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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1953
Page
3
The Express asks Manila readers to supply birthday and anniversary dates to update its lists. It seeks goings on from clubs and churches for a weekly calendar and reminds readers it sends papers to hospitalized individuals if notified.
The Altar and Rosary Society met at the Catholic Men’s Center to finalize plans for the annual fall bazaar. President Phyllis Woiwode led the meeting with minutes read by Helen Parkins.
Misses Bertha and Martha Briggs attended the celebration at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm Briggs in Peoria marking the couple�s 30th wedding anniversary.
Mr and Mrs George Bartee and their family were Tuesday supper guests of Mr and Mrs Ted Bender and family in a friendly social visit.
Patrons and friends of John Huette co-owner of the Manito Mill report he lies in Pekin Hospital after a Monday morning crash on N Main Street Pekin. He suffered head lacerations facial injuries and tooth loss. The milk truck driver was uninjured.
Last Friday evening the Explorer Scout Troop held its annual fall hay rack ride. About thirty scouts and guests rode two racks, one pulled by a jeep and the other by a tractor, with Ronny Wistehuff and Charles Bilyeu driving. Scoutmaster Hal Willett and Mrs Willett, along with Mr and Mrs Ralph Parkins, sponsored the event.
Illinois Valley zone of the Lutheran Woman's Missionary League holds fall rally at St Pauls Lutheran Church starting at 10 a.m. October 21 with Rev. O A Borchelt leading devotions and reports by Zone delegate Mrs Gustav Schone. The afternoon features speaker Mrs Karl Kurth on Africa as We Saw It from the Niger ian Mission Field.
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