NYA Training Offered to Patoka Youth
Mrs. Norine T. Ward announces NYA employment opportunities for Patoka area young women ages 17 to 24. Participants will train at Vandalia NYA Power Sewing Machine Shop and may gain placement in local defense industries, with past placements at Johnson Stevens Shinkle Shoe Co. in Vandalia. Each trainee earns 25 dollars monthly. bus transportation may be provided if interest grows. Apply at the local USES office or Vandalia NYA Office in the courthouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NYA
Patoka
Norine T. Ward
Vandalia Nya Power
Vandala Nya Power
Johnson- Stevens, & Shinkle Shoe Company
Vandalia
U.S.E.S
Vandalia Nya
Main Street
Mt. Vernon
Local Social News From Stringtown Area
Mrs. Freda Briggs of Casey visited Tuesday with Mrs. Nellie Lane and Mrs. Clarence Holt and daughter Lamarian. Miss Genevieve Beck of Along spent the weekend with her parents B. F. Beck and wife. Sunday visitors with the Lane household included multiple local families from Peoria Champaign and Vandalia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freda Briggs
Casey
Nellie Lane
Clarence Holt
Lamarian
Genevieve Beck
Along
B. F. Beck
Vandalia
B. L. Albert
George Albert
Virgil Klinge
Nettie McConnell
Floyd Thoman
Arthur Lee Murfin
Peoria
Clara Murfin
Champaign
Arewine Willett
Rollie Klinge
Iula
Ladies Aid and Community Notes From Zion
The East Zion community reports Ladies Aid meeting with Freda Ballance and various visits among neighbors. Funeral attendances for Mary Hayden and Pauline Mullett noted. several families travel and assist with haying and farming tasks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Aid of
Zion
Freda Ballance
L. C. Perkins
Nancy Rouse
Elmer Berry
Dutch Shuffler
Peck Caldwell
Riley Stipp
Effie Arnold
Laura
Walton Arnold
Jamie Caldwell
Mary Hayden
Zion Church
Ellis Bassett
Pauline Mullett
Odin
Carl Arnold
Eunice Bundy
Audrey Kissner
Etna Knight
Clelia Bassett
Dane
Dale
Thelma Arnold
Pearl Berry
Farina
Rain
Frankie Caldwell
Russel Caldwell
Marshal Soutier
Mary Dell Johnson
Paul Caldwell
Oscar Caldwell
Charles Anderson
Barthel Anderson
Vernon News and Vernon High School Commencement Program
Vernon residents spend time with relatives and friends in Decatur Springfield Vandalia Patoka and other towns. The Vernon High School Commencement program for June 3 lists honors diplomas and the Class Roll including Mildred Cox and Myron Cooley presiding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Squibb
Ted Hoseapple
Jack
Jerry
John David
June
Salem
Merle Baker
Walter Adams
Patoka
Beth Burton
Vernon High School
FE. E. Bagley
Merle Morey
America the Beautiful
Santa Lucia
Rev
Curtis
Dale Whitehurst
Myron Cooley
Curtiss
Lyle Ballagee
Paul Brown
Mildred Cox
Neales Bily Gade
Betty Clase
Christian Science Annual Meeting in Boston Highlights Freedom Theme
The Christian Science Board of Directors addressed several thousand at The Mother Church annual meeting in Boston on June 8 1942. They linked liberty won in the Civil War to today’s global struggle for freedom, urged faith in divine Science to secure human rights, and announced Elisabeth F Norwood as the new church president. The gathering underscored wartime conditions and the push toward spiritual solutions to world peace.
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Boston
Mass
America
Christian Science Board of Directors
Abraham Lincoln
Mary Baker Eddy
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Massachusetts
Iirectors
Christian Science Board of
Britain and
Christian Science
Labiter
Mrs. Eddy
M Eddy
Boar of Directors
Elisabeth F. Norwood
Brookline
Isaac Paul Gragg
Eldora O. Gragg
C.S.D
Norwood
Roxbury
Girls Latin School
Board of Education
Massachusetts Metaphysical College
Times
John Randall Dunn
The
Christ
Dunn
Board of
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Arthur W. Eckman
Eckman
Christian Science Publishing Society
Christian S Science
Arnold Chapel Visitors and Local Friendships Over Weekend
St. Louis guests Carl Jones and wife visit his parents Mr. and Mrs. W H Jones on a weekend. Ruth Bassett and Rich ard Williams spend time in Chicago with relatives. Hobart Arnold of McLeansboro comes for a weekend with wife. Orie Green and daughters Emily and Margaret of Cottage Hills visit relatives, with Mrs Green and Margaret staying two weeks. Mrs Rita Brown and daughter visit George Headley. Carl Monday mentioned among funeral arrangements. Trend Cox noted in serious condition but improving at this writing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Jones
St. Louis
W. H. Jones
Ruth Bassett
Richard Williams
Chicago
Hobart Arnold
McLeansboro
Orie Green
Emily
Margaret
Cottage Hills
Green
A. B. Nichols
Carl
Rita Brown
George Headley
Trend Cox
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Stringtown
East Zion
Vernon
C. D. Doolen
Decatur
Alice Marie~ Protz
Marilyn Quayle
Shirley Protz
Eleanor Bates
Rosemary Ripple
Indiana
Helen Easley
Judy
Springfield
Kenneth Herstein
R. Easley
Robert Easley
Bob Easley
W. L. Danbury
W. L. Hathaway
Anson Griffin
Farmer City
J. N. Moody
Edgar Lambert
Ramsey
Russel Green
Hubert Arnold
T. E. Quayle
Raymond Paine
Illiopolis
First Church OF Christ
Scientist
Britain
God
Switzerland
France
Spain
Portugal
Africa
Australia
British Isles
South America
New Zealand
India
Ceylon
Arnold
Sam
Zeigler
Ase Eigler
Pyes
Patoka Elevator Company
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