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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1949
Page
1
July entries show crop figures for Gorn and Gera with oats wheat butter eggs and hogs. A sheep weighed live 200 pounds and dressed 130 pounds. Oak Bill camp grounds plan a new tabernacle 50 by 90 feet and Elmwood road post office opening noted by Mr Andrews as postmuster.
Mr and Mrs W E Garter invite friends and relatives to join in celebrating their silver wedding anniversary the afternoon and evening of June 30.
Mr and Mrs Rudolph Bruninga joined dedicatory services in Chicago for the Auburn Evangelical Lutherans church and parsonage. Pastor G Frea Quette, a Bruninga brother, led the ceremony with Rev L J Schwarzupptor Hyde and Rev Roger L Sommer assisting at St John the Divine Lutheran Church.
Mr and Mrs John Vaughan returned from a week of fishing in Wisconsin. Patricia Bennett visits Bloomfield Iowa with her grandmother. The Millbrook Grange sets regular meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays at their hall one mile west of town. Mr and Mrs Roy Bate, Magee Wilma Turner, Den ’s 3c and Ronnie Lindsey visited Wayne Bate’s family. Mr and Mrs Clifford Cady and Roland joined by Mr and Mrs Henry D. Vries drove to Ft Madison Iowa for a picnic reunion at Burlington Park.
Miss Phyllis Gadbois of Kankakee marries Dr Donald Cluskey son of Brimfield. ceremony at St Patrick Church featured a double ring rite. Rev J Sullivan officiated with Milton Leppert organ and Miss Alice Fraser soprano. Reception for 150 at the Gold Room of Kankakee. The couple, both graduates of Loyola and St Ambrose, plan residence in Torrance California after Navy service.
Mr and Mrs Guy V Petit of Reynolds celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary on June 19. The couple moved from Brimfield in 1897 where Petit became principal of Brimfield schools and helped organize the first graduating class. They will visit New York and the Catskill Mountains with relatives while Homer Gurder of Bartonville stays in Reynolds.
A steel log bridge south of Oak 111 near Jay McCoy place collapsed Monday afternoon when Harold Conley 24 of cora drove onto it and fell 40 feet into Kickapoo Creek. His coupe was wrecked and a steel girder pierced the top. Conley crawled up the embankment and walked to the Floyd Coon home before ambulance transport with severe chest injuries and facial lacerations. He remained conscious but shocked.
Mrs A R Moore and Eleanor attend Rimwood Presbyterian Guild picnic Wednesday. Eleanor Louise Shaffer visited with her aunt Mrs Stanton Moore and family. Miss Anna Oakes of Bloomington vacationing with the Oakes family. Mr and Mrs Papert Oakes and Ruth Ann and JF M Oakes were Urbana visitors. Mr and Mrs H G Oakes and family traveled to Elgin for the death of Mrs Oakes’ father James Whyte. Sympathies extended to the Whyte family. French Grove Cemetery annual executive meeting at Mrs A R Moore’s home. Verne Shaffer chosen secretary. John Gaffer named trustee. Congratulations to the McClellans for long service. Numerous local families visited the McClellan Clark home. Fisher cousins en route home from the West Coast. Improvement Society met at Miss Robdah Oakes in Elmwood. Miss Banche Oakes led devotionals. discussions on vacation bible school. new member Mrs Hazel Plack. Dorothy Kellog entertained with contests. pocketbook inventory sparked jokes. Refreshments served. committee formed for song books. Reunions and dinners organized with attendees from Oneida and Vicoria. many names listed for a Covie reunion at Silverleaf pavilion. A large group traveled to Scott home for potluck and an afternoon visit.
Laura Items reports visits and family gatherings around Peoria Gilesburg Macomb and Williamsfield with multiple couples and families traveling for weekend and Sunday events including visits to Lake Storey Brainard and California and Texas trips noted among residents such as the Purcells Duffy and Kalb families and others.
Mrs Merle Blandy extends thanks to friends neighbors and relatives for the kindness shown during the stay in hospital and the bereavement after the loss of their beloved mother.
Miss Wanda Witeen Parks daughter of Mr and Mrs Emerson Parks of Yates City and Lewis Warren Pharman son of Mr and Mrs Frank Pharman of Williamsfield were married at the Presbyterian church in Yates City. Rev Edward Baler officiated with piano selections by Mrs Aarola Thurman and singing by Charlotte Seal. Attendants included matron of honor Mrs Betty Jean Parks and bridesmaids Opal Turner Jo Ann McMinty. The bride wore a white satin gown with Alencon lace and carried a white Bible with an orchid. Reception followed, guests traveled to the Ozarks for their honeymoon and both are graduates of Yates City High School.
A large group of friends attended a Wednesday evening farewell at Union Church for D S Soper and L L Joestarily M Soper who have led local schools this year. Mr Soper departs with Mrs Soper to Florida for a year while Jones departs to teach agriculture nearby. The program featured Rolland Gady Barbara Arbogast and the Mulvaney sisters with a social in the basement with cake and coffee.
Six year old Nancy Gale Hobenberg daughter of John and Dorothy Bonuter Robenberg of near Princeville was struck and killed by a west bound Santa Fe streamer at 4 20 Friday afternoon as she played along the rail right of way. No witness to the accident and it is thought she wandered onto the tracks and became confused as the Grand Canyon Limited passed. The train stopped and the crew returned to the scene. The coroner as inquest is expected.
Mrs Addie R. Ranson of Centure sets up the Zion Episcopal Trust to fund perpetual care of the church yard and fence. Trustees are Frederick W. Arber and Frederick R. Luthy of Peoria. The trust totals at least four thousand dollars from multiple donors, adding to the existing Filley Trust Fund for church lands.
Mr and Mrs Thornton W. Owen and their sons Todd and Tom, of Washington, C., are guests of Mr and Mrs Joe Radlbeck. Mr. Owen is the former Collette Radibeck.
Chalmer Forney arrives home with his nephew Lee Forney of Chatsworth after a west coast journey by Chevrolet Tom Pasadena was the intended destination.
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