Georgina Sherwood dies on 99th birthday in Carbondale
Georgina P. Sherwood of Carbondale dies at Holden Hospital at 4 30 p m on her 99th birthday after six months of illness and a March hip fracture. Born in Glasgow on June 3 1866 she leaves a daughter Ethel Park and a son Herbert Sherwood. Funeral 3 p m Saturday Van Natta Funeral Home with Rev Bert Cherry. Burial Pleasant Grove Memorial Cemetery. Friends may call after 5 p.m. today.
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Sherwood
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Holden Hospital
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Baptist Church
Totowa
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Scotland
William Paterson
Ethel Park
Herbert P. Sherwood
Palos Park
van Natta
Bert I. Cherry
Walnut Street Baptist Church
Pleasant Grove Memorial Cemetery
Weather outlook showers and thundershowers across central regions
Weather forecast calls for showers and thundershowers tonight over the middle and upper Mississippi Valley, northern and central Plains, central Plateau, and Ohio and Tennessee valleys. Cooler air moves in along the Atlantic coast from the Carolinas northward and from the northern Plains to the southern Plateau.
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Mississippi Valley
Central Plains
Central Plateau
Ohio and
Tennessee
Atlantic
Linas
Kansas City HoldUp Nets Bandits Eleven Thousand Two Hundred
Two armed bandits halted a bank withdrawal robbery at a busy intersection in Kansas City Missouri. James T. Smith and manager Gerald Ervin were returning to a supermarket when two cars boxed in their vehicle and the bandits demanded money. The robbers fled in the car that led the way, leaving a stolen vehicle behind.
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Kansas City
James T. Smith
Gerald Ervin
Smith
Wartburg College Alumni Association names new board member
Kenneth Starck of Carbondale is appointed a member at large on Wartburg College Alumni Association's board of directors, expanding leadership and alumni representation.
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Kenneth Starck
Carbondale
Wartburg College Alumni Association
Weather outlook for Southern and Northern Illinois period
Southern Illinois will see five days from Saturday to Wednesday with temperatures near or slightly below normal, highs 80s to mid 80s and lows around 60s. One to two inches of precipitation expected in multiple shower and thunderstorm periods. Northern Illinois faces 3-4 degrees below normal with high 77-80 and low 55-60, minimal change until the week’s start. rainfall 0.75 to 1 inch mainly over the weekend and midweek.
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Illinois
Trash Fire Extinguished at SIU Dorm Construction Site
Carbondale firemen extinguished a trash fire at 1 p.m. Wednesday on the construction site of the 17 story dormitory under construction at Southern Illinois University.
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Carbondale
Southern Illinois University
Eastern Rail Lines Set for Larger Share of Freight
Eastern railroads reach a pact with Southern Pacific, Cotton Belt, and Rio Grande to take about 31 percent of freight revenues for traffic to the West Coast via Chicago and St. Louis. If others join, Eastern lines stand to gain 65 to 70 percent of what they sought.
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St. Louis
West Coast
Southern Pacific Co
St. Louis Southwestern Railway
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad
Eastern Lines
Western Lines
Interstate Commerce Commission
Big Western Lines
ICC
Southern Pacific
Cotton Belt
Rio Grande
R. C. Gill
Traffic Executives Association of the Eastern Roads
Campbell Hill Resident Wilbert Beckman Dies
Wilbert H. Beckman 47 of Campbell Hill died Thursday at Veterans Administration Hospital Marion after a long illness. He married Dorothy Doetch in St. Louis on December 14 1945 and was a World War II veteran. Survived by wife and three sons Donald Clay and Bruce all of Campbell Hill a brother Herbert of Murphysboro and two sisters Mrs Elmer Rieckenberg of St Louis and Mrs Arthur Volkman of Campbell Hill. Funeral Sunday at St Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church Campbell Hill with burial in the church cemetery under Campbell Hill American Legion Post 1096. Friends may call at Wilson Funeral Home Campbell Hill after 7 30 p m today.
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Wilbert H. Beckman
Campbell Hill
Veterans Administration Hospital
Marion
Hermann S
Helen Schoenberg Beckman
Dorothy Doetch
St. Louis
American Legion Post
Elmer Rieckenberg
Arthur Volkman
St. Peter’s
Police Briefs: fines for liquor and registration infractions
Herrin reports Jerry Cox fined $30 for illegal possession of liquor. Carbondale records Gary Lacey fined $15 for no valid vehicle registration.
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Herrin
Jerry Cox
Carbondale
Gary Lacey
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