Christmas Edition Promises Holiday Ads and Local News
Carroll County’s Christmas edition highlights shopping guides and holiday greetings. The page notes Roosevelt may seek a third term, reports on local veterans and community events, including church cantatas, a Christmas party, and various light displays in Chadwick and Thomson. Local anecdotes mix with civic notes and family recollections.
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Review
Tts
Saturday Evening Post
Roosevelt
Sunderland
Milledgeville
Carroll County
Capt. Wildey
Mr. Carroll
J. L. Chambers
The Review Dedication to Carroll County’s Honest Backbone
The Review praises Carroll County residents as normal, honest, hard-working citizens who support churches and local institutions. It extols their role in financing banks, paying taxes, and maintaining homes and families, calling them the nation’s backbone and dedicating future issues to them.
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Carroll County
Birthday notices for residents across Milledgeville and surrounding towns
A long list of birthday acknowledgments dated December 16 to 20, naming residents and relatives in Milledgeville Thom son Lanark Chadwick Chadwick and nearby areas. Individuals include Eugene Stewart Mrs L W Swett Frank Klenz Calvin Rahn Monty Winer Florence Derson Geo Hartman Russell Lego George J Ores Robert Groharing Charles Lamb Clarence Young Dewey Bower Mrs Leonard Hartman Mildred Stadel Maida Spencer Mrs Kenneth Whitney Keith Kradle Burrell Brown Virginia French Orville Allen Fred Hook Foster L Stagg Mrs G A Smith Mrs Orve Orcutt Pert Holman Jim St Ores Helen Hartman Bobby Frazier Claude Wiebenga Michael Williams John Freeman Carol Hunt Donald Peterson John Plummer Mrs Madden Crouse David and Daniel Milroy Mrs Henry Schleming Mrs Frank Hinkel Elaine Zugschwerdt and other names.
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Eugene Stewart
Milledgeville
L. W. Swett
Thomson
Frank Klenz
Lanark
Calvin Rahn
Monty Winer
Florence
Derson
Chadwick
Eugene
Wart
Geo. B. Hartman
Russell Lego
George J. Ores
Thomson Robert Groharing
Thomson Charles Lamb
Thomson Clarence Young
Thomson Dewey Bower
Leonard Hartman
Thomson Mildred Stadel
Chester Hoffman
Maida Spencer
Kenneth Whitney
Wick
Keith Kradle
Burrell Brown
Hawaiian Islands
Virginia French
Thomson Orville Allen
Fred Hook
Thomson Foster L. Stagg
G. A. Smith
Orve Orcutt
Thomson Pert Holman
Orr
Minn
Jim St. Ores
Thomson Helen Hartman
Thomson Bobby Frazier
Thomson Claude Wiebenga
Thomson Michael Williams
Carroll John Freeman
Carol Hunt
Donald Peterson
John Plummer
Madden Crouse
David and
Daniel Milroy
Henry Schleming
Frank Hinkel
Carroll
Elaine Zugschwerdt
Wm. Hawk, Jr
Lucille Prins
Luella Slocum
Albany
Evan Kuhlemeier
Jean Queckboerner
Christmas lights brighten boulevard posts downtown
Art Robbe and Charles Holman wrapped evergreen branches on boulevard light posts Friday. Small fir trees on standards and colored lights decorate the big boulevard lights making the streets shine at night.
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Art Robbe
Charles Holman
Art
Tone
Sharpe Says Car Foibles Through Early Driving Memories
A nostalgic reminiscence recalls early driving mishaps from 1917. Jim Libberton loans a topless Model T for ten days costing eight dollars plus gas. Bayard Lewis brings a Ford with a starter, triggering a reckoning with the family budget.
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Jim Libberton
Sale of William G Brown estate in Thomson Illinois
Public notice by B R Lewis administrator announces a December 1 sale of real estate in Carroll County Illinois to settle debts. The listing covers described parcels in Thomson with bids starting at 20 percent cash and balance upon court approval, conducted by auctioneer Ed Mest and attorney A M Blodgett.
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B. R. Lewis
William George Brown
Thomson
Carroll County
Illinois
Section
County of
Carroll
Ilinois
Recorder’s Office
Ed. Mest
A. M. Blodgett
Lincoln Way
Fulton
Truck overturns at dangerous intersection near town
A light truck driven by two Clin ton men crashed through a fence and rolled over a ten foot bank at the Route 171 and 78 crossing east of town. Shorty Reinhardt was injured on the neck and leg but both occupants escaped. The area has seen many accidents and calls for safety upgrades. Mrs Maggie Carroll and Paul Carpenter are mentioned in local health notes. The Warfield house fire was contained by quick action. Robert Hicks will spend the holiday with his father.
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Clinton
Here
Paul Carpenter
Frank Warfield
Robert Hicks
Carlinville
Girl’s marriage brings new baby and lingering jokes
Witty observation notes a bride who married a barber and now has a "little shaver." The line hints at the boy's appearance and echoes a common urban joke about heir and beauty in a brief, cheeky aside.
Kness Wins Honors in WhiteSide Poultry Show
Floyd E. Kners of Morrison wins 15 blue ribbons for chickens and 4 for ducks at the Whiteside county poultry show. He claims the champion Asiatic light Brahma hen and the champion muscovy drake and duck. He plans to enter birds in the Town State show in late December.
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Whiteside County
Morrison
Floyd E. Kners
Knees
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Uncle Sam
Railway Mail Department
Savanna
Hie
Marion Howard
Masonic Lodge
L. B. Fosdick
Hast Savanna
Fosdick
Gibbons Farm
G. W. Cassell
L. B. Hussey
52Nd Ordnance Company
Ordnance Depot
Santa Claus
A. A. Calkins
Chadwick High
Dakota
Waterworks Park
Father
Lee Spencer
Spencer
Frank Melendy
Charles Lamb
Fifth Avenue
al Cooper
Cubs
Sam
North
South America
Mexico
Germany
Doe Saunders
the Village Echo
Thomson Broadax
Thomson Review
H. G. Stagg
T Business Manager
Harriett Smith
Thomson, Illinois
Miledgeville
Mt. 171
Hansen’s Corners
Rt. 40
Sportsmen’s Paradise
Happy
Chad
MT. Carroll
Charles R. Schreiner
Donald Rauser
Will Handel
George Buckwalter
George Miner
Hanover
Jasper Lacey
Annabel Teets
Mary Ripper
Valetta Fossett
Margarite Spencer
Ida Knapp
Donna Jean Ven Huizen
Iowa
Herbert St. Ores, Sr
Albert Prins
Thomson Etta Horner
George Earl Weber
Violet Bickert
Martin Kradle
Robert Royer
Sharpe
Legals
State OF
Iaid Coun
Ty. B. R. Lewis
William George Pia
Florence Whaley, Et al
Kipnis
Mt. Carroll, Illinois
Harmon Stakemiller
Ideal Store
Route 78
Wedneday
Ladies’ Aid
John Deere
McCormick-Deering
McCormick
D. W. Bos
H. E. Stakemiller
R. Mest
Garrett Sterenberg
F. W. Zugschwerdt
Lewis Motor CO
Bulova
Louis Noble
MT. Carroll, Ill
W. L. Derrer
John L. Brearton
Dr.a.l.ringuette
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United Cigar Co
Kness
Mt. Carroll Mutual
Fire Ins. Co
First Ctass
Burlington
The
D. Morse
MT. Carroll Rendering Co
Christian Science Monitor
the Monitor
Christian Science Publishing Society One
Norway Street
Boston
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Martin Morris Co
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