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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1975
Page
9
Wellsville city office has application blanks for participation in the housing rehabilitation program. When filled out, return to the city office. A meeting of the directors and Mayor Mike Shire was held.
The Jaycee Wives sponsor a UNICEF drive at 2:00 p.m. Sunday meeting at the Jaycee building from 1:30 p.m. in costume. Prizes awarded for two school groups and refreshments after the event.
Farmers Home Administration will be closed all next week as staff attend a statewide meeting October 29 to 31 called by John C. Foster state director to review policies and implement new procedures. Audrain County attendees are Don V. Weinhoff and Artelia Kelley. The office closes Monday for Columbus Day and remains shut until 8 a.m. November 3.
Perry Town and Country Club members joined District 3 at the Brunswick Methodist Church, nine of 34 attendees from seven counties. Local president Cleo Wells and secretary Laura Belle Jones led a devotion, with Jones later joining the resolutions committee. The Ralls County Club will host District 3 meetings in fall 1976. ACub Pack 124 at Perry Presbyterian Church held a Tall Tales themed meeting with songs, a skit, poems, and new leaders and Cubs welcomed into Den 1 and Den 3.
The Friends of Florida announce the craft shop will close for the season after this Sunday. The group operates a gift shop with handmade items to benefit the town of Florida, birthplace of Mark Twain. The Monroe County Historical Society hosts its annual dinner meeting Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Mark Twain Cafe with Ralph Gregory as program chair.
Frank Berg Brandon, 63, born in Farber October 4, 1912, died in a Midwest City hospital after a 14 month illness. Funeral held at Eisenhower Chapel with burial at Arlington Memory Gardens. Survived by Elsie Huddleston, three children in California, sister Mrs. Melville Hawkinson of Farber, plus several siblings.
Mr Brandon, longtime Farber resident now in Midwest City, formerly an inspector plater at Tinker Field Air Force Base, hosted Elvis Corbin and Willis Baldwin families from Norman. They toured Mark Twain sites in Florida and Hannibal, viewed fall river scenery via Highway 79, attended Passion Play, visited Shepherd of the Hills area, Lake of Ozarks, and joined Farber Presbyterian Adult Choir at Curryville Church for Sunday worship.
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