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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1944
Page
1
Brimfield Legion Post calls for residents to save salvage paper magazines cardboard tin cans and rags and turn them in to support community work and fundraising efforts.
Technician Third Grace Russell Larner and 700 officers and enlisted men of a Signal Corps wire section established and maintained an essential 15 day telephone system for a major Allied Army command in Italy. They activated a six position switchboard, laid 35 miles of buried lead cable 60 miles of field rubber cable and installed 200 instruments. Crews worked day and night to complete the deployment and keep lines open vital to the fighting effort. Drilled manpower includes many former civilian telephone workers as the unit supports frontline communications.
A partisan free appeal warns citizens to resist government overreach and preserve the American constitutional system. It argues that emergency measures have expanded centralized control, threatening individual liberty and free enterprise. The piece urges candidates to prove devotion to limits on government and protection of citizens’ opportunities.
Laura residents report a string of social visits and relocations. Mrs Wm Chapman traveled to La Crosse Wisconsin to visit relatives. The Duncan and Peoria contingent called on Laura families Sunday and Monday. Sgt Wiley Reed arrived from Ft Myers Florida for a 15 day furlough. Mr and Mrs Robert Smith moved back from Peoria. Mrs Lee Burgess and Mrs Bessie Barnard were Laura callers. Mrs Kneer recovers after Peoria surgery.
Local social notes list visits and gatherings at the McClellan Clark residence and with related families. Names include Noland, Couch, Shaffer, Shaffer, Penn, Marissut, Barrett, Carter, Kellogg, and Smith, with plans for a June improvement society event and a Wheaton college graduate heading to Iowa for a botany graduate assistantship.
The high school staff for the coming year is announced with M. W. Watts as principal. Paul Blackford teaches Latin and History, Matt Murphy Science, Loren Baker, and Velma Allen heads Home Economics with Eoma Stigall teaching English. Murphy and Baker lead physical education. Grade school staff remain in three rooms with Inez Switzer, Lote German, Irene Cady, and Walter Mulgany teaching seventh and eighth grades and music.
A town drive urges residents to bring waste grease to a salvage depot at Carason's store to support the war effort. A dinner honored Bud Kingdon before he leaves for Marine training, hosting Mendenhall and Kingdon families along with friends and relatives. Brenda and Joé Sanchez departed for Washington, DC, after the visit.
Mrs Henry Merritt and her daughter Zora from Chicago visited this week with Mr and Mrs Walter Ray Geld, sharing hospitality and social conversation during the stay.
The piece urges readers to oppose proposals and candidates seen as undermining individual liberty and opportunity. It warns that accepting even small doses of state socialism would erode independence, stressing the need for citizens to remain masters rather than servants of the government amid looming wartime measures and upcoming elections.
Oak Hill Community Club President Marjorie Penn presided over the June 9 gathering. Members sang, roll call had 16 responses, and plans for a July 14 schoolhouse picnic were announced. A note from Leah Burns, ill for six weeks, was read. Secretary to arrange piano tuning as the instrument needs attention. Dues were paid, the program featured a scrambled word game and Marion Penn presented instrumental numbers, while younger members learned to dance.
Reverend George Parker Snedaker long served Piper City Methodist Church. A memorial service was held Saturday at Piper City Methodist Church with Clifford P. Bruner officiating and Dr Arthur P. Jordan of Bloomington delivering the sermon. Snedaker died Thursday morning at his Piper City residence.
Miss Maxine Lockhart and Roland Lottman wed in a quiet double ring ceremony at St Marys Cathedral Peoria. The couple, from Seneca and Brimfield, plan to reside in Morton Illinois after July 1 with Attendants Mrs Robert Ingram and Mr Ryne Lottman.
Miss Shirley Londraville and Arthur Young were married at Worth Presbyterian Church in Rochester New York on Tuesday June 6 Reverend W Harvey Young officiated. The bride is daughter of Mr and Mrs George Londraville of Rochester and the groom is a process engineer at the Hastman Kodak Company in Rochester. Barbara Young studying medicine at Johns Hopkins and Katharine Londraville of Chilileothe attended with two sisters.
Mrs Nira Archer Johnson and her infant son Camez returned home from St Francis Hospital on Wednesday. Mrs Johnson thanks friends for the many cards letters and flowers sent during her stay.
Community efforts to restore Brimfield's oldest building Zion Episcopal Church move forward led by Godfrey G Lutoy. Plans include clearing grounds removing thickets and beautifying the yard with an historical marker requested to guide traffic to the site. Regular services have long been discontinued but the renovated church will be available for use when needed.
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