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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1946
Page
4
The piece discusses side show attractions like the six toed person and the India rubber man. It explains the medical basis of deformities often due to infantile paralysis and family tendencies. It notes advances in treatment and urges humane views, approved by the Educational Committee of the Illinois State Medical Society.
Prices went up by 1.1 cents per gallon at all Chadwick service stations Tuesday morning except the Phillips outlet run by Emmert Zumdahl who said his company ordered no price increase yet.
A girl says her older sister does not live at home and is not married yet. The brief exchange implies a family context and a concern with marital status.
Ramah chapter O. E. S. and families enjoyed a Sunday picnic dinner in Chadwick village park. Mrs. Arthur Miller and Carl Kness led the arrangements committee. About 35 persons attended.
The Queckboerner family held its first annual reunion at Old Mill park Savanna on Sunday July 28 drawing 141 attendees. A self appointed committee organized the event with tables ice cream and a short business meeting presided by Lloyd Handel. The group planned a 1947 repeat at the same park and elected officers Joanna Hughes president Roy Queckboerner vice president Delmar Lang secretary treasurer. Oldest attendees were Charles 92 and John 83 with youngest Danny Joe Smith seven weeks.
A large Queckboerner family gathering in which John Queckboerner and Beatrice Deninger attended from Montana and other relatives from multiple states. Highlights include the longest marriage of Conrad Geldmacher and Annie Hoffran at 59 years, three pairs of twins, and a list of marriages births and deaths since last July and February 1946.
Mr and Mrs William Provent and daughter join Mrs Lephs St on a coastbound journey. They travel via the Black Hills and Yellowstone Park and will visit relatives in Waterloo Iowa Garden City South Dakota and California with the Provent and Prowant families.
Word from Mrs Geneva McKay of Madison Wisconsin reports Mrs Blanche Ratliff 83 fell and broke her hip. She is confined in University Hospital in Madison. Ratliff previously lived in Chadwick with daughter Mrs Fred Daehler until the daughter's death, then stayed with Mrs Pearl Daehler before entering a Madison nursing home.
Elmer Zugschwerdt with William Frank of Lanark and two Sterling friends left Friday for Canada for several days of fishing. Mr and Mrs Garfield Watson visited friends in town Sunday.
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