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Newspaper
Henry News Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1944
Page
11
A long row of notices lists hospital recoveries, family visits, vacation plans, and church services. Residents mention Gardeners, Miss Jennie Watkins, Mrs. Wheeler, and Vesta Wheeler among those seen about town. A yard party near Yankee Street ends with pie a la mode after a picnic supper.
The Woman's Society of Christian Service plans a July 5 meeting at 2 15 at the church with Mrs Jacobs supervising the business session and Mrs Mathias and Mrs Monier the lesson. Youth Fellowship to meet June 30. Richland notes report hay weather, a house damage from a lightning strike, obituaries, camp trips, and local social activities including Richland Merrymaker club meeting and demonstrations at Henry.
Mrs Russell and Miss Margaret Ann Tomlinson visited Walter Tomlinson’s home from Tuesday into Thursday. Harold Griffith hosted them for dinner. Bailey, Newborn, Wil son, Hawks guests at Toluca and Wenona. Laura Caruthers hosted dinner at Toluca. Edith Gants hosted lunch at Wenona. California guests left for New York to visit a daughter. Mrs Wheeler of Chicago visiting F E Smith. Miss Laura Smith visited sister Mrs Max Whitney of Lestat. Irnes Ernes and Clyde Allen guests Sunday afternoon. Arthur Woodke and Joe Edwards hosted dinner. Bertha Wolf moved to Henry. Glen Glover moved to the Wolf farm. Irma Bumgarner in Peoria on business. Maurice McGhiey entertained Glen Glover and Perry Glover at dinner. Burdette Briner, missing in action, is a prisoner in Germany. Ernest George Miller born Thursday at St Margaret’s Spring Valley. Lloyd Robert Pletsch born Saturday at St Margaret’s Spring Valley. Religious school July 3 to 9 invites attendance. notify Mrs Maurice McGhiey. Country Woman's Club met Thursday afternoon. fifteen members. Afghan crafts donated to Red Cross.
A quirky collage notes a dog life in wartime labor camps earning three pence a day and other animal anecdotes. It reports a German pigeon wartime prisoner in US hands and a monkey movie titled Monkey Doodle Dandy delighting viewers. Cambridge authorities publish Vox Eisele derived from a 1558 religious manuscript by John Firth.
A group of Illinois duck hunters debate the impact of grain on duck behavior and urge live decoys to reduce cripples. They push for 51x6 live decoys per blind and ban leaving decoys at night, asking readers to write D M Shugart in Chicago with opinions. The note ends with an odd line about the British Government mobilizing cats to protect food from rodents.
In the North Woods anglers prefer walleyes to muckellunge for table quality and fighting strength. The walleye, the largest perch family member, is carnivorous and common in streams with variable water, where fish over three pounds promise a solid challenge for sportsmen. Friends heading north may return ice packed boxes of walleyes as proof of prowess.
The piece discusses using light tackle to excite on smaller wall eyes while comparing their fight to trout. Minnow on a June Bug Spinner is listed as the preferred early bait in Minnesota. It notes wall eye popularity due to food value and stocking by states like Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana.
Rev R E Gates pastor at St Patricks Church schedules Sunday Masses at 7:30 and 9 am with a men s communion next Sunday. In other news the number of US soldiers overseas is projected to exceed five million by year end 1914, up from 1 466 000 a year ago.
Special to the Henry News-Republican reports Cadet waiter F Glugier son of Dominick Glugier and Julia Donelson will train at Carlsbad Army Air Field New Mexico in high level bombardiering and dead reckoning navigation. The eighteen week course covers simulated combat in bombardiering. Upon graduation he earns silver bombardier wings and nears active duty as a US Army Air Forces officer.
A damaged overseas letter notes Clarence Ste stationed in Italy with his LST. He mentions meeting Jack Goetz of Mt Palatine and Paul Robinson of Chillicothe, sees them almost every Sunday. The message lists Sparland friends, health, and dinner details while recalling Great Lakes training.
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