Illinois labor barometer shows September gains but year prior weaker
The Illinois business barometer rose for September with employment up 2.1 percent and payrolls up 2 percent from August. However, over the past year September figures fall 19.9 percent in employment and 28 percent in payrolls. A humorous gadget from the national inventors congress promises neck support to prevent snoozing in cars or during dull speeches.
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Illinois
Martin Durkin
National Inventors’ Congress
Board Backs Ending Wage Cuts at Railroads
A Roosevelt fact finding board urged railroads to abandon wage reductions and seek other solutions to financial strain. Rail management and workers remain divided, insisting the cut must go ahead or be rejected respectively. The piece also notes escalating European tensions with Hitler and a lighthearted local weather tale, ending with a prison brawl over Notre Dame versus Army.
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Roosevelt
Stateville Penitentiary
Notre Dame
Army
Night blindness and diet linked in autumn driving safety
Dr. A C Baxter warns that poor night vision raises highway accident risk as nights grow longer. He urges foods rich in vitamin A such as turnip greens kale parsley escarole fish liver oil and other sources like butter milk eggs and tomatoes to prevent night blindness and improve driving safety.
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A. C. Baxter
Woman Found Dead In Chicken Coop By Hanging
Body of Shannon woman recovered Saturday after an apparently self inflicted death. Investigators believe the circumstances point to suicide or self harm with no immediate evidence of foul play. Local authorities continuing to study the scene and a routine investigation is underway.
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Shannon
Deaths of Carroll County Residents Reported Inquest Details
In Shannon two deaths were reported by inquest and funeral notices. Mrs. Esther Tinner Wirtjes, 37, of Shannon township, died by her own action. her body was found in a chicken coop west of Shannon. Private services were held at Sharman funeral home. She leaves husband, son Gerald, two sisters, and two sisters in law. William J. Patton, 74, of Mt. Carroll, died after multiple heart attacks. funeral rites were conducted at home with Rev. J. A. Foard officiating. Burial followed at Oak Hill cemetery. He was born in Stephenson county and survived by wife Martha, son Leigh, four grandchildren, and a sister.
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Shannon
Geo. Wirtjes
Shannon Township
J. B. Schreiter
Esther Tinner
Charles and
Elizabeth Tinner
Forreston
Floretta Tinner
Clara Pettigrove
Decatur
Wm. J. Patton
Carroll William J. Patton
Carroll County
Mt. Carroll
J. A. Foard
Mt. Carroll M. E. Church
Buria
Oak Hill
William J. Patton
Stephenson County
William
Agnes Barry Patton
Martha Newson
Galena
Leigh
Toulon
Josephs. Arnold
Mrs Elias Smith 69 Dies In Woodland Township Home
Mrs Elias Smith aged 69 dies at 4 50 PM Friday at her Woodland township home northwest of Mt Carroll Funeral services were to be held following the death obituary notes her residence and age with a local township location and timing.
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Elias Smith
Mt. Carroll
Woodland Township
Parolee Bound Over In Larceny Case In Carroll County
Joe Deets a 27 year old Sterling man charged with larceny was remanded to the county jail to await the November grand jury in Carroll county. He could not post a 1000 bond. Deets was arrested after a Milledgeville calf theft and was turned over by Rockford authorities following a Winnebago county tip. He confessed to stealing the calf near Milledgeville after an initial denial and had been paroled from a state prison seven months earlier following a Whiteside county stock theft conviction in 1935.
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Joe Deets
Sterling
Carroll County
Deets
Frank Schroeppel
Carroll
Eber Shepherd
Paul Johnson
Rockford
Milledgeville
Winnebago
State Penitentiary
Whiteside County
Farm Program Meeting Held in Mt Carroll Courthouse
A county meeting for community committeemen overseeing the 1939 farm program was held Wednesday night in the Mt. Carroll courthouse. The background of the program and available details were discussed. The session prepared for a series of fall community discussions, with the meeting run as a panel format.
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Mt. Carroll
Ideal School Presents Evening Program and Social
Tonight at Ideal School a program and social run from 7 46 p m with many acts including recitations by Vera Kreuder Bernard Hartman Mildred Kreuder Kenneth Holesinger Lyle Manning and Jo Ann Prins songs by school 7th and 8th grade boys and primary grades duets by Helen Hans Andrew Prins and Helen Hans LaVonne Manning plus dialogues upper and lower grades and a five pupil exercise Ladies are asked to bring pies cakes candy and similar treats.
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Vera Kreuder
Bernard Hartman
Mildred Kreuder
Kenneth Holesinger
Helen Hans
Andrew Prins
Bernice Hartman
Leota Manning
Paul Hartman
Lyle Manning
LaVonne Manning
Violet Hartman
Jo Ann Prins
Carroll County Dairy Herd group to elect officers next Thursday
Rahn Herd High members of the Carroll County Dairy Herd Improvement association meet at the Community house in Mt. Carroll on Nov 10 to elect officers for the coming year and discuss herd improvement. The event opens with a 6:30 pot luck supper followed by business and program updates.
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Carroll County Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Mt. Carroll
Hall
Rex Rahn
Harry Byers
Savanna High defeats DeWitt 34 to 0 in Homecoming game
Savanna Township high school football team trounced DeWitt 34-0 Friday night at DeWitt in a Homecoming game in the Iowa City area. Savanna scored in the first three periods and added two more in the final frame while DeWitt threatened once in the second quarter but failed to score.
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Savanna Township High School
DeWitt High
DeWitt
Iowa City
Savanna
New Cold Storage Locker Plant Opens Tuesday at Lanark
Carroll county opens its first complete cold storage locker plant in Lanark designated as open house day. The Carroll County Locker company offers 240 lockers each about 200 pounds capacity with room for 400 more. Manager George Lang oversees cutting packaging and storage.
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George Lang
Chadwick
Lang
Illinois State Employment Service shows strong job placement gains
Over the last three months the Illinois State Employment Service placed more than 87 000 unemployed persons. Durkin, director of the state department of labor, notes that most placements were in private and non project work, signaling an improving labor market.
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Illinois State Employment Service
Martin P. Durkin
State Department of Labor
U S Survey Party Establishes Base Camp at Mount Carroll
A U S survey party is working here and has established a base camp at Mount Carroll for triangulation survey work. Field crews set up equipment and begin detailed measurements in the surrounding area.
Towers Seen Over Illinois Iowa Border Survey Party
A Coast and Geodetic Survey party of forty arrived in Mt. Carroll last week and set up camp in the city park to start a triangulation survey across the Illinois Iowa boundary. From Hampton Iowa, they aim to locate latitudes and longitudes and link stations into the national triangulation network. They have erected 100 foot steel, two-tower frames near Chadwick Lanark Milledgeville Polo and Argo Fa to gain intervisibility for readings, using the outer tower for observers and signals with electric headlamp lights.
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United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Mt. Carroll
Tlinois- Iowa
Hampton
Iowa
Lieut. C. D. Meaney
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Chadwick
Lanark
Milledgeville
Polo
Argo Fa
Rural schools plan programs during coming week
Savanna youth makes first Carroll county entry in International Live stock Exhibition. Carroll farmers invited to Mt. Morris meeting on hybrid corn Friday. Northwestern Illinois teachers elect officers at Roch ford meeting. County DHIA to hold election meet next Wednesday. October report issued. Mt. Carroll committee to discuss 1939 program tonight. Shannon farm woman dies by self harm Saturday morning. Body found by husband and son on return from field. Coast and Geodetic Survey team sets base camp at Mt. Carroll surveying state and eastern Iowa. Sterling man bound over to November grand jury for calf theft from Milledgeville. arrested in Winnebago county after selling animal. Campaign rallies continue. voters face smaller ballot next week. Savanna man missing after leaving camp. feared drowned. Lanark opens new cold storage locker plant Tuesday. Woodford County Irvin Bauman wins state corn husking tilt with 32 759 bushels in 80 minutes. national title race at Sioux Falls.
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Irvin Bauman
Woodford County
Sioux Falls
S. D
156 Cars Tested in Mt Carroll Lanark Safety Lane
Sixty tests occurred in Mt Carroll and Lanark last week with 156 cars checked for brakes lights tail lights windshield wipers and horns. Ninety eight approved by inspectors while 23 failed for faulty brakes 19 for headlights 39 for stop lights not working 4 for tail lights and 17 for wipers. Most cars were late models requiring only minor adjustments. older cars often failed to pass through the lane.
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Mt. Carroll
Lanark
Savanna Woman Appointed Stenographic Clerk in Pension Office
Miss Helen Mulerone of Savanna was named to the post of stenographic clerk in the county old age assistance office last week. She had previously served as secretary to Attorney W G Kent of Savanna, the Democratic candidate for county judge, until last Monday.
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Helen Mulerone
Savanna
Offc ers Elected by Instructors Urge Pension for Aides
Lanark school superintendent Leonard I Wierson was named vice president of the northwestern division of the Illinois Education Association at Rockford. Delegates were chosen from Carroll County for the state meeting at Springfield. Berg of Rockford was unanimously elected division president. Officers include Cully Welsh Claus and Garrett. Kloos re-elected secretary. Conklin treasurer. A resolution urged pension eligibility for non teaching employees and a plan for sound retirement. A new representative assembly will conduct future business. districts get one delegate per 20 teachers. A higher professional standard for teachers and a teacher tenure law were urged, plus state aid for high schools and studies on alcohol and narcotics effects. Dues increase pro-rated to salary. Safety engineers urged careful driving for weekend football traffic.
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Leonard I. Wierson
Lanark
Mlinads Education Association
Rockford
Glenn Demaree
York Community High School
Thomson
Wales Gossard
Carroll County
Ilinois
Springfield
Mabel C. Greve
Savanna
Elizabeth Sprecher
Selmer H. Berg
G. C. Stutzman
Hanover
B. O. Cully
Freeport
J. M. Welsh
H. P. Claus
Stockton
Ralph E. Garrett
Belvidere
George Kloos
Paul Conklin
Winnebago
Association
Voters Face Simpler Ballots As Election Nears In Illinois
Voters in Carroll county have a smaller ballot this year with three columns for Republicans Democrats and Prohibitionists and a separate measure on bank laws. The election involves congress state assembly sheriffs treasurers clerks judges and school superintendents. Campaigns end Monday with results expected after precincts report in the early morning hours.
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Congress
Ilinois
Carroll County
State of
Illinois
W. H. Thompson
Missing Savanna man believed to have fallen in Mississippi River
Sheriff Eber Shepherd investigated the Sunday disappearance of Erhart Goss, operator of a Savanna billiard hall, from a Maple Grove cottage along the Mississippi River seven miles north of Savanna. Despite searches by Goss, Kenneth Mosher, and Charles Young Jr., no trace was found and river drag efforts continued.
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Eber Shepherd
Savanna
Erhart Goss
Mississippi River
Maple Grove
Shepherd
Goss
Kenneth Mosher
Charles Young, Jr
Mosher
Young
Sheriff's Office
Carroll Receives 180 Dollars for November Relief
Carroll county has been allocated 180 dollars by the IERC for November relief. A statewide 3.8 million dollars funded relief efforts, representing 74.56 percent of the needed total. The commission said 1,037,431 dollars would come from local relief efforts during the month.
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Carroll County
IERC
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