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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1945
Page
5
Holly Miller urges teenage girls to write letters that lift morale for G I service workers. She counsels a natural tone, light humor, and gossip, plus photos and clippings, with neat appearance and V mail for overseas delivery to make a tangible, welcoming gesture.
A plump cauliflower head is served with a curry sauce made from butter onion apple flour curry powder and cauliflower cooking water. Garnish with parsley or watercress and serve hot. This home recipe from Marjorie Griffin of Capper’s Farmer invites home cooks to add color and zest to a winter meal.
The Lanark East End 4-H Club tour on May 19 featured 20 FFA and 4-H members with pigs lambs beef calves and dairy cattle. Members displayed varied breeds including Guernsey Holstein Angus Shorthorn Berkshire Hereford and Brown Swiss with notes on weights gains and lamb crops plus homemade rope halters from vocational classes.
Gladys Kimbrough of Ball Brothers guides home canners on selecting fresh corn and avoiding spoilage. She stresses picking corn in peak milky state, preparing jars and lids correctly, and using steam pressure or hot water canning with proper timing to preserve flavor and color.
The record lists multiple farm entries with breeds and quantities including 72 White Plymouth Rock hens laying daily in April, various Hereford and Angus calves, a litter of six pigs averaging 30 pounds at 56 days, a 46 pound 68 day litter from a Chester White sow, and a purebred Brown Swiss calf weighted 450 to 480 pounds of butter fat. It also notes D.H.I.A. records, several Martz calves, and other farm details. In local briefs Henry Weber visits after boot training, Edwin Utroska and Clinton neighbors call on the Mest family, Walter Peterson and George Bast families host guests, and Seaman Stolts in Bar Le-Duc France is ill from dietary deficiency. Marian Taylor is his wife. Ann Dial visits from Chicago with Chas Dial.
Mr. Brown teases that his wife, a singer, is not finished yet, while Mrs. Smith comments on her status as a performer. Neighbors reportedly nearly “got her” last night, implying a mob or heated reaction.
York township review seeks corrections additions and notices of advancement for the Iron York area roster of service members. The list published so far highlights those serving in the United States armed forces and invites community input to complete the record.
A compiled list of service personnel includes Donald Ashpoale and Roland Mitchell among POWs, with names such as John Rice Adams Arlyne Lt J G Waves Andring Ed Seabees Henry L Ashpole Harold Ashpole Robert Atherton Dwight M M 2e Navy Glenn H Barr Charles Bennett Joe Bennett Edward Babczak Charles Beck Marvin Badtke Burrell Brown Harold Brown Richard Brown Chas Bull Eugene Bull Donald Bob Bogd Earl Beck Hubert Cate Pete Cate M W Cate Kenneth Cooper Ruth Cooper Raymond Daniels Paul Demaree Gerald Diephuis Dimmick John Ditsworth Wayne Drake Harvey Falls Everald Foltz Norman Faulkner Junior Faulkner Flack Eugene Flack Forrest Gleason D M Fay Groharing Fred Groharing Paul Groharing Dorothy Gaar Delbert Gaar.
A long ledger of names with ranks and branches including U S Army Air Corps Navy Marines and coast guard. It lists Gaar John Hartman Ray Gordon and many others with ranks from private to captain across services. The compilation notes service members from the Army Navy and other units.
Alfred Williams Pfe Army James Wiebenga Pfe U S Air Corps Wilt Everett U S army Young Henry Jr Sle Young Charles U S navy listed in a local notice detailing personnel associated with military service names and branches.
Chadwick residents welcomed Mr. and Mrs. Myron Frederick and family for Sunday dinner at the Hartmans near Mt Carroll. Kent Olson and wife arrived for a 111 day furlough to stay with his parents the Olsons. S Sgt Julian D Martin returned for a 30 day furlough from England where he served as a gunner with the 467th Bomb Group. John Geisz reported that his son Wallace H Geisz earned a captain’s rank on May 14 after service in Africa and Italy since 1941.
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