Parade Winners at Carroll County Fair Draw Big Crowd
The Carroll County Fair parade drew a capacity crowd along the route and grandstand. Winners across floats, 4 H floats, pets, decorated bicycles, cars, and riding divisions include Milledgeville entries and multiple towns, with a special prize for Dona Brown of the Leader News. The marching units The Nee Hi's of Clinton Iowa, Sharon's Charmers of Polo, Blackhawk Cadets of Rockford, and the Naval Training Station Band also performed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County Fair
Milledgeville Grange
Ogle County Taxpayers
Milledgeville Boy Scouts
Milledgeville Rotary and Cadette Girl Scout Troop
East Jordan Youth Fellowship
Thomson Ffa
Milledgeville Hot
Whiteside Mimemakers
Coleta
Shannon Shamrocks
Chadwickie Beavers
Chadwieg Mying
Feces 4 Club
Dona Brown
Leader News
Mi'ledgeville
Mike
Dina
Dana Bruns
Bill Morgan
Mt. Carroll
Shirley Johnson
Chadwick
Steve Geary
Milledgeville
John Lower
Lanerk
Wendy Stewart
Sterling
Mikemith
Debbie Bardat
iNedgeville
Danny Snow
Gary Stewart
Doug Johnson
Barbara Eubanks
Lorna Patterson
Janie Diehl
James Lyon
Tom Dunbar
Roy Brown
Louis Christopher
Lion's Club
Sandy Handel
Savanna
Kathleen Rausch
Lanark
Dawn
Lori Miller
Mt. Morris
Chuckie
Nee Hi's
Clinton
Iowa
Sharon's Charmers
Polo
Blackhawk Cadets
Rockford
Naval Training Station
Great Exe
Winners Named In Carroll County Tractor Pull
Forty seven entrants competed in the Carroll County Fair tractor pull last Tuesday night. Awards were listed across lightweight heavyweight and ladies divisions with competitors from Milledgeville Lanark Chadwick and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County
Leroy Appel
Thomson
Man Campman
Lanart
Marvin Knutts
Milledgeville
Mickey Morgan
Mr. Carroll
Tom Wink
Terry Adolah
Chadwick
Lyle Hohlen
Vernon F . Chadwick
John Schneider
Ark
Ted Fink
Lanark
Ha Fink
Mike Kendall
Arnold
Cha J
County corn drought and hay insect woes in Carroll county
The county reports corn kernels failing to fill due to July pollination drought. Alfalfa is stunted by a leashooner insect, with advised early hay cutting and spraying using Sevin or methoxychlor. Census data show farms down and population up slightly in Carroll county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Ttosen
Bob Stretton
Bob
Stanley Spearman
Carroll County
Marriage Licenses, Divorces, and Deeds in Local Courthouse
Licenses issued for marriages including Parod Mowen and others from Lanark and nearby towns. Divorces noted with Joann Lahre granted Aug 10 in Carroll County. Numerous deeds recorded for LaSalle National Bank and residents in Savanna Mt. Carroll and Wysox, with property transfers and parcel descriptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joann Lahre
Savanna
Vearl Lahre
Carroll County
LaSalle National Bank
Thomas E. Woelfle
Washington
James
F McGuire Jr
Allen R Miller
Hersheys
Arthur Barer
Robert M. Wolfe
Shellys
Shannon
Wanda C Spengler
Arthur Yaner
O. T
Gertrude Zimmerman
Thomas R Peat
J.V .Allisons
Mt. Carroll
Ruth F Law
Donald L Hartman
Leo J Alber
Prison term given to Dennis Leif on burglary charge
Dennis Leif, 19, was sentenced in circuit court to not less than one nor more than two years in the Illinois state penitentiary for burglary. Associate Judge Turnbanugh found him competent to stand trial after psychiatrists reports. Leif was arrested Nov. 8, 1965, for stealing cash and goods from Molttmann's garage Mt Carroll Diehl Oil Co service station Thomson Engelke Feed Service Chadwick and Timber Lake Resort northwest of Chadwick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis Leif
Carroll
Illinois State Penitentiary
Turnbanugh
Leif
Molttmann
Mt. Carroll
Diehl Oil
Thomson
Engelke
Chadwick
Timber Lake Resort
Two Escape Jail At Savanna Recaptured Soon After
Two men escaped Savanna city jail Sunday night through a hole in the ceiling but were later recaptured and sent to Carroll county jail. Robert Sites, charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, was sentenced to 10 days in jail on weekends by Associate Judge Edward J. Turnbaugh. Jerry Schreiner, charged with disorderly conduct, was released on a $200 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savanna City
Carroll County
Robert Sites
Edward J. Turnbaugh
Jerry Schreiner
Plans Completed For Wisconsin Illinois Annual Fire School
The 30th annual Fire School of the Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois Firemen's Association is set for August 28 at the Green County Fairgrounds in Monroe Wisconsin. Registration opens at 8:00 AM with morning classes on all fire service topics and an afternoon of live demonstrations and equipment displays. The association now includes 152 departments and draws 2,000 to 3,000 firefighters from 14 states annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern
Wisconsin
Northern Illinois Firemen’s Association, Inc
Sec. Hermen Pfund
Madison
Wis
U.S
Green County Fairgrounds
Monroe
Natonally
Illinois
Iowa
Sinnissippi Mental Health Center Opens Busy First Month
The Sinnissippi Mental Health Center, with offices in Sterling and Dixon, reported active operations in its first month after opening July 1 as an outpatient non residential service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sinnissippi Mental Health Center
Sterling and
Dixon
O'Leary Buys Savanna Newspaper Firms
Padisades Publishing, publisher of the Savanna Times Journal and Northwestern Illinois Dispatch, is sold to J. A. O'Leary after 1955 tenure. He plans no changes in operations. The July report from the Lee Whiteside Carroll and Ogle area mental health center notes 124 total cases to date with 66 new in July and funding shortfalls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ter
Whiteside
Carroll
Ogle
Philip A Jorgensen
Lee County
Lee Mental Health Center
Philip Jourgensen
Ogle and
Lee Counties
Padisades Publishing Company
Savanna Times - Journal
Northwestern Illinois Dispatch
J. A. O'Leary
O'Leary
The
Times - Journal
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Nine Jerk Potts. & Son
Lyons
Qohe
Ld Life
Zenith
Main Ave
Clinton, Iowa
Dial
Secretary of State
Thomas G. Pociecha
Rt. 3
Mt. Caroll
Courthouse News
Jim S. Parod
Marsha K. Mowen
Howard L Christensen
Aurora
Nancy J Hopkins
Dwayne Dieterrich
Susan Pease
Lewis T Grein
Dorothy M. Moore
Moline
Sidney G Collins
Deborah §. Pyle
Maquoketa
Gerald E. Bower
Beth E. Williams
Thomas Jilderda
Robert Hamill
James Myers
Alan Schroeder
Donald V. Peebes
Beloit
Edward B. Grevatt
William C Baughman
Donald E Horn
Huntley
Richard E. Buckley
Vaughn E. McGinnis
Paul V. Warster
Carl Reynolds
Carl .D Lahre
James R. Murphy
Ray L. Teichler
Terry Ray Petary
Dale A. Corbett
Ralph J. Basile
Morrison
Michael J. Kendall
James V Britt
Coronado
Main St
the Fashion Shop
Savanna, Illinois
Mental Health Center
Main St. Savanna
Dixon and Sterling
O’leary
Savanna Newspaper
Frank W. Mest Insurance Agency
General Insurance
and Boys Store
Uit
Interstate Power Company
Pol
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