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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1931
Page
2
Residents and visitors are listed with moves, illnesses, marriages, and travel. Highlights include Mr and Mrs Thomas Stagg returning from Florida, Leonard Stage relocating, and Henry Hebeler’s sister Mrs Gertrude Hoffman dying in Clinton. A surplus stock sale by Rush W Carroll is slated near Thomson, with a village election noted and coal supply blanks required.
The shipping association shipped out two cars of hogs Monday. The list of stock in the cars includes Ben Dykstra 31 John Cooper 21 Geo Stemn 12 Abe Prins 12 Louis dwt 6 Henry Hartman 4 Abe Hook 26 Edson Holland 37 Claus Pring 12 H A Toby 1 T H Kustes manager.
Mr White, a tenant on the C W Hanson farm, was injured last Saturday when frightened horses bolted with a wagon, dislocating his shoulder. Dr Chipman treated him. Several families visited Mrs Jennie Aggen on Sunday. The Spring Valley Presbyterian church hosted a chicken dinner raising 36 dollars, and Sunday school started with Mr Spangler as superintendent. Mrs A K McCullagh hosted the sid society. Arthur Church attended Julius Elftman’s funeral in Morrison, and Arthur Matt and Dora Houzenga wed at the Holland Reformed parsonage with a charivari. School election results favored Wayne Crawford for a three year term. Funeral services for Adam Bickelhaupt were held at Mt Carroll. Roy Stark, after work at the Hotel Davenport, spent the weekend with his wife and daughter and then returned to Davenport with Mr Stark.
The Lyons high school program reports results from a declamatory contest with Ruth Switser first in dramatic reading and Agnee Dykhoima second. humorous reading led by Elleor McKee with Jean Morgen second. McKee won the top honor "Miss America" in their district. Students prepare for Mt Carroll and Tap contests on April 28. The school also features a junior class play led by Miss Bennetts Knall and Miss Taylor. Evelyn Stickel and Gerald Brown vie for Miss Americas in the national beauty contest. The commerce department enters district typing and shorthand contests in Galena on April 25, with entrants Roberta Lewis Harriett Smith Ruth Carroll and Josephine Mudd.
H R Groharing and his two infants died in infancy. Funeral services are set for Friday at one o'clock from the Savanoa home and two from Thomson Church of Christ. The Thomson male quartet and others will sing, with burial in Dunshee cemetery beside his three children.
The Hanover golf course will be open to the public on and after April 12, 1931. Official opening had been postponed until May 1, 1981, but course conditions and demand prompted an earlier start. Facilities for private parties and transit players are being added to the premises.
Frank Dudley, celebrated landscape painter, gave an instructional lecture at Frances Shimer school in Mt Carroll on The Art of Landscaping while painting live. He explained technique to help appreciation of nature and gallery works, with his wife singing nature songs during breaks.
Eyewitnesses describe a freight and passenger train crash near a crossing. Mrs Mitchell and three children died in the wreck, with bodies scattered along the tracks and debris carried by trains. Injured onlookers and investigators crowded the scene as trains halted and officials assessed the wreckage and cause.
An automobile theft led to a collision at the railway yards in Savannah. The engineer, fireman, and head of the freight train were the principal witnesses at the inquest into the incident.
The Burlington System offers a limited one way to round trip fare sale from April 24 to 26 across Illinois Iowa Missouri Wisconsin Minnesota with half fare for children over five under twelve and midnight May return. Sample fares include Thomson to Chicago 33.24 St Paul 6.44 Minneapolis 8.66 St Louis 6.96 Beardsstown 4.44 Quincy 4.90 Galesburg 2.40 Winona 4.88 La Crosse 3.57. Also stock sale: Roush W Carroll of Thomson to sell about 18 head on May 1 at Thomson. full bill to appear next week in The Me_view.
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