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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1951
Page
14
Complete line of Arcner Quality and Swift's Mixed Feeds and feed ingredients. Direct car lot shipment offers best prices. Portaby hammermill operates in the Manita area every Thursday. Call for economical efficient service.
Miss Gertrude Meyer and Miss Lorraine Meyer along with Miss Joan Vanderheide of Peoria arrived home Saturday after a week of sightseeing in Detroit Michigan.
The Pekin Star Lite Drive In lists program for August 24 30 featuring Great Missouri Raid in color with Wendell Carey and MacDonald Carey Katie Did It with Ann Blythe and Mark Stevens Lemon Drop Kid with Bob Hippe Marilyn Maxwell Lucky Nick Cain with George Raft and Coleen Gray Between Midnight and Dawn with Mark Stevens Edmond O'Brien and Smuggler's Island in color with Jeff Chandler Evelyn Keyes.
The account recalls a southern journey to Keesler Air Force Base Biloxi and New Orleans with Pfc Wm Long stationed nearby. It notes shrimp and oyster industries, a mossy gulf coast drive, an old above ground cemetery and life at Avalone Motel Lodge. Etta, age 80, remains active at her Cottage home and looks forward to more trips.
The document lists teachers and administrative staff for Forman Community High School Forest City and Manito Grade School. Leonard Hewitt, Unit Superintendent, provided names including Beryl LeCount Eugene Bradman Robert Burks Keith Johnson Kirby Lawlis Lois Eckman Alice Conover Mariam Kauffman Carol Kreiling Ferne Lawlis Eugene Patchett L. R. Skinner Joseph McCraith Clara McCraith Vera Hermann Eileen Beutel Lillian Golden Nora Cannoh Helena Kreiling Ellen Dobson Vera Creemens Mabel Corbett Irma Strawbridge Mary Waldmeier Amos Thompson and an Administrative Assistant.
The couple, the new Mrs. Talbott and her groom, hosted a reception for 35 relatives in the Talbott home dining room after the ceremony. The bride wore a white eyelet suit with lavender accessories and bridal orchid, and the pair plan to live near Manito on a farm. Out of town guests came from Pekin Havana Wilmington and Hanna City.
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