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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1951
Page
1
Registration of all Forman Community School District 124 students will be held Friday morning from 9 to 11:30 in their buildings. Buses will operate to take students to registration sites. The district plans a new test book system with rented texts owned by the district. Parents and students with usable books should bring them to the back page continuation.
The Manita Boy Scout troop led by Scout Master Hal Willett and William H. Fischer traveled by truck to Lake Springfield West Cotton Wood Hill for several days of camping. They practiced outdoor camping tactics and wood craft, finishing with an overnight hike. Read included names of scouts Bobby Zeeck Allan Hubbard Danny Woiwode Owen Fox Charles Hamilton Marvin Tackman Jerry Starrett Gary Gosda Daryl Thompson Arno Hiller Jimmy Wistehoff Jerry Bilyeu Terry Jones Larry Whitehouse Dale Parkin Dean Wilson John Durham Howard Durham Steve Herrman John Dee Proehl Kenny Bender Frank Vaughn and visitors James David Proehl Carl Graff.
Etta Cox an 80 year old Manito resident completed another extended motor journey with lifelong friend Mrs Louise Heckman and traveling companions Mr and Mrs George Long and son Kenny. She kept notes of the travels describing moments with friends and places visited on the southern trip.
In a late summer ceremony on August 19 at 2 30 p m in the Talbott home, Darla Konisek Pekin became Darla Dean Talbott bride of Earl Lyndon Talbott. Rev Joseph Hobbs officiated before 35 family members with music including I Love You Truly and Because.
Henry D. Smith and his son Earle K. Smith have purchased the Vetter Grocery on Market Street and took possession August 13. They plan extensive remodeling and modern facilities, while continuing operations in the “friendly Smith Manner.”
Hayden A. Smith a longtime Manito resident died at his home Tuesday at 1 30 a m after months of ill health. Born May 31 1895 in Manito he served in World War I and worked forty years at the Manito Filler Co retiring three months ago. He is survived by two brothers a sister and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held at Johnson Funeral Home with burial in Meadow Lawn cemetery.
Graveside rites were held Monday at St. Francis cemetery Manito for Catherine Ann Woiwode infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Woiwode of Forest City. Born Aug 18 she died Aug 19 at St. Francis Hospital Peoria. Survivors include parents a sister Mary Frances and grandparents Dewey Risen Manito and A D Woiwode Forest City.
Mrs Elizabeth Parkins and her sons with Paul Neikirk returned from a two week vacation visiting her daughter and husband Mr Harold Meyer in San Francisco California.
Miss Beverly Proehl of route 2 Manita daughter of Mr and Mrs Louis Proehl presented her first year clothing project a brown chambray skirt and scarf as a 4-H exhibit and earned a blue ribbon displayed in the Junior Home Economics building at the fair.
The Home Bureau Handicraft exhibit at the State Fair earned the Governor's trophy and nineteen blue ribbons. Mrs. Clarence Foster, committee chair, received the trophy for the display. Each item in the exhibit won a blue ribbon, and the trophy will be kept in the Home Bureau office in Havana.
A Monday morning crash on the Manito blacktop drew attention as the second fatal accident of the summer. The Tazewell County Board of Supervisors met in special session this week to discuss road problems including repairing nearly four miles of the Manito road.
A three car crash near Pekin killed 24 year old Donald Oppelz of Peoria and injured others including 17 year old William Taylor who is recovering in Pekin hospital with a broken leg and bruises. Oppelz had just two Sundays earlier been part of the Sparts Jenson wedding party. He taught in German Town schools and was a friend of Mr. and Mrs. Jenson.
Larry Gilmore, son of Harold and Mrs. Gilmore, suffered a near severing arm injury when a saw used to build a Pekin home ran away. Doctors later announced the arm could be saved. The Gilmore family welcomed a seven pound two ounce son, Micheal John, born the same day in Pekin. Larry, a former Manito resident, is recovering as friends wish him a speedy recovery.
Mr and Mrs Ernest Palmer entertained with a fish fry at the Mitchell Palmer Cottage near Clear Lake on Sunday.
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