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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1954
Page
8
Classified notices list car washing service with Gary Gosda and Jim Wistehuff contact numbers. Also advertisements for sale of wheat bins by Butler Grain Bins in Easton Mason County. Additional rental listing offers a two room house with bath and oil furnace in Dixie Rae Selke's notice with phone 230. Desk blotters.
Local service offers hand or power sharpened mowers repaired and adjusted to run smoothly. Leave orders at Seelye Hardware or Hub's Service Station in Forest City.
Nine Forman FFA members attended the 26th Annual State FFA Convention in Springfield. Four Forman students Frank Golden Jr Eldon Wahlfeld Wayne Knaak and Steven Herr man received State Farmer Degrees among Illinois chapters, with Cisne earning five and Forman tied for fourth overall in the state. The event followed FFA activities including the All State Chorus and skits at the State Armory.
Mr and Mrs J A Seelye and Barbara arrived home Monday night from a vacation in Wisconsin. They were joined by Diane Smith who plans an extended visit with her grandparents. Mrs Paul Neikirk flew to Redlands California to visit Mr and Mrs Harold Meyer and help care for her granddaughter Roby Jo Meyer. Mr and Mrs Melvin Fischer Kingston Mines were Friday guests of his parents Henry Fischers. The group visited Anna Proehl and Agnes Gay in the afternoon.
The 1954 Year book of the American Peoples Encyclopedia reports the United States sent diplomatic representatives to 76 countries in 1953 and was represented by diplomats from 77 countries, including 68 ambassadors and 8 ministers. The U S ambassador to Paraguay had been left vacant.
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