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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1949
Page
3
Joe Meek argues the state legislator holds top importance in 1949 as tax, highway, and education issues loom. He surveys questions on sales tax use, school and municipal funding, federal matching funds, and road taxes while urging constituent input to guide lawmakers.
The Topeka Unit of the Home Bureau meets February 17 at 11 a.m. hosted by Mrs. Virgil Himmel with local leaders presenting. The Walker School Community Club gathers February 18 with a post program lunch. Royal Neighbors meet at Mrs. Bessie Morris home for a business and lunch event. Mrs. Oscar Wise visits her parents in Topeka while others note hospital, anniversary and social visits.
A sequence of social visits and dinners throughout Peariy and nearby towns includes Herman Glick hosting a twenty fourth wedding anniversary for Walter and Glick, visits by Mr and Mrs Strube, Mrs J F McCarty returning home, and multiple hospitality scenes with the Rakestraws, Glicks, and Weldon families. The Topeka School program delays its community meeting to February 18, and Havana residents Mrs Henrietta Trimpe Agnes Clyde Trimpe attend Sunday events.
At the regular annual meeting of PEO PLES STATE BANK OF MANITO Illinois on January 8 1949 stockholders voted 227 shares in favor to raise capital from 25000 to 50000 dollars and issue 500 new shares of 100 dollars each. A true copy was filed in Mason County recorder January 21 1949.
The 21st day of January 1949 filed and signed notice from Peobles State Bank of Manito by R L Mahr Secretary.
Seven members of the Illinois Farmers Institute advisory committee were reelected at Farm and Home Week at the College of Agriculture. J C Spitler presided. The institute supports scholarships. 228 University of Illinois students use them. National 4 H Club Week is set for March 5 13 1949.
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