Carroll County Birthdays List Update and Corrections
Birthday notices from March 11 to 16 list residents and spouses in Lanark Polo Joliet Savanna Milledgeville and nearby towns. Readers urged to submit corrections and add deceased relatives so the paper maintains an up to date local record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Smith
Thomson
T. H. Diffenderfer
Lanark
Dennis Roberts
Chadwick
Kenneth Heffelfinger
U.S Army
Wayne Kaufman
Lee Libberton
Thomas Fritz
Mr. Carroll
Jay Fogel
Milledgeville
Lloyd Bushman
S. John Andes
Rochelle
Gail Diane Marken
Thomson Wayne Becker
Savanna
Thomas Chittenden
Champaign
Harold Diehl
Polo
Vernon Rawlins
Morrison
John Hagen
Planners Propose Roadway Standards for Carroll County
Mount Carroll planners Hodne and Crouch outlined roadway standards to reduce accidents and improve scenery. They described arterial, collector, and local roads, urged public access only to trunk and county highways, and set setbacks from 80 to 105 feet with right of way ranges of 66 to 150 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Carroll
Thomas Hodne
Kermit Crouch
Hodne and Associates
Minneapolis
Carroll County Planning Commission
Carroll County
Ccal
Crouch
Illinois
Commission
Mmission
Henry Sorensen
Lanark
Hodne
Daled
Galena
Paint Shop Foreman at Army Depot Retires
Savanna Illinois Jack Calvert age 54 retired from Federal Service at the Savanna Army Depot after 27 years with the government twenty five as a Civil Service Employee and two years in the Army Air corps He is a Cuba City Wisconsin native residing with wife Verna in Savanna Calvert plans to take life easy in retirement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Depot
Savanna
Ill
Jack Calvert
Main Street
Savanna Army Raealvert
U. S. Government
Civil Service
Army Airos
Cuba City
Wisconsin
Winter
Ofavanna
Verna
Calvert
Tornado history and farm pests in Carroll County area
County agronomists report on late 19th and 20th century tornado activity across Carroll Ogle Bureau and Lee Counties with notable events including the 1898 May outbreak causing 16 deaths. They note tornado timing, paths of 25 to 40 mph, and regional patterns alongside face fly declines tied to weather. Also covered are anthracnose control for berries, dormant lime sulfur spraying, hog price records, and long stored alfalfa seed germination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County
Minnis
Meon
Hannen
Tilinore County
Minois
Peoria
Carroll
Ogle
Bureau
Lee
Homemakers Unit Programs Set Across Carroll County
Three Carroll County Homemakers Extension Association units plan sessions this week on Work Smarter Not Harder. Lessons by local leaders focus on better headwork and efficient homemaking. Meetings: Monday March 14 Rock Creek Northern Lights with Mrs. Ben Mathias at 1:30 p m. Tuesday March 15 Hickor Grove with Mrs. George Schmidt at 1:30 p m. Wednesday March 16 North Otter Creek Live Wires with Mrs. Fred Miller at 1:30 p m. Nurses Meet Tuesday Night in Mt Carroll Church with Rev. Glen Shive ly of Milledgeville as speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County Homemakers Extension Association
Rock Creek Northern Lights
Ben Mathias
Plan to Form State English Clubs Association
The Plan Association of English Clubs at Midwest Illinois University seeks to launch a state-wide English clubs network. Students Jeve Pauley of Chadwick and Dean Frev of Polo are among leaders. A planning meeting is set for April at Illinois State University in Normal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macomb
Western Illinois University
Modern English Association
Jeve Pauley
Chadwick
Dean Frev
Illinois State University
Normal
Dean's List Students Named at Illinois State University
Illinois State University selected undergraduates for the first semester of 1955 66. Marshall Dennis son of Mrs Faith Dennis Milledgeville and Ellen Wynne daughter of Mr and Mrs Stanley Wynne rural Milledgeville earned places on the Dean's List. A minimum grade of B was required. Dennis achieved straight A grades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois State University At Normal
Marshall Dennis
Faith Dennis
Milledgeville
Ellen Wynne
Stanley Wynne
Dennis
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Donald Ashby
Milord Miller
Dorothy Lower
Jenna Frosch
Joliet
David Tenley
Prophetstown
Emerson Champion
Richard Attig
Richard Kness
Robert Adams
Stanley Larem
Chad Ok
Vernon Reiling
Peggy Franklin
Wayne Crawford
Nancy Attig
Neola Linker
JoAnn House
Indiana
Kathy Bush
Chdawick
Fred Zemke
Leo Provant
Dixon
Norman Stickell
Clinton
Clem Hoy
Olive Sarber
Mildred Kreuder
Stockton
Harland Glenn
Rockford
Mary Ellen Tenley
Beatrice Wall
Calvin Guenzler
David Derrer
Anthony Cambman
Los Angeles
Calif
John Lawrence Wagner
Bensenville
Robert Eugene Potter, Jr
Lee Emnyre
Chicago
Harold Schroth
Lee Potter
George Hook
LeRoy Witt
Marion Louise Bergsted
Streator
Lloyd Simmons
Gerald van Kampen
Robert Traum
Riverview
Roger E. Knutts
Marvin Hartman
Marjorie Ebersole
Michigan City
Ind
Johnny Schafer
Robert Zuck
Janice Rose
Fulton
Commonwealth
Commonwealth Loan Company of Iowa
2Nd ST
Clinton Room
Holstein
Guernsey
John Breuning
Teeter & Son
O. P. Miles
Tele 3
Arnold Fink
Robert Geison
Joe Engles
Raymond Coble
Sterling
Gilbert Holland
Michael L. Adolph
Sally Bushman
Deloris Wilt
Donald Adams
Duane Robert Hook
San Francisco
Cynthia Ann Young
Clara Koerner
Charles Burkholder
Cecil Green
Mt. Carroll
Cid Libberton
Arliss Andresen
Charles Larson
Ruth Marauski
DeKalb
Millard
Pa Spillane
Sioux Falls
Junior Shriner
Jacob A. Balk
Edith Swartz
San Diego
FHTNC
Larry K. Schaver
USN
George E. Schaver
Route 1
Thomson, Ill
Naval Training Center
Aera
Home Economics Extension
J. Miller
C. Chadwick
Fred L. Ae
Toca
Les Durward
N. ‘Groharing
Don Buss
Keith Kniss
Lanark, Illinois
Mutual Mutual OF Use Insurance of
Omaha
Ome Oitica
Omaha, Nebraska
ISU
Freeport
Freeport Community College
University
Illinois State University, Normal
Ana
Teds
SMV
Farm Bureau Farm Management Service
North Dakota
Registered Nurses of
Northwest Illinois Group
Mt. Carroll Lutheran Church
Glen Shively
Milledgeville, Cayenne
Carroll County Menta Health Association
Woodin’s Furniture
Lincreased
Chicago Avenue
Koym Electric Supply
Windy Knoll
Crystal Lake
Robson Bros
McHenry
Crystal Springs Road
Nibco & Curtiss Procene
Skokie Glamour Boy
Glenafton Bay Appie Charmer
Ex-Gm
Bangs
A. C. “Whitie” Thomson
Burlington, Ill
Pat” Williams
Batavia, Ill
Credit By Dairy Credit Co
DeKalb, Ill
Bamberg’s
Wellington
Bamberg
Orville Bowers
West Pearl St
John Deere
Sh.c
I.H.C
Buick
Butler
Kewanee
Ward
South Bend
Ruth Bowers
Downing & Teeter
Clerk—Exchange State Bank
Lanark, Ill
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