Riverside notices and local progress report items
May 19 1927 local column reports several updates from Argo Clinton and Savannah. Items include Joe Foltz announcing upcoming automatic washer ideas, Irene Martindale home for summer, Rebecca Holland visiting Minnesota, excursions on a steamer, barn re-shingling, Ford coupe theft, mushrooms abundant, Laura Ashpole nursing graduation, a minor post office chimney fire, Melon Tossers vs House of David and Mt Morris, John Carroll and Verne Williams in Dixon, Josephine Lohmeier visiting, Mill Park drilling progress, Ruth Cooper hosting birthday party, teachers’ contracts renewed for next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Foltz
Argo! Eondeneary
Irene Martindale
Pearl City
Rebecca Holland
Minnesota
Carl
Dittmar and Kauffman
Lorraine Atherton
Clinton
Lynn Curley
Glen Bowers
Sherm Oakley Farm
Laura Ashpole
Jane Lamb Memorial Hospital
Old Mill Park
Savanna
Ruth Cooper
Ad Keys
Argo
Chadwick Village Board approves budget and rock work plan
Chadwick village board held its June meeting and authorized at least five more loads of crushed rock at $25 per ten ton load. The annual appropriation bill of $550 was approved. Salary increase of $20 for the village marshal and waterworks superintendent was approved. Officials also weighed a federal planning funds offer for postwar projects. Local residents were mentioned in home visits and weekend guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. F. Shultz
Don Harris
Pittsburg Industry and War Bond Support in War Output
The region leads the nation in coal tar pig iron sandstone slate and petroleum production. Pittsburgh and other areas produce shirts stockings hats rayon yarn and lace goods in large quantities. The output strengthens the nation's finances backing War Bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Fewpey
van Ta
U.S. Treasury Department
Mohrman Clan Holds Reunion In Mt Carroll
The 16th Mohrman family reunion gathered at Point Rock Park Mt Carroll on Sunday June 3 with good attendance. Officers named for the coming year include President Mrs Louis Foltz Polo vice president Addie Dieterman Freeport secretary Dan F taoitaoi Freeport secretary Dan Feierheller Polo. The 1946 reunion is set for the first Sunday in June at Point Rock Park Mt Carroll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mohrman
Point Rock Park
Mt. Carroll
Louis Foltz
Polo
Addie Dieterman
Freeport
Dan F
Emil Hartman
Lois Goetz
Sharon Kay
C. B. Vaught
Clinton
Eugene Miller
F. W. Zugschwerdt
Arthur Deets
St. Francis Hospital
George Mohrman
Stanley Carbaugh
Lanark
Harry Carbaugh
Evelyn Lego
Chas
Hefflefinger
K. F. Boreson
Evanston
J. G. Asay
Alfred Hartje
Milledgeville
Hartje
Charles Helm
Chicago
Orion Alexander
Walter Hartman
Alfred Becker
Mr. Carroll
Myron Friederick
Allan Becker
Lutheran Church
Myron Friederich
C. J. Queckboerner
Louis Salzman
Jimmie of
Dixon
George Lang
Herman Daehler
Henry Geldmacher
Arthur Miller
Jeannette Queckboerner
Sterling Stores To Close At Noon Wednesdays This Summer
Sterling stores banks and professional offices will close at noon every Wednesday starting June 6 and continuing through June July and August. Residents should plan trips to Sterling accordingly for Wednesday early closings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling
Ex Prisoner of Germans Visits Family After War
Ex prisoner of war Sgt William Kness Jr. recently returned from a German camp and spent several days visiting relatives in Carroll Iowa. He was captured in North Africa and held for over two years before liberation. Local families hosted gatherings including Rev S G Eberly and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chadwick News
W. J. Kness
Carroll
Iowa
William Kness
Carl Kness
Jack Coden
Kness
North
Africa
Tommy and Sis Share War Bonds Dream For College
Nine year old Tommy Jovalis in Topeka runs a daily street sales business on Kansas Avenue and owns a $100 and a $50 War Bond co owned with his two year old sister Frances. He started last July and deposits earnings with his mother to save for both, hoping they will attend college someday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Tommy Jovalis
Frances
Tommy
Kansas Avenue
Topeka
America
Local families host gatherings after hospital discharge
Mrs. Alex Brightman and baby were dismissed from Morrison hospital Sunday and taken to her parents Mr and Mrs Chas Dias Jr home. Mrs. Don Kness and family had Sunday supper with Mr and Mrs Wm Eggert. Carl Heick and granddaughter Rose Isenhart of Clinton visited Mrs Alice Bailey and W E Bailey. Mrs J Y Stickell traveled to Thomson Friday for an indefinite stay with Mr and Mrs Hobart Holland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex Brightman
Baby
Morrison Hospital
Chas. Dias, Jr
Don Kness
Wm. Eggert
Carl Heick
Rose Isenhart
Clinton
Alice Bailey
W. E. Bailey
J. Y. Stickell
Thomson
Hobart Holland
Warner Well Drilling Crew Resumes Local Work
A Warner Well Drilling crew arrives to restart operations on the village well. They remove the pump for a test and plan to drill deeper after installing casing in the lower shaft to secure a better water supply. Sunday dinner guests included Mr and Mrs W E Bailey and family at the Spencers. Additional guests were Mr and Mrs Wm Karrow of Milledgeville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chadwick News
Warner Well Drilling Company
W. E. Bailey
Frank Spencer
Coleta
Wm. Karrow
Milledgeville
Social visits noted among Hartman Bast and neighbors
Miss Bernice Aude stays with Mr and Mrs Chas Hartman while Miss Janet Johnson of Cordova visits Mr and Mrs George Bast. Miss Mildred Fink travels to Chicago meeting Mrs Arthur Miller and Miss Jeannette Queeksoerner. Hopp Liter Aude and Mrs Donald Martin visit. Kurt Jaenicke and Mrs R H Petty noted. Lucinda Gipe and Conrad Keil visit Warner T Schreiner in Fairmont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chadwick News
Bernice Aude
Chas. F. Hartman
Janet Johnson
Cordova
George Bast
Mildred Fink
Chicago
Arthur Miller
Jeannette Queeksoerner
Hopp Liter Aude
Donald Martin
George Basti
Kurt Jaenicke
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Miss Julie
Robert Lowery
Webheatre
Roy Rogers
Trigger” George “Gabby” Hayes
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Lana Turner
Laraine Day
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Robert Livingstone
Ruth Terry
Sweetheart
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May’s Club
Ray Haig
Jimmy Valdere
Illinois
Jan Frederics
Jeanie James
JoAnn Asay
John Derrer Jr
Chas. Neuschwanger
F. S. Senneff
D. F. Senneff
Diana
Tonite
Claire Trevor
Dick Powell
Mars
Cal
Paramount News
Cary Grant
Ethel Barrymore
Keys OF the Kingdom
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Chas. Curley
Amelia Lewis
Lavina Guinther
Emma
Elizabeth Hohnadle
Harve Schreiner
Wm. Prowant
Shirley
Alvin Prowant
Law’s
Black Oak Grange
Farm Bureau Hall
Mt. Carroll, III
Herbert Stein
S. G. Eberly
Wilbur Schreiner
Harlan Johannsen
Fulton
Lyle Ashby
Sis
The
Ella Coats
Kipnis Sales
MT. Carroll Sales CO
Billy Beaton
O. P. Miles
Harry Kipnis
Mgr
Slacks
Pittengers
Lewis Motor Company
Sinclair Gas & Oil
Pop
Papa
Cheney
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Londonderry
van Heusen
Men’s Department
van Allen
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