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Newspaper
Henry News Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1944
Page
11
Local church notices list service times at Holy Eucharist and Church School at St Josephs and a morning Mass at other congregations. Apostle Tabernacle and Presbyterian notices include weekly services and upcoming Bible schools, with a pastoral reflection on faith and creation.
A wartime appeal urges every household to buy one extra dozen eggs to relieve crowded storage. Officials say production in spring is waning and non wartime workers can help meet demand. An extra dozen per family could solve the shortage with existing facilities strained.
Civilian access to radio tubes parts gasoline and oil has been strained by intensified military needs for radio equipment on planes ships tanks and other mobile units. Five months of 100 octane aviation gasoline are needed for 11 000 Allied aircraft. East Coast refineries and emergency deliveries helped avert civilian shortages.
Peter Fassino appointed director of Granville National Bank succeeding the late Frank Castagnoli. Castagnoli, 54, a dry goods merchant and community leader, died of a heart attack Tuesday June 6. Funeral was Saturday June 10 at Sacred Heart Church with military honors from Granville Post No 180 American Legion.
Mrs Nellie Cassell receives a fresh paint job this week Norma Treatch spends time at the Alfred Marine home near Hennepin Mrs Gladys Donoho of LaSalle visits relatives in McNabb and Peoria with Mr and Mrs John Gisinger and H E Allett Harry Cassell and sister Mrs Bessie Desmang of Peoria remain with family Mrs Joe Edwards from near McNabb calls on sister Mrs John Gisinger Walter Kessling and daughter Monafae of Granville visit Henry Kessling home Joe DeMattio and Norma Treatch stop by Mrs Lucy DeMattio in LaSalle Kirby Patricia Nellie and John Morine of near Hennepin visit E G Henning home Wilma and Georgianne Stehl visit grandparents Herman Pletsch near McNabb Ed Munson and Mary Frances Bartlett of Granville visit E G Henning Adolph Kuhne and Floyd Allen of near McNabb are Sunday visitors
Pleasant Friday evening reunion as Mrs Willard Rickey met her brother George Ryan of Los Angeles after 27 years. Ser geant Robert Rickey’s Peoria visit sparked a Glen Oak Park picnic with Rickey relatives. News of births, illnesses, and weekend visits fills local social page with visits from Vincennes and Hollywood, Calif.
Miss Esie Carlson daughter of Mr and Mrs George Carlson Sparland graduates from State Normal University with a bachelor of science in education. She led seniorship week events at Miller Park and the commencement on June 5 while active in many clubs. She will pursue public health studies at Illinois Public Health Laboratories Chicago earning a master’s degree by 1945 and has a civil service placement in serology.
Private First Class Allen Crews, son of Mr and Mrs Albert Crews of Granville, visited Lostant and Granville after returning from a Springfield Missouri hospital where he had been since May due to malaria contracted at Bougainville. He has been overseas for much of the past two and a half years.
Recap of visits and family travel including Mrs. Robert Loomis of Peoria visiting her parents and planning to see in laws, plus several social calls in Lacon Henry and Whitefield. Also notes on Micnois Valter Guernsey Breeders' Association annual meeting led by Dennis and visits by friends to Hollywood and Marton Al households.
Mrs Bes 4 newborn of Chicago visits J N Wilsons for a Friends conference held in May at ap e May New Jersey. Several social visits map out a period of gatherings with neighbors and relatives in New York California Wisconsin and Texas. A birth Gerald Wayne at St Margarets Hospital is announced with parents Mr and Mrs Charles Lucas.
Community notices recount a relatives visit in California and Illinois, a World War II casualty, and local club events. Major Geo Johnson, Swaney AG instructor and Illinois graduate, was killed in Italy on May 26. The Jane party of the Community Bridge Club, Grange Hall programs for Father’s Day, and local hosting by Mrs. Cook and Miss Irma Bumgarner are noted with social details.
The Methodists celebrate Children's Day with candles and a lamp after an electricity outage. The LaPrairie area also contends with a violent wind and rain storm, causing little reported damage while residents attend gatherings and visits across LaPrairie Chillicothe Sparland and Peoria.
First Lieutenant Verne D. Shelley elder son of Mrs Lizzie Shelley Colchester Illinois died June 7 while testing a bomber at Harrisburg Pentagon. He stayed to aid three passengers who could not jump and he perished along with his co pilot. His body was returned to Colchester for services June 11 at Colchester Christian Church with interment at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Shelley born August 8 1920 was one of four children and had served four years in the air force.
A Sunday lesson in Christian Science churches examined whether the universe and humanity evolved by atomic force. Texts cited include Genesis creation and passages from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, emphasizing God as the ultimate creator and spiritual reality over material views.
John R. Anderson 83 longtime Putnam County resident died June 11 at his Granville home. Funeral services were held June 13 at Dysart chapel, with Rev. Henry Iverson officiating. Burial in Granville cemetery. pallbearers included Albert Paulsen and George Clausen. Survived by daughter Mrs Clarence Hart and three grandchildren.
Sugar Grove residents recount weekend arrivals from Chicago and Peoria with extended family gatherings. Mrs. Chris Olson hosts sister Otelia Nyman from Peoria as the Olsons share Sunday dinner with sister Mrs. James Kofold near Hennepin. Leonard Smith of Peoria joins dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Russell Stewart and Sheila of Bradford.
University of Illinois releases a 40 page bulletin by Prof. Kar B. Lohmann on postwar town planning. Sixteen sections cover community plans traffic, parking mass transit rail airports recreation subdivision regulations and zoning. The foreword stresses proactive planning to avoid past mistakes and serve future generations.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill told Latin American diplomats at the Mexican Embassy in London that the Allies may win complete victory in Europe this summer. He said up to a million troops are in Normandy where the invasion achieved tactical surprise and hinted more surprises may follow amid ongoing Allied efforts with the Russians and Tehran decisions shaping plans.
War Price and Rationing Board urges all truck ration book holders in Marshall County Lacon to present their Certificate of War Necessity for the third quarter ration due July 1, 1944.
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