While the alterations are being made the firm will continue to operate in the Schwarz building on West First Street, expecting to move into their new quarters sometime this summer. Entrance to the funeral home will be on the Washington Street side. Other alterations will be a men’s smoking and restroom in the basement. The other half is to be converted into a slumber room, ladies rest room, preparation quarters and a casket display room, all separated from the chapel by a hallway. Among the alterations will be the elimination of several interior walls on the east half of the residence for a modernly equipped chapel. Louis and Southern Illinois.”ħ5 years ago, May 13, 1948: Work was started Monday on alterations on the former Porter two-story residence at North Lincoln Avenue and West Washington Street for a new funeral home for Wolfersberger-Meyer, who recently acquired the property. The field meet at Scott Field will long be remembered in St. Regardless of the dust and crowd and inconvenience which a crowd of that size was bound to create, people left the field jubilant and glad they had come. This continued until the plane was within a few hundred feet from the ground, when the pilot righted his machine. In the final, the pursued plane was seen to tumble over and start on the downward fall, just as though it had been struck by a bullet. “At times the pursued plane would be flying upside down then start to fall like a leaf, suddenly swooping upward to a high altitude. Tail spins and nose dives also played an important factor.

During this thrill, which appeared as a real battle, the planes would loop and roll over all in one. One plane dived under the other, looped and came up behind him, maneuvering from one position to the other.

For a few moments they circled about each other after which the battle was on. “The sham battle began when the men had attained a height of about 7,000 feet. This was followed by a thrilling exhibition of aerial combat between two planes, piloted by Lieuts. For more than an hour the flyers thrilled the crowd with various aerial feats. They flew at a low altitude, hovering directly over the crowd. “A fleet of seven planes, flying in a perfect ‘V’ formation, then appeared from the northwest and presented a most beautiful sight.

Swim Recruit by Jennifer Lane