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Newspaper
Columbia Star
Location
Columbia, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1966
Page
6
Thursday and Friday bowling schedule lists team codes such as Busch Bavarian Apple Jars Merrimac Schiemer Ins Shell Oilers Roessler's Concret Gateway Foods 1 Legion No 1 Rapps Ins Gateway Foods 1 Juengling Oil Kas Potato Chips Legion No 2 Schueler Bros In Carling Black Lat Landgraf Plumbe Cyc lo 2 el Beer Ss.
Fourteen Waterloo Country Club players competed in Caruthersville Missouri over the weekend. Winners include R. W. Chick Jahr first in Class C and Pete Radison third in Class C. Don Barlow second in Class D. Ken Jahr a hole in one in Class C. Merv Rodenberg first in Class D.
Roger Rehg pitched Columbia to a 1-0 victory over Fults, allowing seven hits and contributing two of Columbia’s hits. Jim Toenjes drove in the decisive run in the ninth with his three hits. Krebel doubled and tripled for Fults, Vogt added two singles, and Gary Pieper pitched well for Fults in a losing effort. Other area scores included East St. Louis 11 over Dupo 3 and Waterloo 20 over Valmeyer 0.
A 10 event program features a race testing cornering by hobby car drivers at Belleville's Belleclair Fair Grounds Speedway. Time trials start 7 30 p m with the first race at 8 30 p m. The day includes multiple heats and features plus a novelty chicken sprint with cash attached to the fowl. Ray Eby and Chris Borgezzi are noted winners from prior events with Barbeau and Workman also earning wins.
The text notes the first accurate birth weight report appeared in 1815 and traces earlier suggestions in the tenth century that regular weighing could assess infant nutrition and physical development.
A string of public auctions lists sales in Belleville Prairie du Rocher New Athens Valmeyer Waterloo and Columbia unit with antique household items farm machinery and real estate. Notable listings include an August 19 6:00 p.m. antique auction at 508 South High Belleville and an August 20 12:30 p.m. real estate sale for Mrs. Hardy Garleb plus a 1 p.m. Prairie du Rocher sale featuring a 1965 John Deere tractor and other farm equipment. Also notices for multiple August 20 and August 27 sales including livestock tractors and household goods. Baseball practice starts August 22 at Columbia Unit No. 4 under Vernon W. Smith.
Local store advertises a wide array of household and hardware items with low prices. Featured deals include cloth pins, spray starch, floor runners, a 3 piece table set, a portable Bar-B-Qer, ice chest, china, slips, irons, hair dryer, table radio, foot lockers, linoleum rugs, iron furniture, tarps, fans, oil filters, shovels, charcoal, boats and accessories, fishing poles, ladders, paint supplies, cement textures, and back to school sale items with deep discounts.
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