High School News at M C H S Seniors Ready Yearbook Ads
Seniors plan graduation invitations and personal cards while candy sales at home games prove profitable. Certificates for typing accuracy awarded. ads for the yearbook sold in Pekin and Havana with price cuts. Photos for the yearbook taken. chorus and girls sextet rehearse, with a district contest in Jacksonville on March 26 featuring The Lost Chord.
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Glenna Smith
Donna Lieschedit
Glenna
Donna
Jacksonville
Junior News on Authors and Shorthand Writing
The piece notes English lessons on authors like Emily Dickinson and Mark Twain and discusses shorthand practice including abbreviations and state names. It presents a classroom overview of reading realistic stories and learning shorthand methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emily Dickinson
Samuel L. Clemens
Mark Twain
Hamblin Garland
Shorthand, Typing Awards Highlight School Update
Illinois shorthand and typing progress are summarized with several students earning awards. Jean Marie Woodley and others passed speed tests and received shorthand or typing honors. The report covers economics topics, city government, science experiments, and ongoing math and literature study with optimism for remaining students.
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Illinois
Jean Marie Woodley
Delores Borchelt
Wanda Lowry
Lucille Meyer
Bill Meyer
Greta Beebe
Jean O'Hara
Mr. Rush
Gregg Shorthand and
Dolores Borenel
Flora Kastner
Jean O’hara
Dolores Borchelt
Mason County Home Bureau Play Day attendees listed
Topeka society notes list Mesdames Himmel Noll Schierbeck Smith Friedrick Rountree Sallee Atwater and McHarry as Mason County Home Bureau Play Day participants. Recreation chief Mrs Himmel aided entertainment.
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Mason County Home Bureau
Manito
Mesdames
Virgil Himmel
Stanley Noll
Harold Schierbeck
Dorland Smith
Russell Friedrick
Charles Rountree
Stokely Sallee
Herey Atwater
Eugene McHarry
Herman Strube
Donna Belle Deverman
Graham Hospital
Canton
Harold Deverman
Henry Wendt
Ira Rakestraw
Peoria
Trinity Gym
Poems Read and Questions Answered In Class
Students show broadened horizons as poetry and Q A sessions begin. Agriculture students engaged in shop work learn soldering techniques by joining tin pieces in hands on practice.
Local Residents Attend Events and Visit Friends Across Town
Dean Behrends of Macomb spent the weekend with his parents. Galesburg hosted Pioneer Seed Corn meeting attendees Mr. and Mrs. Herman Glick. Numerous residents visited relatives and took part in social gatherings including farewells for Eldon Wiemer and trips to Florida. The Mor gans home sold to John Walden, and Carl Thomas moved to a farm with his wife.
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Dean Behrends
Macomb
Mrs
Edward Behrends
Herman Glick
Galesburg
Pioneer Seed Corn Meeting
Howard Bader
Browning
James Crafton
Don Gainer
Jane
Ashland
Lydia Bernshausen
Lester Bernshausen
Harold Bernshausen
Curtis Morrgan
John Walden
Bob Fornoff
Tommy Strawbridge
Jim Bernshausen
Stanley Meyer
Florida
Carl Thomas
Len Halter
Peoria
J. E. Corbett
Pekin Social Roundup Sees Local Callers and Guests
Mrs Eva Wilson and Mrs John Fries were Pekin callers Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Lyle Palmer and Mr and Mrs Ernest Palmer were breakfast guests Sunday morning of Mrs Eva Wilson. Mr and Mrs William Fritz and children Morton were dinner guests Sunday of Mr and Mrs Clarence Farnum.
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Eva Wilson
John Fries
Lyle Palmer
Ernest Palmer
William Fritz
Morton
Clarence Farnum
Local callings feature Pekin residents visiting kin
Mrs Aron Cramer and daughter Margaret with Lena Cramer of Pekin visited Mrs Minnie Cramer on Sunday evening. Pekin visitors included Mr and Mrs Clarence Farnum and their guests John Peoples and daughter Lillian, and Mr and Mrs Kenneth Look with children. Wayne Schuttler visited Mrs John D Proehl. Grover Nixon and Thomas May of Oak Hill dined with Mr and Mrs W G Gore. John Urish Rebecca Jane and John Cooper visited Dr and Mrs Cooper and Mary Alice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aron Cramer
Margaret
Lena Cramer
Pekin
Minnie Cramer
Clarence Farnum
John Peoples
Lillian
Kenneth Look
Louis Schuttler
Wayne
John D. Proehl
Grover Nixon
Thomas May
Oak Hill
W. G. Gore
John Urish
Rebecca Jane
John Cooper
Mrs. Cooper
Mary Alice
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Allene Borchelt
Allene
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Marie Morgan
Joan Dennis
Allene Borchett
Lowell Warner
Kenneth Thomas
Mary Quick
Annabelle Palmer
Max Schimmelpfenning
Betty Marquardt
Jenkin’s Rexall Store
Manito, Illinois
Junior News
Pekin Refrigerator Co
W. J. Comisky
Freshman News
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Bovis
Strainer
Dormeyer
Jenkin
Rexall Store
Topeka
E. B. LeSourd
Wilson O'Grady
Bessie Morris
Adolph Budke
Paul Friedrich
Raymond Mason
Elmer Mason
Frank Maskel
Bartonville
J. F. McCarty
Henry Strube
Deverman School
Eldon Wiemer
Havana, Illinois
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