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Newspaper
Batavia Herald
Location
Batavia, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1944
Page
7
The first Batavia community Christmas dinner in the high school auditorium drew slightly over 1,100 diners. The event included a Christmas program and a community gathering with local officials noting the turnout.
Christmas Day in Batavia featured bright sun despite zero temperature. Fireman Wm Thrun aided a Jackson street home at 10 a m with slight damage. Kane County Home offered its usual Christmas dinner to 100 inmates. Good Fellows delivered 40 baskets to local residents.
More than a million and a quarter dollars have been spent on Kane county roads in the past 17 years, County Supt. of Highways Geo. Lamb of St. Charles reports. The grand total stands at $1,127,332.44. William Conley of Omaha, Nebraska.
Forty years ago this week Batavia First M E Church is fortunate to have Rev W M Ewing as pastor arriving last fall. Charles Pippin dies at his home on North Washington Street on Tuesday afternoon December 24. He was 46 and had lived in the city for years.
Roderick W. Smith, aged 60 years, 2 months, and 5 days, died suddenly of apoplexy at his North Van Buren street home on Monday evening December 26. Mr. Smith recently left the Stover Mfg Co of Freeport and now serves as manager of the Challenge Co. East Side schools closed for holiday vacation, West Side schools held closing exercises last Friday. Mr. F K George and daughter Mrs. C S Conde visited relatives in Hammond Indiana.
Miss Anna Challman daughter of Rev A Challman and Rev C P Edbloom of Escanaba formerly of Aurora were married at the Swedish Lutheran church on Tuesday January 1 with Rev A Challman officiating.
On January 1 the marriage of Laurens E. Wolcott to Jeannette Hazen took place. Rev. J E Bissell officiated, with both couples listed as the children of William A Wolcott and D B Hazen.
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