Sunday Guests Fill Thompson Social Table
Thomson notes a long list of Sunday visitors and weekend stays in the area. Names include Ralph Nelson and Albert Beir of Low Moor, El sie Nehr, Elmer Hess, and many Modesto area families. Events also mention trips to Michigan Illinois and Indiana with family dinners and a birthday celebration for Dorothy Jean North.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Badtke
Ralph Nelson
Albert Beir
Low Moor
Albert Palson
Arnold Badtke
DeWitt
Iowa
Elsie Nehr
Clinton
Elmer Hess
Mary Blair
Carroll
Joe Blair
Francis Sheridan
Moline
Lynn Curley
David Carroll
Walter Milnes
Morrison
Lila Curley
Lansing
Mich
Patricia Brenneman
H. A. Tobey
Kyhl
Andover
Martha French
Northwestern University
Evanston
Martha
Northwestern
Charlie McGinty
F. McGinty
Jon
Rockford
Jackie McGinty
Irene Zenk
Margaret Noordhoff
Fred Smith
Argo
Webs Camp
Elynor Stagg
Macomb
Pfc
Wendell Arling
Ely Cochran
Ely
Henry Young Sr
Myrtle Bull
LaVerne Wright
Art Kromery
Dorothy Jean North
Elzie North
Community Notices From Savanna Area Gatherings
Local residents hosted and visited family and friends across Savanna Morrison Lena Galena and Rock Island areas with reunions dinners and travel. Army physical exams and subscriptions noted along with garden weed concerns and local visitors from Chicago Galesburg Green Bay and Dixon.
Arctic Army Post Baptizes First White Protestant Converts
Private Berman E Smith at the northern Hudson Bay airfield conducts Bible classes as Chaplain Davis appoints him to lead services. Three soldiers were baptized, the first white Protestant converts in that Arctic countryside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berman E. Smith
Canover
N. C
Hudson Bay
Charles A. Davis
Smith
Chadwick Theatre Project Moves Ahead in Chadwick
A Friday meeting launched the Chadwick Theatre Corporation with a temporary board to file incorporation, seek a state charter, and prepare plans for a new theatre. Stock sales must reach 15 000 dollars before construction. pledged funds are held in escrow while sponsors expect profits only to cover expenses and community benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chadwick
Chadwick Theatre Corporation
H. H. Holmes
Carl Kness
Don Harris
Herbert Stein
Kenneth C. Whitney
Am Theatre
Traum
Germans Eat Horse Meat Amid Scarcity in Aschaffenberg
Sgt. Claude Mechling reports from Aschaffenberg Germany that famine forces locals to eat horse meat after a mine kills two women and a horse. He describes the town as wrecked with no buildings scarce food and clothing as winter approaches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Claude Mechling
Mechling
Aschaffenberg
Miss Gridley Engaged as Soil Technician in DeKalb
Miss Verna Gridley daughter of Mr and Mrs J Guy Gridley of Morrison has been engaged as soil technician and youth director for the DeKalb county Farm Bureau. She taught in Chadwick grade schools about two years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verna Gridley
J. Guy Gridley
Morrison
Morrison milk truck damaged in crossing collision
Chadwick agent Carl Kness investigated damage to a milk truck owned by Herbert Habben after a Northwestern stream liner struck its rear at a crossing east of Morrison. Driver Robert Mathews escaped injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Kness
Chadwick Insurance
Morrison
Herbert Habben
Robert Mathews
Harry Adams
Harry Carbaugh
Eloise Remmers
Donald E. Rauser
Glen Miller
Milledgeville
Louis Runyan
Dysart
Iowa
Frank Dusing
Coleta
George Myers
Herman Daehler
Coble
Local families host and visit across towns this week
Mrs Viola Weber, Mrs Ward Weber and Mrs H F Weber visited in Freeport and Lanark. Layton and Lowell Brandenburg spent time with Alfred Zemke in Rockford. H E Zugschwerdt traveled to Naperville Elgin and Chicago for eye care. Mrs George Schneider and Mary Lou Sammons visited Alvin Schneider and Kenneth Whitney in Lanark area. Dennis Morgan performed at a Mississippi Valley festival in Moline. Whitney family incidents include a dislocated finger accident. Several couples enjoyed dinners and weekend outings in Cordova, Lake Geneva, Thomson and Thompson areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viola Weber
Ward Weber
H. F. Weber
Freeport
Lanark
Layton
Lowell Brandenburg
Rockford
Alfred Zemke
H. E. Zugschwerdt
Naperville
Elgin
Chicago
George Schneider
Shannon
Mary Lou Sammons
Magnolia
Kenneth Whitney
Jenny
Charles Linker
Dyson
Frank Kimmel
Thelma Petty
Springfield
George East
Eileen Daehler
Anne Coble
Local Socials Include Hoffmans and Guests at Beyers
Sunday evening callers included Chadwic residents Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman and son, Myrtle Justeson, and Sandra Barber visiting Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Beyer. The Golden Rule class hosted a picnic in Village Park with Mary Lou Spencer Esther Handel and La Vonne Clevidence on the dinner committee. Frank Plumley of Fulton and Jesse Schreiner hosted Sunday dinner guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Other Hoffman and Son
Myrtle Justeson
Sandra Barber
Alfred Beyer
Mary Louise Spencer
Esther Handel
la Vonne Clevidence
Frank Plumley
Fulton
Jesse Schreiner
County Deaths Mrs Anna Weitzel 72
Miss Anna Weitzel died at 6 a m on Wednesday August 8 at her home six miles south of Mt Carroll. The Christian funeral home in Mt Carroll will arrange services. She is survived by three sisters and a brother Clara Lydia and John at home and Mrs George Haag of Chadwick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Weitzel
Mt. Carroll
Christian Funeral Home
Clara
Lydia
John
George Haag
Chadwick
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Royal Blue Stores
Arbe
Royal
R. B
Kellogg's
Hershey
Th. Pkes
Ige
Thomson Briefs
Harold Elliott
Apple River Canyon
Ivan Carroll
David
Wilbur Conrady
John Dietelmeier
Lena
Charles Thode
Galena
Ill
Clarence Bolhous
Earl Mashak
Savanna
Fred Coden
Fred Yates
Ben Stage
Kenneth Kemmer
Steve
Rock Island
Robert Stage
John Smolek
W. M. Miller
Middleton, Conn
Harry Gaar
Paul Creiger
Nancy
Wm. Adams
Charles
Great Lakes
Mary Sheridan
R. N. Lyons
Thomson Review
Harold Atherton
Army
St. Ores
Old Mill Park
Ed Sack
Ned
Dixon
Emma Curley
Dan Sack
Joe Shutters
Ben Wagner
Guy
Gordon Brown
Ray
Bud Holloway
Jennie Lowry
Galesburg
Floyd Benbrooke
Clifford Nealy
Cecil King
Clintor
John Noordhoff
Paul Holding
Green Bay
Wis
Alfred Smith
Margaret
Roy Barber
Charles Sack
Argo Fa
Ben Rosenberg
Vernon
Hubert Hoffman
H.W. E
America
Albert C. Hoover
Methodist Church
Europe
Hugh C. Isbell
Rome
Rubicon
Associated Boards For Christian Colleges
China
Board of Missions of the Methodist Church
International Y. M. C. A
Edwin Merton McBrier
Montclair
N. J
Frank W. Woolworth
McBrier
Lockport
N. Y
Buffalo
Detroit
Methodists
Santa Ana
Calif
Shosuki Nitta
First Methodist Church
Poston
Ariz
J. N. Ashley
William A. Brown
Cave Junction
Ore
Philippines
Argentina
Kansas
Grand Avenue Methodist Church
Kansas City
Pershing
Washington Center
Duroc
Washington Center School
Columbia City
Huntington
South Whitley
Orion Model
Roy S. Johnson
Decatur
Ind
Indiana
Chadwick News
Miss Gridley
New York
Chadwick Briefs
Fis
Merle
Atherton
GEM
Paraland
Nan
Clinton, Lowe
Work’s Cafe
Thomson
Lockes Cleaners
Holm’s
John E. Holm
Chadwic News
McGinty
Mackinaws
Martin Morris Co
Clinton, Iowa
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