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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1931
Page
5
Wednesday reports show Clinton visitors Charles Beck and others. Claude Millard and family visited from Chicago. B. W. Barrett tours California. Mr Carroll tightens restrictions amid epidemic. Miss Loughead leaves for Unionville Missouri. Gertude Creighton visits Davenport. Jaz Creighton and Gina Wilt host. Miss Lee assists nursing at Sendings Byard Lewis stays home with illness. William Heinze death noted, wounded on Sept 14.
Local notes recount hospitalities and visits in Dubuque and nearby towns. Families share dinners for Thanksgiving. Mrs Potter and sons ill with flu and pneumonia, while Frank Lewis recovers from erysipelas. Mrs Cochran suffers injuries after a fall. Chas McGinty visits from Kimball, S D, plans Chicago stock show trip.
Friday and Saturday visits link Mr and Mrs Alfred Matson with his mother in Galesburg. G A Smith and John Cerroll called in Macomb. Hiram George plans a farm sale Monday. Robert Turney and Will Curran announce a Clint Geary farm closing in Ideal. Glen Bower hosted Sherman Oakley family and Dan Mayden with son on Sunday. Thanksgiving gatherings include the Foltzhorns the Marth family and guests from Rockford. Maryland visitor Raymond Mortz toured with George Morty in his uncle’s home. Bruce Groharing and Donald Wilt returned from Chicago with their son Bruce at Morgan Park Military School. H A Cate recovering at Himes hospital. family hope for Christmas home stay.
Frank Lohmeier spends week in Chicago while Mrs Eva Dailey of Clinton visits with her parents Mr and Mrs George Morts. Justice Prins and children vacation at sister’s home in Clinton with Mr and Mrs Louis Thompson. Chestnut Park guests Mr and Mrs R Ham visit Wm Hawk. Morrison pair Mr and Mrs Carl Longnecker join Thanksgiving guests with Bart Shoemaker. Edna Shoemaker returns from Radio camp at Plato Center UL to visit Farr family, then to Batavia IL to see Lillian Stratton and Floyd Stratton family. Joe Kauffman of Columbus Junthton town visits son Joe and family, accompanied by Joe Kauffman Jr and daughter Gladys for two weeks. George Laughlin and family from Milledgeville attend funeral for Mr Harney. T H Kustus and family travel to Chicago for International Stock Show. Argo Fa Home Economics Club to present program at high school gym Friday Dec 11 featuring a one act play readings music. Gladys Holman Pearl Atherton George Orcutt Lorraine Atherton Pearl and Gladys Kauffman plan to finish toy factory work in Morrison. Lewis Kramer and son Lewis Jr of Elgin visit N D French at weekend. Abe Prins hosts Thanksgiving guests Dave Geers family of Garden Plain, George Voss family, Charles Voss family, Henry Damhoff family, Herman Keenes of Fulton, Earl Voss and daughter of East Clinton, Pete Smith and Arena Zenema of Garden Plain.
A parade of guests filled homes in Mt. Morris Clinton Savanna and surrounding areas during Thanksgiving weekend. Families hosted relatives and friends including Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Shelly Miss Kathern Tucker and Mary Louise Tucker Mr. and Mrs. John Carpenter and Rev G Vander Linden among others.
Mrs Frank Rosh and family visit Freeport and Cedar Rapids to see Mr McNamara’s brother who recently had surgery and is improving. Louise St Ores and Sylvia Griswold present a musical comedy at the Farmers Institute in Coletu on December 9.
Mrs Mary Gaar has been ill but up for dinner with Mr and Mrs Earl Shosmaker and Mrs Carl Longnecker. Charles Griswold of Hickman Ky visits after his mother Rosanna Griswold’s death and returns home. Calvin Strauch is fined 17.60 for reckless driving on Route 26 before Justice Albert Lindsey. John Miller of Clinton visits Thanksgiving with Lisien Miller and Frank Potter. Mrs Rachael Switzer improves from illness. Clifton Taylor and Des Moines couple visit Ernest Whitney. Harold St Ores family weekend at Willis St Ores Savanna.
Governor Louis L. Emmerson urges Illinois churches to observe Universal Bible Sunday on December 6. The American Bible Society notes its long promotion of the event, with millions of scriptures distributed in many languages, and calls it a red letter day in American church life.
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