Wayne County Press
Fairfield Illinois
Thursday, August 10, 1995
Sect 3, Page 6

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    They're children from the Old Wagner School, southeast of Fairfield.
Pictured in the late 1940s are, front row, from left Harriet Cross Nale, Lester Hooper Chalen Carter, Lydora  Suddarth, Sager Galen Hooper and Larry Dickey. Row two, Jackie Merrit, Jane Suddarth Boles, Leroy Carter, Enos Carter, Verdaine Hooper, Hattie Suddarth Hooper and teacher Delores Dickey.

     The United States drops a new and powerful "atomic" bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.  The bomb had the power of 20,000 tons of TNT . . . Marriage licenses: Carroll Barbre and Fern Jenkins; Robert Markham and Alma Coudreau . . . Lt. Hal Butler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Butler, is reported dead in Germany . . John M. Taaffe, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Taaffe, east of Fairfield, is declared dead.  He had been missing over Hungary since July 27, 1944. . . . Earl Hollinger starts construction of a new greenhouse on West Water Street . . . Mary Lou Perry, of Rinard, weds Earl Colclasure, of Flora . . . Herbert J. Tucker Fairfield contractor, will open the Fairfield Appliance Store . . . The membership of the Church of God is erecting a new church building on the north side of Main Street, just beyond the B & O depot . . . Charles Boze, former Burnt Prairie resident, dies at Anderson, Ind.... A Navy incentive show is put on at Cheffords . . . Miss Mary Margaret Dalton, daughter of the William Daltons, of Massilon Township, weds Arch Paul Kinder, Jr., of Evansville, Ind. . . . Charles Hambleton, well-known Fairfield resident, dies of a heart attack at his seed office at Cisne . . . A baby daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Barth dies . . . David H. Humphreys, well-known Fairfield oil operator, dies . . . Mrs. William Melton, former Orchardville resident, dies at Centralia . . . Mrs. Eva Varner dies . . . The eleventh annual Wayne County Fair opens. A horse owned by Robert M. Hodges wins one of the races . . . A two-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Burner dies . . . Charles Arthur Hampton, 15, son of the former Helen Butts of Fairfield, dies at Mt. Vernon from injuries sustained when his bicycle was strucck by a truck.

     A new factory outlet retail store is opening in Cisne, obtained thru efforts of the Cisne C.A.P.E. program . . . Mrs. Christin????
a McIver, mother of Mrs. Bud
Allen here, dies at the home of a daughter in Marion . . . One hundred thirty
persons attend a World War I District meeting in Fairfield . . . Cisne C.A.P.E.
sponsors a free watermelon day . . . A large barn on the Lee Wilson farm south of
Merriam burns . . . A teenager party of 30 to 40 young folk is broken up by
officers north of Fairfield .  . . A Mississippi firm gets the contract to
construct a new dial phone system for the Cisne area, for the Wabash Telephone
Cooperative .  . . A young Wisconsin boy, a hitchhiker, is killed while riding in
a car driven by Gary Cooper, a Goldengate boy, the accident occurring near Dixon
. . . Bill Rogers, a Fairfield trucker, is hospitalized with a heart attack . .
. Richard Davis, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Davis of Paxton, former Fairfield
residents, is killed in a motorscooter-car accident at Paxton.

     Judy Ellis and Larry Vanway are named the best Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher at the Fairfield park fishing derby . . . a Harrisburg firm is low bidder to construct the new state lake near Johnsonville . . . Marriage licenses Floyd Pourchot and Bettty Street . . . Ross Kelly, former cafe operator, dies . .. Mr. and Mrs. Connie Allen purchase the department store at Wayne City from Mr. and Mrs. Bill Graddy . . . The Fairfield grade board plans to hire a fulltime nurse . . . Mrs. Leafy Robertson resigns as a Fairfield grade school teacher . .. An estimated $350 is taken in a burglary at the American Legion here . . . Terry Lively heads the Red Cross chapter here.

     Steel framing for the new home of the Fairfield National Bank is being erected.
     A flash fire destroys Don's Body Shop on the south highway. A '69 auto is also destroyed.
     A total of 225 persons take conservation airlift flights over their farms and Wayne County.
     Fairfield temperatures range from 65 to 88.
     A 30-year-old Chester man, accused of robbing the Mt. Erie State Bank, escaped jail at Danville but turns himself in the next day.
     A shopping center owned by Neal Laws, Fairfield businessman, is hit by Hurricane Celia. Mr. Laws flies there to inspect damage.
     A carnival is planned on Main Street for the coming Fairfield Good Old Days celebration, with a free chicken dinner also planned.
     Rev. Robert Krause and family return to Fairfield after a six weeks stay in England, where he preached at a church in that country while that minister, Rev.  Paul Hardy, came here with his family and preached at Fairfield First Methodist.
     Elmo Mugrage is in a St. Louis hospital with a kidney problem.      Mrs. Carrie Gaston-Bell suffers a heart attack.
     Mr. and Mrs. Jim Garden returns home from Singamore where he has been working, to enter a St. Louis hospital.
     Bill Sayles, manager of the Sears store, is hospitalized with an eye injury suffered while playing ball with his small son.
     O.B. Hinton, former superintendent for Oil Well Drilling Company here, now of Chula Vista, Calif., visits in Fairfield.

     A mis-trial is declared in the Clarence Wilson murder trial here because the jury list was not formed according to a new state law.
     Steve Vennewitz, 87, retired Airtex tool and die night foreman, dies at Memorial Hospital.
     The city of Fairfield has the second break in four days of its big 14 inch river water line.
     The Press reports the state now has one-fourth of the land needed for the I-64 route thru Wayne County.
     Bob Kranz is the new manager of the Fairfield Kroger Store.
     Fairfield High teachers will remain at a $6800 base salary for the coming
     Seven members of an East Alton family are taken to Memorial Hospital for car wreck injuries west of Johnsonville.
     The Pond Creek Lake project is at a "standstill," the Press reports.  The project is predicted to die without state support.
     Fairfield temps range from 63 to 87.
     Ira Burkitt moves from an apartment above the Ward Store to his home at 104 Elm Street.
     The Fairfield police issue a warning about bad check artists working the area with stolen checks.
     Ralph Wright from Villa Grove is hired as new Fairfield High Spanish instructor.
     The Knapp Oil Company of Xenia is expanding, merging with Morrison Brothers Home Oil of Marion. The Knapp name will be retained.
     The Press says its a possibility that Wayne County will wind up with two sets of supervisors.
     Mrs. D. V. Wheeler breaks her hip.

     K. G. (Grant) Bruce of Four Mile Township, is named Wayne County's
Conservation Farmer of the Year.
     Joni Molt moves to Austin, Tex., where she will enter the University of Texas.
     Fairfield temperatures range from 66 to 86.
     Bro. Carroll Kakac, First Christian Church minister, has been hospitalized with an ear infection.
     A Fairfield woman gets a favorable ruling in her sex discrimination suit against a Flora bank.
     Farm taxes are expected to be lower in Wayne County this time around.
     Fairfield's newest retail outlet, Phase II, a used clothing store, will open this weekend. Six Fairfield churches are involved in the effort.
     The Cancer Society has a Bail or Jail fund-raiser.
     Tim Gelsinger, 19, critically injured in an auto accident, comes out of a
     General Chairman Jerry Mix announces plans for the annual Cisne Reunion.
     Bids are opened on a new specialized classroom building for Frontier Community College.
     Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Cunningham purchase the Mrs. Harry Goldblatt home on Laurel Street.
     Sam Dale Lake's new "swimming pool" is now full and open for use. Dry conditions had prevented its filling before now.
     Mr. and Mrs. Estel Barnard, of Wayne City, observe their  golden wedding anniversary.

     Lorene Hall and Marian Vining open a new video arcade on West Main Street.
     The Johnsonville area gets a four to six inch rain.
     The Pillsbury elevator at Browns explodes with one man injured.
     The Press publishes photos of 12 girls seeking the Miss Cisne Reunion title.
     Wayne County taxpayers receive their tax bills in the mail this week.
     The Fairfield Drive-In Theater is ceasing operations. Harry Jones has operated the theater here for 35 years.
     The Diner concession stand now at the park may be torn down and replaced.
     James Lear, Fairfield car dealer, undergoes bypass heart surgery at an Evansville hospital.
     Marriage licenses Patrick Glen Garrett and Sonya Leigh Hearn.
     The "Jailbirds" raise over $6,000 for the Cancer Society fund drive.
     All bids for a new Frontier College classroom building are rejected.
     Marion Cross, 74, Fairfield oil pumper, dies.
     The Press publishes a list of Fairfield grade school teacher assignments for the coming year.
     The New Lifeword Church here plans to open a Christian school.
     Dr. D. A, Gershenson, longtime Fairfield physician, will close his 50-year practice on Aug. 15.