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Newspaper
Morris Daily Herald
Location
Morris, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1958
Page
4
The Glenwood School for Boys at Glenwood warns that no enrolled students may solicit funds. False applicants posing as students are selling magazines to raise money. The school has issued a warning to friends and supporters. The note also mentions the US SR population at about 13 million.
Collections of short local items recount family events and incidents from Morris area. Highlights include a 1 year ago picnic at Gebhard Woods State Park, a newborn at Morris Hospital to Harold and (Mrs) Chapman, a 10 year old Billy Mickelson injured on Route 47, a 25th wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Eich, and a report of 91 Grundy County elementary districts filing aid claims. Also mentions travels to Chicago and Great Lakes, and dinners at homes in Dwight and Morrison area.
A dense local guide lists programs across channels from 6:00 P.M. to 1:05 A.M. featuring news anchors Alex Dreier and Julian Bentley, dramas like Wyatt Earp and Cheyenne, game shows such as Name That Tune and Pantomime Quiz, comedies Mr Adams and Eve and Miss Brooks, westerns like Broken Arrow, adventure Treasure Hunt, and late night items including The Utleys, Jack Parr, and Fabian with a silent service block.
Mrs A V Griffin and Mrs Edward Pack returned from Rockford where they attended the 34th annual VFW auxiliary convention Friday and Saturday. They will report on the event at the next unit meeting here.
Walter Pack of 804 E Jackson Street was knocked from a ladder while trimming a tree at his property corner of Main and Division. He sustained a triple wrist fracture and severe shaking, was treated at Morris Hospital, and released the same day.
Verona W S C S met Thursday in the Methodist church with Mrs T O Starks presiding. Mrs Robert Wooden and Mrs William Motter led devotions and gave a skit Changing Patterns in the March of Missions. Mrs George Finch, Mrs Melvin Bunton and Mrs Charles Leach served. Briefs The Rev C Fred Stolzenbach, Mrs George Knibbs and Mrs Howard Finch attended the recent conference of Methodist churches in Bloomington.
The Holstein-Friesian Assn of America announced completion of official records for Colantha Prilly Chieftain once owned by Lyte Grieff and E. Gantzert at rural Dwight. The cow yielded 17,254 pounds of milk and 503 pounds of butterfat in a year milking twice daily, as a seven-year-old, with University of Illinois oversight in the Herd Improvement Registry program.
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