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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1954
Page
4
A brief column from Thursday January 21 1964 covers local events in Manito. Community notices include upcoming meetings, school happenings, and city improvements with emphasis on civic participation and neighborhood updates.
A series of daily visits and social calls across Parkland include Mr. and Mrs. Roy Runyon hosting supper with the Hubbard family and Alan, plus guests Robert Gehrig Jack Adams and Wilbur Neikirk. Several neighbors and relatives share Wednesdays and Saturdays with Herrman, Runyon, Golden, and Lutz households.
Annual Business and Professional Review highlights Havana Lumber Co. Pekin Illinois. Promotes high grade lumber and building materials for farmers and builders with delivery service and comprehensive information. Emphasizes quality, durability, and courteous service as key for industry and agriculture.
Conklin Lumber Co at 201 N 2nd Pekin promotes a complete line of garage doors hardware windows steel sash and storm sash for modern homes. The Pekin firm highlights its builder supply expertise plan books and cheap blueprints with free estimates and guaranteed satisfaction.
Summer Bros Seed Co. urges growers to stay in touch with their seed house year round for reliable seed and information. They stress choosing seeds suited to local soil and climate and warn against distant brands not adapted to the area. Walter Proehl serves as Manito local representative.
Hackler Bros. Drug Store highlights accuracy in compounding prescriptions and up to date pharmacy service. The Pekin store offers Insulin and diabetic supplies, General Electric and Hot Point appliances, sundries, perfumes, toilet articles, and baby products. It also features a large Valentine candy selection.
Lyle-Don Studio offers high grade portraits with the latest equipment and a focus on family groups children and wedding pictures. Owners boast a large local patronage and prompt telephone appointments inviting readers to try this up to date studio.
In early life the brain and spine guide growth, with disease arising from nerve obstruction caused by misaligned vertebrae. Dr. Nugen of Pekin is highlighted as a reputable chiropractor with a strong local reputation and reported success.
Eagle Insulating Co offers experienced, licensed service to fix leaky roofs and install siding and insulation. Based in Pekin, they provide free estimates, use bonded guaranteed materials, and promise energy savings and curb-appeal improvements for homes and businesses.
Pekin residents are invited to visit the B and W Furniture Store to explore a complete line of home furnishings for every room. The store touts better values and lasting quality with a helpful sales staff and a cash discount option to save money on purchases.
Herbert Salsbery of Atlanta Indiana topped 20 pickers from nine states to win first place in the fifth annual national corn picking contest at Bloomington with 77.9 points using a Massey Harris Self Propelled Corn Picker. The field yielded 95 to 105 bushels per acre. The event emphasized safety with 23 safety violations deducted from scores. Automatic entry to the 1954 national contest in Wisconsin follows.
The Golden Rule Shoe Store in Pekin showcases the latest styles from Velvet Step Life Stride City Club Freeman Weather Bird for women men and children. The shop emphasizes quality dress and sport shoes for all occasions with a focus on correct fit and S and H Green stamps.
Pekin Distributing Co at 614 South Second St is spotlighted among Pekin’s outstanding firms. The company distributes Old Style and Stag beers along with quality sodas and wines and has grown through good products and service.
F. von Boeckmann & Son offers Devoe paints and finishes with 1500 wallpaper samples including Birge and Raynolds. They provide 600 color mixes, wallpaper matching, floor sanding rental, and distribute Breinig wood finishes and Wall-Tex across a twelve county area.
The Forest City American Legion Auxiliary held its January meeting at the home of Mrs. Pearl Wahlfeld with Lucinda Folkman and Beatrice Embree as co hosts. After the business session the group attached cigarettes to Tray Favors for the Veterans Hospital. A luncheon followed for members and hosts. The February meeting will be at Mrs. Edna Hubbard's home with Elsie Emmons as co host.
Twenty two members and two guests attended the Forest City Home Bureau January meeting. Reports from the cookbook and scrapbook chairmen, safety and health lessons, minor insecticide information, and a major paints lesson were shared. A pot luck lunch was served, group singing followed, and three new members were announced along with mystery pal names for 1964.
Mr and Mrs Ily in Knuppel Easton announce the engagement of their daughter Martha to Arlan Vogel, son of Mr and Mrs Elmer Vogel Forest City Martha a Easton Community high school graduate is employed in Havana at the Soil Conservation office Arlan a Forest City graduate is engaged in farming No definite wedding date has been set.
Statisticians note that many women now earn wages comparable to men, a trend married men have long observed, reflecting shifting workforce dynamics and gender income parity concerns.
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