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Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 10

Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 10

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Herald and Reviewi
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Decatur, Illinois
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Thursday, June 16, 193- DECATUR HERALD tes. URGES AID Lake Decatur Provides Good Bass Fishing for Opening Day Wednesday MISSIONARIES I NEEDING HELP PAVING PROJECT STILLPOSSIBLE Franklin Street Property Owners a of Change of Route 2 Decatur's fishing fleet sailed before dawn Wednesday as the bass season opened under cloudy, threatening skies. Mercer street, was in early with a fine catch of four; two of them weighing slightly over a pound, one weighing 2i lbs. and the big one tipping the beam at 23 lbs. He remainder of the street or not, as they wish but if they block the state work again they can plan on doing the whole job alone." Plans for the combined new pavement and resurfacing of Wood street from South Main to Franklin, have been complet-d by the city engineering department, according to City Engineer J.

M. Weir, and probably will be presented to the board of local Improvements for tfction in a few days. I The expectation is that the state; will pay for a new pavement on its part of this project, while prop-1 ertv owners will be assessed for a I Rev. W. D.

Fair-child Ad BOARD ORDERS REPAIRS FOR J.M.UJ0WER Action Postponed on Appointment of New Members cf Faculty PLACES VACANT caught his on a Shannon twin By six o'clock the anglers were dresses 30 Ministers of Decatur District The Bass Season A. Is Here! and If It's Proof You're Looking fi. For- Unless more aid is extended them, foreign missionaries of the Methodist church will have to come One more chance for property owners on North Frannlin street to have half of their paving bill paid by the state highway department new surface only on the balance. drifting in with varying tales ofjsPinner the Iake driv be" i tween Nelson park and Lost bridge good luck or bad luck, tat take it bait .11 in ill. PPred that Lake had een ishln wltnolIt succcss.

Decatur provided good bass fishing i for the opening day. Chamberlains Have Lock. Boats at rremlum. B- w- Chamberlain, 1645 East William street, shared honors with I V' 8J Minick with a b. almost the the lake bore steady traffic of and slightly over anglers in autos and on foot.

two pounds in weight, both caught ivere at a premium and those that fsnmrn t.in spinner. His did not have the foresight to en- Chamberlain, had gage a craft in advance were 1 and 2 lbs. in i before Route 2 in changed 1 1 VJfcJ 'North Main street was tentatively decided upon by city officials I home. Rev. W.

D. Fairchild told 30 Methodist pastors of Decatur district Wednesday morning. He read a list of suffested gifts for this ivear. apportioned on the basis of gifts to world service made by the various churches of this district The city has tried twice to state co-operation in repaving I- Ail of luck. When dawn broke, It showed Lake Decatur ringed about with hundreds of anglers on shore while weight, also caught on a Shannon.

A large crappie made the mistake of hitting the heavy bass lure and was landed. Over around the Moose Country i the wood-block section of Franklin I street, and both times the project was blocked by squabbles among the property owners over what type of paving material should be used. The last time, when it was proposed that the state pave its last year. Dr. Fairchild, appointed temporarily to fill the district superin-tendency of Rev.

Harris G. Beck, met the pastors in First Methodist church in their first conference scores of boats bobbed bays and favorite fishing holes along the (club on the Sand Creek bridge. I several anglers displayed single banks. Artificial Bait Preferred. Crumbling mortar threaten? to let heavy ornaments fall from Millikm univer5iTy': towers.

The schools board of manacers was told in it-; me-iinc Tuesday nipht. The board: ordered repairs. i The board did not fill any of the faculty positions reported va-, cant last Although the board in a previous mectinc approved the appointment I of a Cuban musician bein conoid-1 ered for the place of professor of piano music, and the applicant was reported to have approved terms of: the contract outlined to him, the appointment has not been made. President J. H.

White stated Wednesday. Whrther or not a contract Sunday, June 19, Ii "FATHER'S DAY" Take DAD io GREIDERS for DINNER Special Chicken Dinner Father's Day 506- GREIDER'S Cafe and Cafeteria center 20 feet with concrete irre fish, most of them running around spective of what happened to the rest of the street, injunction pro Foreign missions are in desperate financial circumstances. Rev. W. D.

Fair-child told Decatur district Methodist pastors Wednesday, when they gathered for their first conference with their new district It was a wily bass that was able: two pounds, all caught on Pfleuger: dodge the barrage of plugs, tandem spinners with white buck-! ceedings were threatened. since his appointment. He will return to his home in Chicago Wednesday afternoon. Illness of Mr. Beck prevented many of the churches of the district from having their quarterly business meetings, at which attendance of the district superin- i tendent is required.

tails. They were taken along the edges of the rip-rap stones early in the morning. After 7 a. m. they weren't hitting.

Bob Humphrey, one of the many fly-rod addicts of the city, came in spinners, spoons, imitation minnows, frogs, crayfish and other artificial lures that showered about every snag, stump and riprap stone. In between the live-bait fishermen dangled minnows and kept an anxious eye on the bobbing floats. Moved Soon "The state route is going to be moved pretty soon." Commisisoner W. E. Riurh said Wednesday, "and after thar is done the state certainly will not bother about Frank-; lin street any more.

I am in favor of giving the property owners one more chance. They can pave the two bass, one weighing li NURSE CORPS IS Artificial bait apparently took both caught along the Nelson Park the honors for fish Wednesday bridge rip-rap on a fly-rod size morning. Fa ye Minick, S29 North trir-creno. is made with him depends upon several nthr appointments, the president stated, but declined to say what the other appointments were. rtacen Vacant.

ORGANIZED HERE; Mr. Fairchild passed two hours i the ministers, arranging dates Mfii I rL fr ttie delayed quarterly meetings, rs. ttta Donahue LnosenciearinK up odds and ends left un- finished when Mr. Beck became ill. Unit Chief No, Mr.

Brown isn't the big one that go away, but tin big one that DIDN'T! And he perturbed by the gales of Ijuri. tcr? Not a bit. because he can prove his statement. Several of the pastors stated that Places yet to be filled on the faculty are those of professor of piano and harmony in the conservatory, left vacant by Prof. Frederic C.

Butter-field and Prof. Miner V. Gallup: and in the liberal arts Decatur's first nurses reserve their Parishioners this year feel corps in the United States armv has uname Iast ears comr-hn nrnirorl with Err M. ron- butions to the various funds of the hue as chief nurse, according to church. word received at army headquar- In answer, Mr.

Fairchild enters here by Staff Sergeant C. M. nounced that the general board of Davis. jthe church has appointed a corn- school the professorship of household arts, vacated by Miss Olive M. Young, and the instructorship in history and political science, vacated by Prof.

Earl E. Warner. Dr. While's that a Commissions alreadV have been mission to make a detailed study of student instructor be appointed to received for five members of the apportionment, and probably by the give instruction on wind instru- unit part of the 62nd Evacuation quarterly conference will have bud- Hospital with headquarters in Chi- sets lor the year arranged on a rago. These are.

in addition basis of membership and current R. McGaughey. chairman of the building and grounds commit- Chief Xurse Donahue. Misses Ruth expenses. heavy terra cotia ornaments tort J- by.

Mry Cully. Geneva C.j In July. SUNDAY, JUNE 19, IS FATHER'S DAYI ping the four towers is crumblin Koontz and Mabel V. Lowe. All Mr.

Fairchild will return to De- But don't get the idea that Mr. Brown deserves ALL the credit be- 1 Under 30 years of weathering, the are at the Decatur anj Maconjcatur in July for the fourth quart-mortar has become so disintegrated County hospital. Mrs. Donahue erly conferences, which will cover that the ornaments are likely to holds the rank of a first lieutenant; period of several weeks. At that fall unls repairs are made.

the others rank as second lieuten-. time he plans to establish local Th" ornaments, ball-shaped bodies ants. headquarters in a hotel, more tr.an one foot in diameter. Dr. C.

L. Cassell. colonel in the He will continue his residence in are now precariously in place medical reserve corps, was named Chicago, and will continue to serve cause in his own words he says "If 7L 135ienen to assist in the organization of the as area secretary, which he is on projections of the towers. Mr. Decatur nurses unit.

Efforts will in charce of five conferences in- JowerTo acf t0 the Iding 'that of 1.1 His' ifiI to ful' strength of 21. Dr. Cas- pointment as district superinten- Millikn said; so far 16 have been recom- dent is effective until the end of in Library stands mended for commissions, and conference year, which closes it were not for that fine rod I bought at Morehouse Wells for $1.50 with a double cork gr? and garnix guides and that splendid water-proof silk line I got there at 95c and that fine level wind ree! at only $1.65, I probably neve would have landed old Mot? Dick-, pons on me oatance are expected Sept 14. A new SUI)Crintendent on Leaking Steam Main oon. Colonel Chi-.

probably wi be appointP(i in the Make this Repairs required on one of the cago. commander of the 62nd vac- annual conference in Springfield steam heat mams crossing Millikin uation hospital, is known to university campus have been com- Decatur physicians who served dur-i i that date. Resolutions were passed by the piicatca oy tne location of the Or- ing the war. vine 4. uonn library.

Undertak- No nrovismn Tias hn 55 replacement of a section th commenamg tne action of Bi- 11,1 "iiniBK program ior ine pipe which was found leaking lan snop trnest aldorf appoint- winter. Prof. Carl Head dicovered Fairchild to the superinten- FATHERS DAY Tuerdav that thn rnr.hMC, since ineir reg-j- dency the northeast corner lar duties are almost identical with The appointment brought to the the new buiing was erected nose tney in iney over the main which connects the cauca upon to district relief from a fear that it conservatory with the heating plant Pmnrm in a maJr emergency; en-; might be partitioned among sur- Water seeping through cinders of rollnicnt dfppnds upon meeting tho rounding districts, a drive west of the library appar-' strict Qualifications of a trained! One DAD Will Long Remember! enwy caused tne pipe to rust u'c. thiouh in several places. The I spots sprang leaks under MISSION SOCIETY steam pressure during cold weather ri rr.TC last winter ELECTS OFFICERS You, too, will get better reck ji using our better tackle.

And, carry a complete line of everything -oei olutlon. Unable to dig under the library foundations. Prof. Head Tuesday hit upon a scheme for removing a section of the old pipe in an excavation at each end of the building. At the June meeting Wednesday of the Woman's Home Missionary society of St.

Paul's Methodist Episcopal church the following officers were elected: President Mrs. Emery Jchr.son. from hooks at 5c a dozen and leas ers at 10c each and flies at 15c H. I. Dcren.

C. H. Ycune Mts. TV. A.

per dozen (that are irresistible to the most sagacious finned patriarchs) to the very finest rods at $15.00 with others from 25c up Dad has been a real fellow taking the raps trying to keep smiling in spite of the "breaks." "Father's Day" means more to Dad than what you think. Of course lie will never say anything if you forget to express your appreciation of him on "Fathers Day" by some thoughtful and useful remembrance for Dad has learned not to expect it. Next Sunday is "Fathers Day" let's not forget Dad this time instead let's make it a day Dad will long remember. joining in a new section, ar.d pushing it forward with house-mover's jncks. As the new section is press- cd through the ground, it moves the old pipe ahead of it.

Because; of the short working space, a sec- tion of the old pipe is cut off every five and a half feet, and a corrc- spending length Tf new pipe joined; at the other end. The job was pro-i grossing a rate of 10 feet an hour Wednesday morning. GOODWILL BOARD" I 1 4 $Jj) LOAVES'3 ocxP5 t. Thar.k.':cr:nc C. D.

Larimore. EducaixE Ethe; Wo me I dorr I. Mrs. G. Palriek.

L'Kton Mrs. M. A Evan. Stow. Frank Kiir.k.

ar.d Device Ssn.h Sayre. C.t:;n'h:c-Mrs. C. A. Jnhnscn, Queen Miss Hard Fatrieic.

H-m Gui-rdr-Mrs. Heiriit. Mother's Jewels Mr. P. S.

Manin.e. wards. But Why Talk? Come in and let as PROVE how good they are! FLAX JOINT MEETING. Members of Scott Wilson camp No. 55 and Auxiliary No.

18 will have a joint meeting Friday at 7:15 p. m. in the Veterans' hall. Dele RECEIVES REPORT Guest Tickets to the Lincoln and Empress Theatres The Goodwill Industries has supplied clothing to nearly 10.000 people, a little less than one-fifth of the population of Decatur, in the last nine months. Rev.

Robert C. Adair told the board of directors, meeting here Monday. gate and alternate credentials to the department encampment at Belleville June 27-29. will be issued at the meeting. Refreshments will be served by the auxiliary.

Wherever you Given With Each "Father's Day" Gift Purchased This Week at Any of the Following Stores: We Issue Fishing Licenses in Our Sporting Goods Department He said Goodwill has turned waste into wages and relieved local charity of $3,000 and has turned nearly S2.000 into business through paying of outside bills. Another interesting high light of Rer. Mr. Adair's report was that the Goodwill Industries has em- ployed in the last nine months an average rf 20 different people a i go, you malt that Ms all others find this outse wk ana an average of 2.5 customers have visited the store everv week. GUEST TICKETS to the LINCOLN and EMPRESS THEATRES For All Dads Over 50 Years of Age With every purchase of a "Father- Day- Gift al anv of the ive at L'm Tcck.

5 da-v lhis wcck NOW SHOWING DEPARTMENT STORES H. Gebhart Co 259 No. Water St. Decatur Drv Goods 359 No. Water St.

Linn Scrt.REs Dry Goods and Carpet 161 No. Main St Stewart Dry Goods 227 No. Water St. Montgomery Ward 3J0 No. Water St.

Wm. Gnshard Dry Goods Co, 301 No. Water St. Sears. Roebuck Co corner William and Franklin Sta.

Block Kuhl Co, 101 South Water SU Truehlood Made Detective. Dwight Trueblood. formerly a motorcycle policeman, has been assigned to the detective squad of the police department, succeeding L. L. Gibbons, who was made assistant chief.

Do You Know- I tHat we have the greatwt j. number of 5c, 10c and 25c Hardware Items in the City? I 3POUHDS Blue Ribbon Malt always has been the eeder in quaiity. And ttshish quality is thoroughly appreci MEN'S CLOTHING Drobisch-Keiser. 129 No. Water St.

R. M. Sons. 203 No. Water SL Kaufman's.

215 No. Water St. Bachrachs. 100-104 Merchant St. Hencbry 1 Connelly, 159 East Main St.

WEEK END EXCURSIONS $4.00 CHICAGO SC. 10 CHICAGO $9.00 DETROIT TOLEDO S2.70 ST. LOUIS 117.40 KIAQ, FALLS ated, fortoday, itout- lyftSfci sells any other brand Vl by many millions of ji cans every year. Al- Vl ways packed full 3 V. 'i 7- at the LINCOLN Elissa Landi IN Henry King's Production "THE WOMAN IN ROOM 13" at the EMPRESS STARTING TODAY "THE STRANGE CASE OF CLARA DEAN" Starring Wynne Gibson and.

Francis Dee MOREHOUjK WELLS C0J pounds. jL-H ELECTRICAL Illinois Power and Light Corp, Standard Life Bldg. JEWELERS Frank Curtis Co, 156 E. Main St. H.

M. Martin. 108 East Prairie. 'or Particulars 'e Ticket Anrnt WABASH Water, William and State Streets.

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