Social Roundup of Visits and Travel in Vernon
Vernon residents hosted and visited relatives and friends across Illinois and Missouri. The column notes numerous weekend trips to Salem Vandalia Centralia Monticello and St Louis with names including Jarrett Pigman Arnold Denning Leininger Marshall Walton and many others. It also mentions a music festival at Salem High School and a Bridge Club luncheon honoring Alice Wilson before her Camp Ellis deployment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Jarrett
Dorothy Pigman
St. Louis
Missouri
Beulah Jarrett
Irene
Bud Wickenhauser
Carolyn
Roger
Peoria
Joe Wickenhauser
Stella Arnold
Salem
Leo Mendenhall
Dickie
Leo Denning
Vandalia
Alvin Hathaway
Edna Leininger
Dean
Sandoval
Ada Marshall
Centralia
Roy Veal
Irene Jarrett
John Quayle
Springfield
Marilyn
John R. Curtis
William Oates
O. L. West
Effie Hathaway
Judy Easley
Hazel Cox
Bertha Quayle
Bridge Club
Alice Wilson
Camp Ellis
Pated
Salem High School
Cecile Amason
Anne Bryant
Stombaugh Hill Social Ties Reported at Kinmundy
Stombaugh Hill residents Mr. and Mrs. Clarke Hampstun and son from Kinmundy dined with Mr. and Mrs. Rollie Stombaugh and family. Afternoon callers included Mr. and Mrs. John Shepard and daughters Ivy and Vera Rex Cox and Bill Boaz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarke Hampstun
Kinmundy
Virgil Hampstun
Rollie Stombaugh
John Shepard
Ivy
Vera Rex Cox
Bill Boaz
Johnnie Shepard
Herb Paine
Rockford
Ill
U S Maritime Service Opens Seamen Training
Immediate openings in quotas for U S Maritime Service merchant seaman training for men over 26 have developed under new draft regulations. Recruiting in Illinois Wisconsin and Indiana is vital to train deck engine and cook crews aboard merchant ships. Land lovers over 26 may volunteer for salt tar training. Waiting time to training is two weeks and trainees receive uniforms quarters meals and base pay. After six weeks boat training graduates enter advanced schools for deck engine radio or purser-hospital corpsman tracks. Completion leads to first merchant vessel assignment with bonuses and automatic upgrade eligibility after three months sea time. Interested applicants may write to U S Maritime Service Room 515 844 N Rush St Chicago Illinois and Milwaukee Wisconsin offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Maritime Service
R. T. Sextorf
Maritime Service
Rush St
Chicago
Illinois
Wisconsin
Indiana
Lt. Sexton
Axis
Sexton
U. S. Maritime Service
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Ave
Illinois Sets Conservation Week Amid War Time Spirit
Governor Dwight H. Green proclaims April 16 to 22 as Illinois Conservation Week urging outdoor use and Arbor Day activities on April 21. The notice highlights spring planting, farm crop forecasts, livestock feed demand, and a reciprocal fishing pact with Iowa. Parkinson named acting state director of insurance. pensioners urged to plant victory gardens to boost food production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dwight H. Green
Illinois
Ilinois
State Department of Conservation
State
Federal
Department of Agriculture
Nellis P. Parkinson
Aciing
Paul F. Jones
Danville
Parkinson
Decatur
American Legion
Ing
Illinois Public Aid Commission
Raymond Hilliard
Commission
Local Social Notes From Odin and Centralia Area
Cecil Hicks visited at Roy Miller’s home Thursday evening. Precinct committeeman ties were drawn after a draw. Pearl Poole illness prompted Benton calls to Raymond Bopp and the Bopps. Carl Adams shopped in Odin. Virginia Charlton works at Kroger in Odin. Carl Lutz social call in Centralia. Tibbs family attended Martha Koob funeral in Centralia. Kretzer family moved to new farm near Fredonia. Will Richardson of Central City visited W G Poole. Sidney Lutz shopped in Centralia. Bud Adams Dennis Branche and John Charlton in Odin. Dad Palmer and Lila Gerrish called to West Frankfort for Pearle Poole's illness and passing. Frank Petrea shopped in Centralia. Maurice Ballance hired to teach Steele School. Helen Anderson visited Odin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Hicks
Roy Miller
New Smith
Jerry Parker
Raymond Bopp
Pete Bopp
Benton
Pearl Poole
Carl Adams
Odin
Virginia Charlton
Kroger
Carl Lutz
Centralia
Jake Tibbs
Martha Koob
John Kretzer
Fredonia
Will Richardson
Central City
W. G. Poole
Sidney Lutz
Bud Adams
Dennis Branche
John Charlton
Dad Palmer
Lila Gerrish
West Frankfort
Pearle Poole
Frank ‘Petrea
Maurice Ballance
Steele School
Shobonier Ladies Aid Meeting and Community Visits
The Shobonier Ladies Aid of the Methodist Church met at Mrs. W. T. Willett’s home. Community members visited and hosted relatives and friends including Mildred Moore of Vandalia and Zora Ballock, 98, in fine health. Several locals, such as Gerald Bryant, Fred Metzger Jr, and Vera Morell, spent time with family or in town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Ladies Aid of the Methodist Church
W. T. Willett
Mildred Moore
Vandalia
Ray Edwards
Zora Ballock
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Vernon
William Miller
F. E. Dopheide
Palmyra
R. E. Stevenson
Eli Morgan
Everett Stevenson
Norma Kay Walton
Van
Dalia
Mrs. E. E. Morgan
Flora Dickey
Monticello
R. P. Shankwiler
Robert Stansfield
Anne
Ray Walton
Norma
Paul Caudle
Dyersburg
Tennessee
John Caudle
Wilmer Meador
Pvt
Edgar Lambert
Ft. Leonard Wood
J. H. Peddicord
St. Elmo
Gerald Livesay
Bell Telephone Company
Helen Easley
Jesse Binnion Beaulah Webb
Marie Hathaway
Minnie Peddicord
Alice Willson
Isabel Doolen
H. D. Merritt
Neil Lake of
Shobonier
Caroline Harmier
Laura Belcher
Dorothy
Greenville
Herbert Laws
George Walton
St. Louis, Mo
Bruce Carter
Chief McDonald
Fred Carter
Henry Carter
Patoka
Farthing
R. I
R. L
Hery and Feed CO
Stombaugh Hill
Mary Stombaugh
Gertie Daniels
John Merriman
Harry Cocagne
Bess Davies
Rosemary Merriman
Jane Stombaugh
Washington
Llinois
Illinois State Department of Conservation
Iowa
Mississippi River
Old Age Pensioners
Carrigan
Helen Anderson
Morgan Henry
Orb Carson
Sgt
Gerald Bryant
Nobel Bryant
Fred Metzger, Jr
Fred Metzger, Sr
Mace Binnion
Sholconier
Maratha Meyer
Bill Smith
Herman Meyer
Mildred Johnson
Nita Zimmerman
Henry Frishy
Mrs
Don Frishy
Vera
Evelyn Morell
Hillsboro
Edna Morell
Mary Sterling
Cecil Collier
Ernest Hacking Sr
Crawfords
Mobil Oil and Gas
Patoka, Ill
Scott Hayes
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