Furnas Electric Company to Hold Annual Employee Party
Furnas Electric plans its annual party tomorrow at 6 30 p m in the Hotel Baker St Charles for 225 employees plus families and guests. Guests from Chicago Detroit and Milwaukee offices attend. The event honors 41 employees serving in the armed forces including missing in action Staff Sgt Gus Simon. Dinner will be roast turkey with no speeches except a brief greeting by W C Furnas.
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Furnas Electric Company
Baker
St. Charles
Chicago
Detroit
Milwaukee
Furnas Boys
Gus Simon
Civic Club invites furlough service men as guests
Batavia Civic Club members voted to invite all service men home on furloughs to attend monthly dinner meetings as guests. Notices may be phoned or left at Rachielles Drug Store or The Batavia Herald office. The club also approved a 15 dollar contribution to Kane County for tuberculosis bonds. Next meeting is Monday December 11 at Knights of Pythias Hall with a magician.
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Batavia Civic Club
Postoffice
Rachielles Drug Store
East Wilson Street
Batavia Herald
South Batavia Avenue
Kane County
Tuberculosis Association
J. Maynard Dixon
Knights of Pythias Hall
CA&E Trainmen Strike Settled After Talks
The Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad strike ending two weeks of shut service was settled after night sessions with War Production Board labor consultant Robert L. Glenn. The Rudolph Board award raises pay by 5 cents an hour with overtime time-and-a-half and away-from-home expenses, retroactive to February. Service resumed Monday morning as management and labor backed the agreement, with workers returning from Batavia to Geneva area commutes.
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Chicago Aurora & Elgin
Robert L. Glenn
War Production Board
Rudolph Board
Mr. Glenn
Chicago
Washington
Glenn
Brotherhoods
Ca&e Road
North Shore Electric
Batavia
Burlington
Aurora
Northwestern
Geneva
High School Teams Open Little Seven at Sycamore
Coach Howard Lester leads the High School basket ball squads in the Little Seven Conference opener at Sycamore with the fresh-soph game at 7 30 and the varsity at 8 30. The teams aim to build on Friday’s home win over Mooseheart as they begin Little Seven play and prepare for next Friday’s Wheaton visit.
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Howard Lester
Sycamore
Lester
Mooseheart
Batavia
Wheaton
Brief Evening Entertainment Suppresses December Meeting
An entertainment program is planned for the evening with no business meeting in December. The brief meeting night falls on Christmas Eve, aligning with holiday observances and a quiet calendar.
Batavia Opens 1944-45 With Narrow Win Over Mooseheart
Batavia defeats Mooseheart 28 to 26 in an airtight, two overtime opener in the local gymnasium. Dean Johnson hit the deciding basket in the second overtime as Batavia and Mooseheart traded leads and tied the game at 24 after regulation. Coach Howard Lester used 10 players as Batavia travels to Sycamore for a two game night.
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Howard Lester
Mooseheart
Batavia
Dean Johnson
Moose Fresh-Soph
City Boys
Lester
Sycamore
DeKalb
Kane County Tuberculosis Assn Builds Mobile X-Ray Lab
Five major activities will be financed in the coming year by Christmas Seals funds. A $20,000 mobile X-ray laboratory will offer free chest examinations at workers’ sites to catch symptomless TB early. Seals will also support tuberculin testing in Kane County high schools and X-raying school employees, plus expanded protective examinations for former patients and contacts.
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Kane County
Batavia Moose Lodge To Honor Old Timers At Meeting Dec 11
Lieutenant Colonel James P. Davis, son of the late Mr and Mrs A E Davis and brother of Assistant Postmaster William R Davis, has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for heroic service in France from June 19 to September 18 1944. The citation notes his work at Cherbourg defending communications under heavy fire and directing repairs at the regimental post. A Batavia High School graduate and former local miler, Davis later attended Northwestern University and taught before active service. he previously served at Northwestern Military Academy Lake Geneva.
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James P. Davis
A. E. Davis
William R. Davis
Cherbourg
France
Davis
United States
Batavia High School
Northwestern University
Northwestern Military Academy
Lake Geneva
OPSICUSE Popular With Batavia Teen-Agers After Basketball Night
The Calvary Episcopal Community House hosted an overflow crowd of eighth graders, high school students, and Mooseheart attendees after a Friday basketball game. Teens enjoyed ping pong, shuffleboard, checkers, and music from a DJ set by Jackie Wylie. Despite space limits, youths pledged to return this Friday and future home games will keep the venue open after away contests with chaperones from the community. The Rev Father George C. Ashley and several adults chaperoned the event.
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Calvary Episcopal Church
Mooseheart
Jackie’ Wylie
George C. Ashley
Calvary Church
Ashley
Robert V. Thorsen
Loren Griffin
M. EK. Brown
Old Timers Night at Batavia Moose Lodge
Batavia Lodge No 682 Loyal Order of Moose plans Old Timers Night on Monday December 11 at 8 pm in Moose Temple. 25 year members will be honored with certificates and lapel buttons. social evening with quartet music and old movies. Committee chairs listed and 42 members invited.
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Batavia Lodge No
Loyal Order of Moose
Moose Temple
Darwin Cox
Edwin A. Parmann
Batavia Lodge
James Butcher
Pearl Ortubees
Reinhold Freedland
Ralph Baum
Nels Holm
Harold Carlstedt
Bert H. Smith
Sam Adlngi
Arnold W. Anderson
A. J. Barckley
George H. Burnett
W. S. Chamberlain
Wm. R. Davis
Arthur Day
F. G. Elwood
Jacob Feldman
John Geiss
James Hunt
Martin Ipsen
Aliie Johnson
Albert Kelch
Thomas Kelleher
Hugo Larson
Robert Lewis
Alfred Marckhoff
Emil Miller
Gus Miller
Julius Morris
Thomas Morrissey
John Nelson
Batavia Pays 96.72 Percent Of Taxes For Current Year
Batavia real property taxes for 1944 total $212,673.70 with 96.72 percent paid amounting to $205,708.16. Of this, $10,750.93 was paid under protest, leaving $194,597.23 available for distribution to local taxing units. The township’s payment rate of 91.67 percent was below the county average of 97.31.
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Batavia
Marcus W. Damisch
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Furnas
W. C. Furnas
P D. Johnson
F Bortner
F R. Taubert
F Sanders
F Adams
W. Johnson
C Petit
G Lundeen
G . D. Taubert
G Bergeson
Moosehear i Wolf
F Thompson
F . Nichols
F Jennings
Childers
C Hatten
Neces
Seals
Kane
Moose Lodge
Batavia Moose
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