Cheese Day crowds draw cheers in Carroll County
Chadwick reports two strong crowds for Cheese Day celebrations with larger attendances at two evenings due to heat and farm threshing. Elsewhere Monroe Wisconsin hosts a five yearly Cheese Day. News notes include changes at Lanark Old Settler Day, county football prep, and local infrastructure and agricultural updates across Carroll County.
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Chadwick
Monroe
Wis
Black Farms
Frank J. Stransky
Stransdale No
Lanarks
Carroll County
Thomson
Muscatine
AAA
Farm Bureau
Ernest Grove
Marth Brothers
Mt. Carroll
Ethel Adams
Savanna
Robert Lego
Robert
Dixon
Lanark
Will Plock
J. T. Eckman
Milledgeville
Wilson Poultry House
John Mesner
Polo
My Dog and the Streamlined Era Reflections 1940
In a column mixing satire and farm memory, the author rails at 1940 trends like streamlined trousers and mass conformity while recounting a loyal collie named Pup. The piece shifts to a heartfelt, practical dog story on the farm, praising Pup’s courage, wit, and patience with humans and livestock.
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Pup
Bie Dick
Little Dick
Maude
Barney
Babe
Honest citizens form Carroll County backbone says The Review
The Review lauds Carroll County residents as ordinary but essential, praising their support for churches, banks, and local businesses. It emphasizes honest work, paying bills, and obeying laws as vital to the county and the nation, dedicating future issues to these efforts.
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Carroll County
Carroll County Platform Highlights from 1940 Review
The platform calls for establishing a bank at Milledgeville. It supports extending Route 171 from Hansen's Corners on Route 78 to Chadwick and joining with Route 88. It urges electing efficient town village and county officers and reducing expenses. It promotes community competitive sports in Carroll County. Carroll County the sportsmen's paradise.
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Carroll County
Milledgeville
Hansen’s Corners
Chadwick
Birthday notices honoring residents across several towns
A list of birthday greetings appears for numerous individuals in Milledgeville Thomson Chadwick Lanark Mt Carroll Freeport Savanna Morrison Fulton Rockford Joliet Delphos and Los Angeles with dates mid August and scattered names including Mrs Alfred Miller Myrna Voeckel Raymond Carroll Linda Lamoreaux and others.
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Alfred Miller
Milledgeville
Emil Brach
Thomson
W. E. Brinkman
Joliet
Raymond. Carroll
Argo Fa
Myrna Voeckel
Chadwick
L. H. Wetzell
Ruth Fletcher
Merle Rahn, Sr
George Gerdes
Wilma Jean Kness
Carroll McGinty
Rockford
Leo Wilt
Los Angeles
Calif
Linda Lou Lamoreaux
Lanark
Donna Delores Crofton
Mt. Carroll
Helen Rahn
Ralph Gerdes
L. F. Buxton
George Collinson
Savanna
Dan Sack
Paul Lewis
Earl Woodin
Robert Miller
Gerald Shenk
Delphos
Ohio
Richard McGinty
Gerald Swett
James Jones
Edward Larber
Anita Rahn
William Imel
Vernon Hartman
Arthur Gorzney
Morrison
Mary Fisher
Fulton
Barbara Carroll
Marianne Miles
Richard Weed
Local Residents Named in Milledgeville Notices
Mrs E G A Larkey Chadwick Darlene Hickman Lanark A B Coyle Milledgeville Mrs John Graehling Milledgeville Frank Wolker Milledgeville Robert Gilbert Milledgeville Tom Sheridan Chadwick
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E. G. A. Larkey
Chadwick
Darlene Hickman
Lanark
A. B. Coyle
Milledgeville
John Graehling
Frank Wolker
Robert Gilbert
Tom Sheridan
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Wagner
Provo
Utah
Traninger
Stanley H. Ford
Sixth Corps
Ordnance Depot
Ford
Rock Island Arsenal
Bird Taylor Griffiths
Griffiths
Phoenix
Ariz
Main Street
Sharpe
Norrors
Bill Ginther
Review
the Village Echo
Thomson Broadax
Thomson Review
Dec Saunders
H. G. Stagg
Sylvalena Bolhous Kenneth Whitney
Illinois
Telephone
Helas
Happy
Kenneth Rahn
John Geisz
John Dimmick
Arlene Sikkema
Robert Grove
Joy Wilkins
Shirley Ann Bundy
Frank Fogel
Nancy Jean Bradell
Gladys Aldrich
Freeport
Sinclair Gas and Oil
Lewis Motor Co
Frank Alt
W. L. Derrer
Considine’s “Fulton’s Meeting Place
Lincoln Way
Cigars
Phillips 66
Will Rentschler
G. H. Thompson Fulton
Walter Electric Shop
Tri-City
Thomson, Illinois
Northwestern
Illinois Utilities
Thomson _ office
Northwestern Illinois Utilities Chas. Groharing, Mgr
Asapeeesaaaas
Savanna Cafe
B. K. Shores
Danny Kness
Ferguson
Galena Street
Mount Carroll Sales Coo
H. Kipnis
Roy Fritz
Owen Miles
Marth Bros
W. F. Black Farms
Walnut, Ill
Pfister
Paris
Foster Black
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