Pleasant Grove Community Notes and Visits
Pleasant Grove social updates record hospitalizations and illnesses. Mrs. Melton remains serious after Tuesday hospital transfer. Multiple visits and weekend stays span Marion Mt. Vernon Springfield and Belle Rive, with numerous relatives named. Memorial Day decorations noted and local prayers offered. Mentions of travel via St. Louis and Tennessee and reflections on life’s brevity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Glover
H. A. McCormick
Newton, Ill
Farmington, Mo
Effie [Partridge
Mt. Vernon
Verne Melton
Ruby Jacobs
iFred
Earl Smith
Fannie Wallace
Hays
St. Louis
Fred Jacobs
Springfield
Mary B. Swift
Barney McMeen
Lela Smith
Walter Biermann
Compton
Belle Rive
Carl Green
Ashton
Albert Verheyen
Richard Vogel
Fostoria
Ohio
Viola Petth
San Diego
Cailif
Leo Allen
Tunas
Wilber Mefford
Merle Lynch
Sonny Verheyen
Helen.Lee
Mae Scott
Florence Wood
Decatur
Smith
George
Woodlawn
Della Watkins
Albert Hoover
Doris Harvey
Fred McMeen
Herman Garrison
Pleasant Hill
Anna Melton
FE. A. Driggers
Chattanooga
Tenn
Birmingham
Alabama
India eyes aid to fuel four year plan
An Indian spokesman says if India can obtain one billion dollars in outside aid each year during the 1960s, it could fund the remaining cost to put the economy on a self sustaining basis. The total required is estimated at about 50 billion.
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India
Davy Jones Origin Tied to Jonah Ghost Phrase
The saying Davy Jones is linked to a nautical superstition and is thought to derive from the old sailors term Dappy Jonah meaning Jonah's Ghost, reflecting a legendary sea spirit.
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Davy Jones
Jonah
New Yorker James Bland Not Southern Native of New York
The composer of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, James A. Bland, was not born in the South but in Flushing, New York. The claim that Bellefontaine, Ohio, poured America’s first concrete paved street in 1891 is noted.
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James A. Bland
Flushing, New York
America
Bellefontaine
Ohio
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MT. V. Community College
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Clarence Samford
Southern Illinois University
Howard Rawlinson
Joan Anderson
Rosalie Anslinger
Brenda Chaffin
Clark Durrwachter
Gerald Ellis
al Farmer
Eugene Fox
Robert Glenn
James Green
Ronald Harper
Mary Heidenreich
John Hicks
Doris Hongsermeier
Jean Alice Hutchison
Golda Kern
Mary Kiefe
Pleasant Grove
James W. Marshall
California
Ens
Brics
Wamsutta
Gow
Owen
Men’s Dept
Jayson
Dobbs Champs
Jayson Munsingwear
Lancer van Heusen
Gulf Stream Botany
Wembley
Munsingwear
J&f
Carters
Mammoth Dept
Hickok
Ocr
Linkon’s Automotive
Oess
Sporting Goods
Froz-N-Foods
Broadway
Dowzer Electric
Salem Road
Beasley Motel
Bowen