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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1954
Page
6
Beverly Dennis resumes classes at Bradley University on Monday following a mid semester vacation. She visited Mendota last Thursday and Friday with her mother Mrs. Dennis and Joan Dennis, a Mendota High School teacher.
Members of the Tazewell County Beekeepers Association will gather Sunday February 14 at 1 30 p m at Oliver Price's home in Manilo. All bee enthusiasts are invited and asked to bring table service doughnuts and valentines.
Mrs Mary Barnes with Mrs Elmer Neikirk called on Mr and Mrs Dean Callahan and family in Peoria Saturday. They then drove to Forest City to visit Mrs Elmer Bartell who recently was a surgical patient in Graham hospital Canton.
Readable calendar items list activities from Feb 12 to Feb 18 across Forest City Manito and Mackinaw region. Events include dances hosted by Ladies Lutheran League and Home Bureau, a Sweet Heart Banquet, a Red Cross meeting, Rotary basketball, a chili and oyster supper, a church altar and rosary gathering, and a farm closing out sale.
Mr and Mrs Bill Shelabarger and son and Don O’Hara visit Mrs Della O’Hara on Monday evening for a birthday supper prepared by Mrs Shelabarger and delivered to her mother’s home.
Mrs Peggy Boyd and her daughter Mrs Nan Hoephner of Bartonville spent the weekend as guests of Mrs Effie Cox.
The Study class of the W S C S met Thursday morning at Mrs Chas Gordon Sr home. After a sack lunch the group joined the regular monthly W S C S meeting led by President Helen Thompson. New member Mrs Mathew Law was welcomed and Mrs Robert Whitfield Pekin will attend in March.
A group of Auxiliary members worked Tuesday evening at Mrs. Harry Selke's home making 300 tray favors shaped like red hatchets tied to cigarettes. The gifts were prepared for veterans at the Jacksonville Veterans hospital to brighten bed side trays. Names of volunteers included Mesdames Paul Woods Frank Rohlfs Francis Vaughn Chas Vaughn Lester Bernshausen Glen Smith Harry Selke and Miss Luella Shirley.
Pvt Olen Burgett Jr is listed at Camp Chaffee Arkansas Co B 465th ATI Bn 6 Armored Div. Anther entry notes Tom Schmick reassigned to Alaska with address A 3/e Nelson W Schmick 5039 Air Police Squadron APO 942 c-o P.M. Seattle Washington.
Mr and Mrs Lyle Palmer hosted a birthday party at home Sunday evening for their son Steven Lyle turning one. A white lamb shaped cake made by his maternal grandmother Mrs Julius Jones Pekin accompanied gifts from four generations including great grandparents Charles Wilson, grandparents Julius Jones and Ernest Palmer, and parents Lyle and Connie Lynn Palmer.
Mrs. Jesse Boice of Peoria and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Palmer joined Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilson for supper Wednesday. Sunday dinner guests were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Selke with Mr. and Mrs. Herman Schnitker in Pekin. Ferde Hindgardner from Havana visited in Manito Monday evening.
The Pinochle Club met last Thursday evening at the home of Mr and Mrs W L Kerr with Mrs Bruce Cole and Miss Mabel Corbett as co hosts. Prizes were awarded to Mesdames Grover Gumbel Amos Thompson Eugene Buck and Messrs Imurence Thomas R L Mahr and Owen Singley. Twenty one members attended the card party and lunch was served by the hosts.
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