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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1924
Page
2
A year ago Mrs Anna Thomas settled at her farm near Harrison. Miss Helen McCoy and Harold B Penny wed at Julesburg Colorado. Mr and Mrs Miles Alderson welcomed a boy. Savanna pushes melon day program to the limit.
Rain has pushed melon prospects below zero according to growers. Prospects have been below normal all season and heavy rains and backward weather diminish expectations for a strong crop. Without a weather change Thomson may abandon hopes for a melon festival. A few melons as large as a fist exist but will likely ripen only by mid September.
Sunday services at Reform church with Rev Dykstra while Rev King is away. Local care updates for Mrs McKee. Miss Nygarrd from Morrison to teach Spring Valley school next year. Social visits include Mr and Mrs Pape caring for mother McKee, and Mrs A K McCullagh hosting the missionary society. Several residents travel to Nebraska and Clinton for visits and repairs. A horses accident injures Bill Hawk, treated by Dr Sagner. Weather brings cool nights raising corn crop concerns.
Miss Louise St.Ores spends week at KE BR Babcock home in Clinton. Mrs Mable Willis and daughter Athlene of Fon du Lac Wis visit friends here. Argo Fa defeated the Wacker ball team 3 1 at Argo last Sunday. Armour Grain Co sold elevators to Grain Marketing Co Chicago including Argo Thomson Savanna. John Marth family and James Rishart Savanna visit Katherine Straud home. Geo Stober family with mother Catherine Stober and Dorothy Shoemaker Mt Carroll and Emma Dunz Rockford visit F A Steele family. Two Futon men arrested for intoxication fined about 9 00 each. Roy Houghton family visit Lowden Iowa at Franks home. daughter Beth stays.
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