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A -A- t- A 't pAx 3 if i 1 iti I a i I v'1 dhler doesn't 'ait for St. vpt oSJ to touches of green. His green vest and tie are regulars nearly every day and the accessories are just as emerald as the Isle 1 ft IB- i i i I 'I A WHAT DATES THIS? By Green We St. Patrick's Day Large scale celebration of St. Patrick's Day isn't done in Bloomington anymore but that doesn't mean tne area Irish folk are any less proud of their ancestry.

Things move too fast these days for the all-day observances about which Pantagraph Historian James Hart reminisced several years ago. The last banquet of the Ancient Order of Hibernians was held in 1927 at the Illinois Hotel and wound up an era that began in the 1870s with St. Patrick's Day feasts "on an elaborate scale." Annual parades formed on Bloomington's West Chestnut Street in the old days and March 17 always SSSS baD- William Jennings SSVnf (the "Irish Joan of and Maj John McBnde were some of the program leaders Daily Bulletin Publisher James F. O'DomTell arnmged for banquets at the old Coliseum. seu With the passing of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and its rifle team that led the parades in natty uniforms, Biographer Hart noted, "Its passing snapped a sentimental link that was dear to many snappea I Mike O'Grady's too young to spell shillelagh but he's old enough to snip out an over-sized shamrock from green paper for St.

Patrick's Day decorating Mikc'i the son of the Gene O'Gradys (his mother was Colleen Kelly); he has a younjir brother, Pat, and a baby sister, Maureen. This Irish gentleman, Tom Costigan by name, leans on shillelagh that William Shaw brought from Ireland in 1S84. Miss Mary Dean of Brokaw Hospital donated the shillelagh to the McLean County Historical Society where it's on display. ftlANTi CAUSIWAY :4 i .1 -h, PATRtciTV LiV slave -in J6ALWAY jv ft ow f-w(v I i I i -Y i 'V i I -i twva 'V- MNtS INvAnr lun cashu. not x-mt st wrtct ums tut SITTLE lIMERICi: 1 WtYF0R0-ONr Tr i GA'Q UEST TOWNS IN IRELANO UXft or lfiURHt i Mr r'vw uvea vAV i I i i A mil tit Ar a- Know what a shamrock really is? II ii a i nil limit diiimhi in tr mtle planl tm Brom a sn our isle, of people may have forgotten that the 'Twos St.

Patrick himself sure that shamrock that grows in Ireland is a plant set it; called hop clover. i And the sun on his labor with pleasure som.e folks think tha the did smile clovers black medic, white clover and wood 7,16 young lady to P0- sorrel are shamrocks, too. graph above is a Bioomington And with dew from his eyes oft did shamrnMrc itc Heen who's made good In Cht icei ks' said. came to be Ireland's cago. bad? hpmiico fi KaUry Photo ket who was a finalist In the Chicago Irish Queen contest this week.

Chicago's St Patrick's Day parade was Saturday and the judging of the fair colleens was done Monday evening in the This happy face belongs to Irish Gene O'Grady who beams over the deed to one square foot of Count7 Cork soil that he got as a St Patrick's Day gift. Conrad Hilton Hotel. Finalists were chosen for their natural beauty, poise, grace, general appearance and their speaking ability. Miss McGraw, a Trinity High School graduate, entered Patricia Stevens Sctiool In Chicago last foil and lives at the Three Arts Club on North Dearborn Parkway, Sh is employed by Columbia Broadcasting System television in Chicago when she inn't study-tag at the Stevens School. to illustrate the oneness of the Holv Trinity Mary Ann Me-to the pagan king of Munster 5wl and Mrs.

OA AyAunSter. Joseph McGraw of 806 W. Mar-.