4-H Roundup Awards List Highlights Livestock Winners
Regional 4-H fair notes honor livestock champions in hogs sheep and cattle classes. Names include Rath, Zier, Gilman, Queckboerner, Dittmar, Warnock, and many county clubs with dress, home economics, and textile awards across divisions for girls and youth.
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Shropshire
Forrest Reyer
Eugene Strauch
William Gilman
Richard Allison
Fred Rath
Hampshire
Richard Queckboerner
Leland Zier
Cheviot
Orville Dittmar
Oxford
John Warnock
Thornton Zier
Donald Miller
Arnold Zuck
Ram Lamb
Fred Beyer
Hampshire Ram Lamb
Richard Queekboerner
Cheviot Ram Lamb
Oxford Ram Lamb
Ewe Lamb
Gene Strauch
Forrest Beyer
Carthage College Enrollment Expands Amid Postwar Plan
Carthage College reports rising enrollment for the September 11 opening, its 75th year serving the Midwest. The growth stems from more women seeking prep for work and more under 18 men in pre induction courses. A $177,000 Veterans Memorial Dormitory campaign is underway to house returning heroes. More than 500 Carthaginians serve in the armed forces. Expansion of Home Economies and a new Business department aim to boost teacher training and vocational education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carthage College
Midwest
Carthope
Armed Services
Department of Home Economies
Carthage
Smith-Hughes
Department of Business
Adams Farm Sold at Public Auction in Garden Plain
The 160 acre Adams estate farm in Garden Plain was auctioned Thursday by executor Earle T. Adams with Fletcher and Burns as auc tioneers. Myron C. Rogers represents the estate. It sold for 147 dollars per acre totaling 23 520 dollars to Mr. and Mrs. Vincent J. Britt of Fulton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thurston H. Adams
Garden Plain
Earle T. Adams
Fletcher and
Burns
Myron C. Rogers
Vincent J. Britt
Fulton
Marriage Licences and Court Dates Across Carroll County
The office of County Clerk W. M. Nipe issued marriages for Jesse V. Jackson with Masilla M. Horn of Savanna and Melvin Harold Pilgrim of Milledgeville with Anna Jean Rensema of Polo. A list notes 195 service members requesting went to aswent ballots. Circuit court session set for Mt. Carroll on Sept 12, with county board of supervisors to meet same day to present tax levies. Several property deeds filed in Savanna and Chadwick, including Emerson Baum and others, Viletta Ackerman to Allan Zugscherdt, and Anna M. Greison to James Drain et al, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. Nipe
Jesse V. Jackson
Masilla M. Horn
Savanna
Tuesaday
Melvin Harold Pilgrim
Milledgeville
Anna Jean Rensema
Polo
Carroll County Board of Supervisors
Farmers face fertilizer shortages due to nitrate supply cuts
American farmers will receive less nitrogenous fertilizer as nitric acid, critical for ordnance plants, runs low. The War Production Board says shortages may be offset if imports of Chilean nitrates for farming can be increased.
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Ordnance Plants
WPB
Savanna Soldier Killed in Action in France July 13
Pvt. Paul Leopold, 30, son of Mr and Mrs August Leopold of Chestnut Park Savanna, died in action July 13 in France. He had served a year and a half and was overseas since June this year. Born June 20 1914 in Gratiot Wisconsin, he lived in Savanna before entering service and worked at the Savanna ordnance depot. He is survived by his widow Mabel Williams, three brothers, three sisters, and his maternal grandmother Mrs Brown.
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Savanna
France
Paul Leopold
August Leopold
Chestnut Park
Leopold
Troy Mills
Iowa
Pvt
Gratiot
Wis
Savanna Ordenance Depot
Mabel Williams
Missing Chadwick Youth Oliver Schreiner Listed In Action
Oliver Schreiner, 19, a Chadwick native raised in Sterling, has been missing in action since August 4 while serving in England as top turret gunner and mechanic on a Flying Fortress. Born September 6, 1924, he enlisted 14 months ago after training in Las Vegas. His cousin Edward Hamilton of Mt. Carroll was reported killed in the South Pacific on July 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Schreiner
Chadwick
Fcllow
Germany
War Department
Charles Schreiner
Sterling
Chicago
Set
Schreiner
England
Air Force
Wallace School
Las Vegas
Nev
Edward Hamilton
Mt. Carroll
South Pacific
How to Teach a Dog to Be Smart Says Bill's Quip
Joe asks about training a smart dog and Bill replies that success comes from knowing more than the animal. The exchange highlights a humorous take on dog training.
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Joe
Bill
Record Keeps Gas Rations With New Mileage Book
Motorists renewing basic A rations outside the East Coast will receive a mileage rationing record that replaces the tire inspection record as the log of all gasoline rations issued for use with the basic A ration. The new book keeps eight gallons monthly but four gallons per coupon. Renewal dates and filing details will be announced locally.
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East Coast
OPA
Torist
District of Columbia
Potato harvest report from Jones and Smith
Jones asks about potato harvest conditions and Smith replies the crop varies in size from marble to pea sized tubers with only a few small ones remaining.
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Jones
Smith
Also Mentioned on This Page
Loran Carson Derrer
Lloyd Martin
Darrell Gaar
Everette Martz
Charlene Ross
Kathleen Swartzendruber
Florence Getz
Marijane Berkstresser
Gloria Handel
Betty Mauer
Judy Noble
Mary Jean Williamson
Lydia Almquist
Marilyn Bruci
Ruth Bruci
Nancy Homedew
Joy Schall
Annette Hinebaugh
Florence Buss
Jean Smith
Mary Jane Preston
Betty Cole
Geneva Neuschwanger
Charlotte Neuschwanger
Donna Byington
Doris Nesmeier
Phyllis Erdmeier
Donna Schoening
Shirley Colbert
Catherine Ann Ross
Eleanor Stearns
Ramona Hinebaudgh
Martha Colbert
Ellen Schaal
Joan Saidel
Leona Curley
Donna Smith
Marie Dixon
Helen Doty
Betty Brown
Barbara Ann Brown
Ada Schaal
Roberta Rossa
Marisell Frey
Jane Dickinson
Rosalie Hand
Betty Dauphin
Patricia Murney
Naomi Getz
Joyce Johnson
Arlene Dauphin
Florence Schaal
Darlene Shoemaker
Joan Queckboerner
Carolee Manning
Dolores Rahn
Mariana Crofton
Joyce Zier
Nadine Dambman
Wilma Jean Manning
Jean Nailer
Carol Jean Ware
Ardith Klenz
Wilma Jean Miller
Dorothy Hose
Mary Hose
Alice Sturtevant
Lanark
Priscilla Club
Shannon
Jacobstown
Thomson
Marian Crofton
Wilma Manning
Delores Rahn
Carol Ware
Marjorie Berkstresser
Marilyn Brudi
Roberta Ross
Mardell Frey
Ruth Brudi
Darning
Marianna Crofton
Patching
Dwight H. Green
WGN
Oscar
Wen Datt
Atone
Don Tierney
Ameche
Paramount News
Olivia Robert de Havilland
Cummings
Princess Rourke
Errol Flynn
Ann Sheridan
Adams
U. S
Emerson Baum
Russell M. Melihattin
Rock Creek
Alice Zugschwerdt
Allan Zugschwerdt
Viletta
Lota Welsh
Leslie H. Hoover
Morton’s Add
Anna M. Greison
James M. Drain
Paul R. Melendy
Clyde Ehredt
Broadmoor
Armour
Lehigh Cement
Times Theatre
Humphrey Bogart
Invisible Stripes
Hitler
Robert Watson
Algeria
Mrs. Brown
Mrs. Jones
Harry
Jerry
idSih
iSith
Morrison
Clinton
WEB
Rio Grande
Simone Simon
James Ellison
Johnny
Jimmy Lydon In “Henry Aldrich’s Little Secret
Richard Vogel
Purina
Fulton, Illinois
Feeding Headquarters
New Fall
Victory Tailor Shop
Fulrath Station
Savanna, Illinois
Smith- Hughes
Erland Nelson
Carthage, Ill
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van Ailen’s
Leigh
Downstars Store
van Allen
Clinton, Iowa
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