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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1946
Page
8
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hartman and Mrs. Harry W. Allen of Sterling visited in Davenport on Wednesday.
After a five year lapse the International Live Stock Exposition and Horse Show returns to Chicago. From November 30 to December 7 the event will be at the Chicago Stock Yards International Amphitheatre now freed from military use. Early entries promise record exhibits and the heaviest enrollment in 46 years of the show.
Nov 1 marks the registration for the Victory show with over 12000 cattle horses sheep and swine across 29 breeds. Events include International Horse Shows with hundreds of premier pleasure horses and ponies from the United States and Canada and evening and afternoon performances. The International Junior Live Stock Feeding Contest opens the eight day exposition featuring more than 1500 steers lambs and hogs raised by farm youth aged 10 to 21. County sheep shearers compete for national titles in adult and junior divisions based on prior state contests.
The Stock Exposition closed at midnight on December 6, 1941, just before Pearl Harbor. Exhibits from every U S state and five Canadian provinces were represented. The program included the International Grain and Hay Show, the world’s largest competitive farm crops event, with entries for this department due by November 10.
The Old Mill Unit of Home Bureau met Friday afternoon at Mrs. Fred Livengood’s home. Miss Footitt led the major lesson Textile Painting and Mrs. Paul Van Zee gave the minor lesson.
On Tuesday evening Bernice Chapter O E S held election of officers after a potluck supper. The Milledgeville grade school remains closed until November 12 due to polio. Local fire department inspectors will survey business and residential buildings this week.
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