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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1926
Page
1
The article notes the failed prior hunt with under 200 participants and urges farmers to join the January 25 event, predicting it will be a success if adequate advertising and support are present. It stresses organizing to ensure enough help to round up game and promises enjoyable activity.
Critics hail Buck Jones in Winner Take All at the York Co-Op theatre on January 16. Peggy Shaw stars as the leading lady and captivates the reviewer with her beauty and presence.
Rev. Clark Williams with Edison Holland Lawrence Gaar and Clarence McGinty attended a district meeting of the 10 C F in Morrison on Thursday evening.
A jumble of devotional phrases and program items lists music pieces and lectures. Names like Alice McKee Grace Strauch Bessie Kenyon Lulu Melendy appear with topics Kitchen Ideas and Ideals and The Business of Being a Woman.
A five foot gopher snake was brought to town by a trapper from Thompson. Found along the bluffs northeast of town, the cold morning temperature was about ten degrees above zero. The snake was turned over to Prof. Darrow for use in the high school laboratory.
Mr Nicholson and family of Bucyrus Kansas arrived Sunday with two carloads of stock and farming material. They will occupy the two farms owned by Mansfield Land and Loan Company, known as the French bottom farms, for the coming year. The Shaws, who farmed there last year, move to Tehan farm near Tehan school in the near future.
At the annual Baptist meeting officers were elected including Mrs. Wm Griswold Supt of Sunday School Claude Grim Trustee Mrs Alice Switzer Clerk Mrs Edison Holland Treasurer Mrs Ray Brenneman benevolent treas Mildred Holland Pianist Doris Prestage Assistant Pianist Mr A G Prestage Chorister Rev Prestage resignation requires reappointment for last two positions later. bus broke down Monday evening delaying Mr Adams homeward journey.
Bert Grim will hold a closing out sale on the Pratt farm south of town on Wednesday January 20 starting at eleven with a free lunch at noon. The stock includes seven horses twelve cattle cholera immune brood sows and shoats 150 hens and a full line of farm machinery including a Fordson outfit plus corn hay and other grains.
Cynthia Dodge presents a two act operetta by the Consolidated School Glee Club at Thomson Illinois city opera house on Wednesday evening January twentieth at seven thirty. Students Bruce Groharing Arlyne Adams Ruth French Betty Lewis and Dall perform in scenes including a picnic attic costumes and games with eventual sun and a closing line Aiil's Well that Ends Well. Special numbers feature Dolly's Lullaby Tiny Tot Orchestra and The Big Round World with the school orchestra and director Elnora Farley Lorenzen.
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