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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1953
Page
6
The column lists servicemen and family notes from Blair to Young, with their units and locations such as Fort Dix, Fort Campbell, Eglin AFB, and APO postings. It notes requests for readers to share updated addresses for those in the service and mentions several local couples and guests reported around New Year.
Cyrus Lodge No. 188 A F and A M will install new officers at 7:30 p m in Masonic hall with installing officer Right Worshipful Harold C Bentley and assistants all past masters of Star in the East lodge No 166 Rockford. New officers include Quentin DeSaix George Kopp Melvin Handel Elver Eisseller W M Nipe Charles F Kinney J J Delp C K Duncan W R Hostetter Charles H Kessler John Judas C G Kenyon and Robert Larson to manage social hour and refreshments.
Monterey California delayed report states Lt Duan W Linker USN recently graduated from the Navy General Line School and will attend the U S Naval Intelligence School in Washington DC for a nine month course teaching Italian language and advanced naval disciplines. Also noted are weekend guests Mr and Mrs Asa Kurth and Mrs Goodrow and daughter Diana from Mt Carroll.
Students return home for the holidays and begin travel to colleges and towns. Mr and Mrs Louis Noble of Mt Carroll drive Patty to De Kalb with Betty Gossard and others. Herbert Senneff departs for East Lansing. Sheldon Frank and Lana Frank head to Champaign. Roger Walker goes to Augustana College in Rock Island. Gayle Weber travels to Whitewater Wisconsin with Elmer Weber and Herbert Stein families.
The Chadwick Woman's Club will gather Thursday January 15 at the home of Mrs Howard Brett with assistant hostesses Mesdames Melvin Stengel Paul Unzicker and K C Whitney A program includes Roli Han quotation music by students a book review The Road to Bithynia by Frank G Slaughter by Rev Eldon Sch staff reports on press publicity radio and drama Park Ridge Federation extension literature and motion pictures.
Mrs John Magill attended both the afternoon and evening sessions of the OES school of instruction in Rockford with thirteen grand officers present. On Sunday she joined a dinner for line officers of the Rock River Valley association at the Freeport Masonic temple, followed by Clara Harbaugh club members. The club includes about forty five chapters with Mrs Magill serving as secretary.
Mr and Mrs Richard Badtke enjoyed watching TV at the Oscar Kraft home Sunday evening. Gordon Brown returned home after weeks in Roswell New Mexico with his brother Gerald Brown and family. The Roggendorf and Leavens families visited Frank Brock at Mt Carroll where cousin Raymond Brock remained ill. Robert Atherton of Aberdeen Maryland spent the weekend with Merle Atherton and visited his twin Richard before Richard left for Eglin AFB Florida after a furlough.
E A Williamson 67 of Rock Falls, brother of Mrs. Esper Johnson, died at Home Hospital Sterling after entering Dec 31. Funeral 2 p m Wheelock Rock Falls with Rev Ben Hearn Jr officiating. Burial Rock Falls Odd Fellows cemetery. Williamson long served as Rock Falls justice of the peace and civic leader. Surviving include widow, son, four daughters, and siblings.
The Thomson schools resumed study on Monday following the Christmas vacation. Local families and guests shared holiday gatherings with relatives, including frequent visits among Shanafelt Tousley Lewis Petersen Housenga and Ashby families across Clinton Maquoketa Centerville Chadwick and DeKalb areas. Thomas Root returned home to end his Army stint at Camp Breckinridge Kentucky.
A string of New Year and weekend gatherings across Sterling Chadwick Savanna LeClaire Coleta Morrison and nearby areas includes Mr. and Mrs. Claude Grim Mrs. Robert Rice and families visiting in Sterling Mr. and Mrs. August Hass with Chadwick relatives in La Shelle home and Mrs Mamie Sloan visiting John Sloan and family in Savanna Mrs H A Tobey in LeClaire with Jim Sutter and Anna Brown Mr. and Mrs. Herbert St Ores and Donald Green visiting Dan Sack family Wayne and Fay Ashby in Coleta Cecil Frosch and family with Gilpin Stagg Wayne Saffer from Morrison visiting Harvey Seim family and Mrs Ronald Bull Kathleen in Savanna.
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