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....... ' • ' : \ 1 By Phyllis Carlm Rotary Last week the Rotarians saw some of Joe Justen's slides taken of Mexico. The men will look forward to Joe's next pictures which he will taken on his current trip. Harry Anderson and Joe Justen left last week for South America. All of us arm chair travelers who sometimes, especially in the winter long for a nice, long trip, will enyy them a little, but will nope that they will enjoy their trip. They plan to visit Rotary clubs in South America, their first Rotarian stop will be in Lima, Peru. • This week the Rotary Club planned to hear Gordon Sergent, engineer and President of the Meneris Co. of Spring Grove. He is a guest of Pro May. Visiting Rotarians were Walter Carey, Bert Harrison, Hank Tonyan and Chuck Peterson of Mc- Henry. Dick Burton who used to live in Richmond, but now r e s i d e s in Phoenix, Ariz., is here on business and attended Rotary. He will most likely be here for several meetings. firemen and hope that they won't have many more such fires to fight in subzero weather . Basketball The Richmond 'team won two games from Sharon last Friday. The first game they won by a score of 48 - 24 and the second game by a score of 84-65. There was a dance after game last Friday. Tomorrow night the team play Clinton at Richmond. the will Senior Class Play The seniors will present their j class play, "Papa is All," on Tuesday Feb. 5. They are hard at work practicing for much of the play is in Pennsylvania Dutch dialect and is difficult to learn. Mr, Cotone and Mrs. Kittell are coaching the play. Mrs. Kittell, besides being the mother of two little children, and the wife of the science teacher, was a speech major at the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Cotone is the musie teacher at the grade and high school. tell of some of his experiences in a Russian prison camp. He was taken prisoner just nine days before the war was over, but remained in Russian custody for three and a half years. He was one of five doctors to care for 40,000 prisoners and with very little medication to ease the pain and suffering of his patients. There is much of his story left to tell and he offered to come again aqd continue it. Tonight the Junior Youth Fellowship meets at Grace Church. Yesterday the Christian Service Group met with Mi-s. McNish. Tomorrow the Friendship Group will meet with Mrs. Wittmayer. Next Wednesday the Good Fellowship Group will meet at the home of Isabelle Winget at 1:45 p.m. Mrs. Nellie Turner will be a co-hostess. pink and blue ribbon corsage and the winners of .the games played received lollipops for prizes. Mrs. M. Kane was the hostess and celebrated her birthday the day of the party for the new mothers. Mrs. Marshall Prouty, president of the unit, will go to farm and home week at Champaign next week. Church News ,t, . 0|r,, Sunday evening the Senior Youth A llttlc girli june Alice, was to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Campbell4 of Cicero. Mrs. Campbell is the former Caroline Schmidt of Richmond. The little miss was born Jan. 18. Amid the tragedy' of the fire, Mrs. Schmidt found some happiness in being a grandma. Home Bureau A week ago Tuesday, the Richmond Evening Unit of HOme Bureau met for fun, fellowship, and j Misses Edrib and Myra Speaker, Here and There Mrs. Cora Stewart was confine^ to her home for three weeks with the flu. Recently John Siebert of Chicago -called oh Cora Stewart. > Mr. Theilman of Elkhorn was a dinner guest of the DuWayne Sheldons on Sunday. Saturday, Rev. and Mrs. Noyces' daughter-in-law and three children, Bobby, Donny and Nancy left by plane for Boston. There they will join Dr. DonSld Noyce, son of the Ralph Noyces; and sail for England Saturday. Last week Mrs. Ralph Noyce had a tea in honor of her grandchildren. Guests were Mrs. Fannie Hobbs, Mrs. Edwin Wittmayer, On Furlough Buddy Meisel is home on a 15 day furlough from the air force. He has been stationed in Texas, but despite the temperatures of McHenry County recently, he is glad to be home. Fire A week ago yesterday the Walter Schmidt home burned down. The farm home was located north of Miller's Cornor oh the Twin Lakes black top. The town and countryside has been most generous in offering aid to the- family. Soon they will be moving into the tenant house on the Hammer- Strom farm near Genoa City. If you have any furniture, or anything to be used in setting up housekeeping, perhaps you would like to share it with the Schmidts. In the family are Mrs. Schmidt, a window; George, her son who works as a hired man on the Hammerstrom farm and Edith, a senior at Richmond-Burton high school. i The family is already grateful for the many kindnesses the community has shown them. If you would like to help contact, Schroeder's Drug Store or Pastor Carlson, Richmond 3442. Thank you. Last week seemed to be a week of fires, for 6n Monday the Selling's barn tjurned, always a sad sight. We are surely grateful to our education. Helen Justen who was going to give the local leader lesson is basking in the California sunshine. Mrs. Edwin Wittmayer gave an excellent review of the book, "Profiles of Courage" by John Kennedy. It was the kind of book that is good for one to read," and therefore, the kind that most of us seldom get around to reading., For fun and fellowship we played games, guessing who was who in baby pictures that each lady brought of herself. The evening was given over to honoring new/mothers in the unit for new babies were plentiful last year. The mothers honored were Mrs. Ed Winn, mother of twins, Mrs. Owen Richardson, who had a new son during the year, Mrs. Robert (Gardner and Mrs. D. Mc- Connell, who had new daughters during the past year. Hie refreshments were in keeping with the stork party, cupcakes frosted in pink and blue topped with a sugar baby. The pink napkins were folded and pinned like diapers. Each new mother had a Mrs. Harold Carlson, David, Ruth and Paul Carlson. Everyone present eitjoyed the tea iiarty and interestingly enough tne ages of the guests ranged from little Nancy Noyce, not quite 3 to somwhere in the eighties. Several generations! The Brownie Troop committee met at the Lutheran parsonage Monday evening. We hope there is a faint glimmer of hope for boys of Cub Scout age in the mating of the Cub Scout committee last Monday. Karl Claudi has been a patient in" Woodstock hospital. Bake Sale Tomorrow night the Mothers Club will hold a bake sale at the basketball game. The proceeds will go to help pay for the lovely grand piano on the stage. Any donations to the bake sale will be gratefully accepted. You will no doubt enjoy some of the delectable baked goods that the ladies can make. 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BEST PICTURES OF YEAR FEATURED IN MUSEUM EXHIBIT If y<?u want to see the best pictures taken by. the photographers of Chicago's four daily newspapers during 1956 you'll be able to satisfy your curiousity at a new exhibit that Opened at the Museum of Science and Industry and continues on display through Feb. 1. Spoj^red 'by the Chicago Press Photographers association, the exhibit includes the best fifty of, the more than 300 entries in the association's annual news picture contest. In judging, the top honors were divided between photographers of each of the city's four dailies. The judges were Charles Sciurba, president of the Milwaukee Press Photographers association; Ralph Hennings of the photo staff of the South Bend, Indiana, Tribune; and Ted Farrington, president of the Chicago Area Camera Clubs association. John Arabinko of the Chicago Sun-Times won first place in the news division with a dramatic j picture titled "Just In Time." It Bits MANY APPLICA' FOR LICENSE PLA1 NOT YET RECEIVED Motor vehicle license sales haVe reached a total of 1,450,000 at present, leaving, about 2,000,000 yet to be received, Secretary of State Charles F. Carpentier announce?. Sales are running about 120,000 ahead of last year's figures at the same time, he said. Mr. Carpentier stressed that applications sent by mail should be in his office by Feb. 1, so that motorists will be sure to have their license plates in time for the Feb. 15' deadline for displaying them on (he vehicles. Although license plates are usually mailed in numerical order because of space limitations in the Centennial building, all re-assigned numbers, regardless of whether they fall m the one million or two million series, are now in the mails, Secretary Carpentier Said. Urging motorists to submit their applications without further delay, Mr. Carpentier said the Automobile department is staffed to handle a heavier flow of mail than is being received currently. DISTRIBUTE FOOD The Illinois Public Aid commission reports it distributed 899,833 pounds of federal foods in 26 downstate counties during December. Beans, butter, cheese, cornmeal, dry milk, flour, rice and lard were given to 73,457 persons who shows a father holding hig "child in were out of work or Hsted on roHs the emergency room of a hospital of one of the five public assistance after an accident. William Allison of the Chicago American received first in the sports'division wjth a picture titled "It's Bubble Gum." It shows; a girl tennis player in action while chewing bubble gum. Edward DeLuga of the Chicago Daily News won first in the feature division with his photograph titled "Ugh," which shows a doctor preparing a polio shot. Hardy Wieting of the Chicago T'ibune placed first in the pictorial division with "Foggy Morning Sun." It shows a gfoup pf children waiting for a school bus. programs. "Fpr Shoes That Please See Pet®? Gles" •.. • Baby Shoes • Boys' &. 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