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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1952
Page
5
Anna and Jonesboro host advance holiday showings this week as Christmas lights illuminate business streets. Vari-colored lights adorn intersections and swinging stars brighten street centers while merchants prep early store decorations and plan Christmas trees in Anna and Jonesboro parks.
The article notes a vehicle rollover near Wolf Lake in which Mrs. Rayfield suffered scalp injuries a fractured arm and knee cuts before hospital transfer. It also mentions a long history of Western Division Lions finishing top three twelve times in eighteen years of competition.
Mrs. Otis Loyd at 811 W Illinois Ave Carterville turns decorating candles into a thriving business. She creates hand painted arrangements of Way roses poinsettias and other blooms at her kitchen table after caring for her three children. Locals buy her wares at home and she dreams of wholesale orders with a storefront sign. Loyd’s husband once helped capture wild beasts and is a local celebrity.
Funeral services were held Monday at Brookport Baptist Church for Carlyle Askew 62 of Brookport who died Saturday at the L C Hospital Paducah after a six week illness. He leaves his wife Grace a son Donald of Brookport and a sister Mrs Bessie Nickles of New Castle Indiana. Iwan Christoff officiated and Kennedy Funeral Home had charge. Burial was in Woodlawn Cemetery Paducah.
Wanted: appliance or specialty salesman with good correspondence for sales promotion with a fast rowing organization. Requires good attire. Submit complete details in a letter. Confidential. Address Box 818 c o Southern Shinoisan Carbondale.
Glenn Mattheis was named president of the Anna-Jonesboro Chamber of Commerce at the December board meeting. Adolph Walter was selected as vice president, with Mrs. Mary Harper serving as executive secretary. New board members include Walter, Ray Larson, Joe Brown, and C Earl Hughes, all from Anna or nearby Jonesboro.
Mr and Mrs James Rayfield of St Louis were admitted to Anna City Hospital Monday for treatment of injuries received when the car they were riding in collided with another vehicle on Route 3 near Wolf Lake.
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