Frances Greison Bride of Robert Heusinkveld in Savanna
In Savanna, Miss Frances Nelle Greison married Robert Heusinkveld in a four o'clock ceremony at the First Methodist Church before 250 guests. The bride wore a blush pink gown with lace and a veil, and was attended by bridesmaids in pale pink outfits. The groom is a Carleton College graduate, and the couple will reside after a wedding trip.
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Frances Nelle Greison
A. M. Greison
Savanna
Robert Heusinkveld
Paul Heusinkveld
Thomson
First Methodist Church
A. Stanley Beck
Raymond Phillips
Arnold Berntsen
Stewart
Greig
Spirit of God
Croly
Emilie Smith
Sacramento
Calif
Gerald Sartwelli
Latter Day Saints Church
Chestnut Park
William D. Scott
Gene Reimers
Moline
Jack Douglas
M. Joy Caiazza
la Grange
Velma Haring
Libertyville
Rodney Hayden
Barbara Beeler
Joe Beeler
James Truninger
Henry Truninger Jr
Lou Ann Walker
Aurora
Nancy Tucker
Galesburg
Ted Clement
Chicago
Harold Wilt
Beverly Winkey
Julie Fuller
Betty Greison
Martha Circle
The
Methodist Church
Arthur Weidman
Claude Briggs
Judy Weidman
LaGrange
Lake Bluff
Western Springs
Skokie
Wilmette
Downers Grove
Freeport
Lanark
Rockford
Morrison
Sterling
DeKalb
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Wesley Memorial Hospital School of Nursing
Billings Hospital
Heusinkveld
York Community High School
Carleton College
Northfield
Minn
Grade Conference Adopts New Ruling For Basketball
Carroll county grade school athletic conference adopts a new basketball rule for next year restricting teams to ten games plus one tournament and intercity play. The winner will be based on seven games among members, replacing the previous home and home format.
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Carroll County
Shannon
Shannon High School
Donald Petty
Sheriff raids tavern seize gambling device
Don Harvey, owner of the Indian Head tavern north of Savanna, posted bond after a raid by Sheriff Harry Miller and deputies. They seized a mechanical gambling device called flicker lights and arrested Harvey. Miller suspects outside gambling influence and continues investigation.
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Don Harvey
Indian Head
Savanna
Earle E. Engelking
Harry Miller
Miller
Harvey
Milledgeville Band Earns State Finals Bid in Sterling
The Illinois Grade School Band ace for Class D and E held in Sterling awarded Milledgeville Cadet Band first division ratings from three judges. First Superior honors went to Connie Hawkins and Betty Isging. multiple ensembles earned first and second division ratings, with state finals set for Bloomington on Friday May 7.
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Illinois
Sterling
Milledgeville
Central
Connie Hawkins
Betty Isging
Melvin Newendyke
Linda Allison
Kenneth Barthel
Allan Fogel
Emalee Fogel
Lyle Bush
Anna Lee Miller
Janice Hansen
Eva Jane Dingman
Howard Litwiller
Carol Mack
Maynard Sherwin
Larry Oncken
Eugene Beer
Sandra Wheeler
Carol Peterson
Elnor Skinner
Judy Thorngren
Janet Plumer
Janice Gorany
John Bracken
Diane Meyer
Anne Lee Miller
Bloomington
Couple plans Florida trip during graduate studies
A young couple visiting Florida and southern areas while the husband completes a Master’s in economics at the University of Chicago. Mrs Heusinkveld wore a navy blue fitted cardigan suit, powder blue coat, navy and white accessories with a white orchid corsage. After April 5 they reside at 802 E 59th St Chicago.
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University of Chicago
Florida
GOP candidates to speak at Chadwick Republican meeting
Carroll County Republican Women’s Club in Chadwick hosts Friday meeting featuring U S Senate hopefuls Lars Daley Herbert Geisler and Julius Klein along with state central committee candidates Stanley Guyer and John Snively. Luncheon precedes session at Hope E U B church basement with reservations via local chairmen.
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Carroll County
Republican Woman’s Club
Chadwick
Lars Daley
Herbert Geisler
Julius Klein
U. S
Stanley Guyer
John Snively
State Central
Hope E. U. B
Fern McAdams
Mt. Carroll
K. W. Senneff
Lanark
Chas, Hower
Thomson
Eugene Murray
Donors Rally 132 Pints of Blood for Lanark Visit
Red Cross Blood Mobile from Peoria collected 132 pints in Lanark sending directly to Peoria then Armour Research Labs for use in research. Volunteers included 18 workers nurses from county and Green Giant staff with aid from Lanark Chadwick Milledgeville Savanna Mt. Carroll and Shannon donors. Blood mobile slated to return in summer.
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Lanark
Red Cross Blood Mobile
Peoria
Armour Research Laboratories
Green Giant Company
Fire Department
Chadwick
Milledgeville
Savanna
Mt. Carroll
Shannon
Red Cross
Grange Hosts Birthday Party at Legion Home
The Black Oak Grange celebrated a birthday party Friday night at the Legion home with about 100 guests. A seven o'clock scramble supper was followed by month themed tables, Square dancing by Robert Tourillot of Dixon with an orchestra from Rock Creek Grange, and intermission refreshments hosted by Lawrence Halfman, Arnold Farthing, and Harold Stoner couples.
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Black Oak Grange
Legion Home
Rock Creek Grange
Robert Tourillot
Dixon
Lawrence Halfman
Arnold Farthing
Harold Stoner
Salem Home Bureau Meets At Lanark
The Salem home bureau unit met Tuesday afternoon March 28 in Lanark at Mrs. Gerald Lower’s home with 30 members and guests. The program included roll call An April Fool Joke major lesson Grandparents In-laws and Children and Wood Fibre Flowers demonstration. A Play Day was planned for March 30 at the farm bureau hall. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Lower and Mr. Carroll.
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Salem Home Bureau
Gerald Lower
Lanark
Edwin Keim
Wallace Dresbach
Robert Queckborner
Farm Bureau
Carroll
Lower
Local families gather for suppers and birthday tribute
Chadwick residents Mr. and Mrs. Jens Andresen and family joined Mr. and Mrs. Adam Heinze in Savannah for a Saturday supper. On Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Freece Senneff attended a family gathering at the Jake Sainsbury home in Oak Park honoring Hugh Farnham of Rockford.
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Jens Andresen
Adam Heinze
Savanna
Freece Senneff
Jake Sainsbury
Oak Park
Hugh Farnham
Rockford
Livestock Feeders Elect Schriner President in Lanark
Donald Schriner of Lanark was elected president of the Carroll County Livestock Feeders association at the annual meeting held at Meek's banquet hall. The event featured a supper, reports from secretary treasurer Delmar Lang, a board expansion to nine directors, and a three year term for officers.
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Donald Schriner
Lanark
Carroll County Livestock Feeders Association
Meek’s
Harlan Hollowell
Delmar Lang
Kenneth Moll
Clayton Kaul
Chadwick
Hollowell
Schriner
Walter Queckboerner
Ernest Brown
Harold Yochem
Mt. Carroll
Russell Zier
Ralph Gerdes
Milledgeville
Wallace Ware
Ed Hollenbeck
Illinois Livestock Feders Association
Byron Hutchins
A. L. Newman
University of Ilinois
Newman
Carroll County
Funeral Services Held For Mrs. E. Y. Knapp In Stockton
Funeral services for Mrs. Emanuel Y. Knapp were conducted Sunday at 3 30 p m at the Hermann funeral home in Stockton with Rev Guy Twyman officiating and burial in Ladies Union Cemetery Stockton. Survivors include a twin sister Mrs Sherman Endriss and a niece. The Knapps owned the Lanark Gazette from 1932 to 1947 and Rev Knapp previously served as Lanark Methodist pastor.
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Earl Youngblut
A. Q. Reid
M. B. Webb
Leona Knapp
Rush Township
Stockton
Leona Williams
Emanuel Knapp
Lanark Methodist Church
Oregon
Chadwick
Milledgeville
Two Savanna Men Seek Sheriff Write in Votes
Two Savanna residents Paul Moltmann and E Kim Bradley announced they are seeking sheriff nominations in Carroll County through write in votes for the April primary. Neither name appears on the ballot as neither filed a nominating petition.
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Savanna
Paul M. Moltmann
E. Kim Bradley
Carroll County
Moltmann
Bradley
Republian
Henry Truninger
Sewing Circle Meet at Bollingers for All Day Session
The Franklin Corners Community Sewing Circle met Friday at Katie and Alma Bollinger’s home with 21 members and three visitors. They spent the day on relief sewing, mending clothing, and tied one comforter, planning an April meeting at Mrs Roy Engenkens home. Funeral services were held for Mrs Elmer Galor 64 at the Frank Funeral Home. She died Saturday and is buried at Polo after born August 12 1889 in Polo. Surviving husband two daughters and two sons as well as two brothers and two sisters.
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Savanna
Clara C Promenschenkel
East Moline
St. John's Catholi
Galena
Mt. Carroll
Fast Savanna
George Slouborg
Savanna Township
Savanna Hospital
Law Funeral Home
Savanna Cemetery
Thomas
Gensene Slouborg
Harry
James McGuire
Frank Frederick
Zion
Franklin Corners
Katie
Alma Bollinger
Roy Engenkens
Carroll
Frank
Elmer Galor
Here
Lloyd Haag
Hickory Grove
Louis
Morrison
Elmer
Robert Waterbury
Sioux Falls
S. D
Guy Waterbury
Polo
Fred Stull
Oregon
Landis Graeff
Shabbona
Viola Serrurier
Savanna City Hospital
Fuller Memorial Funeral Home
Albert and
Nancy Curtis
Dubuque
Earnest LaShelle
Philp Cerrurier
Seattle
Wash
Local couples host varying Sunday visits and a wedding
Mr and Mrs Vernon Baumhardt with Lana and Ricky visited Mill edgeville and Sterling and Rock Falls. Frank Zier and Earl Weber attended the marriage of Arlan Vogel and Martha Knuppel at St John s Lutheran church in Manilo. Robert Johnson of Mazon visited James Quest and his parents before leaving for service. Johnson was Quest s Bradley Institute roommate in Peoria.
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Vernon Baumhardt
Lana
Ricky
George Baumhardt
Milledgeville
Maurice Schiedler
Sterling
Robert Steinman
Rock Falls
Frank Zier
Shannon
Earl Weber
Manilo
Arlan Vogel
Martha Knuppel
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Zier
Chadwick Social News Listings Briefly Recap
Sunday at Harold East and family hosted Harold East and family with afternoon visitors Clarence Weideman and Janet Weideman from Port Byron and Don Heist and his sons from East Moline. Evening guests included Glyde Collinson and family from Lanark.
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Harold East
George East
Clarence Weideman
Janet
Port Byron
Don Heist
East Moline
Carol Ryker
Oregon
Glyde Collinson
Lanark
March of Dimes drive nets seven thousand four hundred nineteen
Carroll county reports total contributions of 7419 raised in the 1954 March of Dimes drive. The county chapter elected officers for two-year terms including Mildred Fellows as chairman Carleton Cheek as vice chair Erma Barth as treasurer and Vincent Olson as secretary. A public initiation session of the American Legion is planned for March 28 at Savanna high school gym with participation from legion posts countywide and from Chicago’s Peoples Gas Post 336.
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March of Dimes
The
American Legion
United States
Carroll County
Carroll County Legion Council
Savanna High School
van Bibber-Hansen
Savanna
Charles L. Reese
Merton Loomis
Robert Marriott
Arnold Bernsten
James Thorp
Chadwick
13Th
Peoples Gas Post
Department of Illinois
Irving Breakstone
Chicago
Legion
Mildred Fellows
Carleton Cheek
Lanark
Vincent Olson
Erma Barth
Ruth Nehrkorn
W. J. Schreiner
Claude Cook Jr
Milledgeville
Preston Kreider
Mount Carroll
Donald Dickinson
Shannon
Irvin Hartman
Thomson
Kenneth Kemmer
Maroh
Nations Foundation
Dram Shop Suit Filed Over Lanark Auto Crash
A circuit court suit seeks 90000 in damages under the dram shop act from Russell Weber and the G and G tavern of Lanark. Plaintiffs Allen Brandt Ronald Rife and Edward Murphy allege they suffered permanent injuries July 3 1953 when the car Weber drove hit a culvert near Mt Carroll.
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Mt. Carroll, II
Russell Weber
Lanark
Allen Brandt
Ronald Rife
Edward Murphy
Weber
Mt. Carroll
G and G
Merle Gill
Neal Doden Birthday Supper Marked with Family Guests
Mr and Mrs Adolph Doden and daughter Margrete and Mr and Mrs Ed Schreiner joined Mr and Mrs George Doden for a Sunday supper at the Doden home honoring Neal Doden on his 17th birthday.
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Adolph Doden
Margrete
Ed Schreiner
George Doden
Neal
35th Anniversary Noted In Mt Carroll
Sunday dinner at the home of Mr and Mrs Fred Hubbel honors the 35th wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Fred Olson of Chadwick. Attending were Robert Carlson of Rockford Peter Matzen and Ted Olson of Clinton Iowa Ward Olson and Thomas Ward of Bettendorf Iowa Kent Olson of Rockford was absent due to surgery at Swedish American hospital Rockford. Society remark about overboard sentiment accompanies report.
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Fred Hubbell
Mt. Carroll
Fred Olson
Chadwick
Robert Carlson
Rockford
Peter Matzen
Ted Olson
Clinton
Ward Olson
Thomas Ward
Betendorf
Kent Olson
Social visit notes from Polo and Milledgeville welcomed guests
Mrs. John Newton of Polo and Mrs. Lyle Wetzell of Milledgeville were supper guests Friday evening at the Jack Newton home while their husbands accompanied Mr. Newton to the Father Son banquet at Hope church. Home of Mrs. Dora Daehler was visited by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Daehler and family of Thomson. Afternoon visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wasmund and Mrs. Mary Geson of Dixon, Mrs. Pearl Daehler and Albert of Argo, Fa, and Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Schreiner and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Schreiner.
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John Newton
Polo
Lyle Wetzell
Milledgeville
Jack Newton
Newton
Hope Church
Dora Daehler
Harold Daehler
Thomson
Albert Wasmund
Mary Geson
Dixon
Pearl Daehler
Albert
Argo Fa
Wesley Schreiner
Albert Schreiner
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Abson
Babson Park
New York Stock Exchange
Sterling Church
Trinity Evangelical United Brethren Church
America
Christ
Frances Greison
GOP
Grange
Chadwick News
E. Y. Knapp
Caroll
Clara Promenschenkel
Albert Queckboerner
Glen Hartman
Hazel Gravenstein
Lynn
Dale Queckboerner
Cora Geison
Merlyn Schreiner
Angela
Edgerton
County Legion
National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis
Fred Olsen
Dale E. Boehm
Cout News
W. M. Nive
Geral Sartwell
Emilie J. Smith
Grant L. Stoudt
Stoudt
Charles Hass
Barbara Collins
Washington
Robert K. Collins
Arthur H. Pankow
Harvey E Hartman
William H. Strauch
Mr. Carroll
Samuel J. Campbell
Harvey E. Hartman
Woodland
Roy Q. Queckboerner
Fred Boelkens
Snows
Fred Nesemeier
Marvin Schreiner
Tom Foley
Harold Foley
Arthur H. Brigham
Hurley R. Chapman
John H Smith
Lawrence A. Frederick
Skarens
Smiths
Welcome L
Hanna
Arnold T. Matney
Edward J. Bradley
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