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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1949
Page
4
The 5th Annual Turkey Banquet will be held at 7:00 p.m. Thursday, November 17 at the Manito Methodist church. Sponsored by the Comrades of the Way Sunday school class, tickets available from class members or at the door. Public invited.
Miss Bobbie Parkins entertained Monday evening at her home with a Halloween party. The evening featured pinochle and refreshments for guests Marjorie Friedrich Shirley Bernshausen Marilyn Waddell Bob Fornoff Marvin Fischer Max Schimmelpfenning and Bruce Meyer.
Mr and Mrs Frank Snyder Crewe Coeur and Tom Smith Clinton Ia joined weekend guests Mr and Mrs Charles Smith. Mr and Mrs James Langston Emden and Mr and Mrs Al Schrader Harpsburg were Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs Owen Singley. Wayne Wistehoff and sons and George Meyer dined with Mr and Mrs James Seelye. Green Valley visitors Mrs Woodrow Dunnam called on Mrs Corrier. Mrs Louis Schumm Green Valley visited Louis Hiller. Ted Bender family called Sunday afternoon on Mr and Mrs John Bender. Vincent Runyon shopped in Peoria and visited Monday. Louise Heckman and Etta Cox dined with Mr and Mrs C J DeSutter Saturday. George Clementz and son Greg of Wilmington spent Thursday to Monday with Glenn Talbott. James Gilmore Pekin called on Burton Guengerich and family and on Dean Meyer and son. W G Gore took a business and pleasure trip to Springfield Sunday. Glen Ary and family Green Valley visited Roy Friedrich and family. Mrs Vernon Parr Green Valley visited with her mother Mrs Grace Friedrich Tuesday.
Forest City announces Family Night at the Federated Church Monday evening November 28. The Baptist church hosts with Mrs. Louis Lempke’s Sunday School class in charge and entertainment committee members C Nelson Warner John Harms and Dillard Warner assisting.
Farmers expect corn fields to be turned after husking to use excess down corn. Illinois reports unusually large farm corn stocks and strong beef demand with a shift toward lighter weight cattle this fall.
The state division of livestock industry warns farmers about losses from buying hogs sold by unreliable trucker-dealers. Many animals are said to be diseased and brought into Illinois from other states without proper controls.
A brief classified note highlights mulching brambles before winter freezes and mentions grass waterways reducing water runoff on sloping fields. It emphasizes workers at a modest price.
The current term grants 1,759 scholarships across Illinois four year state teachers colleges. Director Noble J. Puffer credits the General Assembly for the boost, with allocations split among Illinois State Normal University 755, Western Illinois State College 336, Eastern Illinois State College 282, and Northern Illinois State Teachers College 386.
Grade school launches a paper drive inviting magazines and paper bundles left on the card. Rural collectors may call for arrangements. collection occurs Friday November 11, early in the morning.
Governor Adlai E Stevenson names Mrs Beatrice 8 S Bpandet of Dwight and State Representative Maude N Peffers of Aurora to the advisory board for the State Training School for Girls at Geneva. Six other members were appointed earlier in October.
Cattle on grain feed in Illinois as of October 1 totaled 201000 head, about nine percent fewer than a year ago and seven percent less than on July 1 this year, per state and federal agriculture departments. About 272000 stocker and feeder cattle were shipped from western ranges into Illinois during July, August, and September, with many not yet placed on grain feed but kept on pasture.
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