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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1925
Page
3
A local editorial urges Thomson organizers to build the next festival around melons. It favors advertising melons, melon races, and a patch tour over typical town events, and calls on nearby growers to bring fruit, attend, and promote a record turnout this summer.
Mrs Rosa Griswold dropped by the Review office last Friday to renew her subscription and to share relic memories. She recalls a log cabin kitchen with a fire ready for meals and an old bronzed teapot once owned by her grandmother, possibly 150 years old, and notes she can still handle a loom and spinning wheel.
The fragment notes Grewold 7 and a Small Case thresher purchase by Ed and TJ per Bill. It mentions a lay caporine and 30h for neighbors, but details are incomplete regarding the transaction, purpose, and involved parties.
Dr Durkee unloads limestone from farm car using two trucks and making fast time. Edith Reynolds of Lee II visits her mother and attends a local chautauqua. Mrs Jake Miller returns from Watertown sanitarium with improved health. Nearby Springfield reports 1925 wheat at elevators at 1 30 a bushel and about 30 bushels per acre. Postmaster HT Jo Reesdins enters relic contest with a 1774 coin showing Carlos I, a piece Herb Rawlins mistook as English money.
Mrs. Lou Schildmiller and her daughter Mary of Chicago arrived Tuesday for a week's visit at the Arthur Pane home. Try a Want Ad.
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