Decatur, Illinois Tuesday, January 10, 1995 AMONG FRIENDS A7 1 xummMmi'Mi'wwMM' 1. King breakfast DECATUR The Decatur club of Frontiers International will serve the 14th annual breakfast to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from 7 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan.
14, at the Church of the Living God, PGT, Temple 4, 1915 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. A program starts at 10 a.m. Donation: $5.
Call 423-8628. Drill competition DECATUR MacArthur High School will be the scene Saturday, Jan. 14, for a regional competition of the Illinois Drill Team Association. Competition will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for students and seniors. Lunch will be served. Pompon and flag squads from 17 schools, including Mount Zion, Niantic-Har-ristown and Clinton, will compete. Friend of month DECATUR Mary Lee, CHE LP homemaker, was named "friend of the month" .4 -ImL COLORADO LANDSCAPE: This 1881 painting depicts an area near Durango, Colo. wears Decatur couple locates scene By BOS FALLSTR0M Community News Editor DECATUR The search was to find the site of an 1881 landscape painting.
Roger and Betty Leiper of Decatur inherited the painting from Roger's family. They knew the painter was Emil B. Fischer, a mapmaker. They also knew the general location Durango, in the far southwest corner of the state. Roger's great-grandfather, James Harvey Pinkerton, had lived in the Animas Valley area near Durango.
His spread was called Pinkerton Springs. Roger had visited there in 1950. In Durango, Roger and Betty asked about Pinkerton Springs and received excellent directions plus a map. They pinpointed the for November by the Community Home Environmental Learning Project Inc. She had love and concern for her client's happiness as the Christmas holiday approached, particularly in taking the client to Northgate Mall for shopping.
Funds raised MATTOON Lake Land College's Tae Kwan Do Club held an intrasquad martial arts tournament which raised $700 for Coles County DARE programs. There were 85 competitors. Special guests were Coles County Sheriff Jim Kimball and Coles County DARE Coordinator Chris Tart. Food drive DECATUR The Salvation Army will benefit from a food drive sponsored by the Decatur Athletic Club between Monday, Jan. 16, and Monday, Jan.
30. In return for donated canned food or other non-perishable food items, the club will offer a free micro-fit fitness evaluation or 50 percent off the club's initial membership fee. Decatur Athletic Club hours are 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Call 423-7020.
Lee i Kiwanis 80th anniversary week of painting 78 and is buried in Coulterville in southern Illinois. This is all detailed in a family book. "There's a train car i the narrow gauge Durango it SUverton tourist line named for him. There's also a siding named for him. Yes, we took the train trip.
It's spectacular. "My father was Harold Pinkerton Leiper from Sparta in southern Illinois. Betty is also from Sparta. I met a Pinkerton in Albuquerque, N.M., my third cousin, on this trip. He was in the phone book." Roger Leiper came to Decatur in 1956 to work for Illinois Power Co.
He's an electric system dispatcher. After locating Pinkerton Springs, Roger and Betty decided to research the Leipers by going to Beaver County, Pa. No paintings, though. Jan. 15-21 Clubs sponsor community service projects and raise funds to meet local needs.
Local Kiwanis projects include grade school tutors, Arbor Day trees, project READ. BOBBIE BRISCOE Kl III IS il'i ii mi Til If nil" -J J-: site of the painting as nine miles north of Durango on the Animas River. "We couldn't cross the river to stand where the artist painted the picture," Betty said. "But we were close. There's a school there now Timberline Academy." The painting was finished the same year Pinkerton left Pinkerton Springs for Georgia and then on to Cedar Key, Fla.
Pinkerton had been a state senator and the first judge of La Plata County. He had also driven cattle to California and had farmed before settling in the Durango area during the gold and silver rush. "James Harvey Pinkerton was a mover, an adventurer," Roger explained. "Later he lived in the Oklahoma Territory, then went to Florence, Colo. He died in 1914 at tur.
The first Kiwanis club was chartered on Jan. 21, 1915, in Detroit, Mich. Today, Kiwanis has grown to number 8,650 clubs and 327,000 members in 77 countries. MEET OUR Bobbie Briscoe is the Herald Review's first direct marketing manager. She uses the very latest in technology to target potential customers for advertisers.
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STRASBURG Ed and Edith Reel of rural Strasburg celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary with a family dinner. Ed is 98. Edith is 95. They were married Jan. 11, 1920, in the Grace Lutheran Church parsonage in Strasburg by the Rev.
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They have 11 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. SCHRADER LINCOLN Mr. and Mrs. C. Wayne Schrader of Lincoln will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary Saturday, Jan.
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