Meet With Ruth Lawson Vernon Club Holds Quiet Session
The Vernon Better Neighbors Club met October 10 at Ruth Lawson's home with 12 members and two guests. A get well card was prepared for member Lodema Bayliss. Mystery gifts were exchanged and games enjoyed. Next meeting set for November 14 at Florence Morgan's Vandalia home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernon Better Neighbors Club
Ruth Lawson
Ruth Falkenhain
Marguerite Murfin
Ferne Gehrken
Alice Wilson
Lodema Bayliss
Florence Morgan
Vandalia
Instrument Display and Band Plans Highlight Local News
The school hosts an instrument display on October 25 offering parents a chance to start children on a horn. Mr. Brown will answer questions and Loomis Music Studio will showcase and rent or sell instruments. The Marion County Grade School Band will perform at Salem High School on October 26 with about ninety players. Community Unit No. 100 plans season tickets for 12 home games at seven fifty, with drawings November 3. A Halloween carnival on October 31 includes a prize parade and costume contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
Loomis Music Studio
Centralia
Sandoval
Salem
Odin
Young School
Marion County
Marion County Teachers Institute
Salem High School
Community Unit No. 100
Fletcher
Munger
Band Parents Association
Vernin P.T.C
Patoka P.T.C
Przies
Jean Cain
Margie Goff
Barbara Fiscus
Lola Frailey
Five Million Hear Layman's Broadcast On Baptist Hour
An estimated five million radio listeners heard the Layman's Day broadcast of the Baptist Hour on Sunday October 14. Over 260 stations across 283 states and three foreign territories carried the program, with Charles Wellborn discussing Men For The Money and Lawson H. Cooke leading the opening prayer. The broadcast drew more than a million laymen to their radios and featured a crime and corruption critique and a call for Christian businessmen to improve the world. Dr. S. F. Lowe called the program’s audience the largest in a decade of Baptist Hour broadcasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist Hour
Charles Wellborn
Lawson H. Cooke
Southern Baptist Brotherhood Organization
Rollen Robinson Joins Film Jubilee Opening in Salem
Rollen Robinson owner of the Hollywood Drive-In Theatre Sandoval Illinois participates in Salem in the national film jubilee It s Movietime U S A opening a highlighted screen season celebrating cinema s golden anniversary Miss Monica Lewis Jane Darwell and Edmund Hartman appeared in Salem on a goodwill tour in connection with the event
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Movietime
U.S.A
Rollen Robinson
Hollywood Drive-In
Sandoval
Illinois
Talley’s
Los Angeles
Hollywood
Monica Lewis
Red Skelton
Jane Darwell
Tobacco Road
Edmund Hartman
Salem
PMA Committee Elections To Be Conducted By Mail
The PMA committee elections will be held by mail this year in each township selecting 3 community committeemen and 2 alternates plus delegates to the county convention. Ballots list 10 candidates chosen by a nominating committee. voters may write in selections. Ballots returnable by mail or in person before November 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PMA
Porter
Card of Thanks from Mrs E M Outhouse and Family
The Outhouse family thanks friends and neighbors for kindness during bereavement. They praise ministers singers pallbearers and all who sent flowers and messages of sympathy and wish God’s blessings on all who helped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. M. Outhouse
Family thanks for flowers from E M Outhouse kin
The family of E M Outhouse expresses appreciation for the thoughtful flowers sent to them by Mr. and Mrs. William Ballance. The gesture is gratefully acknowledged and remembered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. M. Outhouse
William Ballance
Visit in St Louis Brings Denver Guest to Zimmerman
Mr G J Wasem spent Wednesday in St Louis and met Mr Louie Zimpeerman of Denver Colorado who joined Mrs Zimmerman here for a visit with relatives and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. J. Wasem
St. Louis
Louie Zimpeerman
Denver
Colorado
Zimmerman
Larry Flynn 7 Injured in Head Fracture Fall
Larry Flynn seven year old son of Mr and Mrs Everett Meredith of Sandoval sustained a skull fracture after a fall the exact cause unknown. He was taken to St Marys hospital after x rays confirmed the fracture and later moved to Children's Hospital in St Louis where his condition remained serious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry Flynn
Everett Meredith
Sandoval
St. Marys Hospital
Children’s Hospital
St. Louis
Dean Martin
Cox & Martin Ambulance
Patoka couple seriously injured in Missouri crash
Harlan Christian and wife of Patoka suffer multiple injuries after a head on collision on highway 66 near Springfield on October 11 while returning from Oklahoma. They and their nine year old son Don were in hospital with serious but reportedly improving conditions. The other vehicle occupants included two women and three children. two women injured, children unhurt. Both cars burned. Mr Christian is a gauger for Magnolia Pipe Line Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlan Christian
Patoka
Burge Hosital
Springfield
Missouri
Christian
Don
Oklahoma
Dana
Magnolia Pipe Line Company
4-H Federation Plans Halloween Party in Salem
Marion County 4-H Federation committees schedule a Hallowe en party October 22 at Qak Park auditorium Salem beginning 7 30 p m. Attendees are asked to come masked. Prizes will be awarded a fish pond will be in operation refreshments served Dorothy Williams reporter
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
4-H Federation
Marion County
Hallowe’en
Qak Park
Salem
Dorothy Williams
Former Odin Girl Mrs Iva Nicholson Killed in Geneva
Mrs Iva Nicholson of Chicago formerly of Odin, age 42, died in an automobile accident Sunday night October 7 at Geneva Illinois. She served overseas in World War II and was a member of the American Legion and Baptist Church. She is survived by her mother four brothers and six sisters. Burial at Peaceful Valley Cemetery followed funeral services at the Odin Baptist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iva Nicholson
Chicago
Odin
Geneva
Ill
Thomas Staton
Verda Staton
Paul
Brownie) Nicholson
Henderson
Kentucky
Nicholson
American Legion and Baptist Church
Chester
Willard Staton
Thomas
Pontiac
Paul Staton
Centralia
Irene Schuck
Betty Schuetter
Lola Staton
Mildred Ceranski
Katherine Soulon
Delores Holzer
Wilson Funeral
Baptist Church
Weems
Peaceful Valley Cemetery
Sunday Dinner Guests at Ballance Home
Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ballance included Mr. and Mrs. George Kleese and daughter Gloria, Mrs. Ruth Holland of Bloomington, Mrs. Etta Beden of Champaign, Mrs. Sydney Conley of Waupella, and they visited in the evening with Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Wadkins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Ballace
George Kleese
Gloria
Ruth Holland
Bloomington
Etta Beden
Champaign
Sydney Conley
Waupella
Oliver Wadkins
F H A News Sees October Initiation And Updated Meeting Dates
The F H A held its October 5 meeting with a group officer photo and plans for the October 12 initiation of seventeen girls. A party at the high school followed with about thirty attendees, chapter mothers present, chili soup served, and a positive mood. Meeting dates are now the first and third Friday each month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F.H.A
Marilyn Ballance
Final corn loan rate set at $1.60 in Marion County
The final corn loan rate for Marion County is $1.60 per bushel, 12 cents higher than 1950. Elmer L. Porter of the PMA committee notes the rate, based on the October 1 parity price, and explains loans and purchase agreements run from harvest through May 31, 1952 and mature July 31, 1952.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion County
Elmer L. Porter
PMA
Vernon News Social News Briefs Highlight Local Visits
Vernon residents share Sunday dinners with relatives in Vandalia and Decatur. The Methodist Sunday School reported 41 attendees and an all day church meeting is planned October 25 with a light luncheon and a guest speaker. A Vernon park fish fry drew several families, and local residents recover from hospital stay. A midweek tea at Dessie Bolobett’s hosted guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Walton
Vandalia
Ray Walton
Florence Morgan
Methodist Sunday School
Butch” Peyton
Charlotte Revis
Jennie Leininger
Rockford
Addie Jones
Otto Reese
Kill- Mundy
John Gillespie
Mabel
Jim Osborne
Methodist Church
W.S.C.S
Vernon Park
John Gehrvken
Merle Morey
Bert Walker
Wade Lawson
Clarence Lawson
Shirley
Roy Sears
Patty
Harry Worsham
Ruth Anne Cooley
Doris Bobbett
Lodema Bayliss
Greer Hospital Taast
Selby Binnion
Jim Roberts
Maynard Pinkley
Sloan
Decatur
Ernest Wolff
Vernon
Glenna Hollingsed
Barbara
Roy Hall
Vivian Binnion
Dessie Bolebett
Sandoval Woman's Club Hosts County Meeting and Tea
The Sandoval Woman's Club will host the county meeting at the Christian Church on Saturday afternoon October 20. The event begins at 2:00 PM and will include five clubs in the county with Miss Helen McMackin of Salem as program chair. The Sandoval club plans an Autumn Tea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandoval Woman's Club
Christian Church
Helen McMackin
Salem
Sandoval Club
Annexation Petition Moves School District 126 to 125
An adjourned Rebook Trustees meeting in Sandoval Township October 15 approved a petition by voters of Red Stripe School District 126 to be annexed to Sandoval District 125. District 126 serves seventeen students, twelve already attend Sandoval Grade School. The meeting also sought to detach two acres from District 186 to annex to District 127 Maer District.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T 2N
REB
Sandoval
Odin Township
Banedoval
Red Stripe
Herbert McClelland T
Maer
Mitchells and Meg Visit Injured Hevlan Christians in Hospital
Rev and Mrs Mitchell and Meg, with Mrs Mojonnier, drove to Springfield Missouri on Monday to see Mr and Mrs Hevlan Christian who are hospitalized there from injuries suffered in a highway incident on October 1.
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Ina
Agnes Nattier
Jim Wasem
David
Ripple Ass’t. Bus. Mgr
John Davis
Jenylle Heather
Marie Crawford
Jo Simcox
Mary Jo Hawkins
Marilyn Bal
Lance
Jim Cox
Larry Bates
Joan Robinson
Virgil Wortman
Jack
Jerry Gerrish
Rosemary Barnes
Ass’t
Erma Caldwell
Wayne Towler
Bill Boyd
Darrell Sharp
David Ripple
Beverly Snyder
Will—Jean Cain
Dorothy Jackson
Margaret Smith
Jenylle
Heather Assembly
Carroll Meador
Erma Bowen
Martha McWhirter
Judy Easley
Carol Crawford
FFA
Myron Cooley
Board of Education
Clem Cooley
Ashley
St. Dominic, Breese
Woodlawn
Louisville
Kinmundy
Odini
Ramsey
St. Marys, Carlyle
Wayne City
DCO
Tamaroa
Dick Davis
Bonnie Crawford
Sandra Schroeder
Central City
S.-Ees
Tournanant
Ambley
Dick Adams
Jane Nattier
Wilma Fiscus
Patty Bayliss
Mr. Wellborn
America
S. F. Lowe
Radio Commission
MR. and
Mrs. H. Christian
4-H
Hallowe’en Party
Mrs
Roy Ballance
F.H.A. News
Sandoval Womans Club TO
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