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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1932
Page
1
French Grove residents are notified of the annual strawberry and ice cream festival set for June 9 with details in a special notice. Relatives visit. Local social rounds include visits by Mrs Emily McCoy of Peoria and gatherings at Angus Moore's with the Sewards, Doutes, and Kellogg family members. Memorial Day visits connect families across Peoria and nearby towns.
Oak Hill residents and visitors share a busy sequence of gatherings and travels. Mr and Mrs Harry Burns and son Bobby visited from Des Moines to spend summer with Mrs Burns parents and related families in Brimfield. Grover Nixon and friends head to Indianapolis for auto races Memorial Day. Peoria guests include Fred Shoff and Elmer family, Clarence Coffman and son Billy. Earl Nixon and sons toured Chicago for Memorial Day. Mrs Dean Winn and daughters hosted in Wyoming. Mrs Harry Pacey and children visited Laura. Earl Nixon and a golf party toured Midland country club between Keewanee and Galva.
Ed wards items and social visits fill a Thursday afternoon with gatherings at Mrs Nora King and at the Andrews home. Several guests include Mrs Ross Coulter Mrs John Andrews Miss Clarice Barr and Mrs Ed Siegle. Thomas Harrell after Harrie Military Institute return from Roanoke spends two weeks with his grandmother before heading to Chicago. Central Illinois Light Co works on a new pew line at Olin. Various parties and visits occur around Knoxville Pottstown Smithville and surrounding homes.
Margaret Bowman delivers a commencement speech to teachers classmates and friends. She reflects on four years at Brimfield high school noting the transition from student life to independent effort and responsibilities, and welcomes the audience to the ceremonial moment marking beginnings and ongoing work.
Keith Cady delivers a valedictory marked by gratitude to parents board of education Brimfield citizens and faculty. He reflects on Janus imagery linking past and future and urges classmates to pursue lives of service with good journeys ahead.
The Brimfield Home Bureau will meet at Mrs. Alice Clark Fuesday’s home on June 7. Roll call prompts responses to “The Meeting Most Beneficial to Me.” Song is “Annie Laurie.” Elected officers at the last meeting include Chairman Mrs Averill, Vice chair Mrs O Tucker, Secretary and Treasurer Hagel Collins, Local leaders Mrs Best and Mrs Notzske, Health chairman Mrs Reed Blundy, Recreation chairman Mrs JL Porter, Publicity chairman Frances Bkena.
The fragment recalls Lem Tibbets running a simple restaurant serving coffee kraut and meals around the clock. It was a plain place for common folks with homely fare, where memories of sausages pancakes and a frying pan linger.
Brimfield extends cordial greetings to visiting camps in convention today. The welcome expresses hospitality and hopes the sister organization enjoys their stay and returns in the future.
Almon Jones lifelong Galva resident died around Thursday at his home. He married Bertha Kingdon, sister of the late John Kingdon, and was a cousin of Mrs S. H. Neikirk. Funeral was Sunday May 29 at 2:30 PM in Galva, with many local relatives in attendance.
Out of town friends and former residents gathered on Decoration Day in Brimfield. Names include Fred Church Paul Fisher Mary Fisher Eva Colston Anna Memler Mary Roth G M McKibben Gertrude Burt Harold Thadas Fuchs Earl Root and others from Peoria Galesburg Delavan Victoria and more. The note invites all residents and visitors to keep community spirit high and loyal to the old hometown.
All former scholars and teachers who attended Callister School since its origin are invited to a picnic at the school on Friday June 10 at 1 00 PM Bring your lunch for a real old fashioned picnic supper It is estimated over 40 old timers living who attended fifty years ago All who can come are urged to attend The Gilbert school is invited too.
The annual Strawberry Festival at the French Grove church takes place Thursday evening June 9 with homemade ice cream and home grown berries. Cones are available and all are invited. if roads are muddy the festival moves to Hubert Oakes home.
Notices report a Brimfield 4-H club meeting at 1 00 o clock on June 16 for a livestock projects inspection tour. Some members plan to attend the University of Illinois tour of all 4-H clubs June 8 to 10. The Cemetery Association supper committee thanks helpers for a successful event. door receipts totaled 9848, underscoring community support.
A large crowd attended the May 27 graduation at the Community Building as seventeen students filed onto the platform. Keith Cady and Margaret Bowman spoke for the reclass, with musical numbers enjoyed by all. Thomas Pearman, general secretary of the Peoria YMCA, delivered an inspiring talk reflecting the school’s value to the community.
D G Shirley and family will move to Aledo Illinois where Shirley becomes agent there. After twenty three years in Brimfield the community wishes them well as the move takes effect next Saturday. The change may affect local train service with the section crew to be dispensed and Brimfield possibly reduced to a signal stop.
Mrs Josephine M Ross died at her Elmwood home on May 14 1932 after a brief illness. Born April 17 1872 in Brimfield township to James and Mary Abbott, she married John A Kors April 15 1897 and had three children Pearl Gallery Mary and Charles. Survivors include husband James John Ella Mary Anna Deutscher five grandchildren and siblings. Funeral at St Patrick's Elmwood May 16 with pallbearers John Maher Clay Craig James Strapp John Eslinger Barney Daley Richard Kennelly. interment Calvary Cemetery Brifield Princeville.
Burlington Transportation a subsidiary of the C B and Q railroad won a certificate from the Minors Commerce commission to run a motor bus line linking Elmwood Southport Oak Hill Edwards Pottstown and Peoria over Routes 78 8 and 11 in Peoria County The line will connect Elmwood with other Burlington lines and provide service to Galesburg Peoria and Galesburg are trade educational and industrial centers and the new route will aid farming residents in reaching them Elmwood will gain by a five mile shorter trip to Peoria though the Southport road is not fully paved and likely not used until fall per Elmwood Gazette.
The community extends hearty congratulations to M Ibeck on retirement after forty eight years with the local C B and Q railroad branch. Known as Mike, he turned seventy on May 9 and receives standard benefits. He served as section foreman between Elmwood and Brimfield, witnessing many changes from hand cars to trucks.
The notice states Griggs & Travis H.R. Johnson & Son 8 O. Cady & Son Member's The Home Store S. H. Neikirk will stay open each Wednesday and Saturday night until further notice. The next W R C regular meeting is June 8 at 2:00 PM. all members should attend the full day session. An elderly G A R veteran from Peoria may join if weather allows.
The message jokes about Mike adjusting to a life of leisure he deserves. It suggests he might join local political activity if time lags, promising him plenty to keep his mind and hands occupied.
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