Three Area Towns Plan Christmas Lighting Contests
Mokena Frankfort and New Lenox announce home lighting and street decor contests. Lions club backs Frankfort and Chamber of Commerce runs Mokena. New Lenox Association funds Yale lighting. Prizes range from 5 to 25 dollars with judges touring homes between Christmas and New Years. Entry blanks available at Frankfort Pharmacy Frankfort State Bank Hedges Clinic Lambrecht Insurance B M Lumber Co. A community tree stands at the village hall on Kansas street gifted by Bobzin Swinford American Legion post.
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Mokena
Frankfort
New Lenox
Lions Club
Chamber of Commerce
Association of Commerce At
Yale
Lions
Club
Rock Island
Front Streets
Boy Scouts
Front Street
Forkfor
Yule
Wendell Morrison
Donald Schroeder
Frankfort Pharmacy
Frankfort State Bank
Hedges Clinic
Lambrecht Insurance Agency
B, & M. Lumber Co
Kansas Street
Bobzin-Swinford Post
American Legion
Santa Claus To Distribute Candy Canes In Mokena Visit
Santa Claus plans a personal appearance in Mokena on Saturday December 16. He will tour the village streets in a convertible and hand out candy canes to local children. He prefers a convertible to a sedan for ease of distribution during the visit.
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Santa Claus
Mokena
Santa
Public Invites Yuletide PTA Program “Christmas in Many Lands”
Mo kena PTA invites the public to a December 19 yuletide program at Carpenter Street School starting 7 30 p m. The band and chorus directed by Perry Friedman and Mrs Clark perform customs and carols from England France Sweden Italy Germany Mexico Spain and the United States Santa Claus will also appear There is no business meeting and New Lenox Lumber Co supplied the community tree with the Association of Commerce decorating parts of the program.
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Mokena
PTA
Carpenter Street School
England
France
Sweden
Italy
Germany
Mexico
Spain
United States
Perry Friedman
Clark
New Lenox Lumber Co
New Lenox
The
Association of Commerce
Santa Claus
Doede couple grow premium Christmas trees in Illinois
Doede and wife convert 60 acres in Homer township to a Christmas tree plantation. They prune with hedge trimmers, plant 8 000 trees a day with a mechanical planter, and plan to expand by 35 more acres. Doede is Illinois Christmas Tree Growers Association director guiding a 150 member group with 138 000 trees for sale this Christmas.
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Doedes
Doede
Homer Township
Andrew Wicklein
Will County
T. W. Curtin
Urbana
Deedes
Illinois Christmas Tree Growers Association
Chicago
Illinois
New Lenox Bank Expands To Meet Growing Needs Of Area
The New Lenox State Bank opens a new addition doubling its size as assets rise from 27 000 to 365 000 with current deposits around 3 300 000. The expansion adds six teller stations two vaults two drive in windows a night depository and remodeled offices for directors and staff.
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New Lenox Bank
Lenox State Bank
C. W. Batson
Mokena
George J. Hacker
Lenox Bank
Hacker
New Lenox
Orland Park
Batson
Archibald Corp
John Handorf, Jr
Arbury Hills Residents Seek ICC Hearing on Water Rates
A petition was filed with the Illinois Commerce Commission for an immediate hearing on prospective water rates if Avebury Utilities Co is bought by Citizens Utilities. The Arbury Hills Civic Association retained attorney Robert Hultquist, funded by a door to door subscription of $1 per family.
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Illinois Commerce Commission
ICC
Arbury Hills
Summit Hill
New Lenox Post Office Adapts Yule Schedule
The New Lenox post office will stay open until 5 PM this Saturday December 16 to handle Christmas mail and packages. Regular Saturday window hours end at 1 PM. Postmaster Lester Brown says the window will be open Sunday from 1 to 4 PM with city delivery but no rural deliveries on that day.
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Stitute Carrier
Jester Brown
Charles Miller
Lenox
Lester Brown
New Lenox
Cedar Road
Christmas Vespers Concert At Lincoln Way High
Lin coln e Way high school's music department presents its annual Christmas Vespers Sunday at 3 in the school auditorium. Admission is free with seating first come, first served. The program features the band led by Robert C. Taylor and diverse choral numbers including The Adoration of the Magi, four carols, excerpts from Handel Messiah, and a joint Hallelujah Chorus finale.
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Lincolne Way High School
Robert C. Taylor
Clare Cranchman
Tom Olson
Death Takes N. Lenox Man
Funeral services were held for Harry A. Ittersagen 72 of 120 Ash St New Lenox at Baskerville chapel with Rev Alfred H Hunter presiding Burial followed at Oak Hill Cemetery in Chicago He died Friday December 8 at Silver Cross Hospital after a period of ill health A pattern maker at Calume t Pattern Works for 33 years he moved to New Lenox in 1956 and retired in 1958 Surviving wife Clara a son John three grandchildren and two sisters plus several relatives He was a member of the New Lenox Methodist church Olympia Lodge 864 AFAM of Chicago and was preceded in death by a son two sisters and three brothers.
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Harry A. Ittersagen
Ash St
New Lenox
Baskerville Funeral Chapel
Alfred H. Hunter
New Lenox Methodist Church
Oak Hill Cemetery
Chicago
Mr. Ittersagen
Silver Cross Hospital
Calumet Pattern Works
Marley Woman Shares Dark Fruit Cake Recipe
Mrs. Russel Lauffer of Marley presents a Christmas Holiday Fare recipe for a failure proof dark fruit cake. The piece lists ingredients and steps, noting the recipe is long standing in her family tradition and tied to Marley church and community activities. Additionally a separate item reports Lee Cooley of New Lenox reporting a shot out picture window at his home Friday night.
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Russel Lauffer
Marley
Lauffer
Marley Baptist Church
Marley Missionary Society
Frances Gillette
Laufe Fer
Lee Cooley
New Lenox
Amvets Draw No 784 Wins Yule Food Basket
The Amvets post announced a drawing among area flyers with numbers for a Christmas foods basket including turkey. No purchase or entry required, and holder of No 784 can claim the prize by contacting Daniel Kurber of the Mokena Amvet post at the local pharmacy.
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Amvets
Turkey
No. 784
Daniel Kurber
Mokena Amvet Post
Mokena Pharmacy
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Phil Lord
Doede’s
Hjalmar Rehn
Henry Schluntz
Hauck
Bank, Corp
Vranicar
Handorf
Dwight W. Egle
Robert J. McCleary
N. Lenox
P.O
Death
N. Lenox Man
Marley Woman
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