The Daily Independent from Murphysboro, Illinois • Page 2

CIRCLE MEETINGS Circle meetings of the WSCS of the First Methodist Church were announced this'morning ns follows: Circle 1 meet at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon' at the homo. Mrs. 'Lewis Elmore, 20--13" Logan St. Circle 2 will meet at 2:30 Wed- nesdny afternoon at. the home ofj nt! as J'', The Daily Independent U-ll Smith JStli Street Published Evenings Except Sunday ana holidays Established June 12, 1S91 Edition 1S7R) Kdwarrt TJrulsay W.

Cecil Hollow.iy.General Jl under Act of i1.an.-li 3. T.Irs. Ralph Sabino, 1S43 Spruce St. When you have -news, call 35. BETTY'S HOME LAJJNDRY Curtains, and Ironing -Wanted Mfbo 491K 1013 AlT mall'subscriptions must bt paid In advnocs.

Unsolicited articles), manuscript lofM.rM a.ncl pictures sent to Dally Indponaent are sent at own- el The IS Dally Independent does not accept unsigned articles lor uubll- al jjatlonal Representative The Allen-Klapp Co. iorK Mild HAYWORTH LARRY PARKS YVONNE CARLO GEORGE Editorial Make Crab Orchard bate State laws provide that the driver of a motor vehicle shall qualif. for a driver's licence. To do so th driver must prove on cxam.na-uo that he can operate his vehic i -properly, and reid intelligently th traffic-direction signs the Slav htss placed along highway route or- streets, as the case may be. nunst observe speed regulation and 1 stop and go All of th for his own protection and that others.

The locomotive engineer must spend several years as an apprentice ena'mcman before he takes the driver's seat. He must know the hazards and signals written or placed to help him avoid them. The coal mi'wer likewise must serve ALL AROUND THE TOWN Miss Esther Malhis of 524 North shopped in.St. Louis Saturday Tommy Elaekwobd, 9, is confin- :1 to his homo at 230G Alexander with measles. Mr.

and Mrs. Een lioonig of Mul-' visited relatives in jhysboro Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pate of 224 Vortli Fifteenth were St.

Louis visitors Saturday. Mrs. "William Hawthorne of 1811 Walnut was a St. Louis visitor Saturday. Rudy Burkhart, of'East St.

Louis visited friends in Murphysboro Thursday night. Mrs. Weldon Tucker, who underwent surgery at St. Andrew's Hospital April 1, is reported to be improving rapidly. Henry Piquard of 1910 Herbert was admitted to St.

Andrew's Hospital Friday for an emergency appendectomy operation. His con- Alfred Eck -of East St. Louis-is visiting relatives here this week. Mr. and Mrs.

John Quails oi Grand Tower were business visitors in Murphysboro Saturday. Frank Holioway, machinist for the at Jackson. Tenn. is visiting here, for two' days. Mrs.

'Clarence Mann and daughter have been removed from St. Andrew's Hospital "to the home her father on North Seventh St. Mrs. Jack Schneider and" daugh- DORCAS SOCIETY HAS BIRTHDAY PARTY AT NENNERT RECENTLY Members, of the Dorcas. Society of Christ Lutheran Church'at Nen, nert who.

celebrated birthdays dur- I in? the month from January to Jime were guests cit a birthday party given recently by thosa members celebrate their CALENDAR ter of New York City.are visiting Mrs Schneider's mother, Mrs. gift from her mystery pal, A de- Elizabeth of N. Seventh llcious pot-luck supper was served style to the-following: Mes- birthdays from June to December. Each guest' wore a' yellow and white carnation and the decorations were yellow and white. The centerpiece oi was'- a Inrge birthday cake candles.

Each guest received a birthday MONDAY The Junior Woman's Club will hold their" regular semi-monthly meeting Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock -at Logan Community rooms. Mrs. Elizabeth Grizzell will speak -on the topic, "Education." All members are urged to attend. Loyal Chapter of War Mothers will meet at the Eagles home at 7:30 o'clock Monday, April 5, TUESDAY War Mothers No. 1 will meet Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at the.home of Mr.

Ernest Bantel to tack carpet rags. LOYAL WOMEN MEET The Loyal Women of the First Christian Church will hold their April meeting at the home of Mrs. Etherton, 1503 Edith Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. Mrs.

Flora Brown, assistant hostess and other relatives here. Jean Herring left Saturday evening for St. Louis where she spent the week-end visiting Mrs. Clar- hospital patient ence Herring, there. ULUJ-vL ww Alice Ahner, Evelyn.

Ab' baiter, Erma Arbeitcr, Florence Beclcmann, Delphine Amschler, Lucille Beckmann, Mildred Bckl- an apprenticeship before L. t'n i he itii qualified to gw to the face of th. ers coal with his in his hands. and thai of others an. In spite of qualifications and rules meant for safeguards in rules muani.

mnnv places where humans work or play, casualties occur. Most these are traced to carelessness or inexperience. With casualties continuing annually at Crab Orchard Lake The Daily Independent many irv 0 iu-ed editorially that rig" rules and restrictions be set up lherc particularly to govern boat- It precautionary regulations scope have ever been dition is much improved today. Weldon Tucker, of Wood- river, who was called here Wednesday of.last week because of the illness of his mother, was to have returned home Sunday. Chairman Ernest Graeff of the County Board of Supervisors was in Murphysboro Saturday, greeting friends at the courthouse.

Mr. Graeff lives at Elkville. The Murphysboro Jaycees Board of Directors is Io meet Friday night of this week, and Jaycees will nominate officers at their regular meeting Monday, April 12, R. Adams of Ava has purchased a home on Commercial Ave. He sold his farm near Ava and is moving at once into his Commercial Ave.

properly. Leroy Mitchell, son of Mr. and Mrs, Lee.Mitchell of Dewey is spending his spring vacation from Indiana University with his Miss Mary Ruth Piquard, student nurse at Missouri Baptist Hospital, St. Louis, is visiting, her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

'Albert Piquard, Wall St. In today's St. Louis' Globe Democrat on the front page is a' picture oi Nurse VVillowdean Ferrill of cty Hospital and a 27-day-old baby whose nose and eyes were injured' by rat bites. Miss Ferrill is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Howard Ferrill of Carbondale and the granddaughter at Mr. and Mrs. Miller Baker and Mrs, Harry Ferrill of Murphysboro. The Charity Ladies will meet Wednesday at 1:30 at the Three Sisters Drive-In to celebrate their anniversary and for Following dinner they will play cards ach at St. Andrew's gym.

-Hostesses Bernice Chadwick, Helen Darn- for cards are: Mesdames Millard staert Le Verna Frltscl.e; Cora T.n,,,^ Evans Guete'rsloh, Helen Grode, Arlene Fr.eida Hems, Susie Irrha Miesner, Stella Moeckel, Leona-Mullr, na Rohlfing Maggie Schneifl- ,1 n-voTlP er Vieila Schilling Twenhafel. and Lorene METHODIST MEN TO MEET The Methodist Brotherhood of Centenary Methodist Church will have'their monthly meeting Tues- CARNIVAL A program Vastine, Louie Ihle, Louise Evans and Ida Pautler. THURSDAY The CLB Society will meet Thursday at St Andrew's gym at 2:00 p. m. Mrs.

Florence Paul, hostess. Cards. Miriam Rebekah Lodge will hold its regular' meeting at 7:30 Friday. A school of instruction, with Mrs. Pansy Huskemeyer of Centralia as instructor, will be held.

ALL THIS WEEK AT MURPHYSBORO, ILL. ll'th St. Lot Across from W1DES OIL COMPANY WED. ancl.THURS. FRANK CKAYEU DONAID CRISP FRANK KtHUGH 2:02.

Picture ing. of su.i*^."-"" there, we have not hear, of it Crab Orchard Lake is too big too hazardous, for novice boatmen or frail swimmers to play with. Ti-e rule srcms to be that if the boatman with little or meager seamanship desires to venture mt, "deep sea" waters in a dilapidated s'-ifi or Trail outboard inotor. that is" his business. If a swimmer an- swrs the lure of uncharted beaches "that is his business." But it isn't.

That is the business of constituted authority at the la responsibility to put end to such hazardous practices. Only Friday of last week a man and a boy put out in a dilapidated ashins boat which the man wife deemed too unseaworlhy for her and her child to chance. Her husband and the boy ventured. She waited. They never returned.

The waterlogged boat found later told the 'story. Big Crab Orchard Lake swallow up more victims as seasons pass. How many more wil depend largely on the degree of. regulations put in effect there for lake- safety. Preserve the purpose I in mind when the lake was pit-led for a regional pleasure place.

It was never meant for a grave- Mr, and Mrs. Wallace" Finke have gone to Dallas, for a two weeks vacation before they move to St. Louis' where Mr. Finke will be employed with an aircraft company. Mr.

and Mrs. Bert Pierson of 1931 Gartside have returned home from St. Louis where Mr. Pieron underwent a serious operation at the DePaul hospital. His condition was reported to be fine.

Grovor Stearns, former, county supervisor from Murphysboro township, and Mrs. Stearns have moved to the former Robert Edwards farm north of Murphysboro, which Stearns bought several clays ago. Mr. and Mrs, E. G.

Jewell accompanied their daughter and son- in-law, Mr. and- Mrs, Charles Belt to Bioomington, Ind. Saturday. Mr. Belt is a student at Indiana University in Bioomington, Enos Imhoff, retired farmer, is moving from the Route 13 settlement north from Murphysboro into the former Grover Stearns property on Pine St.

which he bought. The Stearns moved to the former Robert Edwards farm north of town, which they bought. William Layman was a visitor here Thursday and from Mr. and Mrs. Layman are to move to Murphysboro, where they have leased thej Joe Seach apartments in the former Henry Borgsmiller family home at Division and Twenty-third Sis.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Plater left Sunday for Minn, to will the Mrs. E. W.

Striebinger and Mrs. E. E. DoWitt, both aunts of Mrs. G.

T. Johnston stopped for a brief visit with Mr. and Mrs. Johnston Friday enroute to their respective homes in Contralia and Jacksonville, 111. Mayor C.

is completing a fool light boat for aii outboard" motor preparatory to his usual summer fishing expeditions. The boat is of marine plywood with mahogany trim and white oak floorboard's. He has a trailer. The boat promises to be the "new look" job hereabouts, according to the Mayor's friends. ODDS AND ENDS business district.

It is often difficult SOUTHERN ILLINOIS tourists Notice to Our 1'aiToiis Xew starting days open show starts 7. Box office doses -it 9:30. TONIGHT and TUESDAY SAMUEl COIDWYN MH WHO GJWS YOU "The Best Years of Our Lives" happening to be in Virginia the last week in April could do nothing I belter than visit the historic state's famed Garden Shrines. April 26 to May 1 has been set aside as a period of official welcome to visitors. This year's Garden Week in Virginia will see the restoration of more of the states gardens.

The Virginia Garden Club has restored 11 of these historic beauty places since 1929. Spring comes to Virginia from the tidewater area to the wooded hills with a glorious burst of color. Tourists in Virginia, are conscious particularly of two things to Southland's heroes in almost every sizable and beautiful flowering shrubs that almost hide many tions or humble. What a beauteous region Southern Illinois with- its prairies and vast areas of wooded hills could be if our citizens were imbued with the love for floral beauty that is characteristic of much of the Old South, Even the huts of the Negro workers are glorified by the flowering honeysuckle 'round the little cabin Also Sport and for him to come to his car every lour and mova it or feed the meter another nickle." If small cities wish -to keep the farmers trade and the trickle of nickles from the parking meters, the Society said, they must provide off-street parking facilities. With us thiTweek is the year's first carnival.

It will cost the carnival $300 to show here. That -is easy money for the city coffers, but the carnival generally takes $3000 and more out of the community. But townsfolk like to see the snake-eater' and the lady with hair upon her throw hoops at the crockery concession, go for smelly hamburgers and ice cream sandwiches, and ride the spend "three weeks with then- Mrs. Alice Moskalik, They expect a very pleasant trip. Mr.

Plater, a veteran no doubt intends to fish some of the famous Minnesota lakes for pike and other spicie. The Illinois Veterans Commission office' in Murphysboro, serving Jackson county, will be closed Friday and Saturday of this week while IVC Service Officer D. Emjtminger and his office Mrs. Patricia Fulmer, attend an IVC conference at Peoria April 9-10-11 More than 500 counsellors in veterans' affairs from throughout the state are atttend. The local office will reopen Monday, April .12.

Both banks in Murphysboro will be closed at noon Wednesday, April 7 to permit executives and other personnel to attend the meeting for Group 10 of the Illinois Bankers Association at the Winchester Club near Cairo. More than bankers and employes are expected to attend. The afternoon business session will'be followed by a dinner, entertainment and dancing. At the business session, officers for the corning year will be elected. On a trip Thursday through, tornado ravaged Forresterburg, an Illinois community of about 800 people near Alton, Dr.

L. O'Connell secured several color film pictures of' the devastation. Dr. O'Connell reported the house where his sister and her husband live in Forresterb'urg was missed by about 2V- blocks storm. He saicl the Army ana Red'Cross was doing a splendid relief job, and that the Red' Cross, which set up a booth to solicit donations from between $1500 and 51600 from the 6000 carloads of people as been' arranged and refresh- When you have news, call 35.

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Double, twin 'Extrtin Half for Wottfeng "twinnin' door." THE CHICAGO Tribune of last Friday gave trade centers in agricultural areas something to think about. Said the American Society of Planning officials in Chicago, farmers have developed a new al- "parking mcteritcs" the distaste for nickle-grabbing costing small town merchants a lot I money. than fuss with park' ing meters, said the Society, farmers arc transferring their business to other communities where parking is free. The tradesman basis has Ms dislike for the mechanical policemen on reasonable grounds, the Society lakes were cloudy Sunday with mud washed in by the recent rains, did the fish escape a killing. It looked like every other car party was equipped fishing poles.

The week-end catch was limited to that caught in nets. Pole-and- iners drew next to a blank. DICK BUCKHAM of the Home Beverage Delivery Co. of Mt. Vernon, whose place was burglarized Jan.

12, advertised in the Mt. Vernon Register next time you break in, stop and refresh yourselves with a glass of beer. It's- in the" cooler." They did. They visited Dick's place again a f(i w'nights ago, drank several bottles of beer, on the premises, then ceased to be good sports. They took five, cases of beer home with said.

"When he to town he JUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB TO MEET APRIL 12 INSTEAD OF APRIL 5 The Murphysboro Junior Wo- man's'Club will meet Monday, April 12 instead of April 5 as erroneously announced in the Calendar of Events. Since this month has five weeks in it and the club" holds two meetings a month, the next be April 12. Members are urged to attend as speaker, Elizabeth them. WEEK SPRINGFIELD, April- SPRINGFIE (ApSSSor Green today pro- church parlors. Jenn 1 speak on "Education.

ALTRtJEST CLASS MEET 'The class of the Firs; Presbyterian Church mee 'Tuesday evening'; at. 7:00. o'clock at sain wnen ne comca uu has'a lot of errands to do 'in the 11 as Illinois -Library (Apor lafmed the week beginning April be and Wm. HISTORIC MEDICAL HlGHLIfiHTS-No. 1 JUPITER AND THE SY1VIBOL The oririn of that ramilinr drug store goes back 3000 years when ancient Rome would 'invoke Jupiter's aid by placing the "Jupiter on their prescriptions This sign loOKed roughly like a numeral four, and is distinguishable in the modern pharmacy symbol-coupled wjth nn standing for the Latin word more to the point, the modern word "recipe." The latter word is accurately descriptive, for that is what your doctor does when he writes, a prescription.

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