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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1949
Page
6
Complete line of Arcner Quality and Swift's mixed feeds and feed ingredients offered. Direct car lot shipments provide best prices. Portable hammermill operates in Manila area every Thursday. Call for economical efficient service. Forest City Tl phone 14.
Advertisement notes hourly garden plowing service with contact at the Express Office mentioning Bob Bilyeu.
Advertisement lists cow peas for sale at 85 percent Brabham and a price of $2.75 per bushel.
For sale a five room and bath home with a two stall garage on two lots. Possession in 80 days. John Waldon Manito Tl 42c tf
The Manito fire department was called to the Spring Lake country home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Proehl Tuesday morning when Mrs. Proehl discovered a fire in the meat house. The flames spread to the workshop, destroying both buildings and their contents before help could arrive. Mrs. Proehl sustained facial and arm injuries while attempting to rescue tools and was treated by Dr. Sparks.
Mr and Mrs Ernest Palmer Mrs Eva Wilson and Walter Black attended a steak fry Wednesday evening at the home of Mr and Mrs Lyle Palmer in Spring Lake.
The Illinois State Revenue Laws Commission led by Senator Merritt J. Little proposes bills to tax previously exempt occupations. Proposals include 2 percent tax on special order services and repairs, plus taxation of construction contractors. Supporters include the Illinois Federation of Retail Associations and Taxpayers' Federation of Illinois. Courts previously exempted these occupations, narrowing the tax base.
The piece notes a possible expansion of the Retailers' Occupation Tax base and a jump from 2 percent to 3 percent or new taxes as Governor Stevenson trims $1.66 billion in spending. It flags the General Assembly debate over extending the tax to occupations currently exempted and the housing construction costs.
Mrs. Charles Johnson and son Charles Arvin hosted an Eastern breakfast with guests Mr. and Mrs. Jess Boice of Peoria, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Kerr, Mrs. Eva Wilson, and the Johnsons. Also, Mr. and Mrs. James Hoerr and Mary Louise Hoerr of Pekin visited Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Beebe Sunday evening. WANTED More Subscribers to the Manito Community Express.
Governor Stevenson signs fifteen million dollar emergency appropriation from the road fund to the Department of Public Works and Buildings to push the 1949 road program. Bids will be called in 25 to 30 counties as $21 million in carryover projects resume.
The piece notes Eadie, interim appointee after Director James W. Starks death, now mine manager at New Orient mine No. 2 in West Frankfort. He has twenty one years with the mine after earlier mining in Springfield and Johnston City.
Heart disease led all deaths in Illinois in 1948, accounting for more than one third of mortality. Cancer ranked second, followed by cerebral hemorrhage, accidents, nephritis, diabetes, influenza and pneumonia, tuberculosis, premature birth, and arteriosclerosis. No scarlet fever or smallpox deaths were recorded, while tuberculosis mortality declined to 30.1 per 100 000.
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