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lawuiiS- Gibson City, Illinois, Courier, May 5, 1966 5B liSllll we believe ft is up to us, that the outcome is entirely de- pendent on our personal efforts. But Jesus said, "The Father abiding in me doeth his We need to work from a spiritual level, to work in the faith that God is with us. His power irf us is mighty to do all things. em Cht Bills his The Father doeth Mr. Clarence Taylor, Jr.

High basketball and track; Miss Nancy Webb, cheerleadlng; Mr. James Raymer, citizenship and sportsmanship) and Joann Whitt, typing and shorthand. BETROTHAL TOLD Mr. and Mrs. I.

C. Tnacker of Farmer City announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Miss Carol Faye Tnacker to Allen Dale Berry, son of Mrs. Angle Berry and John Berry of Hardlnsburg, Ky. The marriage will be at 730 P.m. May 21 at Farmer City Baptist Church.

The Thackers were former residents of the Saybrook works (John 14:10) We often work too hard at bringing this to pass because Phone Your News Bjr 1Mb Johnson Have yon ever seen a washing KaoklM that looks almost exactly JSu) a eon shelter? That's what great great grandmother had back In about 1808, only aestfcer on of them looked very BBjoa Uka what either a washing saaohlni or a corn sheller looks ISatodayl Mrs Karl Hanes showed us sanpUs of each at our Home-sjakers Extension Association seating last week as she talked about "Our Pioneer Mothers." The "washing machine" Is a wooden board about 4 Inches wide and Inches long with hor- taoatal ridges carred across it. corn sheller was exactly ft HM except that the ridges ware a little sharper. .1 always thought the prospect ef scrubbing clothes on a typical sea fashioned washboard about 18 laches wide was pretty hor-rfUe to com tempi ate, but I had not laiaglnad that washboards were once only 4" wide! Thee to think of what had gone Pitcher Phil Davis whirls and throws to first baseman Bill Breeden, too late to make the pickoff play. The next man to reach first, however, was thrown out on a similar play as Gibson beat Fairbury here Monday, Alan Bartelson is the Gibson City third baseman. WEDNESDAY AT CONVENTION.

At 6 a.m. last Wednesday morning In spite of the rainy weather, eighteen women and youth fellowship girls and pastor Don FerrUl, left tor Elgin to attend the W.W. Convention. We could not make the good time on account of weather but we arrived safe and enjoyed the day. Special feature to the Bloomlngton group was the honor extended to Miss Geneva Harper of Saybrook.

Miss Harper had been group leader for several years and has resigned so she was presented to the convention and gave a short talk getting some humor of course. Those of the Bloomlngton group In attendance were given corsages to wear and Miss Harper received a beautiful corsage also. We Can Still Mike Up MOTHER'S FAMILY CROWN PIN In Time For Mother's Day Customers may choose whomever Htey want represented: children, grandchildren, husband and wife, nieces and nephews, etc. CARL'S JEWELRY 118 N. Sangamon Gibson City, III.

ea betore this pioneer mother of ears even had a piece of cloth to i had the flax to grow or sheep to care for and shear. I had to card and comb the ir, spin the yarn, weave the NEWS OF SAYBROOK son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Frleburg, Saybrook. The wedding is set for June 4 at p.m.

at the Saybrook Christian Church. All friends and relatives are Invited. A reception will follow in the church basement. and finally sew It Into want to do. "There's a good reason why Cod made Adam first and woman afterwards you know," she said, "he didn't want a woman standing around telling him how to do ttl" One of the more unusual objects In the Hanes' collection was a turkey-caller.

When the man of the house set out to shoot a wild turkey for the family dinner table, ha had just one shot, so he had to lure the bird close enough so he could be pretty sure of making It a good one. A little wooden reed scraped on a small piece of iron, sure enough, sounded very much like the rasping call of the pheasants which we hear so frequently, and probably was even closer to the peculiar sound of the wild turkey. What an easy time we have getting out poultry today (maybe to the poultry farmer It lent such an easy Job, but It certainly is for us consumers). Although the price might have seemed formidable to our pioneer mother, for our budgets it's a lot for our money. To help us find lots of ways to use that good low-priced protein, there's a new bulletin, "Poultry in.

Family As a sample, here's a recipe from It which you might like to try for a spring luncheon or supper. Chicken-Fruit Salad 3 cups Chicken, cooked, diced 1 cup grapes, seedless, halved 2 cups pineapple chunks, drained 1 cup apple wedges, unpeeled 14 to 12 cup salad dressing to moisten 6 lettuce cups Paprika as needed 13 cup almonds, silvered, toasted, if desired Combine chicken, grapes, pineapple chunks, and apple wedges. Chill until Just before serving timet Blend lightly with sal- ad dressing. Pip edges of lettuce cups In paprika. Serve salad on lettuce.

Top with almonds, If desired. Soybean Yield Contest Ptaned Any Ford County farmer growing at least 10 acres of soybeans this year can enter the Illinois Five-Acre Soybean Yield Contest, according to Farm Adviser, -Arnold B. Rowand. The State contest la sponsored by the Illinois Crop Improvement Association with the cooperation of the Cooperative Extension Service. The Ford County Extension Council will organise and operate the local contest in accordance with the state contest rules.

County contestants can designate the area chosen for the contest at harvest time. They can make only en entry per farm Ins garments by hand with a homemade aeedlel As Mrs. Hanes said, "ft took so long for a girl en get the linens ready for her hope chest and so long tor the groom -to -be to make the furnl- It's no wonder so many of We've got the new poor young folks died off they ever could get mar aud that's why we have so day at the Emmanuel Lutheran Church at Osman. Burial was in the Mansfield Cemetery. She was born Nov.

25, 1881, at Manchester, Ind. a daughter of John and Sophia Wllner Bld-ner. She married John Amdor. He died In 1959. She is survived by a son, Roy, of Farmer City, a daughter, Mrs.

Mabel Hawthorne, Saybrook; a brother, Elmer Bldner, Bell-flower; two sisters, Mrs. Irma Weist and Mrs. Leona Vaughn, both of Saunemin, six grand-. children and five great-grandchildren. MRS.

K. M. CURTIS. Mrs. Katherlne M.

Curtis, 76, died at 125 p.m. Saturday at Gibson Community Hospital. She had been a patient for a day. Her funeral was at 130 p.m. Tuesday at the Gibson Bible Church with the Rev.

Pollard officiating. Burial was In Gibson City cemetery. AWARDS BANQUET. The annual awards banquet of the Saybrook-Arrowsmlth School Unit will be held at 630 p.m. Friday, May 6 In the high school gym In Saybrook.

The public is cordially Invited to the pot-luck supper, with special invitations being sent to parents of students In the unit who will be receiving awards. Each family is requested to bring their own table service, along with a card table, fried chicken, and food for pot-luck according to the size of your family. Mrs. Leonard MauplnandMrs. Roy Baird are serving as co-chairman of the event.

Persons making the presentations of awards and the fields in which they will be making the presentations are Mr. Thom 4-BLADE ROTARY MOWERS! The great 4-cycle engine models are now on display! CHECK THESE FEATURES: filler ftarUag through big 4-Blada flywheel ectionl teMtfcer-Stftr Mewing with the 4-Blede cutting unit) New srit lag CtMclty mora clippings In big meea fewer emptying trfpil New FoM-Dew HaMIe for easy ttorigel Mm avtllasto II" awl steer arepelM 21" bmKs. Price $89.95 Ceae hi ana cheeee yeer taeekees 4-SlaSe 4 cycle tetery teStyl any of those sad, old ballads!" Large wooden dough trays, hand carved and worn nearly paper thin from use wooden ladles the wooden chum these are few of the handmade utensils from that pioneer life which seems so long ago that Mrs. Rases cherishes. The sad Iron with which the clothes were htissiil looked rather similar to the ones many of us used not SO many years ago before electricity came to the farm.

How different were the pioneer woman's worries, though! She married not about whether or not there would be money enough for braces for the children's teeth, has whether or not she could find sod to Oil their stomachs so they wouldn't go to bed hungry st sight and she went out and fawad the berries and roots to aflsfy their hunger. She worried Ktle about wars In far-off lands worried whether or not she eeld protect her little ones from betag scalped by Indians and she learned how to handle the big, heavy musket to protect theml Tea, those pioneer mothers had ROMEY C. WILSON Romey C. Wilson, 78, died at 5:10 p.m. Tuesday (April 26, 1986) at St.

Joseph's Hospital, Bloomlngton, where he had been a patient 12 days. Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Friday at Stensel Funeral Home in Saybrook with the Rev. C. Don FerrUl, officiating.

Burial was In Riverside Cemeterv. He was born on Sept. 17, 1887, In Union County, son of Daniel and Virginia La mbart Wilson. He married Ella Rahn on Jan. 29, 1914 In Saybrook.

Survivors are one son, Stanley of Saybrook; two daughters, Mrs. Whflladean Lans of Kaleva, Mich, and Miss Mary Ann Wilson of New York City; and six grandchildren. He was preceded in death by bis wife, his parents, two brothers and three sisters. MRS. CLARA AMDOR Mrs.

Clara Amdor, 84, died at 130 p.m. Wednesday at Gibson Community Hospital in Gibson City. Her funeral was at 2 p.m. Frt- provement Association. Final reports are due December 1, 1966.

Cass County's John Reiser won the 1964 contest with a record 7 3 -bushel average yield. Last year be topped his own record with an 82-busbel average. Illinois has been the leading soybean-producing state in the nation since the IBM's. This contest provides an opportunity to recognize superior yields on an individual and state basis and to obtain worthwhile cultural information that will help all Ford County soybean growers. Detailed information on the Illinois Five-Acre soybean Yield Contest Is available at the county extontlon office.

ui lueatm 4-kui term mwm count wits IMtniCtN ITMDUM ASSOCIATION WITT CMI NS YeVR 11 4 Cycle 4-SMe ratery wltti grete catcher llkntratt. She was born Feb. 28, 1890, as Peterson. The Danforth raoTKTiM. near Saybrook, a daughter or Award; Mrs.

Llama Galgalols, Charles and Mary Mills Taylo. French and speech; Mr. Harry She was married to Fred Curtis toes dill, math: Mr. Albert Bain. on May 31, 1910 In Gibson City.

agriculture; Mrs. Phyllis Young- ACE HARDWARE berg, homemaklng; Mrs. Jane Gil more, band; Mr. Ron Thomas, football and track; Mr. Larry Engle, basketball and baseball; Surviving are her husband; a son, John, Jacksonville, a daughter, Mrs.

Dorothy Erlck-son, Champaign; four grandchildren. A daughter, a son, five brothers and two sisters preceded her in death. She lived in Gibson City for 56 years and was a member of the Gibson Bible Church. She was an aunt of Mrs. Emmett stamina wtf lnwmntf an 1 admire, ana sou as tney Zimmerman of this community.

i the coverlets for the beds they tried to weave In something-f color and beauty and fanciful NEUMANNFRIEBURG. Mr. and Mrs. Everett R. Neu HENRY JERRY OLSTEN To be eligible for the state contest, Ford County contestants must send entry blanks and a $2.00 entry fee to Dr.

W. O. Scott, 805c Turner Hall, University of Illinois, UrbanaeiMl. Entries must be made prior to July IS, 1986. Make fees payable to the Illinois Crop Im- They were human too and mann, R.

1, Bloomlngton, wish to announce the approaching marriage of their daughter, Martha Rose to Charles M. Frleburg, Mrs. Hanes wondered If tney still had time In the midst of aU their ewa duties to toll the men how to do their Job as women are ajit'JIiaj GIFTS THAT WISH TO ANNOUNCE JERRY HENRY That Jerry has purchased the Standard Station on Sangamon Avenue from Henry. Henry will continue to own and operate his station at the intersections of Rts. 9 47.

The Holsten brothers thank you for your past patronage and invite old and new customers to stop in. Orchids for Mother's Day HOSE DRESSES SUITS SLIPS PANTIES IRASSIERES GLOVES HOUSECOATS HAT SWEATERS DRAWER LINERS TOWELS LUNCH CLOTHS PURSES COSTUME JEWELRY HEAD SCARFS NECK SCARFS SHEETS ft PILLOW CASES KITCHEN TERRY TOWELS NICK NACKS Give Mother a purse for Mother's Day We have a nice Selection of costume Jewelry she will be proud to wear. 4 While They Laat See our selection of house coats. Mother would love one of them. Munsingwear fc If Western Maid Slips flse 32-48 FREE ORCHIDS Wjll Be Presented To All Mother's On Sunday, May 8 Henry Holsten Standard i Jerry Holsten Downtown Standard Inter.

Rts. 9 47 Sangamon Ave. Gift Certificate for a gift of her own choice. ROSE'S SH0PPE "WHEM QUALITY IS USHER THAN rRICI".