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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1943
Page
3
A surprise party was held at Grace Moyer home Monday for Mrs Mayme Mummert's birthday with 500 as the centerpiece game. High prize went to Mrs Mummert and low to Lou Moyer. Refreshments included jello and angel food cake.
A surprise party honoring Vivian Wheeler on her 15th birthday was hosted at her home Sunday evening. The event, decorated with St Patrick s motifs and favors, was sponsored by Mary Alice Wheeler and Pearl Holman and attended by fourteen guests.
Thomson Brief lists Ray Kauffman Dick Stagg Bernie Hook and Junior Holman visiting Rockford Monday and Rock Island Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Russell Sweitzer visit John Noordhoff home Wednesday. Miss Mary Sheridan renews Review for cousin Mrs R N Lyons of Dixon. Mrs Nellie Cone planning trip from Perryton Texas to visit Fort Bliss hospital. Blaine Smith family guests of Frank Smith Monday. A relative visits in Sabula and attends Ada Hinrichs funeral in Preston Iowa.
Felix Miller 81 lifelong Carroll county resident died at 11 45 p m Tuesday at the home of his son Fred Miller north of Thomson after a collapse thought to be a light stroke. Brief services Friday at 1 50 p m at the Christian funeral home Mt Carroll followed by rites at Salem Lutheran church with burial in Salem township. Survived by three daughters two sons and 16 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Also two granddaughters-in-law visiting from Savanna.
Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People dominates best seller lists for months. The guide emphasizes simple virtues to shape an agreeable personality and offers six core rules to influence others with sincerity.
Plans announced for a twice weekly picture show in the high school gym under the Woman's club and PTA sponsorship. Tentative schedule calls for Monday and Thursday evenings with a hoped start around March 29, but the sponsor says a definite start date is not promised yet.
The Girl Scouts welcomed three new members Beulah Holman June Haas and Helen Johnson. They seek grease and discarded magazines for a soldiers project and announce a Birthday party on March 26 reported by Eleanor Stearns and Ruth Strubb. Pvt. Donald Rogers from Ft Lewis Washington and his mother of Lanark visited Thursday and Friday.
Royal Theatre in Fulton reopens with new management and a schedule of new releases. Evening shows begin at seven with a Sunday matinee at 2 50. Alvina Klimstra of Fulton dined with Mr and Mrs Ben Dykstra. their son Clifford of Morrison also visited.
Thomson Methodist led by I A Woodrow holds morning worship at 11 with sermon Highway Signs. Baptist and Argo Methodist announce Sunday services and Sunday school times. Geraldine Smith sang last week. Ideal Sunday school 10 am. Christian Endeavor 7 pm. evening services 7 30 pm with various pastors and a vocal duet.
E. E. Peacock, pastor, announces services for Sunday March 21 at Fair Haven. 10 a m Sunday school, 11 a m prayer service, 7 20 p m song service, 8 p m evening worship. Regular 8:00 am services noted.
A dinner at Henry Hartman home honored Virgil Hartman leaving for army service and Arnold Hartman on furlough. Guests included Hartman family and Louvill Hartman. A Tuesday party at John Hatfield home Savanna honored Virgil and Richard Davis with gifts and billfolds. Irvin Renner and Mary Carolyn along with Mrs. L I Gaar and Mrs. George St Ores visited Lena last Thursday.
The column lists several illness and medical updates. Carolyn Eslinger has whooping cough at Morrison with sister Carla staying with grandparents. John Schade remains about the same and can be up around the house. The baby of Mr. and Mrs. Max Smith has a severe cold under a physician’s care. Billy Blair was taken to a Clinton hospital. Harold Witt returned from Jane Lamb hospital after minor surgery. Ora Lamb of Shannon is in Freeport hospital after a serious heart attack. she is a sister of Mrs. George Bittner of Argo. Mrs. P. R. Bryant underwent major surgery in Savanna city hospital. Mrs. Paul Groharing, a surgical patient there, was dismissed to home in Chestnut Park. Mrs. Wm. Maring of Fulton had an operation at Jane Lamb hospital in Clinton. George McGinnis was admitted to Savanna city hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Marth of Mt. Carroll travelled to Rochester for Mrs. Marth’s surgery.
Mr and Mrs Charles Wilt announce a public sale at the Thomson House on Saturday March 27 featuring household goods a pickup truck tools and other items They will move to the Frank Rush house once the Stickells relocate The old hotel building is sold to William O Dell who plans future steps and had been tied to a separate Earl Holman building deal earlier stalled.
Mrs Hattie Brown returned to the home of her daughter Mrs Will Starck in West Chicago Friday. Mr and Mrs Richard Badtke were Clinton callers Sunday afternoon. They visited Mrs Bardtke and family of Low Moor.
Alcan highway crew member from Stage family, Ben and Willis Stage and sisters Mrs. George St. Ores and Mrs. L. Gaur, stayed in Ames Stage of Cumberland Wisconsin during a nine month Alaska assignment. He enjoyed an 18 day vacation before returning to Alaska to continue construction on the new highway and a second road. Nearest town Mitchell lay 50 miles away. temperatures reached 67 below zero this winter while crews stayed warm and surfaced the road for travel.
Word came of the death of Mrs. Clinton Judd aged 92 in Evanston Illinois on March 11 after a three week illness. Funeral and burial were held in Dixon where the family had lived for years. Surviving are three daughters Emma Humphrey Myrtle and Grace a granddaughter Mrs Donald Robinson and two great grandsons Bruce and Robert Robinson. Her husband died 21 years ago. The Judds lived near Sandridge and later on a Dixon farm before moving to Dixon.
David Switzer files for president of the village board and five candidates enter the trustee field. Trustees include Harry Diehl Paul Lewis incumbent, Paul Heusinkveld Joseph Shutters Leonard Stage. Nellie Dimmick seeks the treasurer post. Elections set for April 20 with two year and four year terms to fill resignations.
Mrs Switzer and Mrs Kenyon announce candidacy for township public library trustees in the April 6 election. Both wrote in their names as no nominating petitions were filed. with no other candidates, there is no opposition. Mrs Brown and daughter Judy visit relatives in Rock Falls and Harmon this week.
Former Clinton Girl Pianist meets Mrs Harriet Fisher now in charge of music at Morrison First Baptist revival. Mrs Fisher is pianist and soloist while Rev Leslie Fisher preaches and Mrs Reba Fisher plays harp and aids children. Meetings run March 16 to April 4 at 7 50 pm weekdays and Sundays with dinner guests listed from Clinton Chadwick and nearby families.
Lt. Hubert Arthur Cate of Thomson, UK, son of Mrs. Gladys Cate, completed 18 weeks of training at Tulare and Chico before graduating from the Air Force Advanced Flying School at Stockton Field, California. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Air Force Reserve and awarded the wings. He previously studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana.
In circuit court on Wednesday Judge Dix directed a directed verdict for the defendant after the plaintiff Dorothy Guenther of Pearl City, formerly Dorothy Metz of Mt. Carroll, testified. She sought 7500 damages for remarks made June 3 1941 by the defendant, but the jury was instructed to find the defendant not guilty.
Chat-a-While members will gather at Mrs. Ford Grimm's home Friday March 26 in the afternoon bringing sewing. Argo Home Economics meets at Argo-Fa church for an all day session with a noon pot luck and program on women’s housekeeping and defense workers. Royal Neighbors note farewell for Mrs. Cora Stickell with a handkerchief shower and set monthly committee rosters from April to November. Argo 500 results list prizes for Mrs. Houghton, Mrs. Stearns, and Mrs. Welch with more meetings planned at Mrs. Verne Thomson’s home.
Albert Leavens, 92, Utica Nebraska, died of pneumonia after residing in the area. He was a native of the York region and cousin to Augustus Leavens, the father of Mrs. Frank Brown Sr. Mrs Brown received word of his death.
Mrs Carrie Gallagher and her daughter Dorothy attended the funeral for Horace Keller in Savanna. Keller died Sunday at his daughter Willard McIntyre's Beloit Wisconsin home at 82. He leaves a son three daughters and a brother. The late wife Mary Davis was Gallagher's sister and died in 1915.
Thompson briefs Miss Patricia Yates of Savanna visiting the Henry L Hartman home Sunday afternoon. Curtis St Ores and wife and Mr and Mrs Russell Sweitzer were callers in Sabula Tuesday evening. Mr Henry Young Mrs Myrtle Bull and David Young spent Sunday afternoon near Milledgeville visiting Mrs Bull's sister Mrs Eads.
Mrs. Clarence Bielema 47 dies at home near Thomson after a long illness. Funeral services set for Friday with 1 15 p m home service and 2 p m church rites at Spring Valley Church. Burial in Fulton cemetery. Survived by husband six children mother and siblings.
Funeral services for Mrs. Charles Ottens 71 of Fulton were held at the Fulton Christian Reformed church with Dr. James Putt officiating. Burial followed in Fulton cemetery. She died after a heart attack at a daughter’s home in Morrison after a three year illness. She was born Henrietta Bootaman Ottens March 19 1872 in Graniger Holland and married Charles J. Ottens May 29 1894 in Fulton. Surviving are ten children, sixteen grandchildren and two great grandchildren plus several in-laws and step-relatives.
Adult department circulation figures for fiction magazines and new subscriber registrations are given. Juvenile section shows high story book and classed book circulation with a percent figure for classed books and magazines. A list of new books includes authors Abbott Brand Gardner Gregory Grey Haycox Davenport Curwood Blake Chenowith Darling Meek Swift Holland Sterling and classic tales. The T N T club meets Wednesday March 24 with Mrs Marian Wheeler as hostess with two helpers assisting.
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