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of attendant, kill to of and but to had cash. men men men the did. lay in and been then said, face They up in down floor, their and "Stick then him upon and I Station at Lincoln Robbed For Third Time Lincoln, Dec. 26--(Special)-On Monday evening between 7:30 and 'clock two entered the Standard Di1 Station and held Fred Schafer, the with $103. Schafer in the base.

fire ment fixing returning the upper found two men standing the doorway with nutomatic revolvers their hands. One the 'em up' and Schafer The two told to face the wall changed minds and told him down on the floor and not try to move or they would him. searched and Schafer took his money keys Away from him, and one of the men then opened the sate door setured the $200 in money orders and checks was not taken. This is the third time within a this particular has been rear station robbed. Auto Stolen: Abandoned A Buick roadster belonging to Philip Blazer was steen from his garage at the rear of his home Christmas eve.

Police in Streator stated today the var had been found, abandoned there. Brelsford- Engel Harry Brelsford and Miss Margaret Engel, two well known young. people the city surprised relatives and friends on Saturday evening, and were quietly married at the manse of the First Presbyterian church, by Rev. Hugh L. Moore.

The couple were unattended and left the city, after leaving a note to their relatives. telling them of the wedding. The couple are expected home the middle of the week. Examination, The mid-term examination for the seventh and eighth grade pupils will be held in all towns of the county on Saturday, January 6. 1923.

The following subjects will be offered in this examination: 7th, spelling: 8th, spelling: 7th, agriculture. 8th, agriculture; 7th, domestic science and 8th, domestic science. Sum for I. 0. 0.

F. Home The will of the late Job J. Haas has been filed in the county court. The will disposes of the property among the wife and children of the deceased. After meeting certain specified bequests to the widow and each of the children, an unusual bequest was made in that the sum of $500 was left in trust to the trustees of the I.

0. 0. F. Home here, the income from which is to be used to bay refreshments and entertainment, for the children of the Home at Christmas time. Waynesville Teachers United in Marriage Waynesville, Dec.

Miss Hilda Klemm and Walter Horn married at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Klemm, Sunday evening. Rev. K.

F. Krughoff officiating. The ring ceremony was read in the presence of immediate relatives. The attendants were Miss Ethel Klemm sister of the bride, and Edward Rinebart. The bride wore a dress of blue, satin cancon crepe and 'carried Ophelia roses.

Following the ceremony a 6 o'clock dinner was served, plates being laid for twelve. Mr. and Mrs. John Horn, parents of the bridegroom entertained with a dinner Christmas day in honor of the newlyweds. Both young people have been teaching school in this vicinity and will continue teaching, and go to housekeeping in the spring.

Elsie Stoll Bride in Event Beason, Dec. 26-(Special) -Miss Vera Stoll and Thomas Talbot were married at the home of the bride's parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stoll of near Hallville, Sunday at 12:30 p. m.

Rev. T. T. Holton of Bloomington performed the ceremony. There were about forty guests present.

number of these were from Beason and included the aged grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stoll, Sr. The young couple were the recipients of a number of useful and valuable presents A sumptuous wedding dinner was served. The young people will make their home in Clinton.

JAMES E. SEABERT DWIGHT POSTMASTER E. Dwight, Seabert Dec. 26-(Special)-James has received official notice from Washington, D. that he has been appointed postmaster at Dwight.

Mr. Seabert will succeed A. I. Graves who has been postmaster here for elght years. MISS ANNA MITTKE.

OF CLINTON, BRIDE Decatur, Dec. Anna Mittke of Clinton and Jess Lambert of McLeansboro were mar. ried Monday afternoon in the home -of Judge John H. McCoy of the county court. PLAN ORGANIZATION TO GUARD MONEY VALUE Madison, Dec.

of the national monetary assoelation to stabilize and safeguard the purchasing value of money was nounced today by John R. Commons, professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin, its president. Asserting that most sound money movements in the past have been committed in advance to special propaganda, Professor Commons in a statement today said that the present organization has no spec'al interests to, serve and no preconceived ideas regarding its program. "It been organized." "by he said, those who feel that the most lem econom'e and social probImportant of the present day la the great Injustice brought about by both the Nuctuation and progressive changes in the price level and the tremendous economy and social losses in resented by idle men and machinery the recurring periods of business depression." Officers of the association Professor Commons besides dents, H. A.

Wallace, are: Des Moines Vice-presiW. F. Gephart, St. and J. G.

Winant, Louis; secretary, R. Concord, N. treasurer. H. Giles, New York: execYork.

secretary, John P. Jones, New ntive in distinction ars spoken of in Bible Candles from lamps, the first named being described and placed on a lighted as lamps were shown to candlestick be specifically white used for oil. For Colds, Grip or Influenza and as a Preventative, take Laxative QDININE Tablets. The box BROMO sure of E. W.

Grove. bears "sure the signaBROMO,) BOG, -AdY, (Be" you get my a a Fugitive Bandit Travels Far to Give Himself Up Urbana, Dec. of being constantly haunted by fear of arrest, Clyde Maham, formerly of Rantoul, wanted since last February for complicity in the robbery and kidnaping of a Champaign taxi driver, walked into the sherift's office and surrendered at noon today. couldn't stand the strain any longer," said Maham. "Every time I'd see a policeman my heart would leap into throat.

Hiding out got onto my nerves until it seemed that prison would be preferable constant fear, so I decided to give myself up. Lock me up. Gee, what relief." Maham came all the way from Cincinnati to surrender to Sheriff Gray. Gerbing- -Blunt Nuptials. Miss Agnes Gerbing, of this city, and Rolla S.

Blunt, of Champaign, were quietly married on the afternoon of Christmas, Rev. R. T. Hickerson, pastor of the Webber Street Church of Christ performing the single ring service at the home of her parents. Prominent Girl Married.

Miss Jamie Margaret Chester, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Chester, Champaign, was united in marriage this morning to J.

M. McIntyre, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. McIntyre, of Newman, Rev.

W. E. Roberts reading the single ring ceremony. Shoulder Broken in Auto Accident. Andrew Brookmeyer was taken from his home in Champaign yesterday to the county hospital, following an auto accident.

Saturday night in which he sustained a broken shoulder. Mrs. Watterson Dead, Formerly of Fairbury News was received in Fairbury yesterday of the death of Mrs. Irvin Watterson at Kankakee. She was well known in Fairbury, having come there from England about thirty years ago, making Fairbury her home until seven years ago.

The husband is now critically ill in Kankakee. Both became sick only recently. Before marriage Mrs. Watterson was Miss Lizzie Holloway. She first from England to Canada, where she was governess for a time.

went back to England, and about thirty years later came to this country in company with a cousin, Nicholas Chaning, now of Cropsey. She was married fifteen years ago to Irvin Watterson, who lived near Strawn. A second cousin survives in this country, Edward Skinner, of Fairbury, Mr. and Mrs. Skinner will attend the funeral in Kankakee Thursday in company woh Mrs.

F. M. Patton and Mrs. Marshall Gordon. Scarlet Fever Victim.

Emanuel Metz, four -year-old SON of Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Metz, died early Sunday morning of scarlet fever. The funeral was held on the Sunday afternoon, and interment made in North cemetery. One sister of the dead child is now critically ill of the same disease.

Mrs. Thomas Walker. Mrs. Thomas Walker, colored, died at her home in Fairbury Christmas of apoplexy. She was forty -nine years old.

The funeral will be held at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday af 8 rncon from the A. M. E. church, the deceased is survived by her husband and several sisters. Two Christmas Babes.

Two babies were born in Fairbury Christmas day, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. John Beckley, and a son to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Werling.

EASTER ISLAND, ONE OF WORLD'S MYSTERIES Easter Island, rumored to have disappeared beneath the at the time of the recent destructive earthquakes shocks in Chile, is the subject of the following bulletin from the Washington, D. headquarters of the National Geographic Soc.ety. "If Easter Island had sunk beneath the ocean as it was rumored to have done," says the bulletin, "this final might dropping of the curtain on the island have gone some way toward solving its mystery; for this tiny bit of land with its unique gigantic statues is shrouded in mystery and has remained since is discovery one of the world's unsolved riddles. One theory has been that it represents the last pinnacle of an ancient Pacific 'Atlantis' which disappeared beneath the waters many centuries theory to which a disappearance of ago a the island might obviously lend support. "Situated 2,000 miles west of South America and almost an equa! distance from other Pacific islands, Easter Island is one of the most isolated inhabited regions on the globe.

"The mystery of Easter Island became recognized when Dutch navigators discovered it on Easter morning 1722 and reported that hundreds of strange stone figures of men more than thirty feet high stood where about its margins, their everybacks to the sea. The the natives had only crudest of tales to account for these images which evidently had been fashioned ages before. "Recent study has shown that the Images were mounted below which the bodies of the on terraces dead were exposed and often buried. But whence came the idea for such statues on this how some of them isolated island, and weighing many tons were moved and the set in place by natives, have proved baffling enigmas. "The statues were carved from volcanic lava on the slopes of an extinct volcano.

Scores of them remain still in and near the quarries. Others have been moved various disothers tances, some remaining horizontal, Some were moved--the natives placed in an upright position. by magis-for les across the island. say figures Altogether nearly 200 of the huge are now visible, and others are believed to have been landslides. buried in statues The largest stand'ng are 32 feet high, but one sti'l feet reclining in its quarry measure 64 In length.

On the heads of the of many cylindrical figures were placed great ored stone, 'hats' each of weighing different several coltons. "Easter Island, discovered by the the Dutch and for a while possessed by but for Spanish, now belongs to Chile, long perlods there has been no civil Chilean erates residence. A Chilean representative in a company opthe cattle and sheep ranch on island which supports ant growth of grasses. a luxuriAbout once a and year takes a ship calls. leaves supplies away wool and hides.

The cattle are killed for and the their hides alone, surplus meat is thrown away. Silver plate, with the exception of spoons, was prohibited by statute of 1696. in public houses yer 100. years, of England for THE DAILY PANTAGRAPH, BLOOMINGTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, 1922. Former Resident of Clinton Dies at Home in Maroa Clinton, Dec.

26-(Special)-Mrs. Mary J. Luker sister of George Adams of this city, and long a restdent of this city died at her home in Maroa where she has resided for the past five years. Sunday morning, bronchial pneumonia was the cause of death. The deceased was the daughter of William and Drusilla Adams and was born on the home place two miles southwest of Clinton, September 5, 1844.

On May 18, 1870 she was united In marriage with John Blaike, To this union were born two children, May and Eddie both preceding their mother in death. Following the death of her first husband she was married to William Luker. His death occurred a few years ago. She is survived by a brother, George Adams, who is the last of a family of twelve children and a nephew, Fred Moore, also of Clinton. Funeral services were conducted at the First Christian church this city, this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock.

Rev. R. L. Cartwright pastor of the officiating. Interment was Ni Woodlawn cemetery.

tery. Frat Delegate. Dan A. Gallagher, is home from Waiversity, Illinois, for, a the with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Gallagher. He will go to Columbus. Ohio this week as a delegate to the national convention of the Phi Kappa fraternity from the Beta chapter of Illinois. Senator Hanson Speaks. regular Rotary weekly Club was luncheon held of the today.

State Senator Frank Hanson of Bloomington spoke on the subject "Transportation." The transportation committee of the Clinton Chamber of Commerce and several others were guests of the club. Jail Alleged Bootlegger, The De Witt county jail was full of alleged bootleggers over Christmas day, Mr. and Mrs. Hayes Smith, colored, was raided. They were each fined $100 and costs, which they paid.

Frank Wright and Louis and Logue whose homes were raided Clyde by officers Saturday night were also brought up. Wright was fined in the sum of $100 and costs and the same remitted to his family. The case against Louis Logue was dismissed and that of Clyde Logue parole. placed upon Weldon Boys Earl Hunt and Charles FightPerkins, both of Weldon, were arrested by Sheriff B. G.

Taylo, charged with by fighting, Mrs. the warrant being sworn Drew Baker. They were released on bonds. Marriage Licenses. The following licenses to wed were issued on Christas day by County Clerk Harrold H.

Morris: Gordon Estal Westray, Clinton. Bernadine Brown, ClintonDan B. Merrick, Hamilton, Kas. Cecil Grace Hoffman, Farmer City. Address on Milk.

H. H. Lurch, Clinton Chamber of Commerce. secretary of the received word yesterday that President Council Munn of the National Dairy will be present the of January 9 to evening give an address in the theater on the subject of milk I nutrition. Mr.

Munn is nized national authority on this recogsub- ject. He will use three reels dem. onstrate and special effort will be made to interest the teachers and children of the schools as well as all parents who are interested in the best things for children. Christmas at the Jail. Aitho no prisoner of the county jail received a release from that stitution as a Christmas gift they none the less enjoyed the day.

Sherin Bert Taylo treated his prisoners to a real Christmas dinner. Motor Cars in U.S. Could Carry Whole Population at Once -There are enough motor vehicles in the United States to take the entire population of the country for a ride at the same time, says the bureau of public roads of the department of agriculture. At the beginning of 1922 there were 4.2 motor vehicles for each mile of road in the United States. One hundred and twenty vehicles per minute was the rate at which motor vehicles passed a bureau observing station on a trunk line way in Massachusetts, recently.

This highrate was contined from noon to ten p. m. A tourist recently driving thru four states was required to buy four different sets of lenses to make his tions. headlights comply with state regulaIn this the bureau sees great need for more uniformity In rgulations. highway Federal ald highways placed under construction in September amounted to 1,189 miles.

Camp Grant Soon On Auction Block Rockford--Camp Grant, another of the wartime scene sof bustling military activity, soon is to go upon the auction block--one of the final in its ultimate steps wrecking as a cantonment. and Between 1,200 and 1,400 buildings utilities are to be sold, part of tions camp that red the height of its operacovered 5,656 acres of land and housed approximately 60,000 men. Three army officers now are making a survey of the salvage value of the buildings, all located in the area of the old base hospital site. Buildings in the areas over to the national guard of Illinois and the portion reserved for the proposed reformatory for first term federal offenders, are not included in the survey. The Baldwin, Samuelson and Johnson farms are to be returned a to their owners.

Other properties were bought by the government and demnation proceedings were neces. sary in some cases. FOR A NEBRASKA FARM BLOC. will Lincoln, have Dec. a farm bloc in its next legtect islature, agricultural convening January 2, to lative interests in matters, if present plans of its sponsors are successful.

The movement was started among agencies of organized agriculture and J. N. Norton; former head of the Farm Bureau Federation, already has come forward with its proposal. Threatened reductions in state expenditures as the result of litical campaigns has caused the pofear in some agricultural circles that the priating may hesitate in legislature funds which leading culturists declare to be necessary for the protection of the industry, Pontiac's Biggest Still Found After Raid Nets 4 Men Pontiac, Dec. -VImenzo Gelnemino, alias Lorenzo Canole, Tony Alello, Tony Alello, and Sam Atello awoke this morning in the county jail, having been the victim of a raid by a "sponge squad" under the leadership of Sheriff L.

M. Shugart last night. At 622 West Cleary street the sheriff and his deputies took into custody Canole. Search of his premises suited in the discovery of a ten gallon still hidden in a coal house and a one- gallon container full of liquor, one quart container containing coloring matter and a five- gallon jug containing about three gallons of liquor. At 630 West Cleary street the raiders took into custody Alello and his son, besides Sam Riello, who claimed to be spending the evening there with his friends.

A search of the premises regulted in the discovery of a thirty -gallon still complete, by far the largest still that has yet been spied. Tony Aiello, and Sam Aiello when arraigned before Justice W. E. Baker were each placed under $500 bonds and released upon their own recognizance. Lorenzo Canolo and Tony Aiello, were held to await the action of the grand jury under bonds of $200 each, each charged with violation of the prohibition act.

Morris and Meng. Alva Morris and Henry Meng, who have long been associated with A. N. Smith in his wholesale and retail grocery business, have formed partnership and have purchased the interests of Mr. Smith, who has been compelled to retire because of ill health.

Adjudged Insane. Mrs. Sarah Price, a resident of Round Grove township, was today ordered to be committed to the state hospital at Kankakee for medical treatment. Cash Released from Joliet. Will Cash was released from the Joliet penitentiary today after serving a year and nine days of a one to fourteen years' sentence.

Cash was sentenced from the Livingston county circuit court on a charge of attempt 1 to kill his wife. Mrs. C. W. Bagnall Dead.

Mrs. C. W. Bagnall died at her home in Merger, last night according to a telegram received here this morning. Mrs.

Bagnall mother of P. D. Bagnall, whas the was called to her bedside several days ago. Grease Why cough? Camphorated Goose will check it over night. 600 at Bradford's Drug Store.

-Adv. -Behl's Drug Store sells Camphorated Goose Grease the quick cold cure. -Adv. HOPEDALE WOMAN DIES CHRISTMAS Hopedale, Dee. Mrs.

C. A. Litwiller passed away home four miles south of ber Hopedale Monday evening, Decem25. at 5:30. Magdalena was born in Boynten township, Nov.

23, 1865, and lived in this community all her life. She was maried C. A. Litwiller Jan. 4, 1885, and moved to the farm where she lived until her To this unuion eight children were bran, five sons and three daughters.

one son dying in fancy. She leaves to mourn her departure her husband. four sons and three daughters: Simon of Manson, brecht, Tiskilwa: Silas, Christian. Ammon. and Barbara, Esther.

all at home. Also five grand children, two sisters and many relatives and friends. She un.ted with the Amish Mennonite church in her youth and remained faithful and loyal to the end. Funeral services will be held at the A. M.

church near Hopedale Thursday at 10 CUNO BUSY DISCUSSING REPARATIONS PROBLEM Dec. 26-(By the ed Press.) -Chancellor Cuno, who had been spending the Christmas holidays with his family and friends in Hamburg, returned to the capitol today and at once resumed sion of the reparations program with the few ministers who were spending Christmas in Berlin. The chancellor with Finance Minister Hermes and Joahnnes Becker, minister of economics, has been cupied the past ten days with intiists, mate bankers: conversations with industrialshipping leaders and representatives of importing and exporting industries, and has kept the Reichstag leaders and the officials of the general federation of labor ions informed of the nature and unpro- gress of these consultations. Meanwhile Germany is fast rounding out her "year of trillions" -her combined floating and funded debt having already passed the thirteenth digit mark, while the amount of currency circulation will also have advanced to that figure by the end of the year. A conservative estimate of her 1923 budget shows this also reaching a point above the trillion.

WITNESS SURRENDERS IN TROSTELL CASE Chicago. Dec. remarkable story which astounded the police came today from John F. 28, who swallowed poison on ChristShippie, mas eve and who today declared that Arthur Foster had toll him he killed Mrs. Kate Mitchell Trostell, a widow who had rejected Foster as a suitor.

Shipple declared he attempted to commit suicide fear. ing de would be killed because of his knowledge of the Trostell case. of Mrs. Trostell in Foster's Shipple aserted he saw the body automobile, altho he did not claim to have, witnessed the slaying. mobile, altho he did otn did not MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Peoria, Dec. -Marriage licenses have been issued a8 Lollows: Gordon G. McDonald, aged 34, 30, and Sadie C. Donovan aged Pontiac, Pontiac. and Edward Della Brecher, aged 23, Pekin, A.

Drye, aged 23, Peoria. and Joseph Hildreth B. Sowa, aged 28, Delavan, Mary Lower, aged 25. Minter. Visible Grain Supplies.

New York, Dec. visible supply of American grains show the following changes: "Wheat increased 258,000 bushels; corn increased 1,317,000 bushels; oats increased 594.000 bushels; rye decreased creased 145,000 bushels; barley 474,000 bushels. Called to Chicago. A. D.

Goldstone, of 501 East Front street, telegram was called to Chicago by a his mother, aged 84. She leaves announcing the death of four sons and one daughter. More than fifty per cent of blindness la classed as Two Pekin Couples To Observe Golden Weddings On Dec. 29 Pek'n. Ill.

Dec- and Mrs Otto Koch will observe their golden wedding anni- versary Friday. Mr. and Mrs. GeoBruder will celebrate a elmilar event in their life. Give Pastor Lamp.

At the conclusion of the Christmas. exercises at the First Baptists church last evening the tion presented the pastor, Rev. E. C. Poole and wife, with a beautiful floor lamp.

OwensMiss Althea and Stanley by Rev. C. Poole. bride is the Owens were marriage last evening daughter of Mr. and Peter Johnson.

Marriage Licenses. The following marriage licenses were issued today: John M. Nafziger, Hopedale. Anna C. Litwiller, Boynton.

Herschell Lavell, Mt. Pulaski. Elva Miles, Springfeld. Paul T. Frenzel.

Peoria. Rose Ida Gasman Wa-hington. Joseph Rotholts, PeoriaBessie Baugham, East Peoria. Harvard Student Ill. Paul Conaghan, son of Mr.

and Mrs. T. Conaghan, who is here from Harvard college for his holiday vacation, was taken suddenly ill last n'ght with appendicitis and it may be necessary for him to submit to an operation. SCIENTISTS SUPPORT ORGANIC EVOLUTION Cambridge, Dec. 26 (By the Associated Press)-A resolution affirming that 'no scientific generalizamore strongly supported by thoroughly tested evdences than is that of organic was adopted today by the of the American Association for the advancement of science.

The resolution expressed the conviction that any legislation attempting to limit the teaching of the doctrine of evolution would be "a profound mistake." It cited in several states to prohibitempt teaching of evolution public schools and the wide publicity given to assertons that the theory of evolution was a mere guess which leading scientists were abandoning. It cal'ed attention to the fact that the American aSsociation had a membership of more than 11,000 persons, including the American authorities in all branches of science. CHINESE GIRL MISSING ON HER WEDDING DAY Washington, Dec. 26-Mildred Wenn, American Chinese girl, who retured home yesterday according to police after having disappeared for several days in Pique over the selection of a bridegroom for her by her parents, was reported missing again late today. Her wedding had been set for yesterday but her absence caused its postponement and the Chinese youth, George Num Lee of New York came today to claim her.

She was permitted to accompany a friend to a theater police related while her uncle went to obtain a marriage license. Shortly afterward she cou'd not be found, it was added, and the wedding once more was postponed. Mildred Wenn is the daughter of Wing Lim Wenn, restaurant owner. PEORIANS ARE HURT IN CRASH, SPRINGFIELD Springfield, Dec. 26-Miss Orlean Vermillion.

15 and Gus O'Brien drove his automobile against a telephone pole to avoid colliding with a street car. At a local hospital is was said the girl had suffered concussion of the brain but that O'Brien would be out again in a few days. They come to Springfield, O'Brien said, to get Irene Vermillion, Orlean's sister, who has been visiting here. The accident occurred before they had reached their tion. New C.

B. Q. Engines. Chicago, Dec. order for sixty fast freight locomotives of the latest type has been placed for early spring delivery by the Chicago, Burlington Quincy railroad.

Vice-president E. P. Bracken announced here today, stating order approximates $3.180,000. This is In addition to 2.000 re -conditioned steel coal cars, 500 new automobile cars, 500 conditioned box cars and 200 conditioned refrigerator cars recently received, he said. To Photo Drunks.

Des Moines, Dec. B. Hammond, chief of police, announced today that every drunken man who is brought hereafter into police headquarters will have his picture taken. WE BUY Clover Seed Timothy Seed Sweet Clover We will pay top market prices. Bring or mail small representative sample and receive our bid.

WE SELL Tankage Oil Meal Cotton Seed Meal Bran Middlings Mash Feeds. (Poultry) Scratch Feeds Meat Scraps Grits Charcoal Call, write or phone and get our prices. Quality first-class and prices reasonable. Most complete stock in Central Illinois. Geo.

Agle Sons Inc. 207-209 South Center Street Phone 350. Bloomington, Ill LEROY. Dec. and Mrs.

G. F. Walt and family spent Christmas with the former's mother, Mrs. Edith Wait at Reynolds, Ill. -Mr.

and Mrs. L. Wartena are visiting relatives at Hammond, Ind. -Mrs. L.

A. Harner, of Decatur, is a guest this week at the Elidia Cook houme. -Mrs. Louis Fawver and three children of Momence, vere visitors at the Vic Bishop home. --Mrg.

Elverda Skillman spent Christmas at Clinton with her sister, Mrs. Ada Lovenguth and family. -Mrs. Ida Null has gone to Kenton, spend remainder of the winter with her daughter, Mrs. W.

T. Knuth. his vacation visiting his aunt at -Edward Gouchenour is spending Davenport, Iowa." family. -Miss Florence Wirt, of Cleveland, 0., arrived Saturday ot spend her vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

E. M. Wirt. --Mr. and Mrs.

Richard Purcell ing daughter Mrs. Lottie, of Lodi, are visit- and Purcell's mother, Mrs. ther Fain and family, -William Semples was taken to St. Joseph hospital last week for medical treatment. J.

B. Semple of Dwight is visiting his brother. -Miss Edna Zellhoefer of Richmond, is spending her holiday vacation with her mother. Mrs. Sarah Zellhoefer and other relatives.

-Mrs. W. G. Russel, of Woodson. came the latter part of last week to spend a couple of months with her daughter, Mrs.

L. A. McKean and -Martin Anderson and Miss Rachel Ambers were married. on Sunday afternoon at Christian parsonage, Rev. Edwin Wyle officiating.

Mrs. Anna Ambers and Miss Marvel Anderson witnessed the ceremony. The couple will reside in Leroy. -Relatives in Leroy received announcement of the birth of a baby daughter to Mr. and Mrs.

Edward J. Aeschliman. The little born on November 25 at SleeperDavis Peking, China. She weighed seven -half pounds and has been named Patrica June. The baby's mother was formerly Miss Myrtle Patterson, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. George Patterson of Leroy. -Thomas Riddle No. Woman's Relief offirers Corps, elected undo following at a recent meeting: Prestdent, Mrs. Maud Lawson; senior vice, Mrs.

Ida Watters; vice, Mrs. Sawyer; treasurer, Mrs. Mae Phillips; conductor, Mrs. Laura Daw- son; chaplain, guard, Mrs. Mrs.

Hattie Katherine Malone: Deviny; dele. gates, Mesdames Mae Phillips and Ida Dawson Watters; and alternates, Mra. Laura Miss Gertrude Alsup. Death of Albert P. Gerling.

well The known death of Albert P. Gerling, farmer, occurred at 12:18 o'clock this miles (Wednesday) morning al his home six east of the city Bentown road. He was aged on the 51 and leaves a wife and two sons. He was a member of the Trinity Lutheran church. He formerly farmed west of Bloomington but has pied the Bentown farm for 17 years.

Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION FOR INDIGESTION 25 CENTS. 6 BELL'ANS Hot water Sure Relief BELL'ANS and Packages Everywhere JOIN NOW! XMAS SAVINGS Save Now for Next Christmas In order to have enough money for your Christmas spending next year, join our CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB A Which is now open for membership. This plan is the "Easy Way" to save small amounts each week for period of fifty weeks. Choose your class from the following: Payments Total Plus Interest .25 for Fifty Weeks 12.69 .50 for Weeks 25.37 1.00 for Fifty Weeks 50.75 2.00 for Fifty Weeks 101.50 5.00 for Fifty Weeks 253.75 LEARN TO SAVE FIXED AMOUNTS REGULARLY Many families use our Christmas Club as a of premiums or other obligations falling due at this time means meeting insurance of the year. M'LEAN COUNTY BANK THE BANK OF SERVICE.

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