Service Club Letters From Soldiers On Overseas Duty
A 1944 letter collection from Bell Plain and LaRose relatives recounts wartime care packages and gratitude to the Service Club. Soldiers in Alaska and Fort Belvoir write thanking supporters while residents organize sewing and volunteer efforts for troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washburn
Letéri
Bill Crabtree
Sam
W. Crabtree
C. Prov
C. A. Pon
Seattle
Wash
Community Notices and Memorials From Magnolia Area
Local notes recount visits among families in Carthage Streator Berwyn and nearby towns. Memorial services honor Pvt Robert W Ahlstrom who died in the marines on Eniwetok and was buried in Japan. relatives attend from Walnut Ridge Chicago and other towns. Decoration Day routines include hospital stays and Red Cross aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert W. Ahlstrom
Robert Wallace Ahlstrom
Eniwetok
Methodist Church
Magnolia
Janice Ahlstrom
Japtan
Aniwetok
Peoria
Chillicothe
Lacon
Yarna
Wenona
Granville
Maddox of Lacon Guests Over Weekend
Maddox of Lacon was a Saturday overnight and Sunday guest in the home of his daughter Mrs Ira Burton and family. Mr and Mrs Charles owner and family entertained Mrs Kathrine Doran of Lima Ohio an nex of Henry Sunday afternoon and at dinner Sunday evening was Mrs Shama Elliott of near Granville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viron
Coleson
Ed Coleson
la- Mis
Richard Cole
Jay—Cole- Marie
Hokenmeyer
Tor
Charles Miller
Mike Pete
South
Whitefield
Maddox
Lacon
Ira Burton
Charles
Katherine Doran
Lima
Ohio
I Henry
Shama Elliott
Granville
Tra Burton
Charles A. Wood
Felicy
Mes Hillen Newell
Peora
Isnima Garett
California
Mr Oyes
Streator Recont
Leah Hall
Mary Heininger
Clarence Frazier
Everett Moore
Berniece
Clifford Maupin
Myrtle
Walter Miller
Francis McEvoy
Dickie
Magnolia Boy At Camp Davis Antiaircraft School Notice
Private Alden G Brown of Magnolia attends a specialist course in automatic weapons at Camp Davis North Carolina Public Relations Office notice. Other local items include a newborn William Ralph East to Mr and Mrs Homer East and furloughs of soldiers Edwin Wabel and Edwin Wadel. Community notes cover letters from New Guinea, a chicken supper, and a Saratoga WW SC meeting.
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Camp Davis
North
Carloina
Henry News
Republican
Putnam County News
McNabb
Alden G Brown
Magnolia
Caterpilar Tractor Company
Peoria
Saratoga
Homer East
William Ralph
East Wax Ardix Dawson
John Ryan
Orla Stotler
Karl Wabel
Edwin Wabel
Beng
North Carolina
Lawrence Waterl
New Guinea
P. F
Edwin Wadel
Donald
Edwin Noder
Henry Nader
Dean Hodge
Chester Wright
Ww. SC
Mra. Jra Hawksworth
Memorial Day services and local visits noted in Boyd's Grove
Memorial Day services were held at the church at 230. Seaman Mark Turner spent the week-end with his parents Mr and Mrs Floyd Turner and family. Mrs Frank Wright and Mrs C C Wright shopped in Henry. Miss Marian Hufnagel, student nurse at Methodist Hospital Peoria, spent the week-end with her parents Mr and Mrs John Hufnagel. Mrs George Woodford is confided by Hinesa to the home of her daughter Mrs Ralph Austin in Peoria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Jaworsky
Streator
Fudelph Grubar
Ed ‘Grubar
Lostants
Archie Turner
Mondady
First Glass Marion Turner
Australia
Dale Gisinger
U §. Marinés
California
L. E. Robinson
Camp Ellis
Nona Chesnut
Aledo
William Chesnut
Elsjle Mae Cooper
Clarence Pley
Sally Jo Satterfield
Chicago
Thelma Satterfield
Goldie Kirby
W." H. Simonton
Ethel Zenzen
Murray Peterson
Saale
Josephine
Philps
Jean Barnell
Varna
Otis Donoho
Charles Wabel
Miss Jarman
Peorty
Fred Dagner
Burl Simonton
W H Simonton
Maggie Kidd
Marlon Judd
Dacha
Torre
Cap .Auonday
Glenn Wellman
John McKirgan
Victoria
Liza Lambourn
Elmer Canteel
Ossville
Anna Casteel
von Amos
Ie Leland Cooper
New London
Conn
Saturda
Axel Adolphson
Rockford
Fritz Westerlund
Mesdames Frances
Edith Defenbaugh
Berwyn
Glen Ellyn
Dorothy Hartman
Donna
Kay
Jennie
McKirgan
Mina Beas Davidson
Granville
iPerry Hartman
Hefner
Lena Allen
Peorim
Bert Hefner
McNabb
Everett Hefner
Phyllis Gru
Aurora
Ardelle Himmetrich
Ed Schlosser
Glasford
Roberta Huger
Henry
Joe Thompson
Myrtle Middleton
Princeton
Lostant
Ernest. Kofold
Harry
Jean - Bishop
Ralph Lee Defenbaugh
Normal
Boyd's Grove
Mark Turner
Floyd Turner
Frank Wright
C C. Wright
Marian Hufnagel
Methodist Hospital
Peoria
John Hufnagel
George Woodford
Hinesa
Ralph Austin
Local wedding notes and community notices from May
The column records multiple local events including the return of William Gray from Ohio Indiana on a June 19 start at St Minward's Seminary. It notes social visits from Pha Sitber Metamora and Ralph Webber's home, a bridge gathering and lunch, church worship by Dr Burnside Monmouth, and a farewell for Don Shaw. It covers 55th wedding anniversary for Mr and Mrs Charles Kimble Sr, visits among Kimble and Summitt families, a Home Bureau meeting, the death of Mrs William Burkholder, and a wiener roast hosted by Ray Powell with neighbors in attendance. It ends with wedding details of Lois Anderson and others, and two upcoming weddings Holmes Marshall in Mossville and a Peoria couple, including attire and attendants.
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Pha
William ‘Gray
Ohio
Indiana
St Minlard’s Seminary
Minlard’s
Wilam Gray
Sparland
Pha Sitber
Metamora
Ralph. Webber
Jav Mirwand
Paul Marshall
Sam’Marshall
Clifford Marshall
Ooe
Z Glen Graves
Glaude Webber
Wilfred Webber
Ernest Sunmitty
Robert Pringle
Lester Leigh
Dr.Burnside
Monmouth
Will
Presbyterian Church
Don
Shaw
Sam Marshall
R. N
Charles Kimble
Richard Kingsley
Barbara Kay
Wichita
Kansas
Kings
Ernest Summitt
Iliam Summitt
Kathryn
Marjorie McCartney
Charles Kimble Jr
Home Bureau
Orla Kemper
William Burkholder
Sharpe
Ray Powell
Glyde Streitmatter
Joan
Teddy
Peter Mobley
Jucille
Peter
Miliott Cause
Gary
David Finch
Pied van Tassel
Doris Sehuad
Herbert Faul
Lois Anderson
John Holmes
John R. Holmes
India
McFarland Keithley
Chicago
Marshall
Kingman High Schools
Bradley College
Sherrard
Peoria
Aleutiana
Camp van Dorn
Mixg
Turnbull
Charles
Campbell
Howard
Hodger
Holmes - Marshall Nuptala
Nellie Holmes
John
Holmes
Chillicotty
Kecmmie
John W. Marhall
Mossville
Funeral Services Held In LaPrairie
Mrs. Goldie Burkholder of LaPrairie died at home Wednesday May 24 after a long illness. Services were held at 1 30 p m Saturday at La Prairie Presbyterian Church with Rev. Robert Sharp officiating. Burial was in Princeville cemetery. She was born November 12 1893 at Bellflower daughter of Lou and Mildred Pierson and married William Burkholder November 23 1909. Eleven children survive along with one brother Roscoe Pierson of Chicago. The Burkholders lived east of Princeville before eight years in LaPrairie.
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Goldie Burkholder
William Burkholder
LaPrairie
Hter
Mapy
LaPrairiay Presbyterian Church
Robert Sharp
Princeyike
Goldie Belle Pierson
Lou and
Mildred Colt Pierson
Bell Nower
Burkholder
Rleven
Herman
Clifford
Lillian Murphy
Marton
Fern
Robert
Eileen
Roscoe Pierson
Chiteaga
Community Notes Show Local Visits and Memorial Day Gatherings
Social items describe multiple weekend and weekday visits in Pekin Sparland Warne Aper Warna ape Rr 3 A Wood and nearby towns. Residents like Mrs Olive Piper Miss Dorothy Kerner Mr. and Mrs. Walter Miller Mr. Clifford Maupin and others hosted or visited friends and family during Memorial Day periods. The column ends by promoting the local Classi fieds quick ads for buying or selling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crow Meadow
Olive Piper
Orth
Pekin
Walter S. Miller
Dorothy Kerner
Magnolia
Clifford Maupin
Oscar Oixon
Warnaape
John Ross
Janice
Kay Hopking
Sparland
J. J. Sengen
Jacky Rok
Laura Hofer
Louis Hofer
Christina Hank
Ben Merdian
Isdith Schlosser
Td Merdian
Lauretta
Albert Reinrich
Heinrich
Iris
Jal
Miller
Peoria
Banquet Honors Port Resident at Peoria Event
Mrs. Bina Weat-Miller of Port Magnola was honored at a banquet in Peoria May 22. Sponsored by the Peoria chapter of the Maccabees the event highlighted Mrs. Miller as national president of the Women’s Benefit Association. She spoke in support of Herbert Hoover at the 1932 Republican convention.
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Bina
Weat-Miller
Port
Jura
Icis
Magno-la
Pere’ Marquette
Peoria
Maccabies
Miller
Women's Benefit Association
The
Maccabees
Herbert Hoover
Mrs Ruth Ely Seeks Specialist for Arm Injury in Peoria
Mrs Ruth Ely and Mrs Ivan Ely with children traveled to Peoria on Monday to consult a specialist about Mrs Ely s broken arm. The doctor said recovery is on track and the arm should heal in one to two months.
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Karen
Ruth Ely
Ivan Ely
Peoria
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Lemont
Don Hy
David Henry
Paw Pa
Miter Scott
Phil C. “Hill
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Walter R.spangan
Jimmie A
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Daughme
Zilm
Rela
George I. Miller Irgon
Myrtle Hahn
Ter
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Muni
Williams (Nee
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Oral West
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Inner
Pete
Ottawa
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George i
James McFar- Willam Koch
Ahtral
Roscoe Combes
Aften
Mr. Nhiff
Stodgel
Althaus
Carl Althaus
Herbert Hiff
John Car- Mer
Joan Jets
Min
Tim DeBolt
Bolt
Lf Aviation
Edwin
Ziljeson
H‘zilm
Buen
Er Field
Winfield
Laibbosk
Texas
the Fair
Ilinois
Dean
E. ‘Stonier
Plain Township
Fea
Hazel Zilm
Vesuvius
Isle of
Capri
Africa
Eyo
Service Club
Peterson
Aleutelt Area
Crow Meadow Presbyterian
LaRose
Tilmots
Willian” Kelly
Church of Christ
Ladies’ Aid Society
Sam McCully
Glen McCully
Mr. MrCully
Venona
Mrs. Harrs
Ateor
Setos
Prinp Buddy
Caah
Mei Sarhy
Sanday
Pape
Jennie McKirgan
Wayne’ Wright
Roger ‘Wapat
St. Margaret's Hospital
Spring Valley
Alvin Wright
Alice “Pryor
Joe_Brewer
Bobbie
Donald Hauger
David Tce
Flora Titus
Billy
Louis Norwood
Fritz iVesterlund
Magnolia Methodist Church
C. W. Hamm
George Mathis
Camp
Davis
Army
Navy
Sugar’grove
C. Hi. Bono
Ely
Chris Olson
Guy
Smith
Lester
Lester Smith
Russell Stewart
Sheliali
Bradford
Leonard Smith
Guy, Smith
Elmer Dilverbiss
Henry A News - Republican
Henry, Winots
Coal
Marco S-P
W. W. Dewey & Sons
River Bridge
HANK
Texaco
Propri
Bridge
Henry, Ill
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