Lanark News Highlights Local Life and Alumni News
Lanark residents gather for Old Settlers Day as local families, teachers, and alumni return to town. Notable moves include Rev. Paul leaving for Myersdale, Pa, Brice Puterbaugh on a western trip, and Miss Lillian Clemmer visiting Des Moines. School and church ties anchor the community, with travel to Chicago and Washington noted for work and weddings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Paul
Church of the Brethren
Myersdale
Paul
Johnstown
Ralph Ditsworth
New Jersey
Charles Ditsworth
Brice Puterbaugh
Robert Truman
Sunnyside
Wash
Lloyd Rahn
Peoria
Lloyd
Bradley College
Edward Murphy
George Morris
Edward Roebuck
Freeport Hospital
Earl Rhinehart
Dixon
Glen Coffman
Plano
Scott Nichol
Rockford
Truman
Maynard Lindsay
Cedar Rapids
Flossie Tallman
Maynard
Marvin Lindsay
Chicago
Lanark
Paul Hanbecker
Lloyd Peters
Princeton
Village Echo 1875 1879 Thomson Review 1893
Thomson Illinois publisher H G Stagg editor Elynor Stagg issue weekly Thursday second class matter under act 1879 readers pay $2.00 yearly. Contains notices and items from Thomson area with historical references to local names and period publications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Village Echo
Thomson Broadax
Thomson Review
Saunders H. G. Stagg
Elynor Stagg
Thomson
Illinois
Birthdays listed for Carroll County residents by date
A lengthy roster lists names and towns of Carroll County residents celebrating birthdays from August 20 to August 26. Several individuals from Chadwick Lanark Milledgeville Thomson Savanna Argo and other communities are named with spouses and relatives. A note mentions the Paul Diffenderfer family planning a motor trip to St Thomas Pennsylvania. It closes with a line about the national school lunch program serving over eight million U S children daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Diffenderfer
Paul
St. Thomas, Pa
Lack of Watershed Protection and Fire Risk in Northwest
A U S Forest Service study in the Columbia River basin, led by chief Lyle F. Watts, links widespread flood damage to lack of watershed protection prior to 1935. Investigators cite extensive burned lands, fire as the primary cause, and note logging and road building as secondary threats. They urge enhanced fire protection and reforestation to reduce future flood risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwest
Wildlife Management Institute
U. S. Forest Service
Columbia River
Lyle F. Watts
Forest Service
Basin Highlands
Daleys Visit Farley Guests of Cunningham Family
Mr and Mrs Harry Daley of Farley Iowa spent Sunday with their daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Keith Cunningham. Don Buss bought land once the Nursery Creamery site five miles east and plans a fish bait building. Kate Zuck died at her son in law and daughter’s home west of Lanark after a long illness. Aston Hawbecker Katherine Rowland Polo and Mrs S C Thompson were Sunday visitors. Mrs A Becker Polo visited Mrs Harry Miller. Becker related to ill Lillian Dick at Miller home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Daley
Farley
Keith Cunningham
Don Buss
Nursery Creamery
Kate Zuck
Earl Burkholder
Lanark
State Fairs Roster Across Midwest Reads August Events
A list of state fair dates spans Wisconsin Wisconsin's World's Fair at Milwaukee We waukee State Fair Park August 7 to 29 Illinois Springfield fair August 13 to 22 Mississippi Valley Davenport Ia August 18 to 22 Polo Savanna 4-H Old Wet Park August 18 Fall Festival and others Des Moisa Iowa State Fair September 3 to 10 Minnesota St Paul August 28 to September 6 Indiana Indianapolis September 3 to 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Wewaukee State Fair Park
Milwaukee
Wis
Springfield
Davenport
Polo
Ill
Old Wet Park
Savanna
Des Moisa
Iowa
Minnesota
St. Paul
Indiana
Indianapo
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Lanark News
Wade
Wade Guenther
Sabula Gazette
Sabula, Iow
Daffynitions
Kentucky
Fellows
Hegins
Woodstock
Sentinel
Los Angeles
Ed Davenport
Arkansas
Tommy
Sherman
Eddie
Harold Packard
West Coast
Frye-Packard
Merle Hawbecker
Byron
Aaron Hawbecker
Franklin County
Elmer Cline
Floyd Davis
Lillian Clemmer
Paul Fitz
Des Moines
William Hower
Mildred Watson
Harry Engles
Adam Janiesck
Washington, D. C
Janiesck
Engle
Brown
Sid
Lake Okoboji
Paul Benrath
Thomson, Illinois
Linons
Carroll County
Claude Mechling
Chadwick
Evelyn Piesen
Wallace Ware
LeRoy Gablin
Kenneth Ditsworth
Argo
Forest Miller
Richland Center
Aloma Jean Kness
Lydia Almquist
Lucile E. Schneider
Robert Atherton, Jr
Walter Switzer
Defiance
Blaine Leavens
Oak Park
Alice Ann Horner
Freeport
Fred Wehmeyer
Fred Schneider
Carroll
Sharon Kaye French
Hale Pieper
Clinton
Scott E. Roberts
Lyle Queckboerner
Ned Spencer
Algo Fa
Mary Sheridan
Ray Hook
Vancouver
John Schneider
Mt. Carroll
Helen Traum
Pauline Sweitzer
John Atherton, Jr
Dolores Picking
Shannon
Ernest L. Brown
Milledgeville
George Peterson
Tampico
Bob Williams
Don C. Harris
Martha French
A. J. Litwiller
Ervin Elliott
Homer Zuck
Richard Graebling
Mary Lou Overholser
Robert Sword
Rudolph Helm
Herman Aude, Jr
Coleta
Ed Martindale
Baraboo
Larry Joe Frosch
Hilda Helm
Nancy Louise Spencer
Shirley Rahn
Thomas Hand, Jr
Jay Bent
Charles J. Metz
Reynold Lang
Patricia Lee Spencer
Carl DeFranco
Henry Schleming
Adam Voeckel
Raymond Brandenburg
John Wilhelm
Battle Creek
Mich
Donald Heinbaugh
Savan
George Wolfensberger
Harold Weatherwax
Donalder
Billy Hawk
Flaverness
U. S& Children
W. Charles ST
Champaign
Crist Drug Store
George B. Teets
Anta Agl
Sterling School
Beauty Culture
PC Mle
Wilbur Reader
C .V. Dame Farms
Afl
F. J. Stransky Farms
Brome Lense
SMITE
Morrison
Stakemiller’s
Stakemiller’s Shoe Store
Rhodes Bros
Anthony Cambman
Theodore Jaegar
C. A. Hull
T. H. Herrity
W. J. Thomas
Weston
Tac
Whiteside
Albert M. Greison
Savanna, Ill
4-H
R. J. Caron
Chevrolet Sales & Service
N. Main St.—Savanna
Alexander Lumber CO
Holstein Friesians
Stransdale
City Hall
W. Stephenson
Derrer
W. L. Derrer
L. W. Derrer
D. R. Miller
Lincolnw
Fulton, Hui
Myron C. Rogers
East Main Strew
Lawrence J.sn
Nat'l Bank
Backer
Wagner
Fifth Ave
W.h.foster
Wilson
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