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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1954
Page
5
In the Service Creighton, service members are listed with ranks, units, and addresses across Fort Bliss, Carlisle, Aberdeen, San Francisco, and other posts. The column ends with a plea for parents or relatives to inform the paper of the latest addresses for those in the service.
The Review 80 Club announces eligibility for honorary membership to residents or former residents of York Township or those born there. Members must be 80 or older and submit a life synopsis including name birth date and places, family, career, and health to receive a card. Also noted are club officers, dates, and recent regional visits and gatherings.
Rev Earl Coble pastor of First Lutheran church and wife Mrs Coble celebrated their 30th anniversary with 198 attendees at the Chadwick church. The event featured musical selections by organist Mrs Carl Kness and a single ring ceremony read by Dr Francis Keller. Guests from Cleveland Indianapolis Freeport Lanark Mt Carroll Sterling Milledgeville attended.
New addresses are provided for two Raful Kohn relatives serving in the armed forces Pvt Arot R Katler RAV 18-451-716 and Janice M Kober WA Sh categories. The column then lists numerous Sunday visits and dinners at local homes in Milledgeville Dixon Rochelle Chadwick and nearby towns along with travel notes and visitors from Wisconsin Iowa Oregon Texas and Illinois. The piece reads as a local society and military update with names, places and events.
Dinner guests Monday evening at the home of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Strauch included Mr and Mrs Oswald Strauch of Billings Montana Mrs Joanna Hughes Osar Daehler Mrs Josephine Nowaczyk and Mrs Harold Bast who are on a business trip to Chicago today.
Ronald Daehler of Sandwich High School has been selected for the FFA All State Band to perform at the State FFA Convention June 7 to 9, 1954 in Springfield Illinois. He plays slide trombone and earned a superior rating at the district music contest in solo work. Leo O. Garlanger of Greenview High School will direct the band.
Mesdames Charles Gordon Ru fus Kahler and Fred Queckboerner led the regular Legion Auxiliary committee assisted by Mesdames Ernest Remmers Harve Queckboerner Herman Daehler Rieghard Strauch May Mackey and Claude Mechling. They met at Mrs. Fred Queckboerner’s home Tuesday evening and crafted 247 tray favors for the Chicago west side Veterans Administration hospital.
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