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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1954
Page
8
The Maiie Community Express reports local news and events for Thursday July 15 1954. Details cover community notices schools churches and neighborhood activities in concise community style.
Classifieds show women wanted to mail postcards weekly from Watertown Massachusetts with box nine. Also an athletic foot remedy ad promoting Jenkin's Rexall Store and saw filing supplies from Eugene White Sunset Lake with drop-off at B and J Cafe.
Grain bins arriving in Easton and Pekin repair services offered by Mason County Service Co. Vacuum cleaner repairs for all makes with rebuilt units starting at 15 dollars. Apricots listed at four dollars a bit in Manito and Sidney Coombs.
Mr and Mrs Carl Clausen of Los Angeles welcome Megan Ann born July 6 at St Vincients Hospital weighing four pounds four ounces. Baby to remain in incubator. paternal grandparents John Clausen Rockford and maternal grandparents Lester and C F Warner Forest City and Manito respectively. They now have eleven great grandchildren. Sharlene Vogel recovers satisfactorily from burns suffered July 5 and may receive visitors.
The Section 12 Vocational Agriculture Fair will be held July 27 at the Fulton County fairgrounds with 20 high school departments from Fulton Mason and Tazewell counties presenting products. Livestock and poultry hail from top breeding stock and many enter Illinois State Fair classes. The fair runs July 27 to 31 with an afternoon and evening Frontier Days show at the grandstand.
Girl Scout leaders advisors and assistants attended an advisory meeting at the home of President Mrs Alice Meyer on Monday evening The Rotary Club was represented Also present were Mesdames Christine Lynch Dorothy Farnam Frances Budke Marie Bernshausen Lorietta Maas and Russell Maas Following discussions of plans and a general business meeting a lunch was served by the hostess
Judging starts 8 30 a m CST for swine beef and poultry with other classes to follow. Swine judge is Dick Herm of Peoria Union Stock Yards. Beef dairy and sheep judge is Art Schick from Sterling Illinois. Poultry and vegetables judged by Merrill Mahr Spoonriver Hatcheries Fairview.
The Forman Clippers girls softball team faces the Doubets Hybreds at the Forman Diamond at 6 30 CST Friday. Concession stand will offer soda pop.
A wheat marketing quota referendum will be held on July 23, 1954. All producers with wheat acreage above fifteen acres for 1955 are eligible to vote. Voting locations span Bath, Havana, Forest City, Mason City, and Easton townships with hours 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. CST.
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Thomas of Macomb plan to move this weekend to Manita into the home recently vacated by the Harold Herrmans. Kenneth has completed his studies toward his Master Degree.
A reflection on how sharper sight can still miss broader truths as individuals fix on a single facet of an issue. The piece argues for considering multiple angles to avoid biased conclusions.
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