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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1948
Page
4
A fire scare at a filling station near C A tracks destroyed a oil truck and threatened nearby tanks. Local residents report marriages births and movements including Miss Ava Haste resigning from Manito post office and Mrs Floyd Meeker recovering after a porch accident.
Edna Kelly and sister's visit with John Schmidt in Peoria. Nora Meigs marks her 90th birthday on May 4. Numerous locals and visitors including Eva McKenzie, Martha Vance, Flossie Kelly, Mollie Corbett, Mabel, Harriet Olson of Chicago, C. J. DeSutter, Paul Meeker, Catherine Herrman, Doris Page, Norma Jean Warner, Jeannette Hewitt, George Bartee, Theodore Bendar, Iva Clark, Loren Himmel, Havana relatives, Dave Reynolds, Alfred Woiwode, Sophia Himmel, Carrie Pepke, Byron Budke, Marlowe Wilson, Ethel Runyon, Agnes Gay, Frank Snyder, Pat Bauer, Henry Bock, Anna Galvin, George Meeker, Sam Meeker, Mae Parkin, Mary Wooding, Judy Willier, Dianne Hirst, Perry Weyhrich, Henry Hirst, Iva Woods, Clyde Priddy, Clarabelle, E. B. Marshall, James Lyons, Harlowe Yeates, Raymond Yeates, and William Meyer are noted as visiting or hosting across multiple Illinois towns.
Mrs James R Barker of Green Valley died April 5 after a two day illness with heart trouble. Mr and Mrs John Krieling of Forest City celebrated their golden wedding anniversary April 26. Junior class at Green Valley High School planned the play It Happened in Hollywood. Clarence Golden returned from Louisiana to his parents J R Golden. William Rabe of Forest City was injured when a cow knocked him down. The Winn Scott family and companions attended the funeral of Miss Bell Falkner in Industry. Interment was in Macomb with several attendees from area.
Mr and Mrs Frank Long of Mackinaw were Spring Lake visitors on Tuesday and called on locals during a brief stay.
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