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At a meeting last week of the board of supervisors of Marshall county they voted to dispense with the services of their county veterinarian, Dr. C. A. Forbes, whose contract expires next February 1st. The resolution which was passed went on to say that while the services of Dr. Forbes had been highly satisfactory, the board thought best to curtail expenses for the present. Too much confidence in the magic healing qualities of home liniments is responsible for at least small part of the suffering Frank Mote has been experiencing the past week following an accident in which four toes on his right foot were broken, as revealed by X-ray photographs. Attempting to "cure" the broken toes by rubbing a copious quantity of fiery liniment on his foot so blistered the skin that it was necessary to postpone putting his leg in cast until the inflammation had abated. The injury occurred last Tuesday while Mr. Mote was working for the Illinois Steel Bridge company, about twelve miles northwest of town. A heavy steel girder, suspended preparatory to being inoved, had in some manner slipped out of the chain which was holding it and dropped to the ground, one end of it crushing the toes of Mr. Mote, who was standing nearby. After he had come to the conclusion that the "cureall" was not going to be efficacious in knitting the bones of his foot together, he called Dr. F. W. Buckner, of Watseka, who had an X-ray taken disclosing the broken bones. Due to the irritation, however, very little could be done in the way of a cast until the foot had recovered from the effects of the liniment. Watseka Republican. The largest walnut tree perhaps in central Illinois was purchased near Middletown for $250. The tree will soon be dug out by the roots to save the valuable knurly stump, as well as the big logs of the trunk and limbs. The tree is located on the Frank Van Emmons farm near Indian Point. The tree was purchased after spirited bidding by prospective buyers. It was started out at $100 and gradually run up to $250. It is a fine tree.-Atlanta Argus. Whatever their object might have been (except to enjoy the destruction of property) no one but themselves knows, but Wednesday night of last week, after school work was over for the Thanksgiving recess, some party or parties played havoc with the glass doors and windows at both the new Eureka high school building and at Vennum science hall at the college. At the school house a glass in one of the big east main frant doors was broken so that the bar lock could be used to open the door. Then the lower panel of glass was broken to gain entrance to Professor Moore's private office; in that room the lower part of the door leading to the safe room was broken and the knob broken off the safe, but final entrance into the safe was not obtained. Then in the library room door the glass panels were broken out to get in there, but nothing was missing. The same thing happened to the doors leading into the physics room; in fact, every door except two on the first and second floors had at least one glass broken out, 18 doors being damaged, but nothing of value was taken. Sheriff Mars has taken photos of the finger prints but whether the guilty parties will ever be known is doubtful. At the science hall one outside door was broken and twelve of the large expensive windows on the inside of the building was smashed, while at the gymnasium two side doors and one of the large front doors had the glass broken.-Eureka Jour-
In another part of this issue of the Press is the official notice of a special election called for Tuesday, December 17 to vote on the question, "Shall the Colonial Theatre be allowed to operate on Sundays A petiton signed by about 80 voters which represents more than 25 per cent of the votes cast at the last regular election, which number was found to be 245, was presented to the village board at its regular session at the town hall on Monday evening. The board passed a resolution calling the special election to determine the issue by a vote of the people. The ballot to be used will be plainly marked with the question to be voted upon and the marking of cross opposite "yes" or "no" on the ballot will determine your preference.- Colfax Press. A few days ago groceryman at Toluca was arrested by an inspector because he had a few bottles of iodine on his shelves. He was willing to ship it back, or throw it into the junk pile, but the inspector was obdurate and the grocer was forced to pay a fine of $20. Edward Henicksman, of Flanagan, shot red fox on Thanksgiving day. The foxy fellow was in the hog lot and the bullet from Mr. Henicksman's rifle caught him back of the ear, killing him instantly. Mr. Henicksman skinned the animal and is proud over the hide. "It is the first fox ever shot, and I guess the last," he remarked. Considerable curiosity prevails in the neighborhood, as no faxes had previously been seen there. This fox weighed 15 pounds. Minonk News-Ditpatch. Faced by constantly dwindling patronage and receipts, the directors of the Quality theatre, Cullom, decided, at a meeting held Monday night, to close the show, for the present at least, and there will be no show this week. Of course this does not apply to the special show billed for Friday, December 13, at which the radio stars will appear This show will be held as advertised. Hard roads and the competition of larger towns, together with the installation of talking movie equipment all around, have made it practically impossible for "silent" show in small town to exist. The Quality was organized six years ago as community enterprise, one hundred shares of stock being issued at $10 per share. The company has never paid any cash dividends, nor has there ever been any assessment. Cullom Chronicle. Paul LaGesse, who owned and operated the Home Bakery, closed his business here Wednesday of last week and with his family will move to Kankakee. There he will have charge of one of the chain bakeries operated by the Alabama Pie company. Mr. LaGesse has operated bakery that town of this size might well be proud to own and the people of Piper City regret his leaving. The equipment of the Home Bakery has been purchased by Mr. Wesslund, of Paxton, and it is understood that he will move it elsewhere. This leaves Piper City entirely dependent for its bakery goods on the products transported from outside bakeries.-Piper City Journal. Two bandits drove up to the Royal Service Station about midnight Tuesday in an Oldsmobile and called for a quart of oil. The two men stepped inside the office as they handed Otis VanDever 25-cent piece and then immediately covered VanDever and Ted Gerner, who was sitting in chair there, with their guns and rifled the cash register of about $20. VanDever stood holding up his hands, one of which contained the quarter, and that much was salvaged. Early in October the place was held up and nearly $60 secured while this same man was in charge. The bandits drove north. Minonk News-Dispatch. A Chinese girl, Emma Quong, 13, daughter of a Havana laundryman, won the Mason county spelling contest there Saturday. She is a sev. enth grade pupil. selected to represent the Havana school in competition with high scoring spellers from 13 other schools in the county It required 375 words to decide the contest. Mike Vrban, proprietor of a grocery store and oil station at Lincoln, was shot in the back of the head Sunday evening, receiving a severe scalp wound, but one which will not prove fatal. Shortly before 7 p. m. Sunday Vrban began servicing a sedan in which two men were sitting. They asked for 11 gallons of gasoline and two quarts of oil. Vrban said he pumped the gasoline into the tank and then stepped to the front of the car to check the oil. He had turned with his back to the men in the car to pick up the oil rack and said he heard one of the men get out of the machine. He told authorities that as he turned the short man fired at him without warning, then jumped back into the car and drove north on Route No. 4.
A run was started on the University State bank at Champaign last Saturday by university students. Fifty merchants signed a statement in which they stated their faith in the bank and asked the students to stop their run on the bank. The sum of $75,000 was rushed to the bank to keep pace with the withdrawals. The Rev. John L. Neniger, for 22 years resident of Cullom, died at the Soldiers' home in Danville last Friday at the age of 83 years. He was native of Ohio, coming to Cullom many years ago. Henry Lucas, aged 8, of Bloomington, is in hospital at Bloomington after harrowing experience in which he was accidentally shot in the knee, forced to walk quarter of a mile and then drive his automobile seven miles before receiving surgical treatment. Henry and a friend, James Bierd, left their homes early Saturday morning on a hunting trip. Henry took a shotgun and short rifle with him, carrying the latter in a pocket. The two youths traveled in Henry's car to point seven miles south of McLean, where they started their hunt for rabbits. An hour later, at 9.30 a. m., the gun which Henry was carrying in his pocket was fired, the bullet striking the youth in the left knee and piercing the bone. Henry and his companion made an effort to force the bullet out of the flesh where they believed it was embedded, but failing, walked to the automobile quarter of a mile away. Young Bierd being unable to drive, Henry was compelled to operate the car back to McLean. Upon reaching the town, the youth asked for aid and vain search was made for a physician. A doctor from Atlanta finally was reached and he drove to McLean in the early afternoon and dressed the wound. Nine men of Roanoke, including the mayor and an alderman, were arrested last Thursday afternoon by Deputy U. S. Marshal Al Benton and Prohibition Officer Johnson of Peoria on warrants charging them with conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act. Those arrested were: Ed Hussemann, mayor of Roanoke; A. L. Herbst, Jr., alderman; Peter Micca, Jr., Peter Micca, Sr., Albert Schuler, John Schuler, Paul Audi, Jr., Paul Audi Sr., and Joseph Veoletto. Veo- letto is already confined in the county jail on a previous charge, but was also named in the warrants. Last Thursday all of those arrested were taken to Peoria later in the afternoon and all furnished bond of $3,500 each, posted with the clerk of the federal court. The warrants are believed to have been issue as the result of nonobservance of a closing order which was placed on an alleged bootlegging oke last summer. It was rumored that the place was again in operation despite warnings given to city officials to keep the doors closed. Village officials stated that they had ordered the place closed and that to their knowledge it had not been operating since the closing order was put into effect last summer. Charges of conspiracy, it is stated, have grown out of investigations by federal agents, ited was patronized by high school youths. The investigation was concluded several weeks ago, and the indictment returned before Judge Louis FitzHenry made his famous "felon' ruling. The mayor and aldermen, it is understood. will not be prosecuted under the ancient "felon" act, but under the general provisions of a consporacy indictment.
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