Bear Creek Weather Forecast and Local Notes
Forecast calls for zero weather with slight snow after days of rain and mud knee deep. Local updates mention J. Be Matheny under medical care for pleurisy, Wyant family visiting, Thelma Ballance and Emmett Caudle returning home for Christmas, Jim Phinney moving near Vera, Wilma Payne vacationing in Chicago, and about thirty youths hosting New Year’s Eve at Frank Lake’s with games and refreshments after midnight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Be Matheny
Colfax
Ueyant
Thelma Ballance
Emmett
Caudle
Harvey
Wisconsin
Clinton
Jim Phinney
Vera
Wilma Payne
Chicago
Frank Lake
Evening event ends with travelers and farm news
Corn were served. All returned home facing the cold and rejoicing over the evening event. Paul Burness left for Chicago for employment his wife and daughter staying at the home of her parents. Carl Christie done his winter butchering Tuesday. Clara Benefiel is visiting with her sister Mrs. Bert Tedrick and taking treatment for granulated eye-lids. George Olmstead took a load of hogs to Hast St. Louis for Wm. Chriss and Frank Lake Tuesday morning. Wm. accompanied him to the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Burness
Chicago
Carl Christie
Clara Benefiel
Bert Tedrick
George Olmstead
St. Louis
Chriss
Frank Lake
Cracker Neck News Roundup From Local Notes
Jennie Alexander and baby visited relatives in Keyesport and returned home Monday. Mrs S B Lawrence came back Sunday after visiting Litchfield. Otto McGath of Nebraska stayed with Billy Alexander Monday night. Grandma Wall is poor at J A Shepard’s home. Charley Shepherd shopped Patoka Tuesday. Rabbits suffered deaths last week and Cecil Alexander bought them. Prank Sherp ill for several days. Not much to report this week. Start the New Year by helping town, churches, and schools.
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Jennie Alexander
Baby
Keyesport
Cecil Alexander
Caleb Speer Family Welcomes Baby Boy in December
Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Speer celebrate the birth of a fine baby boy on December 26. Miss Lora Binnion of Vernon works at the Speer home. Mrs. Sidney Speer from Harvey visited the A Speer family from Monday to Wednesday. Viola Harker visited grandmother Minnie Merten, and Frank Harker made a business call in Patoka. Rettinghouse, who bought the R M McKee farm, is noted.
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Caleb Speer
Frank Harker
Patoka
Lora Binnion
Vernon
Sidney Speer
Harvey
A. Speer
Viola Harker
Minnie Merten
Rettinghouse
R. M. McKee
Community records civic effort improves district road
In a display of civic spirit the district dragged the road from Marshall corner east to the schoolhouse for three days in succession before a freeze arrived Friday night. The effort left the road nearly as good as the hard road and the community plans a monthly weather chart project in the eighth grade agriculture class recording temperature sky conditions wind and precipitation.
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Marshall Corner
Edith Fulton
Irma Gene Meridith
Frances Chausse
Carrigan School
William Fulton
C. C. Hinderer
Iuka
Lora Morgan
Caleb Speers
James Meridith, Jr
James Meridith
Odin
Carrigan Church
Dorothy
Allen Groff
Allen Fulton
M. D. Ballance
Local Notes On Families Departures And Visits
Dennis Adams and son Raymond log for George Jett. Mrs Cleta Colby leaves for Chicago with her young son Robert Colby. Misses Frankie Ellen and Nellie Gray visit Chicago with Rolland Davidson family. Cleve McWhirter and family have plans pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis Adams
Raymond
George Jett
Cleta Colby
Robert Colby
Chi
Frankie
Ellen
Nellie Gray
Chicago
Rolland Davidson
Cleve McWhirter
Local Notes and Obituary Briefs from Kinmundy Township
Movement of property from the Givens farm to a northwest Kinmundy area and return to St Louis. Local chatter mentions George Jett hauling logs to John Kreutzer mill and Alvin Gray visiting Odin. Dan Purcell’s sudden death described as a loss to the community. Chas Gray bought hogs from Homer Osborne. Walter Jones delivered mail here due to weather and road issues. Included are visits by Helen Chandler to Cleve McWhirter’s family.
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Givens
Kinmundy
Lionel Leon
St. Louis
George Jett
John Kre‘tzers
Alvin Gray
Odin
Dan Purcell
Chas, Gray
Homer ‘Osborne
Walter Jones
Helen Chandler
Cleve McWhirter
God, All Power in Christian Science Lesson Sermon
The lesson sermon on January 1 centers on God as omnipotent omniscient and omnipresent, with biblical citations from II Samuel and I Chronicles and text from Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy. It emphasizes God’s sovereignty, majesty, and universal reflection in man and the universe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ, Scientist
Mary Baker Eddy
Double mileage from gasoline on Illinois highways
Motorists tour the head roads of Illinois and report getting double the gasoline mileage compared with the average highway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linois
Ofllinois
New Year Notes From Fostersburg Readers
Regis ter reports a crowded holiday season with visits from Lewis Jones and Mary Walker and relatives in Alma Clinton Vernon Kinmundy and Wood River. Weather delays New Year plans and mail routes as locals work and study through the holidays with repairs on farms and barns and with several families visiting or returning home.
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All Register
Lewis Jones
Mary Walker
Anna_ Crosley
Decatur
S. C. Green
Grant Arnold
Robert
Clinton
Poster
Joseph Ih Lane
F. Griffin
Alma
Marion Griffin
Mona Arnold
Robert Arnold
Kate Bates
Vernon
Martha Walker
Wood River
Carl Jones
Mark Arnold
Kinmundy
Arnold Chapel
Lew Engler
Frambes
Guy Arnold
Melvin Doolen
Thelma Arnold
Sam Arnold
T. L. Bundy
Blanche Doolen
Noted French Rheumatism Prescription Seeks Postal Reply
In a public notice Paul Case of Erocton Massachusetts offers a French remedy for rheumatism and neuritis learned during service with the American Army. He says the prescription cost him nothing and will mail it to any requester who sends a self addressed postal. He invites requests written today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Paul Case
Dept
L-154
Erocton
Mass
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