As we continue our series on Pekin’s 1924 Centennial Celebration, this week we conclude the Pekin Daily Times coverage from the second day of the celebration, Thursday, 3 July 1924. Besides the other news articles and features from that day’s issue of the newspaper that we have already shared here, the Daily Times also published an updated “Centennial Register,” listing the out-of-town visitors who signed their names in the registry at the courthouse. According to the registry, the furthest anyone had come was from Sydney, Australia.
Following is the 3 July 1924 register of visitors to Pekin:
- Mrs. W. V. Claybourn, Springfield, Mo.
- Mrs. George Gettman, Verona, Ill.
- Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Blazer, Manito
- Mr. and Mrs. John Waldon and Miss Hazel Waldon, Tremont
- Gladys Gilmore and Mable Maxwell, Forest City
- Joseph Morris, Washington, Ill.
- John Layton, Mackinaw
- Bessie Morris, Topeka, Ill.
- John P. Lowry, Loretta Lowry, Thomas Regan, and Mrs. Mary Regan, Bloomington
- O. E. Rudolph, Edna and Edward Rudolph, Alton
- Myrtle Clements, Bloomfield
- Mrs. Emma Nicholson, South Pekin
- Elmer A. and Birdie Lamb, Mason City, Ill.
- Margaret Murphy, Beloit, Wis.
- Mrs. M. G. Terree, Chicago
- May and Mildred Shipley, Winchester, Ill.
- M. G. Terree, Chicago
- M. L. Nicholson, South Pekin
- E. Lidle, Peoria
- Ella C. Peck, Delavan
- L. J. Gilgro, Chicago
- J. B. Trowbridge, Green Valley
- Martha Knoop, Chesterfield
- Mrs. Ida and Miss Frances Kinney, Petersburg
- Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Edwards, Peoria
- Mrs. J. A. Griffin, Crawfordsville, Ind.
- Ed Connor, Tremont
- Virginia Brown, Peoria
- Elizabeth Reichelderfer and Jean Reicheldefer, Ottawa, Ill.
- Edna J. Moschel, Peoria
- Harry McCluen, Wyoming
- Miss Vera McCluen, Wyoming
- Cora Louise Call, Peoria
- A. S. Smith, Allentown
- Anna M. and Helen L. Bauer, Peoria
- Dr. Frank P. Auld, Shelbyville, Ill.
- Mrs. Frank J. Miller, Misses Emma, Elizabeth and Anna Prenger, Peoria
- Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Schneider and Miss Margaret Schneider, Hopedale
- Odell W. Cannaday, Glendale, Calif.
- Mrs. L. A. Henry, Peoria
- Mrs. Bessie L. Robinson, Chicago
- Hermon Ganson, Mt. Vernon, Ill.
- Ella Ford and Ida White, Glasford
- Millicent Scancliff, Manito
- Miss Ethel Bailey, Rose lawn, Ind.
- Miss Erne Jecke, Chicago
- Arend Behrens, Chicago
- Mrs. W. S. Bolinger and Charles A. Anderson, El Dorado, Kansas
- Lucy A. Patterson, San Jose, Ill.
- J. A. Struck, Mt. Carmel
- Henry A. York, Peoria
- Betty Berends, St. Louis
- Crescentia Gaus, St. Louis
- Lawrence B. Albrecht, Cincinnati, Ohio
- J. T. Huffman, Manito
- Mrs. Wilbur Griffith, Elgin, Ill.
- Mrs. J. H. Ireland, Tremont
- William E. Hull, Peoria
- Mrs. Otto Jacob, Peoria
- Mrs. Elizabeth Wadley, Memphis, Tenn.
- Mrs. Otto E. Coon, South Bend, Ind.
- Miss Anna Helleman, Tremont
- Mrs. Salome Davis, Morton
- W. H. B. McCormick, Hopedale
- Bertha Holzapple, Havana
- Lily Holzapple, Havana
- Clara and Eda Borgelt, Havana
- Ophelia Wagonseller, Omaha, Neb.
- J. P. Becker, Tremont
- Ottillie Lohmeyer, Farmer City, Ill.
- Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Colas, Canton
- William P. Erxleben, Prescott, Arizona
- Mrs. Emma C. Volland, Chicago
- Mrs. Frank Yonts and son, Donald, Beloit, Wis.
- Mrs. Virginia B. Wood, Chicago
- Mrs. Mae Bloompot, Morton
- Mrs. B. F. Brubacker, Francis Brubacker, Francis and Mildred Reynolds, Eureka
- Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Gent, Kington Mines
- Mrs. Emma Woodley and Mrs. Martin Frederick, Manito, Ill.
- W. H. Fisher, Eureka
- C. M. Redmond, St. Joseph, Mo.
- J. C. Elzbeck, Sydney, Australia
- Lachlean McLeay, St. Louis, Mo.
Next week we will begin to present the Pekin Daily Times coverage of the last day of the 1924 Pekin Centennial.
