King City art poster contest winners announced
The 1973 Thrift Art Poster Contest winners from King City Federal Savings and Loan Association have been named. First place in four categories advances to the Illinois Savings and Loan League state contest for up to 1200 dollars in awards. Winners will be announced before Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King City Federal Savings and Loan Association
Linois Savings and Loan
King City
Russell Gilbert
Mt. Vernon Township
Margie Reynolds
Casey Jr. High
Shelly Pierce
Farrington
Stephanie Sweetin
Lucas Hackley Nuptials Held In Mt Vernon Home
Autum colored intimate wedding of Jane Alice Lucas and Loren Bruce Hackley at the bride’s Mt Vernon home officiated by Rev. Russ Hart. The couple, both employed locally, will reside at 2415 Half Moon Drive in St. Louis. Out of town guests included the groom’s mother and his sister and brother-in-law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Alice Lucas
Loren Bruce Hackley
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Russ Hart
Sue Wolfe
Elmer Hart, Jr
Route 4
Mt. Vernon
Julie Anne Hart
Dick Gehrke
Chromalloy American Corporation
Searle Laboratories
Half Moon Drive
St. Louis
Genevieve Frisby
Linda and
Waterloo
Mayor's car hit in Scottsdale city lot accident
Scottsdale Parks Department sweeper collided with Mayor B. L. Tims’ car in a city hall lot. The incident prompted officials to note that rank offers no privilege, as Tims observed after the Fender-bender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scottsdale, Ariz
Scottsdale
City Hall
B. L. Tims
Tims
Two Local Eating Champions Break Budget in Peppered Feast
Port Elizabeth report notes Basie de Vries and Ettienne Mayer, both local cochampion eaters, consuming 36 boileders 48 pancakes and 3 pints of soft drinks each in just half an hour. The stunt highlights tight food budget advice for nearby diners and local quirky talent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Elizabeth
South Africa
Basie de Vries
Ettienne Mayer
Christmas Candy Recipes for Home Makers in New Orleans
New Orleans cream pralines and a white fudge recipe for holiday gifts. Pralines require brown sugar salt evaporated milk butter pecan halves and vanilla then heated to soft ball stage before folding in vanilla chilling and shaping. White fudge combines sugar sour cream corn syrup butter salt vanilla cherries and walnuts cooked to a soft ball and cooled for cutting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Caramel Walnut Logs and Chocolate Walnut Mounds Recipe
Caramel Walnut Logs with condensed milk and walnuts, formed into four 5 inch rolls, coated in caramel and nuts, then cooled and sliced into about 40 pieces. Also instructions for Chocolate Walnut Mounds using semisweet chocolate and English walnuts.
Social Scene Highlights From Local Alumni Dinners
Social notes cover a Nursing Alumni dinner with Rend Lake College in Centralia at Langenfeld Hotel on December 17 at 7 p.m. A $2 gift exchange and reservations via Darlene Dycus by December 9 are noted. Hairdressers To Meet Monday outlines a Christmas party and exchanges at the same hotel. The W. W. 1 Auxiliary to Barracks 102 Veterans of World War I met at the American Legion hall for a November gathering with a noon pot-luck, a brief business session, and a Christmas greeting initiative for shut-in members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nursing
District 13
LPNAI
Rend Lake College Nursing
Langenfeld Hotel
Centralia
Darlene Dycus
Artistic
American Legion Hall
Dewey Merritt
Candace Dougherty
Etna Stover
Ruth Farthing
Nut Halves and Large Pieces Prepared for Clusters
Readable fragment notes drop in clusters on waxed paper. The line items describe arranging nut halves and large pieces for future use, detailing placement on waxed paper as a preparation step.
Closing Thought Live Dangerously Advice from Past Times
Live dangerously was once common guidance when conditions allowed a person to choose a bolder path. The remark reflects safer eras and the idea that risk linked to freedom varied with social constraints and opportunities of different periods.
Engagement and forthcoming marriage of Carole Ann Baker
Mr and Mrs Clyde Baker announce the engagement of their daughter Carole Ann to Paul Dean Davis son of Mrs Merle Fortune all of Mt Vernon The prospective groom is stationed with the U S Army at Fort Sam Houston Tex and attends laboratory technician school A December 23 wedding is planned at First Presbyterian Church Mt Vernon
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Baker
Carole Ann
Paul Dean Davis
Merle Fortune
Mt. Vernon
U.S. Army
Fort Sam Houston
Tex
First Presbyterian Church
Lillian Putz Announces Fund for Victoria Wendel Reception
Lillian Putz 6th district treasurer outlines a fund to host a reception and testimonial dinner for Victoria Wendel of Illinois, who will become National Auxiliary President next summer at the Kansas City convention. King City Auxiliary votes support and notes two guests, Albena Zivney and Hazel Bigelow, attend remarks on upcoming state convention and officer elections. The Barracks and auxiliary plan to omit December meeting due to Christmas Day, Jan 22 next luncheon, birthday dinner to follow, colors retired, Myrtle Malone at piano.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Putz
6Th District
Victoria Wendel
Illinois
Kansas City
King City
Albena Zivney
Hazel Bigelow
Salem
Department Conductress
Myrtle Malone
British dahlias adopt metric sizing for shows
Britain's metric conversion advances with the National Dahlia Society mandating metric measurements for exhibits. New bloom limits set sizes by category: large 260 millimeters, medium 240, small 170, minimum 113 for a standard, and pompom 50 millimeters, with judges using metric rings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Britain
National Dahlia Society
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mark Coats
Mt. Vernon Township High
Dale Wechsler
Casey Junior High
Marcie Stallings
Rome
Lori Boyd
Bob Tracey
Mike Walker
Mt. Vernon Township High School
Dawn Klevorn
Lincoln
Kieth Porter
Dorothy Lomax
Jeanette Odle
Evelyn Davis
Helene Curtis
Ladies’ and Men’s Amity
Mickey and
Minnie
Snoopy
South Side Drug Store
Mary Jane Studio
Carole Ann Baker
Lee
al Laila
American Gem Society
Vernon
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