Carroll County News Roundup From Savanna To Chadwick
Local notes report a Savanna Fourth of July plan, summer free movies, and growing river activity. Carroll County labor on farms and paving advances, with sidewalk improvements at Marth Brothers and water main work under way. Chadwick district sees Main Street paving progress, a Hartman locker plant start, and Marion Hartman facing hot days on highway job assignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savanna
Carroll County
Review
Frank Stransky
Marth Brothers Store
Riverview
Chadwick
Hartman’s Market
Melvin Straub
Charles Harris
Oscar Howard
Marion Hartman
Marion
What in the News Aged Reflections on War and Labor
A reflective column laments wartime shifts and language, notes Hees parachute landing as top week’s scoop, recalls a Scotch hero with a pitch fork, and criticizes Germany England France and the armistice meaning. It questions democracy, Webster’s definitions, Cubs drafts, and WCFL boycott tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hees
England
Germany
Webster
Europe
Mr. Webster
Birthday List and Pending Visit Mentioned by The Lady Next Door
The page lists birthdays for May 23 to 29 across Green Bay Lanark Milledgeville Chadwick Thomson Savanna Dixon Springfield Mt. Carroll and Chicago with names such as Earl Sack Kathryn Lichty Henry Livengood Patsy Ann Eggert and Janet Hawkins. A final blurb notes The Lady Next Door tried to keep their Grandmother pending visit secret from the children, but they sensed something when she swept under the bed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cubs
Dean
Gehrig
Ruth
Hartnett
Friesch
WCFL
Voice of Labor
Chicago
Earl Sack
Green Bay
Wis
Ralph Linker
Lanark
Kathryn Lichty
Henry Livengood
Milledgeville
Willard Krauss
Homer Nye
Laverne Imel
Chadwick
Beth Kahler
Vernon Alexander
Harry Franklin
Henry L. Hartman
Thomson
Lila Michelson
Fulton
Ruth Cooper
Moline
BE. F. Tallman
Helen McKean
Kate Dean
George Wagner
Lewis Zugschwerdt
Louis Kradle
Guy Mackey
Robert Davis
Patsy Ann Eggert
Margaret Bower
Jewell Hawkins
Janet Hawkins
L. A. Frank
Bill Zugschwerdt
John Sollenberger
Shirley Mae Beattie
David Graham
J. C. Wilkins
Esther Bittner
W. F. Schreiner
Frank Plumley
Lawrence Sullivan
George Beck
Savanna
Erma Zugschwerdt
George Dyson
Marjorie May Puterbaugh
Abner Deers
Dixon
G. H. Wolber
James Ridgeway
Richard Hacker
Henry Wolber
Lawrence Williams
Springfield
Glenn Edward Radatz
Hazel Bittner
Bethel Schreiner
Harold Holmes
Elmer Weber
John W. Thompson
Mason Spaulding
Mt. Carroll
Wm. Marr
Rock Falls
Leonard Porter
J. W. Shay
N. Ricker
Donald Clatworthy
Sheriff Candidate Defeated in Local County Race
Preston Prairie Isaac Gillespie of Savanna visited relatives on Saturday while Mrs. Sisler and Fred Wolf toured the area. Howard Metz of Fair Haven joined worship at Center Hill church as Clyde Emnyre of Oil Valley and others exchanged notes. An unsuccessful sheriff hopeful received 55 votes of 3,500 and, amid jeers, walked Main Street with two guns, defending his need for protection as the crowd urged him to drop them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac Gillespie
Savanna
Mrs. Sisler
Clyde Emnyre
Oil Valley
Fred Wolf
Wallace Williams
Howard Metz
Fair Haven
Center Hill
Main Street
Boulder Dam at Horning Farm Near Morrison
Lee Horning, a retired building contractor near Morrison, built miniature replicas of famous structures in his yard. His Boulder Dam, mill, blacksmith shop, and a moving steamboat display detailed features with lights and color changes at night. He plans further additions as he nears old age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Horning
Morrison
Horning
Hornung
Mr. Horning
Referendum On Wheat Quotas Set For May 3
The Carroll county A C A at 121 1 2 W Market street Mt Carroll is the polling place for a wheat marketing quota referendum on May 31. Farmers will vote on continuance of wheat loans and the AAA program to determine quotas and producer allowances. about 15 eligible growers. Referendum committee members are J W Erdmier Ray T Moyer and Henry Miller. Polls open 9 a m and close 6 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County A. C. A
W. Market Street
Mt. Carroll
AAA
J. W. Erdmier
Ray T. Moyer
Henry Miller
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Sharpe Carrol
York Township
Sharpe
the Village Echo
Thomson Broadax
Thomson Review
Mae Doe Saunders
H. G. Stagg
Sylvalena Bolhous
Kenneth Whitney
Mlinois
Illinois
The
Happy
Hattie Brown
Betty Imel
Kenneth Rahn
Alma Robinson
Robert Schleming
Fred Barnhart
Ruth Kradle
W. L. Derrer
Mt, Carroll
Hans P
Greison
MT. Carroll Black
Preston Prairie
Lewis Motor Co
Horning Farm
Blankley
Blinkston
Clinton
Young Men's
Frank Bradulski
Potts
J. H. Potts & Son
Jewelers
Optometrists
Main Ave
Plymouths
Plymouth
Nick
Carstensen
Nash Cars
Federal Trucks
Louis Hoobler
4Th Ave. S
Clinton, la
Ill
LETCH
Safety Service
Clinton, Ia
Marth Bros
W.F. Black
Walnut, Il
Foster Black
Pfister
MT. Carroll Carroll County
W.f.black Farms
Walnut, Ill
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