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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1949
Page
3
Don't throw that old chair away. Have it repaired at Stuart's Repair Shop. Cane seats replaced with old fashioned cane. Refinishing of all types at reasonable prices. Stuart Thomas, Manito, Illinois. Phone 4 1et-col We thank everyone for kindness after the death of our mother Elizabeth Dwyer.
The Havana Agricultural 4-H Club met Monday night at Deverman School with Mr and Mrs Dickland Smith as hosts. Talks included Fight Dairy Diseases and Keeping Cattle Clean and Testing Milk for Butterfat.
Local notice shows a phone contact for Rickett Grain & Feed Co located in Forest City Illinois likely serving agricultural supply needs. No additional details provided.
Central Illinois Light Company Pekin Illinois advertises genuine Frigidaire farm and home freezers at reduced prices with floor samples available for immediate purchase.
For sale items include a Farmall tractor in excellent condition and an 8 cylinder Studebaker in excellent condition. Contact Roy Cornell at 1% blocks south of Vogels Market on Blacktop Manito Illinois for details.
A Pekin area bridal shower for Dorothy Messman and visits among families such as Glick Strube Budke and Deverman are noted along with hospital and kitchen circle events. Separately grain storage losses rise 1 to 2 percent monthly while crop pests add an estimated four billion dollars of damage. U S wool output in 1948 declines six percent to 3 535 million pounds and national wool production sits at 280 million pounds, the lowest since 1923.
Governor Adlai E. Stevenson appointed Harold W. Norman as chairman of a seven member advisory group to advise on state school funding. The group includes Richard G. Browne William B. Spalding William C. Reavis Eugene Lawler Vernon Morrison and George W. Mitchell. Schools request 123 million dollars for the next two years, nearly double last biennium.
State police tracked 93 948 trucks and arrested 7 372 operators for weight violations in the first six weeks of the program to curb overloaded trucks on Illinois highways. In week six 12 344 trucks were weighed and 680 drivers were arrested, 5 5 percent, with arrests sliding from 13 8 percent in week one. Fatality rates on Illinois roads declined for three straight years while 128 118 accidents were recorded in 1948, with 80 percent in cities and 20 percent in rural areas. The Wagon Wheel Inn at New Salem state park opens March 23 for the 1949 season.
New Salem state park offers 120 capacity and is located on Route 97, twenty miles from Springfield and 65 miles from Peoria. The Illinois National Guard strength surpassed 18,000 on March 1, with 16,541 enlisted men and 1,507 officers, and 293 Guard units activated since the post war reorganization began.
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