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Newspaper
Brookfield Magnet
Location
Brookfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1947
Page
2
Various residents reported from Baie field to Maple and Vernon avenues taking vacations at Turtle Lake Wisconsin and Sunset Point Cohasset Minnesota. Pfc Edward Braatz returned from Fort Jackson. Anniversaries, hospital notes, and lawn and heating ads fill community notices.
Ruth Jane U Ren and Charles Trent Turner wed Saturday evening July 5 at the bride’s home 3720 Woodside Ave They honeymoon in New York then return to North Brainard Ave LaGrange in about two weeks The Crawford Bible Church Young People class held a lawn party at Mrs John Mattson s Forest Ave with lanterns box supper and games Rev H E Freeman and wife attended Also Mrs Willis Mulville recovering at home and Mr and Mrs Daniel Nixon and family planned a Stone Lake Indiana trip with Pistakee Bay visits Irv Grimes announced as local gas oil and repairs provider Mrs R M Huffmaster recently home from surgery at MacNeal Memorial Hospital
Spencer Corsets advertises individually designed foundations and supports with doctor prescriptions filled by Gail H. Beede, Spencer Corsetter, in LaGrange. Mrs Ethel Beetle formerly Bigelow visits from Washington, D C, calling on Wood family and others before traveling to Santa Margarita California to visit her relatives Kenneth and Bud Bigelow.
Ernest Shelgren and family express gratitude to neighbors and friends for kindness and sympathy during the illness and after the death of their wife and mother Eva Shelgren.
A notice lists church activities and Christian Science healing services at Hines Memorial Hospital in Hines Illinois and Vaughan's Hospital chapel with reading room at 25 So Ashland Avenue LaGrange. Services occur Saturdays biweekly and monthly with afternoon sessions and daily reading room hours from 9:10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. except Sundays and holidays.
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