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Newspaper
Brookfield Magnet
Location
Brookfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1952
Page
1
The notice lists subscription and advertising rates for six months and annual renewals, and provides authorized Magnet collection office locations at 2846 Maple Ave Brookfield, France's Dry Goods Store 9461 Ogden Congress Park, and WooHar Ris LaGrange. It requests payment at those addresses.
Downers Grove ceremony honors F. Kessel for outstanding leadership and training work with Boy Scouts. He started as a Lone Scout, holds the Wood Badge, is an engineer at Western Electric, and serves as president of Brookfield District 95 board of education and council leadership head.
Our heartfelt thanks to many neighbors and friends for their kind expressions of sympathy at this time from Ann Irons and sons.
Brookfield residents John Tlapa and Joe Trusty are seen with Prof. M. G. Lott from the A-B faculty on Grand Blvd. Mary Corletto chats on the boulevard. Miss Bette Chapin visits family during Thanksgiving while her parents live on Kemman Ave. Local support for Little Karen Chereskin is noted as her family reports a blood type of O Positive. R-B high basketball schedule shows games against Arlington Heights on Dec 19 and Dec 20. Community clubs including Brookfield Junior Woman's Club and Brookfield Kiwanis are active with events and birthday greetings, while local servicemen Ed Winters and Bill Hoppe are mentioned.
Dec 16 candlelight rites planned at R B High School with numerous attendees and participants listed among students and staff. The text records names such as Jeese Winifred Ellwood Dorothy Friemel Jues Grant Robert Ha Heek Louise Hand Evelyn Hinz and others amid a damaged OCR passage describing a school event.
A partial food handling note describes thawing a frozen item slowly at refrigerator temperature. It mentions the word thaw and refrigerator while implying careful timing. The readable text shows cooking and storage context without complete details.
The Woman's Society of Christian Service at Brookfield Methodist Church will present a Christmas program on Wednesday December 17 at 8 p m The event features sacred music and meditation led by Mrs Robert Wright and others with readings by Mrs C F Wetzel and Mrs C B Allen The Methodettes sing Wake Gentle Shepherds and The Shepherds Song An organ piano piece Venite Adoremus arranged by Elmore and Lila Lawrence with Lois Kapp at piano The evening ends with Silent Night sung by Jeane Stein Refreshments follow in the social hall served by Ruth and Rebekah circles.
Women of Mooseheart sponsor a gift fete to benefit Moosehaven. The event is led by Chair Ko Relis with Dee 12 activities at National Hall. A chartered bus departs at noon to attend the house wife’s holiday TV show and support Moosehaven.
Mrs Wesley E Kurth presidents the Brookfield Woman's club hosts the annual Christmas program at the American Legion hall on December 17 with dessert at 1 30 and meeting at 2 00 Readings include The Christmas Story by Mrs C L Horton and Christmas Highlights by Mrs John A Rea Singer Mrs Harold Johanson leads the Christmas music Gifts are requested for the Cook County Children's Hospital and donations of fresh fruit stamps and money for the Illinois Colony club home in Lyons are encouraged Presents should suit bedridden small children
The Duplicate Bridge Club met Friday evening at the YMCA with 11 tables. North and south winners were Mr Hyars of Berkley and Mrs Fleig of Maywood with 126 points. Second went to Mr and Mrs Ameisen of LaGrange with 12513 points. Hal Jones of Riverside and Mrs McCaugherty of LaGrange placed third with 122 points.
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