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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1946
Page
6
The heirs of George Bower plan a sale of the residence this Saturday after noon at the premises near the grade school. Possession will be given September 1. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Reagen of Chicago visited this week in the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kness.
Twenty years ago Mr and Mrs Edson Hollands hosted friends at their home for their 25th wedding anniversary. Other notes include Mrs John Carroll treating an injured hand in Chicago and local moonlight Capitol excursions drawing crowds.
Thomson News notes visitors from Boise Idaho and Watertown SD staying with relatives in Mt Carroll. Plans include Mrs Strubb heading to Moline for work and Don McBride entering Midwest Outboard races in Minneapolis and Janesville. A potato bug anecdote closes the column with a caution about headlines.
Beginning August 1 Miss Lois Stage, now nursing at Savannah City hospital, will enter the University of Chicago Lying-In Hospital for a four month post graduate course. Mr. and Mrs. Vern Kauffman and Don visited in Rockford Sunday with his mother Anna Kauffman. Miss Lou Moyer spent Sunday with Mrs. Mamie Tripp at Freeport and they dined at Wagon Wheels near Rockton. Mrs. Tripp supervises the sewing department at Deaconess hospital in Freeport. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Murray and sons visited Sterling, while Joe Sheridan of Fulton was a weekend guest in the Thomas Hand home.
Mrs. Vic Fenley and daughter Harrietta visited from Friday to Monday night with her husband's parents Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Fenley at Seymour Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hand and two daughters of Welton Iowa spent Sunday in the Thomas Hand home.
Mrs Everett Vanderlaan and Edward Blink of Fulton visited Sunday afternoon with Mr and Mrs J H Kramer and family. Mrs Dwight Atherton and Patty Lee Linder of Des Moines and Mr and Mrs Merle Atherton and children spent Sunday with Mrs Helen Jones in East Maine. Mrs Rose Sheridan of Fulton and Bertha Rafter of Spring Valley spent the weekend at Josephine Sheridan's home.
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