Salem social notes recall several local visits
Mrs. Helen Feathers and Mrs. Florence McNicol shopped in Salem last Friday. Mrs. Juanita Mitchell visited with Mr. and Mrs. Chris Neilson of Oak Grove district Tuesday. Taft Jones called on Walter and George Neilson Sunday. The Ladies Aid postponed this Thursday’s meeting and will conduct it next Thursday the 9th at Mrs. Ola Frizzel's. Several school children have been suffering from pink eye in recent days.
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Helen Feathers
Florence McNicol
Salem
Juanita Mitchell
Chris Neilson
Oak Grove
Taft Jones
Walter
George Neilson
Ladies Aid
Ola Frizzel
Vernon area church events and visits noted
Mr and Mrs James McNicol Jr attended services at Eaglin Baptist church Sunday night. Marvin Bassett called on W L Griffin Tuesday morning. The Methodist Churches of Vernon Zion and Arnold Chapel held their quarterly meeting at Zion Church Sunday afternoon. Mr Ellis Doolen of Vernon has accepted the job of papering Zion Church. Mr and Mrs Edwin Arnold of Patoka visited Sunday with Mr and Mrs Cyrus Arnold. Several from this vicinity attended.
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James McNicol Jr
Eaglin Baptist Church
Marvin Bassett
W. L Griffin
Methodist
Vernon, Zion and
Arnold Chapel
Zion Church
Ellis Doolen
Vernon
Singing Convention at Kinmundy High School Sunday
Readable fragments report a singing convention held at Kinmundy High School on Sunday afternoon. Event details and participants are not fully clear in the surviving text.
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Kinmundy
Illinois News Roundup Highlights Safety Drive and Traffic Deaths
State officials report 48 405 accidents last year the lowest since 1941 with 51 048 in 1948. Governor Stevenson launches a conference aimed at cutting industrial accidents by 50 percent by 1952. January highway fatalities reach 162 up from 126 year earlier, with a wartime peak of 201 in 1946. A statewide review delays new conservation agents. 44 supervisors approved for 11 downstate counties under new law. Hearings on trucking permits held in Urbana Macomb Chicago Peru Joliet Pontiac. Peru river bridge closed as unsafe after 80 years toll about 20 000 yearly to operate. Federal wire tapping policy upheld by Attorneys General and echoed by current AG McGrath. FBI taps under 170 in national security cases with authorization.
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Illinois
Frank Annunzio
State Department of Labor
Adlai E. Stevenson
Conference On Industrial Safety
Charles P. Casey
State Department of Public Works and Buildings
Downstate
State Department of Revenue
Alexander, Brown
Champaign
Christian
Clay
Kane
Logan
Mercer
Monroe
Pulaski
Wayne
Revenue Department
Peru Illinois River
U.S. Engineer Corps
Peru
Bert Jolliff Foils Burglar at Glenridge Mine
Bert Jolliff of Glenridge escaped a fatal shot when a burglar fired through a mine office window to halt a robbery on Friday evening February 24. The assailant and an accomplice fled to Dix, then jailed at Mt. Vernon after robbing a Dix store.
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Bert Jolliff
Glenridge
Jolliff
Dix
Mt. Vernon
FBI Policy Denied by Hoover on Wire Tapping
The article argues that the FBI does not set policy and critiques claims of widespread wire tapping. Hoover asserts wire tapping is limited to severe crimes like espionage and kidnapping and that the bureau does not determine national policy.
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North Zion
Edwin Arnold
Patoka
Cyrus Arnold
Mobilgas Mobiloil
Prestone
Peromozine
Hill’s Mobilgas Station
Patoka, Illinois
Patoka Register
Illinois State News
Stae Board of Fish and Game Conservation Advisors
66Th General Assembly
Leonard Schwartz
State Department of Conservation
State Division of Motor Carriers
Court House
Urbana
Macomb
State of
Roosevelt
FBI
Biddle
Jackson
Clark
Supreme Court
Mr. McGrath
Mr. Hoove
United States
Sions
Lega
F.B.I
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Insurance
MAE Eagan Insurance
North Hill
Nanced
Iil
Dauntless
Hill’s Store
Eclipse Lawn Mowers
SWIFT
George J. Wasem
Patoka Elevator Co
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