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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1946
Page
1
The December 10 1896 issue reports weekly farm prices for corn oats wheat and butter plus egg and hog figures. It notes zero degree cold, a light drama at the Opera House, and a Fedora Club opening reception. It lists local names and notes junior and high school events including a high school notes column and a new school dedication on December 14.
Universal serial featuring Dick Foran and Ann Nagel shown with Alec Kermit Maynard in Wild Horse Roundup at the Legion Hall Friday December 33 at 8 p m. Thrilling drama based on James Oliver Garwood novel.
The American Legion Ammiiary sponsors a Gift For The Yanks project to provide Christmas gifts to disabled veterans in hospitals. People may call Mrs Floyd Wyman or Mrs Norma Harlan before December 20 to contribute.
The Lutheran Ladies Aid will host an annual bazaar in the Legion building on Saturday December 14 with articles for sale from 2:00 PM and a luncheon served from 11:00 AM featuring chili coffee pie and sandwiches.
Fragmentary notes indicate events from the late 1930s and earlier: a peace treaty tied to the Spanish American War era, Italy withdrawing from the League of Nations, U.S. troops crossing a region with unclear locale, and a reference to British and Japanese movements plus a Boston Tea Party date from 1772. The jumbled items point to multiple historical moments without coherent narrative.
The FFA chapter holds a skating party at Evarts Recreation this Wednesday at 7 30 p m for members and guests. Members Dick Harding and Don Cramer purchased purebred cattle heifer and Shorthorn heifer. Ag I studies Swift Co livestock marketing bulletins. Ag II builds a forge hood and practices welding. Ag III installs a forge hood and makes a scoreboard sign for upcoming ball games. Dave Myers, Reporter.
Brmfield High School will host an adult evening school for farmers with eleven participants meeting Thursday at 8 pm to plan ten sessions. Speakers will lead most evenings and the program aims to start in January, with veterinary training classes coordinated alongside. Mrs Herbert Ruckmick and her mother Mrs Eisabeth Hindle visited. the Ruckmicks sold their Bellingham home and move to Washington, DC where Mr Ruckmick works for the government after Navy service.
The Royal Neighbors voted at the November meeting to hold their Christmas gathering on Friday December 20 at the home of Mr. Leonard Porter. An exchange of 25 cent gifts will take place during the event.
Millbrook Grange begins an eight game card series at Laura Grange hall starting December 4 at 8 o clock. The next two events occur December 11 and December 18 with prizes and lunch each evening and grand prizes at the series end. Public invited.
A dated schedule lists games and locations for alumni and team play from November through March. Several entries show teams like Williamsfield Gilson Emwood Yates City Princeville and Dunlap with various venues noted as here there or open. The document includes district and regional tournament hints around February and March with conferences Tomahawk Kickapoo.
Keokuk resident Laura Items George Reed visits friends in Keokuk. Galesburg guests Mr and Mrs red Steinman, and Mr and Mrs W F Brown with son. Peoria shoppers include Mr and Mrs Harley Reed and Mrs James Kemper. East Peoria calls on Miller relatives. Elmwood Sunday visit with Ruth Favore. Burgess family and Garmody visits in Peoria. Thorne family returns from hospital. Miss Icene Miller arrives from St Pauls Minnesota to rejoin Western Union in Peoria. Plack family and others dine in Elmwood for Thanksgiving.
A editorial argues that tax cuts are impossible without drastic federal spending cuts in peacetime. It critiques large federally funded projects like dams and TVA expansions, warning such socialized ventures shift tax burdens and fail to outperform private investment. It urges Congress to curb spending and resist tax-exempt schemes to begin real tax relief.
French Grove Dessa Lou Shaffer and brother John Shaffer visited with family over the weekend. Frank and Ruth Edwards of Edwards were Saturday callers at the C. L. McClellan home. Mr and Mrs S A Kellogg enjoyed Bandels Messiah by the Galesburg Community Chorus Tuesday night. George Reed of Keokuk Iowa visited Brimfield and Peoria with A R Moore family and relatives. 4.1L Oakes attended the International Stock Show in Chicago and bought two Polled Shorthorns. Florence Armstrong from Simmons General Hospital Denver has been discharged. The Wyli e Blackwells moved from near Elsyville to the farm town outskirts recently purchased from Mr and Mrs James Long.
A broad nationwide radio warning by Edward J. Hickey of Connecticut’s State Fire Department stresses fire risks from carelessness. He cites 10 900 deaths and nearly $600 0 6 in losses annually, urging personal responsibility to prevent nine preventable fires.
Brimfield High School lettermen are invited to meet Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Legion hall for a reunion. The event is hosted by B H S and aims to reconnect former athletes and supporters.
Hugh Miller 74 of Brimfield Illinois died December 7 196 at Methodist hospital Peoria. Born April 11 1873 in Fayetteville Arkansas he married Jennie Farquhar in 1896. Survived by wife four children ten grandchildren one great grandchild one brother and one sister. Funeral held at Johnson Funeral Home with Rev T C Hargreaves. burial in Brimfield Cemetery.
We wish to express gratitude to all relatives neighbors and friends for their kindnesses during the illness and death of our beloved husband and father Hugh Moller. Mr and Mrs Orville Miller and Family Mr and Mrs Foster Miler Mr and Mrs Dean Payne Mr and Mrs Frank Tiers.
Jean Marie Sloan and Joan W Davis united in marriage at St Bernard's Church Peoria in a Thanksgiving morning ceremony. The bride wore aqua wool with black fur hat and red and white roses. attendants included Miss Mary Laurie Phillips. After a reception relatives, dinner at a hotel, and a brief Chicago trip, the couple lives at 500 Fortinoa Peoria. The bride, a graduate nurse at St Francis hospital, and the groom, grandson of the late Reny Arnold, both longtime Peoria residents, plan a home in Peoria.
F H A members collect clothes for a needy Kentucky family and offer Christmas decorations in return. Rome ECI and II classes craft gifts including textile painting crocheting kniting aprons and oil folds. Foods study expands with the dome Ec If class. Next meeting set for the eleventh.
Mrs Evelys Friedland ties up last Thursday for her East Lansing Michigan home after a several week stay with her mother Mrs Henry Memier and sister Ethel and Weuriets.
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