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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1941
Page
1
The article notes Rev D A Sanford will conduct services at 10 30 a m and 8 p m in Zion Episcopal Church on Sunday. It also mentions local religious leaders and various town developments including a proposed two story brick block in Brimfield, a village appropriation of 3800, and other civic notes from Brimfield and surrounding areas.
The sixth and last 4 H Club meeting was held at Dorothy Kellogg's home on July 9 with three visitors. Plans for a booth and program on July 16 were made, including a demonstration arranging cookies. Dorothy Kellogg, Phil Barrett, Marcella Whittaker, Anowz May Noland, and the club reporter were present.
Seattle hospitals pioneer a mechanical walker to aid infantile paralysis victims. N Jartside of Swedish Hospital designed the device, a wheeled metal frame with arm supports and a seated brake. First used by Mrs Adam W Lyskoski, the device helped her regain balance and mobility from near total paralysis. Nurses foresee eventual walking without crutches for her and similar patients.
The Brimfield and Paradise Girls 4-H clubs hold Achievement Day at Union Church in Brimfield at 2 PM on Tuesday July 22. The program features piano and accordion selections, club demonstrations on cookies clothing and foods, a ladies aid church supper, cornet and reading items, a style review, and a display of home improvement projects. Public invited.
As part of the Laura Homecoming program on August 7 an essay contest will be held. Four hundred word essays on patriotic subjects may be submitted by all 4-H members in the vicinity with cash prizes. Essays are read aloud by contestants and judged by a committee. The event may include a flag story pageant by Laura children titled The Story of The Flag.
Mre Cara Plack spent the weekend with friends in Elmwood. Meada Mes. Wiley Reed and James Lynch spent Thursday afternoon in Laura at the James Kempe home.
James Lynch returns to his Louvieville Kentucky home Monday after time at the Wiley Reed home. Mrs Reed accompanied him for a visit Roy Rogers and daughter Ruth returned to Detroit Michigan after a ten day visit with his parents Mr and Mrs Walter Powers and brothers Carl and Bart and family at Davlap. Roy is employed by the Chrysler Company in Detroit.
Laura Items Miss Jane Ann Kneer of Monica visits the Sandy Kneer home. Many residents, including Mr and Mrs Edmund Lottman and others, travel to Peoria Galesburg Rantoul and Victoria. A few attend weddings and vacations, with Wycoff family and parcel incidents cited.
Residents and visitors across French Grove, Gilson, Urbana, Kewanee, and nearby towns are noted. The piece lists calls on residents by friends and relatives, with events such as an Improvement Society meeting set for July 24 and a roll call about pets, alongside several family visits and travel to Peoria and Yates City.
Harriott Glark celebrated her seventh birthday on July 11 with a country party inviting many friends. The afternoon featured games, ice cream, cake and refreshments served by Arlene Shaw and Faye Bolee. A second birthday, Marcela Kingdon, turned ten on July 10 with afternoon celebrations at home, games, concerts and Vanity refreshments for guests including Esther Hines and Miriam Bragg.
Community plans for the Old Settlers Picnic include a meeting at the Johnson Apber Store on Tuesday night July 22 at 8 30 daylight saving time. Officers listed include President J D Beat Vice president RD Savage Treasurer Henry Memler Historian Henrietta Memler and Secretary DH Johnson. A family dinner in Peoria honors relatives and friends with attendees named. George Leafued thanks Brimfield friends for cards and encouragement.
Josephine Wycoff and Private William C Speer of Yates City united in marriage at the Wycoff home near Laura. Rev 8 B Morton officiated. Bridesmaid Mra Boyene Sallee of Ames. Groom attended by brother Charles Speer. After a two course reception the couple left for Cleveland and Spartanburg to begin their life together.
Mr and Mrs Ghas Armbruster and daughter Margo of Omaha Nebraska called on Mrs A S and Herriott Monday afternoon. Mr Armbruster in the hotel business holds an executive role supervising nineteen hotels and had been in a Clinton town on a business trip. He is remembered by many who knew him as a small bar when he and Als alster spent summers here.
Kenneth Cook son of Norma Yoakam Cook enlisted in the Marines. He trained in San Diego and is now at Lakehurst New Jersey for two months of parachute jumping training. Upon return to California he will serve as a corporal instructor.
Dale Sylvester Wells died at the family home in Yates City on Monday July 14. Born April 3, 1924, he would have been a sophomore at Yates City High School next year. He had been ill since birth but stayed active in school activities and was well liked. Survived by his parents, three brothers Irving Wells of Wilmington NC, Voris and M Harold at Yates City, two sisters and two nephews. Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church in Yates City on Wednesday afternoon, with Rev. Albert Ganove of Ba Fayette officiating, and burial in Yates City Cemetery.
Mr and Mrs Duane Tucker Naomi Miss Ancle Tpusek and James Boyd return from Camp Davis North Carolina with Private Rudolph D Tucker on three day leave for the Fourth of July. They traveled through Illinois Indiana Kentucky Tennessee and North Carolina enjoying mountain scenery and snapshots. Rudolph notes the camp is two segregated groups with both Negro and white companies.
A farewell gathering for Mrs. Elizabeth Chichester was hosted last Wednesday by Mrs. Alice Whittaker and other Metho dist church members and neighbors. The event featured a reading by Mrs. Schenk and a talk by Mrs. Walter Clark about a Home Bureau visit by a Mexican goodwill worker. The group sang Blest Be The Pie That Binds, followed by lunch, and a carmare brooch will remind Mrs. Chichester of Brimfield friends.
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