Mt Carmel Illinois Began From Blue Laws To Modern Growth
Mt Carmel grew from 1817 when three Methodist preachers chose a bluff above the Wabash river for a town site and named it for Elijahs contest. Blue laws tried to curb theaters and Sabbath work. Now a city of about 10 000 with two railroads Snap On Tools plant Meissner radios factory and multiple schools and churches.
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Associated Press
Mt, Carmel
Ill
Ohio
Wabash River
William McDowell
William Beauchamp
Thomas Hinde
Mt. Carmel
Elijah
Baal
Fair Grounds
Wabash County
Southern
New York Central
Big Four
Chicago
Tour of Egypt Historic Spots June 25 and 26
A two day tour of southern Illinois historic sites planned for June 25 26 by Southern Illinois University history department and museum staff. Open to summer students and any interested persons with a 525 transportation fee. The itinerary includes Buckles School coal mines Jackson County John A Logan monument Murphysboro Tuthill chair factory Fort Chartres and Lincoln Douglas debate site among many others.
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Carbondale
Southern Ilindis
History Department
Southern Illinois University
Toohn Allen
Buckles
Illinois
Jackson County
John A. Logan
Murphysboro
Conrad Will
Brownsville
Sand Ridge
William Boone
Ava
Henry Beauvis
Rockwood
Mary’s River
Juliet
Marquette
Mississippi
Chester
Fort Gage
Kaskaskia
Catholic Teachers School
Ruma
Prairie du Rocher
Mississippi Valley
Pleasant Grove community notes and family visits
Mary Ramsey visits home folks after summer enrollment at SIU. Mrs. Myrtle Foreman and relatives travel to Orchardville Johnsonville and Cayuga Indiana. Funeral in Monticello Ky for W M Roger. relatives attend. Birthday and Father’s Day celebrations with large family gatherings. Local names: A R Swift Nellie Laird S A Smith Ted Matlin. Reunion plans noted for Salem Park next year.
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Mary Ramsey
Myrtle Foreman
Ernest Scott
Robert West
Anna Melton
Orchardville
Johnsonville
Cayuga
Indiana
Roy Barrier
R. C. Graves
Centralia
Monticello
W. M. Roger
Barrier
Graves
David Arthurs
St. Louis
A. R. Swift
Maxey
C. E. Rogers
Los Angeles
Calif
Nellie Laird
S. A. Smith
Egbert Graham
Father
Mia
Dora Haroldson
Lester
Graham
Noel Cremeens
Family All of
Sager
Salem Park
Marion County
John McFarland
Sara Lilly
New Oreleans
8. A. Smith
Ted Matlin
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Mt. Carmel High School
Mt.Carmel, Sr
Lee Grossman
Egypt
Lincoln
Clark
Fort Chartres
John Queene Pottery
Col Ben L. Wiley
Makanda Road
Highway 51
Giants City State Park
Stonefort
Cobden
Richard Cobden
Illinois Central Railroad
Ann Jonesboro
Union Academy
Jonesboro
Jaccard
Elco
Tamms
Unity
Alexander County
Cairo
U. S. Grant
National Cemetery
Naval Yard
Mound City
America
Caledonia
Abraham Lincoln
Old Grand Chain
Wilkinsonville
Fort Massac
George Rogers Clark
Renege
Lever Brothers Company
Clyde Lee
Howard Bldg
Golden Westerner
Jane Ann Pederson
Santa Rosa
Santa Cruz
Atlantic City
Ogletree
Main
Pleasant Grove Register-News
Correa
Army and Navy Store
West Hard Road
Herbert Arnett
ED Fry
Buick
Henry J, Taylor
ABC Network
Warren-Cox Auto Company
Broadway
Mt. Vernon, Il
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