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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1954
Page
6
Mr and Mrs Delbert Kirgan hosted a group of Boy Scouts and parents at their Sunset Lake cottage for Hallowe en. The party featured masked games and traditional play plus roasting hamburgers and weiners in the fireplace.
Reell Leeds and son Steve, Harold Weyrich, sons Joe and Chuck, Wil Moehring and son Eugene, Ray Heiser, Gary, Paul and Linda, Earle Stauffer and son Malcolm and Scouts Gary Schuma, Larry, Johnnie and Richard Kirgan and Sara Rankin.
Mr and Mrs Wm Russell and son Billie of Peoria visited Joe LaRash and his son on weekend. A Tuesday breakfast included Mesdames White and Joe Dunn with Mrs Eugene White who marked a birthday. A birthday dinner at Mrs Marie Taylors in Pekin honored Mrs White with gifts from family members.
The article lists multiple social visits and birthday parties in Burlington Iowa. Highlights include Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Cuttler, Mrs. I. C. Williamson, Eugene White, Wm. Russell and family, Joe LaRash, and the McDonalds as TV guests. Eugene Taylor hosted a Friday party for his son's first birthday with a cake by Grandma Taylor. Ronny Frederick celebrated his sixth birthday with games ice cream and cake, helped by Mrs. Wm. Fischer and Mrs. Joe Dunn, who also marked her own birthday on November 3.
An error in the election tabulations on page one shows 138 votes for George Strawbridge in Mason City Precinct No. 2. It should be 198 votes.
Seventeen Auxiliary members attended a joint Legion and Auxiliary pot luck supper on Monday evening. After dinner they held their respective business meetings. They plan to meet at Mrs. Harry Selke’s home on Monday evening November 8 to plan the dinner for the County Meeting on Sunday November 14.
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