Local residents visit relatives over Easter weekend
Thomson notes several visitors from Clinton Morrison Chadwick and Polo over Easter weekend. Hattie Rawlins spent the weekend at Kyle Rawlins home. Anna George visited her son C W George in Morrison. Eloise Dykstra and George Dykstra hosted visitors from Clinton. Richard Badtke visited Ralph Neilson in Low Moor. Omar Ketchum visited his husband at Truax Field Madison. Frank Boylan visited Polo. M J Strukhoff visited Maquoketa with Cedar Rapids relatives. Village board posts notices warning dogs at large. Stray dogs damage property and are disposed of by the village marshal. Ernest Tousley rents farmland to Curley and Wilt due to ill health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hattie Rawlins
Kyle Rawlins
Raymond L. Porter
Shick Hospital
Clinton
D. Earl Hollinshead
Morrison
Anna George
Chadwick
C. W. George
Eloise Dykstra
Enster
George Dykstra
Richard Badtke
Ralph Neilson
Low Moor
Iowa
Omar Ketchum
Truax Field
Madison
Wis
Frank Boylan
Polo
Bill Boylan
M. J. Strukhoff
Maquoketa
Ray Darling
Cedar Rapids
Ernest Tousley
Sealed bids sought to lease lands and sell buildings in Pool Area 13
Under authority dated 25 September 1998 bidders may submit sealed duplicate bids for leasing United States lands within the pool area of the Upper Mississippi Nine-Foot Channel Project and for sale of Government owned buildings no longer needed. Bids are due 14 April 1944 at 11 00 A M and will be opened publicly at the United States Engineer Office Rock Island Illinois. The notice invites inspection of lands suitable for farming grazing recreation and cottage sites and urges prospective bidders to assess location condition and desirability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of War
United States
Misssippi
Missawippi
United States Engineer Office
Clock Tower
Arsenal Island
Rock Island
Illnois
Lock and Dam 13
Mississippi River
Clinton
Highlights of Mexico Trip by B Hadley
B Hadley recounts travel from a small Mexican town where a tire patch led to a coin scramble with local boys and a quick escape. He visits Morelia’s ancient aqueduct, stays at an Englishwoman’s estate, and continues to Guadalajara to tour handcraft factories and a prominent hotel with English speaking guide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
B. Hadley
Morelia
England
Guadalajara
Adalajar
South Dakota
Talquepaque
County Deaths Read in Shannon Area Obituaries
Several deaths are reported from Freeport Shannon and Savanna areas. Frank Niles 61 died at his farm home near Savanna. James Henry Osborne 85 died in a Lanark hotel. Mrs. William George 48 died at her Savanna home from a heart attack. Funeral services and burials followed in local churches and cemeteries. Surviving relatives include spouses and children with several siblings and extended kin listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Francis Hospital
Freeport
Shannon Evangelical Church
Shannon
Robert
Catherine Truckenmiller
Bess Brasure
Lou Flanders
Rockford
Frank Niles
Savanna
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
Gerhard Fischer
Center Hill Cemetery
Mr. Niles
James Henry Osborne
Lanark
Sharman
Paul W. Church
Brethren
Nyack
N. Y
Carrie Gemmill
Don C. Osborne
William George
Fuller
Savanna Cemetery
Maud Spencer
Sacrificial Altar in Mexico Captured in Hadley Photo
The image shows the sacrificial altar with a serpents mound behind it and the sacrificial stone about ten feet across and ten feet high. The report describes Aztec rites where prisoners were bound to the stone and bled or sacrificed, their hearts removed and cooked for the gods.
Lanark Social Roundup Includes Residents and Visitors
Preston Preirie and Loomer Downing families visited Lanark on Sunday while Elmer Carlson spent time at his home here. The Metz family joined Easter celebrations in Lanark as a trio of tellers entertained at a club with a yarn about hunting lions, provoking playful skepticism among the audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loomer Downing
Preston Downing
Lanark
Elmer Carlson
Paul Metz
Brown
Old Man
Also Mentioned on This Page
Thomson Briefs
Times Theatre
Chicago
Kay Kyler
Marilyn Maxwell
Lena Horne
Marx Brothers
WEB
East Side
MR. Muggs
Buster Crabberl
St. John
Gary Cooper
Paramount Technicolor
God
C. N
Finis
FBI
Pop Haymes
Lynn Merrick
the Vagabonds
Janis Carter
Tim Ryan
Joyce Compton
Columbia Pletere
Harold Peary
Gildersleeves
Cooper
Rae
Sun
Mon
Motion Picture
Clinton Movies
Capitol
Tallulah Bankhead
WM. Bendix
John Steinbeck
Spencer Tracy
Irene Dunne
Joe
Juarez Num 101
Brownstown
Boyd
Eva Niles
Galena
Clara Conley
Floyd Niles
Minnie Heckman
Warren
Lloyd Niles
James H. Osborne
Milledgeville
Adelbert
Bertha Johnson Spencer
Sittee
Bertha Spencer
Rock Falls
Charles Spencer
Thomson
Hal Spencer
Cordova
Harold Spencer
New Guinea
Wayne Spencer
Burbank
Calif
Hazel Bruns
Coleta
Myrtle Spencer
Bernice Sheen
Rock Walls
Grace Peterson
Racine
Hadley
J.L. Brearton
Gus ZA. Beamer, JR
Jeweler
Western Union
Preston Preirie
Coats
Bengeline
Gebeardine
Twill Slack Suis
van Allen
Nisi
SHCA
America
ASARY
Burlington
Zephyr
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