Local notes from May 4 1944 community roundup
A compilation of wartime and local updates. Proehl family at Mackinaw area amid high water. Caterpillar Tractor Co. interview event for Peoria plant applicants. Travel plans, Rotary meeting guest speaker Set Leron Farnam’s army service, and Parkland School final picnic with a service flag honoring Harold Meyer Herrman and Don Herrman. Local grocers suspend deliveries due to labor scarcity. Mason County track champs with Forest City and Havana results. Coach Forddy Anderson Bradley set to speak at May 9 banquet. Monroe’s Cafe to run two rail trips to St Louis and Chicago. American Legion Auxiliary meetings notes include Poppy Day plans for Manito May 22 and a Fish Fry May 17. Gold Star Mothers honored. nominating committee appointment and Memorial Day Independence Day programs outlined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Proehl
John Proehl
Mackinaw
Caterpillar Tractor Co
Peoria
W. G. Gore
Glenn
Camp Swift
Texas
Leron Farnam
Trindad
Rotary
Parkland School
Lola Brenner
Harold Meyer
Army Air Corps
Harold Herrman
Navy
Don Herrman
Army
Manito
Matilda Bernshausen
Legion
Thelma Hirst
Spring Lake Church Sets Vacation Bible School Dates
The Spring Lake Church announces a two week Vacation Bible School using God s Wonders from Scripture Press. Sessions run May 31 to June 11 from 9 30 am, Monday through Friday, with a final program on the evening of June 11. Teaching staff includes Marguerite Whiteford Wanda Golden Paul Rager Bernice Smith Paul Gager and John Bender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spring Lake Church
Marguerite Whiteford
Wanda Golden
Paul Rager
Bernice Smith
Paul Gager
John Bender
Baseball Results Sunday May 9 in Havana gathering
Mr and Mrs Owen Singley attended a family gathering in Havana Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs Cal Singley. Guests included Mr and Mrs John Golden Yates City and other relatives. Connie Lynn Boyer joined her mother heading to California to visit her father at Hamilton Air Force Base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owen Singley
Havana
Cal Singley
John Golden
Yates City
Geo. Singley
South Pekin
Allison Meeker
John David . Boyer
Connie Lynn
California
John David Boyer
Hamilton Air Force Base
How It Was Named Air Conditioning
Air conditioning got its name from the textile industry where yarn conditioning described controlling moisture in fiber, similar to how air conditioning controls water vapor in the air.
Political parties split over key questions
The remark notes that factions within parties diverge when handling contentious issues and prefer cautious, middle-ground positions to avoid alienating wings. It underscores how intra-party disagreements shape public messaging and policy stances.
Caterpillar workers save life with AB positive blood donation
Manito and Caterpillar Tractor Co employees Glen Williams Darlene and Alice Fay visited Oren Zimmerman family for Sunday dinner and thanked three volunteers who donated AB positive blood to aid Delos Boatman after a severe internal hemorrhage. Four Caterpillar donors responded but one was unable to donate due to a cold. The pictured trio with Delos are Coyle Shultz John Wormer and Clyde Swanson from Building HH.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glen Williams
Darlene
Alice Fay
Oren Zimmerman
Boatman
Hig Farm
Here
Delos
Red Cross Blood Center
Peoria
Coyle Shultz
John Wormer
Clyde Swanson
A Cool Future Slated for Nearly Two Million AC Homes
By end of 1958 about 2 million single family houses will have year round air conditioning. Non air conditioned homes will head toward obsolescence, following prior shifts from horse and buggy and other outdated devices.
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Alemory's
Forest City
Mason City
Forddy Anderson
Bradley
Methodist Church
Monroe's Cafe
St. Louis
Cardinals
New York
Chicago
Cubs
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Luella Shirley
M.C.H.S. Tigers
Dan River
Chambray
Lofthouse
Pekin, Til
Bible School
Lewistown
Dumfermawine
Pos
J. Schimmelpfenning
F. Vaughn
Sane
Saat Eenennesenrenens
J. Wilecoxin
B. Wilson
T. Taylor
Eeneenensensenee
Bellayille
Higgins
Reitt Eter Erer McFord, c Wes Recsessees Sabeceses D. Johnson, Cf Ae M. Roe
Roe
L. McComb
Chicago Motor Club
The
Cater
Pillar Tractor Company
Caterpillar Folks
Eeee Delos D. Boatman
Kelvinator
Etter
Poe
Central Illinois Light Co
Court St
Pekin, Il
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