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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1944
Page
6
Sunday visitors include Mr and Mrs Willis Pauley and Mrs Roscoe Pauley of Mt Carroll to the Grimm family. Dinner guests with the Carrolls were C B Carlson and three daughters of Camanche plus Eldon Hickey and Maude McGinty.
A string of Sunday visits spans Mt Carroll Morrison Port Byron and surrounding towns as families host relatives and friends. Notable mentions include Cid Libberton with his mother Florence Libberton. Merle and Mrs Doden of Morrison with Fred Doden. Forrest Gilbert of Port Byron dining with Richard and Mrs Badtke. Florence Bie family in Clinton. Albert Anderson of Minneapolis visiting Clarence and John Cooper. Additional gatherings involve Wayne Campbell Diamond Lake Roberta and Bobby Williams with Joe Kauffman relatives near Savanna and Verda Crowe of Morrison with her grandmother Nelle Schade. Minor damage noted from a barn lightning strike at Charles Hogg farm. several nursing students and other locals are noted for visits and travel.
The treasurer Margaret H. Murray presents the York Township Library financials for the year ending April 30 1944. It lists borrowers volumes added and drawn and total circulation by age group, along with receipts expenses and tax levy details. The report includes staff counts and a sworn notarized statement validating the figures.
Mr and Mrs Fred Hook and family visited Mr and Mrs Edward Junge in Clinton for Sunday dinner. Arla Brown and LaVona Potter returned from Norman Oklahoma after visiting Harold Brown and Joe Mitchell. Several local families hosted or visited kin in Clinton Mt Carroll Fulton Rockford and Madison Wisconsin with trips noted to Baraboo Crandon and Cordova.
Nettie Phillips writes from Pine Street Maywood It repeating status the renovation at the home and daily routines She notes new drapes cleaned rooms and laundry changes She reads The Robe and reflects on past dwellings and former companions as fourteen years pass and she hopes a needy person may take her place
Mr and Mrs Ralph Irion of north of Morrison were surprised June 2 by a gathering of friends to mark their 21st wedding anniversary. Guests included Herbert and Kay Badtke Harvey and Pat Cobb Corliss and Clayton Cobb Jay and Fred Hammer Merle Durward Everett Irion and Ellis Dentler. Prizes were awarded in pinochle and a late lunch with angel food cake followed.
Rush Carroll and N. D. French of Thomson Illinois acquired Ventnor Eli Fobes Ormsby 800360 from Ventnor Farm in Oconomowoc Wisconsin. The Holstein-Friesian Association of America officially recorded the ownership transfer at Brattleboro Vermont. In 1943 the association issued 11 429 registry and transfer certificates to Illinois breeders.
Preston Prairie resident Elmer Carlson is building a house for poultry. Harvey Downing recently visited from Lanark. Louis Decker has relocated to Texas.
Chadwick Briefs list guests at Milledgeville dinners Sunday including Mr and Mrs Oscar Marten and Mr and Mrs Donald Adolph. Also noted are visits by the Schneider and Miatke families, the Walks, the Adolphs, Johanssen and Oakleys plus a trip to Chicago by Alice Harter and Spurgeon Harter Snc.
Lt. Grant FH Brown, officer in charge of V-12 in the Ninth Naval District, will be guest speaker at the University of Dubuque final Convocation on June 23. He oversees 48 regular, 23 medical and 17 dental V-12 units across 68 cities in 13 states and previously ran the Western Division of the American Book Company. The week honors graduates from Liberal Arts College V-12 and Seminary with multiple events including a Friday reception, baccalaureate by President Welch, and a Class Day program with Will and Prophecy readings and salutatorian and valedictorian addresses.
Last Thursday evening visitors at the Adam Heinze home included Mr. and Mrs. Carl Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hook and families and the Dick Anderson family of Chadwick. The day marked Mrs. Heinze's birthday.
Numerous Sunday dinners and weekend visits link Savanna Clinton and surrounding towns. Families named include Brown, Mumford, Curley, Eble, Stage, Witt, Dykstra, and Atherton with travelers from Rockford Morrison Moline Des Moines Chicago Detroit and Fulton. A Stagg family reunion is set for June 18 at Sam Sweet's Fulton home.
Mrs Ida Klitz of Savanna visited overnight with Mrs Donald Ditteworth. The Albert Faber family of Fulton spent Sunday at the John Faber home. Margaret Lower and Helen Tempe of Clinton stayed with Charles Bower and Willard Welch for Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Everett EK Schmaling, 44, a bombardier and nephew of Mrs Mary Frazier of Savanna, has been missing in action since early May while stationed in England. He is the son of Mr and Mrs A F Schmaling of Oakland California, former Clinton Iowa residents. his wife also lives in Oakland.
Mrs. Carrie Gallagher and daughter Dorothy of Fulton left at midnight Saturday for Los Angeles to visit their sister Miss Bess Gallagher and may make the West Coast their future home. Mrs. Pearl Lockhart and daughter-in-law Mrs. George Lockhart, also of Fulton, returned from Rochester Minnesota where the Mayo Clinic treated the latter.
Notice of a tentative budget for road and bridge purposes in Town of York Carroll Illinois for 1944 45 will be on file for public inspection from June 17 1944. A public hearing on the budget will be held June 24 1944 at 1 PM at Village Hall Thomson with final action by the highway commissioner at 2 PM the same day.
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