St Andrews Auxiliary Marks First Year In Murphysboro
St Andrew’s Hospital Auxiliary in Murphysboro will observe its first anniversary at the Liberty Theater 1333 Walnut St Thursday at 7 30 p m. Mrs Anita Crites Smith, former Murphysboro High School teacher and leader of Women’s Hospital Auxiliaries of the Illinois Hospital Association, will speak. The group will review projects, revise the constitution, and vote on officers as it plans future hospital work for the Eielambees area. The auxiliary organized in 1956 and now numbers more than 900 members, having completed over $2100 in hospital service projects during its first year.
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St. Andrew’s Hospital
Murphysboro
Anita Crites Smith
Murphysboro Township
Women’s Hospital
Ilinois Hospital Assn
Liberty Theater
Walnut St
Stella Lamendola
Eielambees
Smith
Murphysboro Bank
Walter Smith
St. Andrew’s Auxili
Bigham Rites Set for Cutler Resident
Funeral services are planned Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Baptist Church in Cutler for Harry E. Bigham 80 a retired coal miner of Cutler who died Monday. Burial will be in Cutler Cemetery with Rev Skillbeck officiating. Friends may call at Lynn Funeral Home in Cutler.
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Harry E. Bigham
Cutler
Baptist Church
Skillbeck
Lynn
Bigham
Mine Examining Board Sets Five Area Meetings
The State Miners' Examining Board will meet in five area cities on successive dates in July. Meetings run 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Du Quoin July 15, Benton July 16, Eldorado July 17, Harrisburg July 18 and Herrin July 19. Candidates must show at least one year of practical mining experience.
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State
du Quoin
Benton
Eldorado
Harrisburg
Herrin
Labor Temple
Chamber Drive Windup Promises One-Day Push
A Thursday breakfast will kick off the last phase of Murphysboro Chamber of Commerce’s 1957 membership drive. Invitations have been sent for a 7 a.m. breakfast at Raymar Cafe as the final push dubbed Operation Clean Sweep aims to complete the campaign in one day. The chamber set a 1956 record of 401 memberships in a concerted drive.
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Murphysboro
Raymar
Jackson Court Docket Rescheduled for July First Opening
A Jackson Circuit Court docket for the June term is moved up one week and will open July 1 at 9 a.m. Circuit Judge C. E. Wright of Carbondale, now on temporary duty with the Bellate Court for Illinois Second District, will not preside on the June opening. The June docket remains non jury with no grand or petit juries called.
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C. E. Wright
Carbondale
Wright
Bellate
Second District of Illinois
Ottawa
Jackson
Government to quit egg buying program soon
Washington AP reports the Agriculture Department will withdraw from the egg market after today. The program begun last fall to aid low producer prices will complete final purchases Tuesday as prices are expected to rise seasonally. About 15 million dollars worth of shell and dried eggs have been bought and donated to school lunch programs public institutions and needy individuals.
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Agriculture Department
Ister
SIU Acquires 1000 Jefferson Books for Microtext Library
SIU buys one thousand Thomas Jefferson volumes for its library. Selected by John Cook Wyllie from a 7,000 volume Jefferson collection, the microprint set fits two showboxes and requires a magnifying device. The microprints cost a fraction of the original collection's sale price and will join SIU's growing microtext program for research access.
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Thomas Jefferson
Southern Illinois University Library
Europe
Jefferson
John Cook Wyllie
University of Virginia
Jefferson Library
Congress
SIU
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Mine Examining Board
Chamber Drive
Jackson Court
Washington
BORON
U. S
Patent Office
D-X
D-X Sunray
America
D-X Sunray Oil Company
Sunray Mid-Continent Oil Company
Oklahoma
Reeves
10Th and Walnut
Boyle Tire Service
Little Grassy Lake
Sons
YMCA
Jefferson Books
City OF
Illinois
Elisabeth Leighty
Monterey
Mercury
Worthington
HolesHlouse
Frick Plumbing
West Main Street
Marion, Ill
Motor Life
LMDA
Kwk-Tv
Kfvs-Tv
Carbondale Auto Sales
North
Illinois Ave
Brewster Motors, Inc
North Park Ave
Jackson County Motors
North 17Th St
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