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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1941
Page
6
Snow blanketed Mt Carroll after a livestock men banquet as about six tenths of an inch fell Friday. Weather observer James McCray noted additional flurries Saturday and temperatures dropping to three degrees above zero by Friday morning.
Sheriff Ray Westfall sought to verify the identity of a girl hitchhiker brought to the DuBuque county sheriff’s office Tuesday night by salesman F W Mahike who said she claimed to have run away from her Iowa home. She gave names Ida Snyder and Ida Shrader and said she left home after a quarrel with her mother and was headed to Chicago.
Terms of eight directors will expire at the 26th annual Illinois Agricultural Association meeting in St. Louis. Names listed include Arthur States Leo M Knox M Ray Ihrig C M Smith Eugene Curtis Dwight Hart Chester McCord and August G Eggerding. Nominations occur Jan 30 with elections at the convention closing session Jan 31. President and vice president are elected for one year. directors serve two years.
Pasquale Magnani of Amboy assumes leadership of the Carroll theatre, taking over from Anthony Potocnik who helped open the venue last spring. Magnani has five years’ experience with the operators and plans to maintain the theatre’s high standards, while Potocnik prepares a vacation then transfer to a Warren theatre.
The Sequoia club met this week to elect officers for the coming year. Officers include President O. P. Miles, Vice President J. R. Gelwicks, Secretary-Treasurer E. R. Wachtel, Directors Vere Hanna N. C. Smith Fred C. Leigh, and committee members E. L. Kneale F. J. Rhodes Sr Al Kessler Dr J. C. Garland with Bruch Davis and Eaton as grievance and entertainment coordinators.
Two men escaped serious injury when a transport truck plunged off highway 30 at Junction with route AO near Fulton. Driver R M Carter said brakes failed about 4 40 am causing the truck to shoot straight across route 80 and down a ten foot embankment. The cab and front end were crushed but both occupants sustained only minor scratches. Tires tubes and other rubber goods were moved to another truck that night.
Bids were opened Tuesday in the office of Capt. Joseph Gill for a garage and a combined fire station and guard house at the Savacen Ordnance depot. The apparent low bid for the fire station and guard house was 60120 by A HL Porevak of Greer River Michigan, while Axel Johnson of Cotraro submitted 67600 for the garage. Nineteen bids were received for the fire and guard house project, with all bids sent to the office of the Quartermaster General in Washington. Work to start within ten days of award notification and finish within 220 days per the contracts.
Residents report snow beginning Tuesday with flurries through the day followed by a light freezing mist on Wednesday. Sidewalks and highways became slick creating driving hazards while ponds froze solid enough for ice skating in the area.
Sterling Sales Inc reports an excellent start for the new year with large attendance and strong bidding at the Thursday auction on January 2. High interest focused on 50 dairy cows sold from $70 to $120, including a Wisconsin Holstein with calf at side. Farm horses sold up to $150 and hog sales were very good.
Personnel and equipment from the Carroll County Farm Bureau headquarters were moved into the new ground floor offices in the Farm Bureau building during Tuesday and Wednesday. The main office sits at the front with the secretary Mrs. Tucetta Grimm at her desk. Behind a low counter, the office of Farm Adviser M. P. Rocke is separated by a wood partition, and further north is the office of Hannah Fahrney, organization director.
Springfield high school's touring cage squad defeated Savanna high 39 to 30 in a New Year's night game at Savanna. Coach Mark Peterman used ten to twelve players to rest his starters for the next game against Oregon high. Savanna led 7 to 4 early, the Giants trailed 18 to 16 at halftime, and Springfield pulled away in the final period.
Nan Collingwood of Savanna is named chair of Carroll county's committee for the President's birthday ball to be held January 30 in the Minuet ballroom. The nationwide drive funds infantile paralysis research and local care, with 50 percent staying in Carroll county. In 1940 Carroll county reported three cases of infantile paralysis.
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