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VOLUME XII
THR JOOBNAL. Vol. 84.     No. IS
FLORA. ILLINOIS. THURSDAY. MAY 1. 1924
NUMBER 33
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STATE VICE OmCERS
W CLEM-OP CRUSADE
Of Flora and Olay Connl.v, Having Oaosed Arrest of FVteen, Who are Belag Tried Today.
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It is always an unpleasant task for an editor of a local paper to write np matters showing immorality among people of the community, bnt irben theae things become matters of court rroceedings, then the puhlish- er should mention theee events..
Last week T. Ickes and Wm. Ua- MUlan, State Vice Investigators, came to Flora ^nd made an fnveBtigation ot Immoral conditions, also vlsitinK Loutsvllle. The result so far has been tbat 16 have i>een arrested. Tbree Toung girls, Ora and Nora Pruitt and Irene Duke, were charged with de- llnqnency, and gave information w^lch caused tbe arrest of 18 yonng msn, charged with contributing to tbe delinquency of the three Flora girls mentioned.
Tbe Flora boys are: Dewey McKia- aey, Lloyd Jackson, Wm. Darnell and Wmer Powless. From Rinsrd: James tUma aad Carl Traut. From Louls¬ Tille: Leon Ely, A. L. IHchlson, Wal¬ ter Shelton, Orville Browa, Bdwln Stanford and Lester Stsnford.
Thursday noon the triala had not tegun, the forenoon having been gyent fn preliminary caucuses.
Mr. Ickes eame Into the Journal- Record office Thursday morhlng and ?tated that they had lust scratched ha snrfaea thus fsr and that they tatended to atay until they had Cleaned up the community. He said the reports received hy the State an- tkorlties showed that Flora had more Tanereal diseases than any other town of Its else In the state. He also atated that faUure of the city authori¬ tiea to enforce the curfew law. fn his opinion, was psrtly to blame for con¬ ditions. That they had come here on account of reported conditions in Flora and Louisville.
liOiaSVILLR RESIDENT
RETAIJiS JM'AL WEDDING
By E. B. Gorrell
Colonel Randolph Smith's blog- grapher in last week's Journal-Rec¬ ord mentions the fSct that the Col¬ onel was first married In Louisville to Xfmena L. Hanna, but he failed to note the interesting fact that it was a double wedding that on the aame occasion and standing side by side before the same altar in the old Methodist church In tbis city Dr. Jaa. M. Boyles and Miss Jennie Farris were married—the same ceremony uniting each of these young people Ita tbe holy bonds of wedlock. Miss Hanna was a daughter of Judge William Hanna. who at that time lived In the then pretentious brick residence in South Louisvllie. now known as the Jas. C. McCollum resi¬ dence. Here a grand reception was held immediately following the double wedding, and tradition says tt was one of the happiest occasions ever known in the old town. Mrs. L. W. Cogswell, who was at that time Miss Anna Meeker and a popu¬ lar LouisvlUe girl, is probably the on¬ ly living resident of thts city who was present at both the double wedding and the reception that followed. Colonel Smith in tbat year (1873) had Just completed a two-year resi¬ dence in Louisville, during which time he had served the county as deputy circuit clerk under .John R. Tanner, then circuit clerk of Clay county and afterwards Oovernor of Illinois, and had removed to Flora to accept the position of teUer and bookkeeper In the new First National Bank of that city. Dr. Boyles' bride, Jennie Farris, was a half-sis¬ ter of Mary Farrls, at the present day a helpless paralytic at her home In this oity, and the last of her fam¬ ily. She was noted far and wide for ber charm and l>eauty. They had one child. Rice Boyles, who died over seventeen years ago. and whose body was the first to be 'laid in Orchard HHI cemetery. He was named after his uncle. Rice Farrlts, who died when his nephew wag a small boy. Rice Boyles waa a young man of prob¬ ably 30 years of ^ge at the time of his death, but had already distin- guiBhed-himself as a lawyer of bril¬ liant attainments. Dr. Boyles. the father, moved to Flora soon after the death of his son, where he yet re¬ sides, honored and respected by a