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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1954
Page
3
The Golden Links Class of the Methodist Sunday School held a June party and class meeting at the home of Mrs Ray Talbott on Wednesday evening June 23 Co hostesses were Mrs Tom Moore Mrs Sam Kastner led the business session and Mrs Jennie Rankin gave the devotional.
Under the order of business plans were discussed regarding the var iety booth at the Legion celebration on July 6. A committee was named to take charge of arrangements. July meeting will have newly elected officers led by President Mrs George Frederick and others.
Mr and Mrs Marlow Wilson Mrs Eva Wilson and Lorraine Meyer were Monday evening guests of Mr and Mrs Jesse Boice in Peoria.
The Junior Girls class enjoyed a picnic and swimming outing at Pekin park last Thursday. Their teacher Mrs. Harold Woodley and Mrs. Paul Gosda accompanied the group, with the latter providing a car. Attendees included Molly Lynch Synne Bea Thomas Suzanne Barr Dorothy Vance Mae Ellen Budke Barbara Wooding Sharon Simpson Bonnie Jo Bender Mary Lynn Gosda Jean Vance Charlotte Fox Ridgie Woodley and Margery Bender.
The Forman Willing Workers 4 H Club met June 28 with 22 members. President Stanley Noll led pledges and plans included a Pekin swim party on June 30 at 6 30 and a 4 H tour on July 25 at 1 30 DST. Next meeting with FFA is July 12. talks by Rudy and Cheryl Hirst and Merrill Dierker on This is our soil.
An optimistic figure refuses defeat when backed against a wall, boasting of steadfast support and strong backing to sustain his resolve.
Attendees from Peoria and Pekin gathered at Mineral Spring Park Pekin for a Nannen family reunion. One hundred sixteen members and five visitors enjoyed a noon basket dinner and an afternoon social hour with Henry DeWorth Green Valley the oldest attendee and Mary Lou Laumirer the youngest.
Illinois sheep producers will see 552 head of purebred Hampshires and Suffolks go on the block at Dixon Springs Experiment Station on Thursday July 8. R J Webb reports a short program on sheep raising precedes the sale at 1 p m CST. The station near Robbs Pope county lies about 35 miles southwest of Harrisburg and 15 miles east of Vienna with signs guiding to the sale. Auctioneer W L Cameron of Vienna.
Mr. and Mrs. George Grob Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Maloney and Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Meyer attended a pink and blue shower in East Peoria Monday evening honoring their niece Mrs. Betty Gent at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Gent.
Larry and Jerry Woodley of Mineral were Monday noon dinner guests of Ronny and Jimmy Wistehuff.
Darlene Hamilton recent nursing school graduate at Methodist Hospital Peoria spent a weekend as a guest of Mr and Mrs George Grob. On Sunday Louis Hammond of Pekin also joined as a dinner guest in the Grob home.
Mr and Mrs Ernest Archam beau Sr traveling from Chicago and Detroit to Amarillo Texas paused Sunday for a stopover during their vacation journey with a family visit noted in the report.
Mr. and Mrs. 8S. M. Roush hosted Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Archambeau Jr. and daughter Arla Lee who had been house guests and left for their home in Odessa Texas Saturday noon.
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