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Thompson News Highlights Local Events and Losses
Vern Mitchell returns from the J. J. Holmes Comedians to Thompson as part of the orchestra. Dan Campbell’s police dog Corman is killed by motorists near the creamery, a financial and sentimental loss. Rev. J. J. Sharpness builds a barn on the William Olson farm and buys cattle for farming. Mr. and Mrs. I. Chapman and family move to Fen ton to pursue Cream and Produce. William Sterrenberg recovers from a severe hand injury from an ensilage machine, two fingers lost. A car accident near Thompson leaves a brother uninjured and the car damaged. Mrs. E. J. Howland’s seventy eighth birthday celebrated by neighbors with gifts. Mrs. H. O. Bateman visits Rochester to see her hospitalized husband. Blanche Neil accompanies. President and Mrs. Lidge pick beans at the old Ver yan farm during a family dinner.