Christmas Dinner in the 15th AAF B17 Unit in 1942
The 15th AAF unit in Beals later moved to Southern Italy celebrates a bountiful Christmas in 1942 with turkey, dressing, corn, peas, potatoes, pie, cake, pudding, nuts, fruit, and wine. Captain Weamter Basso from 421 Clay Steel notes the contrast to prior rations and grim holidays.
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Mreen Christras
Army
Weamter B. Basso
Clay Steel
AAF
Beals
Witersn
Omest
Biskra
Mud Hill
Italy
Sittir
Joliet Youth Center opens for graduates celebration
At the last Joliet Youth Center executive meeting the center will host an entertainment night for grade school graduates a week after ceremonies. An orchestra will play for dancing and a food and soft drink counter will be available. Paul Mapes will handle memberships with free admission for attendees and parents are invited. A hostess committee from the Junior High graduations includes Mesdames Leaf O'Brien Hedstrom and others.
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Joliet
Mesdames
Clarence Leaf
Michael O’brien
Ray Hedstrom
Mat
Notable Local Figures Named in Village Obituary or Notice
Bloomfield, John Krohn, Lawrence Larson, Ira Archey, Walter Welsch and Loren Swinford appear in a local notice listing residents or participants. The fragment implies a community context with multiple individuals named in a grouped record.
Leadership mission at First Baptist Church this Tuesday
The Illinois State Church council will send a leadership team to the First Baptist Church on Tuesday. The mission theme is Educational Evangelism with sessions at 10:00 AM 1:30 PM and 7:15 PM. A supper is to be served at 6:00 PM by church women. Will County Ministers' Association sponsors the local effort.
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Illinois State Church Council
First Baptist Church
Will County
Ministers’ Association
Card Party and Dance at Wilhelms School
The Wilhelms school community club sponsors a card party and dance at the school on S. Chicago street tomorrow evening. Refreshments will be served and a basket of groceries will be raffled during the event.
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The
Wilhelms School Community Club
S. Chicago Street
Rent Office to Close Two Days for Conference
Levon Sevon rent director announced the OPA rent office at 21 E Van Buren Joliet will close next Monday and Tuesday for a regional rent conference. The office will reopen Wednesday and continue normal hours thereafter.
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Levon Sevon
OPA
E. van Buren Street
Joliet
St John’s Holy Name Society Announces Mass and Meeting
Members will receive holy communion at 8 o clock mass Sunday morning. Men meet at the parish hall at 7 45 o clock. An 8 o clock evening meeting will install officers with refreshments served.
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St. John's Holy Name Society
Was it colder 50 years ago in Joliet
Reading old prints from the 1890s, Mrs. Helen Rydman notes winters were harsher then. A six inch snow in Calumet, Mich faced children. other images show wrecked engines, drifts, and cross signals submerged, while Joliet remains chilly today.
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Helen Rydman
Catalpa Street
Bluff Street
Joliet
Souvenirs of War Gathered by Belgi m-Based Soldier’s Family
Pvt. John Sorenson, serving with the signal corps in Belgium, sent home a collection of wartime souvenirs. The items include a German helmet and a metal dagger, a bayonet with the carrier’s name, a cartridge clip, a gas mask, a large eight by four foot Nazi flag with insignia, a Luftwaffe square insignia, coins from Belgium and Germany, and other implements of war.
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John Sorenson
Hobbs Avenue
Pvt
John
Belgium
Signal Corps
Luftwaffe
Germany
Memorial Mass for 12 War Dead at St Marys Croatian Church
A memorial mass will be read at 8 oclock Sunday morning at St Marys Croatian church for 12 servicemen from that parish and from St Margaret s mission who have died in action in this war. Rev A Linsky will offer the mass and sermon with city officials and families present. The honored include Rudolph Malnar John Shepich Joseph Kirincich John Krpan Frank Senffner Arthur E Merzlock Rudolph Pobodnik Ignatius Juricic August Juricic John Bosnak Joseph Tushek from St Marys and Joseph Panian from St Margarets.
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St. Mary’s
St. Margaret's Mission
A. Linsky
Rudolph Malnar
John Shepich
Joseph Kirincich
John Krpan
Frank Senffner
Arthur E. Merz
YMCA Announces Weekly Classes and Club Meetings
The YMCA lists activities across the week including Sunday school teachers training and Bible class at 7 PM Wednesday in the dining room led by Mrs. Arthur Tylee, a better speech class with Dr. A H Bruning on Tuesday, the men's green club Wednesday at 7 45, and the Forum club meeting on Thursday evening January 15.
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YMCA
Arthur Tylee
A. H. Bruning
Forum Club
Second Term at SFA Opens in January
The second semester at St. Francis Academy will begin January 29. Registration is scheduled for the week of January 22. Further information can be obtained at the principal's office.
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St. Francis Academy
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