tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38606440608863209232024-02-08T06:06:59.964-08:00Just Some "Ole" NewsGenealogy is my passion. While searching old newspapers I also find myself reading the "old" news. I thought I really needed to share with others...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-19173228900084044452012-11-23T09:24:00.003-08:002012-11-23T09:24:53.047-08:00Bracewell's in the Danville City Directory 1893I found the following Bracewell families in the 1893 Danville City Directory<br />
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Charles, miner, 108 S. Washington<br />
Charles jr, miner, r 213 Stewart<br />
Donald P, miner, h 116 W. Third<br />
Edwin, miner, h 8 W Second<br />
Harry, miner, r 112 Adams<br />
James, h 112 Adams<br />
John L, bricklayer, r 213 Stewart<br />
John W, miner, r 109 W Second<br />
Lillie Miss, r 112 Adams<br />
Louis, h 213 Stewart<br />
Robert, miner, h 205 Stewart<br />
Rose Miss, r 109 W Second<br />
William E, miner, h 109 W SecondUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-8330798590322300502012-11-23T08:47:00.000-08:002012-11-23T08:47:11.966-08:00"Help, Muder," and the Police HelpedDanville Commercial News<br />
March 27, 1916<br />
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"Help, Murder," And The Police Helped<br />
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"Help! Help! My God, they're killing me! Murder! Thieves! Help! Help!"<br />
These cries aroused Patrolman Frank Simpson shortly after 9 o'clock Monday night. The cries came from the vicinity of the Phillips Laundry Barn, Robinson street. Neighbors were aroused. A call was sent police headquarters.<br />
Patrolman Simpson, just retiring, dressed hurriedly, grabbed his pistol and started out. Just as he reached the laundry barn, the police auto, with a load of officers, drove up and stopped. The cries were repeated. The officers made a hasty inspection of firearms. They advanced hurriedly, but cautiously.<br />
Inside the barn they found William Morgan. Bill was drunk. In his right hand he help a wisp of hay. He was still crying out for help and warding off imaginary enemies with the handful of hay. He was taken to police headquarters and locked up for observation.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-41311302650688305172012-11-23T08:16:00.000-08:002012-11-23T08:16:37.601-08:00Oakwood Man Held: Confidence GameDanville Commercial News<br />
March 26, 1916<br />
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Oakwood Man Held: Confidence Game<br />
William Pate Charged with Having Mulcted Miner Company for $435.<br />
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William Pate, Oakwood, is under arrest on a charge of having mulcted the B. B. Miner Elevator Co., of $435. Complaint is filed by E. A. Fox, manager of the Elevator at Oakwood. Pate is charged with having operated a confidence game, borrowing money and that when the time came to pay it he could not. He was arrested Saturday night by Constable Bob Meade. He was taken before Justice Joseph Judy and the case continued until Wednesday afternoon. He was released under bond of $600. Walter T. Gunn will defend Pate.<br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-91111161276279208002012-08-01T12:37:00.000-07:002012-08-01T12:37:51.361-07:00Motorcyclist Hit Dog; Both are Upset, 1912Danville Commercial News<br />
Nov. 4, 1912<br />
Man was unable to dodge canine speeding after a black cat.<br />
That a black cat is unlucky, especially where a dog and a motorcycle are actively concerned, was made apparent to a motorcyclist at English and Walnut streets Monday morning about 11 o'clock. The motorcyclist was speeding westward off English street just as an overgrown pup rushed north on Walnut street, pursuing a black cat. The cyclist was unable to dodge the dog and both were upset. The dog was not badly hurt, nor was the cyclist, although he was bruised some and his brown corduroy suit torn in several places. The rider declined to give his name, but the dog was not so particular, answering to the name of Rover.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-3863786121312315292012-07-09T15:01:00.000-07:002012-07-09T15:01:30.856-07:00GE Employees Get Pay Raises 1958Danville Commercial News<br />
April 23, 1958<br />
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GE Employees Get Pay Raise<br />
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Eleven hundred employees in the hourly and non-exempt categories at the General Electric plant in Danville will receive a 1 1/2 per cent pay increase as a result of the hike in the cost of living index.<br />
Salaries of exempt employees at the plant are adjusted at various times throughout the year in relation to the index and other factors.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-52385823162518419472012-07-05T18:19:00.000-07:002012-07-05T18:19:36.637-07:00The Georgia, worth $3,590,000 take the water at Bath, ME 1904Danville Commercial News<br />
Oct. 11, 1904<br />
The Georgia, worth $3,590,000 take the water at Bath, ME <br />
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(by Associated Press)<br />
Bath, Me., Oct. 11 - The battleship Georgia was successfully launched at the shipyards of the Bath Iron works this afternoon before a large concourse of people. Miss Stella Tate, sister of Congressman Tate of Georgia, christened the vessel. The Georgia, which is a sistership of the Nebraska, Virginia, Rhode Island and New Jersey, belongs to the most powerful type and largest class of battleships. Her contract price was $3,590,000.<br />
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(by Associated Press)<br />
New York, Oct. 11- The gunboat Paducah was launched at Morris Heights without a hitch or mishap today. The cost of the Paducah, when competed, will be about $675,000.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-79416811402225472402012-07-03T18:22:00.000-07:002012-07-03T18:22:10.314-07:00Buries Hands to End Pain Oct. 11, 1904I love this story. Found just the other day. <br />
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Buries Hands to End Pain<br />
Danville Commercial News<br />
Oct. 11, 1904<br />
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Operator in Agony Until Amputated Members Are Interred.<br />
Hagerstown, Ind. Oct. 11 - Old Union Cemetery, near here, was the scene of an internment of an unusual character Sunday. The amputated hands of Glen Bacheler, a telegraph operator, were given solemn and careful burial. This was done at his own request, to relieve cramping pains that became intolerable from day to day.<br />
Three weeks ago Mr. Bacheler, who was acting as telegraph operator at a station on the Big Four west of Indianapolis, fell under a freight train during a fainting spell. His hands clutched the rail and the wheels cut them off at the wrists. A surgeon placed the hands in a jar of alcohol and Mr. Bacheler went to his father's home, in Carlos City, Randolph county.<br />
Bacheler claimed he suffered in his body because of the crowded condition of his hands in the jar. He believed that if the hands were buried his pains would cease. The hands were expressed to Carlos City, where they were straightened out and placed carefully in clean wrappers of linen and securely packed in a wooden box for interment. As soon as they were straightened out Mr. Bacheler expressed great relief.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-84368512301052003742012-07-01T16:13:00.000-07:002012-07-01T16:13:38.039-07:00Moonshine Still at Soldiers' Home...1914Danville Commercial News<br />
Feb. 18, 1914<br />
Moonshine Still at the Soldiers' Home...1914<br />
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Levenworth, Kansas, Feb 17 - A moonshine still that had been providing liquor for members of Co. M for several weeks, was discovered in the basement of the company barracks at the National Soldiers Home today. James Brister, a veteran, was arrested adn held as the owner of the still. The liquor was being made with drugs and powders and already had made a public of the old soldiers ill.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-91851155838844991092012-06-09T17:05:00.000-07:002012-06-09T17:05:23.267-07:00Origin of "Hoosier." ~ July 15, 1881Origin of "Hoosier."<br />
Danville Weekly News July 15, 1881<br />
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The origin of the "Hoosier" is given as follows:<br />
In the history of the Bergen family, page 176, after bringing them from Bergen, Norway, by the way of Holland, to America, and peopling parts of New Jersey, one branch of the family moved, in 1818, to the vicinity of Lexington, Ky.<br />
In 1824, they decided to move from Kentucky to Indiana and sent out an exploring party of four. In the language of the Rev. John G. Bergen, D.D., who died in Chicago, a few years ago, "They made a stand near where Indianapolis, the seat of government, now is. One night, while they were around the fire, where they were making their claim, they were suddenly aroused by the cry of "Who's here? -hoosier- and from this come the name of the Indianians, "Hoosiers."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-11647820639783831102012-06-09T16:52:00.000-07:002012-06-09T16:52:05.279-07:00The Mormons... 1881From the Danville Weekly News Aug. 5, 1881<br />
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The Mormons have become so thieving, impudent and pestiferous in Colorado that the decent people have about come to the conclusion to drive them out. A Chinaman is a Christian compared with a Mormon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-10827704289609507962011-10-01T07:09:00.000-07:002011-10-01T07:09:27.049-07:00Babe Taken to Watseka in Expensive Auto...Jan. 6, 1925Babe Taken to Watseka in Expensive Auto, Abandoned In Car Parked On Street<br />
Danville Commercial News Jan. 6, 1925<br />
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Watseka, Illinois Jan. 6 - For the third time within the past few months a baby has been abandoned in Watseka, the third infant, nicely dressed, being placed, between 1030 and 11:00 o'clock Monday night, in the automobile of Mrs. John Kerns of Stockland, which was parked in front of the First Trust & Savings bank.<br />
Mrs. Kerns had been attending a meeting of the Modern Woodmen and Royal Neighbors in the M. W. A. hall, and she came down to the street and started to get in her car, she was astounded to find a lusty baby lying contentedly on the floor.<br />
The baby wa a pretty, clean looking infant, warmly wrapped in a baby blanket. A can of Eagle brand milk and a new nursing bottle with a new nipple were lying beside the infant. The bottle was wrapped in green paper, tied with a red cord, and still bore the price mark of the store where it was purchased, the cost being designated by the letters, "OH" and the price being 35 cents.<br />
The baby was taken to the office of Dr. W. F. Buckner, where it was pronounced a week old infant, and later removed to the Iroquois hospital, where it is being held pending efforts by the authorities to find the parents. The baby has long, black hair and is an exceptionally good looking infant.<br />
Police Officer Frank Bever, following the finding of the baby, stated that as he was standing across the street from where the Karns car was parked he noticed a large expensive looking automobile, with nickle trimmings, drive up and stop. Someone got out of the strange car and walked over to the Karns machine placing a bundle in it. The big car came from the south and after learning of the finding of the baby in the Karns car, the officer thinks that the infant was brought to the city in the strange machine.<br />
Anyone knowing the identity of the automobile or the mother is urged to communicate with the Watseka police at once.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-20823287905604828282011-08-18T14:56:00.000-07:002011-08-18T15:05:13.854-07:0035 Boy Scouts Pass Tests of Review BoardDanville Commercial News Nov. 1932
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<br />35 Boy Scouts Pass Tests of Review Board
<br />A total of 35 Boy Scouts applied for 70 merit badges at the monthly board of review of the central district, Plankeshaw Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, Monday evening at the Y.M.C.A.
<br />The meeting was held under the direction of Russell Guin, chairman of the court of honor, assisted by C.T. Murphy. Scouts were present from troops 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 21 and 22. Examiners were: Al Bernsohn, Wallace Boughey, Harry Burlin, Robert Connelly, Jack Garner, Troy Garrison, Ray Kennedy, Frank Tanquary, Billy Tiedman, Leo White, Gene Henry, Joe Faulstich and James Aldrich.
<br />Harry Burlin, of Troop 6, and Jack Randolph, of Troop 8, applied for star awards; Mayer Singerman, of Troop 8, passed the life award, and Louis Brant, of Troop 2, earned his bronze eagle palm. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-80342896432534622232011-08-18T14:53:00.000-07:002011-08-18T14:56:19.422-07:00Former Patient at Vet Hospital Faces JudgeDanville Commercial News Nov. 22, 1932
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<br />Colby L. Vannoy, East Alton, a world war veteran who spent several weeks in the Veterans Administration Hospital here some time ago, was placed on two years probation for operating a still in Herrin, by Federal Judge Fred L. Wham in East St. Louis.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-72158960457153422472011-08-18T14:48:00.000-07:002011-08-18T14:52:27.993-07:00Dry Officers in Raid in Brown's AdditionDanville Commercial News Nov. 22, 1932
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<br />Dry Officers in Raid in Brown's Addition
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<br />Charles Niccum, Brown's addition, was arrested by federal prohibition investigators who raided his home Monday afternoon. The officers, who had obtained a search warrant for the place, found a small quantity of alleged liquor. Niccum was arraigned before United States Commissioner Arthur Hall and held under $2,000 bond, which he furnished.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-77003907431371655022011-04-05T16:26:00.001-07:002011-04-05T17:48:39.125-07:00District 118 Salaries ReportedDistrict 118 Salaries Reported<br />Danville School District 118 has no teachers who would be affected by the salary increase bill passed yesterday by the Illinois Senate.<br />Under the salary schedule adopted last week by the board of education for next year, beginning teachers with bachelor's degree will receive $5,600 per year which is the same figure in the bill sent to Gov. Otto Kerner for signature.<br />The $5,600 base figure is a $400 increase over this year's salary schedule here.<br />The new scale calls for beginning teacher's with master's degrees to receive $6,048 per year which is $48 above the minimum provided in the state bill.<br />The senate bill, sponsored by Rep. C. L. McCormick, R-Vienna, also sets a new minimum annual salary for nondegree teachers at $5,000. District 118 would be unaffected by this figure, also, according to Supt. David Radcliffe. All nondegree teachers in the system will be over the $5,000 figure next year.<br /><br />Danville Commercial News May 12, 1967Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-66717871528987634172011-04-05T16:18:00.001-07:002011-04-05T16:24:38.993-07:00Pie Truck Trap Kills StudentDanville Commercial News July 13, 1948<br /><br />Pie Truck Trap Kills Student<br />Chicago - (UP) - The pie truck standing at the curb on a north side street appeared to passersby to have been abandoned.<br />The insulation on the heavy door of its refrigerator cabinet muffled the sounds made by the man inside, kicking and clawing frantically in an effort to get out.<br />He ripped his way through the inner wood lining with his hands and feet. Then his rapidly numbing fingers encountered metal. <br />His air gave out.<br />Hours later, an inspector who had ordered the idle truck towed to the garage opened the door.<br />Out fell the body of Victor Collyer, 20, Wilmette, a Wabash College student who had taken the truck driving job for the summer.<br />Police said he had been trapped among the pies, apparently when the wind slammed the truck door after he entered the cabinet to make a delivery.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-57760160829553523212011-04-05T15:47:00.000-07:002011-04-05T15:58:07.103-07:00Hitler's Auto Owner Warned About GhostsDanville Commercial News July 13, 1948<br /><br />Hitler's Auto Owner Warned About Ghosts<br /><br />Chicago - (AP) - The owner of Hitler's automobile has been having a lot of trouble over the vehicle - including two offers of marriage and numerous warning about the ghost of Hitler.<br />Christopher G. Janus of Chicago, who bought the vehicle, said Tuesday that "my principal aim right now is to get back to the exporting business."<br />Janus has these plaints:<br />"I have had two offers of marriage, one of the ladies sounding exceedingly pleasant. (He already is married.) She said she liked my picture and thought I was going to become very rich.<br />"On the other hand, a psychiatrist who was not quite sure about me wants to psychoanalyze me. Someone from the Bronax sent me a silk tie made in Japan.<br />*** A lot of people seem to think I know where Hitler is.<br />"But perhaps the most curious thing of all has been the number of people who warned me I can't keep the car because Hitler's ghost won't let me. I try to tell them that I don't believe in ghosts. *** And anyway ghosts don't bother free men. However, an astrologer thought it makes no difference how I feel.<br />"I might add most of the misconceptions and rather ridiculous suggestions come from New Yorkers," he added in a statement. <br />Janus added he intends to use the behemoth regardless.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-34226114367403766002011-03-26T16:07:00.000-07:002011-03-26T16:10:13.112-07:00How SadThe Weekly News - March 13, 1874<br /><br />During the recent absence from his home of Anthony Coggswell, of Chapmanville, Pa, his wife died and was buried. On returning he had the coffin opened and it was found that the body had turned in its place, indicating that the woman was only in a trance when she was interred. This discovery so affected the husband that he is now a maniac.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-63215880002469058242010-10-21T15:34:00.000-07:002010-10-21T15:39:51.795-07:00Otis Company to Put in Elevators at HospitalThis for my son-in-law. He is fascinated with Otis Elevators. <br /><br />July 28, 1932 Danville Commercial News<br /><br />The Otis Elevator Company has been awarded a contract for the elevator installation in the United States Veterans Administration hospital now being built here. This contract calls for two micro-leveling passenger elevators with capacities of 3,500 pounds to travel at 150 feet per minute. One slow speed electric elevator is also included. Work will begin immediately.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-73587090641978109332010-08-13T06:31:00.001-07:002010-08-13T06:35:07.709-07:00Dies in the arms of her 111 year old HusbandDanville Commercial News - Feb. 15, 1911<br /><br />Dies in the arms of her 111 year old Husband<br />Mrs. Esper, 108, burned to death. Couple had been married 91 years.<br /><br />Associated Press - Florence, Colo., Feb. 15 - Mrs. Francis Esper, 108 years of age, said to be the oldest woman in Colorado, died in the arms of her 111-year-old husband last night from burns received when her clothing caught fire from an open grate. <br />Mr. and Mrs. Esper had been married 91 years.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-51344211592407300982010-07-19T14:51:00.001-07:002010-07-19T15:00:34.330-07:00Try this todayDanville Commercial News Jan 6, 1955<br /><br />Dad Ordered to Spank Son 'Pink Red'<br /><br />Akron, Ohio, An 18-year old youth has been sentenced to a spanking with an ping pong paddle until his seat is pink red.<br />James Phelps appeared Wednesday before Common Pleas Judge Walter B. Wanamaker and pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering and stealing $200 in cash.<br />The judge asked the youth how long it had been since his father had administered a spanking.<br />The boy replied, "I don't remember," but his father, who was also in court, said it had been about five years. The judge told the elder Phelps:<br />"You can't cultivate a farm if you don't take the weeds out, and you can't cultivate a child without inculcating respect. Do you think you could give him a spanking? You are not much bigger than he is."<br />The boy's father guaranteed the judge he could and would.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-60630741993421799582010-07-17T18:49:00.000-07:002010-07-17T18:52:22.867-07:00Bet this guy wishes he didn't.Bet this guy wishes he didn't place this bet. <br /><br />Danville Commercial News - July 10, 1884<br /><br />"A responsible citizen of this city informs us that he will bet $100 in electric light stock that Cleveland will not carry New York, $100 in cash that he will not carry Indiana and $300 in cash that Blaine will be elected President."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860644060886320923.post-51882734281688435832010-07-17T18:47:00.000-07:002010-07-17T18:49:03.540-07:00First Blog for this siteI have been blogging for a some time now. I have other blogs, but didn't know where to put articles I found in old newspapers as I read them. I want to share them with you here. Please enjoy them.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0