Williamson Tax Bills Delayed Two Months For 1952
Williamson county will mail more than 40 000 tax bills for personal property and real estate after books are turned over to Lay the deputy collector. Bills normally go out in April but will be mailed in late June or July. Taxpayers have 30 days after receiving statements to pay the first installment before penalties. The first payment deadline is likely August 1 with the usual September 1 final real estate payment deadline still in effect.
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Williamson County
Lay
Graduation Sunday for St. Mark's Steeleville Eighth Grade
Steeleville St. Mark's Lutheran School will hold eighth grade commencement Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in the school auditorium. Principal speaker is C. E. Berndt of St. John's Lutheran. Delegatory address by Lawrence Bierman and salutatory by Daniel Mueller.
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St. Mark’s Lutheran School of
Steeleville
C. E. Berndt
St. John’s Lutheran In
Lawrence Bierman
Daniel Mueller
Funeral Rites Sunday for Mrs Eva Gurin Percy
Funeral services for Mrs Eva Mae Gurin of Percy will be Sunday at 2 30 p m at Percy Baptist Church with Rev Charlie Simonds officiating. She was 47 and died Thursday at her home. The body lies at Walker Funeral Home.
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Eva Mae Gurin
Percy
Percy Baptist Church
Charlie Simonds
Howard Laney 48 Herrin Man Dies After Three Months Hospitalized
Howard Franklin Laney of Creal Springs area died at 5 40 p m in Herrin hospital after a three month illness He was born October 29 1903 and was a member of the Herrin Masonic lodge United Mine Workers Local 15 and the Apostolic church He leaves wife Elsie two sons Howard Laverne and Raymond Lee a daughter in law two grandchildren half brothers Elvis and Joe and sisters Velma and Melvina Funeral services Sunday at 2 pm in the Apostolic church with Rev Harry Slattery and R P Clepper officiating burial at Eastlawn Memorial Home. One son Ralph was killed in an automobile accident near Death Curve in 1951.
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Howard Franklin Laney
Herrin
Herrin Hospital
Creal $ Rings
Herrin Masonic Lodge
Franklin
United Mine Workers of America
William and
Askee Laney
Laney
Elsie
Harry Slattery
R. P. Clepper
Eastlawn Memorial Home
Storme
U School Teacher Wins Scholastic Magazine Award
Evelyn Davis Rieke, Southern Illinois University assistant professor in University School, received a second place award from Scholastic Magazine executive editor Jack K. Lippert for a letter detailing classroom use of the article "Engineering Tomorrow" from the April 16 issue of Senior Scholastic. The vocational-material contest was sponsored by Dred ee Electric company.
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Evelyn Davis Rieke
Southern Illinois University
Jack K. Lippert
Scholastic Magazine
Scholastic
Dred Ee Electric Company
SIU Student Plans to Teach in Iowa
John Maurice Fitzgerald a 1949 Southern Illinois University graduate will teach speech at Boone High School in Boone Iowa. He is married with two children. Mrs Fitzgerald formerly Rosemary Smith attended Southern in 1948. Fitzgerald majored in speech and took part in Little Ire activities. He is the son of Mrs E J Fitzgerald of Cairo.
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John Maurice Fitzgerald
Fairfield
Southern Illinois University
Boone High School
Boone
SIU
Fitzgerald
Rosemary Smith
Southern
E.J. Fitzgerald
Cairo
Ninety Three to Graduate at Johnston City High
Ninety three students will graduate from Johnston City High School with exercises at 7:30 p m at the high school. Maurice Clark superintendent will speak. Robert Wells principal will present honors and William Wilson board president will present diplomas. The invocation will be by Rev Jack DeVore and benediction by Rev Albert Buratto.
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Johnston City High School
Why Teeth
Sal
Maurice Clark
Robert Wells
William Wilson
Board of Education
Jack DeVore
Albert Buratto
Marguerite Barra
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Elizabeth Hannebique
Parent-Teachers Association
Wells
Normal School
Joy Allen
Charlotte Barger
Patricia Batey
Marian Becker
Shirley Beltz
Brenda Boyce
Eva Castleman
Othella Cole
Wilma Davis
Betty Descamp
Clara Doering
Alice Dorris
Solin Fehrenbaker
Margaret Hall
Nadine Hamby
Delores Hansford
Peggy Hyden
Shirley Jen
Patricia Smith
Delores Strike
Irma Vene
Lucretia White
Rita Zavis
Lyndell Allen
Max Barron
Ray Beaver
Claude Beavers
Richard Betuski
Remo Castrale
Earl Crim
Bob Crows
Clyde Daub
Lowell Davis
Jack Dragovich
Orville Fairbanks
Jack Fletcher
Donald Francescon
Gene Goad
John Handegan
James Harper
Earl Harris
Claude Harrison
Mark Hoffa
James Ryan Seeks Release From Menard Prison
Circuit Judge Harold Zimmer set a June 3 hearing on James Ryan's petition for release from Menard State Penitentiary. Ryan, sentenced to life on a 1943 murder charge, killed Samuel Black of Gallatin County after Black ate a poisoned hamburger Ryan allegedly gave him.
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Harold Zimmerman
Marion
James Ryan
Menard State Penitentiary
Ryan
Samuel Black
Gallatin County
Black
Eight Graduate At Grand Tower High School
Eight members of the 1952 Grand Tower High School class graduated Friday evening in the school auditorium. Rev Julius Juhtaal spoke on opportunities in the United States, and the seniors performed Now is the Hour. Valedictorian Barbara Clutts and Audrey Burdick spoke, with honors awarded including University of Illinois scholarships and the Daughter of the American Revolution award.
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Barbara Clutts
Sa’usat
Audrey Burdick
R. H. Golliher
Clutts
Miss Burdick
Ilinois Univrsity
Ilinois Univrsity Scholarship. Miss Burdick
American Revolute
Miss Clutts
Rev. L. R. Gilliand
Doris Julia Arbeiter
Dale Eugene Bludworth
Audrey Marie Burdick
Barbara Jane Clutts
Alberta Lee Miles
Byron Virtus Penrod
Donald Eugene Qualls
Shirley Ann Smith
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Steeleville St. Mark’s
Eva Gurin
New Orelans
Mississippi River
National Geogratic Society
Howard Laney
Herrin Man
Magazine
Iowa
Eaton's Bottle Gas
Johnston City
Southeast Asia
Menard
Grand Tower
Hell
Eugene Brown
Ernest J. Eaton
Carl Robinson
The
Eaton Bottle Gas Company
Eveready
East Main
Carbondale, Illinois
Blondie
Ozark Ike
Ozarks
Buz Sawyer
Secret Agent X9
Phil
Rip Kirby
Athletic League
Tapestry
Savoy Stratford
Mandrake
Either Dames
Fathead
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