Community Gossip Notes From Pekin and Peoria Visits
Local social roundup lists calls and visits across Pekin North Pekin and Peoria. Names include Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Combs, John Seelye, Delia Barker, Joy Risen, Wayne Meyer, Ben Schaffler, and many relatives with gatherings and a fish fry hosted by Geo Heyl. Road trips to Lac Du Flambeau are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Combs
John Seelye
Pekin
North Pekin
Delia Barker
Joy Risen
Wayne Meyer
Leonard Hewitt
Louis Schuttler
Dewey Risen
Joy
Chas Rowan
Jackie Spillman
Chas. Rowan
Ellen
Johnnie
Robert Rowan
Dickie
Vera Hild
Mary Ann
Eleanor
Gladys Schaffler
Frank Nutty
Eureka
Fritz
Ann
Marilyn
Barbara Heyl
Heyl
Ben Schaffler
Dannie Jenkins
Kenny Monroe
Wilbur Neikirk
Roy Runyon
Lac du Flambeau
Wise
Forward Look Sermon Guides Church During Heat
A forty five minute service will be held in hot months with a sermon titled Our Church Should Have the Forward Look. The message urges reflection on public failures and personal underachievement while inviting all to join church activities for inspiration and challenge.
Manito Churches Schedule Rev Hobbs Hosts Sunday Service
The Egypt Community Church led by Rev. Joseph W. Hobbs with A. D. Meeker as Sunday School Superintendent holds Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. CST followed by Morning Worship at 11:00 a.m. EST.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt Community Church
Joseph W. Hobbs
A. D. Meeker
Spring Lake Church Schedule and Activities
Catholic mass at 10:00 a.m. CST led by Paul N. Rager with Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. and Morning Worship at 10:45 a.m. Special music by Rev. Bernard Kruse. Communion follows. The Young People will lead the evening service. Church board meets at 6:45 p.m. before services. Mid week service Wednesday at 8 p.m. Choir practice after. Ladies Prayer Meeting Thursday at 3 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul N. Rager
Word of Life
Bernard Kruse
National Association of Evangelicals
Manito Methodist Church Service Notice
The Manito Methodist Church led by D J Powell invites all to morning worship at 10 45 with Church School at 45 after DST F E Bender as superintendent. The sermon urges churches to influence American policy via The Jesus Way and notes only 20 percent of Americans are reached by churches.
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Church School
F. E. Bender
America
Land of the Free
Home of the
Brave
NAE Officials to Address Youth For Christ Rally Saturday
Rev. Bernard Kruse will speak at the Youth For Christ rally in Forman High Gym at 8:00 p.m. DST. Kruse, a former Army chaplain and Midwest regional director of the National Association of Evangelicals, will discuss evangelical outreach and current global religious issues. He also speaks at Sprine Lake Church Sunday at 10:45.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard Kruse
Youth For Christ
Forman High
Kruse
U. S
Europe
Northwestern Baptist Seminary
Chicago
Chaphancy
Kiruse
Midwest Bible Church
Torrey Johnson
Bob Cook
Youth For Christ, International
Midwest
National Associaton of Evangelicals
Sprine Lake ‘Church
N.A.E
Mrs Kathryn Hamilton Hosts Relatives At Sunday Dinner
Mrs Kathryn Hamilton hosted a Sunday dinner and visiting day at her Hamilton home. Guests included Mr and Mrs Frank Johnston of Mackinaw, Mr and Mrs W E Gregory and Frances Evelyn of Radio City, Mrs Bertha Van Sickle, Montgomery, and Mrs Lorraine Dean with her daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathryn Hamilton
Frank Johnston
Mackinaw
W. E. Gregory
Frances Evelyn
Radio City
Bertha van Sickle
Montgomery
Lorraine Dean
Family Chain of Attendants Noted at Canton and Green Valley
Donna and Irma Hamilton with Tina Burgess of Canton join James Hamilton Carl and Grover Gumbel families in Green Valley while Mrs Lillie Shurst of Champaign misses gathering due to recent illness after being released from Mercy Hospital last Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donna
Irma Hamilton
Tina Burgess
Canton
James Hamilton
Carl
Green Valley
Wilson Hamilton
Charles
Grover Gumbel
Carrie Gumbel
Emma Hart
Lillie Shurst
Champaign
Mercy Hospital
Lawrence Farley Killed In Pekin Manito Black Top Crash
Lawrence Farley 78 died after being struck by Louis McGinnis 60 on the Pekin Manito Black Top near Sky Ranch at 5 30 p m last Thursday. Farley who was nearly blind stepped into the path of the northbound car and suffered a skull fracture. He was living with the Allen Rakestraw family in Pekin vicinity and is survived by a sister, Emma Caldwell. Funeral held at Preston Funeral Home with burial at Kingston Mines Cemetery. An inquest into the death of Mim Praley at Preston Funeral Home returned an accidental death verdict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Farley
Louis McGinnis
South Pekin
Pekin-Manito
Black Top
Sky Ranch
Pekin Public Hospital
Faaley
Black Top Road
McGinnis
McGennis
Spring Lake Des. 8
Manita
Allen Rakestraw
Emma Caldwell
Dennison
Cole
Preston Funeral Home
Pekin
Kingston Mines
Mim Praley
Molg
Preston Funeral
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Parksand
Middle States Telephone CO
Starr
Érave
Caulkins
Jiggs and
Marlowe
Manito
Spring Lake Church
Manito Methodist Church
D. J. Powell
Hamilton
Home Sun
Aareet
American Gem
Qrowes
The
Manito Community Express
FORD
Roy K. Marshall
Bender
Manito, Illinois
N. Reuling Co
Pekin Illinois
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