4 H Achievement Day Held in Church Basement
The local 4-H Achievement Day was held in the church basement on Friday July 16. The program featured a processional pledge to the flag and 4-H flag, songs including the Star Spangled Banner, various solos and talks, demonstrations on shrinking material and pressure cooking, flower arrangement, and a lunch of lemonade and cookies prepared by the cooking girls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loretta Warner
Loretta Crosby
Lucille Meyer
Clothing Girls
Solo
Pauline Frederick
Flower Arrangement Girls
Mildred Gerrietts
Oh Susanna
4-H Club Girls
Flora Kastner
Glenna Spaits
Lucille
Betty Lou Meyer
Phillis Whitehead
Marilyn Bernshausen
Joyce Hill
Jean Reed
Joyce Hamilton
Barbara Gorden
Mary Quick
Jane Bender
Joye Risen
Kathryn Meeker
Cooking Girls
Forest City Church Holds Picnic at Mineral Springs Park
The Federated Sunday School and church picnic gathered about 130 people after a morning service at Forest City Church led by Pastor Joseph W. Hobbs and Superintendent Byron Kreiling. Attendees traveled to Pekin for a noon basket dinner and an afternoon of visiting and a band concert with guests from Pekin and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federated
Mineral Springs Park
Pekin
Forest City
Joseph W. Hobbs
Byron Kreiling
Peoria
Mason City
Manita
Washington
Dinner Honors Visiting Wamser Family in Pekin
Mr and Mrs Arley Schenert hosted a Sunday dinner for visiting Mr and Mrs John Wamser and family. Guests included Mr and Mrs Adramn Sprague of Peoria May Jane OHara Mr and Mrs Robert Watson Walter and Clyde Watson Pekin and Mr and Mrs John Watson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arley Schenert
John Wamser
Adramn Sprague
Peoria
May Jane O'Hara
Robert Watson
Pekin
Walter and
Clyde Watson
John Watson
Talbotts Welcome Daughter Connie Lynn
Mr. and Mrs. Gaile Talbott are the proud parents of their first child Connie Lynn a daughter born at Pekin hospital Sunday July 18 at 7 p.m. weighing eight pounds Mother Marjorie Smith and baby are healthy Grandparents are Henry Smith of Delevan and Glenn Talbott of Manito.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaile Talbott
Pekin Hospital
Connie Lynn
Marjorie Smith
Henry Smith
Delevan
Glenn Talbott
Manito
Lois Warner Visiting Kin as Others Return from Vacation
Miss Lois Warner of Ionia Michigan visits her uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs J R Null and relatives in Forest City. L A Wilson Merle G Ferree return from two week vacation at Camp La Rue Nest Lake Spicer Minn. Frank Carey Omar Virginia also back from two week trip visiting New York Niagara Falls Chicago and relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lois Warner
Ionia
Michigan
J. R. Null
L. A. Wilson
Merle G. Ferree
Camp la Rue
Nest Lake
Spicer
Minn
Manito Cleaners
Mary
Barbara Whitaker
Frank Carey
Omar
Virginia
New York
Niagra Falls
George Carey
Chicago
Capping Exercises Honor St Francis Nurse Trainees
Norma Jean Warner and Shirley Graff received their nurse caps at the St. Francis hospital capping exercises in Peoria. The event at the St Francis Nurses Home auditorium included guests Jeannette Hewitt George Bilyeu Joseph Hobbs and Dillard Warner for Norma Jean and Leonard Graff Earl Ruth Lawson Mayor Adolph Keith and his sons Eldon and Bryon for Shirley. Refreshments followed on the Recreational Playground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norma Jean Warner
Shirley Graff
St. Francis Hospital of
Peoria
St. Francis Nurses Home
Norma Jean
Jeannette Hewitt
George Bilyeu
Joseph Hobbs
Dillard Warner
Shirley
Leonard Graff
Earl
Ruth . Lawson
Adolph Keith
Eldon and
Bryon
Methodist Minister Appointed for Manito Community Church
Rev. David Powell of Elsworth Illinois has been named new minister for the Manito Community church. He and his family will move to Manito soon and begin duties on Sunday August 1. Rev. Kinsman from Peoria will lead the Sunday morning service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Powell
Elsworth
Ill
Manito Community Church
Manito
Kinsman
Peoria
Ice Cream Social Clears $81 for St Pauls Lutheran
The young ladies of St Pauls Lutheran church cleared 81 dollars at an ice cream social held last Friday evening. Twenty five dollars will be given to the Mission Collection and films for the Sunday School will be their next project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul’s Lutheran
Gumbel Family Moves Into New East Town Home
Mr and Mrs Grover Gumbel and their sons moved Saturday into a modern new residence on the east part of town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Grover Gumbel and Sons
Illinois Savings Bonds exceed 146 million in sales
The Illinois headquarters of the Treasury's U S Savings Bonds Division reports security loan sale of over 146 million as of July 10. Series E sales were 99 114 636, series F 6 275 365 and series G 40 788 300. Final figures will not be available until late in July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
The
Treasury
U. S. Savings Bonds Division
Visiting Relatives Here In Manito Visit
A South Bend Indiana family arrived last Friday evening at the home of Mr and Mrs Arley Schenert for a visit returning home Monday This was their first visit in seven years and they were glad to see how Manito had progressed Mr Wamser was formerly of Manito.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Wamser
South Bend
Ind
Arley Schenert
Manito
Wamser
Mrs Hirst Hosts Sunday Chicken Dinner Guests
Mrs. Hannah Hirst entertained with a chicken dinner at her home Sunday. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Grover Gunderson from Chicago, Mrs. Augusta Jibben of Green Valley, Bob Gumbel of Peoria, and Jesse Spaits with Mrs. Marie Gumbel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hannah Hirst
Grover Gunderson
Chicago
Augusta Jibben
Green Valley
Bob Gumbel
Peoria
Jessie Spaits
Marie Gumbel
Vincent Runyon
Mrs
Ross Beale
Lutheran Church Sunday Schedule and Communion Date
Lutheran Church announces Sunday School at 9 00 a.m. worship 10 00 a.m. The next Communion Service will be held Sunday August 1st. Registrations for Communion will be received after the service on July 25. O A Borchelt pastor.
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O. A. Borchelt
Manito Girl Betrothal Announced at Tremont Picnic
At a Tremont picnic at Mr. and Mrs. Walter Plattner’s home, Miss Mary Catherine Burks of Manito and Robert Getz of Tremont announced their betrothal with napkins bearing their names. Miss Burks works as a bookkeeper at Court Motors in Pekin, while Getz staffs Century Metal Craft Corp. in Peoria. A fall wedding is planned. Also visiting were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Endicott and their son from Detroit, Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Plattner
Tremont
Mary Catherine Burks
Olive Burks
Manito
Robert Getz
George E. Getz
Mary Catherine
Bob
Miss Burks
Court Motor’s Inc
Pekin
Mr. Getz
Century Metal Craft Corp
Peoria
Cafe plans August Forest Park Zoo trip
Ken Monroe announced his cafe will sponsor an all day excursion to Forest Park Zoo in St. Louis. The bus departs Monroe Cafe at 6 am Sunday August 8 and returns to Manita around midnight. Tickets are six dollars per person.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ken Monroe
Forest Park Zoo
St. Louis
Monroe
Manita
Community Express adds features to Reader Columns
Feature articles and cartoons are added to the Community Express Reader Columns this week with more to come. Readers are invited to turn the pages and meet new writers or renew ties with longtime contributors like Dale Carnegie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Community Express
Dale Carnegie
Forest City Home Coming Set for August 26
Forest City Home Coming Association officers announced the event will be held Thursday August 26 on the High School Campus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest City
Forest City Home Coming Association
Forest City Church Picnic Attended by Warner Hewitt Family
Mr and Mrs Dillard Warner along with Jeannette and Peggy Hewitt attended the Forest City Church picnic on Sunday at Pekin Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillard Warner
Jeannette
Peggy Hewitt
Forest City Church
Pekin Park
Callers Marlowe Wilson and Glen Smith in Mason City
Mesdames Marlowe Wilson and Glen Smith served as callers in Mason City last Friday afternoon, providing a social dance or community event recitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mesdames Marlowe Wilson
Glen Smith
Mason City
Wedding Ties Tie Pekin Families To Calumet City
Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Albrecht and relatives from Pekin traveled to Calumet City Illinois to witness the wedding of Richard Paschke and Dolores O Kray at St Andrews Catholic Church in a double ring ceremony. Rev Father Fidelis Albrecht officiated. Guests attended a reception at Memorial Park Hall hosted by Arthur Paschke and Bert Hudson families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacqueline Lee Tackman
William Tackman
Manito
Richard Thomas
J. L. Thomas
Methodist
Joseph W. Hobbs
Modelle Warner
Norman White
Harold Meyer
Norman Thomas
Dewayne Thomas
Ronald Thomas
Kenneth Thomas
Charles H. Gent
Rudy DeSutter
Bernie Albrecht
Fred Albrecht
Pekin
William Meyer
Gertrude
Marcella
Calument City
Illinois
Richard Paschke
Dolores O’kray
St. Andrew's Catholic Church
Fidelis Albrecht
San Angelo
Texas
Memorial Park Hall
Hewitts Headed to New York for Three Week Visit
Miss Jeannette Hewitt and her niece Peggy Hewitt of Orlando Florida leave Monday for New York City to visit their brother and father Major S A Hewitt for three weeks. Joan Hewitt joins to Rockford where she will visit relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeannette Hewitt
Peggy Hewitt
Orlando
Floriia
New York City
Major S. A. Hewitt
Joan Hewitt
Rockford
Community Hosts Engage in Busy Peoria Pekin Manito Visits
A crowded slate of Sunday gatherings spans Peoria Pekin and Manito with numerous families hosting dinners, lunches, and visits. Hosts include the Beales Gainer Bernshausen Schierbeck Coombs Hirst Meyer Halters Fornoff Palmer DeSutter Wil son and others.
Peoria Woman Weekend Guest at St Louis Ball Game
Mrs. Bertha Flocken of Peoria visited the Heckmans and Parkins in St. Louis and attended the ball game Sunday with them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leroy Parkins
St. Louis
Funeral Services Held Today for 5. M. Hill Local Resident
Funeral services were held today at 2:30 p.m. at Johnson Funeral Home for 81 year old Manito resident 5. M. Hill a former carpenter and farmer who died Monday evening at Pekin hospital. Burial followed in Meadow Lawn cemetery. He was born December 16 1867 in Mason County and married three times, with four sons a daughter and a brother surviving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson Funeral Home
Joseph Hobbs
Meadow Lawn Cemetery
Mr. Hill
Manito
Pekin Hospital
R. A. Hilling Construction Co
Comunittes
Mason County
Thomas
Nancy Long Hill
Laura Calloway
Peoria
Alice Kent
Spring Lake Home Bureau Holds Meeting
The Spring Lake Home Bureau met Thursday at leader Mrs. Ora Caldwell home. The Charming Chicks 4-H club held an Achievement Day with Loma Alice Golden and Wanda Lowry on salads demos Imogene Thomas and Rose Marie Wilson on bread making and Sylvia DeSutter on dress making. Sylvia was chosen to exhibit in Pekin at the County 4-H Show in August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spring Lake
Ora Caldwell
Charming Chicks 4-H Club
Loma Alice Golden
Wanda Lowry
Imogene Thomas
Rose Marie Wilson
Sylvia DeSutter
Sylvia
Pekin
Mrs Johnny Fischer Honored With Kitchen Shower
Mrs. Johnny Fischer a recent bride was celebrated with a kitchen shower last Thursday at the Harold Meyer home. Hostesses included Mesdames Harold Meyer Raymond Meyer Walter Proehl Clarence Meyer Louis Proehl and Louis Schuttler. Prizes were awarded in fifty for Lois De Sutter Hazel Beebe Colleen Monroe and Martha Meeker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny Fischer
Harold Meyer
Raymond Meyer
Walter , Proehl
Clarence Meyer
Louis Proehl
Louis Schuttler
Lois de Sutter
Hazel Beebe
Colleen Monroe
Martha Meeker
L. J. Sutter
Emily Jean Beebe
Myrtle Beebe
Geneva Schutler
Bertha Singley
William Proehl
Fletcher Rice
Mavis Miller
Millie Jenkins
Thelma Hirst
Pearl Zeeck
Hattie Seelye
Pauline Whittaker
Opal Ethell
Carol Brenner
Helen Palmer
Family returns from Eastern trip visiting White House
Mr and Mrs Dan Jenkins and Mr and Mrs Arvin Beebe returned home Monday after a one day journey through New York and into Canada and Washington DC where they visited the White House Philadelphia and attended the Democratic convention and other eastern states
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan’ Jenkins
Arvin Beebe
New York
Canada
Washington D. C
White House
Philadelphia
Tazewell Co Garden Festival Sets August Dates
Tazewell County Home Bureau units plan a two day Garden Festival on August 12 and 13 at Douglas School Pekin. Ribbons will be awarded in divisions such as table settings specimens floral pictures children's entries miniatures unit displays and novelty vegetable flower and seasonal arrangements. Further details on classes and educational program will follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tazewell County Home Bureau
Ways and Means
Home Adviser
Pekin
Douglas School
Rotary Notes A Manito Club Meets for Planning
Members of the Manito Rotary Club met in the church basement for their weekly session. Attendees included Rae Canopy, Henry Gosda, Joseph Hobbs, and others with guests Albert DeVore and Walter Prochl. They discussed forming new Rotary clubs and noted the Governor’s visit on November 23, 1948 and a District Conference to be held in Jacksonville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manito Rotary Club
Rae Canopy
Henry Gosda
Joseph Hobbs
W. L. Kerr
E. Knupple
W. C. Langston
R. L. Mahr
Donald Parkin
Clyde Priddy
Amos Thompson
Robert Varney
Ties Velde
C. Nelson Warner
Dillard Warner
Albert DeVore
Walter Prochl
Govenor
Jacksonville
Hal Willetts to Manage La mar Theatre
Last Monday Hal Willett and his wife of Peoria took over management of the La mar Theatre. They plan to move into their new home in Manito soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold “Hal” Willett
Peoria
Lamar Theatre
Manito
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Talbotts
Forest City Federated Church
Bryan Kreiling
ST. Francis
Lutheran Church
Carl Endicott and Son
Detroit
Luella Endicott
Hazel Schimmelpfenning
Larry DeSutter
Sunny B. Thomas
Nelson Breedlove
Greta Beene
Shirley Tackman
Josephine Scherer
Marie Morgan
Gene Marquardt
Ralph Schmingall
Manito High School
Mr. Thomas
Mrs. Thomas
France
U. S
Georges Bidault
Jefferson Caffery
Paris
Averell Harriman
Regence
Calumet City
Arthur Paschke
Bert Hudson
Navy Pier
Lake Michigan
University of Illinois
America
Dentistry - Medicine - Pharmacy
University of Illinois’ Chicago Professional Colleges
Medical Center
University of
Illinois College of Pharmacy
School of Pharmacy
University
Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry
Don Gainer
Jane
Ashland
Manila
Lidia Bernshausen
Mabel Schierbeck
Newell Schussell
Eva Wilson
William Wilson
Sidney Coombs
Wilford Bush, Pekin
Vern Herrman
Lewis Coombs
Robert Kastner
Kathyn Meeker
Jesse Hirst
Ed Rankin
Mary Dreyer
Fred Snelle
Topeka
Leonard Halters
Jack
Mollie Paemant
Mabel
Urin
Princeton
Frank Cranwill
Harold Mason
Harry Fornoff
Lila O’hara
Agnes Gay
Walter Black, Pekin
Ernest Palmer
Lyle
Ben Cox
Nora Barker
Farmington
Iowa
Dorothy Tyler
R. Stem
Spring Lake Cottage
Lewistown
Ed Kloker
Breadstown
C. J. DeSutter
Mary Etta Cox
Charles Nations and Sons
Salt Lake City
Utah
C. Woodward
Paxton
Grover Gumbel
Matt Mahr
Robert Maas
Folbert
Harry Martin, Sr
Frank Palmer
Harry Selke
Mary Louise
William Halpin
Glenn
Carl Long and Son
Mackinaw
Long and Son
Harry Martin
Thur
Palmer
Clayton Folkman
Canton
Edward Wagonmaker
Jerry
Anna, Rose
Shirley DeSutter
Elmer Scherer
Hal Willett
Mrs. Henry Palmer
Clarence Fornoff
Surnday
Bernie’ Albrecht
Pekin Rey
Nietes
Peggy
Flordia and
Dean
Keokuk, Iowa
Mrs. Dillard
Bertha Flocken
Earl Heckman
Lewis Warner
Sant
Meeker
George Schumm
Robert
Wayne Strawbridge
Ralph Mitchell
Alpha Ethell
Katherine
Marvin Quuck
Delbert
Charles
Ray
Wilbert
Walter
Laura Green
Cornelius E. Hill
Mapleton
Spring Lake Home Bureau
Tazewell CO. Garden Festival
Hal Willetts
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