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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1944
Page
8
Lenora Quecktwerner of Sterling visited her parents Mr and Mrs Albert Quecktwerner on Sunday Rev Roy Berg spent last weekend at the Chester Alexander home with family members in town
A letter from a soldier in California contrasts rainy weather with Sunny California. The shop promotes Pillsbury Feed products, including Cal Starter and Hog Supplement. It mentions ongoing war news, reflections on postwar life, moral improvement, and continues with new stock like heated chicken waterers, Ag-A-Ton powder, and grocery items. Fishing improves with crappies, bass, bullheads, and pike reports.
Fair Haven ladies aid society met last Wednesday with hostesses Mrs. May Adolph and Mrs. Alice Adolph. The session featured poems and articles on Thanksgiving and Armistice Day, led by Mrs. Violet Turnbaugh and Mrs. Marjorie Coden. Officers elected for the coming year were President Marjorie Doden, Vice President May Adolph, Secretary Mabel Alexander, and Treasurer Alice Adolph.
Chadwick residents hosted and visited relatives during a Sunday gathering. Ora Hamilton and spouse from Savanna joined hosts Earl Hamilton and wife. Other visitors included Hattie Kneale staying with George Schmaling in Argo Fa and Hartman family members from Mr Carroll visiting Fred C Hartman. Sepha Stein from Clinton joined Bill Prowant’s supper with Virgil and Jack Prowant. Stein stayed through Tuesday.
Funeral services for John F. Shrader 87 native of Carroll County and Chadwick resident for nearly 50 years were held at 2:20 p m Sunday at Frank Funeral Home Chadwick Rev Earl Coble led the service burial followed in Chadwick Cemetery Shrader died Friday afternoon at his Chadwick home from a heart ailment He was born February 9 1857 and married Phila Moore in 1897 The Shrader- Woy family and grandchildren were noted among survivors
Great grandchildren and a sister Mrs. Jake Moore of Mt. Carroll are noted, along with two sisters Mrs. Hart Moore and Mrs. W. K. Stakemiller and two brothers Wilbur and A. B. Shrader. Cpl. W. C. McGinty and Mrs. J. Y. Stickell are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Will Richter at Mt. Carroll. McGinty sails to Ft Benning, Ga with his wife living with her parents J. Y. Stickell.
A playful anecdote notes American soldiers accepting Greenland Eskimo legends after a skull was found on a hunting trip. The item promotes an unusual story in The American Weekly magazine bundled with next Sunday Chicago Herald American.
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