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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1933
Page
5
Classified notice from Peoria Illinois offering immediate or future delivery of Farrow Chickeries stock. Includes pricing for White or Brown Leghorns and Barred, White, and Ruff Rocks, with quantities from 20 to 500 and 2c per chick or egg. Custom hatching and special matings priced accordingly.
Church notes list Sunday School at 102 m and a divine service at 10:30. Yerry Traub is noted as Partor in the program.
The church invites a cordial welcome with services at 9 30 a m and 10 30 a m Sunday School follows. Pastor Thomas Spencer presides and extends a warm invitation to all attendees.
St Josep h s Church lists Sunday Masses at 7 30 8 00 and 10 00 with catechism classes Saturday after noon at 2 30. Lenten devotions occur Wednesday and Friday evenings at 7 00 led by Father Harrison pastor.
In 1931 Mexico shows rising employment while Pennsylvania reports candy production at 176 204 SOS pounds. The United States remains a secondary exporter to South America as overall commerce adjusts to regional demand.
A fragmentary discourse on human progress. remarks on leadership, aging, gatherings, late nights, rain’s relief, desk disorder, and the clash of civilization with barbarism. It playfully questions priorities and the value of noise versus restraint in social behavior.
February 38 is the last sling date for township offices to be filled at the township elections on April 4. Brimfield shows little interest in offices such as town clerk assessor tax collector and two justices of the peace. School elections follow on April 6 for district No. 157 with president and board members to be chosen. Petitions may be filed with secretary C M Travis before March 17. Radison Babcock retires from grade school board seat. Village election on April 18 will choose three council members and president.
The Union Church schedules Sunday School at 10:00, Morning Worship at 11:00, Christian Endeavor at 6:15, and Choir practice at 7:00. R. W. Newell, Master, notes God set aside the Sabbath for worship and asks what you are setting it aside for.
The Ameri can Legion Brimfield Post No 452 holds regular meetings on the first and third Thursdays in the Community Building club room led by Commander L F Pacey and Adjutant Donald Best. The Catholic Daughters meet on the second and fourth Thursdays in the same building with Sara Reed as Island Regent and Nellie Carrell as Historian. The public library operates Saturdays from 2 p m onward.
The M W A Camp No 847 meets every other Tuesday in the Community Building. Camp No 203 R N A meets on the first and third Wednesday afternoons in the Community Building. The W R C meets on the second and fourth Wednesday afternoons in Cady's hall. Officers include Rudolph Savage Bow man Eva Clark Carrie Arcer Alma Ellis and Stella Kelley.
Fire department committees appointed to arrange a Ball for St Patrick's night. Advertising committee includes Ralph Carson Lee Pacey George Sollenberger. Music and Dance committee lists Robert Bragg Rudolph Savage Dr RR Claybaugh Lee McCoy. Entertainment committee names Henry Memler H B Bowman M R Clark Robert Tucker James Harker. Concessions committee features Dr Nolting Dr Welsh Dr Roberts Pat Huey Frank Hamilton H E Pemble Grover Talmage. By order of H P Tully President.
Irving Bragg tax collector says taxes may be paid at his Brimfield shop daily except Thursdays when he is in Elmwood at Armstrongs Store. Orville Smith Jubilee township collector will be at the News office each Saturday starting February 4. A community sale is planned at Earl Stine’s Route 91 one mile west of Brimfield next Tuesday March 7 with Ellis Tucker and Earl Stine as managers listing 16 horses 12 cows 51 hogs and other stock and farm gear.
Industrial notes report rising French cotton mill hours and silk speculation lifting Japan prices, while Denmark gains from sharp import cuts and Italian machinery firms press heavy orders from Russia. South Manchurian railway purchases near 10 million dollars. Spain tax revenue tops 40 million in H1 1932. Canadian lobster canneries valued at 2.64 million. California olive industry returns 25 million to planters in 1932. tobacco experiments under way in Egypt. rust resistant steel sensor planned for Norway plant with 40 000 to 10 000 metric tons annual capacity.
A compilation highlights US auto production spending surpassing fifty million dollars yearly while other notes mention Russia producing pipes from wood due to metal shortages, rubber-covered screws for cabinet shelves, a cat made fearless by a London compound, Elbe navigation upgrades, shrinking US whaling fleet, peak Mount Huascaran ascent by a German expedition, Britain forming a roads federation, and a new five inch power cable under the Columbia River enabling power from Ariel Lake to Portland at 115000 volts.
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