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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1946
Page
5
An instructor tests officer candidates with a flagpole restart riddle. The crowd proposes methods but the answer is to simply call the sergeant to lift it. The piece then shifts to a string of humor about country and city folk, a love interest, and a pun involving quadruplets.
Mrs. Grace Ratcliff Daehler 58, longtime Chadwick area resident, died Wednesday morning at St. Francis hospital Freeport after a period of ill health. Born November 24 1887 in Fairmont Indiana to Charles and Trinche Ratcliff, she moved to Minnesota in 1914 and taught in Chadwick Schools before her marriage to Fred Daehler. Her body was taken to Frank funeral home in Chadwick as funeral arrangements were being planned.
Mrs. united in marriage to Fred Daehler of Chadwick and for years they farmed in the vicinity. She belonged to First Lutheran church and Chadwick Woman's club. Surviving are her husband, her mother cared for at Mrs. Pearl Daehler’s home, a sister Mrs. Geneva Mackay of Madison Wisconsin, and two brothers Mark of Delmont Colorado and Carl of Le Grand Oregon.
World Day of Prayer services were delayed from last Friday at the First Lutheran church due to the storm and power outages. The program will be held tomorrow March 15.
C. F. Hartman moved his produce station last week from the Em yre barn to a building in the block south that used to house Dot's Dinette. He expects this will be temporary while he seeks a building of his own. The old barn is being razed.
Thre Stolen W. E. Bailey found Tuesday morning the spare tire was removed from his pickup Monday night while parked in town. Earl says the thief "didn't get much." Lee Hartman wrote his parents that he hopes to leave Saipan on March 1 unless orders are canceled as they were Dec 1. Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn Caldwell and children visited the Spencers at Tampico. Monya Caldwell returned to Chadwick with her parents.
The Argo Ladies Aid Society met with Mrs George Schmaling on Wednesday. Twenty members and guests enjoyed a potluck dinner including Mrs Otto Switzer Mrs W Griswold and Mrs James Gillespie of Thomson. Rev William Kendall of Milledgeville will preach Sunday evening March 17 at Argo Methodist. Paul Vanvee, the pastor, is in Kathryn hospital Dixon with Mrs Van Zou directing services. Wayne Welch Frances Green and Smith performed a flute piece.
Fragmentary entries record names like James J. Gre Kenneth, Robert Keen, Lewventon, Carroll, Mrs Freak Vi, Me Jonsen, Mrs. Charles Sack, Hady Spearman, Chadwiel, John Faber, Mr and Mrs Ne, James J. Green visiting Sterling. Event details are unclear due to OCR corruption but show social visits and weekday gatherings.
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