Melon Day planned as Thomsons Labor Day event
The Carroll County page notes Thomsons Melon Day on Labor Day and mentions other towns may announce celebrations soon. It highlights community life with editor gatherings on a Savanna houseboat, local softball fading except Savanna, and a busy week of farming and weather affecting crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savanna
Roy Houghton
Thomson
Houghton
Carroll County
Carrell County
Franklin J. Stransky
Stransky Farms
Rumored Westward Trek by Dick Stagg and Norm French Jr
A family reminiscence traces Dick Stagg and Norm French Jr on a Greyhound trip west starting from Lanark Illinois, recalling their grandfather John Gill from Pennsylvania. The piece blends Civil War era land deals, spring water needs, Mt Carroll history, and local family ties to Lanark and Bobtown in a reflective, nostalgic tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Stagg
Norm French, Jr
Grandfather
Pennsylvania
Gill
Lanark
Ill
Normie
Grandfather Gill
John Gill
Mother
Indiana
Harry Sinclair
Mattingly
Lampe
Cormeet
Hagerstown
Maryland
Mt. Carroll
Tom
Ross
Vinegar Hill
Joe O'Neill
East Clinton
Carroll
Halderman
Bobtown
Government agency backs private merger plan to weather hard times
The Chicago Daily Tribune reports the Federal Communications Commission favors Congress allowing a Postal Telegraph Western Union merger if future conditions force a legal union. Chairman Fly argues surpluses funded by prior profits kept many firms afloat, urging tax and policy actions to help private enterprises survive a coming downturn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Communications Commission
Congress
Western Union
Fly
Commission
Wheeler
Secretary of the Treasury
Committee On Ways and Means
House
Commerce Department
Chicago Daily Tribune
Birthday listings and official notice from Carroll County
Community birthday announcements for June 6 to June 12 include residents of Dixon Morrison Thomson Lanark Savanna Milledgeville Chadwick and Argo. An adjacent notice from Carroll County Board of Supervisors sets a regular session at Mt. Carroll Court House on June 9 1941 with claim filing by June 6 1941 and Clerk W R Watson listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pony
Mt. Carroll
Mt. Carroll Court House
R. K. Goldthorpe
Dixon
Donald Crofton
Morrison
Kenneth Gablin
Thomson
Richard Williams
Edwin Puterbaugh
Lanark
Isabelle Prins
Savanna
Jernice Derver
Phyllis Lillie
Lockport
Lloyd Merkle
Robby Stern
Milledgeville
George Jones
Vaughn Kahler
Misa Etta Bristol
Ella Sehryver
Jetty Gilbert
Bernice Stern
Gabe Larber
June Rahn
George Crofton
George Schleuning
Chadwick
Betty Wagner
Hazel Hoffman
Ronald Mock
Mary Katherine Schl
Fred Nipe
Argo
Orville Allen
Albert Fisher
Fulton
T. Keller
Willard Peters
Mildred Mohrmann
DeKalb
Harold B. Hartman
Carroll
Henry Sour
Deanna Gilson
Board of Supervisors
Carroll County
Ilinois
Court House
Illinois
Drainage notice for Seventh Installment due 1942 sale
Notice to Savanna and York Drainage District landowners in Carroll County Illinois that the Seventh Installment of the Sixth Assessment is due May 20 1941 and must be paid to Treasurer Roy I Houghton in Thomson Illinois by March 10 1942 or the unpaid tracts will be sold by law to cover the amount and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savanna and
York
Carroll
Illinois
Thomson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mary Connell
Lena M. Stagg
Mais Street
Main Street
Harve Spearman
Sollenberger’s
Barnhart
John
Senneff
Way
Oscar Dahler
Oscar
Marshal Ed Kness
Jake Sturtevant
Wernle
Howard Rummel
Kansans City
Robert
Robert Smith
Shimer
Sharpe
O'Neill
Review
the Village Echo
Thomson Broadax
Thomson Review
H. G. Stagg
Sylvalena Bolhous
Kenneth Whitney
The
Department of Commerce
United States Department of Commerce
W. L. Derrer
Happy
W. R. Watson
Roy I
Hans P
Greison
Ferguson
Savanna Cleaners & Dyers
Church
Farmer’s State Bank
Truman’s Hardware Lanark
Savanna Farm Supplies, Inc
Lucile Stransky
J. M. Fay & Son Furniture—Funeral
Geo. W. Ivey & Sons
Illinois Utilities
R. G. Fuller Furniture—Funeral Director
J. H. Shirk Furniture—Funeral Director
Charlie
Rue New Century
Saast
W. F. Black
Walnut
Foster Black
Pfister
Fred Wolf
MT. Carroll Carroll County
W.F. Black Farms Growers and Associate Producers of
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