Monroe Court Agrees To Keep Free Food Program
Monroe County Court and the Daniel Boone Community Action Agency agreed to monthly USDA commodity food distribution with the county paying warehouse storage and the DBCAA covering transportation, supervision, and other costs. The court will decide monthly whether to continue the program, and the DBCAA must arrange transport from Monroe City to Paris and Madison. The article also notes 1971 county budget details, tax levy, and various local civic items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Ransdell Paris
Monroe County Court
Daniel Boone Caa
Office of Economic Opportunity
N. K. Deaver
Monroe City
DBCAA
Monroe County
Paris
Madison
Ean
General Assembly
Cannon
Fadler Promoted At Chance
J Stanley Fadler Jr. of Centralia is named purchasing agent for A B Chance Co. He becomes machine shop foreman and starts the new role February 1. A Centralia native, he progressed from draftsman in 1961 to manufacturing engineer in 1964 and foreman in 1966. He is married with two sons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Centralia
J. Stanley
Stan) Fadler Jr
Miles Avenue
A. B. Chance Company
Harry 0. Donnahue
Fadler
Chance
University of Missouri
Stanley Fadler
S. Rollins St
Centralia High School
Sue Austene
Benjamin Austene
Hailsville
Holidays To Close Martinsburg Lock Boxes
Postmaster C. W. Paschang announced the Martinsburg post office will be closed all day on holidays. Regular service continues on nonholiday days, with lockbox access up to 5 p.m. the business day before holidays, and no inconvenience anticipated for customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Paschang
Martinsburg
Paschang
Wellsville Royal Neighbor Lodge Installs New Officers
In Wellsville an installation service at the Community Room installed Mrs. Joe Jackson as the new Oracle succeeding Mrs. Martha Arnall. Installing officers were Mrs. Orville Irby, Mrs. Clyde Cochran, and Mrs. Elmer Keith, with eighteen members present including new initiates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Jackson
Wellsville Royal
F. A. Zimmann
Wellsville
Joe
Elsie) Jackson
Royal Neighbor Lodge
Richard
Martha) Arnall
Orville Irby
Clyde Cochran
Elmer Keith
Walter Hall
Jennie Robinson
Lottie Walker
Inner Sentinel
Maude Erickson
Outer Sentinel
W. R. Keele
George Penrod
K. P. Scholl
Sam Blackshaw
Orville Oden
Chaston Porter
Mary Crough
H. J. Appling
Roy Haislip
Endurance
Ruth Arnall
Richard Arnall
Arnall
Helen Castle
Lodge
Wellsville FFA Delegates Named for State Convention
At the R-1 high school Monday night Wellsville FFA elected Dennis Lehnen and Charles McCoy as delegates to the State Young Farmers Convention in Columbia during Feb 14–15. Twenty members attended to view slides and hear Fred Vedder discuss his Europe agriculture tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DCBAA
Missouri
Stoutsville
DECAA
Monroe County
The
Legion Hall
Rock Foundations
Mabel Gibbs
Philip Weedin
Paris
Columbia
George Cook
F. A. Zimmann
Wellsville
Dennis Lehnen
Charles McCoy
Young Farmers
R-1 High School
Fred Vedder
Europe
Bill Domermuth
A. P. Smith
Harvester
Troy
Elsberry
Clapton
Bowling Green
R-1
David Burwell
Jim Gearhart
Buddy Haislip
Mickey
Vandalia Club Antiques Show and Local News Highlights
Vandalia community notes tell of the Brice Friendly Neighbors Extension Club meeting at Mrs. Malcolm Coose home with Mrs. Tom Moses delivering a devotion. Antiques display and a treasure exchange prevailed as members shared hundred year old items. Funeral notices include William J. Cambhurst of Springfield and Dora Crane of Bowling Green. 4-H Merry Mixers meet at South Elementary with 13 members and 17 visitors as the club plans its coming year. Other items report Morday leadership conference in St Louis, student updates, and Van-Far school menu for Feb 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brice Friendly Neighbors Extension Club
Malcolm Coose
Tom Moses
Springfield
Ill
William J. Cambhurst
Dorothy Keach
Will Amfahr
Vandalia
Larry
Carol) Janousek
Deerfield
John
Mary K.) Squires
Champaign
M I
Amfahr
Rosie Chasteen
Damhurst
Nelson Brown
Fred Girard
Dora Crane
Bowling Green
Kirk Funeral
Farber Cemetery
Crane
Girard
Ronald Stanislaus
Fred Coss
Robert Motley
Missouri Baptist Leadership Readiness Conference
St. John’s Baptist Church
St. Louis
Merry Mixers
South Elementary
Susan Powell
Patrick McCollum
Bob McCollum
Audrain Medical Center
Mayo Culwell
Bob Bland
Emma Pettey
Bill Giltner
Wilbur Rentfro
Mary Vanatta
J. D. Sullivan
Shaw
Gene Brown
Kirksville State College
Menu highlights from Mexico Ledger Thursday meals 1971
The Mexico Ledger lists Thursday and Friday meal options including chocolate cake with icing, milk and peanut butter sandwich, salmon patties with sides, potato salad, buttered peas, apple sauce and bread. Friday features toasted cheese sandwich, American fried potatoes, lettuce with dressing, milk and pineapple chunks.
Sodality Elects At Martinsburg
Martinsburg district officials elected leaders of Our Lady of Lourdes Sodality at St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Mrs. Steve Welschmeyer was chosen president with C. S. Bertels Harold Duthbert and Joseph Wieberg in key roles, assisted by Arnold Fennewald and Austin Fennewald, plus Benton Lowry as treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances J. O’meara
Also Mentioned on This Page
Monroe Court
Monroe County Historical Society
Jesse Stockton
van Hoosen
Holliday Christian Church
Holliday
Monroe County Welfare Office
Franklin Welch
Moberly
Stanley Fadler Jr
A&b
Washington
M’burg
Wellsville Royal Neighbor Lodge
FFA
Pritchett
R-J
Tigers
Auxvasse
Joe Huston
Steve Harrington
Williamsburg
Huston
Eric van Buren
Hallsville
van Buren
Walla
Citizen S Savings Association
Jefferson & Liberty Sts
Mexico, MO
Sowhowahon
Vandalia Club
Rutter
Mexico
Ledger
Sodality
Rebekah Lodge
Hall
Pearl
Trade Ins
Cadillac
Opel
Falcon
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