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ANNUAL MEETING OF COUNTRY CLUB

t.ATHERINCi TOOK PLACE MON­DAY EVJSNING AT CLUB HOUSE;

ELECT OFFICERS.

The members of the Oak Hill Coun­try Club on Monday evening held their annual meeting at the Club House. The date of the meeting was made the occasion for a basket picnic witu the Result that a large number of the wena-Ivrs uiul their families visited the grounds and enjoyed a pleasant so­cial eveninlr.

The secretary's reppi t gave a fi­nancial review of what has been ac­complished during the past year and the chief item waa t h e construction of the handsome new club house. The property of the Oak Hill Country Club now represents an investment of ap­proximately 130,000, and while of course there Is sonde indebtedness, this call he %ery well taken care of thru the financing methods adopted by the Board of Directors.

Considering the d u b property as a whole. Staunton has as fine a country, club as can be found in this part of] the state. The new club house is the ! TJi cause of favorable comment oo the IJ\ part of all visitors and the natural . Dt beauty of the grounds never .fails to C. make an impression. The* reservoir j Sn has developed into a considerable body , Dt of water by reason of the rainy sea- Se son this spring, the golf course is be- ! Sh ing gotten into better condition with , H. each succeeding day, and arrange- m ments for the construction of a tennis court are now under consideration, j Through the efforts of a number of . Jo the members, the building has been M. screened and * e large, cool porch j H< makes an ideal place for social gath- \ Gr erings of the members. Taking t h e i l ' u proposition as a whole, there iq b u t ' Sa little more to be desired, other than the manifestation of a greater |nterT

est in the social affairs of the Club r Go members. Time will no doubt bring Pii about the desired results in this re-sfieet also, for as the* members learn Be through personal experience that they Bn are missing many pleasant afternoons and evenings, the advantages of the e n Club will be more fully utilized. Gr

In the election! of directors, Chas. hit Blackwell and Dr. O. P. Stottle of 8 es Staunton and Toijy Bertolio of Benld doi were chosen, Mr. Blackwell being re- ba] elected while the other two are new Go members of the Board of Directors. Go The Board will , hold a meeting at pit which they WilL Organize by choosing Ho officers.

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NO. 2 MEN WIN.

The Top Men ^t No. 2 mine of the l i t Oliye & Staunton Coal Co. otf Sunday moiming defeated the Top Men of the Livingston mine in a ball game a t Williamson, score 11 to 3. Bat­teries were : Homeier and Stone for the vietorsj and ^Jos. Zorxi and An-sthuetz foi Livingston. I

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Work on the artificial gas plant now under eonstractipn by the Illinois Power & Light Company in our city is making rapid progress and the same will be finished in the very near fu­ture . As has betn stated in previous issues, the company plans to use na­tural gas in connection with the arti­ficial gas as long as the supply hi the fields northwest of Staunton holds out, after which all of the gas used wiU be' manufactured. The company is making strenuous efforts to give the people of this community good gas service and hope tha t once this new plant is in oppetatiou, their troubles will be over. i

STAUNTON WINS Z OP .

The Staunton golf players on Sun­day won an 18 hole match from mem­bers of the Art© Country Club of Litchfield, the games being played on the Staunton course. The final score gave Staunton thje victory, 2 up.

The, foursomes and the results of each is a s follows:

Cassens and Porta defeated Davis and Luker. 2 up.

Griswold 4and Richards h » t to Fe-, dor and Frew, 1 up.

Schutt and Grafton were defeated by Russell and Fridli, 2 up.

Black welder and LaForce lost to Jasper and Stuttle, 1 up.

Russell was low with a score of 84 for the 18 holes, and Stuttle waa sec­ond with 86, Among the Litchfield players Grafton waa law wtta 87 and to LaForce second w i & 88. . a t

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BENLD ICORE OF 6-5 I S SCORED IN 9th GAME VERY

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The Buckeye Malts on Sunday in ne of the most interesting games of tie season defeated the Benld team, Lore 6 ot 5. The two teams were very rell matched and the game was an nusually close one, the score stand-is: tied 5 to 5 atf the close of the fifth ming and remaining thus until the inaJ session, whin the Buckeyes man­ned to put across the winnlnj fun. On next Sundly the Virden Slovaks

111 he the attraction a t the local »rk and anothtjr big game is expec^-J. The Slovaks jUre reeogniaed as one f the best teams in this portion of ie state and have defeated the Mey-rs* Bros, tea nil of Springfield/ The uckeyes w i l l n | doubt go up against >meLreal opposition in this game arid ie fans are assured of a lively match, ome put and sjpe it. Sunday's box score follows:

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nian, Hargrave; three base h i t : rimm: home i u n : Dean; sacrifice t s : Shields, Stipin. Jones ; stolen ba-s : M. Steigemeyer. Unger. Lohmar; »uble play: Deiu to Shields; base on tils off Pirok |l, off HargrtfVe 1; off >cckel 1; struck out : by Pirok 3, by

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ochmuth. Time of game 1:55 min.

ST. MICHAEL'S PICNIC

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marked another excit-for thle members of St. Mi-

aefs Parish. The oft posti>oned pic-c was an adnjirable success. A very f^e crowd attended, and we feel safe assert that all present spent an eu-

vable day. ' Among the principal ents of the (day was a base ball me between St. Michael's•* Midgets d F. McDontoell's new team from t. Olive, but jwe have to sympathize ain with F. McDunnell. for his Sher-Mountain ni te , not unlike Gillespie,

lied to carry victory away from the vincible Midgets. The score was 15

10. The Midgets will go to Mt. ive on Sunday for a return game. »e game between Staunton K. of C's. d Edwardsville K. of C's. resulted victory for JEdwardville.

In the 100 yard dash for boys Weri-Un Grelyak came in first, J . Asch cher second. 50 yard dash for ladies. Rose Gant-r first.

J ' 100 yard dash for men, Joe A. Pi-k, first. For some this was a no and in the second heat Nick Bahn

easted the tape first. Sack race fpr boys, John Krispin, •st. Sack race for men, Nick Bahn, first. Sack race for girls, Mury Danko, "St, I •'',' '• % J !-., ; '" ••

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The tug of war between the married >n and single men resulted in an gy victory for the older generation. In the future we hope to have anoth-

similar outing, for we all realize i good effects produced on such oc-sions. ',''''. It is Fr. O'Hanlon's wish to raise a od for the imrrea* ejctieiwea and to rchase suits for the St. Michael's dgets. and to thia end an ice cream tfal1 will be given a j the W. p : U. iH an* Thursday evening, July 24th.

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Several men who are well known in Staunton and throughout this portion >f the state on Friday morning of the past week* had an experience which hey will long remember.

J. M. Arkabauer, cashier of the Wil-tonville State Bank, was enroute from lis home al Livingston to the bank tt Wilsonville, and just after having eft the hard road at Sawyerville, he net Milton Curtis, a farmer living learby, who told Mr. Arkabauer that here was a large car with several nen in It in the valley between the wo steep hills just ahead. Mr. Cur-is expressed himself as suspicious of he outfit and stated that he had tele­phoned to Benld and asked officers o come out and investigate. Mr. Ar­kabauer agreed to go to Benld to get he officers and on reaching Benld met lerman Rizuie, cashier of the Benld »ank, and Mr. Wittels, a merchant, nd the two men accompanied Mr. krkabaher to go in quest of an offi-er. They located Night officer Louis [*oigo and the four started back to-* rard the car. Enroute they met Jos. tizzie of Staunton and asked him to ecoinpany them, which Jos. did. driV ng his own car. He informed us hat he had no knowledge of the pos-ible nature of th& visit, but thought hat some one had been hur t and rent, more through curiosity than for ny other reason. He, his brother lerman and Mr. Wittels were unarm-d.

Upon reaching the scene of the park-d car, Jos. Rizzie, whose machine 'as stopped nearest to the suspicious »oking; Lincoln, alighted and went ver to look into the car. Jos. says e had no idea that they were going > deal with a bunch of roughnecks. ut thought that perhaps there wa!s )me one ill or injured in the icar. He siw one man lying on the front seat, retending to lie asleep, and there was nother man, or perhaps two, on the ack seat, also pretending to be asleep ud with covers thrown over them-»lves. Mr. Rizzie told , the others tat he thought the fellows were sleep and .that there was no license late on the car. Officer Toigo then j ime forward and started to shake ( ie man on the front seat in order to 1 rous him! At this juncture the men y •veled revolvers at Toigo, who hasti-t procured his own weapon, only to t ave it knocked out of his bands by ( ie man on the front seat. Mr. Rizzie j 1 loved over toward his and Arkabau-r's car in the meantime and was anding in the middle of the road i ben suddenly the men in the Lincoln < avted to shoot. As soon as he had i ?en disarmed. Toigo started to run [j the hill toward the home of Mr. urtis, and upon reaching the same nrst through, the front door, calling >r a gun. Mrs. Curtis became frigh't-

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ened and ran out of a side door, catch ing her arm in a hook oh the screer door Jiud teajr ng a gash which re <juir6d ten stltjches to dreits.

Jo^. Itizze nmde a dive for a neatbj clump of timber, when t i e culprits started the aml le ry to goir g and says that he n0vvj|nows just exactly how; it feels to M|:ve bullets ping, ping. al out your e a b and dig i ip the dirt rviht in front! iof you. Heiman Rizzie and Wittels, l o t h of whon were un-armed, cast rlemselves ri^t upon the ground and tlUis escaped at^njured in the rain of billets*. _ j

Mr. Arkabauer, who as occasion de­mands, carriea various sun s of money fron|i banks ia neighboring cities to

bank in Wilsonville, fortunately several wtapons in his automobile.

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himself behind Jos. Rizzie' started to ret irn the thievles* fire. It is no doubt due to his good markman

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wakls found to l>e John Benld, was ji|st taking a at Mr. Rizzie with a slujj Mr Arkabautr tired, the c killed him. 1|ie other fell with (Mochett|, started to as he saw his pal was killed and Ar­kabauer kepi blazing away at him until he ran out of ammunition, al­though all ,<(f the shots [went wild. This fellow ras later apprehended at the Elite Paifc by Special Officer Wil-son| of Benlq, and is now J being held

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Arkabauer, who theiy thought, would have the money in h s car when he passed through the v£ Hey where the! Lincoln ^|as parked.

A Ford coupe, occupied by two la­dies, was noticed driving along the ha^d road hbtween Benld and Saw-yeWille and when these women were stopped and questioned, hey stated thjit they Were on their v a y to ChiT

cabo. Thej )||ere at first a "rested, and lajer releasedj, although it is the con­census of opinion that th?y were in soine way <*>iaiected with t tie two men in the Linco&i car. Ciochotti had his own inach net, of high In »rse power, pajrked at h i Elite Park, i short dis­tance fron: Hie scene of Ihe hold-u^i, and it sfjrmjjied that this was to be used in,nu:ktog the get-away.

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A party of six young Staunton fo on Saturday night, shortly after n night, yhad a fortunate escape fr serious injury, if not instant des when a truck in which they were i ing plunged from the overhead brit across the Northwestern tracks, no

w j of Staunton, to the railway tracks g, low. rt The truck was driven by Lo ie \ Schumacher and other members of t n- j party were Misses Clara and Mr ie Jaeger and Delia Flemming and 3M in j vin Bogner and Sylvester Stemplos

j The young people were returning fr a dance and were driving towt Staunton when the accident occur

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1 Schumacher sustained a fractui i arm and several of the othei* mCinlK [of the iwrty were slightly bruised a I cut but otherwise not seriously : jured. The car was almost eoniple ly wrecked and when one looks at t car and height of its plunge, it a pears miraculous indeed, that the < cupants were not killed orf mainu In all probility. most of theJ people the truck were thrown,out of the c as it turned over, for if they had be in the car they could not have escap unhurt. The car landed in a . d i t along the right of way and the wrec ing crew who were summoned out bririg in the wreck, experienced cc siderable difficulty in acconiplishi: the feat, working for more than s hours before the truck was again I on the road.

and on examination it was found contain a veritable arsenal of artillei pole climbers, wire cutters, etc., ai there is but little question that t! fellows were preparing for a j< of considerable proportoins, althouj the exact nature and location is a mt ter of conjecture.

During the shooting several wi dows were shot out of Mr. Kizzu coupe and the Lincoln car was co siderably scarred by the rain of sh from Mr. Arkabauer's automatic.

A coroner's inquest was held ov the remains of Ciochetti Friday which Arkabauer was exonerab from all blame in the killing. Ci chetti, it is said, was implicated the theft of a quantity of automobi tires at Benld some time ago.

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PROPOSAL OF CONSOLIDATED ' PURCHASE RESERVOIR

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Staunton, 111., July 15, 1924 Meeting of the Council was held

.the above date for the purpose transacting any business that mi$ properly come before the Couin Mayor Weiss presding.

Oh roll call the following mem> of the Council were present: Kauh Ahrens, (Jodie, R. Allen, Baum, Fa stich, Piano and F. Allen.

The minutes of the previous me ing were read by tjje^ Clerk and motion approved. \

The Clerks and Treasurer's i ports were read by the clerk and motion approved. The Clerk's repc appears elsewhere in this issue a the Treasurer's report is as follows

Treasurer's Report Balance on hand last report ..$1471. Reed, from Frank Yauornik,

City Clerk, collections 4774. Reed, from Frank Yauornik,

City Clerk, on note :... 5000.

Total $11245. By 140 orders cashed . 9190.

Balance July 1, 1924 $2055. Library Fund

Balance last report .$273.* Reed, from Edna Sievers,

Secretary 14.<

Total $287.i By 3 orders cashed .-. 67.1

Balance July 1, 1924 $219.: E. A. RAHM,

City Treasure Ahrens reported «that the bridge i

the cemetery was completed. Baum reported that the commitb

had ordered one car of rock to be pi on the streets at $1.80 per ton f. o. Staunton.

Kaulen reportd that the Light a: Power committee had a plan and sp cification for remodeling the wai house at the light plant into livir rooms. The specifications were rea

o by the clerk and the plan gone ov( jr, carefully* d Moved by Ahrens, seconded by P e ano, that the plans and speciflcatioi b be/ turned over to the Light &, Pow* h committee for investigation and if sa t- isfactory, the committee to have po?

er to get bids on same. Motion ca i- ried. s Baum rei>ortcd that the committt i- had seen Mr. Kurz in regard to bi »t for printing and that Mr. Kurz ha

told him that he had charged jui r-i what the law allows liim. it \ The City Attorney stated that I d had seen the property owners livin >- south of No. 6 and that he had tol n them that in order that the City woul e accept their street, same would hai

to l>e graded and put in proper shap and that he would take up the mam of roadway over the Consolidate Coal Co. property with the officials < the company.

Moved by Baum, seconded by AJ reus, that the rei>ort of the City A torney be accepted and the Counc act accordingly. Motion carried.

Baum. chairman of the Street an Alley committee, reported that t l committee had mudited the followin claims: ,.*

Albert Ekhoff. street sweeper, $31 50; H e n r y Define, labor, $44.85; Loni Lupinschok. same, $44.85; Billy Wi lama, same, $34.45; Fred Qoecke same. $52; Frank tlerson, same, $5.2C Diamond Kerosene Co., gas and oi $43.38; Fred Nobbe. same, $1.95: Joh Predgen, sign painting, $4.80; Ma

| Weintranb, supplies, 50c; Hochmut Bros., same, $13.70; Stolze Lumbc Co., same, $22.58; Hargrave Spenge same, $36.15; W. F, Bond, gaa an storage, $17.41; Staunton Tp., roa "work, $167.28; Henry Dohm, labo $ 1 ^ 0 ; total $527.90. >"Vbved by Baum, seconded by Fan stich, that the claims be allowed. M( tion carried.

Piano, chairman of the Police eon mlttee, reported that the committe had audited the following claims:

1 Antony Safko. chief, $75; Fran Andritsch, patrolman, $65; Herbei Herbeck, same, $65; Staunton Tell Co., rent and tol l $3.30; total $208.30.

Moved by Piano, seconded by Al reps, tha t the claims be allowed. He tion carried.

Goehe, chairman of the Public Grdi and Building committee, reported tha the committee had audited the folio* ing claims:

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