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Newspaper
Brookfield Magnet
Location
Brookfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1947
Page
2
A fragment mentions Loretta and Susan with ties to Western Springs in a puzzled line about a 12 oz. item and a family relation. The readable snippet hints at a small community note or cartoon caption style text. No clear event or full names to confirm.
The Waligora family and neighbors share a lively week with visits in Carpentersville and Burlington, entertaining relatives from Mississippi and Colorado. Buddies, cards, and refreshments mark gatherings at 4020 Vernon and 4140 Forrest, while hospital recoveries, camp trips, and a Sunnyside club anniversary fill days in Oak Park and surrounding areas.
A Sunday evening gathering was hosted at Mrs Helen a 3915 Sunnyside to honor contributors and express thanks. Sixty women attended with committee members listed including Mrs Emily Hantz Mrs Anne Stockhausen and others. Updates include M Huach returning home after surgery and new home owners Mr and Mrs Mrizek and daughters Carolyn and Barbara at 4232 Pays avenue. A St Barbara Mothers club meeting at Mrs Margaret Selvin 4020 Sunnyside on June 15 planned the 74s aims. New officers include Margaret Franson president and a slate of officers and chairs for 74s activities and church connections.
Beets are nutritious and rich in vitamin A vitamin B1 and iron according to the brief health note.
Sunday School for pupils 20 and kindergarten for children 3 to S years during church services. 10:45 church service with June 20 topic Christian Science. Wednesday 8:00 evening testimonies of healing. Hines Memorial Hospital in Hines Illinois hosts first and third Saturdays monthly in New Quonset Hut Chapel. Vaughan's Hospital hosts second and fourth Saturdays in chapel. Reading Room at 25 So Ashland Ave LaGrange, daily except Sundays and holidays. Service times listed. all are cordially invited.
The article lists a summer schedule of sermons and services at the Congregational church with speakers including Dr. Victor Obenhaus, Harold Eash, Dr. Samuel Kincheloe, Rev. William Stanley Mellish, and Wilfred Wakefield. It notes Kincheloe as Consultant in Research and Survey for the Chicago Congregational Union and professor at Chicago Theological Seminary, Obenhaus as Director of Social Ethics at the Seminary and chair of the Chicago Church Federation Social Service Department, and Mellish as associate minister at First Congregational Church LaGrange. Harold Bash may arrange a date to bring players from Thomas Memorial church.
William Lawrence Blaser, class of Northwestern University, received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He served as a naval officer, earning a Bronze Star during the Okinawa campaign. He later married Marian Roos and planned to enter Northwestern Law School in the fall.
A special meeting of Hollywood Home Owners Inc held at Mrs George Exdell’s McCormick Ave addressed forming a women’s auxiliary. Present were Mmes Harold Mash Robert Kolar O Henkel H McCurdy and W Turkowski.
Sterling Cookingham comes back from a two week trip to New York and will stay east for most of the summer with Mrs. Cookingham and daughters Judy and Wendy. Raymond Kristufek will farm at the McCormick St James farm in Wheaton until fall. Exdell family hosted Mrs. Skopp and children from Los Angeles for three weeks. they departed Monday. Doig and his mother from Ottawa visited Herman Jorstad on Hollywood avenue last Sunday.
The Board of Education of School District No 102 in Cook County Illinois announces a tentative budget ordinance and tentative appropriation ordinance for the fiscal year July 1 1947 to June 30 1948 on file for public inspection at the South Door of Washington School Joliet Avenue and 41st Street Lyons Illinois.
The Board of Education of School District No 103 in Cook County Illinois will hold a public hearing on budget and appropriation ordinances at 8:00 PM on Tuesday August 19 1947 at Washington School. Dated June 24 1947.
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