American Legion Festival Opens in Batavia Park
Batavia hosts the 23rd annual American Legion festival in Township Park starting next Wednesday. Work crews prepare stalls and rides ahead of a war era lineup with bugle corps and parades trimmed for conservation. Major awards will be handed out on the final night July 29 as crowds from Batavia and northern Illinois gather for homecoming events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Batavia
American Legion
Township Park
Batavia Avenue
Wilson Street
Illinois
Legion Post
George H. Tincknell
Batavia Post
Elmer R. Ander
the Crows
Mrs. Carl Wallman Burned In Peach Can Explosion
Mrs. Carl Wallman suffered third degree burns to her arm and first degree burns to her knees when an oven canning peach batch exploded. The stove and oven door blew off, showering peaches and glass through the kitchen and dining room. She received immediate aid and was taken to Dr. West for treatment, with neighbors assisting.
Batavia Scouts Tour Camp Botary McQueen
A large Batavia contingent visits Camp Botary McQueen at Kirkland this week. Listed are Troop 3 members Robert Laurence Bill Fahlsong Harold Hall Jr. Dick Kuntsman. Troop 6 members Dale Johnson Dick Hoppe Bill Holm Dick Larson Dick Porch Armon Lundberg John Markuson Stewart Ekstrom Allan Johnson John Lundberg Donald Kraft Russell Benson Kenneth Straw Donald Kuntsman Bob Peterson Richard Johnson Richard Benson George Tincknell Robert Hoffman. Troop 12 members Wayne Benson Bill Schrauth James Carnock Norman Dietz Arthur Follett Philip Halam Donald Jeske Robert Jansen George Kidston Harold Holbrook Stanley Lenart Milton Larson James Mair Robert Matum Fred Morrison Ralph Oleson Robert Pinner Edwin Quinn James Quinn Victor Schrauth Michael Schrauth Gordon Thomas Lyle Utz Bruce Wright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Batavia
Private Wallace Robertson Returns Home After Overseas Service
Private Wallace Robertson, husband of the former Miss Virginia Glasser and son of Mr. and Mrs. Ward Robertson, received a medical discharge after eight months in North Africa and Italy. He arrived from Cassino, Italy, and spent the last month at Schick General hospital in Clinton, Iowa, where his wife visited daily. They came home Friday morning July 14 and have since been entertained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace Robertson
Virginia Glasser
Ward Robertson
U. S. Army
Robertson
North Africa
Italy
Cassino
Schick General Hospital
Clinton
Kane County Treasurer Reports Record Tax Collections in 21 Days
Marcus W. Damisch announced that Kane County collected and distributed over 1.75 million dollars in 21 working days after tax bills were mailed June 19. Chief Deputy Gar net Moline and Chief Cashier Evalyn Mair led a high tempo operation processing 61,190 receipts across two machines, averaging 2,914 bills per day. The effort supplied allocations to 258 taxing bodies with a 1% township share detailed in a forthcoming table.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marcus W. Damisch
Garnet Moline
Kane County
Evalyn Mair
Batavia
Mair
Margaret Burns
Geneva
Moose Annual Picnic At Garison Park Sunday Afternoon
Northern Illinois State Teachers college in DeKalb launched a summer teacher training program with a rural workshop at Woodstock running to July 28. Fifty four workshop members are divided into three lab schools, with mornings in the schools and afternoons on curriculum issues, health and physical education, and industrial arts. Lectures by guest speakers supplement staff input as Homer Hall directs the program with staffer Dorothy Smith and others assisting. Mr and Mrs Lester Kibling welcomed a baby boy born last Friday at St Joseph Mercy hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Illinois State Teachers College
DeKalb
Woodstock
Woodstock Community High School
Northern Illinois
Homer Hall
Dorothy Smith
Duluth Teachers College
Blanche Tyman
Cloquet, Minn
Dorothy Dixon
Colchester, Ill
Albert Burgard
Macomb, II
Lester Kibling
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital
Garsson Park Dedication Noted At Batavia Metal Picnic
Dr. H M Garsson president of Batavia Metal Products Co addressed 1800 employees and families at the company picnic announcing the park name Garsson Park to honor the boss. He recalled wartime production by the company including wood pipe bomb noses mortar shells and Navy and Army support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. M. Garsson
Batavia Metal Products Company
Batavia Metal Products Co., Inc
Garsson Park
Glenwood
LeRoy Mott
Color Guard
Batavia
American Legion
al Lindberg
Longyear
Garsson
Mott
Frank Longyear
Dr. Garsson
Abraham Lincoln
Batavia Metal Products, Inc
U. S. Army
U. S. Chemical Warfare Service
Elgin
Navy Department
U. S. Army Transportation
U. S. Army Engineers
U. S. Quartermaster Corps
Moose Picnic Plans Set For Garsson Park
Final plans for the Moose picnic at Garsson park Sunday July 23 call for basket lunches and a full program including a 85 member Mooseheart High School band from 2 to 3 p.m. Races contests baseball dancing films and prizes with gate ham and pedigreed Cocker Spaniel as grand prizes. Committees announced with Ed Parmann as picnic chairman and cars running hourly to the grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garsson Park
Glenwood
Mooseheart High School
Moose Hall
Ed Parmann
Harrison Conn
Elonzo Mitton
Gus Miller
Speed Pasetti
A. Benedetto
Ken Ottinger
Harry Schroeder
Wallace Schimelpfenig
Whitey Freedland
Leonard Guth
George Sandell
Stanley Walsh
Nels Holm
Dean Whitney
Darwin Cox
Pete Satterwaite
Earle Horton
George Glasser
Carl Carlson
George Kunstman
Joe Hartman
Otis Brookings
Homer Hanlon
Joe McClurg
Harold Carlstedt
Pearl Uruubees
Pearl Uturbees
Carl Harrold
Beerstand
Lyman Bowron
James Butcher
Ben Hansford
Ray Collins
Mrs Harold Hazelton Hosts Victory Club Meeting
Mrs Harold Hazelton entertained the Victory club at her Mallory avenue home Wednesday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Hazelton
Victory Club
Mallory Avenue
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Carl Wallman
Damisch
Coll
Township
Aurora
St. Charles Dundee
Big Rock
Blackberry
Burlington
Campton
Hampshire
Kaneville
Plato
Rutland
Sugar Grove
Virgil
Garison Park
State Teachers College
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