BlockNewburg Township
The complete chapter on this township from With The Colors in Pike County, Illinois, published 1920. 350 words, covering 1 settlement. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
1 settlementWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunny Hill | 11 | - | 2 | - |
Settlements in this township
1 placeEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. It is not named in the chapter: it was founded later or was never more than a post office.
The chapter
350 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from With The Colors in Pike County, Illinois, published 1920. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Newburg Township
The Newburg Township Unit of the Woman's Committee, C. N. D., was organized in the fall of 1917. Officers were: Chairman, Mrs. Elmer Grigsby; vice-chairman, Mrs. Lucile King; secretary and treasurer, Mrs. Katie Schmidt. Department chairmen appointed were: Food Conservation, Mrs. John Rainwater; Food Production, Mrs. Effie Hoos; Liberty Loan, Mrs. Gertrude Penstone; Fatherless Children of France, Mrs. Grace Doran; Educational Fund, Mrs. Elizabeth Kern; Child Welfare, Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis; Health and Tuberculosis, Miss Helen Abbott; Soldiers of Song, Mrs. Lucile King; Americanization and Publicity, Mrs. Katie Schmidt. School district chairmen were: Mrs. Clara Pringle, Mrs. Katie Schmidt, Mrs. Hannah Kern, Mrs. Lottie Bickerdike, Mrs. Grace Doran, Mrs. Nona Kenyon, Mrs. Cressie Hoos, Mrs. Anna Penstone, Miss Mildred Kiser and Miss Emma Hillerbrenner.
The Registration Committee succeeded in registering every woman in the township but two. There were ten French orphans adopted by clubs and individuals in Newburg. The Child Welfare chairman reported a 100 per cent record of babies weighed and meas-
At the time when Pike County was asked to procure at least 150 names petitioning the Board of Supervisors to hold an election on whether to levy a tax for fighting tuberculosis in the county, the Newburg committee secured 85 names, or over one-half of the names on the petition.
One of the last things accomplished by the C. N. D. of the township was the raising of a beautiful service flag in honor of the 39 men who were in army and navy service. Beside the service flag there is a smaller one containing two triangles for the men who volunteered to work in the Y. M. C. A. There is also a framed service roll of honor telling the name of each man in service, and giving the company, regiment, branch of service, date of enlistment and date of discharge.
The C. N. D. of Newburg was well organized, and with the help of most of the women of the township, who were eager to do their part, was able to respond to each appeal as it was sent out to the women of America.
Provenance
Text from With The Colors in Pike County, Illinois, published 1920, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.