Carroll County Youth Baseball League Schedules 1969
The 1969 Carroll County Youth Baseball League lists Pee Wee games on July 12 at 2:00 p.m. Shannon vs Chadwick, Thomson vs Mt. Carroll. Small Fry July 7-11 in Chadwick. Junior League July 8 at 6:00 p.m. Chadwick vs Thomson and Shannon vs Mt. Carroll, Lanark vs Milledgeville. All Star Game July 3 at 6 p.m. in Savanna with an out-of-county team.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County
Pee Wee Eee
Shannon
Chadwick
Thomson
Mt. Carroll
Lanark
Milledgeville
Fulton II
Morrison II
Savanna II
Hanover
Morrison I
Fulton
Fulton I
Bye
Savanna I
Savanna MH
Carroll County Pony League
All Stars
Savanna
Carroll County 4-Hers Attend 69 Club Week
Ruth Mackey leads a Jo-Carroll delegation of 32 youths and 4 counselors from Mt. Carroll to the 4-H Club Week at the University of Illinois Champaign Urbana, June 17–20. The event drew about 1500 Illinois 4-H members, with sessions on consumer education, career opportunities, and international exchanges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County
Mt. Carroll
Champaign- Urbana
University of Illinois
Illinois
Andy Blumer
Chadwick
Jo-Carroll
Champaign-Urbana
Assembly Hall
Garner Hall
Snyder Hall
Ilinois
Iran
Bolivia
France
Italy
New Drivers License Station Opens in Savanna Area
A second drivers license examination station is now secured in Savanna Carroll County to serve the public. An examiner and a clerk will be employed at the station. Linda Charneski of Savanna is in training at the Chadwick station to serve as clerk. Philip Dimpfl of Chadwick began work July 1 as examiner at Chadwick and will transfer if needed. He moved from Barnweld Wisconsin on October 1 1951 and now resides in Chadwick with his wife and two daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County
Savanna
Linda Charneski
Chadwick
Philip Dimpfl
Dimpfl
Barnweld
Wis
Thomson Students Return From Music Camp At Western Illinois
Sylvester McWorthy III returned home after attending band camp on a Thomson Woman's Club scholarship at Western Illinois University Macomb last week. Pam Kaufman and Barbara Schoening are at the camp this week for chorus members with Pam also funded by the same scholarship program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvester McWorthy III
Western Ilinois University
Macomb
Thomson Woman's Club
Sylvester McWorthy, Jr
R R. Thomson
Pam Kaufman
Wayne Kaufman
Barbara Schoening
Donald Schoening
Pam
Woman's Club
Open House Celebrates Thomson Music Director Mailand
Over 100 people attended a Friday open house in the Thomson school cafeteria honoring Mr. and Mrs. Earle Mailand and family. Mailand, music director for five years, resigned to take a similar post in Dodgeville Wisconsin. Music Boosters and Band Club hosted. gifts included a King David baton inscribed with appreciation and a money tree. Family members joined from Leaf River Freeport Belvidere Illinois Messamanni Wisconsin and Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earle Mailand
Mailand
Thomson
Dodgeville
Wisconsin
Mailands
Leaf River
Freeport
Belvidere
Illinois
Messamanni
Wis
Arkansas
Thomson Ladies Prepare Benefit Game with Open Tryouts
The Thomson girls softball team invites former students under 65 to join practice sessions led by coaches Wally Holland and Alvie Glazier. Planned benefit game aims to raise funds for equipment with proceeds donated to the team.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomson
Phyllis Halfman
Mary Waltrip
Jean St. Ores
Marilyn Young
Wally Holland
Alvie Glazier
Bob Gray
Thomson schools hire new instrumental music teacher
Faculty Superintendent Howard L. Kennedy announced Floyd Griffy of Newton Illinois will join Thomson schools as instrumental music teacher this fall. Griffy, a music major, graduates in August from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard L. Kennedy
Floyd Griffy
Newton
Illinois
Thomson
Griffy
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Van Oven Heads to Scandinavia for Five Week Tour
Miss Helen Van Oven of Carlisle and Fulton leaves New York by plane on July 1 for a five week European tour of Scandinavian countries after a stay in Europe last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen van Oven
Carlivile, Ir
Fulton
New York
Mercy Hospital Patients In Clinton And Chicago
Medical patients at Mercy Hospital Clinton include With the Sick Martin Diephuis admitted last Saturday and Mrs Virgil Wilt in room 435. Mrs Lloyd Smith underwent major surgery in Mercy Hospital Clinton and remains in room 293. Mrs Henry Paulsen shows continued improvement after open heart surgery at Illinois Research Hospital Chicago. Lester Mitchell Sr. has returned home to convalesce after recent Mercy Hospital treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Diephuis
Mercy Hospital
Clinton
Lester Mitchell Sr
Iowa City
Virgil Wilt
Lloyd Smith
Henry Paulsen
Illinois Research Hospital
Chicago
The Subject Was Roses at Timber Lake Playhouse
Timber Lake Playhouse presents The Subject Was Roses July 9 to 13 with Frank Gilroy’s drama about a family torn by frictions and love. Susan Friedberg stars as the mother, Richert Easley as the father, and Richert Easley as the father. A Kent Gravett directs. Curtain times are 8 30 p.m. weekdays and Saturdays and 7 30 p.m. Sundays, all seats reserved. Timber Lake Restaurant offers pre performance dining.
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Timber Lake Playhouse
Frank Gilroy
Richert Easley
TLP
A. Kent Gravett
King
Timber Lake
Cancer Society Workers List
Mrs. Marvin Holesinger chair man of the American Cancer Society for York township reports over 450 in donations during the recent fund campaign. This amount far exceeds last year and she thanks clubs service organizations and door to door solicitors including Mrs Robert Knuth Mrs Theresa Eissens Mrs Lloyd Bruckner Mrs Don Wiersema Mrs Ed Dyke ma Mrs Ed Hook Mrs Don Schneider Mrs Fay Ashby Mrs William Bergman Mrs Robert Pannell Mrs James Green Mrs Larry Smith Mrs Paul Hartman Mrs Leand Houzenga and Mrs Harry Dittmar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin Holesinger
American Cancer Society
York Township
Robert Knuth
Theresa Eissens
Lloyd Bruckner
Don Wiersema
Ed Dykema
Ed Hook
Don Schneider
Fay Ashby
William Bergman
Robert Pannell
James Green
Larry Smith
Paul Hartman
Leand Houzenga
Harry Dittmar
Firemen battle rail line fires sparked by passing train
The Thomson fire departmentResponded around 2 30 PM Thursday to a string of railroad right of way fires from one mile south to five miles north of Thomson on both sides of the road. Fire crews from Savanna and the railroad assisted in dousing the flames despite soaking rainfall.
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Thomson Fire Department
Thomson
Savanna Fire Department
Local families visit and greet relatives across towns
Thomson brief mentions several social visits from San Diego to Clinton and Pecatonica. The Simmons family and Ernest Rathje hosted guests including Brock and Root families. Other sequences note dinners and weekend visits involving Wiebenga, Sack, Witt, Dyson, McBride, and Meakins in Morrison Hastings and Waterloo regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Simmons
San Diego
Calif
Ernest Rathie
Clinton
S. Carolina
John Root
Harry Root
Earl Root
Russel Green
Edna Roggendorf
Glen Brock
Cary
Rudy Brock
Savanna
Ernest Rathje
Gene Smiley
Pecatonica
Aleda Wiebenga
Tami
Tori
Dora Wiebenga
Tommy Stagg
Port Byron
Max Meakins
Earl Sack
Minneapolis
Minn
Amelia Sack
Donald McBride
Dale
Morrison
Harold Witt
Paul Dyson
Waterloo
Iowa
Ralph Irion
Gerald Bower
Seana
Dan McMeen
Hastings
Claude Wiebenga
Fulton
Thomson FFA Members Join American Heritage Tour
Three Thomson FFA members Frank Tipton Jim Halfman and Larry Wagner joined thirty eight peers for an American Heritage tour departing Sunday June 22 1969. The group visited Gettysburg Valley Forge Arlington National Cemetery Mt. Vernon and other historic sites in Washington DC before returning home Friday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomson Ffa
Frank Tipton
Jim Halfman
Larry Wagner
Washington DC
Peoria
Ilinois
Gettysburg
Battle
Lancaster County
Valley Forge
Washington
Freedom Foundation
Arlington, Va
Arlington National Cemetery
National Wax Museum
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Monument
Smithsonian Institute
Hyde Murray
House Committee On Agriculture
Mt. Vernon
George Washington
National Ffa
Future Farmers
National
FFA
Jefferson Memorial
Charles
Fulton Man Sues Over $25,000 Injury From Boat Trailer
Daniel E. Ottens of Fulton sues Yarbrough Manufacturing Co of Arlington Harry Kahler Jr owner of Lateke Marina Clinton and Hobart Holland Thomson in Carroll County Circuit Court claiming a winch hook failure on a trailer caused a broken jaw lost teeth and lost work time. The suit seeks $25,000 against the manufacturer and unspecified damages against Holland and Lateke Marina for implied warranty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County
Daniel E. Ottens
Fulton
Ottens
Yarbrough Manufacturing Co
Arlington
Texas
Harry Kahler, Jr
Lateke Marina
Clinton
Hobart Holland
Thomson
Louis A. Buikema
Holland
Buikema
Thomson Cub Scouts Enjoy Family Fun Day
Thomson Cub Scout Pack No 52 held a 1969 Family Fun Day at Apple River Canyon Boy Scout Camp on June 21. Activities included rifle archery nature hike Scoutcraft boating canoeing obstacle course tug-of-war swimming and Indian dancing. A noon barbecue and picnic followed with families in charge of the men.
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Thomson
Apple River Canyon Boy Scout Camp
Invited To Join Honor Fraternity At Western State
Earle Mailand was invited to join Kappa Delta Pi at Western State University Platteville Wis for scholastic honor, requiring a 3.85 GPA. He is pursuing an MA in Music Education.
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Earle Mailand
Kappa Delta Pi
Western State University
Platteville
Wis
Earle
Funeral services held for Mrs Louise Wulf Conery Ohio
Mrs Louise Wulf Conery 66 of Lakewood Ohio died after a heart attack in Jane Lamb hospital She flew from Illinois to attend a great-niece wedding in June She was born September 19 1903 Clinton In survivors are two daughters and two sons plus five grandchildren and a sister The service was attended by Mrs Del Curley of Fulton and Miss Ruth Roff of Clinton Iowa
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del Curley
Fulton
Ruth Roff
Clinton
Iowa
Ohio
Louise Wulf Conery
Lakewood
Jane Lamb Hospital
Conery
Illinois
Nanette Curley
W. E
Louise Littler Wulf
Thomson
Clarence
Margaret) Huggins
Los Angeles
California
Let Freedom Ring Independence Day Creed Remains Enduring
William Tyler Page late cler k of the U S House writes in 1917 1918 about the Declaration of Independence and the enduring American creed praising equality life liberty and the pursuit of happiness The piece urges citizens to remember founding ideals and let freedom ring in their hearts on Independence Day.
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John Adams
Continental Congress
Philadelphia
America
United States of America
William Tyler Page
U. S. House of Representatives
House
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Memorial Stadium
Ilinois 4-H Foundation
Judi Ford
Quent
Huff Gym
Richard Morris
Joseph Meek
Herb True
Ruth Mackey
David Queckboerner
Busy Beavers
Norm Isenhart
Fair Haven
Chadwick Woman's Club
Oakville School
Carroll County Historical Society
Vernon Fink
European
Susan Friedberg
Stan King
Carnegiere University
Pittsburgh
List Cancer Society Workers
Thomson Briefs
H. Percy
Congressional Committee
United States Capitol
Federal Bureau of Investigation
William Gengenbach
Vo Ag
Peoria County Farm Bureau
Fulton Man
Thomson Cub
Glenn Allen Kreuder
Danny Wiersema
James Eagle
Kevin Atherton
James Wiersema
Gene Habben
Marvin Hill
Scott Foltz
Todd Halfman
Steven Miller
Cory Pidde
Jason Cox
Randy Starr
Randy Muur
Ronnie Muur
Danny LaShelle
Danny Wilkinson
John Gray
Mike Prins
David Prins
Mark Diephuis
Bob Kaufman
David Pilgrim
Jason McGinty
Join Hamm
Steve Wilkinson
Kenny LaShelle
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