Remembering Martha Mensching of Itasca Storekeeper Head of Town’s Heart
Itasca mourns Martha Mensching who died December 11 at Americana Nursing Home Arlington Heights aged 72. She ran Mensching’s Store since 1913 with her family serving local shoppers, keeping the village fed and connected. Her daughter Helen contemplates selling the shop, a quiet end to an era.
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Itasca
Americana
Arlington Heights
Martha Mensching
Martha
Walnut Street
Matt’s
Salt Creek
Mensching
Emil Mensching
Roselle
Wesley Luehring
Walnut
Helen
Mrs. Mensching
Glenn
Itasca State Bank
Itsca
Elmhurst Hospital
Ryall Y Fund Drive Proposes $1.2 Million Campaign
The Ryall Y fund drive aims to pay off debt and finance $980000 in new facilities. Details were unveiled at the Century Club dinner by executive director David Sheldon, tracing the Wheaton YMCA’s 1919 founding to a current 8409 membership and plans for a 50th anniversary celebration.
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B. R. Ryall Ymca
YMCA
Ryall
DuPage County
Century Club
Edwin F. Deicke
David Sheldon
Ryall ‘‘Y
Wheaton
Charles Barr
R. Lowrie
Referrals to Service And Community Help Explain Why People Seek Aid
The article describes how referrals from doctors lawyers clergymen and educators lead families to seek Family Service for help with troubled youths marriage issues and home life. It notes that many accept help as a sign of strength but some resist due to fear change or a mistaken view of misery.
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Family Service Association of
DuPage County
Younster
Blackhawk PTA Hosts Astrologer Night at Junior High
The Blackhawk PTA presents astrologer Norman Arens in a program titled Astrology What It Is and What It Is Not on January 28 at 7 30 p m in the Blackhawk Jr High School Auditorium Bensenville. Tickets cost $1 and can be bought at the school office or reserved by PTA members Arthur Koopman Claude Vondruska Edward Wardzala or Richard Diegnan.
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Norman Arens Wll
Blackhawk Jr. High School
Church Road
Bensenville
Blackhawk Pta
PTA
Arthur Koopman
Claude Vondruska
Edward Wardzala
Richard Diegnan
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Ymca Fund
Ward Larson
Glen Ellyn
Ryal
West Chicago
Glendale Heights
Carol Stream
Addison
Emil Novotny
John F. Schaich
Police Training Institute
Paddock Publications, Inc
West Main
Bensenville, Ill
Chicago
Elmhurst
W. Main ST
FDIC
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