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THREE lift- 7 fiWJSSiW.g THE PANTAGRAPH, BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOiS. MONDAY, SEPT. 3, 1951. --4. i sw irfcr a it he a 1 Si- 1 3 A4W IN 1951, this meat-laden float entered by the Butchers In 1925, would call for a police guard.

Most of the boys sow prefer th more accurate title "meat cutter." Photo owned by pp, TEAMSTERS organized in Bloomington in 1913, just six years before they entered these floats in the Labor Day parade. Float in, middle was to depict hard days of 1913, one at right better times, Via the union, Of 1919. Photo owned by Mr Leo Sheehan COAL MINERS at the turn of the century made up one of Bloominrton's largest trade unions. For this Labor Day parade in 1908 or 1909 they turn out, miners' lamps and all, for a picture. Photo owned by Alexander Uszcienski Oldime Labor Day Blowouts Second Only to July Fourth Guard Unit Back Farmer City Schools Open FARMER CITY (PNS) From 'Successful' oldsters' claims that "things are Farmer City schools opened Mansfield Schools Register 318 Pupils MANSFIELD (PNS) Mansfield Consolidated Grade School opened Thursday with a registration of 230, about 20 less than expected.

Only 25 beginners registered. Registration at the high school increased three over last year's 85 with 43 boys and 45 girls. Due to the heat, classes were dismissed at both schools at 2:30 p. m. n't wnat tney used to be" seem a Thursday morning for registra Depression, War Calmed Celebrations fool's occupation.

Pantagraph Offices Closed Today All Pantagraph departments will be closed today in observance of Labor Day. Telephone switchboard will be maintained from 7:30 a. m. until 10 a. m.

and after 6 p. m. The news department will maintain a skeleton force all day for emergency coverage. The advertising department will be open from 6 p.m. until 7 p.

m. Summer Training tion preparatory to the official opening of classes Tuesday. BLOOMINGTON HAS slowed down a lot since 1892. Labor Day J. W.

Price, superintendent of Members of the local Illinois then, two years before it was of National Guard unit returned to schools, reported a total enrollment of 632 with 354 in the six tr -y hi Bloomington from Summer train ficially recognized as a federal holiday, was an event of importance not only for the coal miners, railroad workers, joiners, ing camp at 9:45 a. m. bunaay. Commander of the 144th Anti- grades at Franklin School and 278 in grades 7 through '12 at Moore High School. This shows an increase of 15 butchers, barbers, and union men Aircraft Battalion, Lt.

CoL Rich generally, but for the whole com ard T. Dunn, described the Sum leaders, he said, were "autocrats of the most pronounced type" and the organization was fostered by "big money" as a "force to be used in combating organized labor." He exhorted labor to avoid the Legion like the plague and recommended two other veteran organizations (both cf which had extremely short lives) instead. By mere coincidence, commanders of both the other veteran groups were former railroaders. For the 1919 celebration and many others, John B. Lennon, Central Illinois native and treasurer of the American Federation of Labor and adviser in the Department of Labor was on hand.

L. J. Salch was president of the Trades and Labor Assembly that year and introduced McNamee. It would be interesting to know how many union men went ahead and joined the Legion, McNamee FREE TREMONT SHOWS END TREMONT (PNS) Thursday night closed the free show for this season in Tremont because of the Start of the school year. mer training practices as very munity and countryside.

Why else would 15,000 or 16,000 folks jam students in Franklin School com successful." Miller Park or the fairgrounds? Attendance at the camp by pared to the 1950 enrollment and about four less in Moore High School. There are now two sections in enlisted men of the Central Illi The cream of the Central Illinois speaking crop was on hand: Odell Fair Books New Thrill Act ODELL (PNS) A change in plans for the Odell Community BY HAROLD LISTON No longer on Labor Day do throngs in Miller Park roar their approval as the "speaker of the day" scourges "capitalists who seek to enslave labor" and expostulates that "money must not control our laws." Successful labor leaders in 1951 wouM think twice before sending a message of sympathy to an obscure Socialist, who had been jailed for inflamatory oratory and "agitation." Balloon ascensions, athletic displays, water carnivals, parades, Indian club swingers they've all passed as Labor Day standbys. nois unit was 94.7 per cent. Offi J. R.

Howell, Edmund O'Connell, cer attendance was 99 per cent. Owen Scott, J. r. O'Donnell, The group made up of units F. Tipton.

Folks in those days from Bloomington, Gibson City Fair opening here Thursday will GREETING CARDS For AH Occasions 103 W. Front St LIKED to listen to speeches They didn't have-' radio and mov and LeRoy areas stopped over each grade which required one more classroom at the grade i schooL School buses will run on full schedule beginning Tuesday and i the school cafeteria will open Tuesday noon at the high school.1 night in Davenport, Iowa, Satur ies to lull them and didn't class the orators as demagogues. A present the Three Milos performing on a wire 140 feet in the air. The act will be given at 4 p. m.

(daylight) and 11 p. m. each day of the fair. day before coming on to Bloomington. They left the firing range at Upper Red Lake, man with a golden voice in those Park Livingston Mens Club days was "in." No PA system or no McNamee.

was at hand and usually it wasn't Thursday. The trip covered 500 miles. And witn them nas died an IT WOULD be a shame to leave American scene, blotted out by Noah's Ark was built of gopher wood. The anti-aircraft practice the Labor Day without talking just a Add to that selection of platform giants the musical skill of the rush and roar of the world's worst economic depression and last week of the camp was aided To Hear of little about one of the more recent celebrations, and one of the the DeMolay Band, famed the world's most savage war, best, too. It was in 1926.

But Labor Day once was, and throughout the state; the physical drills of the Pastime Athletic by good weather and was described as "successful" by Colonel Dunn. There were more than 9 000 Guardsmen from downstate Illi always will be in the minds of Parades and public speakers already had palled, so the labor Club; ProfKudy Schroeder show Trustee Tuesday chieftains thought up something mg his command of the Indian club art and a "grand balloon ascension by the world renowned nois in the training camp mission. old timers, "second only to Fourth of July" as the doggondest, biggest celebration to hit the city all year. At least W. O.

Davis, publisher of the Pantagraph, felt new a water carnival. Swimmers from several Illinois towns competed at Miller Park after, of The Central Illinois unit is partj of the 44th Infantry Division and; aeronaut, Prof. Cotterman" and you've got a Labor Day that was course, the picnic lunches, band that way about it 50 years ago has its headquarters in ington. Livingston, vice president and attorney for the Dean Milk of Chicago and president of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees, will address a Labor Day. music and athletic displays.

Verne "Fish" Condon beat out NOWADAYS folks are content And, as the years went on. Day waxed and grew strong, GEE? the Young Men's Club Tuesday MONEY With 18 MONTHS to Pay MONEY For BACK to SCHOOL MONEY For COAL or OIL MONEY When YOU Need It! stiff competition from Peoria and Elgin to win the diving contest. just as the labor unions, realizing noon at the Illinois Hotel. their goals, meeting success after success, though fought bitterly at Other Bloomington youths and girls to win carnival prizes in Bellflower Hires Music Teacher BELLFLOWER (PNS) Mr. Livmgstin, a one-time Kansas orphan, worked his way ed to sit at home by the radio and hear a few highly placed statesmen address a rather stolid crowd in some municipal stadium.

Labor chieftans, now assured and confident, no longer rail and rant about the "princes of privil every turn, grew strong. cluded James and Haefer Riley, Marjone Cook, Dons Sleeter and through high school and the U. of I. coming back to the Univer IN 1895, just one year after Ivan Light. The Pantagraph esti Grover Cleveland (and Adlai Miss Mary M.

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High School, to teach music. sity to be assistant dean of men, received his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree in Chicago in 1938. Since his connection with the Dean Milk in 1934, he has After that, it seems, it was all She will teach instrumental downhill. Labor union members, music to the grade and high president of. tne benate) affixed his signature to the bill making Labor Day a national holiday, the main speaker declared from the stand at Miller Park that "la been sales manager, director of school pupils and voice instruc and other folks, too, for that matter, were too busy keeping body advertising and public relations, and is now vice-president.

and soul together beginning in tion to the high school students. She replaces Miss Nancy Potter who recently resigned here. bor is doing more than the 1930 to worry much about the lost He has been a director of the Miss Dunne is a graduate of the WPpL $2500 500 glory of the Labor Day celebration. And before things got too rosy again, World War II was upon us. DePaul University School of Mu University of Illinois Foundation, president of the board of trustees of the John Marshall Law School, member of the Pasteur Memorial si mmm- sic, where she has received both a bachelor's and master's degree.

And since then? Well, things Association, the Episcopal Church, She comes to Bellflower with two have changed. The "I Love a Pa and the Young Republicans years' teaching experience in the rade" label is iust a song title Chicago parochial schools. Her and a public speaker would have major instruments are the flute and piano. She also has experi ence in vocal solo teaching. trouble being heard over tne merry-go-round or the model train unless a television set was being raffled off.

R. C. Mueller, Mgr. n. Center.

Ph. 3433-0 She has living quarters here GRIESHELM BLDG. STORE PHONE 8055 with Mrs. Grace Golden. ege' and the curse oi tne hour week.

Labor unions have "arrived" and because of it much of the spark that set off "Labor Day" in the 1880s has been lost. The year 1901 is just 50 years ago, so there are a lot of folks around Bloomington who recall this one, be they members of labor unions or not. A SPECIAL train backed to the station at 9 a. m. Sept.

2 a 10-coach special. Waiting on the platform was a happy, loud, expectant throng of men, women and kids 1,000 strong. Some were uniformed, all had ribbons pinned to their fronts. Off to the World Series? Well, not in 1901, we guess. A fair? The Southwest to stake out government claims? No, but hardly less exciting.

They were off to Pontiac's Labor Day Celebration, the biggest in the state outside Chicago. Delegations from about 15 cities turned out. "A vote of gratitude was voted the Bloomington delegation for the fine turnout," a newspaper of the day proclaimed. One can't help feeling that he was born about 40 years too late when he leafs through the mouldering files at the Historical Society museum. Bloomington did things up brown in the "good old days.

It makes scoffing at the Roberts Steeple Hit ROBERTS (PNS) Plans Concert, Contest, Dance Added to Fair Features DEWITT (PNS) An amateur contest will be held at De-witt Park Monday in conjunction with the Dewitt Community Fair. The contest will start at 7 p. m. (standard) and will feature all local talent. A concert by the Clinton American Legion Band will follow at 8 p.

m. and a free dance will start at 9 p. m. Other attractions were being made Saturday for Expects fo Open Mason City Office MASON CITY (PNS) Dr. H.

R. Rivero of Tinley Park announced Friday he expects to repairs to the steeple of the Lutheran Church, which was struck by lightning Wednesday. A four inch rainfall accompanied open a medical practice in Mason the electrical storm. have been announced Soil Day Sept. 6.

churches" to improve the lot of mankind, "we are the practical Christians of the day." And some ministers had the temerity (in 1895) to agree. It was that year, 1895, that Eloomington labor leaders sent a telegram of condolence and support to Eugene V. Debs, later to become the nation's Socialist Party standard bearer, but then languishing in the Woodstock city jail for violation of a city ordinance against inciting a riot. The jailing brought him more followers than his hazy ideals. It's hard to realize, at least for those of us who began working, say, after 1935, the bitter, vicious fight that labor and management waged before men were even granted the right to organize.

That bitterness is reflected in the speeches of early labor leaders who appeared on Labor Day programs here from the beginning through the early years that followed World War I. THE CIO'S Political Action Committee, while new in name, certainly isn't new in As early as 1890, Labor Day speakers were urging labor men to "join together in a fraternity of interest" to "keep an eye on your representative and senator." Speakers urged a greater interest in economics, history and government so that "labor may take its place with the financiers' paid 'law makers' in' understanding and influence." And often the vitriolic attacks on vested interest, sweat shops, child labor and a host of other ills which were eating at the working man's vitals, would take an interesting, aqpl in the present day, somewhat amazing, turn. In 1919, for example, 1 John F. McNamee, editor of the Magazine of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, jumped on the newly organized America Legion with both feet. The Legion City within the next three weeKs.

His office will be located on East Chestnut Street above Fore's Store. Dr. and Mrs. Rivero have been completing arrangements for their home here. The Riveros have a girL 17 months old, and a boy, three months of age.

Dr. Rivero is a graduate of the University of Cuba and interned in a New York hospital. He has beer associated with a Chicago Sensational FINAL Closing Out Sale of All Merchandise Tuesday, Sept. 4 Buy Your Christmas Gifts NOW and Save Money! All Sales Final and for Cash. Public AUCTION SALE 10:30 A.M.

Wednesday, Sept. 5 All Fixtures, Safe, Cash Register, Lamps and Tools. Also Any Stock Left. No Deliveries. CONTEST industrial clinic the past year.

Mrs. Rivero is a former teacher. To Show Pictures MASON CITY (PNS) Harry Ainsworth will show pictures at the first meeting of the Chas. A. Tappe Jewelry Store 103 N.

Main St. Home and School Club at 7:30 Every Week for Four Weeks, September 3 through 29, Prizes will be awarded as follows: Two Nash Ramblqr Country Clubs; Five Kelvinator Refrigerators; Five Kelvinator Electric Ranges; Fiye Kelvinator Home Freezers; Also 50 $10, Prizes 67 prizes each week 268 great prizes for the 4 weekly contests. HERE'S HOW THE CONTEST WORKS! p. m. (standard) rnursaay in tne BULLETIN Board BIRTHS Mr.

and Mr. Raymond Knuth. 1017 S. Bell Normal, a boy. born Satur-dav at Mennonite Hospital.

-7 Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Feistner. 1210 N. Oak St.

a boy, born Saturday at Men-nuonite Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Render, 1109 E. Olive a girl, born Friday at the St.

Joseph' Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Grimes. 221 Florence a girl, born Friday at St.

Joseph's Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Bryant, a sari, born Friday at St.

Luke's Hospital. Kansas City. Mo. Mrs. Bryant is the former Ann Brazelton, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. W. H. Brazelton. 1011 Broadway.

Normal. MARRIAGE LICENSES Milton I Olson. Normal; Patricia Ann Evelsizer. Bloomington. Wayne Hale and Twyla BruehL both of Saybrook.

Marvin Stark, H. R. 3: Margaret Sie-bert. Hudson. Myron L.

Beier and Gertrude Starkey. both of Bloomington. high school auditorium. nib 70 YEARS AT 108 N. MAIN BUEHLER'S 416 N.

TUESDAY Phone Main St. SPECIALS 5387-0 fit) Faneral Notices, Cards at Thanks, In Memoriam and Special Notices, la-line Eainimnm. f2.Z5 per Insertion. Additional Unes, 25e each. Copy for the day's ran will be accepted ap to p.

as. day before pablleatlon and 'clock boob for final edition. Stop in at MILLER MUSIC CO. 9 Get your entry blank containing full details about the contest. See the New Kelvinator then complete the sentence "I like the Kelvinator Refrigerator because in 100 words or less and mail your entry' as indicated on the blank.

FUNERAL NOTICE Funeral services for MRS. HATTTE GILLIS of R. R. 4. Bloomington.

will be held from Stubblefield and Son Memorial Home, Normal. Monday afternoon at 2 p. m. (DST). Friends invited.

Interment Bloomington Grove Cemetery. Friends may eaU at the Memorial Home. height of fashion mated with the hth of comfort Plenty of Parkin Space in the Moraines. Open 8:00 A. M.

Till 6.00 P.M. FRESHLY GROUND -59c SLAB BACON 39c CENTER CUT Pork Chops. -59c 95 Black or Brown 16 Suede FUNERAL NOTICE Friends are invited to attend the funeral services for Lenny Merle Burnett of 1502 W. Miller St. which will be held from the Murray-Stamper Memorial Home 914 N.

Main Tuesday afternoon at 2:30. Interment Park Hill Cemetery. Friends may caU at the Memorial Home. FUNERAL NOTICE Funeral services for Mrs. Alice Bren-nan will be held Tuesday at 8:30 from the George R.

Flynn Funeral Home. 711 N. Main St. and in Holy Trinity Church at 9 a. m.

Interment will be in St Mary's Cemetery. Friends may call at the runeral Home. FUNERAL NOTICE Funeral services for MRS. ELMER E. LANPHEAR, i 306 W.

Chestnut wiU held from the Beck Memorial Home. NOTHING TO BUY OBLIGATION 8LICED PORK -29c Demi-High Heels LARGE in Dress Up Mood B0L0GHA.ii.19c 209 E. Grove St. Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock DST. Friends invited.

Inter-i mant Park Hill Cemetery. Friends mayi call at tea Memorial Home. I.