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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1940
Page
1
The column notes no traffic deaths in the county but cites a national 10 percent February rise in auto fatalities. It critiques Congress for funding increases, praises domestic airlines’ safety, and observes political shifts in Louisiana and Roosevelt deficits. Spring weather arrives with wind damage and tax collection totals rise to $64,258.66 for 1939.
Twenty census enumerators in Carroll county started the population tally and data gathering on Tuesday following a final Saturday test. They will collect names occupations citizenship salaries and related facts with confidential handling and optional separate salary disclosures. A hotel jail and transient check will occur April 8 and results release through Freeport district office. Enumerators listed for Carroll and Whiteside counties include E Pearle Zear Fannie Schmitt Claude Buxton Jess ie L Johnson Mary K Trader Dorothy Fauble Cecelia M Richmond Ruth P Sullivan William M Hawk Jr Maurice End Nettie M Kramer Bertha K Eisenbise Florence R Lundy Gladys M Hartman LaVonne Sucher Helen M Spencer George Hicks Cora J Lindsay Evelyn L Sisler Robert N Eakle.
Plans completed for 18th district American Legion meeting to be held Sunday April 7 in Mt Carroll with sessions from 10 30 a m to afternoon. District commander Charles Edson to preside and a service school led by Lester Benston precedes a 12 30 p m luncheon. Public invited to 2 p m district meeting with speakers including Dr Delmar Goode and William Waugh. Also notes district quota progress and bank dividend announcement for First Carroll County Bank in Mount Carroll with payments to depositors and preferred creditors.
In Carroll county during March four hundred forty eight people received old age assistance and eight thousand one hundred eleven dollars was paid. The public welfare superintendent Miss Mary Schaut reported five new applications three from those not previously on the rolls and two from people with prior assistance canceled. Six recipients died in March.
Savanna township high school will host the district high school commercial contest on Saturday April 13. Miss Myrtle Rose and Miss Lucile Sterling of Savanna are the local managers. Winners advance to sectional contests on April 27 and state honors at the University of Illinois May 10 and 11.
Russell Harvey will conduct the Festival Massed Band on Friday May 17 at Mt. Carroll High School. Hundreds of school musicians from Savanna Chadwick Shannon Mt Carroll Milledgeville and Lanark gather for the second annual Carroll County Music Festival. He has had extensive conducting experience.
The fragment notes Spencer Green will direct the Festival Massed Chorus. It mentions a Bloomington Normal Philharmonic conductor and a Chicago based instrumental music teacher and composer, with roles at De La Salle high school and at Illinois Wesleyan University in past years.
The April TERC relief allocation lists Car roll county receiving $293 for the month. Whiteside county was allocated $636 and Daviess $1,421 for April, as reported by the commission.
The article notes a crowded Republican contest for state attorney with Lawrence A. Smith John L. Brearton and John D. Turnbaugh. other county races show incumbents re-nominated. Democrats list no county candidates but may campaign via write ins. Voters face varied state office slates with multiple candidates on both parties for president senator governor and secretary of state.
Carroll county plans an all day livestock feedlot tour Friday starting at 8 45 a m at the Clarence Van Buskirk farm near Mt Carroll. Stops include the Warner John Lanark Roth and Diehl farms with 135 90 and 150 head of cattle plus a swine sanitation project. University of Illinois expert H G Russell and a livestock market man will discuss feeding methods and market conditions. Sandwiches and coffee will be served at the Diehl farm about 11 30.
Delegates from sportsmen's clubs across the 13th district gather in Read's Park Freeport at 7 20 p m Thursday to elect district delegates for a state convention of sportsmen's clubs later this spring.
Game Warden Thomas Hand announced a shipment of 200 pheasant and 200 quail will arrive in the county in a few days. Twenty six wild turkeys will also be sent and released at the Savanna Ordnance depot to protect them from hunters. The pheasant and quail will be distributed among county sportsmen chapters for area deployment.
Misses Evelyn and Maxine Miller recount a flying classroom trip with Frances Shimer College students. The group flies 683 miles to Washington D C then Newark and New York encountering historic sites from the Capitol to the Statue of Liberty, with tours of the White House Lincoln Memorial Arlington National Cemetery and American history landmarks.
Carroll County farmers secured 124 455 in corn loans for the year. Weather notes from March describe a cold, mixed month with near zero temperatures, snow and sleet, and dense fog. April offered relief with milder days and a brief hailstorm turning to rain.
The Thirteenth district Legion schedules a meeting in Mt Carroll on April 7. Census crews begin work in the county Tuesday and a release lists enumerators assigned locally. Fire destroys a Riverview garage and small buildings Sunday.
One year ago on Sunday March 31 two youths shot Lieut Paul La Master of Mt Carroll CCC camp during a payroll robbery. The murderers John and Clarence Collins were captured, convicted, and sentenced to death and prison respectively. An enrollee recovered most of the payroll and weapons. Sterling Sales plans to expand its Milledgeville stockyard and increase sales there.
County AAA office reports 255 loans on 1080 corn in Carroll during winter with total $124,455.51. Loans set at 57 cents per bushel, 55 cents for mixed corn, due August 1 1946. Loan activity rises 44 from last year with 218,383 bushels covered. Also notes approval of 1940 listing sheets establishing acreage yields and productivity indices with minor township adjustments. Planimeter work to determine field acreages from sealed enlargements starts.
Charles W. Tavenner, 69, former Mount Carroll and Lanark resident, died Monday morning April 1 at his Aurora home. Funeral services were held Wednesday at Cordova. Born in Cordova, he later lived in Mount Carroll and Lanark, and for 19 years in Aurora. Survived by his widow and brother Frank of Freeport.
William Henry Hodge 61 a Carroll county native died Tuesday at his Clinton Iowa home where he had lived 18 years after a brief illness. Funeral services are 3:30 p m at Snell funeral home Clinton with burial in Clinton Memorial Park. He married Bessie Haradon Feb 15 1908 and leaves two sons William R and Chester plus daughter Evelyn M all of Clinton. sister Halle Nichols Polo and brother John Hodge Milledgeville.
Frank Puterbaugh 86 files in circuit court for divorce from Rosetta Puterbaugh address unknown whom he wed last February. The marriage was his fifth and her second. he alleges she deserted him a month after the ceremony.
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