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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1938
Page
5
Mrs. Tillie Harney hosted nephews from Orangeville and relatives from Albany and Ellendale for two weeks at Argo and Morrison. Numerous visitors from Freeport Fulton Clinton and other towns, with plans for the St. Ores reunion next Sunday and a Great Lakes tour for the Houghtons and Kleins.
Mrs Justice Prins suffers an infected finger after a pin incident. William Bradley returns from Savanna hospital for treatment. Ralph Olds back injury from work. Mrs Clyde Foltz enters Jane Lamb hospital for major operation and is in favorable condition. Ed Knapp breaks a rib threshing, in pain but mobile. Jimmie Wiebenga treated in Savanna hospital for leg injury from a fallen log. Charles Graves undergoes operation at Jane Lamb hospital and recovers well expected home soon.
Grace Ellen Evans, daughter of Mr and Mrs C A Evans of Clinton Iowa, married Donald Ivan Gossard son of J F Gossard of Fulton. The ceremony occurred Tuesday evening July 26 at Lyons Methodist parsonage with Dr J J Hoffman officiating. The couple will live at 4319 Harford Road Baltimore Maryland after a wedding trip east. Grace Ellen taught piano in Clinton since graduating from Clinton High in 1934. Gossard, educated in Fulton schools, recently finished a course in Washington and works as a supervisor in the Social Security office in Baltimore.
Thomson briefs list social visits in Fulton area including Mr and Mrs Frank Sardam visiting Emma Steele and Miss Emma Kling. Mr and Mrs Curtis St Ores in Clinton helping relatives. Roggendorf moves near Jane Lamb hospital. Shoemaker family staying near Morrison. Senneff and Hugh Fair Haven guests of McGinty. Rennie Oak Park dinner guest of Pessmans. Bielema Fulton and Ottens Jr near Fulton call on Pessman. Wheeler and Mt Carrel carpenter fixed Hattie Yates home.
Clearing work on the big island resumes with good weather. Webster Lumber Company deploys about eighty workers, planned to rise to one hundred. Decking logs progresses in two shifts from dawn to night, with mud conditions easing by week’s end. Expectation is six to eight weeks to finish the parcel lot, and new contracts loom for the little island area. Pool area 13 development across both river sides targets about 10 000 acres this fall.
Neal and Helen Hiatt of Star City Indiana were guests of Mrs. Mary Tousley. Mr and Mrs Frank Becker of Morrison hosted. Joe and Oscar Weber of Chadwick spent Sunday with Fred Seim. The Saffers of Morrison visited Monday at Fred Seim home. John Carpenter and daughters Janet and Marilyn dined with Kyle Melendy in Savanna. They toured Broadhead Wisconsin to visit Earl Shrier. Reitzel family reunion planned at Fay Reitzel's Milledge home next Sunday. Ralph Turney Patsy Keuhl, Lyman Turney Forrest, Franklin Klocke Jean of Sterling joined Morrison hosts Henry Cobb for Sunday dinner.
Mr and Mrs Clarence Van Buskirk Mrs Emma Van Buskirk and Wayne Bast of near Lanark spent Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs Clarence Van Buskirk and Mrs Charles Sack at Argo to celebrate Mrs Sack s birthday which was Wednesday Refreshments were enjoyed and Mrs Sack received several nice gifts in remembrance of the occasion.
Special numbers included two selections by a Chadwick vocal trio Mesdames Emnyre Zugschwerdt and Lego a vocal trio by Mr and Mrs Corzine and Mrs Sword and instrumental music by the church orchestra Miss Hartman of Chadwick was the accompanist The parish invites Chadwick visitors for Fair Haven night and all are welcome at Ideal church.
Tev Paul Farley announces Sunday school at 10 Morning service at 11 and Thursday prayer meeting at 8 at the church The ladies aid hold their monthly meeting Wednesday at Mrs Freese Senneffs home.
Rev. G. T. Nesmith is on vacation in August, so no preaching services will be held on Sunday mornings until his return. Sunday school will continue each Sunday at 9 30 a m.
A Baptist church invites all local residents to attend a preaching service at 10 a.m. and Sunday school at 11 a.m. A good attendance is desired and those not attending services elsewhere are welcome to join.
A church service is scheduled for next Sunday morning at 7 30. The event details are brief and confirm a single morning gathering.
York community worship begins at nine o clock on Sunday with Sunday school at forty five minutes past nine. The schedule outlines morning services in the church program.
Sixty youths attended a Youth Rally at Old Mill park in Savanna last Monday evening. Participants came from Albany Thomson Savanna and Mt Carroll for a program with a weiner roast games and a devotional service. The Rev Harold R Dude led the event with plans to meet quarterly as a Booth Festival.
Miss Gladys Cooper teaching college student in DeKalb spent Sunday evening with her parents Mr and Mrs John Cooper. Harriet Weatherwax joined Cooper for a DeKalb visit this week. Cooper to finish summer course by week’s end and return home for the rest of vacation. Dinner guests at Frank Smiths included Mrs George Lundy and sons Bob and Wayne of Chicago and Mr and Mrs Orlo Smith with son Francis and daughter Jeanette of Mt Carroll.
A Shelly family reunion was held Sunday at Old Mill Park in Savanna to honor Mrs Mary Shellys 76th birthday. Guests included Louis Shelly Donald Bull Mars Shelly Fred Shelly Herbert Richmond Vern Shelly Keneth Shelly Harold Shelly Goose Lake Ta David Aitken Franklin Richmond Jr Kenneth Bittner and others from Thomson Hanover Goose Lake Elizabeth Mt Carroll. The gathering adopted the event as an annual affair with a noon cafeteria dinner and socializing despite rain.
Thomson has hosted two weeks of free picture shows drawing big crowds of all ages. Another free community screening is planned for Thursday night on the street. Mr and Mrs Otto Switzer visited Ollie Meyers in Freeport on Sunday.
Sixty youths from Methodist churches in Savanna Mt Carroll Albany and Thomson met at Old Mill Park Sa vanna Monday evening for a weiner roast and recreational hour. Devotional service followed led by Rev Dude and Rev Griffith. Next meeting planned for Albany in October as a two day convention with gifts for an orphan's home. Committees from each town were formed to plan further events. Attendees from Thomson include Wayne Ashby Zerita Potter Lois Groharing Mary Wagner Eleanor Weibenga Bob Miller Lena Strubb Bill Wagner Dorothy Lewis and Elynor Stagg.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Groharing of Galesburg visit two weeks at his parents’ home along with Karl Kness also of Galesburg staying with his family. Both Groharing and Kness are laid off for two weeks from Midwest Stamping and Enameling Co. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Switzer relocate to 120 Main Street Savannah. Mr. Switzer serves as civil engineer at the Ordnance Depot, transferring from Quincy.
Fulton manager Johnny Brown says his team will beat Morrison by at least 10 runs in Sunday's league game at Morrison as Fulton sits tied for second with Lyndon. The village board minutes cover routine bills, payroll, and a 3700 levy, with roll calls and adjournment.
James Milky Haley aged 78 and his sister Mrs. Mary Warfield aged 82 celebrated anniversaries last week. Haley, born on the Bristol farm, has lived in his current home 74 years, while Warfield, born July 27 1856, marked 82 at her residence. They recall family ties to the John I Shoemaker estate and the Earl Hook farm, with a history of farming, music teaching, and early life on the Ireland descent.
Miss Beth Hower announces next week's program for Honor Band and Pilgrims Choral including marches and overtures. A cake walk will be held Tuesday evening August 16 on Main Street to support the band and attract attendees for an enjoyable musical evening.
Mr and Mrs Paul Stage of Mo line visited from Wednesday to Sunday at his parents home in the Ben Stage residence. Charles Stage and daughter Joann of Rock Island joined over the weekend, returning Monday. Other gatherings included Amos Burkholder in Coleta with Elmer Davis and Davis family, Emma Eslinger with her sons visiting Morrison, and Willis Stage visiting East Moline to see Anna Stein in hospital.
Mr and Mrs Herbert Blodgett welcomed a daughter born Thursday July 28 at their home in Lee Center. Mr Blodgett formerly taught at YCHS and Mrs Blodgett is the daughter of Mr and Mrs T H Kustes.
The Cochran building commissary, busy with about fifty men on the clearing project, serves meals during two shifts. First breakfasts begin at three in the morning and the last suppers end around nine at night.
Argo 500 host Mrs William Holm at Chadick home this afternoon. Chat-a-While met at Mrs Ted Storms in Wacker with a darve number present. Club families picnicked at Old Mill park in Savanna Tuesday. Thomson 500 met at Mrs John Carpenters with prizes awarded to Mrs Carpenter first Mrs Lewis second and Mrs Johannsen third. Next meeting set with Mrs K B Carpenter. Methodist Ladies Aid met at Mrs Ben Wagner home with devotionals led by Mrs Maurice Strukhoff. Mrs Foster Stagg and her son Gilpin and daughter Elynor plan a short trip to Cheyenne Wyoming to visit the Gilpins.
Miss Florence Poorman came back to Mt. Carroll last Saturday evening after aiding in the James Green home at Argo for several weeks. A crew of about 200 men was expected to reach Argo at the week's start to work on the railroad. Mrs. Florence Hoffman of Apple River, who stayed with the Charles Sack family last week, visited the Hattie Yates residence last week afternoon.
Mr and Mrs Claude Millard and son Allen of Yates City with Mr and Mrs Fred Miller and sons Bob and Fred Jr were dinner guests of Mrs Ida Weber. Mr and Mrs Jake DeVries and friends of Morrison spent last Wednesday here, fished, and visited the Frank Potter home.
Miss Heth D. Hower leads six bands from Thomson Cordova Lanark Forreston Mt. Morris and Orangeville on a two day trip to Chicago and Elkhart Ind. for the Chicagoland Music Festival at Soldiers Field and a tour of the Buscher and Martin instrument factory. 175 travelers depart Mt. Morris at 7 0 a m Friday with eight buses a truck and a car. Cost is 3 50 including transport and hotel. They attend a luncheon at Stevens Hotel and a Cubs Pirates game at Wrigley Field before performing at Soldiers Field and returning home.
A librarian highlights a versatile boys craft book with 400 drawings teaching how to build games, models, a time lock safe, a radio, and more for a boy’s room. New library titles include Rich Girl-Poor Girl, Faith Baldwin, Raiders of Spanish Peak, The Wall, and Free Land among others.
A sequence of social visits across Argo Chadwick Clinton Savanna and Hanover outlines weekend gatherings. Families including Sack Hartman Hines Moore Becker Prins and Ottens hosted relatives from Chicago Dubuque and Union Grove while the Lambert reunion is slated for Old Mill park Savanna on August 7. Several households shared meals and time at local attractions such as the grotto in Dickeyville and Eagle Point park in Dubuque lurk in the report.
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