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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1937
Page
5
In a fiery collision five miles southwest of Atchison Kansas two truck drivers died after their vehicle carrying dynamite exploded. The disaster threatens public safety and prompts calls for stricter federal safety rules including driver hours limits vehicle inspections and better checks on load capacity and braking systems.
Mr and Mrs Ernest Kloepping were Sunday evening callers in the William Schleming home. Miss Joan Carlson of Morrison is visiting this week in the Fred Olson home.
Mrs Florence Fosberg and her sons John and Merlyn visited the Hervey Schreiner home Tuesday. Their daughter Dorothy accompanied them on the return trip after a recent stay at the Schreiner residence.
Mr and Mrs David Graham attend their grandson Edward Beattie's graduation in Lanark and stay with Mr and Mrs Wal Beattie. Waller Peck and son Lowell of Chicago visit Harve Plack family over Memorial Day. Roy Barber and daughters dine with Lizzie Hoffman. Multiple relatives and friends visit the East home and the Straub and Smith households. June Vanderheyden and other guests stay in Berl Straub's home. Bessie Zugschwerdt from Rockford spends weekend with Louis Zugschwerdt family.
Ordinance 68 revises and clarifies village governance. It fixes trustee compensation at three dollars per meeting and details police appointment, duties, and subordination to the village marshal. It outlines clerk and treasurer responsibilities, mandates records, and prescribes monthly treasury reporting.
An 1937 ordinance establishes the village treasurer as responsible for a full financial report to be filed with the Village Clerk, detailing all rents, expenditures, and redeems from the first to the tenth of April. The treasurer will be paid 340 dollars and subject to trustees rules. passage by April 27, 1937, approved by Henry B. Strauch.
Sunday visits feature Weoant Mrs Donald Martin and Mrs George Bast in Rockford. The Queen Esther Circle at Hape Evangelical plans a class photo in the city park Thursday. Overnight guest Mrs Deb Zupschwerdt stayed with the D L Plumer family in Naperville. Frances Hartman and Chrystal Alexander visited the Reiff home. Jean Queckboerner stayed with Grace Hartman. Sollenberger and Blake guests left for Chambersburg Pa. Memorial day dinners include several Chicago and local families.
The notice details a 57th wedding anniversary for Mr and Mrs PD, with guests at their home formerly owned by Charles Pie. It recalls their decades in the area, children Edgar Sacket and Charles Curley, Chadwick Hicks, plus five grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Mr Curley formerly served on the village board.
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