Co op refunds $3973 to patrons at annual meeting
Guy Mackey and George Knoess were reelected as directors of the Hadwick Co operative Produce Company. The patronage refund for the past year totaled $3,973.47 based on two cents per pound of butterfat, about eight cents per pound of milk. The rate matches a strong year and the meeting featured reports, pictures, lunch, and prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Mackey
George Knoess
Hadwick Co-operative Produce Company
Erty
High School News Of Camps and Clubs In Local Roundup
The home economics club hosted a chili lunch netting about 4 pounds sterling and plans for two delegates to summer camp. Freshman girls tasted muf fins from last Friday while home ec studies breakfast planning in three families. The sewing group works on dresses and suits. The school board dinner was praised as very cad. The local basketball squad hosts Milledgeville Friday on the home floor. The state basketball tourney comes to Champaign March 16 to 18. Job openings in welfare in Freeport and a cadet nurse corps need 65,000 nurses this year. Beverly Marshall leaves senior year for Jane Lamb hospital. Come to the basketball game Friday.
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Home Economics
Home Eclub
Home Eco
Betty Wilt
Milledgeville
Champaign
C. W. Lyon
Univ. of HS
Illinois Hall
Kane
Elliott
Freeport
U. S&. Cadet Nurse Corps
Box 88
New York City
Beverly Marshall
Jane Lamb Hospital
Thomson Gossip Dated Visits and Local Gatherings
Mrs Blanche Beck Savanna hosted at home while Iris Mart and relatives from Irvenport with Joy Stark and family attended a fair Iris at the fair. Mr and Mrs Joe James Green joined Mrs Anna Morrison’s service. Merle Lest Lake IA and Forrest Gilbert visited Byron. Paul Melendy of Camp Adair Ore entertained guests at a gathering. Mr and Mrs Joseph Baumgartner Hanover attended a family sale. Ruth Strubb and Lilah Curley were present with the family. Ed and Bertha were Sunday guests at Morrison. Marion Hall family and Robert Eckland spent the evening with Mrs Ed. Lucile Dresbach returned from Cicero to help at home. George Stumpley of Anapolis Minn visited Thomson with his mother Ella Stumphy and wife who returned to Minneapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanche Beck Savanna
Iris Mart
Joy Stark
Iris
Joe
James Green
Anna ‘ Oon
Morrison
Merle Lest Lake
Merle Atherton
Daug Forrest Gilbert
Byron
Pfe
Paul Mel
Camp Adair
Ore
Ald Brown
Joseph Baumgartner
Hanover
Joh
Ruth Strubb
Lilah Curley
Eddy
Morrson
Elmer Davis
Ren Dy
Isi
Marion Hall
Robert Eckland
Lied
Mary Eveing
Erma Paule
Ferd Grimm
Delbert
Hal Ashby
Wacke
John Schad
Handel Closing Out Sale Brisk Amid Chadwick Hardware Farewell
Crowds packed Lloyd Handel’s Chadwick hardware closing out sale with Monday totals over $2,000 and stock valued at more than $15,000. Weather impact reduced Tuesday traffic but Handel expects the sale to extend through this and next week. The hardware business ends after more than 40 years. farm machinery repair remains active under Ward Weber who has run the shop since its opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd Handel
Handel
Chadwick
Charles Harris
Hanaford
Handel Little
Ward Weber
Francis Smith Receives Honorable Medical Army Discharge
Pte. Francis Smith of Mt. Carroll, grandson of Mr and Mrs Frank Smith of Thomson, has received an honorable medical discharge from the U S Army and returned home last Thursday morning. He spent 18 months in service, about half of which time was in the New Hebrides and New Caledonia in the South Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Smith
Mt. Carrell
Frank Smith
Thomson
U. S. Army
Francis
New Hebrides
New Caledonia
South Pacific
Local Dinners and Visitation Highlight Sterling and Milledgeville Social Roundup
Chedwick News recaps Sunday dinners with Mr and Mrs Abel Bielema in Sterling and Mr and Mrs Frank Cheeseman hosting guests from Rockford and Mill edgeville. Tommy Grimm from Miles Iowa stayed with his grandparents while Keith and Keiths wife visited St Louis. Fay Hawkins and Frank Hawkins hosted weekend guests in Milledgeville. Arthur Deets attended the funeral of his nephew Clay Deets in Sterling Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Meinsma
Abel Bielema
Sterling
Frank Cheeseman
Zennie Roderick
Rockford
Henry Rahn
Milledeeville
Tommy Grimm
Miles
Henry Grimm
Keith Grimm
St. Louis
Francis Ritter
Bethlehem
Fay Hawkins
Frank Hawkins
Milledgeville
Arthur Deets
Mr. Deets
Clay Deets
Local Roster and Property Transfers Reported in Chadwick Area
Chadwick News notes Fred H Olson hires Chadwick Robertson to assist on his farm for the year. E R Mest sells a 40 acre Chadwick south farm to Lloyd Emnyre of Milledgeville with possession March 1 at about 125 dollars per acre. The column records numerous Sunday and Saturday visiting hours among local families including Bowles Reiling Har rington Myers Hartman Maring Stiles and others, plus wedding attendance for the Doty Frederick union in Wacker and neighbors visiting Lena Morrison Corwith and Mt Carroll residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas Robertson
Savanna
Fred H. Olson
E. R. Mest
Chadwick
Lloyd Emnyre
Milledgeville
Alan1
Bowles
Harold Reiling
Atkinson
Warren Bowles
Eas
Moline
James Morgan
Ray Spangler
Harold Spangler
Morrison
Clarence Hartman
Carl Maring
Neal Maring
Jerry
Harold Stoner
Emma K. Reiff
Greencastle
Kenje Ogata
Sterling
Alvin Reiff
Ideal
Earl Neis
Shirley
Phyllis
Carol Miller
Doty-Frederick
Wacker
Alfred Byers
Rollin and
Allen
Alfred Nichols
Lena
H. L. Carbaugh
James Adams
Corwith
Katie Adams
Mt. Carroll
Fragmentary Notice Gathers March 15 Deadline
A fragmented OCR item mentions a deadline of March 15 for compiling necessary information and warns of early submission requirements. It notes general instructions without listing specific names or places. The sparse text implies an administrative or bureaucratic filing task with a firm date.
Social Visits Across Town And News Of Ruth Cooper
Mr and Mrs John Hook visited Mr and Mrs Ted Storm at Wacker Sunday afternoon. Ruth Cooper who has volunteered as an army nurse is spending a few days at home awaiting orders. The dramatic race to get enough penicillin to treat endocarditis is described by Robert D Potter, Science Editor, in The American Weekly distributed with next weeks Sunday Chicago Herald American.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hook
Ted Storm
Wacker
Eva Foltz
Irene
Clarence Cooper
Cecil Mitchell
Arch Atherton
Ivan Carrell
Anna George
Thomson
J. C. Wilburn
Chadwick
George Farm
John Faber
Marlyn
Neil Vogel
Fulton
Seba Damhoff
Jake Wilkins
Crookston
Minn
Ruth Cooper
Ruth
Chicago
Robert D. Potter
American Weekly
Chicago Herald- American
For Sale Classified items in Thomson from C C King
Two listings by C C King Thomson advertise about 150 bales of bright cat straw priced 10 cents each and a 55 acre farm five miles northeast of Thomson on a gravel road. Rural property and farm commodity sale notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. C. King, Thomson
N. E
Thomson
C. C. King
Heavy Fog Slows Traffic On Slippery Highways
Heavy fog settled over the area Wednesday evening creating blinding conditions for motorists and freezing on concrete pavements. Windshields iced over, drivers briefly windows down to gauge the road, and several slips were reported as the fog persisted into Thursday morning until about 11. The light traffic avoided serious crashes, but the hazardous conditions led to several falls on slick footing.
Village Receives WPB Permit to Build Water Tank
Village officials were handed a priority War Production Board permit on Wednesday morning for material to construct a new water tank. The old tank is in poor condition and the village board had nearly lost hope of approval. The contracting company has been notified, but a start date has not been announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Production Board
Mrs Orion Alexander and Daughter Visit Maude Alexander
Mrs Orion Alexander and her daughter Margaret were Saturday afternoon callers of Mrs Maude Alexander.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orion Alexander
Margaret
Maude Alexander
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Naeve’s
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Lanark
Rinhold Miller
Pearl City
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