Manito Community News Marathon March 27 1952
Down Memory Lane recalls events from 1902 including Frank Isenberg joining J A Marshall and Co and Anna Schoneman to finish an unfinished term. P R McComas secures license to wed a Waverly Illinois woman. Fire ravages Manito area threatening the business district but is contained with the Manito Lumber Co plant destroyed in a blaze March 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Isenberg
J. A. Marshall and Co
Anna Schoneman
Frank
P. R. McComas
Judge McComas
Waverly
Daniel Ide
James Pollard
Manito Lumber Co
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J. T. Huffman
Manito High Board Sees Regretful Resignation Tendered
March 30 1922 Aaron Pollard resigns from the Manito Community High School Board triggering two new board seats to be filled. The notice specifies an upcoming election for those vacancies.
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Aaron Pollard
Manito
Local Notes on Residents and Fishing Tales
Tess Velde's term of office expires this spring. Miss Marie O'Hara, a Peoria telephone operator, spent Sunday at home. Miller's Garage at Old Palace Livery Barn offers Auto Repairing of all kinds. Henry Miller owns it. Fishing at Spring Lake is good this season with Cora Dix and Hazel Mayhew reporting a twenty pound catch. Fuzzy Fehrman Biddy Brenner and Dec Wright share fish stories from the past week.
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Tess Velde
Marie O’hara
Peoria
Miller
Old Palace
Henry Miller
Spring Lake
Cora Dix
Hazel Mayhew
Fuzzy Fehrman
Biddy Brenner
Dec Wright
Fire destroys Otto Hilst’s Undertaking, amounts to loss
A Saturday evening blaze gutted the Otto Hilst Undertaking Establishment. The fire began in the Undertaking Parlors office and quickly swept the two story building, spreading to the Manito Hardware Co. shed. Estimated loss about 25000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Hilst
Undertaking Establishment
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