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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1953
Page
3
Monday features barbecues buttered lima beans carrot sticks and apricots. Tuesday serves meatballs and gravy mashed potatoes Harvard beets and oatmeal cookies. Wednesday offers chili and crackers celery and carrot sticks and peanut butter and bananas. Thursday presents beef stew mashed potatoes coleslaw and jello. Friday includes tuna and noodles peas pickle slices and plums.
Mr and Mrs Harold Palmer and family of Easton were Saturday evening callers of Mr and Mrs Wayne Meyer and family.
Arthur Deisy of Pekin was a Saturday noon guest of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Coombs. Many Pekin residents visited friends and family through the weekend including the Schimmel pfenning family, the Beekers, Gertrude Golden and daughter Margaret, and the Herrman clan. Funeral attendance noted for Edward Young in Havana.
The Manito Community Express dated Thursday December 10 1953 reports on local happenings, community notices, and brief items of interest from Manito and surrounding area.
Friday features a basketball game Forman vs Easton and Saturday a chili supper at Forman High School from 5 to 7 30 pm. Sunday invites church attendance. Monday posts Altars Rosary party joint Hill Palmer Post and Auxiliary. Tuesday hosts Rotary. Wednesday hosts Ag Meeting at Forman Gym with oyster and chili supper at Legion Hall. Thursday Tabitha Christmas Party at St Pauls Lutheran Church.
The American Peoples Encyclopedia 1958 Year Book reports a drop in chewing tobacco to 86 percent of a million pounds less than the prior year, continuing a decline since 1946. Snuff output in 1952 stood at about 39 million pounds, down 1.5 percent from the 1951 figure.
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