Public meetings and events listed for Herrin and area
Calendared items show Herrin City Plan Commission Benton City Council Christopher City Council and other local bodies meeting 7:30 p m Monday at city halls and school boards 7 p m Monday plus special sessions to consider a 500000 bond for a new junior high school. theaters events lectures and a death notice for Reuben Broadnax with services planned at Apostolic Faith Temple and Oakland Cemetery.
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Herrin City Plan Commission
Benton City Council
Christopher City Council
Zeigler City Council
West Frankfort
Johnston City Unit School Board
Benton
Lincoln
Jackson - Williamson Community Action Agency
Carbondale City Hall
Southern Illinois Airport Authority
Century High School
Dongola Unit School Board
Pinckneyville
du Quoin
Herrin
N. 14Th St
Little Egypt
S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A
Herrin High School
Marion Unit
High cc
Rend Lake Conservancy District Board
Wood Building
Herrin Citizens’ Advisory Committee
Franklin County Board of Supervisors
Rend Lake College Board
Alto Pass School District
Murphysboro Township High School
Lions, Rotary, Kiwanis and
Murphysboro Booster Club
Carruthers Junior High School
Obituary: Emma C. Jacques of Cobden Dies at 87
Emma C. Jacques 87 of Cobden died Sunday at home. Born May 5 1881 in Murphysboro she married Hubert R. Jacques December 25 1902 in Cobden. She was a member of the First Baptist Church Cobden. Survived by husband daughter Sybil Ferrill sons Hubert and Harry P. two sisters two grandchildren and one great grandchild. Services Tuesday 3 p.m. at Broadway McCarty Funeral Home Cobden with Rev. Clifford Heil. Burial in Cobden Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
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Reuben L. Broadnax
E. Sycamore St
Carbondale
Doctors Memorial Hospital
Jackson County
Harry Flynn
Flynn
Broadnax
Apostolic Faith Temple
Covington
Reuben Jr
Wfe
Mabel Young
Tenn
Margaret Jamison
Cape Girardeau
Sallie Daniels
Los Angeles
Calif
Everlee Bonds
Pauline Hughlett
Embrey Broadnax
Mason, Tenn
Andrey Broadnax
Hennings
N.C. Peters
Chicago
Oakland Cemetery
Jackson Funeral Home
Emma C. Jacques
Cobden
Murphysboro
Preston
Martha Ann Miller Ballard
Hubert R. Jacques
Jacques
First Baptist Church of
Sybil Ferrill
Hubert
Harry P
Nellie Porter
Dowell
Margaret Campbell
St. Louis
Broadway-McCarty
Clifford Heil
First Baptist Church
Four Dems vie for 58th District seat in June primary
In the 58th District race for state representative, four Democrats challenge incumbent Harold D. Stedelin. The field includes Benton attorney Richard O. Hart Wayne R. Samuels Lesser teacher and West Frankfort band director James LaVern Sanders. District spans Franklin Hamilton Jefferson Marion Saline White and Wayne counties with a June 11 primary.
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Richard O. Hart
Benton
Wayne R. Samuels
James LaVern Sanders
West Frankfort
Harold D. Stedelin
Centralia
Franklin
Hamilton
Jefferson
Marion
Saline
White
Wayne
Benton Firm
Hart
University of Illinois
Washington University Law School
St. Louis
Hart and Hart
William W. Hart
William W. Hart Jr
Ilinois
Rend Lake
Illinois
Samuels
Wayne ‘“Tennie’’ Samels
Franklin County
Young Democrats
Lois
Mark
Lyndy
Terry
Sanders
Bluford
Jefferson County
University of Houston
Department of Illinois Disabled American Veterans
Ernest Sanders
Hearings set on Lewis Clark Trail future plans
The Lewis and Clark Trail Commission schedules three public hearings to gather citizen views on preserving and marking the route from St. Louis to Portland. A St. Louis session is eyed for May or June 1969 with other hearings in Bismarck and Portland in coming months.
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St. Louis
Portland
Ore
Bismarck
N.C
Mrs. Cecil Wamsley Peeler Dies in Peoria at 58
Mrs. Cecil Wamsley Peeler 58 of Peoria and former Herrin resident died Saturday in Peoria. Born March 12 1910 in Herrin she moved to Peoria in 1944. Survived by husband Grover daughters Vera Jean Sebens Anna Carmichael both of Peoria a son Hal Miller of Peoria five grandchildren one great grandchild her mother of Herrin and brother Kenneth Wamsley of Herrin. Funeral Tuesday at Wilton Funeral Chapel Peoria burial in Parkview Cemetery. Friends may call after 6 p.m. today.
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Herrin
George
Ada Wamsley
Peoria
Peeler
Grover
Vera Jean Sebens
Anna Carmichael
Hal Miller
Kenneth Wamsley
Wilton Funeral Chapel
Parkview Cemetery
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Orpheum Theater
Flint
Marion Drive - In
She- Beast
Fox
Sebastian
Varsity
Marion Drive-In
Riveria
Raymond Inskeep
South Africa
Zimbabwe
SIU Agriculture Building
Reuben Broadnax
Emma Jacques
Julius’ Store
Southern Illinois
Congress
General Assembly
Springfield
Stedelin
House of Representatives
Centralia Engineering and Machine Corp
Ste
Memorial Hospital
Belleville
House
Civil Defense Commissions
Ether
Centralia Unit School Board
Marion County
County Board of Supervisors
Gene Graves
The
State Department of Business and Economic Development
Southern Jillinoisan
Southern Illinoisan Inc
North Illinois Avenue
North 16Th Street
Walnut Street
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Associated Press
Cecil Wamsley Peeler
Go-Go Raceway Hobby Center
Mardale Center
I.U. Arena
Carbondale, Illinois
Leon Bibb
Bill Cosby
Russell
Southern Illinois University Center Information Desk
Saw-Mart
SIU Arena
City & State
Léyf
W. Main
Chopping Center
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