Public Meetings and Events Listed for Week
Numerous public meetings open to residents appear this week across Southern Illinois. Zeigler, Christopher, Lesser, Herrin, Cambria, Jonesboro, Sparta, Cobden, Chester, De Soto, and other jurisdictions hold Monday evening sessions at City Halls or village halls, while additional notices cover special events, dances, and community programs at schools and venues.
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Southern Illinoisan
Zeigler City Council
Christopher City Council
Lesser City Council
Herrin Plan Commission
Cambria Village Board
Jonesboro City Council
Sparta City Council
Sparta City Council, 7 P.m. ‘Monday, At the City Clerk’s
Broadway St
Cobden
Chester City Council
City Council
Swanwick St
de Soto
Village Hall
Herrin Little Egypt
S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A
Herrin High School
Ferrante & Teicher
Siu-Edwardsville
Thompsonville
Herrin
Benton Municipal Airport Board
Southern Illinois Medical Center
Mt. Vernon
Greater Egypt
Planning and Development Commission
Future Regional Planning Committee
Benton Community Bank
Benton
Greater
Springmore School
Burglary reports and three driving arrests in Carbondale
Police reported burglaries at 806 N James St and 314 E College St in Carbondale with loot including guitars cash and a camera totaling about 2 735. A theft from La Hacienda Restaurant and a trailer purse burglary were also reported. Three arrests Sunday night include Norman D Day Ronald W Spytek and William H Moore on reckless driving DWI and related charges.
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N. James St
Carbondale
Henry K. Miller
Lois Schwimmer
E. College St
S. Illinois Ave
Onessa Scaife
S. Wall St
Miss Scaife
Area police report on reckless driving charge
Area police report describes a motorist named Moore arrested after being seen driving 50 to 80 miles per hour in a 30 mph zone. Bond set at $100 with notice to appear August 16 in city court. A separate report notes an attempted break-in at Murphysboro lumber yard where a latch was forced and a safe damaged but not opened. items stolen included a power saw a portable typewriter and flares.
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Moore
Stotlar-Herrin Lumber Co
N. 12Th St
Murphysboro
Rescue team relocates to new quarters in Du Quoin
Rescue team relocated to leased quarters in a North Hickory street building in Du Quoin. The photo lists members including Robert Newborn, Arlie Holland, Tam Areca, Pete Helmer, Gene Haigston, Supt. James Janini, Asst. Sutp. Sante Cicardo, Roy Feltmeyer, Larman Rees, Byrl Rees, and Byrl’s son Larman Rees, Elk Ville.
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du Quoin
Hickory Street
Robert Newborn
Arlie Holland
Rovie
Tamareca
Pete Helmer
Gene Haigston
James Janini
Sante Cicardo
Roy Feltmeyer
Larman Rees
Bu Quein
Byrl Rees
Elkville
Thirteen bikers held on sexual assault charges in Chicago suburb
Thirteen alleged members of a Chicago area motorcycle gang await Circuit Court appearances on charges including deviate sexual assault and conspiracy to commit rape after two teenage girls ages 18 and 16 report a sexual attack during a picnic in the northwestern suburb of Schiller Park. Police and forest rangers report the response and ongoing detention.
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Chicago
Barrington Girl Abducted and Found Near Palatine
Barrington police and Cook County sheriffs hunt for a gray haired man in his fifties who abducted 12 year old Katheryn Kuhn near the Elgin Joliet and Eastern tracks. She was held overnight in a suburb house then released near Palatine and treated at an Elgin hospital.
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Barrington (Ap
Barrington
Cook County Sheriff's
Chicago
Palatine
Katheryn Kuhn
John C. Kuhn
Elgin
Katheryn
Suzanne
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railroad
Harrisburg Car Crash Leaves Three Hurt
Three Harrisburg residents were injured when a car hit a pole and tore down 150 feet of fence on Rt. 13 about two miles east of Rt. 166. Driver Richard Harley, 22, and passengers Norman Avery, 19, Patsy Yackle, 24, sustained major and other injuries.
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Harrisburg
Rt. 13
Rt. 166
Richard Harley
Norman Avery
Patsy Yackle
Avery
Marion
Rt. 154
Rt. 127
Everette G. Geurin
Lena Geurin
Pinckneyville Community Hospital
Geurin
Euclid W. Brostee
Tamaroa
Area accidents report in Marion city roads
Police said a car driven by Lloyd M. McKinnies 47 of De Soto turned left in front of a motorcycle. Barbara Bozarth 28 of Creal Springs injured in a two car collision at 6 p.m. Sunday in Marion listed in fair condition. Paul McIntosh 18 of Marion cited for failure to yield at Chestnut and Bentley after driving into John W. Bozarth’s car. neither driver injured.
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Carbondale
E. Main St
Gene K. Tazioli
Margaret Alston
E. College St
Doctors Hospital
P.m
Lloyd M. McKinnies
de Soto
Creal Springs
Barbara Bozarth
Rt. 2
Marion
Marion Memorial Hospital
Paul McIntosh
Rt. 3
Chestnut
Bentley
McIntosh
John W. Bozarth
St. Clair couple slain near Sauget in Illinois
A young French Village couple, Jerry A. Kimme and his wife Gloria, were shot to death on a slag heap near Sauget. A critically wounded man was found in their car and Eddie Woods was treated for a spine wound after stopping for help. Police traced the event to a shooting at dusk. Their children were found beside the bodies, crying.
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Sauget
St. Clair County
Jerry A. Kimme
Gloria
Kimme
Eddie Woods
East St. Louis
Woods
St. Louis
Sauge
Southern Illinoisan Publisher and Address Notice
The Southern Illinoisan publishes daily except Saturdays and holidays from Carbondale with additional offices in Herrin and Murphysboro. It notes its successor status to prior papers and AP republication rights.
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Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinoisan Inc
North Illinois Avenue
Carbondale
North 16Th Street
Herrin
Walnut Street
Murphysboro
Line Island
Caerbondate Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Murphys Bere
Associated Press
Johnston City Banker Pete L. Savant Dies at 79
Pete L. Savant 79 of 703 Falls St Johnston City died at 6 30 am at Franklin Hospital Benton after a three year illness. He was vice president and director of Johnston City State Bank retired auto dealer and longtime VA hospital worker. He served in World War I and held VFW posts and GOP roles. He was born in Crassola Italy June 14 1892 and married Rose Endrizzie in 1916. He survived by a son two daughters two brothers and five grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are set in Johnston City.
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Pete L. Savant
Falls St
Johnston City
Franklin Hospital
Benton
Mr. Savant
Johnston City State Bank
Veterans Administration Hospital
Marion
Savant
VFW
Herrin
Williamson County Tuberculosis Board
Williamson County
Crassola
Italy
Baptiste
Regina Savant
Rose Endrizzie
Robert P. Savant
Violet Parsons
Delores Grisham
Eldorado
Dominick
Joseph
Murman and Wilson Funeral Home
R Tretter rites set at St Marys Chester for 60
Funeral services are planned for Wednesday at 10 a.m. at St Marys Catholic Church in Chester for Rene Louis Tretter 60 who died Saturday from burns in a farm accident. Rev Joseph Sense will officiate and burial will follow in the church cemetery. He was born January 6 1911 in Johnston City. He is survived by his wife six children and several other relatives.
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St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Chester
Rene Louis Tretter
Tretter
Memorial Hospital
Joseph Sense
Schroeder
Johnston City
Joseph
Mary Wisintainer Tretter
June Stewart
Trettter
Knapp Oil Co
S&s. Mary’s Catholic Church
Holy Name Society of the Church
Murphysboro
Irma
Tell City
Ind
Joseph Gregerson
Ponca City
Okla
Nels
Victoria Hiser Gregerson
Pearl Harrouss
Thelma Crockett
Gregerson
Jean Nichols
Ashland
Martha Eisner
Vincennes
Lauretta Samson
Jefferson City
Denny and Pettett
Royce E. Wood
Pleasant Hill Cemetery
Minnie Odum
Creal Springs
Sunov
Marion Memorial Hospital
Ozark
J. C
Nancy White Caldwell
Dempsey Odum
Odum
Cana Church
Ruby Purley
Ova
Hugh
Milan
Mich
Lula Belle Gales
S. Third St
Shiloh Baptist Church
Robert James
Tower Grove Cemetery
Evelyn Morrison
St. Louis
Charles Kriebs
Evergreen Cemetery
Schroeder Funeral Home
Morrison
Mother of Good Council
James and
Maude Turner Dunn
Robert
Harry A. Strauss
Hazel Crest
Marion
St. Catherie’ Hospital
East Chicago
Mr. Strauss
Clinton
Herman
Etta Wildrige Strauss
Gladys Elstob
Harvey First Christian Church
C. E. Johnson
Floyd Hayes
Mitchell Funeral Rome
Bruce Patton
Herrin City
Elsa M. Tyndall
Centralia
Randolph County
Sparta
Tyndall
Kimmundy
Iles
Josephine Ludwig Tyn
Steeleville
Robert Ward
Steeleville City
Kathryn Ridley
Rosemont
Carterville
Riggin
Earl Black
Hillcrest Cemetery
Ridley
Laitheran General Hospital
Park Ridge
Hurst
Anna Man Dies From Gun Wound At Home
William R. Tyson, 63, of 624 S Main St Anna, was found outside his home by his wife at 3 30 a m and pronounced dead at 4 a m. Union County Coroner Lloyd Sitter ruled the death an apparent death by own action. a pistol lay nearby near a garage. Tyson had been a Pepsi Cola Bottling Co distributor before ill health. Funeral arrangements are pending Norris and Son Funeral Home Jonesboro.
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William R. Tyson
S. Main
S&t
Anna
Tyson
Ruby
Union County
Lloyd Sitter
Dallas West
Pepsi Cola
Marion
Norris and Son Funeral Home
Jonesboro
Fire calls report across Carbondale and Du Quoin
Fire at a storage shed owned by Walter Keller at 304 S Illinois St Du Quoin destroyed the shed while it was being torn down. Carbondale crews responded to 400 block S Logan at 12:33 a m and 505 S Ash St for oven and candles incidents with no damage reported. Also noted: Darrel Cutler, son of Homer C Cutler, now acting Se supervisor at Carbondale Post Office. correction issued for marriage license list misnaming Richard Tuthill as Roger Tuthill. Ray Griffin, 59, of Creal Springs, dies at Marion Memorial Hospital. funeral details pending with Cosby Funeral Home Creal Springs. Police brief notes Gale S Goodman 21 cited for speeding.
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du Quoin
S. Illinois St
Walter Keller
Carbondale
South Logan
S. Ash St
Ray Griffin
Rt. 2
Creal Springs
Marion Memorial Hospital
Cosby Funeral Home
Death notices and funeral services list multiple SIU region residents
A string of obituaries and funeral notices for Southern Illinois figures appears, detailing Joseph Gregerson of Ponca City Oklahoma and several local residents from Murphysboro Creal Springs Carterville and West Frankfort. The items include survivor lists birth dates marriage details church affiliations and burial plans with locations in Murphysboro Cannon Cana Cemetery Evergreen Chester and other area sites.
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Southern
Saluki
Webster
Fox
the Wild Rovers
Liberty
Ryan
Coulterville
Sensation Generation
Marion Drive-In
The
Minx
Varsity
Dr. Phibes
Anna Drive-In
Valdez
Orpheum
Willard
Herrin American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Home
Sweet Adelines Women’s
Carbondale First Presbyterian Church
Norman D. Day
Colonial Drive
West Main Street
Day
Ronald W. Spytek
Dowell
Spytek
William H. Moore
Atlanta, Ga
Area Police
Kennedy
Illinois
Belleville
Pete Savant
Anna Man
Darrel Cutler
Homer C. Cutler
Richard Tuthill
Roger Tuthill
Gale S. Goodman
William T. Gentry
McNeill St
Fountain
Mr. Gentry
John Henry Gentry
Lera Etta Woods
Gentry
Richard
Grayslake
Ryburn
Robinson
H. O. Cook
Lesser
Orlena Sulcer
Jeffersonian
Suicer
Franklin County
William
Georgia Cook Boswell
Guy
Paul Sulcer
Lorana Lewis
Santa Anna
Calif
Gusta Cokrum
First Freewill Baptist Church
Howard Flora
Maple Hill Cemetery
Brayfield Funeral Home
Sesser
MR. Threewitt
Ervin Threewitt
West Frankfort
Union Funeral Home
Ruth Hayes
Logan Cemetery
Logan
Threewitt
Union Hospital
James
Mary Elizabeth Smothers Threewitt
Glad Tidings Church
Flora
Ervin Jr
Thomas
Carlos Harper
Mary Mills
Betty Hampton
Arley
Ranel Wall
Elsa Tyndall
Sam Wertz
Hobbs- Johnson
Adolph Zwengel
Masonic and
Odd Fellows
Wertz
W. Reed St
Freeman Coal Co
George and
Sarah Bridges Wertz
Mr. Wertz
Lucille Rogers Wertz
Louise Hensen
Jo Dunn
Jane Loss
Carolyn Wertz
Shirley Wertz
Harry
U.S. Navy
U.S. Army
Wayne
Edna Lewis
Lorene Day
Charleston
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