This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Wg.2ADE/3994 Message Board Post: Along with the obituary for Josiah H. Platt I received some of the newspaper with the following items: The Quincy Daily Herald, September 12 or 13, 1916 D.W. Mumper is ill, suffering from lumbago. Sarah L. Nutt, widow of A.D. Nutt has renounced the will left by her late husband and will take her legal share in the estate. Police Officer Neb Hudson is off duty today and is confined to his bed, a victim of overexertion as traffic officer during the rush and crush of the circus crowds yesterday. The will of the late John Waack made July 11, 1899 when he was ____ years old, leaves all the personal property to his widow Dorothea, and the rest of the estate to the widow and her heirs and assigns. L.E. Carson, recently of Fort Madison, Iowa, a registered pharmacist, has adopted a position at the ____Drug Store, on Sixth Street, succeeding Henry Bartholomew, who is now at the Reed Drug Store. Miss Edith Wolterman yesterday went to Mendon, MO, where she is to be in charge of the millinery department of the Mendon Mercantile Company, a large department store. She will be gone about ten weeks. William Meyer, the prescription clerk at Bernbrock's Drug Store went last week with his wife for a visit of two weeks among friends and relatives in Chicago, Milwaukee and Gary, Ind. Henry Brant winner of the second ___finals in golf at the Country Club, and challenged by Dr. H.L. Whipple for his place, beat the latter Sunday 2 up and 1 to go. Dr. Whipple had a qualifying score which he felt was not indicative of his game and therefore issued the challenge. Vote for Siepker for state senator. Advertisement. After considering the matter from several sides and angles, Charles Zang has decided he will be a candidate for city treasurer and ex-officio town collector at next spring's election. Dr. Don Pierce and Joseph Spees and their wives drove over by auto from Newark yesterday and remained in the city during the night, starting on the return this forenoon. Tom Linn, an old veteran residing at Seehorn Station who was seriously ill, is improving. Arthur W. Steward, aged 31, of Detroit and Miss Alta L. Learned age 23 of Quincy have received a license to wed. Misses Katherine and Eleanor Piggott of 1634 Vermont Street have returned home from a business visit of a week in Chicago. Mrs. Elliott Shaw, who has been visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William L. Schauf, 906 Broadway, this summer is to leave tomorrow to join her husband in New York City. J. Martin Stolze, who has been the guest of his parents at 630 Vine Street, for the past month, will leave tonight for New York City. He will join the Art Students League. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mays of Wichita, Kas, are the parents of a son. Mrs. Mays before her marriage was Miss Edna Best of this city, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Best. Mae McCubbins, who was married to Jesse McCubbins, August 23, 1903, has filed suit for divorce, charging that he deserted her July 15, 1909. They have one child, Cecil, aged 12. Jesse Moke was up in county court this morning charged with child abandonment. Moke is one of the strike-breakers who came to Quincy at the time of the show case works strike. Mrs. Mary Luther of 305 Washington Street, who has been ailing for some time, is growing weaker and no hope is entertained for her recovery. Her daughter, Mrs. J. Miller of Milwaukee arrived at her bedside Sunday to care for her.