Day Camp Teaches Brownies Camping Basics and Skills
The Day Camp program gives Brownies their first camping experience with campfire cooking, firewood gathering, and open air cleaning. They learn heating water, dishwashing, and craft projects, along with daily flag ceremonies and hikes. Smokey the Bear honors start each day with a clean camp award as fathers attend a campfire night.
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Brownies
Smokey
Bear
Jay
Game Farm
Cochairmen
Shirley Schwitz
Rae Gill
F Kuenz to wed Miss Mary Helen Barnidge in August
The forthcoming marriage was announced after an engagement dinner June 22 hosted by Miss Barnidge’s parents. Miss Barnidge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Barnidge of University City MO, studied at Villa Duchesne Maryville College and Washington University, taught art history, and worked with the Missouri Historical Society. Frank Kuenz, son of Mrs. Elmer W. Kuenz and the late Mr. Kuenz, studied at Washington University and the Sorbonne, earned a Master of Architecture from the University of Illinois, and practices in Mt. Vernon and St. Louis. The wedding will be at All Saints Church University City on August 3 with Rev. Robert B. Kuenz officiating.
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Frank Kuenz
Mary Helen Barnidge
Miss Barnidge
Francis J. Barnidge
University City, MO
Villa Duchesne
Sacred Heart Convent
Maryville College
St. Louis
Newton College
Boston
Mass
Washington University
All Saints Church
University City
Robert B. Kuenz
Mt Vernon society notes and engagement announced
Mt Vernon Chapter 233 Eastern Star meets June 25 in Masonic Temple at 7 30 p m with Lucille Ellis and Naomi R Bogan listed. The First Baptist Women’s Missionary Society meets June 25 at 1 p m at the church. Various society events and a June 25 Arts and Humanities council meeting are noted along with an engagement: Janis Ellen Parker to Russell E Collins of Newport News Virginia. Restrictions on details vary.
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Eastern Star
Mt. Vernon
Order of the Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Lucille Ellis
W. M
Naomi R. Bogan
Sec’y
Women’s Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church
Jennings Circle
Illness Strikes Mike DeVivo At Research Hospital
Mike DeVivo 20 son of Mr and Mrs Andy DeVivo of 321 North Fourth Street Kansas City Missouri is reported quite ill at Research Hospital Room 436. He has been a patient there since Saturday.
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Mike DeVivo
Andy DeVivo
North Fourth Street
Research Hospital
Kansas City, MO
Dear Abby Advice Column Reprint Highlights Moral Dilemmas
Excerpts from Dear Abby letters reveal family and personal conflicts. A mother grapples with a son’s out of wedlock children and refusal to marry. A wife faces siblings who never reciprocate hospitality. A fiancée questions dieting and loneliness while awaiting a Vietnam deployment. Guidance urges acceptance, self-reflection, and seeking help for overeating.
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Abby
Tom
Polly's Pointers Gentle Taps On Frames Opens Windows
Dear Polly answers readers with practical home hacks. A reader solves stuck windows by tapping with a putty knife between frame and sash. Others share school window fixes with a screwdriver and fist. Additional tips cover detergent portioning, removing blood stains, garden planting guidance for the elderly, and cleaning range hood filters with boiling water and detergent. Readers are invited to send ideas for Polly to publish.
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Polly
Barbs on the old garden back joke
A light local quip notes that a fellow who cultivates a bad back ends up avoiding much garden work, turning the joke into a humorous social comment about effort and excuses.
Engagement of Karen Bohlen to Lt William Russell
Mr and Mrs Dale Bohlen announce the engagement of their daughter Karen Hileen to Lt William Clarence Russell son of Mr and Mrs Winfred Russell of Mayodan North Carolina. Karen is a Mt Vernon Township High School and SIU vocational tech graduate formerly at Artiste Beauty Salon and now with Mountain States Telephone. William is a Madison Mayodan High School and 1968 USAF Academy graduate commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant assigned to Webb AB Big Spring Texas for pilot training. The couple plan a July 18 wedding in Mt Vernon.
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Dale Bohlen
South 22Nd Street
Karen Hileen
William Clarence Russell
Winfred Russell
Mayodan
North Carolina
Miss Bohlen
Mt. Vernon Township
Vocational
SIU
Artiste
Mountain States Telephone Company
Madison-Mayodan High School
Madison
N.C
United States Air Force Academy
U.S.A.F
Webb AB
Big Spring
Tex
Mt. Vernon
Socials recount extended visits across states and cities
Cleo Lee Flannigan and relatives from Valri Co Fla and Fort Worth Texas have returned home after a rare family gathering with all Monroe Flannigan children. Rita Pilot and LeDon joined Donald Atkins family travels to Miami Beach and Treasure Island Florida where they stayed at the Delano Hotel and joined entertainment acts. Weekend guests at 402 North Seventh included multiple families from Port Arthur Decatur St Louis and Decatur visiting for a play and other activities with various local hosts and military families.
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Cleo Lee Flannigan
Valrico, Fla
Fred Flannigan
Kelly
Fort Worth
Texas
Monroe Flannigan
Rita Pilot
LeDon
Donald Atkins
Annet
Mark
Benton
Miami Beach
Treasure Island
Fla
Delano Hotel
Donald
Zodiac
Naomi Lewis
Rita
Rose Ann (Stanick) Cox
Homestead
Fila
Guy Henry
North Seventh Street
Teddy Long
Terri Jr
Danny Dugas
Laura Ann
Port Arthur
Robert Merlan
Ricky
Jennie
Beverly
Tammie
Robert
SIU Home Economics Honors Eight Students in Society
Mt Vernon resident Nancy Trotter among eight Southern Illinois University home economics students elected to the SIU chapter of Kappa Omicron Phi national honor society. Membership honors scholarship and service to the School of Home Economics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Trotter
Mt. Vernon
Southern Illinois University Home Economics Stuents
SIU
Kappa Omicron Phi
School of
Home Economics
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Marietta Lamberson
Jill Greene
Joyce Dailey
Mary Williams
Sally MacNamara
Gloria McGee
Maxine Poston
Judy Myers
Nancy Quick
Olive Nadolski
Virginia Allen
Girl Scout Cookie Sales
The
United Fund
Delo
Girl Scout Little House
Illinois
Low
Shirley Stanley
Bud Harris
Ed Dilley
Toot Hayes
Mack Hills
Madge Ellison
Scott Harris
Louise Pullis
Bob Reininger
Betty Nixon
Dick Acklin
Marion Corps League Auxiliary
Marine Corps League Auxiliary
Loretta Murphy
George Street
T. B. Sanitarium
Women’s Missionary Society
Good Humor Club
L. and N. Cafe
Mary Kabat
Ceil Johnson
Albert Parker
This City
Janis Ellen
Russell E. Collins
Russell A. Collins
Newport News
Virginia
Miss Parker
Mt. Vernon Township High School
Monticello College
Godfrey, Ill
University of Mississippi
Alpha
Omicron Pi Sorority
Collins
Newport News High School
Bluefield Jr. College
Bluefield
Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity
William and Mary Law School
Williamsburg
Janis Ellen Parker
Dollens Shoe Store
Dear Abby
Abigail van Buren
Viet Nam
Rick
Anonymous
P. O. Box
Beverly Hills
Cal
O.A
By Kate Osann Twit
Joan
J.H
Janet
Grigg
Old Post Office
Karen Eileen Bohlen
Merlan, Jr
David Lane
David Jr
Decatur, Sr
Rosemary Barber
Jimmie
Moss Threlkeld
Orian Metcalf
Rober Cummings
Sullivan
Decatur
Effingham
Richard Gilda
Amarillo, Tex
Raymond Cluck
Ralph Crider
Darvin Thompson
Leon Story
Tucson
Ariz
Mgr
Richard Lance
West Frankfort
MT. Vernon Brides
Jackson
Jackson's
Renair
Albert
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