Memorial Day Remembrances From Wellsville Past
Notes recall Memorial Day events and the First ME Church sermon on May 25 1902, with Yeager Sharp GAR post leading a town parade to the cemetery for services and flowers. Also mentions 1918 Red Cross letters from Wellsville soldiers and local families tied to wartime memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellsville
Hay Bell
Yeager- Sharp Post
GAR
Yeager-Sharp Post
First
Basford
Garber
Col. Lewis
Wellsville Cornet Band
J.M. Yelton
J.B. McQuie
J.A. Eicher
T.H. Bunch
B.D. Gilliland
Personal News Of Perry Continues With Club Activities
The Perry area social column reports the Garden Club meeting at the Sleysters with six members and a guest Miss Tonda Joesting. Members donated 27 plants to Twain Haven patients and planned a planter for Leisure Manor. A terrarium demo was given as a hostess gift. Graduation notices include a major aviation technology graduate from Linn Technical College and a new job at McGraw Edison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.0. Sleyster
Tonda Joesting
Twain Haven
Garden Club
Sleyster
Nels Joesting
Jim Gough
Ginger Bohning
Leisure Manor
Linn Technical College
Albert Leake
Fred Mack
Leake
McGraw- Edison Co
Jefferson City
Nadine Webb
Robert Parks
Wpfa Club
Perry City Hall
Adolphus Winfree
Evelyn Baker
Entre Nous Club
Ira Goodnight
Stanley Vaughn
Goodnight
Teacher Found Beaten To Death St. Louis Suburb
Police in Northwoods entered the apartment of 33 year old Wardel Parker and found him dead, apparently beaten. He was last seen Sunday afternoon and had likely been dead at least two days. An autopsy would be performed by county medical examiner staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Northwoods
Wardel Parker
Centralia School Announces Health Check Requirements
Parents must submit a completed health examination form and birth certificate for all students. Seventh graders and rising sophomores must have a health exam before fall. Forms were mailed. call school nurse Mrs. Paul Wilson if no letter arrived. Also note a correction: Mrs. Adrian Friere’s name omitted from a Centralia Alumni Association meeting story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chance Elementary School
Paul Wilson
Adrian Friere
Henderson
Texas
Centralia Alumni Association
Paris Personal News Lights Up Local Court Roundup
Judge Carroll Black presided in magistrate court Tuesday. Daniel Louis Carston of Rush Hill pleaded guilty to C and I driving at excessive speed, fined 25 dollars and 12.10 costs. Joseph P. Stamp of Holliday pleaded guilty to C and I driving for failure to drive on the right half, fined 100 dollars and 12.10 costs. Frances Rouse Monroe County treasurer reported the final state school payment of 174,489 dollars allocated to Monroe City 89,781 Paris 46,931 Middle Grove 3,529 Holliday 14,544 Madison 19,592.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll Blackwell
Daniel Louis Carston
Rush Hill
Joseph P. Stamp
Holliday
Frances Rouse
Monroe County
Monroe City
Paris
Middle Grove
Madison
Vandalia Personal News Highlights May Holiday Weekend
Vandalia residents mark Memorial Day weekend with no meeting next Monday. Brenda Jean Talbott infant daughter of Donald and Mary Talbott released from University Medical Center weighing five pounds one and a half ounces. Grandparents Alvin Peter and Gay Jee Sanders of Payson Illinois visit with Talbott family. John David Waddell born Friday at St Elizabeth Hospital Hannibal eight pounds four ounces. Paternal grandparents Henry and Mary Waddell of Curryville. Mrs Waddell formerly Mary Montoya a Van-Far teacher. Dr Ronald Talbert Cheryl Vicki Phillip visit from Fayetteville Arkansas.
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Brenda Jean Talbott
Donald Gene Talbott
Vandalia
University Medical Center
Columbia
Alvin Peter
Payson, Ill
R-1 High School
Gay Jee Sanders
Payson
Donald Talbert
John Henry Waddell
Curryville
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Hannibal
John David
Henry Waddell
Atkins Named Distributor Manager and World War II Veteran
Atkins, now distributions manager, married Dorothy Tudor of Salisbury in 1944. Tudor, a Christian College graduate, teaches in the Mexico elementary system. Atkins served 50 months in the Army Air Corps in the South Pacific, discharged December 1946 as a captain, and has spent the past year on a Circuit Judicial committee and other civic activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Tudor
Salisbury
Christian College
Columbia
Mexico
Army Air Corps
South Pacific
Atkins
Community leader and charity board member announced
A Boone and Callaway Counties committee to study district justice administration names an officer of the First Christian Church and one of two elected members on the A B Chance Company Employees Savings and Profit Sharing Committee. He is a Shriner. This ad message invites Ledger readers to place want ads by電話 581-1111.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boone
Callaway Counties
First Christian Church
A.B. Chance Company
Shriner
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Jimmy Enslen
J. F. Enslen
Fort Sam Houston
Red Cross
Kansas
Oklahoma
Tam
MTC
Army
Enslen
Harold Enslen
Clarence Hildebrand
G. F. Goullee
AIF
Tran
Charles Senf
Perry
AVTI
Sharon Frances Utterback
Northeast Missouri State College
Sharon
Curtis Utterback
Perry Rte. 1
Association For Childhood Education
Student National Education Assn
Miss Utterback
Fannie Utterback
Frank Bloomfield
Gary F. Leake
Witte
Venetian
Gamble Paint & Glass
Mere
CornellacLa
General Electric
Centralia
Clark Stotler
Audrain Medical Center
Tri-County
Satuday
Ronnie Talbert
Cheryl
Vicki
Phillip
Fayetteville, Ark
Ralph Talbert
Omar Boulden
Hirsch
Ehadid
Jchambrayt
Jacquard
Oxfords
Bco
I P
Peer Ocedas
Plaza Shopping Center
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