Christmas social notices and family updates around Peoria
Readers share holiday visits and gatherings as Mr and Mrs Rolland Cady move to 36 Ayers Peoria Mrs Walter Rayfield stays with Mrs Bessie Purcell and John Marvin Jack Slocum arrives home from Ellington Field for Christmas with Bert Slocum relatives from Wisconsin Peoria and Princeville attend a pre Christmas pot luck at George Traver’s. Royal Neighbor meeting date changes to January 2 with 1953 officer elections at Eva Clark’s home. Multiple families travel from Davenport Town Altamont Pepin Brimfield for a Christmas dinner gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolland Cady
Ayers
Peoria
Walter Rayfield
Bessie Purcell
John Marvin
Jack Slocum
Ellington Field, Texas
Bert Slocum
Wiscem
Princeville
George Traver
Cartis Krock
Mra
Eva Clark
A.C Womer Lyn
Elington
Advertising Brag Leads to Brainless Bragging Joke
A disjointed humorous exchange unfolds at a hotel where an advertising salesman boasts he sells brains not trunks. A porter questions his claim. The absurd dialogue includes lines about samples, honesty, and mischiefs. The piece ends with a quip about golf and a mock courtroom exchange on veracity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Furst
Sunday Lutheran Church Services and Roles
The notice lists service times for Sandap and Watamsafield Masses at 7 30 and 10 30 on weekdays and 8 00 o clock Holy Cave with additional masses at 6 0 and 3 00. Father Thomas Harrison is pastor at the church with Church School at 10 00 am. Enoch W Nye D D is minister at the parsonage phone 348. Howard G Welch is the parish prayor for the Church of the Lutheran. Sunday services include Matin service at 3 am, Sunday School at 9 16 am, Morning Worship at 10 30 am. Welcome to the Lutheran church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enoch W. Nye
D. D
Church of the Lutheran Hoar
Sunday Worship and Sunday School Times Listed
Brimfield and Laura churches publish morning schedules with Rev A L Steinfeldt preaching at Laura 9 30 and 10 30 Sunday School led by John Rollios. Brimfield offers 10 00 Sunday School and 11 00 worship service with Rev A L Steinfeldt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. L. Steinfeldt
Zion Episcopal Summer Services Schedule Details
Zion Episcopal Church plans summer services on the third Sunday of each month at 4 PM standard time led by Rev. G B Armstrong Vicar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medt
G B Armstrong
Flippant Doctor Wendell Holmes Practiced Medicine
Before Olver Wendell Holmes was a writer he practiced medicine and taught anatomy at Harvard and Dartmouth. As a practitioner he was not successful, with people doubtful of the flippant youth who posted the sign above his office door. Smail fevers gratefully received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olver Wendell Holmes
Harvard
Dartmouth
Bar Flies Screen All Openings Amid Food Storage Concerns
Bar Flies have screened all windows and doors at the premises where milk and food are kept to keep out pests and maintain hygiene. The action aims to protect stored items and ensure safety of the establishment’s supplies.
Christian Science Churches Explain Practical Religion
Sunday December 28 explores Christian Science as a practical, scientific faith. The Golden Text, Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils, guides the lesson with Scriptural selections from Acts and teachings from Mary Baker Eddy. The sermon centers on divine Principle dissolving sin and disease as light dispels darkness.
Call Lley Howe for pump repairs and gutters
A fragmented classified item offers services for pump repairs, gutter work, cesspool and septic tank cleaning with prices from 18 to 50 dollars. An address at 164 Wyoming is noted along with a reference preference and an unclear line about a man’s overshoe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lley@ Howe
Poone
Wyoming
For sale Registered Duroc gifts to farrow in Feb
For sale gifts to farrow in February from Kellogg and Son located 14 miles west of Lauraye un 160.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duroc Gifts
Farrow
Marsh
A. Kellogg and Son
Lauraye UN
Also Mentioned on This Page
St Josephs Church
Watamsafield
Father Thomas €. Harrison
Gensietta Memier
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Howard G Welch
Laura
John Rollios
Brimfield
A. L. Steinfeld
L. E. White & Son
Brimfield, Il
Jennises-Araer, Ire
Christian Science Churches
Paulo
Iphesus
Jesus
Mary Baker Eddy
Thara
Mived Pacey
Davacet
Brimfeld
Watter
Cern
SHARP
BRB
Kalb
Blurence Welsh
Hedge Pentator Sale
Gall
Duane McKwa
Pis
Bowman
Esther Thomas
Otto
Mhoquire
Memoriam
Walter M. Rayfield
Minzie Rayfield
Bari Stine
Gene
England
Merry Christmas
By Everett Catton
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