Valentine's Day Was Once for the Birds
Lila J Atherton surveys the history of Saint Valentine and how February 14 came to be a day of love. From Roman legends of Claudius the Cruel to Lupercal festivals to Bailey's dictionary note, she weighs myth against modern rites. The piece links Valentine legends with birds and flowers while noting labor avoidance on the holiday.
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Dine the Cruel
Saint Valentine
Clodius
Claudius
Claudius the Cruel
Valentine
St. Praxedes
Rome
Bailey
England
Orleans
Agincourt
Tower of London
Henry IV
France
Italy
County Shows Set With Entries From Barrows and Hogs
Wayne Becker of Savanna plans to enter the Chana show on March 3 and another on March 1 at the Chicago Stock Yards new Atkinson market. Last year Carroll County entries at Chana were among the top hogs. Officials hold entry forms and rules at the office.
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Wayne Becker
Savanna
Chana
Chicago
Carroll County
Toopee
Timber Lake Playhouse to Open Eighth Season with The King and I
Timber Lake Playhouse announces its eighth season opening in June with a slate of musicals comedies and dramas. The King and I leads as the season’s second production followed by Generation The Subject Was Roses Enter Laughing Wait Until Dark You Know I Can t Hear You When the Winter s Running You re a Good Man Charlie Brown and Long Day s Journey Into Night. Company members arrive in early June and stay through September.
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Timber Lake Playhouse
Rogers and Hammerstein
William Goodheart
Frank Gilroy
Joseph Stein
Frederick Knott
Robert
World War I Veterans to Attend Sterling District Meeting
Carroll County Barracks No. 2041 WWI veterans will join the 11th District meeting in Sterling on Sunday February 16 at 2 p.m. in the VFW Hall. The auxiliary will meet at the same time and place.
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Carroll County
11Th District
Sterling
VFW
Extension Plans 69 70 Programs in Carroll County
Program planning committees will meet Monday night February 17 at 7 30 p m in the County Extension Office to plan 69 70 Agricultural Extension events. Committees include Dairy led by Kenneth Ericsen Lanark Farm Management Frank Fogel Milledgeville Livestock Leroy Foltz Childwick Public Affairs Fred Dauphin Savanna and Soils and Crops Herb Law Mt Carroll.
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Carroll County
Kenneth Ericsen
Lanark
Frank Fogel
Milledgeville
Leroy Foltz
Childwick
Fred Dauphin
Savanna
Mt. Carroll
Local Newspaper Publisher and Editorial Staff Note
Thomson Illinois based K Co and J K Whitney publish weekly editions. J K Whitney editor Lila Atherton news editor provide subscription rates four dollars per year in Carroll and adjoining counties five dollars per year elsewhere.
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Birds
Lila J. Atherton
Lupercus
Shakespeare
Ophelia
Saint Valen
Tine
Clau
Harold Brinkmeier
Clayton Kaul
Chadwick
Clayton
Clifford M. Hardin
John B. Anderson
Longworth Building
Washington, D.C
Kenneth Hollinger
Church of the Brethren
Paul Anholt
University of Illinois
Dorothy Footitt
Home Ec
Frances Webb
Lanark Meadow Larks Unit
Cherry Grove
Glenn Bremmer
Louella
Bremmers
Farm Bureau
Are
Emerald Hills Country Club
Thomson
Extension Advisers Assn
Oregon
King
Cooperative, Extension Service
Thomson Review
Illinois
The
Village Echo
Thomson Broadax
IS ‘Newspaper
Krafit
Coats
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