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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1960
Page
3
Babson Park Massachusetts June 23. Babson groups stocks by decline percent noting ships and tires fell about 15 percent while power and oil stocks may hold up. Largest drops include radio and film and mining around 41 percent and 49 percent for copper and lead. He expects some electronics stocks to drop more if disarmament slows space programs.
The Avalon offers a spacious ballroom, seven piece orchestra, and variety of refreshments for thirteen hundred passengers. Captain Wagner and purser Mr Hall head a fifty strong crew as the thousand lights illuminate the ship at the Savann a dock on Monday July 4. Come aboard for river melody and scenic views with Doc Hawley at the calliope.
The 4-H Roundup will span three days for the first time, chaired by Walter Helle. Events run August 22 to 24 with dairy and swine in the morning and sheep in the afternoon on opening day. Tuesday includes beef breeding, poultry, rabbits, and miscellaneous projects with horses in the afternoon. Baby beef weigh-ins occur Tuesday evening, with judging Wednesday morning followed by the auction.
Lea gue officials issue a revised season timetable for Carroll County Little League with matchups listed from July 1 to August 2 including Chadwick Thomson Mt Carroll Shannon Lanark and Shannon appearances. The Pony League schedule remains unchanged.
The Rock River Annual Conference met at Rock River Methodist Church marking its 121st session with a memorial service for deceased ministers and widows led by Rev J Richard Drees of Evanston. Bishop Charles Brashares presided and emphasized the quadrennium’s main focus. A Holy Communion observance honored late members, with the communion offering aiding Methodist relief in Chile after disasters. On Tuesday 15 men were ordained elders and 19 deacons were approved. A Lena camp ground gift was accepted, and a 1960 61 budget of 1 500 727 dollars was adopted alongside three new churches Our Master Rockford Good Samaritan Addison and Prince of Peace Elk Grove. Rev William G Johnson was named to Lanark for 1960 61. Lay delegates attended session and heard a Farm Bureau Federation speech about lifting hands.
Carroll County Granges file for a federal charter to operate a credit association. Led by Charles Thompson, 18 grangers met at Paul Sites home to form a credit union limited to grange members and families in Apple River Black Oak Milledgeville Pleasant Valley and Rock Creek. Thompson will visit each grange to discuss details. Milledgeville began the effort after a 1958 Kewanee state session.
Marriage licenses issued for Robert B. Myatt and Adabelle Willison both of Maquoketa Iowa Kenneth Carbaugh and Linda Kuhlemier both of Lanark Paul Christians of Lanark and Sharon Burma of Baileyville A divorce decree granted Tuesday in Carroll county circuit court to Carol Lynn Farrar from Kenneth W Farrar Savanna Real estate transfers show Sheldon L Helle and wife to Donald H Goss and wife Savanna L 2 1 Helles 3rd to Lambs Thomas H McKee and wife to Danny B Kness and wife York D Shellys Shannon Jacob M Gabriel and wife to Bert M Kuhlemier D to James F Sweeney and wife towd L 6 b2 South Savanna C Fred Kuebler and wife to James F Sweeney and wife wd L 6 b2 South Savanna Herbert F Davis and wife to Edward M Grimm and wife wd L 3 4 b 8 R H 1st Mt Car roll Hazel L Dostal et al to Stephen N Troha and wife wd 8 35 t 24 r 3 Savanna
Two ham radio operators Ken Law and Ben Bell of Chicago set up at Savanna airport Friday and Saturday for the annual Ham Radio Field Day hosted by the American Radio Relay League. Using call letters W900KL they communicated with operators in about 30 states and with others in Canada and overseas.
The Grange reaffirms support for producer financed self help dairy stabilization and urges price setting by sound economic principles until such a program exists. It calls for expanding school milk, boosting use by military and VA, continuing the A D A marketing research, distributing government stocks to the needy, revising sanitation rules, shifting sanitation to state and local agencies, and extending federal marketing orders. Mr and Mrs Arnold Traum visit John Rhode at his Sterling home.
The Sack reunion gathered 70 people Sunday June 26 at the Chadwick American Legion hall. Eldest is Mrs. Emma Miller of Milwaukee. youngest is the Miller family of Wilmington. Five births, three marriages, one death reported. 1961 plans set for the same date and place.
Carroll County students are invited to join the fourth annual food poster campaign by the Illinois Agricultural Association and County Farm Bureaus. Six district winners earn all expense paid trips to the IAA meeting in Chicago, with a state plaque for the winner. The contest targets ages 5 to 19 with the theme Good Food Is Fun Meal Time is a Happy Time and closes October 20.
Mr and Mrs Harry Pearson of Rockford visited Saturday with Mr and Mrs Mervin Marshall. Mrs R M Upperman of Tulsa and Mrs J B Lee of Milledgeville were Wednesday visitors with Misses Alma and Helen Mertz. Mr and Mrs William Mullen hosted a picnic supper Tuesday for Merle Cate and family, Mervin Marshall, and Mrs Harry Elliott.
A large barn cattle shed and two corn cribs burned Saturday night on the Sauer farm four miles northeast of Thomson on the Argo Road now owned by Albert Hook. Loss nears 15000 dollars, with 2000 bushels of corn, hay, two feed grinders, a tractor and lumber destroyed. house saved. Fire departments from Thomson Savanna Mt Carroll and Chadwick fought the blaze, cause undetermined.
Chadwick Busy Beavers and Mt Carroll Prairie Edge win first round of the 4 H softball tournament. Chadwick defeats Center Hill Top Top Troupers while Prairie Edge beats Milledgeville Hot Shots. Next Chadwick Busy Beavers vs Mt Carroll Prairie Edge set for July 1 at 8 00 p m at Mt Carroll old football field.
Home Economics 4-H clubs exhibited 95 completed projects at the 4-H show in the farm bureau hall at Mt Carroll June 20 and 21. Classes covered table covers dining baby sitting winter arrangements and flower arrangements 5 year room plan and pictures with A B C ratings listed for multiple clubs and members.
Milledgeville hosts the McKinley Rodeo at the county fairgrounds with two performances daily on July 3 and 4. A $1,000 fireworks show closes the event Monday evening. Children under 10 admitted free. other tickets $1. Picnic lunches welcome. grounds shaded and safe for families.
Mrs. Charles W. Moore 86 of Mt. Carroll died Friday in Sherman hospital Elgin. Funeral Monday at Frank funeral home with burial in Oak Hill cemetery. Survivors include three daughters four grandchildren two sisters and a brother. Marilyn Jo Lambert 10 of Savanna died Monday in Illinois Research Hospital Chicago. Funeral Thursday at Community church Savanna with burial in Savanna Township cemetery. She was born June 13 1950 in Savanna and was a fourth grade student. Survivors include parents two brothers and a sister.
Miss Sylvia Kay Stein daughter of Mr and Mrs Herbert Stein will marry St Douglas Carter on Sunday July 3 at Hope Episcopal United Brethren church Chadwick.
Mrs Adeline Groharing was a dinner guest on Saturday of Miss Ruby Summers in Fulton. The social note records a local gathering and indicates cordial hospitality among Fulton residents.
Over 110 explorers and leaders from U S Grant council Boy Scouts of America gathered at Savanna Ordnance Depot Illinois for a 6 1/2 hour emergency service drill The session covered post mobilization personnel and equipment traffic control security food handling sanitation and distribution first aid and lost person search Arkansas? No This line preserves entities: Savanna Ordnance Depot Freeport Rock Grove Savanna Bos cobel Monticello and Darlington Wisconsin. Carroll County Sheriff Harry Miller and state and local mobilization chairs.
Mr and Mrs Maurice Becker and family of Shannon were Sunday dinner guests in the home of Mr and Mrs George Knoess.
Mt Carroll Carroll county 4 H girls were chosen to exhibit home decorating projects at the state fair during Home Bureau 4 H recognition day. selections include Valeria Schhoonhoven and Marily Geisz, Barbara Rhodes, Charlene Flack, Karen Wirtjes, Beverly Reitz, Ardith Flack, Karen Krum, Barbara Moll, with judging and new members noted at the two day meeting.
Fishing ranges from poor to fair with bluegills and some crappies near Sodus Creek and Dead Lake, while stripers and walleyes bite near the dams. The Pinoak Lake gut is nearly silting shut. Green Island area stays flooded. Wood ducks are banded. birds such as yellow crowned night herons were seen. Illinois announces deer season details with shotgun weekend in late October and mail-in license request.
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