Local Singers Win National Sweet Adeline Contest
The Lyrics Freeport Chapter quartet won the national contest at the 15th international convention in Colorado Springs Colorado chosen by fifteen judges Saturday evening Oct 14 over thirty seven other entries. Members are Liz Speer Sterling tenor Mrs Wayne Lorene Eller Milledgeville lead Mrs Leo Diane Pauley Chadwick baritone Sue McCoy Sterling boss. rs Eller and Mrs Pauley are daughters of Mr and Mrs Wales Geary of Lanark. Mr and Mrs Geary and their daughter Mr and Mrs William Ritenour of Pecatonica attended the contest. Mr and Mrs Robert Miller visited Riverdale and Riverside relatives through the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeport Chapter
Sweet Adeline
United States
Canada
Colorado Springs
Colo
Liz Speer
Sterling
Wayne
Lorene
Eller
Milledgeville
Leo
Diane) Pauley
Chadwick
Sue McCoy
Mrs
Pauley
Wales Geary
Lanark
Geary
William Ritenour
Pecatonica
Charles Welker
Harold Gravenstein
Shannon
Welker
Bay City
Texas
Frank
Alex
Elsie) Larson
Savanna
Harold
Ethel) Gravenstein
Kenneth
Lena
Illinois
Brookville
Freedom To Know Theme At World Community Day
World Community Day observance set for November 3 at 7 30 p m at the Church of the Brethren with the theme Freedom To Know Education for women in the Americas, focusing on Latin America. Funds will support Latin American scholarships through Church World Service and Ecumenical Scholarship Exchange. 51st wedding anniversary and farewell dinner held as the Welker and Akoff families gather in Lanark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of the Brethren
Americas
Latin America
United States
Christian World Relations Department
The
United Church Women
Church
Christ
Brazil
Chile
Peru
Ecumenical Scholarship Exchange of
Church World Service
Funeral Services Held For Lanark's Oldest Business Man
William B. Sites dies at home in Lanark after a long illness. Born February 23, 1870 in Pennsylvania, he built Lanark's first oil station and expanded Sites Profit Sharing Co. Survivors include son Mark and six great grandchildren. burial in Lanark cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lanark
William B. Sites
Don Shaulis
Wayne Shaulis
Ruth Shaulis
Ann Schessler Ot Dixon
Walter Schmidt
Wenest Schmidt
Fred Krum
Polo
Ruth Schaulis
Greencastle
Franklin County
James
Laura Kuhnes Sites
J. P. Valentine
Mr. Sites
LeRoy Fischer
Rockford
Freeport
Byron
Mt. Morris
Dixon, Shannon and
Sites
Anna Eiser
Mt. Carroll
Church of the Brethren
Mark
John
Neil) Atherton
Frank
Merle Hawbecker
West Branch
Max Sisler
Flowers
Wales Geary
Ralph Garner
John Cole
Elmer Johnson
Harold Gouker
James Lindsay
Edmund McFadden
R. N. Flickinger
Lanark Cemetery
Public Meeting Discusses Youth Problems At Chadwick Church
About 120 residents attended a Monday night gathering at First Lutheran church in Chadwick. The session, under the 1960 White House Conference on Youth, featured a report by the Carroll county fact finding committee and panel discussions on health education leisure time family living religion and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Lutheran Church
Chadwick
Carroll County
White House
Mr. Carroll Branch
American Association of University Women
Citizens Advisory Committee
Juvenile Court
Mental Health Society
PTA Council
Eugene Murray
Thomson
Edward J. Turnbaugh
Karl W. Baldner
Milledgeville
B. J. Clikeman
Savanna
Baldner
Theodore Rodd
Mt. Carroll
Darwin Shiley
Lanark
Dorothy Footitt
Gordon L. Hansen
John Atherton
William Brown
J. B. Olson
R. C. Bush
Kenneth Whitney
Viola Schultz
County Public Welfare Department
Turnbaugh
Richard Horst
Naomi Hiett
Illinois Commissionee
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Robert Miller
Melvin Martens
Riverdale
Melvin Johnson
Riverside
Savanna’s Times Theatre
Steve Reeves
Morgan the Pirate
Susan Hayward
Dean Martin
Ada
George Hamilton
Joan Blondell
Angel
Francis OF Assisi
Lanark News
Axel Larson
Robert Akoff
Akoff
Jerry Foltz
Kenneth Welker
Winchip Music CO
Strand Theatre
Clinton, Iowa
FBI
Sat
SUN
Suzie Wong
Wm. Holden
Nancy Kwan
Hugh
Hallowe'en
Cimmaron
Iowa
J.H. Potts & Son
Lyons Shopping Center
Clinton
Main Ave
Greison Agency
Savanna, Ill
KRAFT
Mt. Carroll, Ill
Purdue University
Carl Christensen
Connie
Bruce
Art Buntjer
Ralph Manning
Bradley Johnson
Manning
Bobbie Manning
Vernon Reiling
Prophetstown
Wallace Dresbach
Riley Lotzbaugh
Ruth Filler
Elizabeth Sarah
Chicago
Coburn
Carol
Sam Schneider
Michael
Moline
Wilson Rupp
George Smith
Emma
Dee & Dickerson
FISA
Bud’s Oasis
Rt. 80
N. Cordova Drag Strip
Harrison ST
Michigan Blvd
Congress St
Chicz
IPC
Reddy
Reddy Kilowatt
Interstate
INTE
Ove
F. Bradulski
Clothiers and Cleaners
DRAVE
Toeo
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