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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1952
Page
2
The item lists Walter DeVore as Editor & Publisher and J A Seelye as Local News Editor. It notes the paper is entered as second class matter at the Manito Illinois post office and lists a subscription price of 2.50 dollars per year.
Five Mason County students win University of Illinois scholarships awarded by the county superintendent after June exams. Winners gain four years of tuition exemption in five fields: County, Agriculture, Home Economics, Child of a World War I veteran, and Child of a World War II veteran. Eugene Watkins, Helen Roselyn Keith, and Kenneth Vincent Mullen are named as recipients from Mason County.
The article notes annual county ship contests held the first Saturday in June under the supervision of the County Superintendent of Schools with papers graded by the University. It also records visits by Mr and Mrs Lawrence Quick of Bloomington with Mrs Milt Seelye of Havana, plus health and travel updates about Milt Seelye recovering from a broken leg at Tremont Nursing Home. It mentions Frank and Mrs Palmer at a New Salem outdoor theatre production, and the Proffers from Charleston Missouri visiting Spring Lake Pekin and Morton, with Anne Marie Proffer a nurse at Baptist Hospital St. Louis.
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