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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1919
Page
1
The St Paul Lutheran Church in Brimfield will lay the corner stone of its new church next Sunday at 2 PM. A festival service follows at the Community Building with Rev. A H Schleef delivering the sermon. The event was postponed from last Sunday due to weather.
Miss Lillian Weppler of Washington NL married Carl Wurmnest of Brimfield in a home ceremony at Metamora conducted by Rev. Karl Rodemann. The simple ring ceremony followed a wedding feast for about 35 relatives. The couple plans to establish a farm near Brimfield.
On August 30 1919 Miss Elizabeth Camp daughter of Mr and Mrs Edd Camp married Jesse Whirtley both of Brimfield. Judge James Riley officiated the ceremony and the couple plan to establish a home on a farm 40 miles northwest of Brimfield.
Edith F Savage daughter of Charles and Mrs Savage of Brimfield and Bernard McIntyre son of Edward and Mrs McIntyre of Peoria were married by Rev M B Lach at his East Main street home Galesburg Wednesday November 26 7 30 pm. Witnesses were Mr and Mrs E N Coulter. The couple will live in Brimfield after a brief wedding visit with Mr and Mrs E N Coulter and their friends extend best wishes.
Letter from Galliurnia to Mr Pacey thanks neighbors for saving other property after a barn fire near their old homestead. Mentions California arrival, newspaper columns, and gratitude for assistance amid a large blaze. Notes days of rain and cloudy weather through yesterday.
In loving remembrance of Bess Humason who died November 24 1918. The poem recalls her days at home and her knit work for soldiers marching to the Rhine. It asks for guidance from above and a reunion on the Golden Shore.
In 1918 the seals were a war measure and limited to Red Cross members by agreement. This year they are again on sale under the National Tuberculosis Association and not connected with the Red Cross. The Peoria County Tuberculosis Society funds come from seal sales. 77 percent of gross proceeds stay in Peoria County. A community nurse now in the field, Miss Elliott, boosts the effort outside Peoria.
Lillian Ruth Hope Keyser born Chicago July 23 1896 died November 25 1919 at home six and a half miles southeast of Elmwood. She married Gilbert Keyser May 14 1915 in Eureka Illinois. Survived by husband and son Sherwood Gilbert sister Mrs Carl Page brother Harold Hope. Funeral Friday November 28 at the country home with Rev. B Y George. burial Elmwood Cemetery.
In a letter the Norse couple recounts rain in the evening and steady drizzle since, notes many Illinois natives in Los Angeles and Glendale, and few native Californians. They enclose a check to renew their subscription to the News and request continued delivery to their old address.
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