Deaths and Funerals Geo E Johnson Dies at 75
George Ernest Johnson 75 a Hamilton County farmer died at his Aden Illinois home. Funeral services are set for Sunday at 2 00 pm at Richardson Chapel Wayne City with burial in Crouch Cemetery. He was born August 2 1884 in Missouri and married Nancy Roger in 1904. Survivors include his wife a son Cameron Johnson of Alton Illinois two daughters Helen Cornelison Paxton and Hazel Troyer Gibson City four grandchildren and four brothers Earl Howard Paul and Harold.
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George Ernest Johnson
Hamilton County
Aden
Richardson Chapel
Wayne City
John Maulding
Crouch Cemetery
Mr. Johnson
Missouri
William and
Mary C. (Williams) Johnson
Nancy Roger
Cameron Johnson
Alton
Helen Cornelison
Paxton, Lll
Hazel Troyer
Gibson City
Ill
Earl
Howard
Peoria
Paul
Harold
Redondo
Calif
Nellie Atkinson of Opdyke Dies at 72
Nellie Pearl Atkinson of Opdyke dies at Jefferson Memorial Hospital at age 72. She is survived by husband O G Atkinson, two sons Milburn M Atkinson and Howard Atkinson, eight brothers, a sister, two grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. Funeral at Myers Chapel Monday with Rev. Everett LeMay. burial in Oakwood Cemetery.
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Nellie Pearl Atkinson
Opdyke
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Myers Chapel
Everett LeMay
Oakwood Cemetery
Atkinson
Jefferson County
P.A
Cora
Davis) Gowler
O. G. Atkinson
Milburn M. Atkinson
Indianola
Howard Atkinson
Denver
Colo
Clarence
Walter
Faye Gowler
Mt. Vernon
Lawrence Gowler
Weldon
Earl
Nelson Gowl
Henry Hunt 76 of McLeansboro Dies in Eldorado Hospital
Henry Hunt 76 of McLeansboro died at 9 30 last night in Pearce Hospital Eldorado. Born January 15 1884 in Hamilton County he was married to Halie Clark who survives. Surviving children include Ralph Wayne Kendall Doy D Hunt Ronald I Hunt Myrtle Jones Clara Miller Imogene Breecher and three sisters Lula Culley Birdie Johnson Effie McIntosh. Burial will be Monday at Knights Prairie Cemetery with Donelson Funeral Home directing. Friends may call after 4 this afternoon. He was a member of Knights Prairie church and the McLeansboro Masonic Lodge.
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Henry Hunt
Randolph Street
McLeansboro
Pearce Hospital
Eldorado
Donelson Funeral Home
Rev
Alva
Knights Prairie
Donelson Funeral
Mr. Hunt
Hamilton County
William A
Sarah (Russell) Hunt
Halie Clark
Ralph W. Hunt
Los Angles
Calif
Wayne
Kendall
Doy D. Hunt
Downey
Ronald I. Hunt
Huntington Park Calif
Myrtle Jones
Meadow Vista
Clara, Miller
Imogene Breecher
South Gate
Lula Culley
Baker
Oregon
Birdie Johnson
Mce- Leansboro
Effie McIntosh
Benton
Hunt
Knights Prairie Church
Masonic Lodge
McLeans' Oro
John R. Glenn dies in Florida at 73
John R. Glenn of Jacksonville Florida former Mt Vernon resident dies at his home in Jacksonville at 3 00 am Friday He is 73 years two months and 25 days Funeral services set for 2 00 pm Monday at Myers Chapel with Rev Verneil Garren officiating Burial in Arnold cemetery He will lie in state at Myers Chapel after 4 30 pm tomorrow Survivors include his wife Grace Baltzell a daughter Mrs G R Newmann of Rupert Idaho a sister Mrs Alvin Garrison of St Louis and 12 grandchildren
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Glenn
Jacksonville
Fla
Mt. Vernon
Myers Chapel
Verneil Garren
Arnold Cemetery
Mr. Glenn
Jefferson County
Levi and
Lucretia (Kinnison) Glenn
Grace Baltzell
G. R. Newmann
Rupert
Idaho
Alvin Garrison
St. Louis
Hayes matriarch dies at 85 with 150 descendants
Hannah W. Hayes of Mt. Vernon dies at 5:30 a m at her daughter s home Route Six aged 85 1 6 with 150 descendants including six sons three daughters 47 grandchildren 92 great grandchildren and two great great. Burial at Hopewell Baptist church with Rev Partridge and Rev Beal officiating. Survived by six sons three daughters two sisters and a surviving daughter listed. She was born April 1 1875 in Doniphan Missouri and married James C. Hayes who died in 1936. Memorial service in Mt. Vernon East Side Baptist church membership.
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Hanna Wesley Hayes
East Main Street
Oscar McGhee
Route Six
Mt. Vernon
Steve
Ray
John Hayes
Jim Hayes
Flint
Texas
Sam Hayes
St. Louis
Clifford Hayes
Detroit
Mich
RFD
Paul Jolly
Calvin Monty
Denver
Colo
Della Justice
Stella Ball
Hayes
East Side Baptist Church
Funeral services for Guy Peterson Sunday
Funeral services for Guy Peterson of Bonnie will be Sunday at 2 PM at Nasan Freewill Baptist Church. Rev. Jack Ketterman and Rev. Leslie Elliott officiate with burial at Abner Cemetery. Fry Funeral Home in Waltonville handles arrangements. body in state from noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Peterson
Bonnie
Nasan Freewill Baptist Church
Jack Ketterman
Leslie Elliott
Abner Cemetery
Fry Funeral Home
Waltonville
Mr. Peterson
Sunday baptizing at Spring Garden draws 13 to 14 participants
The Spring Garden Sunday School enjoyed nice weather for a baptism at a creek on Ewing Road. About 13 or 14 members of Ina Free Will Baptist Church were baptized, led by Pastor Everett Beatty. Community members visited and shared news of deaths, hospital stays, and recoveries, including Arthur Woodward of Benton. Kenneth Jones continues recovery and shows hopeful progress after surgery.
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Ewing Road
Ina Free Will Baptist Church
Bro
Everett Beatty
Wm. Baltzell
Paul Bevis
Benton
Arthur Woodward
North Main Street
Woodward
Bevis
Harold Baltzell
Bonnie Route 2
Baltzell
Orvill Cockrum
Melvin Spencer
Fairfield
J. A. Ashworth
Aaron Martin
Ben Martin
Kenneth Jones
Spring Garden
Kenneth
Carl Martin
Effingham
Fumes Ignite Garage At Belford Bauman Home
Gasoline fumes ignited and heavily damaged a garage at Belford Bauman’s home on Hillside Drive. Firemen said fumes were ignited by a water heater, causing smoke damage to the house. One run was made yesterday at Cecil Stinson’s home after a lightning scare. no damage reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belford Bauman
Hillside Drive
Bauman
Cecil Stinson
North Fifth
Deadline Near For Registration In June Election
County Clerk Lester Davis warns voters to transfer registration by next Monday if moving between precincts to be eligible for the June 6 judicial election. Today is final day for non voters to register for the June 6 ballot. A district Supreme Court justice will be elected this June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Davis
Supreme Court
Police arrest man for shoplifting at G. C. Murphy
A man identified as Claud Duncan, 48, of St. Louis, Missouri, was nabbed yesterday for petty larceny at the G. C. Murphy store. City police booked him and turned him over to county officers, where he was held in the county jail this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. C. Murphy
Claud Duncan
St. Louis
Duncan
Tornadoes Strike Alabama Amid Severe Weather Report
Tornadoes touched down in Alabama as part of a broad severe weather outbreak. The storm disrupted travel and caused scattered damage while accompanying hail and high winds. A cold front stretching from the Great Lakes pushed southward, bringing snow in Wisconsin and a sharp temperature drop of up to 25 degrees from the prior day across the region.
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Illinois
Wisconsin
Great Lakes
Plains
Texas
Stop Picketing of Arab Ship Cleopatras End in New York Harbor
Picketing of the Egyptian freighter Cleopatra in New York Harbor ended as the State Department pledged to pursue steps against Arab blacklisting of American ships dealing with Israel. The Seafarers International Union withdrew its single East River picket, while cautioning that action may resume if protections and investigations are not strengthened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Middle East
State Department
Israel
Seafarers International Union
East River
Seafarers
Paul Hall
Cancellation OF Summit Is Discounted
The article reports on the canceled summit in Paris set to open May 16 amid Khrushchev’s sharp attacks on Eisenhower over a potential substitute and U S vice president discussions. It notes a missing weather plane in Turkey and U S officials’ reactions including congressional talk about changing plans for the President and possible Moscow visit remarks.
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Turkey
Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Paris
United States
Moscow
Rebekah Lodge and American Legion Meeting Notices
The Grace A. Henry Rebekah Lodge 292 will meet Monday May 9 at 7 30 PM in the J C C F Temple all members urged to attend visitors welcome. Jefferson Post 141 American Legion meets 8 00 PM Monday at the Legion Home Rex Medders adjutant.
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Grace A. Henry Rebekah Lodge
J.C.C.F. Temple
Florence Bayer
N. G. LaVerne Shepherd
U. S
American Legion
Jefferson Post 141
Legion
Rex Medders
Adj
YANK CONFESSED SPY FLIGHT CONTINUES PAGE ONE
The State Department reported a single engine high altitude jet used in weather research vanished after taking off from Adana Turkey last Sunday. The pilot reportedly lost consciousness due to oxygen equipment trouble as the aircraft unintentionally crossed Soviet air space. Khrushchev criticized US claims, asserting the pilot and observers testified the plane followed its designated itinerary and was detected at 20 000 meters.
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State Department
Adana
Turkey
Nikita
Khrushchev
United States
Alrady
Herrin Man Drowns In Storm On Reelfoot Lake
Harold Brown 55 of Herrin Illinois drowned when a fishing boat overturned about a mile from shore on Reelfoot Lake during a rainstorm. His son in law William E Spangler and grandson Evan Spangler were rescued by dock operator Bill Nation. Spangler clung to a buoyant cushion for 25 minutes with the boy on his neck before rescue. A tornado alert interrupted the subsequent search.
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Tiptonville
Tenn
Illinois
Reelfoot Lake
Harold Brown
Herrin
William E. Spangler
Evan Spangler
Bill Nation
Spangler
West Frankfort
WFR
Hospital Notes Jefferson Memorial Admits and Discharges
Jefferson Memorial admitted Randall McKinley Smith and Mrs Mabel Josephine Heil. Good Samaritan admitted Jon Scott Gieselman Green Campbell Kirby Claude Harold Witzel Edna Laverne Schuster Calvin Smith Richard Allen Severs Margaret Ann White Paula Maureen Browder Norma Rightnowar Frances Eleanor Man ion. Discharged Edith Gene Ald ridge Virgil Monroe Crunk Bryan Lee Rucker Lois Lillian Rucker.
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Randall McKinley Smith
Mabel Josephine Heil
Good Samaritan
Jon Scott Gieselman
Green Campbell Kirby
Claude Harold Witzel
Edna Laverne Schuster
Calvin Smith
Richard Allen Severs
Margaret Ann White
Paula Maureen Browder
Norma Rightnowar
Frances Eleanor Manion
Edith Gene Aldridge
Virgil Monroe Crunk
Bryan Lee Rucker
Lois Lillian Rucker
Births Mr and Mrs Jack Oliver Welcome Daughter
Mr and Mrs Jack Oliver of 1606 South 14th Street are the parents of a daughter born at 8 08 oclock last night in Good Samaritan hospital. She weighed seven pounds twelve ounces.
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Jack Oliver
South 14Th Street
Good Samaritan Hospital
Police Fines Listed for Disturbance and Drunk Charges
Police Magistrate J. R. Thomas fines P. O. Tate fifty dollars and costs for disturbance by fighting, Nolan R. Payne twenty five dollars and costs for disturbance by fighting, Gaylord L. Dubois ten dollars and costs on a drunk charge. Traffic fines name James R. Wilson of Harrisburg ten dollars and costs for speeding at seventy five mph, C. M. Richey of Dayton Ohio five dollars and costs for improper passing, Betty Jean Sullivan five dollars and costs for leaving a curb without due caution, Delmar Dorris five dollars and costs for disobeying a stop sign.
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J. R. Thomas
P. O. Tate
Nolan R. Payne
Gaylord L. Dubois
James R. ‘Wilson
Harrisburg
C. M. Richey
Dayton
Ohio
Betty Jean Sullivan
Delmar Dorris
Vote Opens for Haywood County Negroes May 16
Haywood County Negroes may register starting May 16 to vote for the first time since Reconstruction. The County Election Commission, installed recently after months without one, placed a legal notice in the States-Graphic announcing the registration start.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownsville, Tenn
Haywood County
County Election Commission
States-Graphic
Alabama Gets A Prohibition Party
Alabama voters have a new third option in the presidential race as the Prohibition Party reopens in Alabama and files its slate of electors for the November general election.
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Alabama
Montgomery
Ala
Prohibition Party
Antiliquor Party
Minor Accident At Ninth And Main
One minor automobile collision was reported in Mt. Vernon on Friday at about 4 00 p m at Ninth and Main. No injuries occurred. Vehicles were driven by Annabel Davenport of Perkins Avenue and James Wheeler of Route 4 A. Damage was minor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Vernon
Ninth and Main
Annabel Davenport
Perkins Avenue
James Wheeler
Grand Jury Here Next Wednesday In Jefferson County
A Jefferson county grand jury will convene at the courthouse next Wednesday May 11 to deliberate on criminal cases. States Attorney Lawrence Starman said the jurors are expected to report their findings to Circuit Judge Caswell J. Crebs Wednesday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson County
Court House
Lawrence Starman
Cirlcuit
Caswell J. Crebs
Local Residents Named in Unspecified Notice
Edmund Smart aged 18 of Route 2 Mt. Vernon Joyce Laswell age 19 Route 7 Mt. Vernon Martin Roye 47 Eldorado and Lula Cole 52 310 south 11th are listed in the readable portion of the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmund Smart
Mt. Vernon
Joyce Laswell
Martin Roye
Eldorado
Lula Cole
South 11Th
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