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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1955
Page
2
A 50 000 gallon water tank collapsed in Fairfax California flattening a four room house and an automobile as the Mar in County Water District storage tank toppled to the ground on Tuesday creating a mass of rubble.
A rural blaze spread from a smoke house to the Hartman farm home near Chester causing about 15000 in damage. Albert Hartman and his family escaped unharmed as Chester fire crews battled the flames for four hours. The family saved some furniture canned goods and Hartman suspects wiring in the smoke house sparked the fire.
In Washington D C Willie Rose reported an intruder ransacked his home and left a melted butter container on his bed. An 8 year old boy confessed and was turned over to juvenile authorities for the incident.
A 24 foot wide manger display lit by four floodlights graces the Trico Community Unit School cafeteria window on Route 43 two miles north of Campbell Hill. About 40 students in agriculture and home economics built it with roles by Mrs Barringer and Albert Schutte. Trico hosts a holiday basketball tournament next week with Attacks Carbondale Gorham University High Carbondale Sparta Hurst Bush Steeleville Shawnee in the field.
In Harrisburg Pennsylvania a flock of pigeons disrupts a courting owl pair. The male owl spends most of its time perched away from its mate and flirting with pigeons, alarming observers who fear for the owl couple's harmony.
Ottawa Illinois residents face a water piracy issue as 127 homes lack water meters and over 90 have never appeared on water bill records, according to a Citizens Advisory Committee survey.
Oscar C. Schroeder age 64, longtime Chester funeral director, died at St Marys Hospital in St Louis after a brief illness. He had suffered a possible stroke at home and was rushed to the hospital Monday. Born in Chester in 1891 he ran Schroeder and Son Funeral Home with his son Robert H. Surviving are his wife Edna M Holm, a son, siblings including Herman in Du Quoin, three grandchildren and several relatives. He served in World War I and belonged to St John Lutheran Church and Alva Court veterans group.
The Carbondale Herrin Murphysboro region paper outlines its public notices and notes its history as a successor to prior papers. It lists address locations at Carbondale and Herrin with publication days and confirms second class mailing status.
Schroeder, longtime director at First National Bank of Chester and member of the American Legion post 487, Chester Elks Lodge, and Rotary Club, will be laid to rest after funeral services Saturday at 2 p.m. at Schroeder Funeral Home with burial in Chester Evergreen Cemetery.
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