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PAGE TEN ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1940 Church Campaign Is Being Planned For East Alton Well, All White! Attendance Drive Will Be Conducted During March EAST ALTON Fob. of the First. Baptist Church In a recent session decided to join two other churches in a go-to-church campaign, which will he held during March. "March to Church in will bo the slogan of the campaign. The church membership has been divided into units of six families with captain for each unit.

Attendance records will be kept for each Sunday. A series of Easter services are being planned by the pastor in connection with the services, which will continue through Easter. The other churches cooperating will he the first Baptist Church of Hartford and the First, Baptist Church of Wood River. Two guests will he at the church here Sunday taking part in the morning services scheduled for 10:15. One will be Miss Selma Maxvills, a missionary returned after many years in Burma.

Miss Mnxville, who has been connected with an American hospital there, spoke at, the church here some weeks ago. Tho other guest will be Charles Meek, head of the instrumental music department of Shurtleff College, who will play a violin solo. Miss Maxville will be a week-end guest of the Rev. and Mrs. William T.

Bohn. Birthday Dinner EAST Mr. and Mrs. William Flowers entertained at dinner Thursday evening on the occasion of the first birthday of their son, Charles. The guests were Mrs.

Belle Dolson, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Meisner and children of East Alton, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dotson and daughter, Nancy of Hartford.

Attended Funeral EAST ALTON. Elizabeth Hoehn, Mr. and Mrs. O. D.

Sullivan, Miss Maybe! Cooper and Mr. find Mrs. Elwood Hlnrichs attended the funeral of Mrs. Hochn's brother, Herman Heeren at Bethalto. Heeren died Tuesday at his home two miles southeast of Bethalto.

Funeral were at the Bethalto Lutheran Church Thursday at 2 p. m. Burial was in the church cemetery. Funeral of Mrs. Crabtree EAST services for Mrs.

Eliza Comby Crabtree, 81, who died Wednesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Martin, 183 Pence avenue, wore held today at Hillview. Mrs. Crabtree, whose home was In Hillview, had been cared for home of her daughter here Jan. 1.

The body, which was at the daughter's home since 2 p. Thursday, was taken to Hillview this morning by motor where services were held at the Baptist church at 1 p. m. The Rev. John Alexander, pastor, officiated.

Burial was in Patterson cemetery by the grave of her husband. Pallbearers were Lee Hazelwood, Robert Honeycutt, Keith Angle, Norman Statts, John Sly and Thomas Bingham, all of Hillview. Dads Club Elects EAST Playground Dads Club met Thursday evening In the shelter house at the play- FD1TH HEAD, Hollywood designer, created this utterly beautiful white gabardine trench coat for laa Miranda of the movies. Perfect for southern resorts and casual wear anywhere next summer, it is finished with white leather buttons and a brown leather belt. The sports dress underneath is of white silk jersey.

The hat is a straw beret with yards of white veiling. Announce Rate of Jersey County Parity Payments Fanners to Receive Five Cents a Bushel On Corn ground, officers The annual election of WHS held. Gobel Ladd, who served as vice-president last year, was elected president, and Marion Brown was elected vice- president. In selecting a secretary- treasurer, the offices being (combined, the ballots for the two candidates, Woodrow Shutz and Ralph Bartlett, came out exactly the same. The boys expect to decide the Issue at the next regular meeting, which will be held on Feb.

20 at the shelter house, I hey said. The decision will be made by flipping a coin. The Dads are planning a- membership drive to begin in a few weeks. Clans Meeting EAST Daughters of Ruth class Is planning a unique entertainment for their regular class meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p. at the church basement.

The entertainment will be a "birthday" party. Tables will be set for each month In the year at which guests will be seated in accordance with month in which their birthdays occur. A program, In which each month will be represented, will be given. Mrs. B.

Barton, Mrs. Charles Wrest and Mrs. Walter Strohbeck will be the hostesses. Couple In Honullal EAST May of West Main street entered Si. Hospital Thursday ovcnlng for treatment of a sinus Infection from he has been suffering several Since becoming ill he has undergone two minor operations, the last occurring Wednesday evening.

His condition was such Thursday that his physician advised hospitnlizntion. At the hospital he is occupying the same room as Mrs. May, who has been at the hospital since Monday. Mrs. Ivlay underwent an operation a few weeks' ago at Barnes Hospital in St.

Louis, after which sho was able to return home. Monday complications developed and she was moved to the hospital. She was reported resting, easier Thursday evening. East Alton Notes EAST ALTON Mr. and Mrs John Prosser and children attend cd a birthday dinner given for Mrs Prosser's mother at her home a Jcrseyville Wednesday.

Miss Mae Wassman of Alton visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Wassman, Thursday and today Gnry, 7-month-old son of Mr and Mrs. D.

Hester, is seriously ill of pneumonia at their home, 510 Monroe street. Mrs, Arthur Rooney of Benton is spending a few weeks visiting Mr. and Mrs. Walter Tale. Mrs.

Abble Sypolt and pon, Roxie have returned to Springfield, M6: after a visit with their uncle and aunt, and Mrs. U. G. Wood, Job street. F.

A. Wassman Is recovering aft er a few weeks' illness, George Weber has been conflnec to his home, by illness a few days Mrs. M. B. Kirkham and son Cecil, of Greenville, were callers ut the home of Mrs.

Klrkham's brother, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Mayfield, Wednesday.

Mrs. O. Vroman continues to improve at Alton Memorial Hospital. G. D.

Mohundro, who cnterec the sanitorlum at Edwardsville for treatment a few monthu ago, is much improved, having gained several pounds in weight. I. N. Treece, who has been in tho sanitorlum at. Edwardsville fot treatment since last spring, is showing Improvement.

J. E. Hudson, who has been il several weeks. Is Improving, Mrs. j.

H. Wilken Is able to be her home after a recent Illness. Virginia Lee Hanks Is recovering after an attack of mumps. Mrs. Lucy Eardley of Cottage Hills visited Mrs.

Dorothy May and Mr, and Mrs. Frank Burk Wednesday. Fred Hagcn of Dow, brother of Mrs. j. j.

Toalson, who is a pa- tiont at Alton Memorial Hospital, is improving. Dr. and Mrs. Toalson visited him Thursday, Mrs, I. N.

Treece, who hus been at the home of her son, Raymond Trceoe, in Upper Alton since leaving Barnes Hospital a week ago, was able to return to her home on Bowman avenue Wednesday. Mrs. Treece, who underwent an operation two weeks ago, is recovering. Mrs. Martha Hill and Miss Minnie track attended a special entertainment given for tho blind at the Y.

W. C. A. in Alton Thursday. Mr.

and Mrs. lloscoc Cook of Colliding avenue are the birth of a daughter, Shirley SAVE Mae, born at 9 p. Wednesday at their home. The buby, their first child, weighed Til' pounds. Mrs.

Cook was formerly Miss Elvie Sitze of Marquand, Mo. Miss Nona Beasley and Miss Lorcne Farmer of Godfrey visited Mr. nnd Mrs. Earl Sitze Friday. Mr.

and Mrs. Harolfl Haist and son, Eugene, spent the weekend visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. R.

Yocum at Marietta- and Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Halst at Table Grove. Mrs. Zack Sitze of Marquand, Mo.

is visiting her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Cook. Mr. and Mrs.

Francis Wimberly have moved into a new home they have erected on Lincoln avenue. While they were erecting their home they resided with Mrs. Wimberly's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Honry Oglesby.

Consumers Told of Need of Advertising ST. LOUIS, Feb. 2o MP) E. Montgomery told the Consumer Education Association today that advertising is "as everlasting and ay inevitable as eating." "It started when the first man took a stone and scratched a sign on another stone saying he had a goat to sell," Montgomery said. "It will continue until the next to the last man hoists a flag to announce a superstratosphere plane for sale, guaranteed to reach Mars overnight, non-stop." Read Telegraph Want Ads Daily.

JERSEYVILLE, Feb. 23 of the parity which will be made to Jersey county producers who plant within their acreage allotments for corn In 1940, have been announced by Leslie Spangle, chairman of the Jersey County Agricultural Adjustment Association. The normal yield of each producer's acreage allotment will be the basis on which the payments will be made. The announced rates arc; corn, five cents a bushel, and wheat, 10 cents a bushel. Besides the parity payments, farmers who cooperate in the 1940 AAA program and plant within their allotment, will receive agricultural conservation payments at previously announced rates.

Nine cents a bushel will be the agricultural conservation payment on wheat in 1940, which with the parity payment makes a total of 19 cents a bushel. The conservation payment on corn will be 10 cents bushel, which makes total with the parity payment of 15 cents a bushel. This is the same was paid in 1939 for corn, and on wheat the 19 cents compares with the 28 cent payment In 1939. To Play Roodhousc Five JERSEYVILLE The Jersey Township High School squad will meet Roodhouse High School basket shooters in a conference game on the floor of the Jerseyville school this evening. The second string teams will engage In a preliminary tilt, starting at 7:30 and this will be followed by the main game.

Jersny High was defeated Tuesday night at Jacksonville in a non- conference game 29 to 23. The Jerseyville five did some of the best passing and guarding that could be displayed in any man's game and kept their strong opposition on the anxious seat most of the time. A number of times Jacksonville had opportunities to shoot for the basket and score but the close guard- ng of the Panthers was outstanding. INTELLIGENT BEAST HORIZONTAL 1 Pictured equine animal venomous snake. 8 Up to.

12 Sooner than. 13 Naming, incidentally. Bustle. IS Leg. 17 Label 18 Small island.

20 Intellectual. 2'2-Bfver. 24 Revives. 27 Remorse. 31 Enamel.

32 Spread of an arch. 38 Made an error. 37 To dress in. 38 Utterance. Answer to Previous 45 Measure of area.

46 Eggs of ftsheS. 50 It is used for and work 54 Invigorating medicine. 39 It belongs to 55Noisier the Equus. 40 Young pigeon 41.Assessment 42 And. 56 It is no longer found in the wild 43 Ocean.

57 Drowsy. VERTICAL 1 Pronoun, 2 Shield "fillet. 3 Part, of its harness. 4 To shut in- 5 Insect. 6 The male of this animal.

7 Hog. 8 Least'Whole number 51 Owed. 9 Yarn. 52 Fish. 10 Mental image.

53 Fiber 11 Behold. 16 Mountain. 19 Senior. 20 The female of this animal. 21 Race track circuit.

22 To harden. 23 Its neck hairs. 25 Boy. 26 Wayside hotel: 28 To impel. 29 Oak.

30 Female 32 To soak up. 33 Fruit pastries. 34 Land measure 36 Imprisonment. 38 A caustic. 40 Gems.

41 Goes hungry. 44 Enraged. 47 Skillet. 48 Collection of facts. 49 Humor.

Birthday Surprise JERSEYVILLE Mrs. Lyman Cowling was guest of honor at a surprise duck dinner Wednesday evening in honor of her birthday anniversary. Cowling had been assisting a number of women of the Jerseyville Baptist church at a "quilt- ng," and upon her return to her home east of this city, she found he dinner table set with a new set of Haviiand china, the anniversary gift firom her husband. A number of other were also received. Those present were: Mr.

and Mrs. Austin Cope and daughter, Doris Jean, of Jerseyville; Mrs. Fohn Prosser, son, Eugene, and daughter, Lois, of Wood River; Mrs. George Cowling of Jerseyville; Mrs. and Mrs.

Lyman Gowling and randson, Lyman Edward Fleming. Huiul Building Rented Hund build- ng on South State street was rented Wednesday by representa- ives of the Singer Sewing Machine for the establishment' of a machine store. The building was formerly occupied by the Worsham Beauty parlors. A short time ago the beauty parlor was moved to the speak at the courthouse in Jersey- new building erected by Mr. and Mrs.

doors north of the Hund building. The Singer store expects to open for business by March 1. Funeral of Batch town Boy services for Robert Klockenkemper, 15, will be held Saturday morning from the Catholic church at Batchtown at 9 o'clock. Requiem high mass will be celebrated, and the interment will'be in the Saint Barbara cemetery. Klockenkemper died in St.

Joseph's Hospital at St. Charles, Wednesday. Name Delegates first meeting of the representative assembly of the southwestern division of Illinois State Teachers will be held some time in March and number of Jersey county teachers have been selected to serve on the representative units. The delegates chosen from this county are: Mrs. Mary T.

Leigh, Frank Daniels, Frank H. Markman and Mrs. Frederica Conklin of Jerseyville, and P. P. Downey of raft on.

The alternates selected are: Harold Gwillim, assistant principal of the local high school, and H. B. Ferrill of Grafton. Candidate to Speak candidate for the G.O.P. nomination for governor of Illinois, Dwight H.

Green, will ville 1 at 12 o'clock noon Saturday. Former Resident Dies A. Corzine, 74, a native of Jerseyville, died at his home in Wichita, Monday, according to word received by relatives here. Funeral services were held Thursday at Wichita. Corzine was the eldest son of J.

Franklin and Annie Bacon Gorzine and was born Oct. 10, 1865, at Jerseyville. He resided here until 1907 when he moved to Kansas and engaged in farming near Milton. He moved to Wichita to reside in 1917. He Is a brother of William Corzine of Jerseyville.

Nolle Funeral JERSEYVILLE Funeral services for John H. Nolle will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, from the (residence Brussels. The Rev. will officiate and interment will be in the Hetzer cemetery. Nolle died Thursday.

He was the son of, the late Herman and Caroline Kinder Nolle and was born Feb. 7, 1876, in St. Charles, Mo. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Charlotte Nolle; one son, William of Golden Eagle; four daughters, Mrs.

Arthur Kinder and Mrs. Albert Lane of Golden Eagle, Mrs. Henry Menske, of Baden Station, and Mrs. Paul Baxter of West Frankfort; and one brother, Albert Nolle, of Golden Eagle. Building Bird Boxes JERSEYVILLE A bird box building contest for children is being launched by the Jerseyville Hartmann's Announce the Advance Spring Showing of Hartcraft Prep Suits Prep Sport Coats, Prep "Two-somes" (Coat 8 Slacks) 15 Young men who measure 30 to 38 chest will find these suits are specially designed for them in Hollywood, Drape, and Campus models.

Two pair of pleated slacks with talon wide range of patterns. LOUIS J. HARTMANN Our 100th and GREATEST Year! Lion's Club and details of tho proj pst may be obtained from Charles Daniels, Jersey county superlnten dent of schools. Two separate divisions will be taken into consideration in the contest, the children of the Parochial School and the Jerseyvllle Grade Schools being entered in one croup anS students of the Jersey Township High School In the other. The Lions will award four cash prizes in each division.

Club Entertained of the Jerseyville Pinochle Club were entertained at dinner Tuesday evening at the Garden Gate near Godfrey, following the dinner the group attended a theater. Members of the club present were 1 Mrs. Lawrence Ferguson, Mrs. Homer Studebaker, Mrs. Chris Ringhausen, Mrs.

Truman Yocom, Mrs Lloyd Adams, Mrs. Wilbur Bean and Mrs. Urban Sinclair. Mrs. Paul Strebel was a guest.

Jcrseyville Notes JERSEYVILLE Mrs. John L. Hon returned Friday to her home, in Rock Island, 111., following a week's visit here at the home of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. John Bray, in Jerseyville.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Hausman of Chicago and Mrs. Bengal of Springfield visited in Jerseyville Wednesday with Earl C.

Adams and William F. Hanley. Hausman is secretary of the Illinois Bankers Association. Henry Jacob of Waldron, came to Jerseyville Wednesday to remain until Sunday'as the guest of Miss Margaret Hughes at the home ot her mother, Mrs. Ella Hughes.

Charles K. Cockrell was taken suddenly ill Wednesday evening at the Elks Club in this city and was removed to his home. His condition is much improved. Mrs. Clarence Kechner of Alton spent Thursday in Jerseyville as' the guest of her mother, Mrs.

H. Bowen. Mrs. Bowen, has recuperated from a recent illness, Mrs. Frank McElrath of Alton spunt Wednesday evening here with her mother, Mrs.

Roy Bailard, who is quite ill at her home. The Rev. J. J. Jenkins is able to be out following a two-week illness of flu.

Miss Margaret Lee Nail, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Nail of this city, has returned from a few weeks' visit in Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif. She was a guest Tuesday at the home cf her par- HOLLYWOODr Feb. 23, The tuneful romance of blues-sine.

er Alice Faye' (above), and her handsome radio-crooning husband Tony Martin, has come to a discord-' ant ending. Alice plans to get a divorce. The blonde actress and the dark-haired radio star, who also has achieved prominence in the movies, eloped to Yuma, Ariz Sept. 3, 1937. Neither had been married before.

But their music careers, linked at first, finally pulled them apart. Miss Faye announced last night that she had instructed her attorney, Jules Goldstone, a file suit for divorce today or tomorrow, charging incompatibility ents before returning to Champaign to resume her work in that city. Mrs. Emma Keyser ot Fieldon who has been ill, was taken in Gub. ser's ambulance Monday afternoon to the home of her daughter, Mrs Traudt, in St.

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