Funeral Services Held For Mrs. Trein In Dixon
Mrs. William E. Trein died Sunday at Katherine Bethea Shaw hospital in Dixon after a brief illness. Janet Griffith Trein, born August 23 1877 in Ashton, educated in Ashton music, married in 1907 and lived in Dixon. She active in Lutheran and Presbyterian churches, Phidian Art Club, and hospital board. Survived by husband son mother sisters brothers. Funeral Tuesday at 715 Hennepin Avenue with Lutheran and Presbyterian ministers officiating. Relatives and friends attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William E. Trein
Katherine Bethea-Shaw
Dixon
Janet D. Griffith
Stanwood J
Elizabeth C. Griffith
Ashton
Ashton High School
Rockford Seminary
Chicago College of Music
Katherine Bethea-Shaw Hospital Board
Katherine
Nellie
Oliver W
Grimhth
Anna
H. T. Brown
Rockford
Hennepin Avenue
F. D. Altman
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
R. L. MacWherter
Ashton Presbyterian Church
Birley House school Open-Air Site in Bangland
An open-air Birley House school operates on school grounds in Bangland turning them into a miniature colony. Pupils engage in productive occupations as part of the educational device. A notice mentions cash market poultry buyers led by W. C. Schafer offering top prices for all poultry types.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ant W. C. Schafer
Birley House
Bangland
Musical at Presbyterian Christmas program Sunday evening
The Presbyterian church presents a Christmas music program on Sunday at 7 p.m. featuring an organ prelude, pastorale, various solos by Charles Drummond, Miss Olive Hutchinson, Carl Bode, and Mrs H L Winder, a violin duet, and an anthem Glory to God in the Highest performed by the choir.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Church
Cornet
Hendel
Charles Drummond
Bethlehem
Olive Hutchinson
Barcarolle
Carl Bode
Star of the East
H. L. Winder
Fisher Shipp Company Concert Tonight at High School
The Fisher Shipp Company changes the date for their second entertainment course to Thursday evening at the High School Auditorium. Frances Allen, ex Ashton High music instructor, joins the company for a program of violin, mandolin, viola, soprano and alto solos, duets, readings, and musical sketches in costume. Also notes upcoming film at Pastime Theatre Friday December 17 with Robert Warwick in The Man of the Hour, plus 1916 Woodmen officers elected and local notices on tires and Xmas cards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fisher Shipp Company
Frances Allen
Ashton High School
Pastime
Robert’Warwick
New York
Ashton Camp No. 48
Modern Woodmen of America
Adam Faber
LeRoy Farver
Ralph J. Dean
Roland P. Hisenberg
George Aschenbrenner
Carl Stephan
H. A. Bremmer
E. M. Sheldon
J. B. Farver
R. N. Hester
Conference of Teen Age Workers Soon
County Sunday School Association runs Older Boys and Older Girls Conferences in Dixon on December 28. Boys meet at the Y M C A and girls at the Methodist Episcopal church with separate sessions, a noon meal, and a five o'clock joint social. Notable speakers include Clarence N. Wright and A F Hammesfahr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee County
County Sunday School Association
Dixon
Methodist Episcopal Church
Philip Raymond
N. Crawford Ave
Dixon, al
Fern Senneff
Clarence N. Wright
Oberlin
Chicago
A. F. Hammesfahr
Illinois State Sunday School Association
Jer
Doings at the high school municipal Christmas tree
Community notes from Ashton High School describe plans for a municipal Christmas tree, student activities, and class news. The piece highlights playground funding, orchestra progress, poetry and Latin studies, a Juniors seniors dynamic, a shooting tournament, and local social events including a tree lighting and fundraisers for Germany.
Former Citizen PubLianitor Book Idle Hours in Bloomington
Eugene C. Ferguson born near Ashton has published Idle Hours a collection of over one hundred poems. The Bloomington Pantagraph notes many pieces appeared locally and praises verses on nature friendship and home. Dedication to daughter Louise Belle Ferguson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashton
Glenn Rosecrans
Edgar Shippee
Conrad Kliebe
Charles Hunter
Eugene C. Ferguson
Bloomington Pantagraph
Eugene Clay Ferguson
Pantagraph
Ferguson
Bloomington
Louise Belle Ferguson
Box Social at Sanders School Near Ashton
Box social at Sanders School located two miles west of Ashton on Tuesday evening December 21. Ladies bring boxes. admission is 10 cents. Bates' Hall opens Saturday. Miss Anna Nerstad, teacher, prepares Bates' Hall. Ashton Photo Works listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union School
Olivs Hutchinson
E. J. Randall
J. W. Randall
F. D. Keuiey
R. S. Charters
Sanders School
Ashton
Anna Nerstad
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Tree
Dixon Hospital
Gazette
Coe, Converse & Edwards Nursery Company
Wisconsin
Mott Lewis Woop
The
Hawks Nursery Co
Wauwatosa
Ashton Y Garage
F. H. Bassler
Presbyterian
Fisher Shipp CO
Ompany
Man of the Hour
Ashton Garage
Charters’ Drug Store
Mendota
Otto Kieselbach
Mendota Reporter
Kieselbach
Arthur Zolper
Edwin Koerper
Keiselbach
Oswald
the Gazette
Ill
Dixon, N. N. B
Mary
Gertrude Vogeler
Anna Schnell
Caesar
Esther Durston
Wyatt
Henry Ford
Cicero
Cataline
Ashton Gun Club
Emerson
Iamine Ashton
Jacob Pfeiffer
Henry Schnell
Luderbach
Germany
John Pfeiffer
Iowa
John Pippert
Rock Falls
Louis Heilbrunn
Adam Schnell
George Schnell
John Wetzstein
Katherine Meister
George Eisentrager
Pond Socoron
Milla cerPattion
Ralph Charters
John Weishaar
Otahe Nace
Atte Saeeeaey
Young Lutheran Missionary Society
Kliebe
Citizen PubLianitor Book
Uy White
Charles Gossard
Charters Store
Eucuip Beach
Bates’ Hall
Ashton Photo Works
A. W. Rosecrans & Comp’y
Illinois
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