Thanksgiving Notes From Magnolia and Surroundings
Local notes recount hospital returns and homecomings in Magnolia and nearby towns. Residents including Leslie Hubbard Cecil Formhall Gussie Casteel John Ramage Elias Rolley and many others are mentioned with holiday visits, travel to Peoria Muscatine Canton and Long Point, plus community events, a church furnace repair and a Thanksgiving dinner fundraiser adding about 100 dollars to the Sunday school fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie Hubbard
Cecil Formhall
Chicago
Gussie” Casteel
Fred Defenbaugh
John Ramage
Peoria Hospital
Elias Rolley
Bloomington
Greny
Magnola
Local Notes and Social Roundup From Magnolia Community
Severe shingles illness mentioned with a joke about rooftop relief. Residents visit relatives in Brashear Bloomington Madison Eureka Toluca Magnolia and Hays Kansas. Thanksgiving church events school notes and a fire at a country home. Births dinners anniversaries and attendance records at Magnolia schools summarized.
Thanksgiving Socials Fill Weekends Across Town
Mrs Glen Lampkin returns from Chicago and many residents host or visit relatives in De Pue Dover Peoria Des Moines and Silvis Thanksgiving week. Attendees include Rev W H Witter Prof Smith Professor Butler and families with multiple dinners and a birthday celebration for Inez Morgan. A milk-stool accident leaves John Henkins blind in one eye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glen Lampkin
Chicago
James Steimle
de Pue
Stipp
Olive Dawson
Dover
Claude Calvert
Des Moines
Minnie Johnson
Nore Lith
Peoria
Aea
Georgia Brown
Elmer Stéimle
F. E.murphy
Frank—Anderson
W. H. Witter
Sparland M. E
Ethel Kildow
Joliet
A. L. Kildow
Dewey Hodge
Colorado
F. J. Ball
Silvis
Bert Sparling
Thomas Longman
Bradford
E. E. Downey
Herbert Dunell
Moline
M. A. Dally
Caleb Condit
J. J. Ellard
Professor Smith
Bloomington
Miss Quillman
Benson
A. E. Murphy
Moliné
F. E. Murphy
Butler
Orland Murphy
Lloyd Murphy
Conkey
Mildred Nelson
Mae Heminghouse
Henry
Frank—Morgan
Los=tant
Inez Morgan
William Strosnider
Homer Strosnider
J. Craebil
Ray Strasnider
Rock Island
Jerel Ketchum
Forrest Wood
Ray Stro
George Hominghouse
Mark
Mae Hominghouse
Santa Claus
J. C. Bacon
Howard Kemper
Keith
Pesatum
Eugene Bacon
Charles O. Read
John Henkins
Surprise Bi night for Geneva Franklin in California trip
On Tuesday night November 24 a surprise party was hosted at the Franklin home by Miss Goldie Titus Mrs Vera Hefner and Mrs Helen King. Bunco awarded first prize to Mrs Pearl Rolley and consolation to Mrs Irene Stratton. Geneva received an overnight bag for her California trip as guests wished her a safe journey and a pleasant winter in sunny California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim
Luella Downey
Mary Piper
Brashear
Helen, Hiatt
Marie
Hans
Bloomington
Alfred Stratton
Dora Alexander
Winnifred
Leo
Madison
R. L. Defenbaugh
Howard Baker
Eddingfield
Mary Baker
Hays
Kansas
Florence Skelton
Eureka
Elbert Hefner
Helen King
Pinkie’ Stratton
Hefner
Mr. Stratton
Tony Gallo
Oglesby
Donna Beryl
Burl Roberts
Magnolia
J. C. Sutherland
T. J. Segraves
H. F. Andrews
Henry
Wilson
Peoria
Sturgis
Grandville
Lee Turner
Venona
Harvey Ramage
Olden Cofoid
Armindy Ray
Hennepin
Alvin Spencer
Chicago
Lucian Glover
Normal
Helen Hiatt
Magnolia School
Mildred Paxson
Grammar Room
Mina Hall
Fred Roberts
Alice Sivell
Ruby Zenzen
Ellan Carlson
Clarence Davis
Faye Hiatt
Harold Hefner
Robert Kidd
Mathilda Steffens
Jas. Bickerman
Lawrence _ Bickerman
Dorothy Frazier
Violet Mattlin
Leonard Nelson
Ella Carlson
Harry Bishop
Marjorie Formhall
Boughton
Edward Ahlstrom
Lois Devore
Marjorie Formhals
Dean King
Katherine Niccum
Geneva Franklin
Franklin
Goldie Titus
Vera Hefner
Bunco
Pearl Rolley
Irene Stratton
Miss Geneva
California
Geneva
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RIC
Chad
A. B. Smith
Sophia Steffens
H. E. Hutton
Binnion
Pittsfield
Leo Alexander
D. L. Casteel
Floyd Hauger
Knox College
Nellie Hauger
Lynn Broaddus
Turner, Helmig
Daesh
Peru
John Sammons
Roberta Defenbaugh
Anna Likeness
Lela Barlow
George Mathis
Johnson
Canton
Clifford Potter
Frank Zenzen
Elmer Smith
Lackland
Frank Howe
Muscatine
Gertrude Ramsey
Don Roberts
Lucile Hannum
Keith Smith
Chris
Ramona Neuman
Ora James
Middleton
Perry Griffin
Vivan
Bert Smith
Sam Potter
Helen Margaret
Frank King
Streator Hospital
Simon Satterfield
Walace Ward
Eureka College
Bessie Yoder
Carlock
Dorothy Shake
Springfield
Edith Defenbaugh
Lillian Defenbaugh
Virginia Gregg
Bessie Rolley
Spring Valley Hospital
James Phillips
Delores Turpid
Janie Kidd
Stella Travis
H. Bishop
Putnam
Christmas Savings Club
First State Bank
Illinois
Grea
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