Happy Birthday Birthday List for Milledgeville and Surrounding Towns
Birthday list notes dates January 3 to January 9 listing residents from Milledgeville Lanark Thomson Savanna Chadwick Coleta Shannon Varna Thomson and Lockport with many names including Velma Shelly Gordon Krell and several Mrs. entries. The notice reads as a community birthday roll with names and towns for celebrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lou Elliott
Lanark
Lois Stage
Thomson
Gordon Krell
Wiliam Ewers
Milledgeville
Paul Sweitzer
Raymond Skiles
Savanna
A. P. Glaw
Chicago
Mary Courts
John Kramer
Glenn Demaree
George Geison
Rexford Printz
Paul Burns
Vernon Fink
Chadwick
Brice Puterbaugh
Charlotte Flickinger
Frank F. Schneider
Shannon
Sidney Brenneman
Lawrence Weatherwax
Marvin Martindale
Cloquet
Minn
Louise Lewis
Shirley Boylan
George van Buskirk
Coleta
Betty Buffington
Margaret McKean
Henry Voeckel
Marie Fryer
Howard Metz
Russell Wayne Zier
Arthur Robison
Merle Prins
Roy Warfield
E. A. Sollenberger
Ruth Knox
John Sollenberger
Ben Mathias
Conrad Lillie
Lockport
Dorothy Mudd
Varna
Ill
Andrew Hook
Doris Jean Stover
LaVerne Straub
R. J. Gr
Carroll County Cheerful Caller reflects on a hopeful 1941
The Carroll County column notes optimism for better farm prices and milk, droughts of snow, and a busier Christmas trade. It mentions a planned Old-Time issue of The Review for Feb 20 and invites readers to submit names of relatives living out of county for cards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County
Frank Sten
Clinton
Thomson
Meat Market
Ed McGinty
Foster Black
Pfister
Donald Asay
Denver
Asay
Christmas Guests Filled Milledgeville Area Homes
Numerous families from Milledgeville and nearby towns visited hosts for Christmas dinners and Sunday meals. Attendees included the Buffington, Cunningham, Barnhart, Emnyre, Bushman, Hess, Slifer, Kyger, Knox, Runnels, Haugh, Engles, Walters, Cook, Bonders, Kiester, Lang, and Gatrell families, among others from Sterling, Malta, Chadwick, Rock Falls, and Clinton. The gatherings spanned Mr. and Mrs. Loren Albers’s home and other local residences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maude Prugh
Charles Barnhart
John Cunningham
Sterling
Fay Reitzel
Robert Eastabrooks
Mason Spaulding
Carroll
Lloyd Emnyre
Ray Moyer
Mt. Carroll
Ward Cram
Lyle Robinson
Edith Holly
Glen Zugschwerdt
Karen
Lanark
Leo Bushman
Emily Ann Harter
Chadwick
Rex Munz
Larry
Earl Adolph
Morris
W. E. Bushman
Anna Mary Allen
Maurice Brundage
Malta
E’em Hess
Milton Moore
Laren
Elva Slifer
Merrill
Lois
Lester Kyger
Ernest Kyger
Rock Falls
Howard Slifer
John Stoner
Miceuth Knox
DeKalb
Reile Knox
Ormond Runnels
Polo
Sod
Burger Runnels
Martha Fleming
Pearl Dingman
Velda
Kenneth
Penrose
Harry Haugh
Robert Haugh
Edgar Engles
Bert Cheeseman
Gene Walters
Jerry Ann
Morrison
George Cook
Beverly
Harry Bonders
Clinton
William Kiester
Freeport
George Lang
Clair Gatrell
A Fantastical Tale From a County Fair Card
A narrator recalls a chaotic scene at a county fair where a Hindu companion plots a race scam. An Oregon Bay horse wins by a narrow margin after a tense finish, triggering a frantic, improvised pay off and a crowd of about ten thousand. The memory blends gambling stratagems with vivid fairground atmosphere and personal missteps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suir the Hindu
Pal
You
Freeport
Oregon Bay
Theix
George Kenyon
Number Five
George
Princess
Carroll County
Notice of Claim Day Estate of August Altensen Deceased
Estate of August Altensen deceased set February 3 1941 as the claim date in Carroll County Illinois. Claims may be filed by that date without summons. Administrator Arnold E H Traum and attorney John C Kerch represent the estate. Board of Supervisors will meet in special session January 14 1941 at Mt Carroll Court House. no claims will be allowed at this session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
August Altensen
Carroll County
Illinois
Board of Supervisors of
Ilinois
Court House
Mt. Carroll
Fragmentary Tale Ends With Teasing Farewell
The speaker recalls a private exchange with the Princess and Ed from Freeport praising horse knowledge. A Hindu warns of consequences over unshared money. The narrator concedes trouble ahead and signs off with a casual goodbye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeport
Palsey
Also Mentioned on This Page
Thomson Review
the Village Echo
Thomson Broadax
Dec Saunders
H. G. Stagg
Yivalena Bolhous
Kenneth Whitney
Thomson, Ilinois
Thomson, Illinois
Telephone
Happy
Velma Shelly
Stanley Wagner
A. W. Muender
Clayton Fossett
Bernard Eugene Groharing
Arman Wolf
al Meander
Merle Stage
Roy Houghton
Faye Roberts
James Ritenour
Wacker
Eugene Johnson
Mr. Carroll
Donald Werner
J. F. Greenawalt
W. J. Wolf
Elmer Gaul
Austin Philips
Art Smith
State Highway Department
George Reedy
Dan Connell
A. E. Sheridan
Noah Sweitzer
Atttorney
A. M. Blodgett
Fulton
Sharpe
Cal Feezer
Oregon
Wes
Legals
Arnold E. H. Traum
John C. Kerch
W. L. Derrer
Ferguson
Savanna, Ill
Mt. Carroll, Tr
Galena Street
Mount Carroll Sales CO
H. Kipnis
Roy Fritz
Owen Miles
Garrett Sterenberg
Morrison, Ill
Habben
Franklin Corners
White Pigeon
Guernsey
Springer
John Deere
Lloyd Workman
R. Mest
Gerrett Sterenberg
C. A. Renkes
Lewis Motor Co
Excello
Marth Bros
W. F. Black
Walnut, Ill
W.F. Black Farms
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