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Li. -l' IUL" ll Etrtt rantagraph. IUoominttun, ITL, Wrd. Nor. T7, 1957.

i. DECORATE FOR CHRISTMAS Used Clothing Response Overwhelms Jaycee Team $200 in Prizes Offered For Best Lighted Homes "Bundle Days" in Bloomington Schools Monday and Tuesday netted approximately 3,000 pounds of good, used clothing for needy children, Junior Chamber of Commerce Chairman John Campbell reported Wednesday. three trucks devoting three hours to the job," he said. "We were all overwhelmed at the way the kids came through. There were bundles wrapped in newspapers, packed in cartons and some even done up in meat wrapping paper.

All of it was just what we'd asked for." A dozen Jaycees spent Tuesday night sorting the clothing arid packing it in sacks provided by Prizes totaling $200 will be "The response was tremendous," he said. "School principals awarded in the 1958 Christmas ins to category and not location, Mr. Stevenson said. Another important rule change this year restricts the eligibility of winners of previous years. said they had never seen anything Home Lighting Contest sponsored like it." by the Bloomington-Normal Jay of originality, artistic merit, technique and ingenuity.

Th decision of the judges mill be final. COST NOT FACTOR A simple, uncluttered inexpensive display can be just as impressive as one which costs a lot of money to set up, the chairman The chairman said that he and the Save the Children Federation. cees, Chairman Hugh Stevenson There were 146 bags of about 20 Persons who have won prizes in announced today. five other Jaycees expected to spend only an hour Tuesday afternoon collecting the clothing at pounds each. The clothing will be shipped Fri The contest has been changed to -s Vc-rWll saws' i I various schools.

day to the distribution center at stressed. this year, he said. A grand sweep with the same display as they "It ended up with six men and IKnoxville, Tenn. "We hope more Twfn City resi- before. stakes prize of 550 will be awarded to the display judged best in the Twin Cities.

Nine other prizes Sporsors of the annual contest f0 this contest," he said. are Illinois Power the Daily Area Churches List include Co. Jla and 510 as first. The chairman, an employee ct General Electric is a native Bioomingtonian. He has been a Pan ta graph and the Jaycees.

DEADLINE DEC. second and third in the following classifications: outdoor, religious and window-doorway. The sweep Entry blanks, which will he Jaycee two years. He and hl wife. printed in the Daily Pantagraph.1 the former Ruth Wright of Thanksgiving Plans stakes winner will not be eligible for another prize, but it will be entered in the national General must be postmarked prior to mxi-iington.

live at 1005 S. Madison St. night Saturday. Dec. 14.

That is 'They are the parents of a also the deadline for telephoning month old daughter, Phyllis Lynn. entries to the chairman's wife at 5-2621. Mailed entries should be the Morton Mennonite Church. The Rev. Kenneth Good will be in Electric Co.

lighting contest. CATEGORY BASIS Last year, 5125 was awarded on the basis of category and location. Judges were obligated to award Special Services To Be Held To Mark Day addressed to Jaycees. Box 42. Bloomington.

Entrants must indicate category they wish to enter. charge. He will be assisted by the Rev. Milo Nussbaum, pastor of the Groveland Evangelical Mennonite all I lalkr Str AUriUu? Im Oar Fra ALTERATION SERYICEI KU KMT WRITirTS AISTS J(KEI: MARBEN'S Frat a Ctw SU. prizes in districts where very little home decoratinz had been Church.

All entries mu.st be lighted be- A preparatory service will be 'done. This year, however, allitween the hours of 6 and 10 o. held at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday at! homes within the city limits of Dec.

16 throuzh 25. the chairman DANVERS (PNS) Union Hungry Bridegroom New York () The eyes of quintuplet Cecile Dionne are only for her husband, Philippe Langlois, as he eats spaghetti in restaurant here. The couple was married Saturday. Thanksgiving services will be held Bloomington-Normal will be put said. I on equal basis and judged accord- They will be judged on the basis me cnurcn.

ine nev. josei 1. Herschkowitz of Minneapolis, Minn. at 8 p. m.

Wednesday at the will assist. North Mennonite Church. Debt Collections Awmlt-Nwn CUt mt Amj Kib4 DM-Aifktt la Amtricm. Ma C'aUretiaaa Ckarga. MID-WIST CLAIM A ADJUSTMENT CO.

Maaraa BUf. Car. W. Jtaataa Mate oooKsvine CENTRAL ILLINOIS DEATHS COOKSVILLE (PNS) The annual Thanksgiving service for Cooksville residents will be held at 9:30 a. m.

Thursday at BImbiiUi rkaaa 1- The Rev. Richard Prochnow, pastor of the Baptist Church, will deliver the sermon. The Rev. Arnold Funk and the Rev. Ike Meyer will also take part in the service.

The program will include organ music by Mrs. Jeannette Hayslip and an anthem by the Danvers Ministers Quartet. Women's Freedom Crusader Responsible for Thanksgiving Methodist Church. The Rev. Rob Fred W.

Wasman Jacob Seller We Give II GKEKX STAMPS DOWNS Fred W. Wasman LINCOLN PNS Jacob Sel- ert J. Harwood will be speaker, Cropsey died Tuesday at the home of his of his' daughter. Mrs. Lee rebus ler.

87. of 429 South Kickapoo On Col and Fuel Oil in II-1 a retired farmer, died at 2 p. m.i WICIIMANN FUEL visiting; Tuesday at St. Clara's HEATING CO. 1 Other Thanksgiving services in CROPSEY (PNS The com- and the harvest had been bounti liopolis where he had been ber so that the nation might give clude those at munity Thanksgiving service will since an illness of six weeks ago.

He was taken to Kerrigan Funer 501 E. Bell St. rbone: 3lt Sarah Hale's Persistence Brought Holiday De new at p. m. Wednes- Funeral services will be at 2 day at the Methodist Church.

The p. m. Friday at the Methodist thanks to Almighty God for blessings received. Thanksgiving was not only once again proclaimed by presidential decree, but for the al Home. He was born Oct.

13. 1870. in ful. NO PIE Although there were only five adult women on hand to do the Mackinaw Dells MACKINAW DELLS The Good Church in Downs with entomb- Locan County, a son of Mr. and nev.

Kooen jr. iiarwood will be speaker. Music will be furnished by a first time became a national holi ment in Park Hill Mausoleum. Mrs. Joseph Seller.

cooking, the first Thanksgiving feast actually lasted three days day. It is somewhat ironic that Visitation will begin at 6 p. m. Surviving are two sisters. Mrs.

ladies sextet and by Mrs. Ima field Apostolic Christian Church and the Mackinaw Dells Church will join for a union service at 10 a. m. Thursday at the church here. GREETING CARDS for all occasions FRIED'S CARD CAMERA SHOP 103 W.

Front and included dishes that ranged from turkev. deer, lobster and Popejoy. organist. By HUGH A. MULLIGAN AP Staff Writer editor Hale, who made the turkey a national festive bird, is best remembered as the author of "Mary An offering will be taken for Thursday at the Pritchett Funeral A.

H. Turner, of Lewisburg. Home in.Illiopolis. Mr. Wasman; and Mrs.

Martha Schuler, of Oak will be at the Downs Church from Park. 1 to 2 p. m. Friday. He was born May 31.

1S77. at DllkJ AXa Ay Wanda, son of William Henry and AUItAiry overseas relief. Had a Little Lamb," an animal Housewives slaving over a hot oven will never believe it, but the Idea for making Thanksgiving a that never made the Thanksgiving Hopedale Cull om national holiday came from a suf market list in Godey's Lady's Magazine. clams to watercress salad, baked Indian pudding and two varieties of wine and Holland beer. Pumpkin pie didn't make the original menu because the Pilgrims had not yet learned what to do with this outsized vegetable.

Thursday seems to have been a HOPEDALE (PNS) Union Thanksgiving services will be held fragette editor who campaigned all her life to set women free, at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday in the Freak Mishap Catherine McGuire Wasman. He was educated at Wanda. Bryant and at Stratton Business College.

St. Louis. Mo. Dec. 12.

1907, be married Miss Jennie Johnston at CULLOM (PNS) Thanksgiving Day will be observed at St. John's Catholic Church with mass at 8 a. m. grade school gymnasium. Patrolboy Warns: Had she envisioned the kitchen bondage that Thanksgiving brought about for her fellow fe The Rev.

Richard Howard of the Open Bible Church will be speak Normal. They lived on his fa males (a word she detested), mm er. Benson ther's farm at Wanda until 1911 Send MOORE CHRISTMAS CARDS HOORF7S COOK SHOP XII W. Jettenoa tant feminist Sarah Josepha Hale, Special music will be provided when they moved to the farm Injures Woman Taxi Driver BENSON (PNS) Special by the Hopedale Mennonite Men's where he had lived the last 46 the high priestess of fashion in the mid-19th century, might have dropped the whole thing in favor Motorists, Gets Slaps in Return Quartet. years.

favorite day, but most of the early Thanksgivings were held at vari- ous seasons of the year, usually to celebrate specific events like: the arrival of a ship or new baby,) a victory over the Indians, who by now had dropped off the guest list, and the accession of William and Mary to the throne. ONE AT VALLEY FORGE Records preserved at The surviving are tne a son Thanksgiving services will be held in the three Benson churches. At St. Paul's Lutheran Church the service will be at 9 a. m.

An 8 a. m. mass will be held Delavan of one of her many other causes CAUSE "COLLECTOR" Elmer C. Wasman, Jacksonville the daughter, Mrs. Febus A worn in cab driver received DELAVAN (PNS) Thanks Sarah collected causes the way giving services, sponsored by the Two Normal youths, one 17 and some women treasure old china or Delavan Council of Churches, will be held at 7:30 p.

m. Wednesday at St. John's Catholic Church. At 10 a. m.

a service will be held at St. Peter's Lutheran Church. souvenir salt sellers. llliopolis; four grandchildren: leg laceiation in a strange acci-brother, Frank A. Wasman.

Wan-j dent Wednesday noon, da: two sisters. Miss Ida Was- Mrs. Dorothy 33. of 703 man. Wanda, and Mrs.

Lena0Hara St. was released after Poag. Alton. Four sisters and treatment at St. Joseph's Hospital the other 15, were charged with assaulting a 13 year old Metcalf School patrolboy who warned During her 40 years as editor of Hague tell of a rather grisly Thanksgiving in 1644, when the at the Church of God.

The Rev. Richard Mullin, pas New York Dutch marched to Godey's Lady's Magazine, a sort of early American Vogue, she strode the journalistic ramparts in mi-- uiuuKia iccuvy nun Ait jq pft MM? Cm tor of the Baptist Church, will be death. Piper Ciiy She told police that her Yellow speaker. Ha vat 9 mfmlwr rvf tVi rrc l. behalf of women's colleges, old had stallrd on the rii'vid Standard DIARIES and CALENDAR PADS Now on Sale! OFFICE SUPPLY DIVISION W.

B. READ CO. 109 X. M.iia SL nmrn pitw wu sailors homes, free public play Melodist 7ndrpresoa st Odell grounds, day nurseries and mis thpir 7. lrp- Sh got Out their annual' cot churches will hold mem to quit arivmg their car through a school crosswalk stop sign on University Street south of Mulberry Street in Normal at noon Tuesday.

The 17 year old was fined 544 Tuesday afternoon by Normal Police Magistrate C. Herman Mead. The 15 year old will appear before Mr. Mead Friday at 10 a. m.

Both youths were expelled from Nor ton. A favorite recreation sionary funds for "heathen lands." ODELL (PNS) Union Thanks was to push it off the tracks and suc Thanksgiving service at 7:30 p. m. But no cause gripped editor Greenwich, shot or burned alive 500 Indians, then returned for a sumptuous holiday banquet. By the time the 13 colonies had organized into a shaky wartime government under the Articles of Confederation, the custom of an autumn Thanksgiving, always on a Thursday, was well established.

Washington proclaimed a Thanksgiving at Valley Forge in 1777. New Hampshire born Sarah, ceeded, but the vehicle got going down hill too fast. travelling. Mrs. Emma Cox Wednesday at the Methodist Church.

The Rev. Philip R. Coen will She ran and caught up with it Hale like the cause of Thanksgiving. "We have too few holidays," she wrote in 1827. "Thanksgiving like giving services will be held at 7:30 p.

m. Wednesday at the Methodist Church. The Rev. Esra R. Vomholt, pastor of the Congregational Church, will be speaker.

be speaker. Music will be fur ATLANTA (PNS) Mrs. Gian 1 leu ln Emma Laura Cox. 71. dd at door she continued The or on Clara's ine lcl1 Siammca against ner 2:10 p.

m. Tuesday at St nished by the Methodist Choir. The service will be open to the public. mal Community High School Tuesday afternoon for a five day period. They will be allowed to the Fourth of July should be a national festival observed by all our people as an exponent of Hospital in Lincoln.

She had been Jt Mansfield return to school Monday. rock ribbed and four square for union in the gathering secession debate, saw Thanksgiving as a icg. lninctmg me cut. Lee Woobies. a driver for the 'Checker Cab took her to the hospital.

our Republican institutions." CAMPAIGNED 35 YEARS Police said that the 17 year old, Lincoln LHfr funor p- m- PViHav at tlto CI It Tllttln rod. MANSFIELD (PNS) The method of binding together the driver of the car, stopped his car. That was the opening gun. For widely differing states for at least LINCOLN (PNS) A special dence The vubur Rpid will Thanksgiving service wil be at ofndatet and buria, in got out and slapped 13 year old Lee Rust twice on the face with Rev. Charles Baurele, a retired Nazarene minister, will be speaker at union Thanksgiving services to be held at 7:30 p.

m. Wednes- one day a year in a spirit of prayer and friendship. his open hand. The 15 year old i Evergreen Cemetery at Waynes- Christian Church. The Marriage Licenses LINCOLN PNS i A mArri ha hrrn hrrt to Lovrrt Jr.

nf l.tnco.n and Vr Joan Cook of AtiarU. the next 35 years, Sarah pestered presidents and governors and congressmen with all her editorial skill and the mounting prestige of coin min- ville. The Quiram Funeral Home Wit. Mansfield Methodist men got out or me car ana, day at me slapped the Rust youth, son of I Church. INVOLVED SLAVERY At one point she proposed to "A Time To Be Thankful." Miss Godey's Magazine.

Both were con Mrs. Cox was born Julv Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Rust of He will be assisted by the Rev Carol Hoffman will be soloist. J.

H. Campbell and the Rev. Carl 18S6; near Atlanta, a daughter of John Presley and Elizabeth Swi- siderable. While firing off spirited, impas sioned letters to Presidents Fill B. Hass.

FAST EXPERT COLOR FILM DEVELOPING SERVICE Fresh Film All Sizes HAWKINS Studio Camera Shop til W. WahlDCtoa su settle the slavery question by taking up a Thanksgiving collection of all churches throughout the country to send the Negroes to Liberia, where they could set up their own republic. The idea fizzled but her Thanks R. R. 3.

Complaints against the pair were signed by Mr. Rust. Two other NCHS students in the car with the 17 and 15 year olds were placed on probation by high school authorities, police said. Fire Damages Wilkerson Home Bellflower more, Pierce, Buchanan and Lincoln, she kept the cause alive on the home front with tempting Thanksgiving menus, like "ham soaked in cider for three weeks BELLFLOWER (PNS) Members of St. John's Catholic Church are participating this week in the bishop's annual Thanksgiving drive WAPELLA The home of Mr.

and Mrs. Archie Wilkerson. R. R. giving holiday project gathered steam.

By 1852 she could report PICTURE-TAKING TIME Films Movie Film Polaroid Flash Bulbs Camera Outfits Gadget Bags Everything Th Mad Ywr Pictvrw-Toking Succrtl. ouAurr photo finishing FRIED'S Card Camera Shop 103 W. ft- Si. stuffed with sweet potatoes and Both were warned not to associate with the charged pair for the remainder of the school semester. 2.

Heyworth, was damaged by fire ger McCance. She married William Cox Sept. 12. 1904. They retired from farming in 1947 and came to Atlanta.

Surviving are a son. John Lincoln; a daughter, Mrs. Rose Harvey, Waynesville; seven grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. Her husband a ml two children preceded her in death. Mrs.

Gertrude Devore CHENOA (PNS) Mrs. Gertrude Devore. 74. died at 8 p. m.

that "last year 29 states and all territories united in the festival. ior ciouung ior me neeay. 1 Tuesday morning Police said the NCHS students This year we trust that Virginia unve Degan flionaay ana is Demg headed by Mrs. Edd Lykins, president of the Altar and Rosary baked in maple syrup," but always insisted that roast turkey and pumpkin pie were "an indispensable part of a good and true Yankee Thanksgiving." Before Sarah went to bat, The blaze was confined to the roof. Heyworth firemen were called had driven past the school crosswalk twice before the Rust youth warned them to quit violating the and Vermont will come into the arrangement." Gov.

Joseph Johnson of Virginia stop sign. but did not respond to the alarm as the fire was out of their dis PANTAGHAPH PHONES lOOtl Thanksgiving was celebrated in a Harisburg trict. haphazard and sporadic fashion, FIRST IN 1621 The call was relayed by tele Mondav at a Peoria hospital, of a HARTSBURG (PNS) Mem Eagles Circus Disillusioning phone to Clinton and the Wapella cerebral hemorrhage. made a stab at it in 1855, but the Legislature clobbered him for attempting to revive a "relic of Puritan bigotry." His successor, Gov. Henry Wise, borrowed a page from John Adams and proclaimed a Thanksgiving without consulting bers of St.

John's Lutheran Church The Pilgrims, of course, got the department. They answered the Her funeral will he at 2 p. m. alarm Friday at the Pils Memorial I a 1 Greene, president of ball rolling at Plymouth in 1621, the autumn after the Mayflower landed, when as colonist Edward Winslow reported: "Our harvest Home, with the Rev. Earl King' (Bo will hold their Thanksgiving service at 10 a.

m. Thursday The Rev. E. J. Volkmann will be speaker.

Ill the lawmakers. Nobody objected. officiating. Buriaf will be in Che-! LINCOLN ISSUED DECREE Rescue Squad Tales Two Men to Hospital Two Tuesday Fire Department Rescue Squad cases remained LUCMOW About the same time, President being gotten in, our governor sent foure men on fowling so that we might in a more speciall manner rejoyce together." James Buchanan decreed a nation LUDLOW (PNS) The Church Eagles Lodge 527, expressed disappointment Wednesday in the results of a benefit circus the lodge presented Tuesday in the Consistory. Mr.

Greene said the Eagles expect to clear about S96. on the event. Mr. Greene had no estimate on the attendance. al "day of humiliation," with pub lic fasting, prayer and confession in hospitals Wednesday afternoon.

of Christ will have its special Thanksgiving service at 10 a. m. Thursday with the Rev. Fred R. Of the 102 passengers who arrived on the Mayflower, only 55 THE KEY TO MODERN UVIHG Lrt rberk joar home wirinr to If yea are getting th maximum of ttlwrlracy from noa Cemetery.

Visitation will begin at 7 p. m. today. She was born Feb. 15.

at Fisher, a daughter of Thomas and Laura PJiodes Adreon. She was married to John Devore Auj. 15. 1907. in Bloomington.

He preceded her in death. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Daise Vilsoet, Pontiac; Mrs. Naomi Davis. Chicago; Mrs.

Cleo Rich. Chenoa; a son. John. Nor "of our individual and national sins." Finally, when the ravages of lived long enough to sit down to the first Thanksgiving dinner. The ail yoar flfflrlcil Edward F.

Murray of 1302 W. Walnut St. was reported to be resting well at Brokaw Hospital, while Jeff Nathan. 55, of 205 N. Dinsmore Ave.

was said to be in Harrold as speaker. Others who will take part are Levan Hanna, Mrs. Jerry John war left people with seemingly lit I sitvts I AND survivors had suffered cold, hunger and disease, had been terri son, Mrs. Fred Harrold and Marc EMMETT-SCHARF ELECTRIC CO. Start Work on Bridge fied by Indians "skulking about" satisfactory condition at Menno Wilson.

and frightened near out of their tle to be thankful for, Sarah's long campaign came to a successful conclusion. In 1863 a letter arrived from Secretary of State William H. Seward announcing that nite Hospital. The service will be open to the wits by the nightly "roar of lions" DRY GROVE -(PNS)- Work was started Monday on the construction of a new concrete bridge Mr. Murray was taken to the Phone 2-IUO 317 N.

Center and occasional wolves who "sat hosnital from his home at 8:18 public. Morion mal; six brothers and two sisters, seven Krandchildren and five great on their tayles and grinned" at over the slough that flows into ner suggestion naa been commended to the President." Four p. m. He reportedly suffered a heart ailment. Mr.

Nathan was taken to the hospital from 303 E. Kings Mill Creek along the old grandchildren. days later, Abraham Lincoln or MORTON (PNS) A special them. Still, they had much to be thankful for. The Indians had proved friendly, two even spoke English, state road just east of Dry Grove's public well.

The road has been dered all service work to cease Mrs. Ida Thlmbler communion service will be con-'Moulton St. at 4:25 p. m. ducted at 7:30 p.

m. Thursday at suffering a fall, firemen reported. Professional Pharmacists The Merle on the last Thursday in Novem- closed to traffic. COLFAX (PNS) Mrs. Ida Moom Thimbler.

a former Lexing ON THE BEACH Based on the Best-Selling Novel by Nevil Shute ton resident, died at 4:10 p. m. Ufh MAI fT.UAu.ru Monday at Royal Center. Ind. at FREE rrescription Delivery Service Thone 2-5303 the home of a son.

Riley, with whom she lived. Her funeral will be at 2 p. m. lift Snath Uin St. rbone 3Z9 North Mala SU rbone Friday at Royal Center.

Mrs. Thimbler was born near 111 10M V. I ter of John A. and Phoebe Haraole For Best Results: Moon. She was married to Hugh Thimbler June 10.

19H. He pre ceded her in death. She was a graduate of Lexington High School and the University of Illinois and taught at Le Roy Roofs by ACME Roofing and Sheet Metal Work of All Kindt Acme Roofing Sheet Metal Co. Phone 4-3219 502 S. Center SL High School before her marriage.

Surviving are two sons and four daughters and several grandchildren; a brother. Alfred. Columbus City, two sisters. Mrs. Nelle Benson.

Des Moines. Iowa; Mrs. Pearle Staufer, Cottonwood Falls, Kan. Later, as the sub sped toward open sea, the executive officer called Com dr. Towers to theperrscop.

"Outboard motorboat ahead, sir. One person in it. The man found that generators, though unmanned, were still running, and that an erratic breeze, using as its finger a window frame balanced on a bottle, bad been rapping a transmitting key. 11-27 lWbt Wrw Hwtw 4 Co,.

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