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(Single Copy, 5c. 6 Months, 80c) SPRINGFIELD AND PEORIA, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1915. ($1.50 per Year in Advance Published Weekly in Springfield and Peoria Historical Society State House THE VOL. 11. NO. 27 (Single Copy, 5e. 6 Months, 80c) SPR Published W VOL.11. NO.27 HON. FRANK K. DUNN. HON. FRANK K. DUNN. M. On Monday, June 7, five members of the Supreme court will be elected. Justice Frank K. Dunn of Charleston is the Republican candidate from this the Third Supreme Judicial district, and the strong non-partisan movement to secure his re-election without a contest is one which should appeal powerfully to the voters of the district. Judge Dunn deserves re-election on his record as a jurist of experience and ability and were there no other evidence to this effect, the very fact of the strong non-partisan movement in his behalf would establish his qualifications. Judge Dunn was elected to the Supreme court eight years ago to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Jacob W. Wilkin. He brought to the supreme court judicial experience, having served one term as circuit court judge, and judicial experience is one of the most valuable qualifications of a judge, and this together with his excellent judicial record, should insure his re-election. The Third Supreme judicial district is composed of the following counties: Sangamon, McLean, Tazewell. Livingston, Logan, Ford, DeWitt, Macon, Piatt, Douglas, Champaign, Vermillion, Iroquois, Coles, Edgar and Moultrie. JOSEPH DAILEY FOR COUNTY JUDGE. JOSEPH DAILEY FOR COUNTY JUDGE. Hon Joseph Daily, republican candidate for County Judge of Peoria, Illinois, is a young man of ability, integrity and experience. He is in every way eminently qualified to fill the position to which he is now an aspirant. He served as City Attorney for two terms and made a good reputation, discharging the duties of the office satisfactorily and left there to become a candidate for this, a higher and more responsible post. Mr. Daily is among Peoria's leading young republicans, a thorough lawyer and well liked by all. We can gladly commend his candidacy to the Colored voters of the county and assure them that Mr. Daily will be an impartial arbiter and a keen seer after the rights of all litigants, regardless of race, color or station in life. JUDGE JOHN M. NEIHAUS FOR RE-ELECTION. One of the fairest, as well as the ablest, candidates for the Judicary in Peoria is the present incumbent, John M. Neihaus. He has been in public life for a number of years, but is unassuming, courteous and very generously disposed. He is a man well liked by all who know him. He is also among the ablest Jurists of Peoria county. Judge Neihaus has served as State Legislator, as Master in Chancery and was elected Circuit Judge in the fall of 1913 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of that most eminent luminary, Judge Puterbaugh. The people necessarily had much confidence in Judge Neihaus or else they would not have elected him to fill the place of so eminent a jurist as his immediate predecessor. In Judge Neihaus everyone has a friend and no one is discriminated against. Therefore we can, with a clear conscience, speak of the judge in the highest terms, without any fear of extravagance or unmerited laudation. "Be Ye Doers and not Sayers only." SPRINGFIELD AND PEORIA, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, MAY 29 Weekly in Springfield CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS A Progressive City. Colored People Doing Nicely. Champaign is to be congratulated for her enterprising Colored people. We have not as many businesses as we should have but she is doing well and improving. 3 churches are fairly well supported. Rev. Jameson is pastor of the A. M. E. church. Among the businesses are three fairly good Groceries. Joe Nelson has a splendid grocery, clean and fresh looking. Mr. Tisdale also has a grocery, he owns a large frame house and is preparing to have a large business. Rev. J. Rivers has a grocery and owns the property also, it is a brick building. N. Dyer has a very good eating place. He has moved to 122 Oak St. Mrs. J. P. Carry, 409 east Grove St., conducts a very nice restaurant, meals and short orders. She does her own baking and her home made pies and biscuits draw immensely. When in Champaign call on this lady. Everything is inviting. S. L. Beatty is still working at the dentistry business. W. L. Davis, the barber, has a very busy place, 65 E. Main St. He has a three chair shop, hot and cold baths, clothes cleaned and pressed, cigars, etc. Mrs. David Dean was in Danville last week on S. S. business. Wm. Williams conducts a fine shining and pressing parlor, he is quite a business like man. L. Breedlove graduates this summer from the C. H. S. He is a fine young fellow and will make good if he does not let cupid lasso him soon. There are over 40 Colored students here in the U. of I. Urbana and Champaign, you see are one and inseperable. Mr. Jordon, who runs an eight chair barber shop, has considerable property. Young Jordon is a fine fellow and has quite a good orchestra which furnishes music for several of the neighboring cities. Woody Matthews has a fine business over near the University. There are certainly a lot of "swell" girls in Champaign, they say. Champaign appears to be a haven for "immigrants." FOR CIRCUIT JUDGE. [Picture of a man in a suit and tie]. JAMES S. BALDWIN Republican candidate for Judicial Circuit Election Monday, June 7th Mr. Baldwin is among the most prominent lawyers of Decatur and is able, conservative and a man of fine disposition, eminently qualified to fill the position with honor and credit. 20 Cents per Month) SENTEL FOR CIRCUIT JUDGE. 90 PEU Geo. A. Sentel from Sullivan, Illinois, republican candidate for Circuit Judge in the sixth Judicial Circuit is making a strong campaign for election. He is going over the circuit and meeting all the party workers and republicans which is possible for him to meet and is making a strong and favorable impression on all. The sixth Judicial district is comprised of the counties of Champaign, DeWitt, Douglas, Macon, Moultrie and Piatt. Mr. Sentel is forty-two years of age, has been a lawyer for nineteen years, practicing law in all its departments during sad time; he has also received ten successive appointments of two years' each as Master in Chancery under Judges E. P. Vail, F. M. Wright, W. C. Johns, Solan Philbrick and W. G. Cochran which makes him one of the best chancellors and most competent men in this section of the country. Mr. Sentel as Master has been judging the law for the past twenty years writing out his finding of facts and law which is much harder to do than to decide a case on the bench orally without giving any reason for decision. So if he is elected Circuit Judge, the position will not be new to him, as Mr. Sentel is competent. When only a small boy he was a boot black and news boy on the streets of Sullivan, Illinois and Decatur, Illinois. He received his education in the common schools and graduated in 1891 and taught school four years, reading law at nights. While Mr. Sentel was attending school he helped his father in the meat market business at odd hours and on Saturdays and learned to be a butcher, but his ambition was to be a lawyer. He was admitted to the bar in 1896, after a hard fight and has made a success as a lawyer. His decisions as Master have been almost universally sustained. Mr. Sentel is a self made man, is broad minded and strictly honest. He is absolutely square in all his business is thoroughly competent to fill the office on the bench, is absolutely free from any revengeful or hatred feeling, but goes upon the broad principle of justice to all; he is even tempered and has a judicial temperment. He will undoubtedly receive the full support of all the republicans in this district and a great many of his democratic friends say they are going to support him. His father was a soldier in the Union army and Mr. Sentel prides himself in being the son of a veteran. He will no donbt be elected on Monday, June 7th, 1915, which is the date of the election, together with his running mates, Judge Franklin, H. Boggs of Urbana and Hon. James S. Baldwin of Decatur both of whom are also excellent candidates and will receive the full support of their party. NOTICE TO OUR CUSTOMERS. NOTICE TO OUR CUSTOMERS. In order that we shall be enabled to keep a city news gatherer, as is temporarily now employed, we ask that subscribers pay the collector at appointed times, some of you "promise" and have us make the long journey, but think nothing of disappointing us. Pay something every time the collector comes around, and especially when you set the time. Also give in whatever you have when the solicitor is there. Weekly paper devoted to the interests of the whole people. Entered as second class mall matter Feb. 24, 1904, at the post office at Springfield, Ill., under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. ADVERTISEMENTS. One Col., 1 inch, per month.....$1.00 One inch, 2 Col., per month.....1.50 Two inch, 1 Col., per month.....1.50 Three inch, 1 Col., per month.....2.00 Two inch, 2 Col., per month.....2.50 Special rate made to socials and churches. Display matter, first insertion, 20c and 15c per inch. Special rates made on large ads that stand several times. Political matter, 10c per line, and 10c per inch for display. Legal matter, 40c per inch, eight point type. Political announcements on application. We are not responsible for the views of correspondents and writers who sign articles. SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1915 Justice Early Moves Office. Justice of the Peace Frank E. Early has moved his office into the police station building in the place formerly occupied by the late Earl D. Monroe. Justice Earley is among the ablest Justices of the peace and any cases brought before him will receive careful and impartial attention. Wilbur Morris, the new chief of Police, is making a good start; he should be encouraged and supported; the enforcement of the curfew is a great thing. The trouble with too many of us is, we do not assist and support the men who try to do the right thing. Read carefully and studiously, the 14 chapter of the Epistle of Paul to the Romans. Read the chapter five times. Also read a verse or chapter, rather, of Paul, per week, until you shall have read all of Paul and see if you have not a clearer conception of your own duty, not the duty of another. It has been raining nearly all of May, which will bring the sweet May flowers-in June tho. Colonel Roosevelt won that case against Barnes, therefore, legally, what he said about Barnes is so. It is a pity Thaw can't get a "sane" jury to determine his sanity. The People should assist the chief of police and his force, in maintaining order, by giving their children good or rather better advice at home. School will soon be out and every child should be "regulated" and given orders, give your boy a certain amount of work to do each day; so many hours in which to play and try to know where he or she is at all times, whenever possible. Dollars to doughnuts somebody is "kicking" because it is raining so much. The war continues unabated, but the end must soon appear, even if it be in the far distance. Man is finite and not infinite, fallible and not infallible. Italy has joined the conflict and will now shoot the life out of Austria-Hungaria, thereby aiding the allies and hastening the defeat of the Imperial German Government. Germany must either be wholly wrong in this warfare or His Imperial Majesty's government is being persecuted. But the end is not yet perceptible, however it must soon appear over beyond the horizon. The Italians have three million trained soldiers. Germany we see your fate. With eyes cast upon Europe and hand upraised we lament "man's inhumanity to man." It is just as well to remember that not all of the cruelty is confined to the battlefields, or all the unfeeling harshness to warfare upon the high seas. This for Americans could well be a time of self introspection. There is a danger that our sympathy for homeless Belgians, starving Poles and wounded men in prison camps may blind us to cruelty and injustice at home. For instance, how many Americans are aroused over the revelations regarding the horrible conditions that exist in the convict camps in North Carolina, where "men are treated worse than animals and stumps?" Judge Frank Carter of the North Carolina superior court had been sentencing men to these camps, knowing that they were bad, and he determined to find out just how bad they were. He visited one. He saw men chained together with the irons cutting into cutting into their flesh and producing running sores. He saw them at night chained down to their bunks and not permitted to rise, sometimes wearing an iron collar about their necks. Investigating a little farther he found that guards were under the influence of liquor much of the time; that the favorite method of punishment was to stretch a man between two trees, throw a blanket about his head to stifle his cries and lash his bare back with a strap 18 inches in length, attached to a hickory stick. Judge Carter found that men sometimes received marks from these lashings that they would carry for life. Judge Carter returned to court and pounded on the bench while perspiration stood upon his brow. "Gentlemen," he said, "your chain gang in Posquotank county during the period covered by my investigation has been a little man made hell." Judge Carter's refusal to send any more convicts to the camp until conditions were radically changed, causeeed a general investigation. Polititions resented any effort in behalf of the convicts and in one camp the officials of which had shown no concern whatever an investigator that the mules were beteer treated and housed than the convicts. North Carolina, doubtless has been doing its share of lamenting over "this horrible war." Why do injustices across the ocean move us, when even greater injustices are perpetrated at home? Decatur Ill. Herald. This is the first daily to begin to talk common sense. The deep waterway bill passed the House, the long fiery personal speech of the gentleman from Green Co. to the contrary notwithstanding. Rep. Jackson "warmed" them up in the House last week. That is the way to kill the germs of the contangion, such as the "clansman," "The birth of a Nation," and the "Nigger." ADJUSTMENT NOTICE Estate of Maria Murphy, deceased. The undersigned, having been appointed administrator of the estate of Maria Murhy of said deceased, hereby gives notice that he will appear before the Probate Court of Sangamon County, Illinois, at the August Term thereof, which will be held at the Court House of said County, beginning on the 2nd day of August, 1915, at which time all persons having claims against said Estate are hereby notified to attend for the purpose of having the same adjusted. All persons indebted to said estate are also requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned. Dated this 24th day of May, 1915. FRANK L. TRUTTER, Public Admin. A. MORRIS WILLIAMS, Att'y Mechanicsburg Charles Fowler, of Decatur, spent Sunday evening at the home of his sisters, the Misses Pearl and Alice Russell. There will be a rally at the St. Paul M. E. Church, the first Sunday in June, for the purpose of building a new church. Everybody is invited to come. The children of the St. Paul M. E. church are preparing a fine program for children's day the second Sunday in June. All Colored get to skate every Monday night at Mechanicsburg's skating hall. About thirty came last Monday night. They skated from 7:30 to 10:30 and after it was closed Miss Alice Russell entertained them at her home from 10:30 to 11:40, the evening was spent in music and games. E. G. thinks he is a good skater, but every time I look around, I see him and G. E. lying on the floor. Notice, Bnsiness and Professional Men. Notice, Bnsiness and Professional Men. The Forum is a fixture here in Springfield, we boost the town and thereby boost you. It therefore, is your incumbered duty to advertise in the Forum and help us to live. We say and do what we can to attract people here. The more people come the more you sell, everybody, it matters not how poor or how "infinitesimal," consumes some of everything sold here. So when we call around give us consideration. There is not one merchant in town who would like for us to say one derogatory word about him for fear it might cause some one to not have a good opinion of such a one. Well if you desire us to help you, help us to help each other. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS (Deutsche Apotheke) Your Patronage Solicited Corner 7th and Washington Sts. Hon. Medill McCormick, representative in the 49th. general assembly, addressed the "Culture Club" here last Sunday, contrasting the relative policies of DuBois and Booker T. Washington. He spoke optimistically on the race question, believing that the theories and methods held by Dr. Washington are practical and feasible and that the theories advocated by DuBois were more or less, dreams and not feasible. That is, he averred this in substance. James S. Baldwin James S. Baldwin of Decatur, Illinois, one of the candidates on the republican ticket for Circuit Judge in the Sixth Judicial Circuit, comprising the counties of Champaign, DeWitt, Douglas, Macon, Moultrie and Piatt, is making a canvas among the citizens of his district and getting acquainted with the voters, and is making a very favorable impression among those who have met him, and he, as others interrested in the success of his ticket, finds a very pronounced expression among the voters in favor of the election of the entire republican ticket. Mr. Baldwin is forty-one years of age and has practiced law in all its departments in Decatur for about twenty years having graduated from the Law Department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in the year 1896. The last four years Mr. Baldwin has been the legal adviser of the Council of the City of Decatur, and concerning his public work in this respect, the Decatur Herald under date of March 27th, 1915, said: "No member of the Macon county bar has been more prominently in the public eye the last 4 years than Mr. Baldwin. His task was to post himself upon an untried law providing for a new form of government and guide five untried commissioners aright, in addition to attending to the many routine legal matters for the city. In this work he has been brilliantly successful." Mr. Baldwin has a pleasing personality an no doubt will get the full party vote in this county on June 7th next. Prompt Service, Day or Night Moderate Charges F. W. 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Special Low Rate ON The Forum $1.00 FOR ONE YEAR Until May 20, 1915 Must Be Paid In Advance DAINTY WEDDING GOWNS AND Frocks for the Girl Graduates Suggest the All-Important Day The New McCALL PATTERNS Now on Sale The June Magazine Has Many Suggestions for Summer Gowns For the "Sweet Girl Graduate" McCall Pattern 6562. One of the 59 new June designs. N. west Bridal Gown McCall Patterns 6312-6393. We are showing 57 other new and attractive June designs. Get the Summer McCall Book of Fashions Today R. F. Herndon & Co. Springfield, Illinois HEMBREIKER & COLE Wholesale and Retail FLORISTS Fancy Cut! Flowers Plants FLORAL DESIGNS Store Cor. Capitol Ave. & 5th St. Phone 1092 S. Grand Ave. & State St. Bell Phone 1072 SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS A. B. Renick Vires returns from Peoria and the date set for the grandest Rail and Rivre excursion is June 16, don't forget the date. $1.50 pays the entire round trip via I. T. S. 30 years of experience, no fights or accidents. Renick Vires General Manager. The Excursion this year will be run under the auspices of the Greater Springfield Band. For Circuit Judge Election June 7th JOHN M. NIEHAUS Present encumbent. Able, fair, experienced. 10th Peoria circuit. --- SHOE SHOP J. W. Green, 406 N. Adams St., Peoria, Ill., the premier Shoe Repairer and Shoemaker, is the man to see when your Shoes need doctoring. If you will only let Green be your doctor, you need not buy a pair of shoes until next November. Let Green, 406 North Adams Street' do your work. SEEN IN THE BOURDOIR Petticoats, Undermuslins and Negligees Turn From Their Straight and Narrow Way to Follow the Lead of Fulness. © MCCALL © MCCALL Subscribe For The Forum PUBLIC STENOGRAPHY WORK DONE AT THE FORUM OFFICE Work Typewritten in first class order. Circular Letters Written The Best Workmanship. Guarantee Satisfactory work. Call on E. L. Rogers, 819½ E. Wash. St. FOR SALE Colored Womag's Magacine of Topeka, Kan. The Crisis, New York. The Defender, Chicago. The Age, New York. The Freeman, Indianapolis. The Guardian, Boston. The Plane', Richmond, Va. 819 1-2 E. WASHINGTON ST. ILLINOIS ICE CREAM CO. MANUFACTURERS OF Ice Cream, Ices, etc. BELL PHONES 7755 and 7756 NEW PHONE 1655 326 to 330 N. 4th Springfield MIDGET CIGAR COMPANY Circuit Judge PEORIA ILLINOIS. A. M. OTMAN REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR CIRCUIT JUDGE Judge A. M. Otman, candidate for Circuit Judge is peculiarly fitted to fill the position to which he is now aspiring; he is a man of legal ability and many years of ripe experience, having served as Probate Judge for a number of years. He is one of the leading lawyers of Peoria and no man can find any fault with him. The judge is a man of even temperament and understands the high functions of Judge. A vote for Judge Otman is a vote for a clean, upright, able man. A man who will preside and rule and decide according to law and legal ethics. PERSONALS Mr. Richardson, of Peoria, was in the city Saturday. Mr. J. Lacey was in Jacksonville last week, speech-making. Lacey is "some" speaker. Julian Smith, of Peoria, is home for awhile. Dr. Kenniebrew and crew of Jacksonville, were in the city Sunday, touring here in his car. They attended Church at Union Baptist at 11 A. M. Born to Mr. & Mrs. S. B. Osby, 1501 S. 17th. St., Friday eve., May 21, a son, 4th child, mother and boy are reported doing nicely. Mrs. G. A. Barksdale, was somewhat ill last Sunday. It is written that there will be several marriages in this "old town" in June because June is the month favorably impressed by Cupid. But the Ides of March are ominous for Divorce. W. L. Cosby who was taken to toe hospital last week is doing nicely. Mr. Richard Ross, who is operating the gasoline business at 3rd. and Capitol ave., fell from the roof last week while paint- --- ing and sustained a badly hurt foot. Mr. Robert Taylor, employed at the State Historical Museum, and who has pursued the study of law, at evenings, for three years, at the Lincoln College of Law, a private institution, will complete the course in June. He deserves credit for his energy. The men at Engine House No. 5 are to be praised for beautifying the front premises by fence and flowers and grass. This was all conceived and done by the masculine gender. Our women, and men too, who are too lazy to have nice front yards, should wake up. A little work and $.50 worth of flowers make $10.00 worth of beauty. There are a lot of idle men, but we fear some, of them do nor want to work. Keep the boys off the streets or they will keey you on the straights, parents. Mrs. Eva Jenifer, of Chicago, is in the city looking after the estate of the late L. H. Green. The Green & Lewis business, under the operation of seven competent helpers, is progressing nicely. Mrs. Jenifer is down once a month. The Equal Rights League met at the Pleasant Grove Baptist church Tuesday evening, very inspiring lectures were made by Lawyer Gibbs and Clanton. Miss Susie Wade of S. 17th Street who has been indisposed for several weeks is some better at this writing. Mrs. M. F. Clark who has been very ill is some better at this writing. Mrs. America White of S. 11th st. is on the sick list this week. Mr. Jas. Bondman of East Kansas st. who has been ill is improved. COURT HOUSE NEWS Lee B. Elkins, of the auditors office is still on the sick list. News reaches here to the effect that Richard Douglas is very sick in Chicago. THE FREEMAN FLATS (Newly Completed) 100 Jackson St.—New phone 2184-B. 223½ N. Washington St., Rear. —New phone 2382. Electric Lights, Heat and Baths Peoria, Illinois. DENTIST Dr. J. H. Mitchell 713% E. WASHINGTON STREET Springfield, Ill. Hours: 9 to 12 m., 1 p. m. to 7 p. m. Sundays by appointment TELEPHONES: OFFICE 3329 RESIDENCE 1706 Office Phone 717 A. Morris Williams Attorney at Law. 109 South Eleventh St., Springfield, Ill. Our Telephone Number now is Bell 2720 Office—8191 E. Washington St DR. H. A. CESS, Chiropodist ROOM 212, Second Floor 321 Main St. Peoria, Ill When in Lincoln always stop at Hardin & Bernard's Palace. The finest in Lincoln. Absolutely sanitary. Losey's beer on tap. cold. Finest of wines, liquors and cigars, imported and home made. A strictly first class place. 200 Chicago Street. The very best courtesies to all. A few doors from Interurban station, Cor. Chicago and Pulaski Streets. Bell Phone 2156. Office hours, 9 to 12 a, 2 to 5 p. m., 7 to 8 p. m. DR.N.B.FORD Special Attention Given Diseases of Women, Children and General Surgery. Room 1, Northwest Corner Seventh and Adams Streets, SPRINGFIELD, ILL. FOR RENT—Desk room and a room for a man or two men. Apply at 819½ E. Washington street. N. DYER'S Restaurant 122 Oak St. Champaign, Ill. Home Cooking. Best Service. Call when in Champaign. Cochran & Boyd New Lunch Room 322 E. Main St. Decatur, Ill. Just opened. Ready for business. Home Cooking by Experienced Chef Travelers' Headquarters BASE BALL Every Sunday and Holidays Union Giants' Park 18th & Moffit Ave. C. C. Renfro, Pres. W. E. Mitchell, Mgr. 214 N. 11th st. Springfield. Ill. Games called 3 p. m. For date and information, write the manager For Sale at Champaign 908 N. Champalgn St. The Freeman, Chicago Defender, the Crisis. BREEDLOVES CONSOLIDATED NEWS CO. Z. L. Breedlove, Mgr. Partial List of Claims Paid. Mr. A. Meek:- 819½ E. Washington St. Springfield, Ill. Dear Sir:- I hereby acknowledge receipt of draft for $9.24 from your Co., in full settlement of my claim for partial disability. I also wish to thank you for the prompt and courteous manner in which you handled this claim. If at any time I can say a good word for the Clover Leaf Co. I will certainly do so. Very truly yours, S. E. Turner. Mr. A. Meek:- 819 1-2 E. Washington St. Springfield, Ill. Dear Sir:- Am writing this out of gratitude to the Clover Leaf Co. and your most worthy representative Mr. A. Meek, that is declaring my entire satisfaction in the settlement of my claim for partial disability. I shall recommend the Clover Leaf Co. at every opportunity. Very truly yours, Joe Grayson, Ill. Hotel. 9 to 12 A. M. } 1 to 8 P. M. } HOURS { SUNDAYS 9 to 12 A. M. 5 to 8 P. M. PHONE, OFFICE: BELL 2156 Dr. J. I. MILES Special Attention Given Children's Teeth Rooms 1-3 Nelson Bldg. 7th and Adams Sts. Springfield, Ill. Dr. S. A. WARE Speaks I have moved to 71312 E. Washington OVER ILLINOIS GROCERY STORE Telephones 3329 and 1706, Old Phones Dunbar books, Dunbar books, Dunbar books, at The Forum office and J. P. Roberts' shoe store. All the best papers on sale at Roberts' shoe store. 111 South Adams St., Peoria, Ill. PROPERTY LOOKED AFTER. COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO BOUGHT AND SOLD. RENTS COLLECTED COLLECTION OF FRATERNAL INSURANCE A SPECIALTY JNO. G. HIGGINS Justice of the Peace and Notary Public 416 Fufton St., Peoria, Ill. Bell Phone Main 5224 EXCELSIOR ICE CREAM COMPANY MANUFACTURERS OF BRICKS, ICES, SHERBERTS AND FRAPPES WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Telephone Main 3618 310 Liberty St., Rear PEORIA, ILL. OHL BROS. GROCERIES AND MEATS You Want GOOD GOODS, IN ORDER, PROMPTLY AND US YOUR ORDER Create Your Patronage and are Anxious to Serv phones 737 731 S. Adams St. P GROCERIES AND MEATS If You Want GOOD GOODS, IN GOOD ORDER, PROMPTLY. SEND US YOUR ORDER We Appreciate Your Patronage and are Anxious to Serve you Well Both Phones 737 731 S. Adams St. Peoria,lll U. R. LOOMIS CONSTABLE ALL KINDS OF COLLECTIONS A young man who has made good and will be a Candidate for Re-election. WE WANT YOUR TRADE AND We Carry Merchandise of the Kind at Prices That Will More Than Please You DAY CARPET & FURNITURE CO. 218-220 S. Adams St. Peoria, Ill. Lowest Prices PEORIA 221-223 PEORIA'S GREAT Our Chief DRY GOODS CO. 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