Diamondball Schedule for the Season
The schedule lists numerous games across June to August involving teams such as American Legion Thomson Lanark Royal Blue Milwaukee Road Mt Carroll and Utilities. Home and away designations appear with sequential dates and venues including Thom son Lanark Mt Carroll and Milwaukee Road with several entries overlapping and repeats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Thomson
Lanark
Royal Blue
Milwaukee Road
Utilities
Mt. Carroll
Milwaukee
Utili
Thom Fson
S. C
Cntities
Lanas
Miwinikee Road
Mt. Carrell
SLO
Mt. Gaphigiles
Onde
O. D
Alumni Elect Officers and Summer Events Listed
The June notes record the Alumni annual meeting with officers Otto Switzer president Herbert St Ores vice president Kyle Melendy secretary treasurer. Also mentioned are a first band concert on main street the Chautauqua tent at the grade school ground and Miss Grace Gwinn as superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Switzer
Herbert St. Ores
Kyle Melendy
Sec’y
Main Street
Grace Gwinn
Abraham Lincoln
York
Co-operative Theatre
West Chicago visits linger at Guy Brown home
Thomson News Sill Starck of West Chicago spent the weekend in the Guy Brown home. Major Burrell Brown, recalled by illness of his father Guy Brown, returned last Thursday to Fort Bliss Texas where he is stationed. Mr. and Mrs. Ely Cochran attended the wedding of their relative Richard Nason to Lois Carstensen in Clinton Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Carroll and Barbara attended the Green reunion Sunday at Waterworks park in Morrison. They spent Sunday evening in the Warren Nice home, also in Morrison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sill Starck
West Chicago
Guy Brown
Major Burrell Brown
Fort Bliss
Texas
Ely Cochran
Richard Nason
Lois Carstensen
Clinton
Robert Carroll
Barbara
Waterworks Park
Morrison
Warren Nice
Avalon letters recount Catalina Island vacation memories
Lorraine Ryan Thompson writes from Hollywood to The Themeon Review describing a Santa Catalina Island vacation with her daughter and husband staying at Las Casitas. She describes fishing, cat sailing, a Cubs training site nearby, local island characters, and quirky anecdotes while asking about a Melon Day after the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Themeon
Myre
Stag
Themene
Nevels
Gilpin
Santa Catrina Island
Lucille
Las Casitas
Chicago Cubs
Ball Park
Mil
Hollywood
Pacific
Lorraine Ryan Thompson
Hawthorn Ave
Calif
Miss Wilma Sikkema Returns From Denver Visit
Miss Wilma Jean Sikkema daughter of Mr and Mrs Joe Sikkema returned Saturday from Denver Colorado where she had been visiting her aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs Ed Brondyke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilma Jean Sikkema
Joe Sikkema
Denver
Colo
Ed Brondyke
World church unity and British religious education talk
The General Conference of the Methodist church in Boston in April 1948 is urged to pursue union of Protestant churches worldwide. Bishop Oxnam argues unity could happen within a decade and would energize global Christian movements. Also noted are England’s move to teach religion in public schools, King George VI calling a national Sunday, and Lutheran relief shipping 71 repair kits valued at $10 000 to Germany to mend shoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Conference of the Methodist Church
Boson Mass
George VI
Great Britain
Canterbury
Yor
Lutheran World Relief
United Lutheran Church
Germany
Korea
Pyongyang
First Methodist
Hall Memorial Hospital
Presbyterian-Methodist
Presbyterian Seminary
Presbyterian
Family visits and church relief efforts noted in Thomson report
Thompson briefs list weekend visits across Jock Falls Morrison Fulton Garden Plain and Sa vanna with relatives and friends. It also reports bishops urging simpler funerals in Michigan and a Korean zone church revival amid Russian occupation in Pyongyang through early May.
Local Social Roundup from Alma and Vicinity
Miss Patria Meeamentan visiting in Otto Switzer home returns to Alma Michigan. Alma residents Miss Patricia Henney and others visit in Ke W. thas Savanna. diners and weddings noted with multiple guests from Clinton Fulton Mt. Carroll and Davenport. Library hours change and Leeson dance announced.
Streets and Roads Cover a Man's 30-Year Walk
At average walking speed a man would spend about 30 years traveling every street and road in the land, highlighting the vast extent of the nation's network and the effort required to traverse it on foot.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Diamondball
Tory
Illinois Northwestern Telephone CO
Savanna, Ill
Clinton Army Store
South Second Street
Clinton, LA
WHITE
Ind
John Graw
Shick*’s
Karl Rupple
Montana
Dodge
Marshal Brown
Don Bertha
Argo Methodist Church
Petey Wales of Lanark
Argo
Warren Hartman
Burrell Brown
Fort Des Moines
Grace Schroth
Ivay
Pat” McGinnis
Dixon
Bank Corner
Thomson News
Home Appliance Co
Fulton
Illinois
Savanna
Auto
Avalon
Santa Catalina, Calif
England
John William Charles Wand
London
Neeeenry
Murphy Feeds
F. A. Fleege
Cargill
Murphy
North Main St
Thomson Briefs
Everett Yates
Jock Falls
Blaine Yates
Wacker
Fred Doden
John Hoy
Frank Kahler
Merle Doden
Ben Dykstra
Leroy Rus
Garden Plain
Martin Ralk
Carl Peterson
Cecil Frosch
B. R. Lewis
Tim Decker
Skane Decker
Charles Stage
Rock Island
Ben Stage
Joan
W. B. Sansum
Santa Barbara
Henry Engleking
David
Robert
Frank W. Creighton
Richard S. Emrich
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
Michigan
Patria Meeamentan
Thwsday
Mich
Alma
Patricia Henney
Alma, Vich
KE. W. Thas
Bill Camstock
Bill Stege
Gene Stage
WartheBs Rue
Harry Wilkerson
Shirley Stage
John Ashpole
Henry Ashpole
Low Moor
Ralph Christiansen
Haroll Sorensen
Franklin Feller
Warne Anshbs
Sprivefield
John McCaughey
Macomb
Nell Bevins
Davenport
Wayne Ashby
Ray Brenneman
Lavetta Nipe
Robert Heisler
Irvin Renner
Margaret Gaar
Albany
Jane Lammth
Hazel Stage
Chicago
Nele Burns
Art Institute
Burns
Charles Kettler
Robert Larsen
Leeson
Lee Simmons
Lawrence Morse Orchestra
C.F. Bielema
F. Bielema
Mardelle
Leona Bielema
Charlotte
Janice Schreiner
Chadwick
Hazel Fogel
Milledgeville
Mary Blair
San Diego
Yellowstone National Park
Wilbur Kaufman
Stockton
Joe Blair
Jake Kerkstra
Fulton, Illinois
Agricultural Dept
Chicago Journal of Converce
Savanna Farm Supplies CO. Inc
Lucile Stransky
Mgr
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