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Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 21

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Alton, Illinois
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ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH Section 2 Pages 2140 Established January 15, 1836 ALTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1956. Per Copy Offer Reward For Body Of Fisherman HARC1N Mrs. Edwin Be- Gerlfa of Hamburg is offerin $200 reward for the finding the body of her husband wh was drowed in the Mississipp a few miles north of Winfiel Dam March 27. Exhaustiv search by Volunteer workers ha resulted only in turning up art cles carried in his boat. Th boat has never been located dragging operations.

On advice of Coroner Kill Inman, Mrs. DeGerlia is askin that all fishermen and other make an intensive voluntee search this Friday from Ham burg to Alton, particularly i search of the islands and rive shores In the hope that the bod; may have risen and is now lodg ed among brush or trees. Mrs. DeGerlia says that hund reds of people along the rive have spent many hours search ing, but she still hopes that concerted search Friday migh result in finding the body which should have come to the sur face days ago. Jersey Girl Elected To National Society JERSEYVILLE Miss Jane Gayle Egelhoff of Jerseyville is among 17 seniors at the University of Missouri in Columbia who wer elected to Phi Beta Kappa, nation al honor scholastic society in art and sciences.

Three university alumni, prominent in the science and humanites, were awardec alumni membership in the society The new members-are to be hon ored at a joint banquet with Sigma Xi, which is held annually the day before commencement. elected during the last week the current semester will also honored at that time and all those elected will be initiated be fore the banquet. Miss Egelhoff is the only daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph hoff of Jerseyville.

Visits Granddaughter JERSEYVILLE Mrs. Edwin Henderson returned today from East St. Louis where she has been a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Stanley and made the acquaint ance of her great granddaughter Sharon Lee Stanley, born April 2 at St.

Mary's Hospital. The baby weighed seven pound: six ounces and is a granddaughte: of Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Schafe: of Indjipapolis, a' grea granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Ed Henderson of Jerseyville. Mrs Stanley was formerly Miss Mary Fleming of Jerseyville. The couple have another child, a daughter Susan Marie, aged years. Farm Packing Company Sold in Jerseyville Pack ing owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs.

R. W. Gustafson on Rt. 2, together with the build ing and residence of Gustafsons have been sold to John Pieper of JerseyvUle. The Gustafsons have been in business here for the past 10 years.

The Farm Packing Co. will be operated by Pieper's brother Norbert Pieper, who has been in the employ of the concern for some time and he assumed the management this week. Mr. and Mrs. Gustafson and family will move to the Charles Pieper house, 700 South Lafayette which they have purchased and the Charles Pieper family will move to their home on the Fleldon road.

The Norbert Pieper family will move to the residence formerly occupied by the Gustafson family on East Spruce street. Missionary Visits Here JERSEYVILLE. Mrs. Verna Phillips, a returned missionary, was a guest this week of Miss Pauline DeHass. Mrs.

Phillips is retiring after 34 years' service under the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in Caracas, Venezuela where she has been in charge of the Mission School for the last 25 years. She will reside in the Presbyterian Westminster Rest Home, north of Pasadena, Calif. Mrs. Phillips was a roommate of Miss DeHass when the latter was attending the graduate school of social service of the Presbyterian college in Chicago. At that time Mrs.

Phillips was on her second furlough from her missionary work and was taking graduate work also at the college. To Observe Friends Nlfjht JERSEYVILLE -Friends night will be observed by the Jerseyville Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, at the next meeting the evening of May 1 at eight o'clock. DST. Chapter stations will be filled by guests from surrounding chapters. Huge County California's San Diego County has an area of 4,258 square miles or about the same area as Connecticut.

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