Centralia Social Notes Mention Local Visits and Death
Mrs. Ike Carrigan traveled to Centralia after the death of her mother Little Miss Betty Ramsey. Seidel children remain home with chicken pox. Elvis Whalen joins Company C stationed in St Paul. Various locals visited, shopped, or helped with chores around Centralia, Odin, and Sandoval, including Ticknor, Hicks, Briscoe, and Meredith families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ike Barnett
Centralia
Betty Ramsey
Seidel
Elvis Whalen
Co. C. C
St. Paul
Minn
Arthur McGeehon
John Hicks
Ted Ticknor
Freda Briscoe
Chicago
Fred Briscoe
Cecil Hicks
G. N. Smith
Chester
James Meredith Jr
Marie Smith
Anna McCallum
Los Angeles
Calif
Nell Malone
Salem
Babe Ticknor
John Reynolds
Jim Chaffin
R. M. Rittenhouse
Deatta Ticknor
Helen Hill
James Meredith
Harry Lush
Neil Briscoe
Sandoval
Fred Courson
Odin
Mildred Adams
Barbara Jean Branch
George Nettles
Lorie Ramsey
Effingham
Lena Briscoe
Charlie Mason
Southeast Town Social Roundup and Train Safety Reminder
The reading notes a Fourth of July gathering among Merediths Steeles Bowens and Schmahls with visits from Trushells Belchers and Williams families. Several locals share hospitality and chores, including oat hauling for Bill Avery. The piece ends with a safety remark urging drivers to verify no train is approaching before crossing tracks after recent grade crossing tragedies.
Local Socials Across Several Families Highlight Summer
BRICK area residents celebrate with relatives and friends at multiple gatherings. Attendees from Hicks, Jett, Galbreth, and Hicks families share meals, swimming, ice cream, and conversations. Messages note Aunt Fanny Fulton’s serious stroke, housekeeping news, and a proposed July 12 speaking date by a former Georgia congressman in nearby Flora Odin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loren Craig
Wm. Johnson
J. P. Hicks
Davidson Creek
Frank Jett
Dortha
Buddy
Frank
Albert Galbreth
William
Wm. Watters
John Ashworth
Hoots Chapel
Fanny
Margie Shanahan
Lawrence Harding
Centralia
Mt. Vernon
Maggie Groff
Beryle Durbin
H. B. Adams
Local families gather as threshing resumes in East Zion
East Zion reports threshing has begun as Fent Caldwell returns from Odin. Lin Caldwell visits sister Lizzie Caldwell while multiple families including Boring, McWhirter, Caldwell, Neilson, Frizzell, Berry, Thorpe, McNichols, Jones, Williams, Hines, Meadows, Arnold, Bundy, Hudspeth, Foltz, and Garrett spend days visiting others and traveling to the river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fent Caldwell
Odin
Lin Caldwell
Lizzie Caldwell
John Boring
Cleave McWhirter
Jamie Caldwell
Chriss Neilson
Elmer Frizzell
Joe Frizzell
Millie Berry
Pearl
Dan Thorpe
Maggie McNichols
Paul Caldwell
Oscar Caldwell
Russell
Ellis Bassett
Frank Cline
Frank Frizzell
Orville Arnold
Elmer Berry
Illinois Central System charter tax payments shown
A check for 749797.90 records charter tax payments for the six months ending April 30 1934 for the Illinois Central System. The twelve months of the previous year totaled 1499075.57.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
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Carrigan
Kerwin and Johnson
George Broonfield
Broonfield
Junioro
Verbie Ramsey
Charlie Mason’s
Shattuc
Charlie Miller
Frank Parrish
Link Parrish
Sunday
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First National Bank of Sandoval
United States
Banking House
Federal Reserve Bank
United States Government and Postal Savings
Total Capital Account
United States Government
Postal Ags
Lees
First Nat'l. Bank, Lin
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Ilinois
Marion
I. H. H. Bellamy
H. H. Bellamy
Stella M. Bellamy
N. M. Joyce
F. W. Power
Tloran, Gorman
Theodore Meredith
Boyod Steele
Albert Bowen
Ernest Schmahl
Wm. Snyder
Verne Malant
St. Louis
Forrest Park
Joe Trushell
Dearborn
Mich
Jess Mays
Leonard Crothers
Mat Belcher
Opal
Luther Williams
Dave Adams
Verne McNew
Gloria Lee
Barbara Gene Branch
Dan Hicks
G. F. Jett
M. P. Jett
California
Jett
Maxine
Ruth
Earnest Brubaker
Bill Holzhauser
Lois Hicks
Ralph Heinzann
Carlyle
Patoka
Upshaw
Leo F. Jeammene
East Zion
Miles Nervine
Maud Thomas
Maud
Glasgow
Kentucky
Orl Hhad
Ifor Sale
J. Altom & Son
Chevrolet
America
Chevrolet Motor CO
Detroit, Mich
General Motors
Satterlee Motor CO
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