Weekend Visits And Family News From Dixon Area
Fairman and McIntire families from Dixon along with the Ahlf and Jones households spent Saturday with the George Ahlf family. Sunday gatherings included Sam Jones Mary K and Lena Ahlf and Bill Hardy of Sandoval visiting Ted Tichnor. Billy Smith and Dale Cozad visited their aunt Mrs. Dean DuComb in Carlyle. Donna Sue Adams returned from Children’s Hospital St Louis after about three weeks there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse McIntire
Dixon
Chas. Ahlf
Geo. Ahlf
Sam Jones
Mary K
Lena Ahlf
Bill Hardy
Sandoval
Ted Tichnor
Billy Smith
Dale Cozad
Carlyle
Dean DuComb
Donna Sue Adams
Children’s Hospital
St. Louis
Shattuc News Briefs Highlight Local Visits and Events
Mr and Mrs Jack Crabtree and family vacationing in Oklahoma. Asa Manns eighth grade graduation attended at Centralia. Earl Hahn family at a fish supper with Rollin Robinson at Sandoval. Scheuffler Noller Behrens and Manns visit Lafe Noller at St Johns Sanitarium Springfield. Cherum McGuire Odin visit Mann and Kenneth. Behrens visit Claire tta and Mt Vernon. Watsons and Charles join basket dinner after revival at Mulberry Grove Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Crabtree
Oklahoma
Asa Mann
Centralia
Earl Hahn
Rollin Robinson
Sandoval
Pete Scheuffler
Irvin Noller
Rudolph Behrens
Fred Mann
Lafe Noller
St. Johns Sanitarium
Springfield
George Cherum
Mabel McGuire
Marybelle Odin
George Mann
Kenneth
Ihen’ E
Clairetta
Mt. Vernon
Guy Watson
Charles
Watson
Mulberry Grove
Dairy Herd Improvement May Report Highlights Key Producers
Hugh A. Cisne records for the Quad County Dairy Herd Improvement Association: average May production 642 pounds of milk and 26 percent fat from 338 cows tested across 18 herds. Nine unprofitable cows were sold. 70 cows produced over 40 pounds of fat. Top producers include Loy Smith Centralia with 838 pounds of milk and 41 pounds of fat. other leaders Jack Summerville Centralia Cecil Kell Salem A W Brueggeman Centralia Harold Beals Centralia and John Ostrodka Sandoval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh A. Cisne
Quad ‘County
Marion County
Jack Summerville
Centralia
Cecil Kell
Salem
Loy Smith
A. W. Brueggeman
Harold Beals
John Ostrodka
Sandoval
Asia
Petition to Establish a Community High School District
Honor able Paul B Chance reports receipt of a petition filed by over one hundred voters in Marion County Illinois requesting an election on establishing a community high school district for inhabitants of the described territory. The notice outlines population and assessed valuation thresholds and the legal process to vote For or Against the proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul B. Chance
Marion County
Salem
Illinois
Meridan
Patoka
Proposal for Northwestern Marion Fayette Clinton High School District
A long state study details the formation of a proposed four county high school district spanning Marion Fayette and Clinton counties. It outlines boundaries, population about 1850, towns Patoka Vernon and transportation routes, projected enrollment around 110, and estimated costs including 40,000 annual operating needs and 300,000 to 400,000 building costs. It analyzes per pupil costs and tax impacts, notes oil land valuation risks, and endorses Patoka as the logical high school site with required transportation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Fork Creek
Tirty
Meridan
Fayette County
Illinois
East Fork Township
Clinton County
Mllinois
Marion, Fayette and
Clinton
Marion County
G. Kenneth Greer
W. V. Barcroft
Fayette and
Patoka
Vernon
Patkoa
Fayette
Vandalia
Sandoval
Salem
Centralia
Kinmundy
Odin
Demand for Fertilizer Tops Supply Despite Big Increase in Output
A U S House sub committee report on the 1947 fertilizer supply notes farm demand far outstrips production even after large output gains. It cites a war time consumption surge to 14 million tons in 1946 and explains plant expansion shifts toward the Midwest to meet rising need.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Chicago
U. S. House of Representatives’ Committee On Agriculture
Washington
Middle West
Atlantic Seaboard
Midwest
Civilian Production Administration
Proposal to establish a community high school district faces choices
A report outlines options for a Patoka centered district with about 110 pupils and an $8 million equalized valuation. It favors maintaining a three year high school with transportation to other districts as one plan and recommends a community consolidated pathway if a new local high school is built, noting cost and convenience trade offs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patoka
Marion County School Survey Committee
Vandaila
Sandoval
Centralia
Salem
Vandalia
Vernon
Illinois
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Fairman
Shattuc News
Dairy Herd Improvement Association Report
Superintendent OF Public Instruction
Said Township
Prince Meridian
Said Pope Township
Kaskaskia
Said
Pope Township
Ilinois
Kaskaskia River
Midwestern
Funks G
Ceresan Seed
Farthing
LA Rue Beauty Shoppe
ALL Leading
Lela Sharp
Ili
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