Memorial Weekend Visitors and Local Social Roundup
Social notes from Speer and nearby towns list visitors and guests over Memorial weekend. Names include Ethel Renwick, Carolee Pacey, Maude Klingert, Stewart Cady, Keith Gady and family, George Farmer, Debra, George Traver, Earl Jones funeral, Grace Duggines, Eunice Eslinger, Anna Moon, Alice Lavon Pacey, Keith Porch, Roland Crocker, Audrey, Paul Tucker, Gee family, Wyman, and Chas. Also reported are a Junior Club picnic at Jubilee Park with 24 children and 15 adults, an upcoming June wiener roast, and May meeting plant gifts for mothers. Peoria County Health Improvement Association activities and officers are noted, with fundraiser planning for Blue Cross and Blue Shield July 15–29 and a district BIA meeting recap.
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Jubilee Park
St Josephs Church Weekly Masses and Confessions Schedule
Sunday Masses at 7 39 and 10 30. Fiat Friday Confessions 6 30 am. Communion 7 60 am. Confessions 7 00 to 7 30 am. Mass 7 30 am. Weekday Confessions before daily masses. Wijayawaheta Mass at 9 00 am. Tanner Thomas GO. Barrison Pastor.
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Fiat
Wijayawaheta
Tanner Thomas GO. Barrison
Pastor
Union Rev Loyal Pearce All Services on Daylight Time
The Morning Worship Service led by Evans Supt at 10:00 am and 1:00 pm. The Woman's Association meets on June 13 with Mr H B Bowmas. Devotions by Frances Blundy and Mildred Pacey. Officers include Mesdames Margaret McCoy Eiva Taylor Sussn Forney Betty Hasselbacher.
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Caund-Seeboo
Mga
Guy Evans
Woman’s Association
H. B Bowmas
Frances Blundy
USA
Mildred Pacey
Margaret McCoy
Eiva Taylor
Sussn Forney
Betty Hasselbacher
Methodist Worship and Sunday Services Schedule
Sunday worship led by Rev Benrietta Gutermann at 10 30 a.m. Sunday School at 9 30 a.m. MYF sessions at 7 00 p.m. Monica Worship Service at 11 a.m. Laura Worship Service at 9 30 a.m. Sunday School at 10 30 a.m. John Rollins leads Sun School duties.
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Monica
LAURA
John Rollins
Sun
Zion Episcopal to Hold 111th Anniversary Service
Sunday afternoon June 23 at 4 pm CST Zion Episcopal will host a 111th anniversary service with Bishop Essex in charge It will be his last official visit to Zion before his May 1958 retirement, marking a historic farewell in the parish.
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Zion
Essex
Zon
Whites Grove Baptist Church Details Near Brimneld
Whites Grove Baptist Church located five miles west of Princeyne highway 1 then one mile north and five miles north of Brimneld. Sunday School at 30.00 am and church at 1100 am led by Pastor James Lawrence Williams. Box 111 Brimneld Tilinors affiliated with the American Baptist Convention.
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Princeyne Highway
Brimneld
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Tilinors
The
American Baptist
Nebuchadnezzar Might Have Been Bit Overrated
In a Philadelphia History piece J Philip Hyatt questions the standard view of Nebuchadnezzar as an invincible conqueror. He argues the king faced stalemate and defeat, drawing on newly studied Babylonian tablets that illuminate 627 to 555 BC, including a 601 BC clash with Egypt where both sides suffered.
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Philadelphia
Nebuchadnezzar
New Babylon
J Philip Hyatt
Journal of Biblical Literature
Hyatt
Vanderbilt University
British Museum
J D Wiseman
Judah
Egypt
Akkad
Babylon
Want Ads in Brimfield Area Listings Dense with Local Names
A jumble of want ads lists objects for sale and services in Brimfield and nearby towns. Names like Winsfield Joe Scott Willard Bassel bacher Mrs Deane Miller Tom Langon Gilbert Oakes Laura Brimfield Georgia Aldrich Stan Cady and Lorene Maher appear with items such as painting services air conditioners furniture hay and bakery cakes. Listings reference contact methods and locations including Brimfield Elmwood and Oak areas with dated notes and prices.
Waterprol matches and field tips for outdoorsmen
A fragmented outdoor note advises carrying water resistant matches on trips. It suggests waterproofing matches with shellac and implies benefits for hunters and fishers. The dim text references Waterpressed Matches and a 80 yard sighting claim by Kingbira, a Ringbird figure, within a casual instructional tone.
Local classified blurbs from Brimfield listings
Mildred Pacey publisher entered Brimfield in Brimfield St Pontoffic. Various ads: second class matter under act 1897. For sale ten hog houses and caoning rhubarb. Wanted storm window removal and four awnings. Phone 3288. Bertha Archibald selling Dutch Maid lingerie shirts shorts jackets. Jack Binde baling twine and hay on shares. For sale 1945 Ford truck with rack. Early order discount on Matrix steel products and Federal fertilizer from Iason Bros. phone 2401.
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Brimfield
St. Pontoffic
Bertha Archibald
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Music Box
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Enchanted Island
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Lida Schhink
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Song of the Shepherd
Reed Shaffer
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Carolee Pacey
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Maude Klingert
Peoria
Stewart Cady
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Iowa
Keith Gady
Ciady
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Mra
George Farmer
Debra
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Bert Slocum
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Mra Traver
Earl Jones
Grace Duggines
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Wood River Apent
Anna Moon
Alice Lavon Pacey
Keith Porch
Roland Crocker
Audrey
LaRose
Paul RB. Tucker
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Wyman
Nsephew
Chas
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Srei
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Tueer
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Jane Aver
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Peoria County Health Improvement Association
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Cauliicoth
Mra Len Schelkopt
Glarence Best
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Leo Schelxopf
Dastrict Bia
Toulon
Jacobsen
Mn Wisse
Brimfield Hardware Co
St. Josephs Church
Rev Loyal Pearce
Pilgrim Fellowship
Bour
Benrietta Gut Rmann
Whites Grove
Baptist
ST. Paul's Lutheran
Ukinors
Elwood Cholch
Divine Service
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Joe Scott
Willard Basselbacher
Mitchell Air Conditioner
P. Fusauer
Elmwood
White Roca
Deane Miller
Gilbert Oakes
Laura Pbrimfield
Tom Langon
Brimfield Water Works
Georgia Aldrich
Stan Cady
Kickapos
Brimfield Soft
Lorene Maher
Kingbira
Ringbird
the Brimfield News
Bert Short
Charles Rrains
Wantec
Jack Binde
Aale
Frank ‘Feasner
Eanson Bros
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Taylor Welding
mGeld
Eel
IGA
Zens
IGA Freestone
Kool Aid
Coca Cola
Sunkist Lemons
Per Doz
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