friends. The young women gathered at Miss Suhic's homo al Lever- Shock from Brass Light Socket Fatal To William F. Ray Continued from page 1. the party to Memorial Hospital on ly to learn there that her husband's death had ensued. A native of Tamms, where he born, April 21, 1904, Rsy had been a resident of Alton for a tlj more than 12 years past Formerly a steel worker, he had late been employed by the WPA on the city-wide street in a crew assigned to the Twentieth College crosstown street job.

Funeral Monday He was united in marriage to formerly of Cadiz on-Mutch 21, 1933, and surviving him besides his widow is their 4-year-old son, Charles Mason Ray Ray also leaves a sister, Mrs Mary Brown of Unity, 111., and three brothers, Oliver of Cairo, Andrew of Unity, and Charles of Cheyenne Wyo. Funeral services have been sel for Monday at 2 p. m. at Streeper funeral home and burial will be in Oakwood cemetery. The Rev.

C. Chappcll of Main Street Baptist Church will conduct the rites Friends may call at the Streeper funeral home after 5 p. m. today Baby Dies 5 Days After Twin Brother Five days after the death of hei twin brother, Glenda Jane Wood, one of four sets of twins in the family of Mr. and Mrs.

Roy Wood of 1305 Clawson street, died. Glenda Jane died at 8 a. today at St. Joseph's Hospital where her. twin, Glen Wesley, died ast Monday.

Only two sets of twins remain ntact in the family of 10 children that still survive. The surviving jrothers and sisters Chester, Robert, James, Thomas, Blanche, Jennie, Faye, Fern, Ella and Delia. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 2:30 p. at Central Avenue Pentecostal church with the Rev. G.

C. Kirchner, pas- or, officiating. Burial will be in City cemetery beside the grave of twin brother. Friends may call at the Alton funeral home of Morrow Cutforth, Sixth and George streets, 'after 4 p. today.

Brotherhood's Barbecue At Cox's Home Monday The annual barbecue of the Men's Brotherhood of the Twelfth Streel Presbyterian Church will be held Monday evening at 6:30 o'clock on the lawn of the Edwin, Cox home, 1107 Washington avenue. may make reservations by calling VV. J. Herb, Rev. Paul S.

Krebs or George Clark. 6010 City Auto Licenses The September hot spell has caused no slackening in the demand for city automobile license stickers which the police department, by continuing drive, insists will be in style through the fall and winter months. At the office of City Treasurer Boschert today, it was said that 35 licenses have been issued in the first nine days of the month. The total today was 6010 for the 1939 year. ett and spent the evening informally.

Refreshments were served by Miss Suhre's mother, Mrs. Henry Suhre. Another party honoring Mis.s Suhre will be given Monday evening at the home Louise Helmick. of Miss Mary Parties for Miss Watkini Miss Cynthia Jane Watkins and James Delaney Platt Okie, who are tr, be married Saturday, Sept. 16, were honored at a party Friday evening given by James Pettus at his home in St.

Louis Country club grounds. Other parties honoring Miss Watkins, the daughter of Mrs. Griffin Watkins of Fairmount, includes one to be given Monday by- Miss Carol McCarthy, a bridesmaid in the wedding. The luncheon will be at the McCarthy home in St. Louis.

Mrs. R. H. Levis of Fairmount will be hostess Tuesday afternoon at a luncheon in her home, honoring Miss Watkins. Miss Louise Levis will be hostess lo a dinner Friday night at her home, 9 Wydown Terrace, St.

Louis for members of the bridal party after rehearsal at First Presbyterian Church, where the wedding will take place, at 4:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Miss Levis, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. M.

Levis, is to be a bridesmaid in the wedding. "Open House" Tonight Dr. Guy Wimmer, president of PERSONAL Mr. and Mrs. Dudley F.

Giber son are expected to return this weekend from a wedding trip In the Smoky mountains. They will make their home at. 2367 Central avenue, Mm. Glberson is the former Miss Barbara Smith of Tryon, N. C.

Miss Le Verne Manns, daughter of Mrs. L. J. Price of 614 East Twentieth street, left this afternoon for New York and will be in the east for a week. Miss Manns won the trip to the Fair from the Rnndall Restaurant.

Mr. and Mrs. George Adams of 727 Linden avenue left this morning for New York, planning to be In the east two weeks. Mr. and Mrs.

E. J. Schulte of Toledo. Ohio, arrived in Alton this morning, accompanying the body of Mrs. Schulte's sister, Mrs.

Harriet Hoskett Paul. Mrs. Flora Kehne was brought from her home in Belhalto to Alton Memorial Hospital at noon today for medical treatment. Alvah Cooper of 504 Condil street underwent an'operation at Alton Memorial Hospital for removal of his tonsils. Miss Rose L.

Gruse, bookkeeper for the Mississippi Valley Coal who entered St. Joseph's Hospital at 11:30 a. today expected to undergo surgical treatment there this afternoon. Mrs. C.

J. Golike of West Alton, a former resident of Alton, was reported seriously ill at her home. Robert Townsend, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Townsend of West Alton, is a patient at St.

Joseph's Hospital where he was brought Friday afternoon for surgical attention following a fall. The boy suffered a fracture of the arm when he fell while running. William Lux of St. Louis, who is spending the summer at Elsah, was brought to St. Joseph's Hospital Friday evening for treatment and observation.

Mrs. Idabelle Coleman of Jerseyville was admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital during the night Friday for observation and possible surgery. Mrs. Nonie Carter was moved from her home, 715 Ffenry street, to St.

Joseph's Hospital at 2 a. today for medical 1 treatment and observation. Fred Fuller of 866 Washington avenue is a patient at Alton Memorial Hospital following a tonsillectomy today. Senior Tate of 1413 Market street has entered Alton Memorial Hospital for medical treatment. The Rev.

Harry C. Brown, pastor of the First Methodist Church will speak Sunday afternoon at homecoming service to be -held by the First Methodist Church in Granite City. The Rev. Brown was pastor of the Methodist Church in Granite City years ago. J.

O'Brien, who was connected with the advertising department of the Alton Evening Telegraph for the past three years, eft today for Rochester, N. where he will be assisciated with the Eagle Pencil Company. Henry Bustoman of North Suchanan street, Edwardsville, who has-been a patient in St. Joseph's Hospital at Intervals during summer, has reentered the hospital for further treatment. Cassius Driscoll Dies at Age of 76 Stricken ill while at work about he lawn at his home, 9 East Delmar avenue, Cassius Driscoll, 76, a ife-long resident of Alton, died ''ridsy at 4:15 p.

m. Death appar- was due to a heart ailment or which he had been under care nf the family physicion for gome mf. A physician who was summoned ironounced Driscoll dead upon his irrival. A call had been sent to he police department for use of he inhalr.tor the message had jeen relayed to the fire department. Members of the fire department with the inhalator were dispatched to the Driscoll but he respirator waft not used as the hysiclan found that Driscoll was lead upon his arrival.

A native of Alton vicinity, Dris-j oil was born on a farm, near Up- ier Alton. He had spent the great- part of his life in the North Sido, residing in the same place here ior the last 30 years. He had worked for about 15 years Owens-Illinois Glass and ater at plant of Stanard-Tilton Co. For the last 14 years le had been retired. Surviving are his widow, Mrs.

Serelda Driscoll; three sons, Melin, Merwln and Thomas, and a Tother, Hollick Driscoll of Gering, Mebr. Funeral services will be held londay at 2 p. at the resl- enee of a son, Melvln, 207 Monler Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J.

Droorrt- goole, Mrs. C. L. Horton and Mrs. L.

Berry have returned from Detroit after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Rousseau, son-in-law and daughter of Mrs.

Berry. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Miles Hll- debrand of Hlldebrand's Fashions in Flowers are buying at the Chicago market, after attending the National F. T.

D. convention In St. Paul. They will be In Alton Sunday. Mrs.

Hlldebrand is re cuperattng from her recent Illness and will return to her place of business Sept. 15. Mr. and Mrs, Hlldebrand reside at 1100 Henry street. Dr.

Guy Wimmer, president of Shurtleff College, and Mrs. Wimmer will attend the marriage oi the ReV. Seide B. Janssen ol Easlon, and Miss Dorothy Duel in Mason City Sunday, Dr. and Mrs.

Wimmer will spend Monday in Bloomington, and the former will attend an executive committee of the Northern Baptist con ventlon. Mrs. David L. Glover, daughter, Miss Marjorie, and son, David, will leave Sunday for their home in Vero Beach, Florida. Miss Glover will be a senior at Stephen College this winter.

Miss Jane Riehl of St. Louis, is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leo F. Willis on the Godfrey Road.

Miss Riehl came to Alton to visit while her mother, Mrs. Caroline Riehl, was in St. Paul, attending a FTD convention. Miss Mary O'Leary has returned from the east where she spent the summer. The Rev.

William Hamby, pastor of Cottage Hills Baptist Church, is having a vacation. Dr. R. S. Douglas of Edwardsville conducted midweek prayer at Cottage Hills this week, and will preach at the Cottage Hills Church Sunday, morning and evening.

Mrs. Emma Unterbrink, wife of John Uriterbrink, is a patient at Alton Memorial Hospital, entering Wednesday for examination and treatment. Mrs. W. H.

White of Seminary Road entered Barnes Hospital Thursday and underwent a major Friday morning. Mr. White, daughter, Mrs. Fpank Hack of 912 Logan street, and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Charles J.

White, of Central avenue in Wood River, were in St. Louis yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Harpy B.

Mathews will arrive home next week from Maine where they sjtent the summer. The Misses Ethel L. Paul and Florence Johnson arrived home Friday- evening from a vacation stay in New York. They were guests of Miss Paul's brother-in- law and sister, Mr. and Mrs.

W. F. Jones, in Jackson Heights, L. I. and spent some time at the Fair.

Registration at Alton Schools SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 9, i lt 11 1939 Bowman Estate To Children and One Grandchild Young's Dry Goods Property Set Up in Trust For Heirs Registration for the fall semester at Shurtleff College will be held Monday, Sept. 11. Members of the faculty will meet students in the Conservatory of Music from 9 a. m.

to 5 p. m. With registration largely completed on Monday, Tuesday will be given over to the extensive testing program of the college. Various tests, designed to aid the faculty in guiding students throughout the year, will be taken by freshmen and upperclassmen. Classes will begin on Wednesday.

The first assembly of the year, also scheduled for Wednesday, will be held in the newly-decorated Chapel. Twenty-two members of the college faculty met at Camp Talahi last Wednesday and Thursday to formulate plans for the coming year. The meetings were under the direction of President Guy H. Wimmer and Dean W. H.

Coleman. Western Military Academy will reopen on Sept. 14. Registration at Monticello College will be on Sept. 14.

Shurtleff College, and Mrs. Wlm-; street, with the Rev. C. E. Shep- mer will be "al home" tonight, d) pagtor Flrgt Christian from eight to ten, receiving Shurtleff College trustees and faculty.

Dr. and Mrs. Wimmer will also keep "open house" Tuesday night, entertaining Shurtleff students. For Glover Miss Anita Willis, assisted by her sister, Miss Georgene Willis, entertained at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Leo F. Willis on the Godfrey Road Friday afternoon, honoring Miss Marjorie Gloves, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David L. Glover, who Is leaving Sunday for Vero Beach, Florida.

Games were played, and were served to the guests, the Misses Jane Riehl of St. Louis, Geraldlne Gllmore, Iva Bunse, Ruth Bushnell, Alice Ontls, Gloria Holland, Dorothy Ebbert and Mary Leo WlngcrU Church, officiating. Burial will be in Oakwood cemetery. The body will be moved from Gent funeral home to residence on Monler street at 7 o'clock this evening. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM 633 Ent Tinth Strut Open dally except Sunday and holidays from 1 to 4 n.

uu The Bible Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, and all othei authorized Christian literature may be read, borrowed or purchased. Prentis F. Moten Rites Monday Afternoon Funeral services for Prentis F. Moten, who died Friday at Hines Hospital, near Chicago, will be held Monday at 2:30 p. at Allen Chapel, A.

M. E. Church. Burial will be in Oakwood cemetery. The body is at Streeper funeral home where friends may call after 5 p.

Sunday and until 1 p. Monday when It will be moved to the church. Moten, who resided at 2116 Bostwlck street, before entering Jefferson Barracks Hospital in July and later Hines, Is survived by his widow, Mrs. Matilda Moten; his mother, Mrs. Thomas Moten of St.

Louis and a daughter. He also leaves a grandson, Ronald. EDWARDSVILLE, Sept. 9 (Spe- children and a grandson of the late Mrs. Virginia Job Bowman, who died at Alton July 7, will share her estate under terms of the will admitted to probate yesterday.

Lucia B. Watson of Alton, i duaghter, Is left the homestead property at 506 East Twelfth street Alton, 'while the Young Dry Good! Co. property is set up in trust until Aug. 31, 1947. "Net income from the is to be divided among the children and grandson, each receiving one-sixth, except the daughter, Lucia Watson, who is to cclve a One-third share.

Upon ter mination of the trust, division of the trust estate is to be made among the group, in the same proportions. Those sharing the estate are two sons, Frederick B. Bowman of Miami, F.ia., and Horatio J. Bowman of Alton; two daughters', Virginia B. Watson of Colorado Springs, and Lucia B.

Watson of Al ton, and a grandson, George B. Milnor of Portland, Ore. Property at Hartford ii to be shared by children, Lucia and Virginia Watson and Frederick Bowman, while the balance of tne estate is to be divided equally among all five. The petition to pro bate the will places a nominal value of 56000 on the estate. Administration was also opened in probate court yesterday in the estate of Mrs.

Minnie Sonntag, widow of the late William Sonntag, who died at Alton Aug. 1. A petition to probate her will, filed yesterday, was set for hearing Oct 10. According to the peition, which places a value of the estate, attesting witnesses to the will are F. C.

Tuemmler and E. F. Horn of Alton. Petition requesting the appointment of Public Administrator John Lauer of Alton to administer the estate of Louis J. Masulla of Alton, was filed in probate court yesterday and set for hearing Oct.

9. Masulla left no will, according to the petition filed as administration was opened in the estate. Final report was also filed and set for hearing Oct. 3, in the estate of Harold H. Gillespey, late Alton resident.

Mercury at 90; Relief on Way, Says Forecast Although only slight relief was felt today from the scorching temperatures of the past few days, the general trend of the mercury is downward. At noon today it was barely touching the 90-degree mark and seemed destined to make only a minor excursion upwards during the afternoon, but most persons thought it hotter than that. Yea turday it stopped at 99 degrees, after touching 100 Thursday. The forecast for tonight and tomorrow was fair and cooler. The Mississippi river here also responded to the general slackening of the heat with a rise of half a foot.

It is now only one and three- tenths feet below low water mark. Yesterday it set an all-time September low record at one and nine- tenths feet below the zero mark. Births Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Rhodes of 225 Doris street, have given the name of Thomas Mathews to a son born Friday at St.

Joseph's Hospital. The baby weighed six pounds and 10 ounces. Mrs. Rhodes was before her marriage, Miss Vera Chappell. Mr.

and Mrs. Eugene Warren of 2426 Moore announcing the birth of a daughter. The baby was born this morning at 2:08 o'clock at Alton Memorial Hospital. Announcement is being made of I he birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs.

Daniel Ayres of Godfrey, Rural Route 2. The baby was born at 4:43 a. today at Alton Memorial Hospital. Jap Flyers to New York CHICAGO, Sept. 9 of Japan's goodwill party left In their airplane for New York today.

They arrived here yesterday after a nonstop flight from Albuquerque, N. M. CLARICE E. RUTLEDGE Graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music Member of the Music Faculty, Mbnticello College Announces the opening of the fall term of private leBsont and classes in Piano, Organ, Theory, Keyboard Harmony, Music History. Alton Studio 1307 Washington Avenue) PHONE Main 4135 Mrs.

Virgil Bowman Married this week to Virgil Bow man was the former Miss Albert." Trower of 2309 Amelia street. Owner Shocked by Stove That Boils Water in Pipes HARTFORD, Sept. 9 Certain residents of Hartford are lobkin? for a psyehist.who wil lexplain to them the strange action of a new electric stove installed Friday at the home of E. E. Thorpe on East Maple street.

Soon after the stove was installed, Mrs. Thorpe said, she turned it on, but it did not respond. A brief time later she turned on a water faucet and received a shock. Soon the running water began td steam and the pipes heated a nauseating odor came from the faucet. Then neighbors to the right and left and residents of the house across the street turned on their water and reported the same occur- ance.

J. TJ Wheeler, a neighbor, said he received a shock when he opened a furnace door. A representative of the makers of stove, summoned from St. Louis, said the stove had been installed faultily and that the electricity was going to the water pipes and not into the stove. All those whose homes were affected by.

the electricity were forced to leave their water running for an hour before using it. 144 Enrolled in Godfrey Schools GODFREY, Sept. Godfrey schools opened with an enrollment of 144 pupils, an increase of 13 over the corresponding period a year before. The superintendent of schools, C. J.

Lienert, said that the high school classes showed a total enrollment of 31, which is a gain of six over the enrollment at this time a year ago. The first meeting of the Parent- Teacher Association will be held Monday evening and the parent! will give the program. Mr.and Mrs.Earl Hussong To Sing at Union Service The First Methodist Church resumes its autumn and winter schedule Sunday. The last Union Service will be the' evening at 7:30 with Rev. Harry C.

Brown, preaching. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hussong, who are prominent in music circlei ol St. Louis, will be guest artists in Union Service.

Mr. Hussong will be remember; I as a former music instructor in the Wood River school system. Mrs. HuBSong is connected with tM Miller-Ferguson Studios of public is cordially invited to service. Department Store Dp LOUIS, Sept.

9 store sales in the elghl federal reserve district In August 21.3 percent better than in and 12.2 percent better 1938, the Bank here reported today. ST. ment feder were July August, serve THE LASALLE ALTON'S FINEST 208 E. Broadway The one place you are ahjgj assured of clo "'J Dinner. Just the that we can buy, cooked you would cook in BSr from gOc to 85c When It's 100 Degree' LA 8ALLI.