Bridge Contract Awarded After Six Bids At Malone Meeting
Malone Taze well county highway commissioners and Mason Tazewell drainage district officials met to set a contract for moving and replacing bridges over drainage canals to be deepened. Six bids were opened and the contract was awarded to T L Blackman of the Decatur Bridge Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highway Commissioners
Malone
Tazewell County
Mason-Tazewell Drainage District Commissioners
T. L.blackman
Decatur Bridge Company
Cecil C. Lewis
N. W. Lewis
Centerville
John Buchanan
William Krammer
Wesley M. Trent
Iowa
Menard County
Mason County
George Beidleman
Jacob Roush
Peoria
Elias Moore
Farmers Push Wheel Change To Wide Tires Fix
An active movement in the area urges farmers to fit narrow tired wagon wheels with wide tires. Businessmen engaged Pe kin Wagon Works to secure a low rate, moving from 1% to 3 inches, with an automobile and a span of young mules noted on a narrow road flanked by drainage ditches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pekin Wagon Works
Mrs Dan Hammer Hosts Novelty Shower for Goldie Vice
Mrs. Dan Hammer gave a novelty shower for her sister Miss Goldie Vice who was to wed Cline Schappaugh. Funeral services for Flora Brooks former Manito resident were held August 11 at her home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manito Hhautauqua
Carl Folkman
Forest City
William Pfeiffer
Sarah McFarlin
Methodist Church
Robert C. Hartley
Manila
Hartley
Dan Hammer
Goldie Vice
Cline Schappaugh
Flora Brooks
Manito
August 18 Picnic Planned by A. T. A. Members
The A. T. A. prepared for a large picnic set for August 18. A sedan crashed into a bridge railing near the Albert Herrman home after the driver was blinded by eastbound headlights waiting to pass. Mr and Mrs Dick Smith welcomed a daughter born August 12. Mr and Mrs S. E. Dennis were
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Herrman
Dick” Smith
S. E. Dennis
Forest City Fire Anniversary Marks Local History
The text notes the August 13 anniversary of Forest City’s disastrous fire. It mentions Ang ee Paul Meeker’s broken arm from a runaway at his uncle Fred Meeker’s home near Green Valley and reports more than four hundred attended the opening of the new Johnson Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Meeker
Fred Meeker
Green Valley
Johnson Funeral Home
Forest City
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William Parkin
Parkins
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Near
Bishop
Robert L .Zimmerman
Fairmount
Grace Etzen
Teheran
Kathryn Woodley
Wm. Nevitt
Canton
Dick Gathman
Wilcox
Sask
Canada
McHarry
John Azbell
Saidora
Oak Grove Cemetery
A. P. Arnett
Robertson
SENN
Caulkins
Jiggs and
Marlowe
UNION
Lee
LIFE
Wayne
Firestone Tires
Desutter
Angee
Court ST
Pekin, Illinois
Allis-Chalmers
Bernshausen Implement Company
Manito, Illinois
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