Golden Light Remains Hopeful Despite Community Strain
Nettie E. Phillips writes from Maywood in 1940 about leadership changes in her Baptist group, noting the removal of the antiperintendent due to cost and the appointment of a new state secretary to lead a smaller group. She describes writing nine songs on the theme Golden Light, upcoming solo works by two singers, and notes on home work, church offerings, and limited room for new entrants amid illness and wartime anxieties while asking about fruit barrell donations.
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Pine St
Maywood
Iil
Iowa
Missionary Work
Norway
Bits
Fosdick
Nettie E. Phillips
P. S
Troubadettes Win Silver Cup in Chicago Meet
The Dixon Troubadettes, a 24 voice women's chorus, won second honors at a preliminary contest for the Chicagoland music festival in Soldier's Field. Mrs H F Zugschwerdt of Chadwick performed with the group and director Mrs F E M Goodsell received a gold baton. They sang Mendelssohn On Wings of Song and The Catbird in the final selection, finishing behind Mt Vernon Illinois McDowell chorus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dixon Troubadettes
Soldier’s Field
H. FE. Zugschwerdt
Chadwick
FE. M. Goodsell
Illinois
Wisconsin
Indiana
Michigan
Iowa
Mendelssohn
Troubadettes
Catbird
McDowell Chorus
Mt. Vernon
Iil
Thomson's Melon Day Celebrates Labor Day Festivities
Thomson marks its 16th Melon Day on Labor Day September 2 with a full schedule. opening registration at 0 A M offers cash prizes, morning sports, baseball, watermelons, a welcome address by James J. Sheridan, and entertainment by Miss Vivian Trulock and Joe Thompson's Krazy Jacks. Evening events include more acts and a four hour free dance until 1 A. M. on a 30 by 90 foot floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomson Melon
Fulton Brownies
James J. Sheridan
Frank J. Stransky
Vivian Trulock
Joe Thompson
Lyndon
Black Farms
Walnut
Fulton
Milledgeville Firemen Plan Homecoming and Meetings
The Milledgeville fire department held its regular meeting and appointed committees for the homecoming events on Sept 25 and 26. A special meeting Friday will hear committee reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milledgeville
John Warren
Ray Miller
William Ewers
Tom Heffelfinger
Lyle Franklin
Clyde Oncken
Gerald Laughlin
Arman Bushman
Paul Bracken
23rd Annual Tigh Family Reunion Held in Savanna
One hundred eleven relatives and 153 visitors gathered for the 23rd Tigh family reunion at Old Mill park Savanna. Officers were re-elected, births and a death reported, and plans announced for the 24th reunion in August 1941. A long list of attendees from multiple towns followed.
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Tich
Old Mill Park
Savanna
Kim
Catherine Middleton Tigh
H. F. Weber
Chadwick
Clarence Hanson
Fulton
Fanny Mathers
Aurora
Diane Bradstream
Burton Bradstream
Geneseo
Frank Livingston
Winfield McEnery
Chicago
Albert Adolph
Elmer Weber
K. W. Senneff
W. G. Riordan
Loomis Hanson
Morrison
John Tigh
Charles Tigh
Geo. Bradstream
Joe Tucking
Leland Genhardt
Clinton
Louis Wendt
Walter Getz
W. C. Harlan
Maywood
L. W. Mathers
Charles Bender
Walter Crane
Rock Island
John Frank
John Hoover
Ronald Hoover
Fred Schneider
Lawrence Shiley
Carroll
Louis Shelly
Thomson
Paul Daniels
Glen
Herbert Poorman
Fred Shelly
Franklin Richmond
David Aitken
Hanover
Cara Cooper
Cedar Rapids
George Bradstream, Jr
LaPorte City
Iowa
Mintie Tenley
Mt. Vernon
Top Prices for Cattle Consignments Reported
Fred Guenzler of Lanark led the Chicago stockyards trade with 42 steers averaging 1182 pounds at 12.00 per cwt and 20 more at 11.80. Ted Kingery of Lanark sold 29 shortfed heifers at 10.80 per cwt, averaging 779 pounds. Andrew Hook and son Fred of Thomson also sold beeves at 11.00 per cwt, with 12 head averaging 1166 pounds and a 22 head drive at the same price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Guenzler
Carroll County
Lanark
Chicago
Guenzler
Ted Kingery
Social Visitors in Chadwick Community Highlights
Mrs Emma Van Buskirk and Mrs Clarence Van Buskirk called Sunday evening at Mrs Bertha Heerner's home. Sunday dinner guests at Mr and Mrs Ivan Carroll included Mrs Milnes and Walter Jr with Mr and Mrs Andrew Witt of Morrison. Monday afternoon visitors at Mrs Elizabeth Senneff's home included Frank Horner and the Horner family from Cleveland and Mr and Mrs Charles Senneff of Sterling. The Horners later dined with Mr and Mrs W J Woy and Mr and Mrs C R Woy at Senneff's and then toured Grant's home and historic sites in Galena.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma van Buskirk
Clarence van Buskirk
Bertha Heerner
Ivan Carroll
Walter Milnes
Walter, Jr
Andrew Witt
Morrison
Elizabeth Senneff
Frank Horner
Donald Horner
Cleveland
Charles Senneff
Sterling
Horners
W. J. Woy
C. R. Woy
Lanark Students Shine At Pecatonica Vocational Fair
Twenty five Lanark Future Farmers enter thirty five projects at the Section 1 fair held August 20 21 at Pecatonica fair grounds. Entries include purebred Guernsey and Hereford stock dairy cows steers hogs and ewes from Lanark's VA program. A total $1200 in premium money is offered with participants from multiple area high schools.
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Pecatonica
Pecatonica Fair Grounds
Milledgeville
Lyle Law
Lyle Oncken
Edward Robinson
Paul Deets
Robert Pilgrim
Arthur Opecken
Harlan Hollwell
Robert Diehl
Bill Chaffee
Eugene Litwiller
Jack Newton
Robert McKean
Raymond Lubbs
Howard Bushman
Wendell Coats
Keith Coats
Kenneth Nye
Pecatonica Lanark
Pecatonica Fair
Lanari
Eugene Collings
Guernsey
Donald Zier
Randall Carpenter
Charles Burkholder
Dwight Flickinger
Oxford
Kenneth Blakeslee
Robert Zuck
Poland
Glenn Derrer
Keith Law
Bernard Diehl
Russell Miller
Randall Linker
Robert Heatherington
Maurice Terhune
Martin Ebert
Kenneth Kniss
Chester
Lloyd Herren
Joe Engles
Galen Fry
Byron
Dakota
Durand
Forreston
Lanark
Leaf River
Lena
Mt. Carroll
Mt. Morris
Orangeville
Oregon
Pearl City
Polo
Savanna
Stillman Valley
Stockton
Thomson
Winnebago
Winslow
List of high school textbooks for 1940 41 term
A long read lists required texts across science biology mathematics English Latin history government business economics shorthand typing office practice home economics agriculture and illustration of publisher details. The closing line echoes a moral verse about harmony and hope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jame W. Baker
Alvah Leroy Prickett
Paul A. Carlson
Gregg
Louis A Lecstie
Gregg Publishing Company
Louia A. Leslie
Gregg Publishing Co
J. W. Korene
Clyde FE. Rowe
Ginn & Co
Foster W. Lose
Charles W. Hamilton
Peter L. Agnew
South Western Publishing Co
Kennard E. Goodman
Ginn & Company
Era Publishing Co
Woessner brothers named Carroll County representatives to Boys State Fair school
Kenneth and Lawrence Woessner of Shannon were chosen as Carroll county delegates to attend the Boys State Fair school at Springfield from August 17 to 23 during the state fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County
4-H
Jean Hammond
Ruth Wolfe
Tip Toppers Food Club
Lanark
Grace Keeney
4-H Clothing Club
Katherine Olsen
Merry Sewers
Marie Johns
Savanna
Lavonne Holm
Merry Sewers Club
Argo
June Copperwell
Shannon Priscilla Club
Kenneth
Lawrence Woessner
Shannon
Springfield
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Labor Day
Mississippi
Milledgeville News
TIGH
Lanark News
Wes Corey
The
Chicago Motor Club
Chadwick News
Allyn & Boecon
Charles J. Pieper
Wilbur L. Beauchamp
Orlin
Frank, Scott, Foresman & Company
William Betz
Algrebra
Herbert B. Hawkes
William A. Luby
Frank C. Touton
Ginn and Company
Evelchons and Krickenberger
J. C. Tressler
D. C. Health & Co
H. Ward McGraw
L. W. Singer Company
Schhweikert, Lowe, and Miller
Harcourt, Brace & Company
Schweikert
Inglis, Cooper, Sturdevant
Schweikert, Inglis, and Gehlmann
Harry F. Scott
Annabel Horn
Scott
Foresman and Co
Harry J. Scott
Scott, Foresman & Co
Pallew
C. W. Sutton
N. J. Lennes
Allyn & Bacon
A. B. ZuTavern
A. E. Bullock
H. M. Rowe Co
Ernest H. Crabbe
Clay D. Slinker
South-West
Trilling, Williams, and Reeves
J. B. Lippincott Company
Calvert and Smith, Turner Bf, Smith & Co
Wilbur Walter Weir
J. B. Lippincott Co
William Carlyle Etheridge
Morrison Publishing Company
L. B. Hussey, M. D
Savanna, Ill
Greison Bldg
Main St
Tel
Black
Balk
Beauty
State Fair
Ww. A
O. Stuedemann
Main Ave
D. J. Doyle
Tucker Bldg
MELON
Melon Day Committee
Pride of the Farm
Francke & Switzer
Coats
van al
Len’s
van Allen
Kaynee
Stanatex
Martin Morris Co
Clinton, Iowa
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