Various Local Residents Travel and Visit Over Holidays
Local readers note a flurry of post holiday travel and visits. Jackie Loy Swain heads to Fort Francis FE Wyoming for Air Forces automotive schooling while numerous Mt. Vernon residents return from Lincoln Omaha Wayne City and other points for family and business.
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Jack
Loy Swain
BE. K. Swain
Bluford
Fort Francis FE
Warren
Cheyenne
Wyo
U. S. Air Forces
Dorothy Fraser
Mt. Vernon
Lincoln
Neb
Roy L. Simpson
Carbondale
Donald Hottenson
Chrys
Eldorado
Merle Rightnowar
Trene Smith
Wayne City
Vernon
Velma Wolfe
Fairfield
Minnie Sanders
Keenes
Marlon Ellison
Kansas City
Olin Bryant
Willmore
Asbury College
Lara Mills
Charles Myers
Mt. Carrol
Carl Murphy
Detroit
Mich
Murphy
Wayne University
Pearl Henderson
Denver
Colo
George Carr
Cecil Roper
Helen
Edna Mount
Taylorville
Ill
Ivadene Bumpus
Pfe
David E. Sowers
Tacoma
Wash
Robert Stephens
Jacqueline Waite
New York City
Warren Waite
South 26Th Street
Paul Rollinson
Dix
Lloyd Bumpus
David
Greenville
Carl Buerkle
St. Louis
Guy Wallace
Baton Rouge
Johnetta Perry
Claude Perry
Births in Johnsonville Mill Shoals Waltonville area
Mr and Mrs Leland Harrell of Johnsonville welcomed a son born yesterday afternoon at Good Samaritan Hospital. A daughter arrived at Jefferson County Memorial Hospital at 6 00 pm yesterday to Mr and Mrs Carl Edward Francis of Mill Shoals weighing eight pounds. Mr and Mrs Robert Michall of Waltonville announced a son born yesterday evening at Good Samaritan Hospital named Robert Leonard.
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Leland Harrell
Johnsonville
Good Samaritan Hospital
Jefferson County Memorial Hospital
Carl Edward Francis
Mill Shoals
Robert Michall
Waltonville
Robert Leonard
Meetings and Masons and Legion Gather Tonight
Regular Moose meeting at 8 o'clock urged for all members. Andrew D. Webb Chapter No 160 special meeting Wednesday Jan 5 at 7 30 p m with Mark Master degree. Jefferson Post re American Legion holds important meeting tonight at 7 30 at the Legion Home.
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Moose
Moss Pigg
Royal Arch Masons
Andrew D. Webb
S. Gale Bourland
Jefferson Post Re
American Legion
Legion
Legion Auiliary
American Legion Auiliary
Mrs. Degenhart Dies at Dahlgren
Christina Degenhart 61 died at 11 20 last night at her Dahlgren home. Funeral 9 00 Friday at St Johns Dahlgren with Rev William Brandemeyer officiating. Burial in St Johns cemetery. Survived by husband Philip, son Albert of Dahlgren, daughter Mrs Charles Miller of Mt Vernon, sister Mrs Barbara Rolland of Oregon, brothers Leonard Birkner of Odell and George R Birkner of Dahlgren, five grandchildren.
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Christina Degenhart
Dahlgren
St. John’s Church
William Brandemeyer
St. John's Cemetery
Charles Miller
Mt. Vernon
Barbara Rolland
Oregon
Leonard Birkner
Odell
George R. Birkner
Bloodmobile Visit Analyzes Collected Blood Types
Local Red Cross reports 53 units donated with 23 O positive 4 O negative 17 A positive 4 A negative 2 AB positive and 3 B positive. No B negative or AB negative units. Donor cards mailed to December 21 donors. Next bloodmobile run set for January 7 at the Red Cross chapter office.
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Red Cross
Hospital Notes Jefferson Memorial Admission and Discharges
Jefferson Memorial notes admit Harry Waller and Mrs Evelyn Neal of Ewing. Discharged Alfonse Bedard and Mrs Verdie McGill. Good Samaritan lists admissions Harvey Wooden of Centralia and discharges W E Young Bessie Young Leota Young Lenora Lane with Boonville and Winslow locations.
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Jefferson Memorial
Harry Waller
Evelyn Neal
Ewing
Alfonse Bedard
Verdie McGill
Good Samaritan
Harvey Wooden
Centralia
W. E. Young
Booneville
Ind
Bessie Young
Leota Young
Winslow
Lenora Lane
Bluford
AMVET Auxiliary Installs Officers for Year
The AMVET Auxiliary held a dinner and meeting at the AMVET club room. Officers installed for the coming year include Doris Shell president and Joan Carpenter senior vice president. New members Harriet Eckert and Ettabelle Chapman joined. A spring style show and a veterans hospital visit on January 12 were announced.
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Grace Webb
Hazel Hawkins
Goldie Maxey
Harriet Irwin
Sec.treas
Kathryn Andrews
Masonic Temple
AMVET
Amvet Auxiliary
Amvet Club
Robbs
Martha Lengyel
Granite City
Fifth District
Doris Shell
Joan Carpenter
Vera Hampton
Robbie Hanna
Agnes Andrews
Imogene McCoy
Marjorie Puckett
Frieda Clifton
Roxie Sammons
Wilma Hauk
Myra Murray
Elaine Glassman
Pauline Beasley
Doris Melcher
Freida Clfton
Veteran's Hospital
Marion
Doris Sammons
Harriet Eckert
Ettabelle Chapman
Sue to Recover Stolen Machinery
The Old Ben Coal Corporation filed in federal court to recover 10000 dollars of machinery stolen last November from an abandoned mine near Bend City. A junk yard owner said he bought the equipment as scrap from three men now jailed in Benton. The court issued a writ to recover after the company posted a bond equal to twice the value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East ST. Louis
Old Ben Coal Corporation
Bend City
Fred L. Wham
Benton
Soprano Doris Doree Delights Mt Vernon Audience
Soprano Doris Doree headlined the Mt Vernon Civic Music Association concert at the high school auditorium with Louis Kohnop at the piano. Her performance spanned Italian, German, French, and Spanish art songs and operatic arias. The program included Mozart, Schubert, Wolf, Mendelssohn, Verdi, Debussy, and Falla, with multiple encores requested by a large Civic Music crowd.
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Doris Doree
Mt. Vernon
Miss Doree
Metropolitan Opera
United States
Sieglindg
New York Philharmonic Symphony Society
Philadelphia Symphony
London
Covent Garden
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Franz Schubert
Schubert
Hugo Wolf
Felix Mendelssohn
Manuel de Falla
Data
Nana
Polo
Richard Hageman
Arthur Nevin
Wilhelm Taubert
Amy Marey Beach
Mr. Kohnop
TOWED MT V ATHLETE VanHorn and Rotary meeting program
A Mt Vernon Rotary Club session featured a film Meet Monsanto produced by Monsanto Chemical Company for new employees as part of indoctrination. Attendees included visiting Rotarian Joe Butts and local guests Glen Galbreath Vernon Rev Campbell Murphysboro and W R Render. Officers named program chairman and updated vice presidency status. The article also lists community club meetings for the Women’s Missionary Society wives Bible class and American Legion Auxiliary with locations and leaders.
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Mt. Vernon
Announce Bids on Airport Contract
State Aeronautics Department announces apparent low bids for initial construction at Murdale Airport between Murphysboro and Carbondale. Bituminous surfacing bid by Caldwell Engineering Co of Jacksonville at 203,555 dollars. Concrete bid by O'Connor Construction Co of Springfield at 249,981 dollars. Project includes runway, grading, drainage, paving, apron, taxiway, entrance road, parking, turfing and fencing.
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Associated Proas
Springfield
Tll
State Aeronautics Department
Murdale
Murphysboro
Carbondale
Caldwell Engineering Co
Jacksonville
O'Connor
Mayor candidacies announced for Mt Vernon election
The Register-News authorized to announce Harpy J. Bishop seeks re election as mayor and opposes the February 22 Republican primary. The Register-News also notes Gary Van Horn is a mayoral candidate for Mt Vernon subject to the February 29 Republican primary.
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Register-Newa (S
Annouiner
Harpy J. Bishop
Ieglaters News
Gary 4. van Horn
Mt. Vernon
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Jimmy) Hassakis
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Pace Avenue
Washington University
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Mt. Vernon Township
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U.S
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Floyd Hester
Ina
Connie Robey
Ray Kelley
Ina Methodist Church
Commodore Grove
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Kyrah Gayle Bovis
Voris Hale
Roy Kelley
Floyd Payne
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Dolores Hale
Jerry Presley
Ruth Presley
Thora Bevis
Kelley
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University of
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Herman Ganson
Salem Road
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Howard Richardson
R. N. Clark
Mother's Club
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Marian Moreton
2527
College
Louise Hugil
Women's Society of Christian Service
Epworth Methodist Church
Clarence McCauley
Ollie Culli
Leater
Roy
Associated Press
Mt.v
MT. V
U. S
Claude Henry
W. W. Boskin
Harry Heffley
Altha Estes
Rotary Meeting
WMLS
Women's Missionary Society of the Second Baptist Church
Wille Gregory
Broadway
Olen Jones
Westey Methodist Church
James Wintree
South 18Th Street
Joan Hitter
Walton Kirk, Jr
Walton Kirk, Sr
Elmer P. Hitter
Ottawa
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