Starved Rock State Park tour by Chicago Motor Club AAA
The article highlights Starved Rock State Park near Ottawa and LaSalle-Peru as Illinois’ top park with rich Indian history. It describes trails, nature walks, caves like Council Cave, mounds aged 2000 years, and activities such as boating on the Illinois River May 1 to Oct 1, plus camping facilities and Starved Rock Lodge with 48 rooms and cabins.
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Starved Rock State Park
Chicago Motor Club
Illinois
North America
Chicago
Inter
Ottawa
LaSalle-Peru
Illinois River
Council
Eagle Cliff
Pulpit Rock
Horseshoe Canyon
Love 'S Leap
Turtle Rock
Starved Rock
Starved Rock Lodge
Around the County celebrates 4-H show and farm events
The county notes a successful 4-H Round with a hard working setup crew led by Sarge Litchcomb and the Palisades group. A September 11 marketing futures meeting for farmers and elevator operators is planned at Emerald Hills Country Club Sterling. Upcoming cow-calf field days in Shelby and Pike counties are announced with a news release forthcoming. Bill Ritenour resigns as Carroll County Fair Board president and Arlene Henning leaves Home Economics summer role. Calendar lists August 22 Dairy Princess Awards Banquet.
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Sarge Litchcomb
Palisades
Bruce Wesley
William Shaw
Ralph Bell
Bill Young
Dean Malou
Gene Litwiller
Emerald Hills Country Club
Sterling
Les Stice
Shelby Counties
Pike County
Arlene Henning
Mt. Carroll High School
Miss Henning
Community Birthday List and Extension Meeting Notices
August 22 birthdays listed for local residents including Mrs. Fred Wehmeyer and Gary Korbar. August 23 calendar item for Home Economics Extension and 4H events through September 27. Numerous August 25 26 and 27 notices for residents across Polo Savanna Milledgeville Chadwick and Lanark with names and towns.
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Wick
Ray Hook
Vancouver
Wash
John Schneider
Mt. Carroll
Helen Traum
John C. Atherton
Thomson
Ernest L. Brown
Pearl City
Edward Nugent
Rockford
Pauline Kuntz
Lanark
Debra Sue Weber
Chadwick
Jennie Mackay
Polo
Coleen Becker
Savanna
Berniece Shafer
Kay Anderson
Milledgeville
Charles Helm
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Gene Hendrick
Local Newspaper Rates and Publishing Details for Thomson Area
Published each Thursday in Carroll and adjoining counties. Subscription rates
Certify Ten Con- Con Candidates For State Constitutional Convention
The State Electoral Board certifies candidates for members of the Constitutional Convention the September 23 primary. In the 35th Senatorial District the list includes Wayne W. Whalen Harlan Rigney Francis X Mahoney Bill Linker Lee A Campbell J Harold Floren William H Montgomery Joseph Hanson Bittorf Virginia Dave Matthews Wilbur Warren Spring all with addresses in Illinois.
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State Electoral Board
Illinois State Electoral Board
Wayne W. Whalen
Fulton Drive
Hanover
Illinois
Harlan Rigney
Red Oak
Ilinois
Francis X. Mahoney
East Garden Street
Freeport
W. C
Bill” Linker
Chadwick
Lee A. Campbell
Main St
Edan
J. Harold Floren
East Center Street
Mt. Morris
Til
William H. Montgomery
Avenue B
Rock Falls
Joseph Hanson Bittorf
16Th Avenue
Sterling
Virginia Dave Matthews
Deer Grove
Wilbur Warren Spring
Main Avenue
Milledgeville, Il
Metcalf Graduates Air Force Officer Course
Captain Stanley B. Metcalf son of Mr and Mrs Stanley C Metcalf of Elmhurst Illinois completed a 14 week professional officer course at Maxwell AFB Alabama. He is reassigned to Sewart AFB Tennessee as a C 7A Caribou instructor pilot and previously served in Vietnam. He is a 1958 York Community High School alumnus and earned a 1962 BS at Lawrence University. His wife Renee is the daughter of Mrs Virginia Yocherer of Mt Carroll Illinois.
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Stanley B. Metcalf
Stanley C. Metcalf
Holly Ave
Elmhurst, Ill
The
Air University
Squadroneos
Maxwell Afb
Ala
Metcalf
Sewart Afb
Tenn
Vung Tau
Vietnam
York Community High School
Elmhurst
Lawrence University
Appleton
Wis
Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps
Phi Gamma Delta
Renee
Virginia C. Yocherer
Benton St
Mt. Carrol, Ill
Illinois announces upland game and fur bearing seasons
William L Rutherford announces hunting seasons from the Illinois Department of Conservation. Cock pheasant quail and Hungarian partridge open November 15 end December 31 with limits of two birds per day and four in possession for pheasant and partridge eight per day sixteen in possession for quail. Rabbit season runs November 15 to January 31 with five rabbits per day ten in possession after opening day. Foxes barred year round for hunting except for fur bearers during season. raccoon weasel opossum foxes and skunk start November 1 and end January 31 1970.
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William L. Rutherford
Illinois Department of Conservation
Conservation Advisory Board
Nogm
Hog raisers to see and compare at Carroll County event
Carroll County hog raisers will view and compare stock with a market barrow show planned by Livestock feeders officers Carroll County Pork Producers and the Extension Livestock Committee. Preliminary plans set September 16 for on foot judging and September 18 for carcass evaluation with details and entry blanks to follow.
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Carroll County
Harold Brinkmeier
Carroll County Pork Producers
Local Holstein Cow Hits Milestone For 103 Thousand Pounds
Holstein-Friesian Association of America reports Regis tered cow Cram Farm Aristocrat Lucy 4870518 (GP) from Chadwick has produced 103,398 pounds of milk and 3,774 pounds of butter fat in 2,960 days since age two. Owners Lewis H. Cram and Wilmer L. Smith notified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Lewis H. Cram
Wilmer L. Smith
Chadwick
Cram
Lucy
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Harold Brickmeier
Farm Advisex
Chuck Hartman
Bill Ritenour
Bill
Xxx
Chestnut Mountain Lodge
Happy
Fred Wehmeyer
Sharon Kaye French
Savan
Ward Deets
Gary Korbar
DuQuoin
Debra Lynn Snider
Jim Sauer
Lyle Queckboerner
Chad
Home Economics Extension Council
D.h.lla. Board
Dorothy Footitt
George Peterson
Tampico
Don C. Harris
Waupin
A. J. Litwiller
Homer Zuck
Ed ‘Martindale
Baraboo
Larry Frosch
John Demaree
Boulder
Wayne Crawford
Larry Eslinger
Clinton
Ian Frances Kay Schreiner
Gary Shellhouse
Thomas Coates
Galena
Ned Spencer
Nora Downs
Santa Ana
Calif
Harold Kramer
Diane Kramer
Garry Tripp
Gary Frederick Hartman
Daniel
Martin Brinkman
Fulton
Pamela Staats
Shannon
Erma Williams
Terry Brown
Caroline Petersen
E. M. Ritenour
Shirley Rahn
Thomas Hand, Jr
Carl DeFranco
Davenport
Iowa
Werner Beer
Dawn Rae Gifford
Lyle Weber
Oak Park
Larry Geerts
Evan Haag
Janet Schlagenhausen
Anthony Timm
Carroll
Barbara Dyson
Claude Hamilton, Jr
Hazelhurst, Ill
Harmon Paisley
Tammy Sue Raab
Robert Merchant, Jr
Raymond Brandenburg
John Wilhelm
Battle Creek
Mich
Harold Weatherwax
Wm. Hawk, Jr
Donald Jer
Flaverness
Robert Switzer
Champaign
Neva Poorman
Burlington
Donald R. Buss
Geo. Bushman
Donald Heinbaugh
Richard Stagg
Crane
Texas
Walter Green
Clarence Lotz
Frank Zahn
Forreston
Lester Grim
Keosauqua
John Newton
Dale F. Cohenour
George Wales
Alan Gravenstein
Betty Schmitt
William Nagel, Jr
Paul A. Jamerson
Loves Park
Kraft’s
Physical ED
Dukes
Freeman
Calumet
KRAFT
Thomson Review
Village Echo
Thomson Broadax
Mber
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