Section 2 Voag Fair Scheduled Aug 9
A record-breaking 845 live stock poultry and farm product entries have been submitted for the Section 2 Vocational Agriculture Fair to be held Monday August 9 at Morrison. The state provides 2000 in premiums with divisions for swine beef cattle dairy sheep poultry and farm products. Judging starts at 8 30 a m DST and future farmers may check in August 8 from 3 to 5 p m or Monday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morrison
Joe van Metre
Dixon
Clyde Fry
Clinton
Kent Ryan
Northern Illinois Breeding Co-op
Hampshire
Lyle Brooks
Prophetstown
Herman Schafer
Franklin Grove
Clifford Wick
Pearl City
Melvin Stengel
Chadwick and Thomson
Stengel
Arthur L. Schick
Sterling
Robert Tuttle
Lanark
L. A. Holley
Ashton
Ralph Moens
Eric
Jim Herrman
Lee Center
SOD Commandant To Speak At Picnic Of Former G. R. Workers
Colonel L. A. Burbank commander of Savanna Ordnance Depot will speak at the 9th annual picnic for former Green River Ordinance Plant workers. The event is set for Sunday July 25 1954 at Sinnissippi Park east of Sterling Illinois. Burbank has a long Army career including service in China and Germany and currently resides on the Savanna Post with his wife Elsie and adopted daughter Susan Rosemary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. R
L. A. Burbank
Savanna Ordnance Depot
Savanna
Green River Ordnance Plant
Dixon-Amboy
Sinnissippi Park
Sterling
Burbank
Allison
Butler County
Iowa
West Waterloo
Wirth School
National Park Service
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Texas
Normyle Quartermaster Poepot
Normyle Ordnance Depot
China
U. S
Susan Rosemary
Wong Yu Bing
Savanna Township
Colonel Burbank
Earl A. MacLennan
Green River
Rock River
Sinniesippi Park
Fetterolf earns second in Aurora soapbox derby
Rod Fetterolf, son of Mr and Mrs Sorace Fetterolf of Mt Carroll, finishes runner up in the Aurora soapbox derby behind Jim Patterson Mooseheart. He receives a leather billfold, knife and toolkit, fishing gear valued at 50 dollars, plus a paint lettering kit for best painted car among 90 entrants. His family accompanies him as the Fetterolf brothers have placed first or second for seven years. Rod has one more year before aging out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Carroll
Rod Fetterolf
Sorace Fetterolf
Aurora
Fetterolf
Jim Patterson
Moosehart
Rod
Berkley
Fetterolf Brothers
Thomson visitors share Sunday at local homes
Mr and Mrs Robert Atherton and family of Thomson visited the Bickerts on Sunday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Conrad Keil of Freeport Clarence Kosher of Lanark and Mr and Mrs Don Smith and family were supper guests in the Daehler home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Atherton
Thomson
Julius Bickert
Conrad Keil
Freeport
Clarence Kosher
Lanark
Don Smith
Henry Daehler
Local visits mark weekend gatherings across Milledgeville and Savanna
Milledgeville hosts Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Fossett and others for Sunday calls at the Kness home. Savanna guests attend the Brown-Cash wedding. extended families from Los Angeles Pickneyville Stanwick and Chicago include Lydia Billings Frank Brown Elmer Wright Arthur Schwartzkopf and Oscar Brown Sr. as well as Riverview visitors for family celebrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe Fossett
Milledgeville
Merrill Rothermel
Morris
Edd Kness
Frank Kness
Fred Schreiner
Ed Schreiner
Lydia Billings
Los Angeles
Calif
Frank Brown
Pickneyville
Elmer Wright
Arthur Schwartzkopf
Stanwick
Oscar Brown, Sr
Savanna
Saville and Henderson Families Host Holiday Weekend Guests
Mexico Missouri hosts Mr and Mrs Lee Saville of Table Grove as weekend guests with Mr and Mrs Lee Henderson. Friday dinner included Mr and Mrs Lloyd Henderson Neal and Cassondra. Elena and Donald McGowan join grandparents Mr and Mrs Lee McGowan of Morrison on a three week western vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Lee Saville
Table Grove
Lee Henderson
Lloyd Henderson
Neal
Cassandra
Elena
Donald McGowan
Mrs. Lee McGowan
Morrison
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Joel McCrea
Black Horse Canyon
Times Theatre
Spike Jones
Claudette Colbert
Fred Macmurray
Marjorie Main
Percy Kilbride
the Egg and I
The
Saracen Blade
Richard Montalban
Betta ST. John
Scotland Yard
Iowa State College
Iowa City
Felows
AUS
States
Red River Arsenal
Texarkana
Tex
Brooklyn
N. Y
EUCOM
Heidelburg
Germany
Decorah
Winishiek County
Elsie
Phil Carey
Roberta Haynes
Technicle
Technicolor
Audie Murphy
Lori Nelson
Shelley
Francis
WAC
Strating Service Co
Fourth Street
Fulton, Illinois
Illinois Mutual Casualty CO
Peoria, Illinois
Chadwick
Jeff Chandler and
Rhonda Fleming
Bing Crosby
Claude Dauphin
Tell
Childrens
Albert M. Greison
Critic
George H. Hartman
Thomson, Ill
Critic Feeds
Tel
Roy Rogers
Trigger
Neville Brand
Christine White
Flaming Youth
Chadwick News
Edwin Schleuning
Chicago
Sarah Schleuning
Chester Kahler
Paul Turney
Glenn Turney
Fred Miller
Riverview
Gregory Miller
Harold Henderson
Ronald
David
Winchip Music Co
Strand Theater Bldg
Clinton, Ia
Sun., Mon
Rhapsody
Elizabeth Taylor
Vitoriio Gassman
John Ericson
Elizabeth
Woody Woodpecker
Fulton
Elgin
Bulova
Hamilton
Gruen Watches
Elliott
Savanna, Ill
J. H. Potts & Son
Lyon’s
Main Ave
Nas
Northwestern
Illinois
Johnson
Clinton, Iowa
Call Clinton
Pool Ronn
Lawlor’s Rug and Furniture Cleaners
4Th Ave
N. Clinton
the Fashion Shop
Main Street
Picnic
Deep
Freeze Tanners
Marth
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