Santa visits Herrin for annual children meet and photos
Santa Claus arrived at Williamson County Airport and then toured Herrin stores before setting up at the Coca Cola Bottling Co plant. Hundreds of children waited in line to see Santa and have photos taken, with copies available through the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Santa planned visits to 12 ill children at home.
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Santa
Herrin
Santa Claus
Williamson County
Coca Cola Bottling Co
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Blaze Starts On Overheated Pipe At Oil Stove
Owner Smoky Gray estimated $300 damage after a fire sparked by an overheated pipe in his home. Gray was remodeling when he discovered the blaze around 4 30 p m.
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Smoky" Gray
Gray
Safecrackers Hit Endicott’s Excel Supermarket
Endicott’s Excel Supermarket at 10 W Locust St Harrisburg was burglarized Saturday morning with a drilled roof entry and a 20 inch square opening. Owner Paul Endicott found the store open at 7 45 am and said the thieves pried open a floor safe using hammers chisels crowbars. About $1500 in safe contents were taken. a prior break‑in a year ago netted cigarettes worth about $1000. The market lies near the public square.
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Endicott
Excel
Locust St
Harrisburg
Paul Endicott
Ernest A Topping Passes Away in Cobden
Ernest A. Topping, 65, of 819 N Almond St Carbondale died Friday at Doctors Hospital Carbondale Funeral services set for 2 PM Sunday at Broadway Funeral Home Cobden officiated by Rev Bert Kchersy with burial in Alto Pass Cemetery He is survived by his wife l Raby daughter Berniece Blessing of Freeburg one grand daughter two great grand daughters half brother Louis Topping of Tacoma Wash and half sisters Hazel Gurley Carbondale and Hilda Edwards in California By 1965 aluminum use in home building is projected at 1 5 billion pounds annually, more than double last year.
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Broadway
Cobden
Bert Kchersy
Alto Pass
Topping
L Raby
Berniece Blessing
Freeburg
Louis Topping
Tacoma
Wash
Hazel Gurley
Carbondale
Hilda Edwards
California
Mrs Mattie Bolinger Dies Rites Monday
Mrs Mattie Bolinger 70 formerly of 1404 W Maple St Herrin died 8 20 am Saturday at Hampton Nursing Home Herrin Funeral services Monday 2 pm Johnson Funeral Home Herrin Rev Gerald Gulley officiating Burial Herrin Cemetery Born Aug 3 1290 Carrier Mills daughter of George and Lina Metuger Married Arthur Bolinger in Herrin 1909 He died 1946 Survived by son Jack Hammond Ind sisters Addie Felkins Johnston City Carie Ferges Marion and two grandchildren
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Mattie Bolinger
Irs
W. Maple St
Herrin
Hampton Nursing Home
Johnson Funeral Home
Gerald Gulley
Herrin First Methodist Church
Herr
Funeral Rites Planned for Clarence Shook at Murman Wilson
Funeral services for Clarence Shook 63 a former Johnston City resident will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Murman and Wilson Funeral Home with friends calling after noon today Burial will be in Lakeview Cemetery He died Monday at his home in Wilkes Barre Pa
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Clarence Shook
Johnston City
Murman and Wilson Funeral Home
Buta
Lakeview
Mr. Shook
Wilkes/ Ba
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Mark Redfern
Truckers
Bell & Zoller Coal Company
Zeigler
Yukon
Ernest A. Topping
Almond St
Doctors Hospital
Surinam
Tabu
Carbondale Way
Privareity
Murdale Drugs
Cologne
Dana
Tinois VA. D. Shopping Center
Murdale Shopping Center
Carbondale, Ill
Mo Roche
Keen Vu 950
Mlinots Carbondale Ors
Carbondale National Bank
Pek Met
Roy Pou
Iorsy
Fred W. Wood
Q. D
Ray’s Jewelry
South Thlnais
Varsity Theatre
Chapman
Rollo
Vanity
Chapman - Rollo Urniture Company F
Murphysboro
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