Mrs Clark Gift Shop Opens and Holiday Sales
Local notes report Mrs J A Clark Gift Shop opening December 15 with holiday wrappings on sale at the News office. Cecils Hardware and Johnson Archer Inc promote Aladdin lamps and electric irons. Community events include a Dec 14 library board meeting and Dec 20 Alta Rosary society gathering. A village gravel street project begins and a small town fire incident ends with minor damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George la Follett
Gleon Shane
J. A. Clark
Esther Tucker
Elmwood
Roth Hedden
R. B. Roberts
W. T. Cowley
Red Cross
Johnson-Archer Inc
Pleasant Williamsfield Supper and Social Evening
On Sunday evening a crowd visited Williamsfield and pleasantly surprised Richard Wurmaust. The gathering featured games, singing, and dancing followed by a delicious lunch. Honored guests included Richard Wurmaust, Mr and Mrs Carl Wurmaust, Mr and Mrs Lester Murdock and children Dale and Theda, Mabel Walker and Hammer Maher, Jimmy Reed, Maxine Savage, Dorothy Doom, Irene Bowmen, and Kathryn Talmage.
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Williamsfield
Richard Wurmnert
Richard Wurm Aest
Carl Wurmaest
Lester Murdock
Dale and
Theda
Mabel Walker
Hammer Maher
Jimmy Reed
Maxine Savage
Dorothy Doom
Irene Bowmen
Kathryn Talmage
Share-the-World Party at Union Church School
The older Union Church school held a share-the-world party at Ethel Memler’s home Tuesday evening. Students staged two plays in a makeshift theater with Barbara Johnson Roberta Bowman Alice Tally leading roles in Love’s Errand. Boxes of cats were packed for Bernice Miller Helen Clark and other classmates now away at school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Church School
Ethel Memler
Barbara Johnson
Roberta Bowman
Alice Tally
Harold
Margaret Bowman
Daisy
Bernice Miller
Helen Clark
Bernice
Ruth
Eileen Bragg
Janet
Mildred
Alice Tully
Harriett Miars
Frances Pace
Verda Cady
Martha Minor
Thelma DeVries
Margaret
American Santa Claus name origin discussed by McHughes
G H McHughes argues Santa Claus derives from St Nicholas through children in Teutonic countries and crossed to America. He notes the direct route is uncertain, suggesting Santa traded his gray horse for a reindeer and altered his appearance along the way.
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Santa Claus
Santa Nicolas
G. H. McHughes
St Nicholas
America
Making Sugar Toys
Sugar toys may be made using four pounds of sugar two ounces of corn syrup one pint of water. Boil to 240 to 242 degrees then stir until cloudy and pour into plaster of paris moulds that have been drained after soaking in cold water for two or three hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plaster of Paris
Wanted for Sale and Misc Notes from Brimfield area
For sale listings include Canaries for sale Miss Jennie Gibbs, Good Sporte bosra and Poland China pigs, several Duroc boars at reasonable prices by Roy Whittaker, coal delivered from Red Brush at 33.00 a ton via Roy Miara, a top buggy in mint condition, a double barrel Remington 12 gauge shotgun at the News office, butchering services offered by L. O. Kelley north of the cemetery, Edwards coal exchange for bin storage, and a moved slaughterhouse to the A. P. Whittaker farm with butcher days Mondays and Thursdays by Chalmer Catton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Brush
Roy Miara
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Quine
Tucker & McDonough
Armand
Paris
Zern Pharmacy
Brimfield
Illinois
Harding & Reinhart
Mrs. Clark
Xman
Cecal’s Hardware
Clifford Cady
Chicago
Johnson Archor Inc
Florence Wyman
Wm Simpson
Peona
Dorothy King and
Herbert Stenger
Edwards
Sunda
Andrew Whittaker
Horace Stearns
Peoria
Marie Forney
Miami
Florida
Jud Harding
Jas Harker
Nancy
Harlan Eliott
Princeville
Chere
Alta, and Rosary Society
Fred French
Revy Robertson
Ed Robertson
James Robertson
Bessie Beasley
Cairo
Charles Jacobs
Irene Thurman
Zero
Eileen
Bernice Bragg
Doris Coon
Pete Dries
Aice Fury
Gene Coote
Louise
Mianie
Carrie
Jerry Coon
Coon
Jerry
Justus Roberts
Strong Memorial Hospital
Rochester N
Justus
Charles Hayes
Norma Efnor
Cecil’s Hardware
Ida Largent
Susie Hall
C. G. Strieder
Ubis
Cecil
Ware
Johnson-Archor Inc
Mildred Tully
Mrs. Elgin Mable
Duncan
Wyoming
Paul Burgess
Stark County Country Life
William Miller
Carl Wurmnest
Jennie Gibbs
Bosra
Poland
China
Ti- Roy Whittaker
L. O. Kelley
Cusack Soal Co
Lilel
A. P. Whittaker Farm
Chalmer Catton
Jane Randy
Elmwood, Illinois
W.H. McNay
Brumfield Illinois
Addison Pacey
Mildred Pacey
Oates No 2
Brimfield Il
E. Overend
Prop
Terraplane and Hudson
Red Crown
Kendall Oil
McCartney’s
Navy
S. H. Neiktrk
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