Wiests To Celebrate Golden Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. George Wiest of Centralia celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house February 10 at First Baptist Church from 2 to 4 pm. Hosts include daughters and families Juanita Mechlin of Mexico and Wanda Lou Berrey of Thompson. They have nine grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. The couple, former Violet Reed and Duncan, Oklahoma, married there and are active in church and community service. Mr. Wiest is a retired deacon and former Sunday School superintendent. she is a former president of the Little Bonne Femme WMU. Both held grand lodge offices in Odd Fellows and Rebekah. Mr. Wiest worked 25 years at A.B. Chance Co. and served as Centralia mayor for two years.
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Centralia
George Wiest
First Baptist Church
Paul
Juanita) Mechlin
Mexico
Harold
Wanda Lou) Berrey
Thompson
Wiest
Violet Reed
Duncan
Okla
Little Bonne Femme Associated Women’s Missionary Union
Odd Fellow Lodge
Calendar Friday Through Tuesday Events in Audrain County
Audrain Calendar lists Friday bridge at 7 30 p m Air Park Motel Feb 1. Saturday chili soup and slave auction at 7 p m Mar tinsburg center with Gospel Strings to benefit Benton City Community Center Feb 2. Sunday Antique Auto Association meets 1 30 p m First National Bank Feb 3. Monday D A R Mexico chapter 1 30 p m Audrain County Historical Society Feb 4. Head Start Advisory Council 7 p m First Presbyterian Church public invited Feb 4. Tuesday Helping Hand Circle 2 p m Home Feb 5. Whatsoever Circle p m with Mrs H and Marquette hostesses Feb 5.
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Gospel Strings
Martinsburg Community Center
Benton City Jolly Neighbors
Benton City Community Center
Mexico
Daughters of the American Revolution
Audrain County Historical Society
Audrain Center Advisory Council
First Presbyterian Church
The
King’s Daughters and Sons
H. &. Marquette
Roscoe Pfitzer
Martinsburg Extension Club Plans Programs
Martinsburg Extension Club met January 22 with ten members. Devotion by Mrs. Bachmann. program on cutting food costs by Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Gastler. President Par sifal discussed books for the year. Group closed with How Great Thou Art. Prizes awarded to Becker and Deimeke. Refreshments served.
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Martinsburg
Greg Fennewald
Robert Bachmann
Jerry Wright
Thelma Gastler
John Parsifal
A.J. Becker
Carl Deimeke
McClintic Club Elects Officers For New Year
The McClintic Rustlers Extension Club met with Mrs. Jerome Johnson for their January meeting with 15 members present. Officers for the year were elected: Mrs. Ruby Adams president, Mrs. Robert Maxwell vice president, Mrs. John Maxwell secretary, Mrs. Curtis Graves treasurer, and Mrs. Lawrence Troesser reporter. The Blood Mobile will be in Laddonin March 11 and a program for senior citizens will be planned by club and Rush Hill Church classes.
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McClintic Rustlers Extension Club
Jerome Johnson
Robert Maxwell
Harold Maxwell
Laddonin
John Maxwell
William Goshorn
George Doebelin
Jolly Reapers
Rush Hill
Martin Maxwell
Ruby Adams
Curtis Graves
Lawrence Troesser
Johnson
Tom Maxwell
Clyde Brown
Doebelin
Goshorn
Donald Shoup
Clyde Shoup
Ben Eastwood
Walter Hitz
John Silagi
Mexico Rebekah Lodge Installs New Officers
About 60 attended the Friday night meeting of Mexico Rebekah Lodge 295 as district deputy president Betty Homes installed the lodge officers. The ceremony featured Bible and flag presentations and pledges with a color lineup of officers led by noble grand Bessie Crawford and the motto Renewing Attendance and Promoting Rebekah Odd Fellowships.
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Mexico Rebekah Lodge
Mexico Lodge
Betty Homes
Irma Dodson
Violet Wiest
Shirley Mansfield
Dora Bagley
Virginia Greene
Mexico
Ruth Prewitt
Helen Brown
Wallie Dutton
Centralia
Nora Evans
Lena Williamson
Leonard Snyder
Freddie Crews
U. S
Bessie Crawford
Noble Grand
Conrad Forrest
Rodger Freeman
Raymond Mahoney
L. W. Snyder
C. H. Nichols
Leland Crews
RSNG
William Wyss
LSNG
Harold Frosch
Inside Guardian
Maggie Gallop
Outside Guardian
Kenneth Keller
RSVG
Alice Dutton
LSVG
Elsie Hall
Alice Harper
PNG
Albert Dutton
Harry Cowley
Norman Riddle
Sunshine
Francis McCowan
Donald Forrest
International Rebekah
Homer Martin
Audrey Potter
Ways and Means
Miss Bastian to compete in Miss Gallaudet Pageant
Nancy Lee Bastian daughter of Mr and Mrs Bill Bastian of 1904 5 Fairground St has been chosen by the Gallaudet Bisonettes as their rep to the Miss Gallaudet Pageant at Gallaudet College Washington DC The pageant precedes Miss Deaf America in Seattle July A Gallaudet junior majoring in home economics she is a member of the Bisonnettes and Home Economics Club and was outstanding senior girl from St Louis chapter of the Missouri Association of the Deaf in 1970 She graduated from the Missouri School for the Deaf Fulton
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Nancy Lee Bastian
Bill Bastian
Fairground St
Gallaudet Bisonettes
Bisonnettes
St. Louis
Missouri Association of the Deaf
Missouri School For the Deaf
Fulton
Historical Museum Room Available For Meetings
Audrain County Historical Society invites clubs and organizations to use the drawing room as a meeting space with short notice. A $1 room fee, pantry, and cleanup service are offered. artifacts and speakers are available for meetings, including a Bi Centennial program this week with DAR involvement.
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Audrain County Historical Society
Robert M. White
Currier
Tvo
L.mitchell White
The
Historical Society
Dar’s
Frank E. Kent
Wednesday Club Reviews Destination Tomorrow and More
Miss Marjorie Barnes continued the Destination Tomorrow review at the Wednesday Club meeting while Mrs. William D. Merritt led current events. Mrs. John 5S. Carr reviewed Between Teacher and Child by Haim Ginott and Mrs. H. Peter Ekern summarized Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia by Alfred W. McCoy.
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Marjorie Barnes
William D. Merritt
Haim Ginott
John 5S
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Rebekah Lodge
A.B. Chance Co
Homemakers Club
John Staples
Garfield Community Center
Marie Bozarth
Charles White
Naomi Byars
Lula Teague
Leta Thomas
George Watts
B.E. Barnett
Harlan McCowan
Laura Melahn
Anna Perkins
Leo Hall
Staples
Byars
Teague
McCowan
Mrs
Steak House
Precht - Pickering Funeral Home
Ballew-Pickering Funeral Home
E. Sneed
Connie L. Pickering
Charles W. Rahmeyer
Audrain Duplicate Bridge
Air Park Motel
McClintic Club
Jamie
Mike Kelleher
Irvin Gruer Jr
Auxvasse
William Kelleher
Miss
Bastian
Nancy L. Bastian
Logan Pharmacy
Cet
Amt
Teh Orlinaes Me
Discount City
Wal-Mart
Wal-Mar
F. M. Maupin
John Russell
Rainbow Girls
Wallace Melahn
J. Charles Ekedahl
Virginia M. Durham
Kenneth Mantle
Mabel M. Haycraft
Nelson Groves
Georgia M. Gentle
William T. Oliver
Joe D. Wilson
O. K. Moore
Mr. White
Audrain County
Wednesday Club
Montgomery
Soucek
W. Jackson
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