Mt. Vernon Register-News from Mt Vernon, Illinois • Page 16

TlIK RKGISTTflR-lSBWS MT. VlfiRNON, Daily Magazine Page -1 AS PRISCJILLA'S VEKMEKR NOW ONLV WE MAD A FOOTBALL (SAME ON Al 75 YEARS AGO TODAY Tlie first examination ol am- dldaies for admission to Uie bar under the now nilfs of tl)e Supremo Court will bo licid! In the Appellate Court in this' city Tuesday. I The Airline Kaili'oiui CoinpH-, ny in pursuance with the irnct made several months ago. with the waterworks company' is moving its water tank from the creek near the southeast i corner of the Fairgrounds to the Opdyke avenue crossing. 60 YEARS AGO TODAY Tile Northern Pacific exhibition car showing the products of the fertile northwest country, arrived on the L.

and N. today and was sidetracked atj the depot. 55 YEARS AGO TODAY That the Jefferson county young men at Camp Taylor arc a husky lot, is proved by tlie fact that of the 140 represented by the three contingents sent to that camp, only 11 have been rejected for pliisical reason. 50 YEARS AGO TODAY A part of the speech by Clemenceau, the aged French Statesman, delivered in the Odo- on Theatre In St. Liouls, was received by radio by Uie Regis- Icr-Nowa this aftoriioon.

Tlie en- tiro spc.cci\ was not broadcast, Clemenceau rcfusfed to talk directly into the microphone. 45 YEARS AGO TODAY The following officers were olected to head the mdlcal so- Ihealire, the Granada, will have Its grand optmlng I December 12 seetn well found- led, for workmen today were making real progress towards tompletion of what will be liic best, sliow liouse in aoithcrn Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Owen Martin announce the birth of a baby fon this morning at their home, mi Casey avenue.

The Ixiby lias been named Larry Alan. 30 YEARS AGO TODAY Elizabeth Fearheiley, a junior city ow Jefferson HamlUon Wesleyan university and icounties at a meeting here last v5 night. D. R. Whited Of Dahl- Street, Mt.

Ver- gren. president; Dr. Marshall W. Hall, vice president; Dr. J.

W. Hamilton, surer; and Dr. A. W. Modert and Dr.

G. L. Taylor cenors More than 2,000 people visited the American Motor Company up to 2:30 o'clock tliis afternoon to see the new Ford car. 40 YEARS AGO TODAY Guy Wood's Chevrolet coupe and C. A.

Stollc's Buick leading role In the ontt taf Ibe Hart and Kaufman comedy. Can't Take It With You," be presented Dec. 4 and by the Wesleyan Players, uni- veraity dramatics organization. Mrs. James Kramer has returned from Midland, Texas where she has been visiting her husband, Pvt.

James J. Kramer, who is stationed at Sloan w.rinn I Picld wlth tho U.S. Air Force. 'dan were stolen last evening. VITARQ Ar.n rnnw Gannaway of Mirs Harriett Mt.

Vernon has been elected secretary of the Illinois club at Lindenwood College, St, Charles, Mo. 35 YEARS AGO TODAY Reports that Mt. Vernon's fine i Ry TIUNER lucky! We've got a LOT of people to kiss good night!" Dr. John R. Fry is in St.

Louis attending the Mid-Oont- uent Dental Congiess. Mr. and Mrs. Warner Ellis of 301 South 22nd Street announce the marriage of their dauglittr, Freda Lee, to Paul Nelson, son of Mr. and Fred Nelson of 313 Jordan which took place November 27 Milli the Rev.

Nelson Shields officiating. Ira A. Bodine, Route 1, Bonnie, former Dodds tosvnsliip su- pei-vlsor, yesterday presented I he with a 06 i pound pumpkin, inches in diameter, one of a crop he harvested this year. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY Mt. Vernon city w'ncilmen last night authorized a $48,000 I bond issue to pay debts, de- jcided to move the police hcad- I quarters to make room for city's new sewer department and confirmed appointment of a five-man Board of Sewer Commissioners.

They are; Linus Hoots and Ted Lindsay, four-year terms; Albert "Bud" Bcnoist and Harriet McCracken, twwyear terms, and Walter Kuppler, one-year term. The Mt. Vernon council last night unanimously adopted a resohtion asking a o-day delay on the proposed abandon- nwnt of city bus service here. Bus Comjiton has retvuMico from a year's service In tlie IJ.S, Navy and today returned to his job as a member of Mt. Vernon fire department.

He replaces Bill Lee on the fire oepartment. Lcc went on active when Complon was recalled to service. 15 YEARS AGO TODAY Roy Taylor announced today that he is a candidate for sheriff of Jefferson county In the Democratic primary next! April 8. Willi E. Smith, building m- apector, reiwrts tliat he issued permits for construction in November which will cost a total of $327,490.

Mr. and Mrs. 11. C. Los in of Bluford will be married iifty years December 7.

Forward Cokman Carrodine and center Jack Kottcr com- bSncd for 41 points Satiu-duy night as tirc Ml, Vernon Rams defeated the Salem Wildcats, 10 YEARS AGO TODAY Ml. Vernon townsnip relief workers are cutting a channel along the west side of llie "dry" iVlt. Vernon city park lake. In the near luture the drained lake will be refilled with fresh water and stocked with fish. Bob Shaw has been aopointed administrator of general afisis- tance at the local relief office.

Francis N. Siegler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert II. Siegler of this city, has received iiis commission as; an Eiwign in Uic U.S.

Naval Reserves. 6 YEARS AGO TODAY Mt. Vernon's controversial "Blue Law" appears to be headed for a court test of its legality. The law requires most stores to close on Sundays. The village of Bello Rive hopes to award a contract next spring for a new $325,000 water system.

Village oflicials received woi-d that its federal loan is expected to get final approval. Sherry McKay, Stacie Smith, David Dickerson, Nancy Jarrell, and Chuck Smith, five instrumentalists from Mt. Venxin Township High School, liave been chosen to go to Eirope this summer with the Illinois all-state music organization. New Sub-Deb officers for 1967. 68 are Nancy Braddock, pvesU dent; Melissa Harlow, Jdent Marti Puckett, secretary; Vicki Lalumondier, treasurer.

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