This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HIBNER, STROUT, HEMPHILL, PICKLES, FULLER, CLOVER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1475 Message Board Post: GARDNER CHRONICLE GARDNER, ILLINOIS GRUNDY COUNTY 1914 JAMES HIBNER AND FAMILY AUTORED TO PLAINFIELD WEDNESDAY TO TAKE MISS LULU HEMPHILL HOME AND EXPECTED MISS BELL HEMPHILL TO RETURN HOME WITH THEM. AUGUST 22, 1918 MR HEMPHILL OF PLAINFIELD , A BROTHER IN LAW OF MR. J.C. HIBNER IS VISITING THEM THIS WEEK. AUGUST 1918 W.A. HIBNER OF ELWOOD VISITED HUS BROTHER, J C HIBNER MONDAY. THE LATTER WILL TAKE HIM HOME TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 27 1919 JAMES HIBNER AND REV. I J LETHERMAN ON WEDNESDAY LAST ATTENDED A JOINT CENTENARY CONVENTION WHICH WAS HELD AT PONTIAC, ILLINOIS. JAMES HIBNER WAS CALLED TO ELWOOD ON WEDNESDAY ON ACCOUNT OF THE SERIOUS ILLNESS OF HIS BROTHER, WILLIAM. (MARCH 27,1919) MARCH 27,1919 MISS BELLE AND MISS HEMPHILL OF PLAINFIELD ARE VISITING AT THE JAMES HIBNER HOME. NOV. 25,1933 FARMERS ATTENDING fARMERS mEETING , B C STROUT WAS ONE. JANUARY 11, 1934 MR AND MRS ALBERT GRINTER, MR AND MRS B C STROUT, MRS KARL LUTZ AND TREASURE PICKLES WERE VICTINS F A AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT TUESDAY AS THEY WERE MOTORING TO JOLIET. THEIR CAR BEGAN TO SLIP AND SKIDDEN INTO THE DITCH AND TIPPED OVER. FORTUNALLY NO SERIOUS INJURIES WERE RECEIVED . MRS GRINTER HAD SOME SPRAINED LIGAMENTS. APRIL 5, 1934 B C STROUT IS A CANDIDATE FOR REELECTION FOR PRESIDENT OF GARDNER HIGH SCHOOL, REGARDLESS OF THE REPORT THAT HE HAS WITHDRAWN. APRIL 26, 1934 THE HIGH SCHOOL BOARD MET LAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND ORGANIZED AS FOLLOWS, B C STROUT PRESIDENT, AND CHARLES BOOKWALTER AS TREASURER. MAY 10, 1934 MRS B C STROUT ENTERTAINED AT A 6 O'CLOCK DINNER , SUNDAY EVENING, CELEBRATING THE 21ST BIRTHDAY OF HER SON, TREASURE.. BEN AND EMMA PICKLES , DR AND MRS E G FULLER AND BLANCHE CLOVER WERE IN ATTENDANCE.