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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1940
Page
6
Demonstrations and musical pieces highlight a program featuring Jeanne Fisher Barbara Erdmier Shannon Reading Edith Lamoreux Lanark Grace Keeney Ruth Wolf Jean Weidman Marie Johns Hazel Dauphlin Helen Doty Mary Jay Savanna Arla Brown Le Vona Potter Thomson Doris Weigle Neila Weigle Jean Newton Milledgeville Jean Hammond Ruth Wolf Priscilla club member piano solo by Alta Janssen Lillian Geary Lavonne Holm.
Mr. Strukhoff is survived by three daughters Mrs. Joseph Schneberger Sacramento California Mrs. George Smith Fayette Iowa and Mrs. Gunder Lien Lisle Illinois a son Maurice Strukhoff Thomson Illinois and two stepdaughters Mrs. George Gjertson Stoughton Wisconsin and Mrs. George Wallace Farley along with a brother and two sisters and eleven grandchildren The Rock Island district has ordered guard fences around both ends of the dam and similar restrictions at all locks and dams to protect the nine foot channel system.
The Thomas Packing Company of Green Bay Wisconsin began operating a pickle factory at the west end of Quincey Street in Savanna Monday morning. Virgil Nehrkorn of Savanna runs the plant. Cucumbers of all sizes for pickling are used, sorted, salted, brined, and shipped in large wooden vats to other factories for packing.
Lights burn from dusk to dawn at Lock and Dam No 13 on the Mississippi River north of Fulton to keep the structure under observation. The move is part of a precaution against possible sabotage and follows limits on visiting hours at the dam.
The committee allows swine barrows to be exhibited in the litter class if boys choose, noting all swine go to market. Participants may not show the same pig in both litter and market classes. Historical notes include birth and family details of Joseph Strukhoff born Oct 530 1857 Covington Kentucky and connections to Lansing Iowa and Farley.
E A Peters 60 longtime Lanark grocer died Friday at his home after a ten day illness. Funeral services were held Sunday at the Lanark Masonic temple with Rev. E Y Knapp officiating. Burial followed in Lanark cemetery with Masons in charge. Survived by widow Luella and two brothers Reuben Lanark and Albert Freedom.
Thomson-Emilio Marcucci, a 73 year old cafe owner from Thomson, died at 6 20 a m Wednesday after heart illness at Jane Lamb hospital Clinton where he had been patient since Friday Funeral rites are set for 9 30 a m Friday at St Peter s Catholic church Thomson with Rev Fr Egan presiding Burial will be Polo cemetery He was born in Italy July 18 1867 and moved to New York City at twenty later living in Chicago and Clinton He opened a Polo cafe in 1933 and bought a Thomson restaurant in 1939.
Joseph Strukhoff Thomson Joseph Strukhoff a Thomson resident for six years died suddenly at 1 10 p m Wednesday Aug 7 from a heart attack at his son Maurice Strukhoffs home He had been ill a week but remained about the house The body will be taken to Far ley Iowa for burial.
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