Chester Herald-Tribune from Chester, Illinois • 1

Is nx 't Chester Tribune yrr hthc icjtst PAID pirculatioa ft Piper a the Cecnty ft r-7 t1 OTF (SltETOMl? SERVICE Tea Pnititt'Itqcmiets Til Trtai'j Isk Bepirtcist SALTED THE OIL WELL In recognition of the charitable at- Tk Here ia Cut of 1 Republican Count ontentiua luts -tentioti rendered Rev and Mr Frank Item of General Interest to Cilia as granted a di- vo from her husban(1 Charle )polll(iaM 5inff McGuire has appointed the! wing officers of the court for granted a decree of divorce from'! term: Court bailiffs Clyde Barn divorce from her husband Henry Albert Dettpier- fthen the Btruck strong Trotter a few weeks ago by a num-j ber of Chester cititens in the illness! and death of -Mrs Trotter In the of Randolph County From County Papers The Hessian -ffy free date for Ran- in Nomination Man of Experience and Ability for County Commissioner At the Republican county the promoters of the dnlUng refused ternoon Robert Sv "tpmotogia to bo October Promoter of th dnlUng refused ternoon Robert Stevenson eu i from Rev arburton of dad Henry Reichman grand jury Louis Wehrheim riding bail- german Oettmg Hu grand jury organized by the on of Finley of Sparta as t)WMB and Edmiston of Til-m jug jjr Burgdorf of Red Bud as atta rf flow ing on grounds of habitual drunken- hole bn drilled ness and desertion was granted a decree of divorcfrom Marshel Jones and the restoration of defeat atann6 them in nominated by acclamation as the her maiden name Portia I Rickman anJ afttr Pouring several party a candidate for county eommia- The charges of extreme and repeated I of Cnide od in th hole ld the November election cruelty on which the suit was based 1 to their George were sustained by the court- Dora nd hia associates one Durtee was granted a divorce whom G- WlUiam William her husband Otto Durkee on the presldent the Randolph Oil Co grounds of adultery The court de-j Th facU vtn connected locally as creed that the defendant Py to theirre'A of the depositions taken here plaintiff 110 a week for the support Saturday Mor Justice EJ Baronowsky in the case of The Sute of Missouri against John Eckhart Warren Drew and Austin Drew of vorce from George -F the'e All but three precincts- in th county were represented by delegations in the convention which was held in the Chester Theatre in this city The convention resembled the old time political gatherings before the days when the atate legislature took a hand and passed laws taking away from county conventions all of the old time power and political enthusiasm The Gil-- lett Pa secretary of the Rochester Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist church Members of the Methodist Episcopal church of this city advanced to Rev Trotter $75 in cash to defray tha expenses of taking the body of hia wife beck to Pennsylvania and guaranteed the bill of 90 for preparing the body for shipment and burial A draft for 7S was received by Mr JIcNelly a few days after the departure of Rev Trotter with the body of hia wife The letter reads in part: auditorium was laid off in sections for each delegation with placards upon ftt grand jury has been busy noon last Monday and have re-jjned number of indictments lenral persons indicted for various lres hy the grand jury have plead I pity and have already been senten-I is the penitentiary The grand i gj completed it labors' and d-prtei yesterday at poo a pa suit against the defendant in I Coulterville arson case was nolle Goode on grounds of desertion The court ren-1 dered an order giving the defendant 1 7 rVld permission to visit the children st 1 "CVh deffndan'a o- 'W' which were printed the names of the Dear Brother in Christ: precincts as assigned to the delegates I It was my aad privilege' to be pree-The convention was opened by Coun-i anb odaJ the funeral of Mrs ty Chairman A Rmvn who troUpr br a who I Frank Trotter who iwvti to iwr I and em-man who I nsd by the states attorney This i itriw neia last spring by the 7 spring to -'h Lt0tthe grou that erUlnd HaPert a colord ctIIen of Coulter-1 kins had threatened to take her life" dri11 th it to the eternal reward from your city last Bounced that the flrat matter order week I heard your letter to Mr was the election of a temporary chair- Fred Reynolds read and also Mr Trot-man and secretary and Griff1 ter th extreme kmdnesa of city about midnight last Monday fiow ealt WMter coniplsteIy poiling 1 night following a stroke of paralv-Uhe well Nothing daunted the sis which attacked him a few hours Messrs Eckhart and Dtew according turn for temporary secretary and Hrat allow to aay that tha ar- kkts suss read the minutes of the recent meet-1 for the finances so generously and I 3 aad burning ground swt year ago The eases against Jim Cannon and I inn Harmon for abduction against Flore Farrar for rape and against I Vickers for arson were nolle awed by the states attorney he Fields and John Nichols I i i guilty to the indictment charg- -f them with stealing property alsel st 1200 They are 19 years ing of the county central committee provided for the assistance of which contained the call for the convention Chairman Grigg then announced the order of business at the one of our number in hia hour of extreme peed But such kmdnesa deserves some recognition other than financial reimbursement In the ab- previously i to the evidence decided to the Mr Staley was found in the yaniwell and dispose of it They told Mr of the Henry Welge Jr home in the Blair of their intentions but Mr farther end of Buena Vista abml! Blair refused to have anything to do five oclocjc Monday evening by Henry with the dot hurt were sentenced to a term in Welge who had called at the hue tk fontiac Reformatory The defendants then it ia alleged to inspect the progress of wiring the election of a permanent chairman end aenee of a formal resolution by our secretary and on motion the tempor- Conference which does not meet until next April 1 know 1 voice the aenti ment of all in expressing apprvcia- ary organization was made hauled several barrels of erode oil to house for electricity which was being the well and poured it in the hole A done by Mr Staley Lying in toe Jaw -days later the -defendant! wn- Iwn Sentenced to Penitentiary Xif Gody the woman who vietimiz- Geue Bear and Fred Middendorf 1 Tr Staley was helpless Hn permanent Roberta of Chester was placed in nomination for assistant secretary and Mr Roberta waa elected by viva voce vote Chairman Grigg announced the call of the roll of precincts iu order for the nomination and the secretary began the call the chairman of each delegation announcing the vote of the delegation as instructed by the voters at the primary last Saturday turn of the noble manner tn which you oame to the relief of our brother It reminds me that One said He would aay the last to those on His right hand I waa a stranger and ye took me in sick and ye visited The'same one also said much as ye did it unto one of the least of these- ye have done it unto me" Doubtless we shall never have the opportunity of doing a like kindness to any of you people but if oppor- nounced their intention to the well and a large crowd gathered at the appointed hour A photographer waa present and when the shot hurled the oil high in the sir and rained it in a shower on the surrounding territory the picture was taken and there waa much ado about- the great in-I I I I Stumpe came along a moment after Mr arrival and assisted him in lifting Mr Staley from the ground to the porch He was aske I if a physician thou-n bo summonin' and Mr Staley reph'ed that it was not indeterminate tern from I necessary He that ad -a years in the Joliet penitentiary of th llind and dths city with bogus checks was by the grand jury on a charge i confidence game She was taken afore Judge Bernreuter Tuesday af-mooa and plead guilty to the dirge She was sentenced to serve I lie woman -was unable to support and 8 Of th thirty-aix divorce cases th docket at th preaont term of circuit court the complainant la fifteen of th tuita live in Sparta Th moving picture theatre at Coul- tcrvill on night last week gave a benefit for a Coultorvillo citizen who recently lost hie elghL Th entire proceeds of the show went to th ua fortunate citizen The United Presbyterian congregation of Sparta ia contamplating the installation of a pip organ in th church at a cost of $3600 and an -largomont of the building to provide pace for th organ and two more Sunday school room Sign for th marking of tha Mississippi Valley Highway were received by th Sparta Boosters last neck and ar being put up along the road Th Highway passes through Sparta Steeleville Perry and Willi ville and on to Murphyaboro The now building oracled fill vacancy caused by th big fir at TU-den last spring will be completed this month and tha Bank of Tilden will occupy ita new hom at once Thor will also be mercantile buslnettea ia the new building Th fin buillling i owned by Wm Stevenson Th remains of Albert Wylie and Don UHayward wort laid to rest with military honor at Sparta on Sunday of last week They were killed ia Franc three years ago and were th last of th seven Sparta boya who died in aervic to returned to thoir last resting plac in th old hom cemetery There wa not enough room on th special Sparta fair I train of last week to accommodate th Coultervilleians who wished to go to Sparta on -the train and it waa necessary for the train from Chester to go to Coulterville and get those who were unable to get on th regular special from Th Chri Eniig store at Coultor-vill wa robbed on Thursday night of last week Three dozen eweatar and a large lot of shoe and skirts were taken by th thieve Th lore it estimated by Mr Emig at about $200 Robberies in Coulterville hare been frequent recently and th job generally seem to have been committed by am ateurs' Heaton who lives near th Country Club I aka west' of town- 4 th melon wizard of this vicinity thi year Ho planted over fire here in watermelons and almost at many in cantaloupes and hit crop haw beta unusually large Re has already sold over $404 worth of met-oni from his patches and will I able to market them until frost a many ar still to ripen: sold 40 melon in this city from Thursday1 until Monday and was still unabl 'supply the parts News Th vocational departments of th Sparta Township High School hsvw received I2S6280 from th sutq which pay half th expenses ef th department Th distribution of th tat fund i under the Snrith-Hughom Vocational act whicch provide that the state will pay to High Schools of th state one-half the expense of cos- ducting vocational training departments whoa such High Schools qualify under tho art The fund it distributed I tho Sparta High School as Homo -Economics denartmoat 101210 agriculture $1100 gnla-irg f0 Whil scouting about th Mid srw'f as she was brought from become 1ute warm work-at to the court house and in the ln ln the garret-of the house and brought in Eckhart andthe Drews are then said to hare gotten in touch with Messrs Dieckman Black and Wil- sort room she was seated at a table tka ke kad cor'e cut ''ito the yard to ljams and to have finally told the well 1 was recognized by the chair Mr hold so large a away it is indeed re a it entered her plea of guilty and cto1 off when he ftlt him- to them for a consideration of $3100 McConachia state! that he was 1" "al --J When these gentlemen put a pump to orized to withdraw from the consid- ppi have shown in this matter the hole they were unable to get any-jeration of the convention the candi-( Relieve me my brother 1 am writ- thing frem it except salt water They dacy of Edmiaton and moved ing you tins from a full heart At a and quietly began I that the nomination of Steven-1 Uvk tlnJ wort lm tx- iprev the feelings of the soul Msy an investigation which brought out ton be made by Reclamation The jje nevtr fai t0 rcward a kjnj the facts The case was presented to motion was seconded and was carried ness done to Hia -own reward you a St Louis graud jury and the two by a unanimous rising vote of tha abundantly and may we ati he the sentence by the judge self unable to glt or sland--Ir Bear visited her cell yester- A vehicle wa5 summoned and Mr 4 morning in an effort to gain in-! Stale-V was removed hl hom- A krastion from her regarding the Physician arnved aoon ater and an-ritreabouts of the camera which she nounced that the ttack was a serious kirit from him She feigned ill- one of Paralysis' Wr- Staley gradu-mi she talked to Mr Beare and aly ewworse until away i I I that she was unable to remem-I hr anything that transpired on her rat to this city a few weeks ago in about mid-night Mr Staley was about fifty years of age He was a son of the late kept by His grace and power until He come to gather to Himself Your in His Service arburton Conf Church Drews and Eckhart were arrested under the indictment The trial which is expected to result in landing the defendants in the Jefferson City penitentiary will be heard toon in th court of SL Louis it is said coni ention Chairman Grigg then addressed th convention He urged the necessity on th part of every good citizen of doing hi part in the work of the community in which be Uved in th way of assisting President Harding in one of the hardest tasks that a president of th United States has ever been called upon to the bringing of the country out of the cheoe brought abbut by th war and hading the economic affair of th country back to normal conditions He spoke jif the splendid efforts President Harding hu put forth to prevent industrial calamity in th country and was happy to aay thikt th diplomacy of th great president was meeting with success Slowly but aurely on every hand may be seen th indications that industries are getting back to Their pre-war atatus labor ia beginning to see it duty toward the country and light is coining out of th darkness which threatened to engulf th nation Mr address was interrupted frequently by ap- Bg eui a so a -e -w -g ONE PAPER FOR 'SPARTA Announcement was mad in the Sparta papers last week that the proprietors of the News hd purchased the Sparta Plaindealer and that the two papers would bo consolidated under the napie News-Plaindealer The first isue of the consolidated publications will be issued next week The Sparta Plaindealer waa established $9 year ago and has been published continuously line it establishment Judge Taylor th present editor of the Plaindealer ha been connected with th paper with alight interruption for the past fifty years For the past 22 years he has been continuously th editor The Sparta News was established in FROM CLERK TO PASTOR Coleman chief clerk at th prison has resigned his position to take effect October 1 Mr Coleman ha decided to enter th ministry and the recent conference of th church at ML Vernon assigned him to th charge at OUv Branch and Miller City in Alexander countyi 'Mr Coleman will preach at on of thee charges next Sunday Mr Coleman has beeq chief clerk at the prison for th put five oj six years continuously except for about a year when he served in th capacity of deputy warden At on time he took up th study of theology but for torn reason wu obliged to a ben-don for th time hi decision ti make the ministry hia life work During th winter he expects to prosecute his theological studies with th hop th time of th meeting of conference in this city he will be able to qualify ordained minister of th church Mr Coleman's brothers are Clarence Staley and was reared in this city Always industrious his set-vices were in great demand formerly as a hill poster in this city and vicinity in which vocation he waa always reliable and attentive to hia work In recent yeara he ha been employed in electrical work Until quite recently he held a positioh with the county agent for the Delco lighting system and waa engaged eteadily in installing Delco plant in many hemes and business houses throughout the county During th past few week he has been contracting for electrical wiring and was engaged in wiring the beautiful new' home of Mr Pinero Lon was of a pleasant though somewhat- retiring disposition He was always ready to assist where his labor was required and he understood his undertakings thoroughly He has been a familiar figure about our city and his disappearance will he noted with much regret among those who knew him best The remains were laid to rest in Evergreen cemetery on Wednesday afternoon services at the Episcopal church He leaves to mourn his death his mother a sister Miss Edith Staley and Staley ister jus brother Chauncy krt she did not remember ever hav-t hern in Cheater much less haring aratd a camera from him She I tkaned that she had been doped in snr manner at that time When Mr I ksi referred to her plea of guilty hsr sentence to prison on-Tues-I hr she feigned not to remember wir having been before the court Bears failed utterly to locate hia and it of the opinion that Cody it the most puzzling speci-I of femininity he ever met fcry Moll was indicted by the I P1 jury fw petit larceny He I ho guilty to stealing $20 worth of I PWrty from the farm home of Ru-1 Meyer lest week Judge Bem-j xter found the defendant to be 17 I of age and sentenced him to a indeterminate term in the reformatory at Joliet Deahn and John Vuenger guilty to the indictment return-j Tuesday by the grand jury for automobile from Robert "mrtt of Baldwin They were cap-I 21 tb machine at Belleville I Bernreuter sentenced the boys I 7 turn'd to be 19 and 18 year iwpectively to serve indetermin-i mia in the reformatory at mfiac 1 i i i f' i 1 1898 to espousa th cause of 'free 4 a i ailver In the great Bryan campaign of from tha dcIcCta that year when th country Hr Stevenson th party's nominee aroused to a fever heat by th money vu (1C0rtwl to th platform by a question being injected Into the m-leommittM appointed by th ehetr paign as th main issue Folowing arj tanktd the convention for the ministers the defeat of Bryan the News honor cf hit nomination He said to tkVT t0TTT that th" kad bn lc'B aom relative to it was edited by Dr A- Jiacnen- as county commissioner trie who sold th plant to How' but stood ready and was attack- orth of chztrT' eWnf4 lt 5 at all time to dispell derogatory ed bT pic -'2 "if -at-! court houso eampaign- OB plam tending services church Ust Sunday morning that by th district next spring an Two ef sfrte Lutheran Phn Pchasedtwo year ago by facta of hi dadlT mornirg Shel HaW tratfo -coon'y commissioner Mr morning ne conducted it a a Demccra-' and sod TROUBLE Thom Thursday warrant cha-ging I fw I byres ears a I end god AT RILET LAKE Bossy time to town on tf Ui wek atd a -ora at yPrta on night last against Theodore Wilson Marhat eurrying him with assault with od acting suspiciously TH fallow observed the marshal shadese- ere neighborly Big him and an impulse struck him ts good latter caught while 'the going of Divercr Ci the 37 divorce cases on the 7 this terrfi' of court Judge bad definitely of Tuesday evening Decrees of ce were granted in seven of the four were dismissed by the and a number were con tin- friend until the rhurch by ber piLptT folIowin(t change of the Ur who accompanied her to tne ser- 1 policy by E- Meyer rices ird wu to the Rome oi i damti led from the church by ber following th change of the vmtw thTnadjlu th on ef Boray throwing 1-1 1 llee ke A IMP from an independent Republican paper i friends until the th eon ef Bovey throwing hi two little gif is Ks bey about bey about throwing rocks rocks at the suit care and fed bite Cb rocks at 1 dropped the suit caw irautioned the darkness runninf dog tied told the boy and later 7rd which he crossed and th father An hour Uter managed to secure a pretty fair the sister Mrs Bartles where she fUaBCh Democratic peper has been very DI Miss Feldman Bs nnw bat Of been employed in the James for a yew or more dgBUe Bartlett waa granted a 7t rom Winter Bartlett on a 7 of desertion Elmer Madison Md his suit against hisSrife 5 dison at also did Mier Mary Hd Pentence from hia i I1 wrong-doing and he 2 aait against her Herring thought better bo separated from Harlow Herring and dia-j pUare Cash Shoe Store.