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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1942
Page
1
Earl Bennett of Fulton son of Mrs Orella Bennett has taken a position as guard at the Savanna ordnance depot confirming his new civilian employment deployment.
John Parks of Milledgeville reports Carroll County poultrymen are in war production mode. His hatchery output rose from 26 000 chicks weekly in 1941 to 35 000 weekly for six months in 1942 and he expects to double the 1942 figure next year. He plans a fall three month shutdown, stresses care of equipment as metal feeders may be scarce in 1944, and urges keeping laying birds to meet USDA Triple A goals while awaiting reinforcements.
A Groharing family reunion will be held Sunday August 16 at Old Mill Park in Savanna. All descendants and relatives are invited to join for a day of remembrance and reconnecting in the park setting.
Winans of Savanna stays with Barbara Frazier while visiting her parents. Several families visit relatives in Clinton, Savanna, LeClaire and Cordova. Guests include Mr. and Mrs. Richard Badtke, Vern Rawlins, Fay Ashby, Victor Roggendorf, Henry St. Ores, Stacy Potter, Hayes Frazier, John Klett, Geo Ketchum, David Switzer, Mrs. Wallace Williams, Harold Tobey, Earl Beck and others as they spend time with relatives and attend local reunions and birthdays.
Mrs Blaine Leavens returns home with daughter Pamela Sue from a summer in the Kenyon home. Mr and Mrs William Tipton Jr of Mount Carroll visit for two days. Fred Smith opens a grocery store in the former Hicks building. L G Lathrop runs barber shop and recreation room. The Harry House holder family occupies the upstairs. A son is born to Mr and Mrs Kenneth Krempel in Milwaukee hospital. Krempel returns to work at the local condenser. Paul and Charles Guinther purchase route 7&8 property, now tenanted by Joe Davey. John Hook property receives exterior paint. Willard Welch and son visit Sharon relatives. Ned Turner finishes Vinegar Hill school interior painting. Mrs Chas Sack visits daughter Velma Van Buskirk at Lanark. James Green harvests sweet corn for the Lanark canning company.
On Saturday the Fulton 5 and 10 Cent Store will open under Ben Franklin management at Ave 15. The new store offers action supplies and a full line of 5 and 10 cent merchandise with an entirely new stock. The Ben FranklinStore, established in Clinton five years ago, expects similar popularity in Fulton. Mixa Mary Slingsbey and Lawrence Manning of Ottawa visited John Cooper at his home Sunday.
Argo Home Economic Club invites members to an August meeting at the Methodist church on Friday Aug 21. Bring a bouquet and six seeds for the flower show. Program includes a flower-themed reading, songs, devotional, club prayer, and a flower show committee list.
Monday evening guests included Mrs. Helen Wentling with son Ralph Olds and family from Clinton. Miss Gladys Cooper and Mrs. Joseph Baumgartner of Hanover spent Tuesday in Dubuque. Leonard Stage and Willis Stage hosted Sunday evening. Virginia French, back from Madison summer course, plans fall term. George Stumphy of Chicago visited Ella Stumphy. Dinner guests at John Vander Leest’s included Dick Dykema of Fulton Ben Vander Leest of Tampico John Carpenter and family Mrs K B Carpenter and Hattie Rawlins. The Carpenters visited Wallace Dresbach and Lucille returned home with them. Mrs. Rawlins visited other friends.
William A. Wheeler of Morton is able to sit up an hour a day and walk a bit. Fred Shelly of Hanover, Ind, improving in Jane Lamb hospital after surgery last Monday. Ernest Tousley back from Mayo Clinic Rochester and showing improvement. Miss Bessie Groharing admitted to Jane Lamb hospital for observation. Vernon and Gerald Holsinger had tonsillectomies at Morrison Wednesday morning. Harvey Marshall back from Jane Lamb hospital after eye injury treatments. Miss Zerita Potter a patient at St Francis hospital Freeport. Olin Noble improving from an infected arm. Lydia Almquist of Savanna recovering from facial and body injuries from scooter fall.
Bond totals for July show Series E Ei wes boy totaling 80 102 with county wide results from Chadwick Thomson Lanark Milledgeville Mt Carroll Savanna and Shannon. Excludes payroll plan sales. Series F and G bonds sold in July reached 30 800 in the same county.
George Schreiner reports the Salem threshing ring outfit on the Bert Schreiner farm harvested 1588 bushels from a 22 acre oats field, about 72 bushels per acre, with several other farms yielding similarly high figures.
The University of Illinois published a new leaflet outlining plans for an enlisted reserve. It describes voluntary enlistment of many students with superior qualifications, who would stay inactive to continue their education while serving. Copies are available at the Review office or by writing to the University Registrar, Urbana.
A shipment of 19 Hereford steers from T. H. Diffenderfer Lanmarketoeckman sold mid-week at Chicago stock yards. Average weight 13415 pounds each, bringing 16.05 per cwt near the day’s top. Penfield and Heisler of Carroll county moved 25 yearling Hereford heifers averaging 860 ta. each and selling at 14.50 per cwt.
Funeral rites for A N Kier of Morrison were held on Wednesday. Bob Ashpole returned from a two week visit with his brothers, Sgt Harold Ashpole at Fort Leonard Wood and Pfc Donald Ashpole awaiting Enlisted Pilot Training. On the return trip he stopped in Tulsa and visited Mrs Elsin and her daughter Carmen.
Thirty eight members of the St. Ores family gathered at Old Mill park for Sunday’s annual reunion. Officers elected include President Mrs. Leslie Rynott LeClaire Indiana Vice President Mrs. Neuman Giles Peoria and Secretary Mrs. Curtis St. Ores Thomson. The oldest attendee was Mrs. George St. Ores and the youngest was Virginia Roggendorf Clinton. Neuman Giles and family traveled the farthest to attend. Next year’s meeting will be at Eagle Point park Clinton rather than Savannah.
E O Hemmer visiting Stendel Indiana plans to return Sunday. Morrison hosts include Mr and Mrs Clarence Swan, Mrs Chas Jenkins, Mrs Alice Lewis with guests from Cortland and Milledgeville. Families visit Starved Rock, Morrison and Rockford with various weekend guestings and farm work progress noted.
Mr and Mrs Harold Brown welcomed a daughter Wednesday evening at Savanna City hospital weighing seven pounds. Mr and Mrs Paul Daniels welcomed a daughter Tuesday at City hospital in Savanna. Mr and Mrs Eugene Davis welcomed a daughter Sunday evening at home weighing ten pounds.
Albert N. Kier 78 of Morrison died Sunday of a heart attack at his Morrison home. Funeral services were held at 1:15 p m and 2 p m at Spring Valley Presbyterian Church in Ustick. He was born Feb 19 1864 in Ustick township Whiteside county and married Mary Ella CopPage Jan 15 1886 in Latham Kansas. He leaves two sons Clarence Kier Unionville and Paul Kier Morrison a daughter Pearl Daehler Chadwick two granddaughters Jane Kier Unionville and Jacqueline Kier Chicago a grandson Albert Daehler Chadwick and a brother Will Kier Evanston. He served as president of the Northwestern Illinois Dairy Goat association and was active in Whiteside County Poultry Association.
Preston Preirie Frank Brown visited recently while Dr Calkins from Chadwick came Saturday. Mrs Howard Petty and Mrs Ward Weidman were midweek visitors at Russell Derver’s home. Leighton Phillips was noted as a recent area visitor.
Mr and Mrs Wayne Brown hosted Sunday supper for Mr and Mrs Frank Brown Jr. Oak Park residents Mr William Shand and daughters Nancy and Betty and Mrs R E Ashley vacationing at the Chas Hogg home. Bernice Kness visits LaVonne Manning at Lanark. Mr and Mrs Paul Wilt and Mr and Mrs Frank Smith spent Sunday in Lockport with the Lillie family.
Savanna Fulton Walsky, 51, of Chicago, died suddenly of a heart attack on Thursday August 6 in Savanna. Funeral services were held in Chicago with burial there. Walsky was a Milwaukee railroad engineer with 30 years of service and is survived by his widow and two children.
VanBuskirk plans to exhibit purebred cattle at Darling through Sunday and take the herd to Warren fair next week. He hopes to show at county fairs in Bureau and Henry counties later in the summer and possibly other fairs. His wife and mother, Emma VanBuskirk, will attend the Darling exhibition Saturday.
The weekly court notice lists marriage licenses for Roy Peters and Bernice Dean of New Albany Indiana James Schryver of Chicago and Helen McCleary of Polo Paul Dauphin and W Jean Helbling of Savanna plus 1500 Carroll county voters registered under Illinois permanent registration and a push to register those not yet included. John Karlson 56 Lanark fined 100 dollars after a DWI arrest following a Sunday route 64 crash that knocked a telephone pole out. Earl Poffenberger Savanna jailed awaiting grand jury action on a statutory charge with 2000 dollar bond set at a Saturday preliminary hearing. Sugar users may apply for September October allotments up to Sept 1. Real estate transfers listed for Geldmacher Ness White Jacobsen and others in Savanna Chadwick and Carroll areas.
Ralph Fahrney the county salvage chairman calls on housewives to save all cooking fats and greases for meat dealers. He explains fat shortages due to war cutoffs from the Philippines and Dutch East Indies and outlines simple steps to collect fats, strain, store, and deliver to dealers for war use.
Twenty eight men from local counties departed Tuesday morning for the army induction station in Chicago to receive final physical examinations and be inducted. The list includes Lyie C. Straub Carl Nater Chadwick Donald L. Munz Max W. Rundy Benjamin Kiegel Charles W. Woessner Hae a L. Downs Lanark Weston EF Colbert Shannon Rodney M. Realang Raymond Lb. Fulrath Lloyd W. J. Baldauf Charles L. Jones Mr. Carroll Michael P. Sweda Ralph H. Frown Carroll V. Kehoe John J. Nablik Jr John H. Shafer Henry J. Shradeja Charles H. Nast Donald L. Fitzpatrick Henry L. Bousman Charles H. Trude Daniel W. This lion Dorman Dy Bowman Bruce F. Christensen Arthur Rt. Vetrisek Eugene A. Ginie George J. Delury all of Savanna
Former teachers and pupils of the Parkhill school in York township prepare for the annual homecoming on Sunday August 16 a picnic dinner at noon and an afternoon program. Mrs Loy Durward is president and in charge with Dr William Durkee of Fulton as secretary treasurer Coffee will be prepared by a committee.
Mr and Mrs Gerald Gaar and friends from Freeport camped at Riverview over the weekend. Elsie Mae Brackenmeyer of Round Grove visits Ralph Holsinger home. Ashpole Fehler and families from Savanna visit Dubuque and Harold Sorensen. Evelyn Ashpole returns home with relatives. Charlotte Davis of Mt Carroll visits aunt Mrs Robert Lewis. Edward Martin of Chicago visits Nordhoff family. Will Cochran health concerns noted. News items requested.
Mrs Mabel Turney of Savanna and Master Sergt Albert S Hahne of the Savanna ordnance depot wed at 1030 am August 5 in St Peters Lutheran church Savanna Rev Gerhard P Fischer officiated Attendants were Mrs T P Carpenter and Tech Sgt Leonard Miller The couple will reside in Savanna Jean Helbling and Paul L Dauphin married August 8 at Savanna Community church with Rev T S Cleworth The bride Francesca Helbling attended by Geraldine Krafft Joyce Helbling Fred Dauphin and Ernest G Napolitano They will live in Savanna Bernice Dean and Pft Roy R Peters wed August 7 at the Savanna ordnance depot chapel They will reside in Savanna
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