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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1940
Page
3
The page notes ongoing class games and subjects at YCHS including Typewriting Monopoly fun, Sociology topics on crime defense and poverty relief, and Latin tests. Reporters Schroth and Schiel contribute disease reports while Homemaking I girls craft amid thread and needles.
The Freshman English Club notes a Marijuana program with speakers and poems. Thomson band wins second at Morrison contest. seniors visit Frank Foy's Hatchery with a 250000 egg capacity. Herff-Jones gifts an illuminated globe. a Clinton Town field trip details incubator rooms and battery storage for chicks.
Chadwick readers note a flurry of Easter visits as Mr. and Mrs. Ned Spencer and daughter of Moline stayed with her parents the Risters and Finks along with other relatives. Several families including Heinzes McRoberts and Arndt host and dine with kin from Oregon Rockford Hammond Savanna Wayne and Morris. Laura Fink returns to Hammond while Clambell Atherton heads to Wayne to care for a child.
Spring brings games and minor injuries as Lola Grim and Mary Ellen Halfman are noted for a swollen lip and a bruised finger from ball play. Miller Withhart leads class events with a party for Warren Imel and Gerald Swett.
Charles Keil aged 93, retired farmer and Chadwick's oldest resident, died Tuesday night at 11:40 in the home of his daughter Mrs Henry Daehler. Funeral services set for Friday at 1:30 p.m. at the Daehler home and 2 p.m. at St. Paul's Lutheran Church with burial in Chadwick cemetery. Born September 13 1846 in Germany he immigrated at age 20 and built a large farming legacy near Chadwick and St Pauls church.
Morrison and surrounding residents hosted and visited relatives and friends across multiple towns. Numerous Sunday dinners and afternoon calls featured the Kromrey, Bull, Pollard, Stage, Stickell, and Lindy families plus guests from Freeport Clinton Lanark Savanna Rockford and Davenport among others.
Mrs. Eugene Murray Thomson Mrs. Edwin Keim Mt. Carroll Mrs. O H Rahn and Mrs Charles Demmon joined Mrs. Ralph Eaton Mt Carroll at a county board Women’s clubs meeting led by Mrs A B Puterbaugh Milledgeville. A scrambled dinner preceded business as April 16 was chosen for the Lanark county meeting with committees named and a tentative program planned. New county officers will be elected at this meeting.
Mr and Mrs Adam Heinze Sr and Edna spent Sunday with Glen Seidenberg at Mill edgeville. William Heinze drove to East Chicago Ind for Mrs Carrie Atherton visiting Rush Barron home. En route they visited Barron at Hines Veteran s hospital. Carl Merkel and family Lanark and Arthur Hoffman were dinner guests of Joel Hoffman and wife.
Illinois colleges five institutions and a technical school plus a technical society offer scholarships and aid to CCC enrollees in the first semester. Nationwide 41 enrollees received scholarships from more than 200 schools. Applications for April enrollment are now being accepted by Arthur C. Zimmerman who will interview prospective enrollees at the Savanna depot each Tuesday afternoon.
Frank Miller and his niece Doro thy Kness of Milledgeville visited Saturday afternoon with Mrs. Lucinda Sucher. Naomi and Donald Feisfeller returned to Carthage College Monday after vacation with their parents Mr. and Mrs. Feisfeller, Mrs. Harold Herman of Mt Carroll, and Rev. J W Bucklin called Sunday evening at the Hartman home. Miss Florence Adolph will visit Della Isenhart at DeKalb next weekend. Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. T E Thompson of Rockford visited with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Deets.
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