Lanark youth tours Scotland and Britain solo
Seventeen year old Steve Shearer of Lanark Illinois spent three weeks exploring Scotland England and sites from Plockton to Edinburgh. He traveled alone via Montreal and Glasgow, stayed with relatives in Alness, visited London Buckingham Palace and the Tower of London, and returned with 400 slides and rich memories of the rugged beauty and daily life of the British Isles.
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Lanark Illinois
Steve
Stephen
Steve Shearer
William Shearer
Lanark
British Isles
Germany
Chicago
Montreal
Canada
Prestwick
Glasgow
Inverness
Andrew Howe
Alness
Scotland
Howes
Howe
Betty Hill
Plockton
Isle of Skye
Edinburgh
London
England
Shearer
Lanark High School
States
County field day offers weed control and corn trials
DéKalb Experimental Field opens to visitors with 800 attendees from Carroll County. The event showcases oat wheat soybean varieties, fertilizer and planting date responses, forage tests, and corn bean weed control trials. Organizers discuss rootworm activity and announce a July 17 field party at Shannon's Lawrence Woesner farm.
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DéKalb Experimental Field
Carroll County
Lawrence Woesner
Shannon
July Birthday Notices and County Fair Calendar Highlights
A jumble of names and dates lists July birthdays and local observances across Milledgeville Lanark Polo and Sterling. Calendar items cover 4-H events rootworm parties cattle days and extension council meetings through July 28 with numerous individuals named for celebrations.
Local Names Listed in Community Notices
Everett Brown of Milledgeville Ralph Shafer and Douglas Cripe of Polo Rebecca Ann Stout of Davenport Iowa appear in the readable notices. The fragmentary item identifies individuals and their locations amid a larger listing.
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George Knoess
Chadwick
Vernon Rosenberg
Camanche
Iowa
Dan Kradle
Sterling
Harold Kenyon
Thomson
Russell Nye
M. G. Marshall
Harold E. Unzicker
Rockford
Jacob Burkholder
Milledgeville
Arvey Brown
Kenneth Petersen
Davenport
Merle Bielema
Kevin Smith
Polo
Joyce Ann Schaver
Morrison
Pamela A. Beyers
Mr. Carroll
Jeffrey Ritchie
Savanna
Charles Paisley Wyman
Tor
Everett Brown
Ralph Shafer
Douglas Cripe
Rebecca Ann Stout
Good Samaritan Home Progressing in Carroll County
Funds raised for a 68 bed Good Samaritan Nursing Home total about 72 thousand dollars including county share and society contributions. Building by Home Builders Inc sits on Mount Carroll site with landscaping planned and a naming contest after completion in about nine months.
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Home Builders, Inc
Mount Carroll
U.S. Treasury
Colehours
Elver Eisfeiler
The
Good Samaritan Society
Carroll County
John McCormack
Elver Eisfeller
Mount Carroll National Bank
Illinois
Editorial on too many bills in Illinois 76th General Assembly
The Taxpayers Federation of Illinois criticizes 4190 bills 1261 Senate 2929 House as clogging committees and closing weeks. They urge screening to weed out weak proposals while praising Rep Kenneth Miller for an income tax revenue amendment and support exempting personal property from tax roles. Local governments face revenue gaps and calls to cut other state spending.
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Ilinois General Assembly
Senate
House
Taxpayers’ Federation of Illinois
Kenneth Miller
Sterling
Lila J. Atherton
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Isles
Highland
Little Rock
Arkansas
Tower of London
Volved
Harold Brikmeier
Les Grim
R.R
Mt. Carroll
Argo Fay Area
Cliff Durward
Farm & Ranch
D. mm
ALL Weather
Jeans Boys
KRAFT
Carroll
Happy
Jake Engelkens
Fulton
Robert Kradle
J. Melville McKean
Claude Warre
Lyle Miller
Kermit Lasch
Pickhorn
Wis
I. B. Lego
Marvin Wenzel
Ralph Flickinger
Lan
Raynor Mosher
Cecil Creighton
Stockton
Hugh Hermes
Wisconsin
Carroll County Fair Board
Washington
D.C
White Eagle
Development Corporation Board
Courthouse
Creighton
Woesner Farm
Mosher Farm
Hermes Farm
Agriculture Extension Council
University of Illinois
Herbert Stein
Dixon
Gary Handel
John Geisz, Jr
Monmouth New Litwiller
Ralph Picking
Freeport
Virgil Marth
David B. Stiffler
Macomb
Merlyn Bruns
Mervyn Bruns
Karen Downs
Hollis Meeks
Raymond Poffenberger
Robert Leroy Lott
James Downs
Phyllis Mae Buikema
Fred D. Hutchison
Jon Russell Sikkema
Wm. H.miller, Jr
Donald Hussey
New Lennox
Arman Bushman
Vera Fink
Clinton
Alice ‘Walter Moshure
Mt Carroll
Virginia Walter Schaal
Philip Bowman
Steven Michael Holloway
Jerry Brinkman
Tucson
Arizona
Pamela Sue Kaufman
Brenda Lee Zahn
Forreston
Lyle Mitchell
Vera Kreuder
Ralph Irion
Morrison A Spillane
Sioux Falls
T. A. Bookman
Larry Gipe
Karen Sue Root
James Keller
Cora Lindsay
Miles Wallace
Alvin Porter
Wilbur Stiles
Mt. Morris
Keith Bailey
Earl Beck
Joyce Davis
Dubuque
Michael Stewart
Lena
David Foster Stagg
Port Byron
Dale W. Meador
Frank
S. Hutchison, Jr
Elmer Zugschwerdt
Robert Carroll
Kenneth Workman
N. Manchester
Indiana
Larry Atherton
Betty Jean Bergstead
Strea
Thomson Review
Thomso
Village Echo
Thomson Broadax
Wewspaper
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