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Newspaper
Brookfield Magnet
Location
Brookfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1949
Page
1
Fragmentary notes list Brookfield area addresses and prices for subscriptions or postings. Mentions include Prairie Avenue Dry Goods Store at 3750 and W Harris Advertising. Several lines reference Park Street and local advertisers, with figures like 42.00 per year and 5.06 per year.
Funeral services for Raschke were held at Sephs Cemetery following a death reported after a medical event. The obituary notes survivors including wife Eliza Gutzgiella, daughter Plea John Lo, and son William, with brothers and several named relatives listed among the extended family.
Sunday School for pupils under age 20 and church services offered. An evening meeting with testimonies and Christian Science healing sessions held at Memorial Hospital Hines Illinois. Scheduled 3rd Saturday monthly at New Quonset Hus Chapel and 4th Saturday at Praughans Hospital Chapel in LaGrange Daily except Sundays and holidays.
Village of Brookfield scenes include Bill Willis and Wes Kurth chatting at Fisher's pharmacy Beulah Mason spoke on sonnets at Pegasus Park meeting Rich Freitag hurries to catch the train Ralph Graham Brookfield Zoo assistant director heads to the post office Beatrice Brissman gave a sonnet talk and Beulah Mason of Congress Park attended The December issue yearned for new writers publisher Frank Coyner and minister Bill Baker plan Christmas program at WRGK FM Riverside-Brookfield High closes for holidays York faces A-B cagers after Christmas hip boots for George Tete George and Bill Strandquist mingle with Gran Mott and John Clifton discussing Missouri and Iowa Veterans meeting guest Tony Brochmann Holiday drive to the post office Irving V Reznya moves to LaGrange neighborhood notes and December crowds surge
Village board approves multiple building permits for residences and garages. James F Brindie at 3210 Madison Ave seeks one car frame garage with $400 value. Joseph Skorepa at 8726 Cleveland Ave requests four room brick veneer residence with $15,000? value. J W Wilms at 4817 Deyo Ave to erect a terrace with $600 value. S McKinney at 3740 Maple Ave plans a frame garage for $340. Max Ernest at 3217 Grand Bird applies for a sar garage at $170. Dijon Construction Co at 4246 Nevo Ave requests sidings for $3950.
Funeral services were held for Carl Dietchweiler a 49 year old special policeman with Crane Co killed in a Monday automobile collision on Archer Avenue. He died after his westbound car swerved into the path of a truck driven by Robert C. Chidester and was struck by another vehicle. Dietchweiler lived at 4205 Dubois Boulevard Brookfield and was survived by his wife Margaret nee Howanitz and children Marjorie Katherine Enid Ley Didna and Gary.
Ken Flaherty son of Mr and Mrs T H Flaherty of Hollywood is one of 18 named by Coach Rob Clifford to Northwestern university’s freshman basketball squad. The team, chosen from 50 candidates, will scrimmage the varsity and play intra squad games before Northwestern games at Evanston High School. Under Big Ten rules freshmen cannot play a regular schedule. Flaherty is in his first quarter at NU Institute of Technology. Last year he was voted most valuable player on Riverside-Brookfield High School’s conference champion team.
American Legion Senior Basketball action saw Brookfield Moose defeat Knights of Columbus 3 to 0 in a lopsided opener at Gross School. High scorers Nejediej and Larson topped the Moose with 17 and 16 points. Plichta led KC with 13 points. In the Refiners Pride victory over Hruby Eagle Inn, Tregan hit 20 and Al Dougherty scored 28 for Hruby. Lyon Quintet edged Cole Lenzi 53 37 in a late rally, Cole Lenzi leading at halftime. Three games scheduled for Sunday at 1 30 p m.
The All Stars lost 66 to 51 to the Feel rated All Stars, a low score in their games. The Kansas City team faced two tough foes lately and could have had better luck in continuing their scoring pace of 100 points per game.
A note from Mrs. Eunice Degener expresses gratitude to many friends described as very kind and pious during this time. The message names Donald James Nancy Suzanne and Melis Sa among those acknowledged.
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