Show And Field Day At St Charles State School
A dairy show and field day for the public runs Sunday June 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Illinois State Training School grounds. Thirty five boys care for a purebred Holstein herd under supervision with shows, judging, and 4 25 war bond prizes. Governor Green will present prizes at 1 30 p.m. and an afternoon program features talks by state officials and farm leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinos State Training School
Linois Holstein-Friesian Associaten
State Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Paul D. Selin
Glenn Craft
C. S. Rhode
University of Illinois
Dwight H. Green
Hugh Cross
Leslie H. Geddes
Illinois Holstein-Friesian Association
Rodney H. Brandon
Howard Leonard
Glen M. Householder
Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Richard Eddy
Harold E. Johnson
Mr. Selin
George A. Fox
John E. McQuaid
M. Clark
Holstein-Friesian Association
Air Corps trainee Wilmer Peine ends training furlough
Wilmer Peine of the Air Corps has finished training in Greenville Tennessee and is home on a three weeks furlough. Upon return to his station he will be sent to Maxwell Field Alabama for further training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmer Peine
Air Corps
Greenville
Tenn
Maxwell Field
Ala
Good Luck Banquet for First Methodist School Grads
Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock the eighth grade of the First Methodist church school was entertained by the seventh grade at a "Good Luck" banquet. Owen Baum made place cards, decorations featured flowers and horseshoes, dinner was served by Mrs. Henry Treest and Mrs. Lloyd Carlson, and Marilyn Treest welcomed the eighth graders with Ray Bergeson replying. Virginia Kraft gave a toast, Mr Countryman spoke on the theme, and the group afterward attended the Paramount theater in Aurora.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist Church
Owen Baum
Henry Treest
Lloyd Carlson
Marilyn Treest
Ray Bergeson
Luc
Virginia Kraft
Mr. Countryman
Paramount Theater
Aurora
Stork Shower Honoring Mrs Berkhout at Elgin Hotel St Charles
Mrs Al C Plunge hosted a stork shower for Mrs Carl T Berkhout formerly Palmyra DePorter of St Charles. Guests honored at her Oak Street home then dined seven courses at the Walnut Room Hotel St Charles. Corsages of sweet peas and babies breath marked each seat with out of town guests from Aurora Elgin St Charles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al C. Plunge
Oak St
Elgin
Rozella Norem
Aurora
Agnes Schutz
Betty Range
Patricia Brennan
Anna de Poorter
Bernice van Thurnout
Martha Zedonis
St. Charles
Swim Schedule Start Week At Quarry Pool
The Quarry Pool opens this week with daily swim slots for grades 1 through 8 across groups by gender. Schedule blocks run Monday through Saturday with noons noted as intermissions and a final line stating that the coming year’s grade level determines class placement.
Kane County Board Names Burkwist Smith to Committees
Kane County board chairman Henry L. Krumm announced committee assignments on Tuesday. Supervisor Fritz Burkwist and Assistant Supervisor Bert H. Smith were named to multiple panels including Auditors Judiciary Recorder and Animal Industry Judiciary and Sheriff's respectively, with Otto Elliott appointed to the Kane County liquor control commission replacing Ira W. Johnson. The release lists the full committee roster across Animal Industry Budget Clerks County Home Courthouse Education Finance Judiciary Miscellaneous Relief Recorder Road and Bridge Sheriff and a legislative special committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fritz Burkwist
Auditors
Bert H. Smith
Animal Industry
Sheriff's
Henry L. Krumm
Elgin
Otto Elliott
St. Charles
Kane County
Muirhead
Kessinger
Laufer
Chapman
Lawrence
Holmes
Schlicht
Spencer
Smith
Auditor
Lea
Johnson
Abrahamson
Graham
Burkwist
Carmack
Kennell
Valentine
Weiler
Hermes
Manning
Blomquist
Marstiller
Schumacher
Sylla
Muschler
McGraw
Lies
Jungels
Mettel
Reber
Fehrman
Clyne
Bruneman
Flora
Wittry
O’brien
Board of Supervisors
No TB Found in 1506 Kane County Students
Fifteen hundred six students tested with no active tuberculosis. The Kane County Tuberculosis Association reports 266 students, or 17.6 percent, infected with the germ. Some with massive infection will be watched. all reactors had chest X-rays and will be re-examined yearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kane County Tuberculosis Association
Outing Planned for Episcopal Diocese of Chicago Pastors
Merwin Brown and Ernest G Phillips of Batavia chair the recreation committee for the 10th annual Episcopal diocese of Chicago outing on Sunday afternoon June 25 at Forest Glen woods Chicago. Over 1 000 parishioners from Chicago area Episcopal parishes are expected. The Bishop's Pence program has raised over $200 000 in ten years. Bishop Wallace E Conkling will speak. Two hundred prizes including a floor lamp jewelry and phonograph albums will be awarded for races and contests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merwin Brown
Ernest G. Phillips
Batavia
Episcopal Diocese of
Chicago
Calvary Church
George Kinley
Geneva
St. Mark’s Church
Forest Glen Woods
Forest Glen Avenue
Cicero Avenue
Episcopal
Order of Episcopal Peacemen
Wallace E. Conkling
Silver Star for Pfc Evan Thorne in Kwajelein campaign
Pfc Evan E Thorne of Bata via husband of Lillian Mae Thorne and a member of the Seventh Infantry Division is awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action during the Kwajelein campaign. Presentation by Brigadier General A V Arnold notes his frontline scouting, information supply, and aid to medical teams. He also helped evacuate wounded under fire and once searched under heavy fire for a wounded officer. He wears the Combat Infantryman Badge the American Defense ribbon and Asiatic Pacific theater ribbon with two bronze stars. Deputy Sheriff Clarence Anderson and Mrs Anderson will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary at their North Batavia Avenue home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evan E. Thorne
Batavia
Lillian Mae Thorne
Seventh Infantry Division
Kwajalein
A. V. Arnold
Thorne
Kwajelein Island
Pfc
Pearl Harbor
Young Mother's Study Club marks tenth annual meeting
The Young Mother's Study Club celebrated its tenth anniversary with a Wednesday afternoon event at the Legion Club Rooms. A dinner, a program of piano and violin by Evelyn Pahnke and Robert Kerfoot, magic acts, and a club history review were featured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Mother’s Study Club
Mother's Study Club
Legion Club Rooms
Ansgar Carlson
Rheinhold Freedlund
Stanley Johnson
Evelyn Pahnke
Robert Kerfoot
Neil Foster
Aurora
Herbert Larson
Robert Koubence
Carl M. Carlson
Freedland
Robert Koubenec
Ellis Carlson
Edward Millett
Charles Hoag
Rheinhold Freedland
Carlson
Joel Peterson
Jim Anderson
Henry McCord
Lloyd Kautz
Philanthropic
Elmer Anderson
Gilbert Hansen
Mrs Kenneth Anderson Honored At Shower
A shower at Mrs George Pearson's home honored Mrs Amanda Anderson bride of Kenneth Anderson from Geneva. Guests played airplane banco with top honors to Mrs Eleanor Dart and Mrs Juanita Nelson. Pink and white refreshments were served. Mrs Kathleen Schroeder poured. Hostesses were Mrs Kathleen Schroeder, Mrs Maxine Dreymiller and Mrs Lorraine Bartholomew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Pearson
Amanda Anderson
Kenneth Anderson
Geneva
Banco
Eleanor Dart
Juanita Nelson
Kathleen Schroeder
Anderson
Maxine Dreymiller
Lorraine Bartholomew
Also Mentioned on This Page
St. Charles State School
I. H. F. Association
M. E. Church
Mrs. Berkhout
Burkwist, Smith
Kane CO
Krumm
Sanders
Elliott
Keslinger
Elliot
T. B
Kane T. B. Assn
Young Mothers’ Study Club
NEW Episcopal Recreation
Evan Thorne
Pacific
Clarence Anderson
Batavia Avenue
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