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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1950
Page
3
The English class studies Victorian prose and tests while physics covers electricity. Roosevelt Era and Progressive Movement chapters precede a 1900s context. The Orange and Black issue in typing links to Man-Hi-An, stump pages, and mimeograph work. Public speaking practice, April events, and FFA pot luck noted.
Students report progress on finishing the play and planning the Jr. and Sr. banquets. They discuss recent English stories by Louis Adamic Jesse Stuart and a Welles play, plus upcoming book reports Economics chapters Money and Prices and Trade and Markets For Our Goods. They prepare workbook work, practice shorthand dictation and transcription, and work on typing speeds with Joyce Hawkins achieving a new speed. In Geometry they study proportionals and anticipate lessons on trigonometric interpolation and angles of elevation and depression.
The Sophomores describe weather delays affecting track practice and a six week World History test. They note focus on Industrial Revolution, algebra factoring, occasional tests, and a changing class leadership with a daily chairman except lab days. They study plant and animal reproduction and will hand in prose and poetry notebooks this Thursday.
The Maine Community notes no school on Friday April 7 1950 in observance of Good Friday. The notice mentions a shift from poetry to more stories in recent reads.
The report covers freshman math solving two unknown numbers and world problems, citizenship review, and a fifth six weeks test upcoming. It notes a long prose poem learned, several stories and poems read, plus science lab work on machines, with boys finding it more interesting than girls.
The Deverman Community Club hosted the Andrew Sisters from Peterville on Wednesday night with entertainment and lunch for a large local gathering. Several residents, including Mrs. E B LeSourd and Mrs. Walter Kreiling, visited family. Marvin Strube recovered from mumps at home.
Mrs Christine Johnson hosted a birthday party for Mrs Minnie Meyers at her home. Four tables of 50 players awarded prizes to Lorraine Meyer Marie Meyers Mary Lou Runyon Lucille Hubbard Mayme Palmer Della Hobbs Gertrude Meyers Charles Arvin Johnson Rose Marie Wilson and Katherine Hamilton. The dining room displayed jonquils and pink roses with a two tier cake. A two course luncheon went to listed guests including Eva Wilson Mabel Corbett and Lillie Hirst. Gifts were sent by Mrs Otto Garlisch and Mrs Julius Weimer.
Those from Manito attended the Peoria District meeting of the Woman's Society of Christian Service held at the First Methodist Church in Peoria. Attendees included Mrs. Freda Gordon Mrs. Nelda Meeker Mrs. Myrtle Powell Nettie Buck Mrs. Emma Hall and Mrs. Orlena Rush.
A motion picture Pride of the Yankees will be shown at the Lemar Theater Tuesday night. Proceeds will go toward purchasing equipment for the local baseball team. Admission is fifty cents.
The annual Easter Sunrise Service in Forest City is organized by Percy Kreiling with Sunday school classes of Mrs. Louis Lempke and Percy Kreiling in charge. It starts at 6 30 am in the Methodist church with a breakfast to follow in the Baptist church basement and a devotional service led by Delbert Spaits. Delta Lou and others provide special selections.
A large class was confirmed at 8 30 with Jane Behrends and Carolena Koke from the community. Sunday visits included Mr and Mrs Raymond Mowder Jr and children of Crewe Cover, Wayne of Peoria with Mrs Mary Corbett of Pekin and Miss Evangeline Bishop of Chicago visiting Mr and Mrs Edward Behrends. Mrs Herman Glick was a caller Saturday afternoon in Mason City. Wendell Koke visited Paul Sebade near Havana on Sunday.
The item details church readings special selection and a benediction inviting youth. breakfast committee members named. Pinochle club party at Otto Dierker home with prizes. March 19 birthday club at Mrs Louis Lempke home with traveling bingo and refreshments for listed guests from Forest City Mason City Pekin and other nearby towns.
Guests at a birthday club gathering Saturday included Mrs Frida Zurburg Mabel Stover and her son Eldon Eva Dierker Clara Menke Helena Harms Lena Leiding Wilhelmina Hahn Mrs Louis Lempke and Gladys Langston of Forest City. Tables for five hundred were set and refreshments followed the social evening.
Deane G. Carter from Illinois College of Agriculture highlights ideas for farm houses this year. Consider basementless designs radiant heat clear-span roofs and other modern concepts to suit needs and budgets. Seek guidance from farm or home advisers or contact the Department of Agricultural Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana.
In 1949 about half a million farms were wired for the first time as rural electrification expands. Illinois law requires hedge division fences to be trimmed to four feet by their eighth year. University of Illinois experts warn calves inherit feeding tendencies, and vets flag hay with bull nettle as a poisoning risk. Farmers’ March cash receipts are seen at 1.7 billion dollars, up 7 percent from February but down 9 percent from March last year. Livestock and poultry numbers rose in 1949 after five years of decline. Clean attic spaces by selling unneeded items through Want Ads.
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