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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1962
Page
6
Thompson area residents hosted and visited over weekends and weekdays. Families including Fellows, Smith, Root, Halfman, Hook, Korbar, Hamm, Eslinger, Bealer, Smith, Raab, and Bielema were noted hosting or visiting relatives and friends from Morrison Milwaukee North Hollywood Tampa and Fulton.
A detailed outline of the Illinois Adoption Act explains that a child’s welfare guides all proceedings. It covers consent, filing, investigations, temporary care, and the six month period before final adoption. Upon decree, natural parents lose custody and an adopted child becomes the legal child of the adopters.
City sales taxes collected in October on September liability totaled 4 923 809 while county taxes for the same period were 307 050 The net distribution to Carroll County municipalities amounts to 6 883 26 with Chadwick 405 65 Lanark 1098 89 Meeeee 886 06 Mount Carroll 1180 95 Savanna 2439 44 Shannon 570 61 and Thomson 301 66 also shown The column shifts to pheasant counts and regulatory talk with mentions of the Illinois Federation of Sportsmen Clubs and the Illinois Natural History Survey noting a possibly record left over crop of pheasants near Sibley The article discusses using night spotlight surveys and calls for relaxed pheasant regulations while cautioning adoption records and legal privacy considerations The column ends with standard advisory language about consulting an attorney and not treating the column as legal counsel
The article discusses why pheasant harvests lag, attributing it to smart ring necks, limited hunting days, and lingering corn. It notes many birds are killed early, few hunters persevere after the season, and questions what happens to surplus birds whether next year’s crop will rise or die off.
Mr and Mrs Robert Vanderbilt of Waterloo along with another family spent the weekend at the home of Mr and Mrs Alex Brightman and returned home Monday. Mr and Mrs Walter Goettsch of Clinton IA were afternoon and supper guests of Mr and Mrs Walter Kahler on Sunday. Sarah Provant RN of Memorial hospital Freeport spent the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs V V Prowant.
Mr and Mrs Ed Andring and Dennis have returned from spending the Christmas holiday vacation with his brother and family Mr and Mrs Gene Andring at Jacksonville Florida.
Mrs Harold Manly andter Roxanne of McGrew Nebraska left after several weeks with her parents Mr and Mrs Roy Schreiner. Mr and Mrs Dale Swanson and son and Mrs Marie Hohlen of Clinton Indiana were Sunday dinner and supper guests at Mr and Mrs Arthur Behrens, Ronald Judd returned home after a weekend with the Behrens. Johnny and Andy Bauer from Durand Wisconsin are visiting grandparents Mr and Mrs V V Prowant.
Mrs. Noah Sweitzer spent winter in Galena with son-in-law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Coates. John Sloan and family were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Emil Brach. Fay Ashby and children visited with her father and Bert Houzenga at Fulton. Wayne Ashby and granddaughter Linda visited Ada Ashby at Mt. Carroll. Maude Brown and Harriet traveled to Chicago for Harriet's hospital checkup at Illinois Research Hospital. J and Mrs. Robert Carroll joined Ellsworth Nice and family for supper at Morrison, with Warren Nice and family present. Sunday meals included Wayne Jake and family visiting from Tampa, Fla., and David Bealer and Harry Wilkinson visiting Clifford Curley and Edna Shoemaker of Hanover. Visitors last Thursday included Maude Brown and Harriet with Calvin Eslinger and family.
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