Forest City Welcomes New Residents and Visitors
Forest City greets two new families the Woiwode duo and Alfred Woiwode with new homes built by the groom. Roy Robbins hosts Delaware and Iowa guests including James Snowden and relatives, with other locals traveling to Colorado. July 13 Home Bureau meeting at Baptist Church features Miss Wanda Sward lesson and corsage making.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Woiwode
Alfred Woiwode
Woiwode
Forest City
Forest City Home Bureau
Baptist Church
Wanda Sward
Galesburg
New County Home Bureau
Roy Hibbard
Pleasant Plains Club Picnic Supper Sunday
Members of the Pleasant Plains Community Club and families enjoyed the annual pot luck picnic supper held Sunday evening July 8 at the home of Mr and Mrs Cleve Holtman and William Holtman. Fried chicken salad ice cream iced tea and cake were served to numerous local residents including Mr and Mrs Grem ehew of Peoria Mr and Mrs George Strawbridge David Lee and Cheral Hirst and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasant Plains Community Club
Cleve Holtman
William Holt
Gremehew
Peoria
George Strawbridge
David Lee
Cheral Hirst
Dan Sill
Fred Friedrich
Freddie
Howard Friedrich
Bonnie Blanche
Wilbur van Orman
Ray
August Vacation Month Brings Club Meeting in Sept
The club observes August as vacation month and will hold its next meeting on Sept. 7 at the home of Mrs. Dosier. Several members are listed among attendees including Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Gathman Kathryn Louise, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Gathman, and Kathryn Louise among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mond van Orman
Dianna Kay
Adolph Gathman
Kathryn Louise
Nelson Warner
Robert
Harold Warner
Carl Gathman
Virgil Lee
Doris
Robert Durdel
Howard Wahlfeld
Ralph Krause
Howard Kiesling
Nelson Dosier
Darlene
John
George
Carl Hansen
Lurelle Whitaker
George Fredrich
Mabel Schierbeck
Dosier
Alfred Gathman
Henry Gathman
Residents and visitors gather for summer events around Havana and Peoria
Local residents and guests from Havana and Peoria attend July Fourth and holiday gatherings across Springfield Glen Oak Park and Forest City. Families visit hospitals, cars are bought, and relatives enjoy picnics, dinners, and weekend trips with friends and neighbors.
Express begins new ownership and local notices mix
This issue marks the Express starting under Morris Rader and son Lyle, also publishers of the Glasford Gazette in Peoria county. Brown's grocery opens its first anniversary, Johnson Oil opens a Super Service Station opposite Triangle pair, Beebe's Restaurant at Manito resumes management by C. A. Beebe and spouse, and various community notes include Epworth League attendees, Spring Lake improvement approval, 4-H club camp returns, a Prairie Farmer trip, and a wedding charivari for the Limback newlyweds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Express
Morris Rader and Son
Lyle
Glasford Gazette
Peoria County
Outwit Samanella Pullorum in Chicks, Ufford Warns
Colorado A and M extension poultry specialist O C Ufford warns Samanella Pullorum is a major problem for growers. The disease develops in adult chickens and infected eggs hatch infected chicks, causing high mortality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samanella Pullorum
O. C. Ufford
Colorado A & M Extension Service
Pullorum
Ufford
Franklin Will Found Items List at Philosophical Society
Philadelphia probate records hold Benjamin Franklin s last will while the first remains with the American Philosophical Society. The second will resurfaced twenty years ago with New York collector Arthur Pforzheimer. Dr William Lingelbach of the society calls it the first inventory of Franklin s personal possessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin
City Hall
Philadelphia
American Philosophical Society
Arthur Pforzheimer
New York
William Lingelbach
Scientist Measures Blood Ejected In Beat of Heart
Dr. W F Hamilton of the University of Georgia perfects a simple method to measure blood output per heartbeat. The technique injects dye into a vein and samples arterial blood to gauge dilution from cardiac output. The study links heart pressure changes to output and explores kidney role in circulatory failure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Hamilton
University of Georgia
Hamilton
Corn Borer Invades Illinois Through 1942 Spread
The European corn borer was first found in Illinois in 1939 and by 1942 had spread to most counties, being absent in six.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Mary-Joseph Class Picnic At Pekin Park
The Mary-Joseph Sunday school class of Manito Methodist church will hold a class picnic at Pekin park Sunday evening at 6 o clock est Those attending are to take a covered dish and table service for their own family. Mr and Mrs Albert DeVore and daughter Allene visited Monday evening with Mr and Mrs Ben Bilyeu Jr Mason City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Eyman
Gladys
Jean
Marjorie Eyman
Edward Hickey
Donna
Bharon
Peoria
Mayhew
Gladys, Delevan
Guy Baldwin
Glen Oak Park
St. Francis Hospital
Roy Dopperman
Jesse Mace
Fayette
Ark
George Wahlfeld
Bertha Ellenberger
Gladys Langston
Louis Lempke
Clarence Jackson
Pekin
Merlyn [Jackson
Garey
Monte Emmons
Stanley Emmons
Havana
Emmons-Hubbard
Esther Armbrust
Marie Trimpe
L. N. Kennedy
Elsie White
Mary E. Crosby
Earl van Etten
International ‘Harvesting Co
Lincoln
Cecil van Etten
Ferne Herman
Otis Elevator Co
Chicago
Vera Hermann
Charles Pollom
Tacoma
Wash
North Western University
Ferne
Forest City
Hermann
Walter Ingerski
Walter William
Illiopolis
Mary-Joseph
Manito Methodist Church
Pekin Park
Albert DeVore
Allene
Ben Bilyeu, Jr
Mason City
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L. A. Wilson
Delaware
Iowa
Roy Robbins
James Snowden
Willmington
Del
the Robbins
Glen Robbins
Sandra
Newton
Colorado
Frank Carey
Virginia
Alvin Matthews
Joyce
al Matthews
C. & I. M. Railroad
Home Bureau
PERM
Manito
Bernard Busch
Girnand Busch CO
C.O.D
Pleasant Plains Club
Catherine Gathman
Casper Leinweber
San Jose
Ford van Orman
Ross Cloyed
Freeport
Ill
Letha Martin
Norman Fetter
John Rush
Jeena
Rushes
Mani
George Frank
Walter Behrends
Jessie Behrends
Plains
Kansas
Goldie Frank
Harvey Wyckoff
Rahway
N. J
Warren Neikirk
Marvin Neikirk
Henry Wahffeld
Clarence Foste
al Wilson
Clyde Ellenberger
Patricia Rose Oswald
Springfield
State Fair Ground
Francis Woiwode
Carl Folkmann
William
Mrs. Gremehew
George Frederick
Viola and
Marie Morgan
J. L. Thomas
Emma Hart
Mrs. Ford Hinegardner
Ted Bender
Spring Lake
Jackie Bilyeu
George Bilyeu
Alemory’s
Brown
Carl Brown
Harold Meyer
Johnson Oil Company
Beebe
C. A. Beebe
G. A. Beebe
C. A. Beene
Marian Seelye
Josephine Seelye
Barbara Starrett
Manilo Epworth League
Epworth League Institute
East Bay
Bloomington
Commissioners of
Spring Lake Drainage and Levee District
Donaldson
Blue Ribbon
Harold Herrman
Dale Runyon
Happy Hustler
East Bay Bloomington
Louis ‘Warner
Green Valley
Washington, D. C
Ida Hodkinson
C. J. DeSutter
Nelson Scherer
Bertha DeSutter
Denver
Colo
Lawrence Limback
Geo. Gotham
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Mission
Benjamin Franklin
Reuben Moerr
Bender
Albert Moore
Rt. 1
Glen Tuckman
Lester “Fir
Sion
Manito, Ill
Hines Howe
South Pekin
Schureman
Central Iowa Feed Co
C. E. Hurlbert
Delavan, Ill
Raymond Jacobs
Rogers Piano Co
E. Green St
Champaign
Lil
Arcnet
Swift
Manila
Rickett Grain & Feed CO
Forest City, TI
Manito Drug CO
LAMAR
Manito, Oll
Robert Walker
Ava Gardner
Venus
Sun. Mon
Bing Crosby
Rhonda Fleming
John Payne
Gail Russell
EL Paso
Schmidt’s
Mary-Joseph Class
R. L. Mahr Manito, Ill
Peoples State Bank OF
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Schipper & Block Co
Pekin, Illinois
Singley and
Fischer
Lini Star
Tek
Ckages
Ogc
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