Batavia Moose Lodge Hosts Big Christmas Party
Batavia Moose lodge led by Edwin Parmann held a pre Christmas party at Batavia High School auditorium for about 600 local children. The event featured vaudeville acts and sound reels with a gift for every child, earning community praise. Sergeant Roy E. Kline of Batavia, 28, a Furnas Electric employee, works on B 17 Fortresses in England maintaining turrets and gunsights on Sally. The 94th Bomb Group, cited by the President for bombing the Muhlenbau plant at Brunswick, Germany, supported the mission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MOOSE
Batavia
Moose Lodge
Edwin Parmann
Eighth Air Force
Roy E. Kline
Kline
England
Elbert F. Kline
Park Street
Batavia High School
Furnas Electric Company
Sally
94Th Bomb Group
Muhlenbau
Brunswick
Germany
Temperature Dip Shifts Batavia Christmas Weather
The Batavia temperature fell from 19 above to zero within hours on Monday evening. A midnight Christmas Eve snowfall did not continue through the night and little more snow appeared on Christmas Day. The holiday weather echoed old time Christmas observances in Batavia homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Batavia
Two Batavians listed for Kane County draft induction
Kane County Selective Service Board No 1 will induct Calvin Richard Hinds and Melvin Lavern Tuftee from Batavia, part of an 11 man draft contingent leaving central Kane county. Aviation Cadet Carl K. Oleson has graduated from the Flexible Gunnery School at Tyndall Field Florida and earned silver wings. Harold J. Issel completed a basic engineering course at Great Lakes Training Station. At high school games, James Augustine announces plays and handles opening ceremonies with players named as they enter.
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Kane County
Selective Service Board
Calvin Richard Hinds
Melvin Lavern Tuftee
Carl K. Oleson
C. H. Oleson
South Jefferson Street
Army Air Forces
Tyndal Field
Panama City
Florida
Harold J. Issel
John Issel
College Street
Great Lakes
James Augustine
Navy Man Posts Postwar Plans From Batavia
A Batavian Navy enlistee writes The Herald describing his postwar hopes to settle, build a home on land given by parents, raise a family, and find a job after service. He asks if veterans with no prewar job will be able to return to employment as cities fill vacancies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NAVY
The
Herald
U. S. Navy
Batavia
Air Medal for Youssi in France Bombing Runs
Staff Sergeant Francis E. Youssi of 203 East Wilson Street earns the Air Medal for meritorious achievement as a radio operator gunner on a B 26 Marauder based in France. Overseas since July, he completed 30 combat missions and helped in October with the Brenner Pass Ossenige railroad fill bombing. His Marauder group served in Tunisian Sicilian Italian and French campaigns before the current German bombardment. Staff Sergeant Terry T. McConnaughey of 75 Columbia Street belongs to an air squadron receiving the Distinguished Unit Citation for Belgian front service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis E. Youssi
East Wilson Street
France
Youssi
Ossenige
Brenner Pass
Germany
Terry T. McConnaughey
Columbia Street
Christmas notices and service family updates across town
Miss Virginia Kraft hosts a farewell for Russell Benson as he moves to Burlingame California with his parents. Engagement announced for Helen Susan Soderdahl to Glen L. Anderson. Staff Sgt. Milton Peine returns from Scotland via Chicago and heads to New York then France to aid evacuations. Numerous Christmas gatherings, church events, and military family notes fill the remainder with local residents celebrating and sharing news of graduates, weddings, and honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Kraft
Russell Benson
Burlingame
Calif
Oscar Soderdahl
Helen Susan
Glen L. Anderson
Fred Anderson
McKinley Street
Milton Peine
Julia Peine
Chicago
Scotland
James W. Wyllie Jr
Sgt. Peine
Air Corps
New York
France
Peine
Bursett & Johnson Funeral Home
Mary Jane Reckinger
TR. Sperry
Hermn Seeley
Wilmette
Maria
Barbara Sperry
Main Street
Carl Wallman
Richard Swan
Silver Wedding Anniversary of Mr and Mrs Rodman
Mr and Mrs Glen B Rodman of 92 Elm Street celebrated their silver wedding anniversary on Wednesday entertaining friends from Rockford at dinner at the Hotel Baker in St Charles. They were married in Galesburg Illinois and have lived in Cleveland and Rockford Illinois. They moved to Batavia from Rockford recently and took over the Colonial Sweet Shop business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glen B. Rodman
Elm St
Rockford
Baker
St. Charles
Rodman
Galesburg
Ill
Cleveland
Ohio
Batavia
Local figures build ties through citywide presence
Readable fragments show residents who recently sold property on North Batavia Avenue have cultivated friendships in the city through business ties and their pleasant dispositions, extending influence beyond their professional roles.
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Batavia Avenue
City
Silver wedding anniversary and family notices
Mr and Mrs Mac J Alexandr celebrate their silver wedding anniversary on Christmas day at the home of Mrs George Council 705 Downer place Aurora A family group was entertained Miss Edna Council and Mac Alexander were married on December 25 1919 and have lived their entire married life in this city They have a son Taylor Alexander serving overseas recently transferred from the base to a rest camp in Australia Mr Alexander manager of Alexander Lumber Co prominent in business and veteran of World War I Mrs Alexander active in church social and other organizations They are prominent in civic and social affairs and have many friends who extend congratulations and good wishes for many more years together.
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Women's Christian Temperance Union
Walter Dickenson
North
Washington Ave
George Schroeder
U. S. Navy
Janet
New York
Ernest Barrett
Aurora
Harry Schimelpfenig
John Lundberg
Judith Lundberg
Augustana Hospital
First Baptist Church
W. B. Beem
J. E. Swanberg
Wm. C. Spencer
Kista Lyn
Marines
W. H. Lysne
Pat Borg
Dorothy
Louise
Ernest Olson
Fritz Carlson
Richard Borg
Arthur Borg
Chicago
George Leick
The
Sea Bees
Porter Leick
East Wilson Street
Leick
Trinidad
St. Albans Hospital
Mac J. Alexandr
George Council
Downer Place
Edna Council
Mac Alexander
Taylor Alexander
New Guinea
Australia
Alexander
Alexander Lumber Co
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Burnett & Johnson Meral Service
Russell Clark
Madison
Wis
Harold Carlstedt
Harry Peterson
FE. S. Carlstedt
Anna Olson
Ted Carlstedt
Walter Hawkes
Zerachert
S. 3Rd St
St. Charles, Ill
Lennox
Stevens Furnace Co
Ca&e RR
Wheaton
Batavia Herald Office
Varsity
Dundee
Geneva
Naperville
West Chicago
Sycamore
Sveamore
Fresh-Sophs Naperville
Anderson & Elliott Real Estate — Insurance
Fox River Homes—River Front
South Second Street
Illinois
Hannay
Nottolini
Liquor Store
West ST
Tap Room
E Street
Ilinois
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