Brighton Community News Highlights Apr 17 Events
Mrs. Hazel Wikoff hosts visit from Washington as the Wikoff family gathers in Brighton. Local trio Verle Porter Gertrude Smith Albert Coffin return from wintering in California and Texas. Band Mothers sponsor a three day weekend show at the high school gym directed by Bill Krause. Rev. Gilbert Widmer and family visit. Good Friday holiday gives Brighton students a three day break. Navy recruit Robert Shelangoski departs for Norfolk after leave from boot camp. J H Plitt, long time local pharmacist, dies at 66. services held in Burlington. burial at Aspen Grove.
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Brighton
Keith Wikoff
Washington
Hazel Wikoff
Verle Porter
Gertrude Smith
Los Angeles
Calif
Yuma
Arizona
Albert Coffin
Harlingen
Texas
Bill Krause
Gilbert Widmer
Janesville
Wisconsin
Easter Vacation Plans for Jim McNeill and Choir Tour
Jim McNeill will spend Easter vacation from Trinity College in Chicago visiting his parents in Crawfordsville and a friend in Newton Kansas. His brother John is touring the East with the Trinity College Choir, which included 38 members and a bus on a two week tour. Jim declined to go. The choir visited Canada and New York and was in Boston where he met his sister Jo Ann. The report notes Farm Bureau events and local social updates including a 1962 queen and church baptisms as well as a discussion on preteen athletic physical exams.
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Marian Waters
Crawfordsville
Jim McNeill
Trinity College
Chicago
John McNeill
Newton
Kans
John
Jim
Canada
New York
Boston
Jo Ann
Carroll Newquist
Farmington, Mich
John Atkinson
C. C. Moorhead
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Mrs. Wikoff
Mrs
Tony Meuth
Mr. and
Mrs. Paul DeLong
West Chester
J. H. Plitt
John Henry Plitt
Brighton and Richlana
Mercy Hospital
Burlington
First Methodist Church
Aspen
THE
Hintleys
George Dare
Farm Bureau
Merle Twinam
Herbert Rich
Delbert Lewis
Ray McAllister
Tom and
Christine
Louise McCallister
Leonard McAllister
Evelyn Wright
Encinitas
Maurice Allender
Ft. Bragg
N. C
L. E. Allender
Jerry Bender
Gerald Bender
United Presbyterian Church
Cedar Rapids
Washington Concrete Co
12Th St
Rock Island
American Express
England
France
Japan
Peru
Timbuktu
Europe
San Francisco
New Orleans
Washington, D.C
General Electric
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Company
New Jersey
D. L. Blair Corporation
United States
Cola-Cola Company
D. L. Hiai Corporation
Nebraska
Missouri
Florida
Alabama
Swreakhes
N.Y
Bee i Bae Ca
Boston Butt
Elgin
Rosedale
Pat
Lushus
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