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Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 24

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Herald and Reviewi
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Decatur, Illinois
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24 DECATUR HERALD SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1 92 1 DECATUR HERALD NEWS FROM CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITIES divorce from Edward A. Wright on the grounds of desertion. Alice Stretch was granted a divorce EFFINGHAM TO ting Mr. Danneberger out. Mr.

Danneberger. sustained a severe scalp wound and for awhile it was thought that he might be in a serious con from Fred Stretch on the grounds of SHELBY GRAND JURY REPORTS dition. The son escaped injury. Mr. and Mrs.

Danneberger were taken to Tombstone, where they were given cruelty. Alt. Stricken Miner. Henry Vanderpool of Fana was In HAVE NEW HOTEL 'MATTOON FIGHTS DISEASE SPREAD Diphtheria Makes Gain De- spite Efforts To Check Epidemic surgical attention, after which they wore returned to Bisbee. InMtall Wireless.

A wireless telephone outfil has been installed in the First National Bank Shelbyvllle this week. While here he delivered to Tpbe Stretch $30 that he had collected from the coal miners at Pana. for the relief of Mr. a member of the fire department came near being struck by the falling Iron which brushed bis hair as It fell between his feet. Home From Coaventlo Mr.

and Mrs. W. C. Lumpkin and his father, Dr. I.

A. Lumpkin, are home from Chicago where they attended the convention of the National Independent Telephone Associations of which organization Dr. Lumpkin is a member of the first board of directors as well as being instrumental in the preliminary organization of the association. He delivered an address before the convention held in the Sherman House where about 600 delegates had gathered. Chamber Of Commerce home in West York Monday several weeks' visit with her daurt tcr.

Mrs. Harry Mrs. Sarah Matthews is visitine sister in Decatur this week. Dr. W.

H. Woolard of been in Windsor this week on nCss. There was no High school Frldae on account of the teachers' confer ence at Champaign. Word has been received here of th. death of John II.

Sargent of Seattle Wash. Mr. Sargent lived in Wind sor 30 years ago. and his body expected in Mattoon Sunday, whew the funeral serviced Will be held The Domestic Science department of the -Woman's club met with Mrs Will Armstrong Tuesday. Mrs.

Dave Morris of Sullivan was visiting in Windsor Thursday who is quite ill at his home here. Mrs. Guthrie is doing nicely. Ford Car Found Sheriff J. D.

Marshall Is looking for the owner of a Ford touring car which Ernest Lucas found one day this week standing In the road Tn front of the Toy schqolhouse south of this city. Upon Investigating he found that it had no gasoline and a flat tire but no clue as to the owner could be found. It is supposed that the car had been stolen and abandoned when the gasoline gave out. Dr. J.

W. Dunn of this city gave an address Friday night at 8 o'clocg at he Presbyterian church. His address was on his two years' experience in South Africa during his residence there as physician for a Belgian mining company. The meeting was under the auspices of the Men's Bible class of the Presbyterian church. OREANA of this city for the of getting Thirty-seven True Bills Returned to Judge Dove Friday Morning daily market and crop reports for Besides the money, other needed articles were given to Mr, Stretch, who is a coal miner and a member of the the benefit of the farmers of this Votes To Raise Necessary Funds miners' union.

Roy Kull and Homer Graham of Utica, N. arrived in Shelbyvllle Thursday afternoon, enrouto to the EFFINGHAM, Nov. 19. There was home of Mr. Hull's parents, Mr.

and John Kull of Rose township, a large attendance at the meeting of where. -they will They left the Chamber of Commerce held in the city hall Friday evening. President Henry Eversman and Secretary John viciinity. The outfit was put in Thursday afternoon and is. now in good working condition.

The first market reports were received at 9:30 o'clock Friday morning. Market quotations wcro received every half hour after that time till 1 o'clock, the closing call being at 1:15 -o'clock. The reports are sent out by the Tuscola Radio Station and are furnished by the James Bush Commission company, which maintains a special wire into Three minutes before the reader starts giving the market quotations, a phonograph plays a musical record into the transmitter at Tuscola. This is done in order that the operators at the various receiving stations may have timo? to W. Gravenhorst were in charge.

The OREANA. Nov. 19. There will be I'nion Thanksgiving services In the Christian church Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Mr.

and Mrs. William Oldweiler of Object of the meeting was to hear the report on the survey made by the Hackenburg System company. Preliminary for the move for a new hotel, for Effingham. President Eversman took a vote on the- proposition and the result was unanimous in iistructing the Chamber of Commerce to enter into contract with the Hsckenbury System to raise the nec- Decatur and J. O'Bryan of Minnesota visited from Wednesday until Friday in Oreana.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Likens, Nov. 14, a daughter. Mrs.

Iowa Dausherty entertained the following women at dinner Thursday: Mrs. Clara Gould and Mrs. Minnie Hunt of Decatur, Mrs. Sarah and Miss Essie of Ar-genta and Mrs. J.

H. Moothart, Misses SHELBYVILLE, Nov. 19. The grand Jury of the Shelby county circuit court completed its wprk and made its report to Judge F. R.

Dove on Friday morning, showing that true bills had been found and two not true bills returned. The report was received by Judge Dove in the absence of Judge William P. Wright, who is presiding at this term. Judge Dove thanked the jurors for their prompt and efficient attention to the business in hand. He said that in the same time the Clinton county grand tJury had been in session but in that county three bills were returned, while here 39 had been disposed of, showing that the Jury here had been "going some." Eleven prisoners are now confined In-the Jail here and all of them were indicted.

It is thought that all of them will ask for trials at this session of court. Judge Dove cautioned the clerk and court officials upon secrecy as to what bills were returned, until after the arrest of the accused parties. The grand Jury made its report showing the condition of the Jail and commending Sheriff Biggs for the manner in which the prisoners are kept. Delilah I. Wright was granted a FIND CORNERSTONE OF TUSCOLA SCHOOL TUSCOLA, Nov.

19. Searchers among the debris of the Tuscola school building which was recently destroyed by fire succeeded in locating the corner stone which was laid by some fraternal organization when the building was under construction 50 years ago. The stone contained a copper box about 4 by 8 inches in size in which had been deposited three old coins, one being a 25 cent piece dated 1831, which had been smoothed on, one side and the following names engraved thereon: V. E. Neely, L.

Johnson, N. Kelliger. the others were a two cent piece and a three cent piece dated 1867 and 1868 respectvely. A campaign button dated 1868 and bore the following inscription: "Seymour and Blair'" Uniform Currency, Equal Taxes Equal Rights" and a bundle of papers in such a state of decay that but little of the writing thereon was legible or intelligible. The following names were dlstlnguishabls William P.

Cannon, John Ervln and A. G. Nov. 19 Two new eases if diphtheria are' reported daily as gainst 1.25 per day In October which hows the disease continues unchecked. Dr.

Frank P. Ault, district health superintendent was in Mattoon Thursday and went over the situation and the methods being used to control It The health officer. Dr. Richardson, has issued warning against the possible spread of scarlet fever harder to combat than the diphtheria as there Is no anti-toxin to fight It. There are now five cases of scarlet fever under quarantine In the city and about 35 cases of diphtheria.

Dr. Richardson stated Saturday morning that there was but one case of diphtheria reported Friday. Plant Makes Cnt The Chuse Engine Works has still further reduced their force. Several men have been discharged and a cutting off of days has been made for the remainder of the force. Beginning this week the moulders will work but two days per week, and the men In the pattern makers department and machine shops will be cut to three days per week.

How long this will last la speculative but there is little ehanes for the work to pick up csssary funds. The new hotel movement will ho gotten under way in the future. Utica at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon, in a Ford car and arrived in Shel-byville shortly before 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon. The members of the Junior class of the Shelbyville High school have started rehearsals for their annual class play to be given in the High school in the near future. The play given this year will be "Stop Thief." Word has been reeclved here that Mr.

and. Mrs. Charles O. Danneber-ger, former residents of Shelby county, are slowly recovering from injuries received in an automobile accident near their home at Bisbee, Arizona, a few days ago. Mr.

and Mrs. Danneberger and their son, Marion Danneberger, were riding along the road between Bisbee and Tombstone, when another car came along at high speed and skidded into the rear of their automobile, causing it to go down a two-foot embankment and turn over. Mrs. Danneberger extricated herself, but suffered a gash on the right side of her head. Mr.

Danneberger was pinned under the car. A friend, who was accompanying the Danneberger family In another car, succeeded in get DELICIOUS HOT DRINKS Hot Chocolates served our way aro very stimulating as well as tasty. Served our way, you could ask for nothing better. Try one today. Fancy Drinks of All Kinds The Butterfly CONFECTIONERY tune thair instruments to the required sound wave length.

Thursday night several persons heard Mary Garden in grand opera at Chicago and also heard part of a concert given in Pittsburgh under the auspices of the Westinghouse company. The outfit takes up little room and the electricity for its operation is furnished from an ordinary automobile storage battery. Ida Turpin and Lyda Gossett of Ore-ana. WINDSOR. C.

Hv Evans of Trapp' Prairie was in town Thursday to get his daughter. Miss Avis, who has been receiving treatment at St. Anthony's hospital. Union services will be held Thanksgiving evening at the Baptist church in this city with Rev. D.

R. Durham, pastor of the Christian church of this city officiating. The collection will be for the benefit of the Near East belief. Mrs. W.

H. Guthrie of Beecher City was operated on at St. Anthony's 1-ospital Friday morning, bought here by Dr. Parmeter of Beecher City. WINDSOR, Nov.

19. Mrs. Henry Munson is visiting her sister, Mrs. L. F.

Myers, of Peoria. Mrs. C. D. Baker, who underwent an operation in St.

Louis last week, is getting along nicely. Mrs. R. Layton returned to her Since the world war, 1,197,940 dogs disappeared in France. Many thousands accounted for were killed by projectiles while employed as message bearers with the French army.

Wallace. Other names and data were too dim to be deciphered but enough information was obtainable to show that the stone was laid by some fraternal body, presumably tha before Spring. Fireanaa Gwln Has Harrow Escape A piece of Iron fell from the window casement In front of the city building Friday which weighed bout twenty pounds. Howard Gwlnn -TT. mrfrnmrisr Tii i i I Masonic.

Fred E. Rose the present clerk of the school board will range to deposit these relics in the corner of the new grade school build ing when the same is laid. A. W. Bragg received three car load of feeding cattle from Kansas City, Thursday.

Miss Virginia Hausmann left for a Favorite Recipes for visit with relatives at Lawrence rh dlana, Friday morning. The Parent-Teachers Association will hold a market In the chamber of commerce hall Tuesday, Nor. 22. A. E.

Hancock Is looking after his his farming Interests near Marshall, this week. Operator F. R. Jarvls of Marshall Is relieving G. W.

Grimes at THE TALK OF DECATUR Harry Appelbaum's Big Sale $35 Men's $1 7 OfT Overcoats. A 1 $45 Men' $00 CA OU akie the C. I. 4s W. depot the latter hav ing taken a two weeks' vacation.

Two tons ot wood rjulo will oro duce one gallon of cVmene, from which six pounds of TNT can be ob tained. The air In large cities. It is said. Is usually as fresh as that found on mountain tops, by the aea, or in deserts. Tp HERE'S a world of satisfaction in home baking.

Aside from the deliciousness of home made bread, light biscuits, rolls, cajces, pies, doughnuts, cookies, it is a decided economy and a practical saving. Much of the success of home baking depends upon the flour used. Big Flour can always be depended upon for uniformly good results. Sixty years of experience in flour milling is back of Big Flour the best flour ever made ythe Shellabargers. Your grocer sells it under an absolute money-back guarantee.

Smokeless coal Is said to be the only cure for London's fogs. WINTER LAUNDRY Uncle Sam's Favorite Recipe For Home Made Bread You Can Use Big Flour for Cake-Baking With the Finest Results. Instead of using expensive prepared cake flours, try this method with Big Flour. Sift Big Flour eight or ten times through the sifter until the required amount to be used is obtained. Use this extra sifted flour for baking the finest cakes.

The results will, surprise you. The saving more than warrants the additional effort. Save the coarser flour left for biscuits, pie crusts, etc. Oysters in Bread Crust Case. i I 11 WT '1 I Cheese Biscuits.

cups of flour, 2 teaspoonful of baking powder, 1 teaspoonful of salt, 1 teaspoonful of shortening, 4 tablespoonfuls of grated cheese, 1 cup of milk. Sift together the flour, baking powder and Add shortening and cheese; rub very lightly with the fingers: add milk slowly Just enough to hold dough together about i cupful. Turn out on flour board and roll 4 inch thick: cut with small cutter or shape with fingers. Bake in hot oven 12 to 15 minutes. Apple Fritters.

One cup of flour. teaspoonful of baking powder, i teaspoonful of sale, 1 egg, 2-3 cup of milk, 4 large apples, 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar, 1 tablespoonful of lemon Juice. Peel and core apples and cut into slices; add sugar and lemon Juice; sift the flour, baking powder and salt together; add the beaten egg and milk, beat until smooth. Dip each slice of apple in batter and fry to light brown in deep fat. Drain well, sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Serve Hollow out loaf of bread, cut top crust so as to use as lid, brush inside bread case with melted butter and crisp in slow oven. Blend two tablespoons full of butter with two of flour in saucepan over fire, stir in cup of milk. Keep stirring until it boils. Season and add quart of oysters. Make very hot and turn into bread case.

Lay whole oysters over Garnish and erve. -a y- AS I I Miss Hannah 'Wessllnff. employed by thi Department of Agriculture, at last has come upno what she calls the perfect recipe for Here It Is: "For three loaves, averairlne; about one pound each, make a ferment as follows: One ounce of compressed yeast, one ounce of granulated sugar, one-half ounce ot salt, twenty fluid ounces of water at degrees Fahrenheit. "Select a place that Is free from draughts and where the temperature may be kept constantly at from 85 degrees to 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Set the ferment there and leave it for an hour.

Weigh out four and one-fourth pounds of flour and let this be warming in the same place. "Then mix the ferment with Tour an cover the vessel closely and set It la the same warm place for twenty minutes. Mix again, cover and set aside for another twenty minutes. Then take up the dough with hands slightly greased, and told over and over fourteen times. "Cover, set aside for twenty minutes again and fold nine times.

Leave for another twenty minutes, mould Into loaves and place In pang which have been lightly greased and warmed. Cover the later with a towel wrung out of very warm water to prevent the formation of a hard crust on the dough. When the dough has expanded to three times Its original volume the loaves are ready for the oven, 'The oven should be at a good steady heat. 400 to 470 degrees Fahrenheit. Forty minutes' baking should be sufficient." Our Service was Expensive Inefficient rr Li.

Aunt Mary's Beaten Biscuit Below is a magic formula for the aristocrat of breads. BEATEN BISCUITS. Try it and give your family a real treat without any more trouble than to have ordinary biscuits. Into one quart of Big floor Into which one teaspoonful of rait has been Miffed, rob thoroughly one big tahleapoonful of lnrd. To this add enough, fee cold water tn make a very stiff dough.

Kun this bnek and forth through biscuit brnke until Its apparently unmanageable MtiffncKs in as soft and smooth a satin. Thirty passaged through the brake are Just right. An inexpcnxlve brake may be lind nt inoxt stores. Roll the dough nliout half an Inch thick, cut out with a small biacuit cutter, prick nith a three pronged kitchen fork, place in a pan so they do not touch, and put In a hot oven. As noon as the biscuit have risen enough, reduce the heat, so that they will cook thoroughly.

When they are well browned leave them in the oven a few minutes with the door open to dry them out a little, after whlrh, serve them as soon as possible. unreuaoie Slow Careless We would say "Stick to your wash tub and ironing board" POPOVERS One cup Flour. One egg. One cup Milk. Beat with an egg beater until bubbles appear.

Pour into muffin pan and bake. Your Grocer Sells 111 YOU CAN ALWAYS DEPEND UPON BIG FLOUR Shellabarger Elevator Co, we are INEXPENSIVE DEPENDABLE PROMPT and Decatur. Illinois. Corner Sangamon and Morgan Sts. DISTRIBUTORS OF -j (H GUARANTEE SATISFACTION So what's your answer? TELEPHONE 5834 A Trial Is All We Ask Decatur Model Laundry Biggest Busiest Best SElfCTID HARD YVHFJF A SliaiABARGERB The Best Flour Ever fWade By the Shellabargers Mar run I.

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