Murphysboro City Schools Set September 1 for Registration
City Superintendent Carruthers announced the Murphysboro system will begin registration Friday September 1 at 9:00 am, with classes starting Wednesday September 6. Book issuance, rent or purchase options, and a brief Labor Day holiday precede the new term. duties include teacher assignments and a possible new Logan Junior High principal.
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Murphysboro
William Carruthers
Carruthers
Iter
Carruthis
Logan
Longfellow
Lincoln
Washington
Douglas
Work Full Week At Truax Traer
The Truax-Traer Coal company’s strip and drift mines in Northern Jackson county will operate five and six days weekly indefinitely. Chief clerk E L Rees said production rose due to incoming orders, with last week’s six days of work except for brief shutdowns due to coal car shortages.
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Truax-Traer Coal Company
Jackson County
E. L. Rees
Rees
Hospital Admissions and Dismissals for August 15
Admission notes list Miss Dixie White medical Gorham, Mrs Marguerite Weathers surgical 121 North Twenty second Street Dan Gale surgical Gorham Miss Norma Robinson surgical 224 Clay Street Mrs Irene Kuhnert surgical Pinckneyville Mrs Alban Schopfer maternity Elis Grove Dismissals Miss Tillie Robinson 215 North Ninth Street Master Nelson Rule Cutler Mrs Mary Jane Golliher 1934 Elm Street Mrs Lillian Boone and baby 2112 Hamilton Street
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Dixie White
Gorham
Marguerite Weathers
Surgical
North Twenty-second Street
Dan Gale
Norma Robinson
Clay Street
Irene Kxuhnert
Pinckneyville
Alban Schopfer
Elis Grove
Tillie Robinson
North Ninth Street
Nelson Rule
Cutler
Mary Jane Golliher
Elm Street
Lillian Boone
Hamilton Street
Southern Illinois Daily Independent Ad Rates Note
The Daily Independent lists subscription rates with carrier and mail options. Carrier 25 cents weekly. six weeks 12 dollars. twelve weeks 24 dollars. fifty two weeks 7.50 dollars. Mail subscriptions vary by service area.
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Southern Illinoisan
Daily Independent
Southern Ilinois Publications, Inc
South
Murphysboro
Ilinois
Associated Press
Weekend Rains Fill Lake Site Near Murphysboro
Heavy weekend rains raised Lake Murphysboro two miles west of Murphysboro for the first time since locks closed in July. Water from the north hill country continued to rise and a three to four hour observation showed detectable lake growth. full lake status unlikely this year. Illinois officials plan to stock fish after impoundment and clarity improves. a boat dock and picnic areas are prepared for eventual public use.
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Howard Cheatham
Illinois Department of Conservation
Tower Grove
Cheatham
Jaycees Plan Drive For New Members
Murphysboro Jaycees map a new membership drive at a county courthouse meeting. They plan a joint August 28 gathering with Carbondale and Herrin Jaycees at Jackson Country Club with the Illinois State President expected to attend. Raymond Sons heads the new membership committee with John Wayne Harvey, Robert Crombar, Burnell Howard and Edgar Sims on the panel.
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Murphysboro
Jackson County 4-H Contestants Hit State Fair
Thirteen Jackson county 4-H club girls and one boy travel by chartered bus to the State Fair to compete in clothing, room improvement and food projects and tractor driving. Models Marilyn Wakeland Carbondale Parthenia Sage Elkville Christina Young Murphysboro Patricia Endress Vergennes. Mary McDaniel Murphysboro Mary Sue Walker De Soto Joan Heape Vergennes. Patricia Endress advances to modeling group. Lawence Dietz De Soto competes in tractor title. Altha Huth De Soto seeks safe driving championship. Miss Huth drives in Springfield Thursday. Chaperones Mildred Ben Frances Ward Lavina Phelps accompany group.
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Jackson County
Jackson
Willi
Perry County
Marilyn Wakeland
Carbondale
Parthenia Sage
Elkville
Christina Young
Murphysboro
Patricia Endress
Vergennes
Mary McDaniel
Mary Sue Walker
de Soto
Joan Heape
Betty Hickman
Flirville
Miss Hickman
Mary Elizabeth Crawshaw
Yee Hastings
Louise
Sharon Hall
Shirley Dillinger
Buckles
Joan Lively
Campbell Hill
Lawence Dietz
Altha Huth
Miss Huth
Springfield
Mildred Ben
Frances /Ward
Lavina Phelps
Rob*s
Route 1 To Get New Surface In Murphysboro
Murphysboro route 1 along south Twentieth Street to near Worthen school will receive a new surface of asphalt and rock chips. Work, originally slated for August, was delayed by heavy rains but is to start within days. The project covers about 1.5 miles of State Aid Road No. 5 section 39 G.
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Murphysboro
Murrhyshoro
Worthen School
Mrs William Knop 75 Dies at Steeleville
Mrs Mary Maglene Dorothy Knop 75 of Steeleville died at 10 p m Monday at Chet er hospital after three and a half weeks illness. Born Campbell Hill Feb 6 1875 she moved to Steeleville married William Knop who preceded her in Bath. Survived by two sons Arnold and Adelbert two daughters Mrs tha Helmers and Mrs Hulda Hartje a brother Henry Burmeister and sister Mrs Lena Ruebke Funeral Thursday Aug 17 at 2 p m from St Peters Lutheran Wine Hill with Rev Arnold Kaitschuk officiating. Burial in St Peters Lutheran Cemetery Wine Hill. Friends may call O C Schroeder Sons Funeral Home Chester until services.
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Mary Maglene Dorothy Knop
Steeleville
R.F.D
Hulda Hartje
Chester
Henry Burmeister
Campbell Hill
Lena Ruebke
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
Wine H
Arnold Kaitschuk
St. Peter’s Lutheran Cemetery
Wine Hill
O. C. Schroeder & Sons
J. P. Hawthorne Dies At 58 In Murphysboro
J P Hawthorne 58 of Murphysboro died at 4 25 am in St Andrew a hospital after a heart attack at home. He retired as a Gulf Mobile and Ohio signal maintenance man and moved from Wickliffe Kentucky 20 years ago. He married Willie Ross in 1912 and leaves a son William Hawthorne a daughter Mrs Arthur Pate two grandsons his brothers and sister in Wickliffe. Funeral Thursday 2 30 pm at Crawshaw Mortuary with Masonic rites in Wickliffe. Burial in Wickliffe Cemetery.
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J. P. Hawthorne
Walnut Street
Murphysboro
St. Andrew's Hospital
Hawthorne
Wickliffe
Mr. Hawthorne
Murrhysboro
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Willie Ross
Mounds City
William Hawthorne
Arthur Pate
Murphsboro
R. W. Hawthorne
W. W. Hawthorne
G. B. Hawthorne
Laura Hawthorne
Crawshaw Mortuary
H. T. Rafael
Wickliffe, Ky
Rotarians Hear Program of Musical Selections
Murphysboro Rotary Club featured a musical program with vocal solos and a Madge Collins Joe Hanson duet and a George Purcell piano solo with Purcell accompanying. Sam Martin was named to represent the club at the Centennial committee meeting Thursday. Guests included visiting Rotarians Dean Gilbert Lentz and Dr G W Schwartz from Carbondale.
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Murphysboro
Rotary Club
Madge Collins
Joe Hanson
George Purcell
Sam Martin
Carbondale
Dean Gilbert Lentz
G. W. Schwartz
Accidental death verdict in Murphysboro auto crash
A coroner s jury ruled the death of Carl Perry 33 of Vergennes accidental after a Route 13 crash near Murphysboro Aug 5 Perry lost control of his southbound car the vehicle ran off the road overturned and he was ejected Juries members listed include J R Harris foreman and others.
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Murphysboro
Carl Perry
Vergennes
Roy Huffman
Murpysboro
Perry
Pavem
J. R. Harris
Foreman
Joe Tyler
Joe Morris
George Kinney
Leon Frazier
Margaret —Davis
Reappoint King To Housing Post In Illinois County
The Illinois State Housing Board re appointed Walter King of Murphysboro as a committeeman on the Jackson County Housing Authority for a five year term. King completed his first term July 31 and has served as chairman since organization. The appointment followed a county board chairmans recommendation. The housing authority, a state funded body, has built seven homes in the county and sold Murphysboro homes on North Sixteenth street after four months on the market. The board plans more houses to be built and sold at cost. Members include I W Dill Carbondale W I Knowles Elkville Fred Wils Murphysboro and Harold E Briggs Carbondale.
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King
Housing Authority
Authority
James D. Gilmore
County Board of Supervisors
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Murphysboro
Elkville
Carbondale
I. W. Dill
W. I. Knowles
Elxville
Fred Wils
Harold E. Briggs
Weather Woes and Hay Fever Take Center Stage
A quirky column riffs on weather in August 1950 and the season’s impact on farmers and city dwellers. It muses on a pending hurricane in the Atlantic, hay fever pollen counts, and the public’s mood as autumn nears, with local flavor and humor.
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Atlantic
Cardinals
Summer sports program runs with church league in Murphysboro
Murphysboro hosts a summer sports program offering girls gym classes boys programs and tennis for all. It operates with the Church Softball League which drew 10 teams in two divisions. Recent tournaments concluded in both divisions with staff photo notes.
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Murphysboro
Property Transfers Wide Range of Small and Large Tracts
A list of land and lot transfers in Carbondale Murphysboro and surrounding areas shows multiple deeds, with buyers and sellers such as Joe Barone Jr to Rose Barone and Arthur L Johnson to Ernest L Allen. Amounts vary from 1 to 9000 dollars, including lots in Tower Grove and Dowell additions and parcels in sections and townships.
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Joe Barone, Jr
Rose Barone
Arthur L. Johnson
Ernest L. Allen
G. Stuart Jenkins
Nora E. Adams
Consolidated Coal Co
Murphysboro
Susan W. Wright
Nellie A. Lemons
Tower Grove
Hugh Hiller
Fern Greathouse
Garrett Grammer
J. Thomas Duncan
Paul Stuart
Dorris J. Hickman
Dowell
T. W. Rowe
Robert Chan
G. T. M. and
Mtg. and Trans. Co
Harvey L. McBride
Charles E. Dill
Clements SD
Carbondale
Leah M. Rees
J. A. Barri
Normal Univ. S DL
M. W. Fisher
Alfed W. Whelchel
T. Martin Morgan
Kenneth P. Audt
Morgan Place
Dale H. Gillis
Estelle M. Gersenslager
William T. Hardin
Clark
Logan
Loyd M. Bradley
Clarence Clyde Harris
William R. Brandon
Earl A. Piquard
Lydia Ethel Hagler
Herbert Carl Hagler
Harry L. Moore
Asby Snyder
J. S. Groves
J. H. Ridgway
Harke
Murphysboro Plans Opening Sale Of Beard Permits
The White Shrine and local groups begin selling shaving permits for the Centennial celebration on the Murphysboro courthouse lawn. The kangaroo court and court broadcasts are planned, with the Chamber of Commerce and Fraternal Order of Eagles staffing duties.
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Murphysboro
Jackson County
Chamber of Commerce
Order of Egre
C. of C
Jackson County 4-H Teams Fall In Twin Bill Losses
Jackson County 4-H softball teams dropped both games Tuesday night at the 4-H ball park north of Murphysboro. Golconda’s Pope-Hardin county 4-H champs beat the Beaucoup Bumblebees 10 to 3 to claim the district title and a spot at the State Sports Festival in Champaign. An All-Star lineup of county players was defeated 14 to 8 by the Murphysboro Merchants in the nightcap amid heavy rain and muddy field conditions.
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Murphysboro
Pope-Hardin County
Golconda
Beaucoup
Jackson
Champaign
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