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29 DAILY DISPATCH, MO LINE, ILLINOIS: THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1010. News of the Day from Rock Island, Henry, Whiteside and Bureau Counties Business Group H. G. BEEMAN DIES KEFTHSBURG TOPS What's New on the Christmas Schedule Highlights in the World ot Agriculture Featured on Wednesday Farm Pagei On The At New Windsor Selects Stewart AT PROPHETSTOWN LITTLE NINE ral: Dispatch Farm Front Items of Interest to Rural People; News ot 4-H Clubs, Rural Youth Groups, Farm and Home Bureaus and F. F.

A. New Windsor. Dec. 19. J.

A. Stewart has been elected president of the New Windsor Business Men's association. Other officers are BY. DICK It ABB AND JIM DIX. Word War Veteran Psses in Home at Age 47; Rites to Be Sunday.

Team Collects Four Wins, No Losses; New Windsor Close Behind. George Lcafgrcen, vice president; P. E. Thomas, secretary, ana ver-non McNeil, treasurer. The association sponsored a Santa Claus party in the community last PRINCETON, Dec.

19. Bureau county's farm bureau will hold its annual meeting here Saturday. A crowd of 600 or more rural persons is expected to attend the event. For a part of the day the farmers and homemakers will meet separately. Several persons will speak before the men's meeting including E.

Longmire of the University of Illinois and Albert Hayes, director of the Illinois Agricultural association. The speaker at the women's gathering will be Mrs. Gilbert Brown of Geneseo, northwest district director of the Illinois Home Bu LITTLE NINE STANDINGS. night. P.

E. Thomas. Fred Fallin and Vernon Shull were appointed to have charge of the annual home reau federation. The report of Farm Adviser Paul W. L.

Pet. Kcithsburi; 4 0 1.000 New Windsor 3 0 1.000 New Boston 1 1.000 Viola 2 2 .500 Matherville 2 2 .500 Joy 1 4 .200 Roosevelt 0 1 .000 Seaton 0 4 .000 Sherrard 0 0 talent show. The association forwarded a suggestion to the village board that it correct the practice of parking trucks on the wrong side of the street. New Windsor stores will be open every evening until Christmas eve. the girls' high school glee club, will present a Christmas program under the direction of Miss Bernice Schin-leber and C.

M. Armstrong, at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon in the upper grade room. The program will consist of recitations, exercises and solos presented by Bobby Mathis, Margene Gay, Nancy Salzmann, Marilyn Fehlman, Jimmy Harker, Rodney Zinser, Or-val Paxson, Marvin Price, Joyce Sommers, Donna Price, Rom on a Urban, Barbara Jean Houch, Pearl Cryer, Carol Ann Harker, Billy Price, Jimmy Rafferty, Richard Brown, Hazel Zinser, Mariam Armstrong, Robert Price and the primary and upper grade rooms. Happy Corner. Orion, Dec.

19. Happy Corner school will hold a chicken supper and Christmas program at 6:30 tomorrow evening at the schoolhouse. The teacher is Darline Johnson. The pupils will present a 1-act play, Christmas Comes to Aunt Kate. Those taking part will be Mary Lou Coulter, Betty Lou Erick-son, Richard Malmen, Willard Johnson, Dale Lond and Kathryn Strom-quist.

There will be musical numbers by the pupils after which Santa is scheduled to arrive. There also will be an exchange of gifts. WOODHULL PRESBYTERIAN. main games played during the recreation period. ANDOVER, DEC.

19. Andover Go-Getters 5-H club held a Christmas party Monday evening in the Betty Bjork home. A program was presented by Bonnie Brennan, Betty Bjork and Lorna Anderson. There were songs by the club. Contests were won by Mrs.

Gilbert Johnson and Bonnie Brennan. Next meeting will be held January 8 in the Andover school. Prophetstown, Dec. 19. Harold G.

Beeman, a World war veteran, died at 4 this morning in his farm home on Route 226 east of Prophetstown. He was 47 years old. Mr. Beeman, who was born on the farm where he resided, had been ill for several years. His condition had been serious at intervals for the last five years.

Born Oct. 21, 1893, he was the son of Elwood and Etta Gage Beeman. He married Rose Bridgestock Broers of Prophetstown in Morrison on Jan. 12, 1926. He was a member the Masonic lodge and the American Legion.

Survivors include three sisters, Mrs. Charles Swanson and Mrs. George Sidley of Prophetstown and Mrs. Herbert Kempster of Rock-ford. He was preceded in death by his father, in 1931, his mother, in 1933, and a brother, Rupert.

Funeral services will be held at 2 Sunday afternoon in the Dudley chapel with the Rev. A. E. Simester officiating. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery.

Friends may call at the chapel until 1 Sunday afternoon. James Couple of Morrison Notes Golden Wedding COE, DEC. 19. Coe township farm bureau unit last night reelect ed Hollis Boardman to the Rock Is land county farm bureau board of directors. Glenn Murphy also will represent the unit on the board if it has a sufficient number of mem bers on December 31.

V. Dean of Princeton will be given in the morning, and officers will be elected before the noon luncheon. This may be the last year that the Bureau county farm bureau holds its annual meeting so near Christmas. The organization's bylaws are being changed to permit an earlier annual meeting next year. HILLSDALE, DEC.

19. Let Franks and sons, Grant and Charles, who have been operating the Christina Buter farm two miles southeast of Hillsdale the last frw years, lirld a closing-out sale Tuesday. Although being tractor farmers, Mr. Franks and his sons were lovers of fine horses. A team of coming-3-year-old roan mares brought $275.

The mares were almost perfectly matched and weighed 2870 pounds. Another grey gelding brought $125. Cattle sold as high as $82 a head. Sheep were sold at $13.75 each. Oats went at 38 cents a bushel.

Mr. Franks and family Mill move soon to their twon property, now occupied by the Rev. and Mrs. James Ellison and family. E.

L. Sand was the auctioneer. ANNAWAN, DEC. 19. The part-time school in vocational agricul-' ture at Annawan high school was held two classes with an attendance of about twenty members.

These classes are held especially for the young men of the community who either are farming or plan to be farmrrs. Following the class sessions a recreation period is conducted. The committee in charge of recreation is Harold Moon, chairman, Forrest Kipp and Elmer Richter, Basketball, volley ball and table tennis are the Aledo, Dec. 19. Keithsburg, New Windsor and New Boston are tied for the lead in the Little Nine basketball conference today with unblemished records.

Keithsburg has won the most conference games lour. New Windsor, because of its string ef eight consecutive victories, including a 31-25 win over the strong Roosevelt Military academy quintet Tuesday night, is expected to remain one of the leading contenders for the conference championship and the trophy which is awarded annually by R. M. A. New Boston also is in an enviable position recording its fifth victory out of six starts with the defeat of Little York.

45-25, Tuesday. Keithsburg, current league leader, has won its games by decisive scores, indicating the team's power. Games scheduled for tomorrow night will conclude the pre-holiday assignments for most teams in the conference competition. The championship race will be resumed after the yuletide recess. Tomorrow evening's matches will include: Keithsburg at New Boston, Alexis at Viola, Seatoa at Reynolds and New Wind-tor at Sherrard.

The only game tonight Involving a conference team will be the St. Joseph v. Roosevelt encounter on the R. M. a.

floor. ANDOVER, DEC. 19. Lynn-An-dover's home bureau unit held a 12:30 luncheon yesterday in the Woodhull, Dec. 19.

Sunday school and congregation of the Woodhull Presbyterian church will start their Christmas program with a pageant. The Adoration of the Kings and Shepherds, to be given at 7:45 Tuesday night. The pag Morrison, Dec. 19. Mr.

and Mrs. Robert S. James quietly observed their 50th wedding anniversary at their home in Morrison yesterday. Because of illness in the family there was no celebration or open house. Both were born in the Morrison vicinity and have spent their entire lives here.

The couple operated a farm north of Morrison until they retired and moved here in 1917. Rosa Thomas and -Robert S. James were married at the home of the former's parents. Mr. and Mrs.

A. P. Thomas of Lyndon township, on Dec. 18, 1890. The Rev.

E. P. Holt or the Lyndon Methodist church officiated. They have one daughter, Mrs. Lester Conrady of north Morrison, and three grandchildren.

Mr. and Mrs. Conrady and family spent the day with the couple. Mrs. James is 72 years of age and Mr.

James will soon be 76. Mrs. LaVern Carlson home. The lesson. Shoes Make a Difference, was given by Mrs.

Lyman Gustus and Mrs. J. E. Samuclson. Nine eant will be followed by recitations and songs by the boys and girls and the distribution of treats.

members were present. Next meet ing will be January 28 in the Eric Streed home. The cast of the pageant includes Henry Faulkner, Nancy Jane Shet-ler, Mary Ann Woolley, J. H. Crane, Rollo Wooley, W.

G. Holmes, Henry ALPHA, DEC. 19. Plans were made for a dance during February Gildeimeister, Duff Tucker, Ben toy members of the Oxford town ship farm bureau at a meeting jamin Ratakin, Russell Gustafson, Dean Litton, Gene Woolley, Floyd Fay, Dorothy Holmes, Marcella Andreen, Marilyn Fay, Beth Swanson, Carolyn Crane, Marjorie Maher, Marjorie Ratakin, Lucille Throop, Mary Mattson, Geraldine Gamel, Hospital Petitions Not Presented to Morrison Council Monday evening at the home of the new president, Stewart Carlson. It was also decided to change the meeting nights from the third Monday night to the fourth Monday night of each month.

Assisting hosts and hostesses were Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Blaine, Owen Carlson and include songs, recitations, playlets, instrumental numbers, four plays, group singing and a visit from Santa is expected.

Sheffield, Dec. 19. Pupils of the Littlefield rural school north of Sheffield will present a Christmas program tomorrow night. Miss Fay Douglas, the teacher of the district, is in charge of the evening. LANG DON SCHOOL.

Lyndon, Dec. 19. Christmas program written by pupils of Langdon school and directed by the teacher, Mrs. Madge Hunt, will be presented in the school at 7:45 Monday evening. The program will include two plays, At Grandma's House and a radio play.

Those taking part will be Anna Lou Shipma, Marjorie Rhymer, Herbert Richmond, Frank Lyle Belt, Mary Lou Richmond, Herbert Shipma, Donna Fisk and Donald Fisk. The school will close on Tuesday for a week's vacation. LYNDON SCHOOL. Lyndon, Dec. 19.

Members of the Adelphian literary society of Lyndon high school will present a program in the school tomorrow afternoon. It will include a 1-act play, The Bride Wore Red Pajamas, and will be presented by Joan Bierman, Frances. Harrington, Keith Glazier, Allan VanDeMark, and Robert Harrington. An original story written by Arlie Shultz, Frances Johnson and Betty Blumhoff will be read by Allan VanDeMark; Jokes and news written by Doris Walker, Harry Richmond and Nellie Port will be read by Charlotte Bierman. Others taking part will be James Bowen, Robert Rhymer, Emma Lou Cushing, Franklin Mathews, Dorothy Buikeman, Kay Bernhardy, Jeanne Moore, Helen Bennett and Paul Ottens.

Critics report will be given by LeRoy Garrison. LYNDON CONGREGATIONAL. Lyndon, Dec. 19. Christmas will be observed in the Lyndon Congregational church Tuesday evening, December 24, when members of the Sunday school will present a program which includes two plays, Christmas at Clinton Corners, by the choir, and Reunion at Pine Knot Ranch, by classes two and four.

Those taking part will be Joan Sippel, Nancy Munson, Patricia Chamberlain, Douglas Chamberlain, Edna Sippel, Idella Bolt, Ellen McDonald, Ernest Johnson, Robert Settles. Kenneth Johnson, LeRoy Eads, Robert Bowen, James Munson, Betty Lou Heidenreich, Marilyn Harrington, Violet Eads, Roger Bowen, Harry Munson, Edryss Bix-by, VioLet Munson, Floyd Glazier, Mary Glazier, Russell Blagg, Chester Thormahlen, Frances Harrington and Betty Immel. LYNDON METHODIST. Lyndon, Dec. 19.

Vesper services will be held in the Lyndon Methodist church at 4:30 Sunday afternoon. A pageant, Why the Bells Rang, will be presented by the following cast: Readipg part The Rev. W. C. Prout; priest, Robert Harrington; king, LeRoy Garrison; army captain, Francis Allen; poor little boy, Owen Woodard; young girl, Pauline Harrington; beautiful young woman, Shirley Bierman; rich woman, Esther Hildebrand; solo part, Kay Bernhardy.

Music will be furnished by the choir. GREENE SCHOOL. Lyndon, Dec. 19. Mrs.

Ruth Eldrenkamp, teacher of the Greene school, will present her pupils in an operetta, In Quest of Santa Claus, in the school tomorrow evening. She will be assisted by Mrs. R. E. Kreider, music director in the school.

There will be a tree and gift exchange. Those who will participate are Dorcas Prins, Larry Meiners, Janet Marcy, Carol Stralow, William Schrader, Joanne Morse, Alice Bennett, Lee Bierman, Wesley Dykems, Elmer Prins, Floyd Bennett, Nancy Lathe, Betty Immel, Marilyn Stralow, Margaret Gallentine and Elmer Dykema. Hooppole Grove. Hooppole, Dec. 19.

Pupils of the Margaret Hanlon, Dorothy Grier, Merwyn Litton, Gerald Gamel. The name of the person taking Edna Calkins. part of the madonna will not be announced until the presentation. Western Illinois Deaths, Funerals Mrs. Floyd Meeker and Mrs.

Charles Mortenson will have charge of the music. 1 WEST INDIES BOSS A. R. Lisenby and the Rev. Duff Tucker are the general chairmen, Mrs.

W. G. Holmes is in charge of the casting committee; Mrs. Wil liam Gamel, of the costuming, and Mrs. Edwin Gildeimeister, of the properties.

W. D. Cain and Mrs. Henry Faulkner are co-chairmen of Morrison, Dec. 19.

Petitions asking that the Morrison city council call a special election so that Morrison residents may decide the fate of a tax of one and two-thirds mills for hospital purposes, were not presented as expected at the meeting of the council last night, because all of the legal angles have not been cleared up. The petitions were in evidence at the meeting but not officially presented. A digest of the recent bids submitted for the contract for installing electric pumps at the waterworks was read but no action was taken by the city officials. It was stated that the Crane company of Davenport was the low bidder on the deep well turbines and the Fairbanks Morse company of Be-loit, the low bidder for the booster pumps. CHRISTMAS PARTY HELD BY LEGION AT ATKINSON the staging and decoration.

Immediately after the pageant the young boys and girls of the thy Kershaw, Marjorie Jean Do-brinski, Darlene Reese, James Schneider and Robert Dobrinski. Gifts will be exchanged. School will be closed tomorrow afternoon until January 6. DEWEY SCHOOL. Erie, Dec.

19. Dewey school Harmony club will meet tomorrow evening in the school for. a potluck supper to be followed by a program and gift exchange. Mrs. Margaret Wreath, the teacher, has prepared the program.

In addition to a miscellaneous program the following dialogues were presented: Christmas Clock, The Run-Away Stockings, Christmas Decorations and A Christmas Mix-up. Participating in the program will be Ruth Floming, Ruth and Marjorie Zuidema, Wilbur Floming, Donald Floming, Billy Carr, Sammy Carr, Eugene and Isabel Chamberlain, Dale Klimstra and Kenneth Huizenga. ERIE CHRISTIAN. Erie, Dec. 19.

Rays from the Star of Bethlehem is the general theme of the Christmas program of the Erie Christian church Sunday school to be presented on December 24 at 7:30 in the church auditorium. Mrs. Melvin Fiscus is general chairman of the committee. The program consists of songs, recitations, duets, exercises and musical selections. Roland Edgar Florence will give the prologue.

Special music wil be presented by members of the junior choir. Participating in the program will be Roland Edgar Florence, Shirley Dillon, Carol Jean Ashdown, Mar-lene Klendworth, Dwight and Rodney Francis, Merle Grau, Lois Ann Ashdown, Davy Border, Jack Stoudt, Mary Ann Finnicum, Wayne Bugbee, Beverly Emo, Gertrude Gammon, Gloria Stoudt, Zelma Redell, Phyllis Bush, Patty Dillon, Jimmie Bugbee, Billie Dillon, Stanley Border, Shirley Melton, Glenda Brown, Carol Ann Melton, Carol Stuhr, Donnie O'Neill, Billy Carr, Maurine Tyler, Faye Jean Melton, Mary Elizabeth Appleby, Shirley Melton, Ruth Stuhr, Barbara Klendworth, Betty Gammon, Phyllis Murphy, Marian Tyler, Sammy Joe Carr and Frances Murphy. ROCK RIVER SCHOOL. Mrs. Matilda Sallaz, teacher of the Rock River school, will direct the pupils in a Christmas program tmorrow evening in connection with the meeting of the school community club.

Mrs. Frank Morgan is chairman of the refreshment committee. In addition to a program of songs, readings and musical selections, two playlets. Looking for Santa Claus and Grandma's Christmas Present, will be presented by Jeannine Anderson, Earlyne Anderson, Dorothy Driessens and David Hayen. There will be a Christmas tree and gift exchange.

PROPHETSTOWN HIGH. Prophetstown, Dec. 19. Thespians of Prophetstown high school will present a play. While the Toast Burns, at the assembly Christmas program next Friday afternoon.

The cast includes Robert Woodworth, George Kiner, Edith Anderson, Genevieve Farrell and Marion Thede. The sextet and the freshman trio will sing. Gifts will be exchanged. After the program school will be dismissed until January 6. PROPHETSTOWN GRADES.

Fourth and fifth grade pupils in Prophetstown, taught by Perle Schaefer and Eileen Olsson, will present their' Christmas program Friday afternoon. It will include group singing, a trio by Willetta Millett, Gladys Johnson and Donna Roese, and recitations by Robert Dessing, Shirley Ping, Donna Roese, Donald Paul, Gladys Johnson, Ann Warner, Lyle and James Waite, James Froeliger and Willetta Millett. A play, Topsy Toyshop, will be presented by Melvin and Marvin VandeWostine, Robert Sutton, Glenn Richards, Donna Melton, Billy Fisk, Loyal Curry, Elwood Hummel, Ray McWethy, Marvin Sutphin, Ida Smith. John Blum-hoff, Iva Tiffany, Charles Melton and Genevieve Beldin. SWEDONA LUTHERAN.

Swedona, Dec. 19. A Christmas program, Rays from the Star of Bethlehem, will be presented by the Sunday school of the Swedona Lutheran church, assisted by the choir, December 26 at 7 in the evening. The program is divided in live parts, the Message of Joy, Peace, Faith, Love and Service. Each part is introduced by a Ray bearer who fastens her ray to a point of a large five-pointed star.

Each part consists of exercises, songs and recitations. Children taking part will be Janice Bloomberg, Lois, Ruth Marie, Charles, Curtis and Mary Lee Anderson, Sheldon Larson, Betty and Marvin Ward, John Arland, Elaine and Janet Lee Seabloom, Marion and Douglas Skallberg, Mervin Ud-seth, Ruby, John Carol Jean Harmon and Dennis Bohman, Duane, Jerry, Gloria Mahlon and Nyle Peterson, Evelyn and Violet Sundvall, Betty Carlson, John Boehme, Billy and Glenn Bessert, Chester, May-nard and Harlan Larson. Maynard Hendrickson, Maxine, Norma Jean and Virginia Lindgren, Lois Mae and Joanne Magnuson, Kama Bloomberg, Charles Swanson, Joyce Heblen, Ronald Gustafson. Shirley Ronnquist, Melvin and Richard Underwood, Sharon and Patty Glorfield and Shirley Tom-linson. ZUMA CHURCH.

Zuma, Dec. 19. Annual Christmas program will be presented at the Zuma Methodist church Monday evening. Program will include recitations, dialogues, vocal and instrumental numbers and a playlet. Those participating on the program will be Robert, Arlle Ann and Glen Wainwright, Donald Lippelt, Marion, Ruth and Helen Eipper, Jo Ann Day, Keith Johnson, Shirley, Eldon, Richard and Kenneth Wake, Darlene Mumma, Billie, Donald, Beverley, Jack.

Leonard and Junior Schwenneker, Darlene and Laverne Behrendt, Wayne Skelton, Louise Frels, Sue Ann and David Adams, Wilma Kessler and members of the Goldon Rulee class. COOK SCHOOL. Hillsdale, Dec. 19. Christmas program will be presented at Cook school at 7:45 tomorrow evening, with Miss Evelyn Kuehl.

teacher of the school, in charge. Program will Sunday school will present their part of the program under the direction of Belle Miller and Mary Cynthia Smith, Rodney Bodlne, Beverly Keleher, Calvin Sutlcy, Bobby Jones, Buddy Anderson, Jimmy Perry, Waneta Ohrn, Betty, VanSickle, Robert Sutley, Bessie and Twylla Anderson, Wanda Johnson and Fanchon McCombs. A 1-act Christmas play, Christmas Child, will be presented by Ralph Killion, William Sutley, Arthur Rostron, Wilma King, Charles Sheesley, Ruth Botsford, Maxine Jones, Doris McCance, Lucille Mc-Cance, Laddie Soderberg and Marilyn Norcross. FAIRFIELD. Coe, Dec 19.

Fairfield Community club will hold a Christmas party and social evening in Fairfield schoolhouse tomorrow evening. A program of songs and readings will be given by Mrs. Berneice Sallows, Mrs. Frances Ashdown, Mrs. Etta Hedeen, Mrs.

Jennie Ashdown and Florence Emma Coe. Mrs. Ashdown and Miss Jessie Gilbert will be in charge. Following the club program, Carolyn Ecker, teacher at Fairfield, will present her pupils in a short program. There will be an exchange of gifts, with Santa Claus in charge of distribution.

Classes at Fairfield will close tomorrow for the holiday vacation, and Miss Ecker will go to the home of her parents in Moline for Christmas. Albany Helping Hand, Albany, Dec. 19. Sixteen persons attended the Helping Hand Christmas party which was held in the Albany church parlors Tuesday evening. A covered dish supper was served.

The committee in charge of the supper and gifts was Mrs. Dave Buikema, Minnie Snyder, Alice Burns and Mrs. Charles Beeken. Gifts were exchanged. ATKINSON.

Atkinson, Dec. 19. Annual Christmas program of the Atkinson Congregational church will be held on Tuesday evening, December 24, in the church auditorium. Those who participate in the program which will include musical recitations are Joyce Clark, Delia Bentley, David Little, Marcia Nick-erson, Beverly Peck, Marilyn Thompson, Ruth Carlisle, Janet Hcrforth, Joyce Speakman, Charlyn Jones, Robert Hoburg, Mary Ann Carlisle, Ann Hagan, Gayle Egert, Steven Speakman, Jimmy Joe Carlisle, Clarice Egert and Harold Pritchard. BEULAH CHURCH.

Coal Valley, Dec. 19. The Christmas program which will be presented by the Beulah church Sunday school at 8 Sunday evening, will include a pageant. The Christmas Truant, a playlet. Hanging Christmas Stockings, and several recita Hanlon.

Dependon class is in charge of the treats. Soloists are Mrs. Charles Carlson, Mrs. Fred Shetler and Nancy Jane Shetler. Mrs.

Charles Mortenson will play. BYERS "SCHOOL. Albany, Dec. 19. Byers school, taught by Miss Dorothy Ege, will present a Christmas program to morrow evening, with a potluck supper starting at 7.

The program consists of recitations by children of the district who are under school age, Mary Alice Vander-Vinne and Francis VanderVinne. Other numbers will be given by Bill Geneseo Funeral Is Held Today for Former Resident Mrs. Swan Swanson. Cambridge, Dec. 19.

Mrs. J. A. Horberg received word Tuesday of the death of her aunt by marriage, Mrs. Swan Swanson of Kansas City, Mo.

The body will be brought here for services in the Gustafson chapel tomorrow. Burial will be in the Andover cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. O.

F. Swanson and Mrs. Esther Chesley of Kansas City arrived yesterday in Cambridge to attend the funeral. Mr. Swanson is a son of the deceased.

Johnson. Prophetstown, Dec. 19. Funeral services for Mrs. John A.

Johnson, 64. who died Sunday evening following an illness of several years, w'-e held in the Dudley funeral chapel yesterday afternoon. The Rev. Milton Lundahl, pastor of the First Lutheran church of this city, officiated. Mrs.

May Walte and Mrs. Vincent Olmstead were the singers. John A. Larson, Carl O. Swanson, Alphonse Hval-gren, George Baker, Fred Bridge-ttock and Mayor Olof Crosell were the pallbearers.

The body was takf to Sheffield for burial. John E. Humbert. Geneseo. Dec.

19. Funeral services for John E. Humbert, who died Sunday morning, were held yesterday morning in the family home on South Stewart street. Rev. M.

J. Colgan, assistant pastor of St. Malachy's Catholic church, officiated. Pallbearers were Alwin Reschke, Earl Firch. Fred Klemmer, Gilbert Munter, Robert Busenbark and William Daniels.

Burial was in the North cemetery. Beardswortn. Erie, Dec. 19. Funeral services for Harry Beardswortn, who was found dead in his home Sunday afternoon, was held yesterday afternoon in the Erie Methodist church.

The Rev. Ralph Kofoed officiated. Mrs. Roland Seger and Mrs. Roy Cooper were in charge of the floral offerings.

Pallbearers were Ralph Shortridge, Charles Feaster, Frank Shepherd, Charles Withrow, Albert Miller, Lawrence Perkins and Ed Florence. Burial was in the Erie cemetery. Ege, Louise VanderVinne, Donald Medema, Pauline VanderVinne, Franklin Benson, Marian Naftzger, Gilbert Medema, Franklyn Benson Atkinson, Dec. 19. Members of the Atkinson units of the American Lcrion and auxiliary met Tuesday evening in Sturtewagon's hall.

A potluck supper was held at 6:30 for members and their families. The annual Christmas program and gilt exchange was held. Following the business sessions, a program which included recitations, vecal selections, dances and a piano duet was given by Mrs. Josephine Gritman and her daughter, Joyce. Eloise VanNorway.

Louella Van-Waes, Rosclla Eeckhout and Jo Ann DeDccker. A play entitled Christmas Everywhere was given with the following girls participating: Rhoda Eeckhout, Darlene Bloome, Marjorie Goebert, Rachel Moens, Helen Moens, Leila Price, Janice Claeys, lone Doubler, Evelyn DePauw and Dolores Bloome. and Roland Clemstra. The school will close until January 2. KINGSBURY.

Kingsbury school has arranged the following program to be given ADMIRAL GEORGES ROBERT. Virtual dictatorial powers over all French possessions in the western hemisphere have been granted to Admiral Georges Robert, high commissioner for the French West Indies. He will be solely responsible for defens of the West Indies, French Guiana, St. Pierre and Miquelon, and has plenipotentiary powers to negotiate with the United States and other American nations, under conditions dictated by Vichy. Geneseo, Dec.

19. Funeral services were held here this afternoon for Mrs. Florence Dilenbeck Hiskey, 72, former Geneseo woman who died in her home at Laramie, on Tuesday. Mrs. Hiskey, who was the daughter of the late Mr.

and Mrs. Willard Dilenbeck of Davenport, left here as a bride forty-nine years ago. She was born here May 18, 1868, and attended Geneseo schools. She was prominent in music activities at Laramie and at one time was a private music teacher. She is survived by the widower and several cousins, including Alvin Dilenbeck of Geneseo.

at 8 tomorrow evening in the schoolhouse. Community singing will be led by Fred Slocum. A play, Santa Claus Brigade, will be given by Robert Thomas, Elmer Huizen-ga, Dorothy Foster, Vivian Miller, Clyde Miller and Jane Miller. A cornet solo will be played by Jack Holcomb. Elizabeth Dalrymple is the teacher.

Six types of wood-gas carburetors are being manufactured in Finland on an industrial scale. WOODHULL, ALPHA. Woodhull, Dec. 19. A Christmas i British Tanks Busy in Western Egypt cantata for mixed voices, The Child of Bethlehem, by Louise E.

Stairs, Hooppole Grove school will present a program tomorrow evening under the direction of their teacher, Albert Crogeart, and music instructor, Vincent Olmstead. The children taking part in the recitations, exercises and musical numbers will be Joyce, Caroline and Lowell Gerber, Ralph Blackert, Marvin and Clarence VerDick, Vernon Blackert, Richard Johnson, Shirley and Josephine Poison, Al-vin, Venita, Eugene, Franklin and Alvina Eiler, Robert Colgan, Ruth Countryman and Leslie Stockton. The community club also will hold a meeting and there will be an exchange of Christmas gifts. Hooppole Grade. Hooppole, Dec.

19. Pupils of Hooppole grade school, assisted by I if New Windsor New Windsor, Dec. 19. Mr. and Mrs.

William Tournquist spent Tuesday in Galesburg, where their son. Dale, underwent an appendectomy Monday night Mrs. P. D. Tucker of Sherman.

Tex, is spending the holidays with her son and daughter-in-law, the Rev. and Mrs. Duff Tucker of Woodhull. Mrs. Alma Vanstrom and son, Arthur, and daughter, Mrs.

Edwin Peterson, were in Galesburg Tuesday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Hannah Nelson. tions. Participating in the program will be Helen Ann Dierolf, Betty Severns, Dean Bollman, Ruth Byers, Eugene Morgan, James Thompson, Robert Wilson, Jimmy Smith, Eleanor Dierolf, Lois Kammerman, Duane Morgan, Dorothy Byrer, Marvin Kammerman, Dean Bollman. Edith Beck, Marian Wilson, Ellen Joan Thompson, Dorothy Berg, Mary Holiday, Mary Kammerman, Eleanor Kammerman, Charles Hol-liday, Robert Holliday and Barbara Bollmon.

PARKS SCHOOL. Coal Valley, Dec. 19. Pupils of Parks school will present a Christmas program, under the direction of their teacher, Mrs. Anna Hamilton, in the school north of Coal Valley tomorrow night.

Those taking part in the program of recitations, playlets and musical selections will be Jack Healy, Joyce and Thomas Long, George and James Crawford, Billy Sanders and Betty, Barbara and Mary Hulett. BRIAR BLUFF. Briar Bluff school, taught by Miss Margaret Bergstrom, will present a Christmas program for women and children of the district at 2 tomorrow afternoon in the school-house. The following will take part: June Reese, Clarence Dobrinskl, Teresa Carroll, Lois Coward, Doro- will be given by the combined choirs of Woodhull and Alpha Methodist churches at Woodhull Friday night, December 27, and at Alpha on Sunday night, December 29. The cantata tells the Christmas story in fourteen numbers.

Mrs. D. A. Bloomster is directer. Mrs.

Ora Stitt will accompany on piano and Dorothy Eiker will play the organ at the Alpha presentation. CLEVELAND CHURCH. Geneseo, Dec. 19. A Christmas program will be presented by the Sunday school classes of the Cleveland church Sunday evening, beginning at 8 p.

m. Those in charge of the program are Mrs. Wilbur Catour and Miss Betty Jaquet. Everyone is invited to attend. ORION BAPTIST.

Orion, Dec. 19. A Christmas program will be presented at the Baptist church Sunday evening by the pupils of the Sunday school. Recitations, exercises, songs and music will bo given. Scripture will be read by Harold Keek and prayer will be given by the Rev.

S. B. Janssen. Those taking part will be Linda Edwards, Genevieve Llndell, Frankie Sundecn, Inez Johnson, primary department, Twin Sons Born To Buda Woman Going to Hospital Annawan Annawan, Dec. 19.

Miss Gertrude Taylor, inspector of the vocational education of home economics, visited the high school here Tuesday. Buda, Dec. 19. (P) Twin sons were born to Mrs. Carl V.

Bink-ley in different townships yesterday as she was being taken by automobile to a Princeton hospital. Mrs. Blnkley is the wife of the Rev. Carl V. Binklcy of Buda.

British light tanks cross a stretch of dessert in western Egypt where British claim to have broken Italian lines and captured many prisoners. This picture was made before the Italians crossed the border from Libya and advanced into Egypt. British military quarters said the recent victory at Sidi Barrani has broken any immediate threat to the Suez canal. The national forest service estimates that 240 gophers or 160 prairie dogs will eat as much as one cow on western rangelands..