Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 14

ALTON EVENING PAGE FOURTEEN Legion, Auxiliary, Lions to Sponsor; Christinas Dinners Wood River Groups to An semble Groceries at Show, Dance WOOD RIVER, Dee. events to assemble food for dlstrtbu- tfon among Wood River's needy families in the form of Christmas dinners are scheduled for Saturday by trireft organizations here. A "grocery" dance, for which groceries Till admission, will be by the Arr.r-rlr.an Legion Auxiliary and the at their hall Saturday teginnlni? at 9 o'riook. Elmer Curry 1 orchestra is to furnish frw. The Lions Club is sponsoring a show at thr- Wood Rivr theater at 9am.

Saturday, for which certei likewise will tho admission priM. tlsc of the theater la being donated. Mrs. Donald Waggoner is chairman of arrangements on dance for the teglon Auxiliary, while L. Holland is reprwtentlng the Legion.

Walter Nash is heading Lions Club arrangements for the Holland stated today that gifts of food would be welcomed from those who were nnable to attend the dance or tho show. The three organizations plan to the retribution fthe foodstuffs jointly. Into Train, Pilot Killed Former Gillespie Mine Boss Dies in Plunge Down Shaft GILLESPII, Dec. Thirty years a workman in mines, and eventually assistanv mine superintendent, William Day, 58, fatally injured in a fall down the ghatt of the Reading Coal Iron Mount Carmel. mine Friday, relatives here haw been informed.

Day had moved to Mount Carmel flve years ago, after working 25 years in Gillespie mines. At the time he left here he had been given the position of mine boss by the Superior Coal Co. His death occurred Saturday at the Ashland, Pa. state hospital. Surviving are his widow, MM, Elizabeth Day; two daughters, Mrs.

John Hargiss of OiUespie and Miss Evelyn of Mount Carmel, lour sons, Wllford and William of (311- lesple, Thomas of Staunton, and Marion of Mount Carmel, three Mothers, John of Oillespie, George 'of Chicago, and Samuel of Nashville, and two sisters, Mrs. William Foster of Oillespie and Mrs. Lillian Feppard of England. Accompanied by Mrs. William E.

Davis, his relatives residing here left for the funeral services, which to be held at Mount Carmel, Pa. Burial, too, was there. Member of Wood River Family Dies in Venice Cadet Maxwell H. Cromwell of Shell Lake, attached to the pursuit group at Selfridge Field, was killed when his airplane struck a freight train caboose, throwing him from the cockpit. The plane bounced wildly for a quarter of a mile before it crashed to a farm yard and burned.

A guard is shown exam- ing the wreckage. (Associate Press Photo), Sunday with their granddaughter, Bonnie Lee, who is ill at the home WOOD RIVER, Dec. Anna Waggoner and children, of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed sat RS night during the critical illness of Mrs.

Waggoner's daughter, Mrs. Joseph Poote who was dyln? of pernicious anemia. Death occurred Saturday at 3 p. m. Her family remained at her bedside.

She Is survived by her husband and seven children, all grown. The funeral will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p. m. the family residence, 1111-A Market street In North Venice. The body will be Interred in Milton cemetery, East Alton.

Mn. Goff Honored. WOOD L. H. Holland entertained eight guests in honor of Mrs.

Joseph Goff, who will be leaving soon with her family to take up her residence in Chicago. The women were entertained at 8 o'clock dinner at the Methodist church, after which tiiey played bridge for several hours at the Holland Prizes were awarded. Mrs. Ooff receiving a special gift. Bach guest received a Christ- moat package.

Thosa attending were Mrs. Ooff, Mrs, L. R. Hill, Mrs. Z.

D. Lumley, Mrs. F. M. Leever, Mrs.

Charles Baker, Mrs. R. M. Bell, Mrs, E. ftuinn, and Miss Velora Buscher.

Plan Welfare Work. WOOD M. P. Manning, Mm. J.

F. McCredle, Mrs. Otis Holmes, Mrs. S. A.

Montgomery, Mrs. T. a Postelwaite, Mrs. Charles Volz, Mrs. M.

A. Rogers, and Mrs. P. Nader, members of the welfare committee of the Wood River Woman's Club, will meet at the home of Mrs. Robert Lane tonight to make plans for seasonal welfare work.

Mrs. Manning returned Sunday from Whiting, where she visited Mrs. N. Wilson, her sister, who has been ill. Rehearse Christmas Playlet WOOD RIVER -The primary department of tho Methodist Sunday school is rehearsing a Christmas playlet to be presented the church on Sunday night, Dec 22 Baptist Christmas Party.

WOOD Sixty children attended the Christmas party given by the superintendent and teachers of the primary department of tho Baptist church held In the church dining hall Saturday. The children were led in playing after wliich refreshments were served. Christmas Party. WOOD RIVER. Mcrrlbells class of the United Brethren church held its Christmas party at the home of Mrs.

Arthur Oerl on Marguerite avenue. Twenty-three young women attended. Miss Ruth Belver was elected president; Harry Cross, vice president, and MM. Earl Strain, secretary-treasurer. were served.

Miss Ruth Belver was assistant hostess. Tho Merrlbells will serve their weekly supper at United Brethren church Thursday night. Legion Auxiliary to Meet. WOOD Legion Auxiliary win hold iU regular mating at the Legion home tonight. Auction Club Cnrlrtniiu Party.

WOOD Auction Club will hold Its Christmas jwrty this week at the homo of Mrs. Ben Lewis. A potluck dinner and an exchange of gifts arc planned. Mm. Robinson to Entertain.

WOOD Delia Robinson and Mrs. L. H. Holland will to members of the Cozy Corner Club at a o'clock luncheon Friday at tho home of Mrs. Holland on Wood Elver avenue, Christmas gifts will be exchanged.

Wood River Notes. WOOD and Mm. Clinton Plnkerton spent Sunday in Witt visiting frtcndT Olive Ballard, daughter of MM, Altl Ballard, wu moved to tho home of hor grandmother, Mrs. A. P.

Andrews. Saturday night. Olive in convalescing from an appendicitis operation. Phillip Haar, Miss Emma Haar, Haar, wjcompunted by Mrs, RE. Hooper, visited Sunday at Pine Lawn, with Mrs.

Haar, ft paUent to the hospital there. Mm Haar improved. Mrs Walter and children ntumed to Pituburgh, Pa" altar months' visit wlto Mm. Mn. carl and with hor biubuul's mother, MM Laura Hiifferd, In UnoSn Mrs, WM Daniel, have returned to their home in Taylorvllle after several months' stay here.

Rigg was employed with a construction company at Shell refining project. Mr. and Mrs. Mansholt of Morrisett were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs.

C. T. Morrisett and children. Mr. and Mrs.

George Graham entertained friends from collins- ville, Mr. and Mrs. ZHdon Leverett plan to leave Tuesday for a holiday visit With relatives in Houston, Tex. Vlisfi Dwiggins Rites To Be At East Alton EAST ALTON, Dec. ervlces for Miss Mildred lone Jwiggins have been set for 2 p.

m. Tuesday at the home, 203 Grand venue. The Rev. Ray Johnson of he Wood River Baptist Church will officiate, interment will be to Wanda cemetery. Mrs.

Killebrew of Wood River Dies WOOD RIVER, Dec. 16. After an illness of several weeks, Mrs. Nellie Killebrew, 58, died at her home, 568 Leslie avenue at. 6:15 Sunday morning.

Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 11:30 a. m. at the home. Burial will be in the White Hall cemetery. Mrs.

Killebrew is survived by five daughters, Mrs. Charles Wilson of Winchester; Mrs. Jacob Hubbard of Plttafleld, Miss Ednaerle, Miss Emra and Miss Maudlne of Wood River; three sons, Mcrvin of Greenfield, Floyd of Palmyra, Harold of Wood River; seven grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Pearl Huff and Mrs. Gertrude Brlrioy, both of Buchanan, a half-brother, Raymond Oharlton; and a half-sister, Lillian Elhot of Louisiana, Mo.

She was born Feb. 27, 1877 in Pike county, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Oharlton. July 27,1808, she was married to Spencer Killebrew at Pittsfield.

The family resided in Pike -oun ty for several years, later moving to Greene county, where they lived for 25 years. Two and one-half years Ago Mrs. Killebrew came to 'Wood River to make her home with her son. She has been a member of the Griggsvllle Christian Church since youth. Airplane and engine mechanics In alrtne shops are required to hold Department of Commerce it censes.

Sixty-two thousand slaughtered An "electric eye" to protect sleep walkers is being manufactured a British firm. Chlorine, deadly gas, in combina- ion with other chemicals is an eff 1- lent antiseptic. Steal Everything But Warning MINOCQXJA, Dec. 16, Here's what the thieves took from a hunting lodge; two stoves, four beds, a table, six chairs, cooking utensils, the windows, the floor and the stove pipes. Here's 'what they didn't take: a notice tacked to the wall, offering a reward for the arrest and conviction of persons breaking into the lodge.

Motor vehicle taxes approximate $1,000,000,000 annually. Medora Juniors Hold Christinas MKDORA, Dec. Medora High School Juniors held their Christmas party at the scnfloJ Saturday night. The Baptist Young People's Union held a Christmas party Saturday night at the church. Mtty fhre tended.

Medora lite Wins High School's basketball team Shipman here Friday night, 26 to 11, but Its reserves lost, 26 to M. The gradt school team from won, 26 to 18. Medora Viola Peek and Bon, Kean, visited Mr. and Mrs; Albert CowgiU in Alton over the week-end. Mrs.

Boy Grimes returned Sunday from Centralla, where she has been visiting since Thanksgiving Day With Mr. and Mrs. Edward Todd. Miss Lora. Lane Das returned from Wood River after visiting Mr.

and Mrs. Leon Olmmy several Weeks. Dr. E. A- Cooper is slowly ing at Springfield Hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. Lester Searls of St. Louis visited Mr. and rMs.

J. F. Shields and Mr. and Mrs. H.

T. Searls Sunday. Radio waves are reflected from layers of ionized air high in the atmosphere, sctnetlsts say. Eighty per cent of all adults are Immune to infantile paralysis, according to estimates. With Dtamorm Sets $13.50 Exactly as iterated.

In solid yellow gold with white gold trto. Onyx bale with raised solid yellow, gold Gothic ityle initial. A ring that actually appeals to Extra-heavy toUjlal $1.00 1A. i fxi Yon Are Welcome to Bay on Oar Monthly Payment Plan. JEWELERS SINCE 1852 OPTOMETRIST COULD ING'S 111 West Third 364 Read The Telegraph Classified Coloihns Daily EVENINGS TILL Isostasy is a new theory holding that the earth's crust floats on a more plastic substance underneath.

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Stewart- Gibsons and Kelvinatbrs. Some Samples, Trade-Ins. $99.50 Electric Refrigerators $38.95 $106i5P Electric Refrigerators $47.30 $139.50 Electric Refrigerators $179.50 Electric Refrigerators $78.40 $189.00 Electric Refrigerators $87.55 $299.50 Electric Refrigerators $119.50 LIVING ROOM SUITES 29.75 $49.50 LIVING ROOM SUITES $64.00 LIVING ROOM SUITES $75.50 LIVING ROOM SUITES $105.00 LIVING ROOM SUITES ELECTRIC WASHERS ofs, PriniM, Thors and Others. Soine Samples, Some Trade-Ins. $29.50 ELECTRIC WASHERS $11.60 $44.50 ELECTRIC WASHERS $17.80 W.50 ELECTRIC WASHERS BED ROOM SUITES 36.40 49.80 68.75 79.50 $79.50 BED ROOM SUITES $110.00 BED ROOM SUITES $122.50 BED ROOM SUITES $165.00 BED ROOM SUITES RADIOS Philcos, R.

0, Majesties and Zeniths. Some Samples, Some Trade-Ins. $24.95 RADIOS $7.60 $49.50 RADIOS $16.75 $79.50 RADIOS $34.75 $99.50 RADIOS $4335 DINING ROOM SUITES $85.00 DINING ROOM SUITES $105.00 DINING ROOM SUITES $148.00 DINING ROOM SUITES $154.50 DINING ROOM SUITES i i 64.75 85.50 $19.75 9x12 RUGS $11.40 $24.50 9x12 RUGS $14.80 $39.50 9x12 RUGS $lf .75 $59.50 9x12 RUGS $67.50 9x12 $33.75 $76.00 ELECTRIC WASHERS $99.50 ELECTRIC WASHERS.