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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1949
Page
1
August 1 1949 marks a new tier of thirty eight mail boxes at Manito Post Office to serve growing patronage. Town potentially adds four or five new houses in Brown addition signaling continued growth, with box space nearing capacity and a petition campaign proposed to the Postmaster General to enable post office remodeling and street delivery.
Miss Dolores Frigard of Pekin and James A. Gilmore of Manito were married Sunday at 2 pm at St Paul Evangelical and Reformed Church. The ceremony featured candlelit altars, organist Mini Huffman, soprano Joyce Knapp, and a reception at the parish house before a trip to the Ozarks. The couple will reside in Pekin after a 1948 Pekin High School alumna and a Manito High School graduate begin joint careers.
Law rence Whiteford leads the Sunday School set for August 14 1949 at 10 a m with supervision by Lawrence Whiteford at Egypt Community Church the schedule lists the hour and superintendent.
Miss Ruby Caulkins, former patient at Methodist hospital for a severe poison ivy case, was discharged Tuesday evening. She convalesces at the home of her parents, Mr and Mrs Dave Caulkins, in Manito.
The University of Illinois with Mason County groups offers a Conservation Education course in Mason County. Open to the public with emphasis for farmers and homemakers and teachers for college credit. Fee 6.50 covers all sessions. First session Monday August 22 in Havana basement Farm Bureau Building. Field trips after noon. Instructor W D Masters. One hour college credit available. Enroll by sending fee to Joseph W Hobbs Havana. Minimum 15 needed. Also notes local visit of Crafton family.
The 20th annual Hilst Reunion will be held at the Tourist Camp in Pekin's Mineral Springs Park. Mrs. Rudy Vetter of Pekin visited Wednesday with her sister Mrs. Russell Maas.
Friends and relatives are invited to the 2 p.m. Sunday August 14 wedding at St Pauls Lutheran Church near Manito. The bride Ruth Lawson is daughter of Forrest W. Lawson of Hamilton while groom Earl Graff is son of Leonard and Mrs Graff of Manito.
A Topeka family reunion dinner was hosted at the Frank Morris home. Attendees included James Morris and family from Pekin, Wilbur Morris of Browning, Olin Hobbs of Manito, Cecile Van Etten and son of Forest City, Vendl Stone and family of Tremont, Carl Stone and family, Paul Stone and family of Pekin, Emery Prentice and family of Manito, Everett and Richard Donaldson and sons from East Peoria, Ben Legion and three sons from Los Angeles, and Bruce Cole, who drove to Peoria. Vincent Runyon and family visited Barrington.
The Aug 9 4 H show lists divisions A through L with many participants. Entries include Marvel Lee Strube Marvin Strube Wayne Vanderveen and others in Market Barrow classes and multiple divisions for purebred livestock and poultry with numerous Glcorsons and Trimpe family members among purbred gilt litter and dairy classes.
August 12 through 21 features Horace Heidt on the grand stand Friday August 12, WLS Barn Dance Saturday August 13 with hayloft frolic at 7 pm and Rural Chorus at 6:30. Daily shows include Illino is State Fair musical review and Skitch Henderson with Janet Blair on Saturday August 20 plus a Barbershop Quartet Festival. Fireworks close each evening. Horse racing and a society horse show fill additional days.
Governor Adlai E Stevenson signed several 66th General Assembly measures this week. The acts extend the soldiers bonus application period to July 1951, amend the traffic act to grant blind pedestrians the right of way, and prohibit installing television screens ahead of the driver's seat back in cars.
Illinois conservation chief Leonard Schwartz criticizes the federal migratory waterfowl code for a four duck daily bag as the lowest ever in Illinois and for an early November 4 opening and pre Sunrise start. He urged seven daily or two teal allowance and favored a October 26 opener. He supported the ban on Canada goose shooting in Horseshoe Lake district.
Mrs Wayne Hirst was honored at a shower at her mother Mrs Frank Reynolds home hosted by sister Mrs Norman White. Pink and white decor centered on a doll and cradle. Prizes went to Mrs Henry Hirst Mrs Charles Fox Mrs Dorothy Barr Mrs Richard Thomas Mrs Hala Rickett and Miss Lorraine Meyer. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Bill Robinson Pekin Pearl Zeeck Jesse Hirst Charles Fox Henry Hirst Dorothy Barr Dave Reynolds Myrtle Schoonover Hala Rickett Bob Cranwill Richard Thomas Betty Ary Clarabelle Priddy Lorraine Meyer Mrs Frank Reynolds Mrs Norman White and the honoree. Email gifts were sent by Mrs Frank Rohlfs Janet Palmer Hazel Houston Dan Jenkins Roy White and John Reynolds.
Church School meets at 9 45 am under F E Bender Superintendent. No worship services until August 28 due to minister and wife on two week vacation. Griffs and Talbotts host visitors. Goodin family visiting in Marlowe Wilson home.
The Manila Home Bureau held its August picnic on the lawn of Mrs. Mabel Schier beck with about 22 members and guests. Mrs Myrtle Farnum gave a plastic demonstration after the meal was served.
The Tabitha society of St. Pauls Lutheran church met with Mrs William Durdle hosting. Rev O A Borchett showed Boy Meets Girl and stressed parental responsibility for teens. Next meetings include Pekin park Sept 1 and August 24 Young Lutheran Ladies league invite.
Joseph W. Hobbs announces the Mason County Book List for grades one through eight. The list includes titles for reading, arithmetic, language, geography, health, spelling, and writing from Mac and Muff to Iroquois New Standard and Looking Forward with various workbooks and regionally used texts.
The Illinois Public Aid Commission will cut payments to local governments for general relief by ten percent and aid to dependent children by five percent starting September. Officials say unemployment drives the need for aid, with general relief recipients rising from 60,571 to an estimated 92,361 this month.
The program rose from 78 000 last September to an estimated 89 804 this month. The General Assembly appropriated 43 000 000 to supplement local relief resources and 66 000 000 for dependent children. The general relief appropriation for this biennium exceeded the previous two-year period by 11 000 000.
Registration for freshmen and irregular students at the high school runs August 18 from 10am to 12pm and 2pm to 4pm. Freshmen should bring their fifth certificate and county diploma. physical exam forms, book lists, and Latin re-registration are noted. Baseball players need exam cards. returning students need not come before school starts August 29 at 9am.
Descendants of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Dalcher of Pekin gathered at Bertis Frohling’s Forest City home on Sunday August 7 for the 6th annual reunion. Eldest present Ora Jacobs aged 70 and youngest Jayne Marie nine months highlighted a day of a picnic dinner on the Frohling lawn with many Pekin and nearby residents in attendance.
Dr. M. B. Mathers will host a rodeo at his farm on Highway 29 north of Mason City at 7:30 p.m. Sunday August 14 Percy Yellowstone Chip Samuel will serve as master of ceremonies The State School Colony band will provide music Acts include saddle bronc bareback bronc fighting brahma wild buffalo decorating trick riding and aerial acts General admission 75 cents and 25 cents
A charivari was held Saturday evening August 6 at the Kreiling residence for Marilyn Kreiling and groom Vernon Graff of Manila. About 100 friends called to extend best wishes, enjoy bingo in the yard, and share social time. Refreshments included ice cream cake and pop.
Lester Bernshausen Shirley Bernshausen Mrs Lydia Bernshausen and Mrs Don Gainer of Ashland spent from Sunday until Wednesday in Chicago. Mrs Ernest Marshall and Mrs Norman O Shea were shoppers in Peoria Monday.
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