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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1949
Page
2
In September readers are asked to bring Forest City news ready for mailing to Mrs. Carl Folkman. The notice requests community items be prepared for postal transmission.
A miscellaneous shower was held Saturday night at the home of Mrs. Lee Langston honoring Mrs. Vernon Graff who before her marriage was Miss Marilyn Kreil.
A July wedding in St. Louis united Miss Kreiling daughter of Mr and Mrs P C Kreiling with Mr Langston. They reside on a Manito area farm. A reception followed with aunts hosting and many local friends attending.
Langston, Mary E. Crosby, Bertha Ellenberger, Esther Armhurst, Howard Friedrich, Carl Fletcher, Olen Bartel Kenneth Fletcher, Leonard Graff, Eldon Keith, Floyd Whitaker, Eldon Clinebell, George Wahlfeld, Clarence Kreiling and the Misses Barbara Whitaker, Eloise White, Gladys Langston, Eldon Kreiling, Jim Bartell, Linda DeVore, Janice David and Mary McDonald.
The grade school sets registration for September 1 from 9:30 to 11:30, with health examinations required for new first to fifth graders. Regular sessions begin September 6, meals stay 20 cents, and improvements include indoor toilets and redecorated halls. Vera Hermann and Wilma Embree staff upper and primary grades.
Keeping tires properly inflated will boost their wearing life by up to a third and is linked to better service. The text urges the John Deere pump as an essential tool no owner should be without.
Mrs Vernon Graff was guest of honor at a bridal shower hosted by Misses Margaret Bartell and Barbara Whitaker at the Whitaker home near Forest City. Blue and pink decor highlighted the gift table with prizes awarded to Donna Warner Darlene Dosier Virginia Carey and Mrs Eldon Clinebell. Attendees included a long list of friends and relatives with several unable to attend. Ferne Hermann returned to Chicago Tuesday after accompanying her mother Mrs Vere.
Hermann and Mrs Gladys Wilk inson return from a week at Egg Warrior Wisconsin. Mr and Mrs Ralph Jackson Canton Ill visited Mrs Vera Hermann Illiopolis for homecoming. University of Illinois agronomists report electron microscopes magnify up to 50000x. For alfalfa silage add 60 80 pounds molasses per ton or 200 250 pounds corn and cob meal.
An ad promotes a full strength foot treatment with undiluted alcohol base that penetrates deeply to kill germs. It guarantees satisfaction in one hour or a 40 cent refund at Manito Drug Co. The product targets athlete’s foot foot odor itchy and sweaty feet.
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