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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1944
Page
4
The document records ash and due from banks 306089.39 United States Government obligations and various assets. It includes total deposits 698,885.14 and notes the cashier Chan E Clinch swears the statement is true to the best of knowledge, with notary D.H. Johnson attesting on July 3, 1944.
St Josephs Church masses held every Sunday at 7:30 and 10:30 while Williamsfield offers a 9:00 o clock service. Father Thomas C Harrison is the pastor.
At Union Church there is Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. and a Worship Service at 11:00 a.m. A Children’s Day program is arranged by Mrs Tom Culey. Infant Baptism will be administered. There will be no preaching service. Gargreaves is the pastor.
The notice lists a Methodist Church program with Sunday-school at 1000, church services at 10:45 led by Pastor Ghas E. Duanlevy, and a preaching service at 10:00. It quotes Romans 12 11 and presents a Turner quote on hard work and industrious study of the Bible to strengthen faith and support mission work.
Local society page covers daily visits and overnight guests across Brimfield, Galesburg, Peoria, Oak Park, Downers Grove, and nearby areas. Highlights include hospital recuperation, poems accepted for publication, furloughs from Alaska, weekend picnics at Lake Storey, a new Arcor restaurant opening, and a St Francis hospital birth for Lt Ray Gene Gelling with his POW father.
The article extols private industry as a barometer of national progress and praises the United States private sector for mobilizing blood plasma operations. It notes rapid transport from donation centers to labs using refrigerated containers and reports about 2,470,000 pints reaching laboratories within 21 hours of donation.
The diary describes calm seas and brilliant coral reefs two to forty feet underwater, with tree and plant formations and multicolored fish. A glass bottom window allows photos of the ocean floor. departure time looms as the crew plans supper with captured fish.
The text praises the rapid progress of private medicine in the United States, noting doctors staffed an army of 10 to 12 million, provided unmatched service, and joined soldiers in combat with miraculous wound care and hospital treatment. It emphasizes the strong patient doctor relationship surpassing any centralized system.
Florence Roe 86 died Saturday night at daughter Mrs Noah Brotherton’s home near Kent. Born August 30 1857 in Peoria Illinois she lived in Iowa since 1894. Survived by daughter Mrs Brotherton and three sons Archie Brookfield Mo Charles and Earl Oklahoma City. Widow of H H Roe formerly Florence Dunn.
The County Legion Picnic will be at Pleasant Valley Park on route 91 Sunday July 16 starting 1 30 pm. Peoria Post band will perform with Opal Wolfe as soloist. A softball game contests and games for all ages with cash prizes follow a 5 00 pm picnic lunch. Free ice cream and pop for children. Park open for day, registration for attendance prizes. Committee: L F Pacey Brimfield Ray Callery Princeville R Miller Elmwood Ora Reed Johany Wolfe Peoria.
Funeral services for Nina Teatsworth Arebaugh a former Creston resident were held at the Christian church in Shenandoah. She died last Thursday at the Lenox home of her daughter Ila Plows after a sudden heart attack. Survivors include two sons Arthur and Harry Teatsworth of Lenox and granddaughter Mrs Garrett H Cox of Creston. She was known locally as Nia Hockenbury.
Nelson Dean Jay, a native of Elmwood, has been named temporary head of the American Red Cross, filling the vacancy created by Norman Davis. A Knox College alumnus, Jay built a banking career with Morgan partners in New York, led the French Red Cross in Paris, and after World War I led Red Cross efforts in service of the war. His two sons serve in the armed forces, with Nelson in the Army Air Forces recuperating in Atlantic City and Robert in the Navy.
The Brimfield Legion Post asks residents to collect waste paper magazines cardboard and tin cans for salvage. They request cooperation and thank participants for supporting the effort.
A compact list of small ads notes metal ice box and copper clad kitchen range for sale, 20 acres of alfalfa, 1 year old Hampshire boar, mixed hay, and a 5 room house with farm buildings for rent. Job ad seeks men women and youth to pull tassels with mid July start. Harold Shisslie & Bro Elmwood Illinois listed with phone contact.
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