Beavers High School presents Thomson Review and basketball schedule
Friday November 19 feature in Lanark News 1054 covers the Thomson Review in Thompson Illinois with an afternoon matinee and evening performance directed by Miss Rebecca Shoemaker. Cast includes Keats Perry Eugene Crofton Vicky Randolph and others. Beavers HS basketball reveals 1954 55 schedule with games at Stockton Chadwick Polo Savanna Mt Carroll Shannon Pearl City Oregon and Mt Carroll Invitational tourney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomson
Illinois
Lanark News
Rebecca Shoemaker
Keats Perry
Eugene Crofton
Vicky Randolph
Patricia Geary
Grandma Perry
Mina Williams
Grandpaw Perry
Rusell Henry
John Appleby
Dennis Tallman
Pricilla Morley
Kay Kloepping
Toots
Beavers High School
Stockton
Chadwick
Polo
Savanna
Mt. Carroll
Shannon
Pearl City
Oregon
Local notes on funerals births and community events
Town residents travel to attend funerals in Lanark and Dallas Center Iowa while out of town relatives attend Mrs Eta Hawks funeral. Obits include Mrs Etta Hawk and Mrs Wm Bauman of Minneapolis. Local families host birthdays and visits from Oak Park Rockford Lanark Freeport Chadwick Mt Morris Polo and Sterling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomson
Milledgeville
Carroll County
Lanark
Savanna
Mt. Carroll
Chadwick
Mt. Morris
Shannon
Oregon
Polo Tere
Eta Hawk
Plainfield
Rock Island
Priceton
Robert Truman
Community Notes From Lanark and Surrounding towns
Funeral services for Mrs. Clara Fike were held in Milledgeville with many attendees. Livestock shipments departed Lanark for Chicago and Madison Wisconsin. Eva Seiler returned from time with relatives in Sterling Illinois. Callers from La Grange and New York City visited Forrest Thompson in Lanark. Pauline Davis Adams, formerly Pauline Davis, visited Mrs Musselman and Mrs Lower. Ira Gaul of Freeport checked in on relatives. The Ethridge home hosted Sunday dinner guests from Washington Shannon and Savanna. Matt Law relocates from Arizona to a farm north of town.
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Ery
John Bowers
Truman Roger
Charles Bowers
Clara Fike
Milledgeville
Lanark
Chicago
Madison
Wis
Eva Seiler
Douglas. Cassens
Sterling, Ill
Sue Dilley Boyd
la Grange
Blaine Wiley
New
Washington, Ill
Robert Dyson
Shannon
Floyd Bleakley
George Barth
Savanna
Wm. Ethridge
A. J. Segrist
Cecil Hepner
Rose Hepner
Anna Geison
Max Sisler
Matt Law
Arizona
Charles Rowland
Harvest Meetings End at First Brethren Church Week
Attendees praised sermons at the First Brethren Church closing week as farmers report good corn yields after harvest. A Tuesday sign up for Rock Creek and Cherry Grove Township farmers and a weekend intrusion into the high school building yielded a small amount of money. no clues are available.
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First Brethren Church
Rock Creek
Cherry Grove
Thanksgiving themed Lutheran aid meeting in Milledgeville
Mrs Clarence Alber and Mrs Raymond Peterson hosted the Lutheran aid society in the church parlors last week. Devotionals centered on Thanksgiving with recitations and poems by Ann Sites Nellie Rickett and others. The business meeting followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Alber
Raymond Peterson
Lutheran Aid Society
Ann Sites
Nellie Rickett
Albert Hammer
Amelia Miller
Bert Sites
Louis Gerdes
Christmas Food and Fancy Work Sale Announced
The president announced the annual Christmas food and fancy work sale for Saturday December 4. The World Relief Thanksgiving clothing appeal was stressed with clothing to be brought to the church before Thanksgiving. Mrs. E A Sollenberger and Mrs. Lloyd Mackey presented officer slate accepted: President Mrs J J Schmitt, Vice President Mrs Louis Gerdes, Secretary Mrs Ivan Ethridge, Treasurer Mrs Raymond Peterson. The December aid meeting will be a joint meeting with the adult missionary society on December 1 at 1 30 p m.
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World Relief
E. A. Sollenberger
Lloyd Mackey
J. J. Schmitt
Louis Gerdes
Ivan Ethridge
Raymond Peter
Adult Missionary Society
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LA Lanark
Walt Disney
Tim Holt
Wm. Bauman
Minneapolis
Minn
Dallas Center
Iowa
Etta Hawk
Archie Heath
EF. Merritt
Walter Hawk
Homer Hawk
The
Christian Church
Frank Funeral
Mr. Stauffer
Dixon
Learge
Alfred Hinricks
Sterling
Russell Mellhattin
Oak Park
Rockford
John Day
Milton Kimms
Ray Green
Freesort
Clarence Lotz
James Waters
Robert Zuck
Freeport
Charles Zuck
East Locust Street
Arthur Appel
June
Marjorie Kingery
Joseph Sehriner
Geo. Koehler
Koehler
Harold Mayes
Schiner
Jean Kielsmeier
Stanley Koehler
Robert Poffenberger
Monroe Poffenberger
Sam Poffenberger
Roy Butterbaugh
Sun
Mon
Greer Garson
Robert Ryan
Barry Sullivan
Dick Haydn
Greer
Pete Smith
Els
Web
Black Dakotas
Gary Merrill
Wanda Hendrix
George Montgomery In
Riders of the Purple Sage
Times Theatre
van Heflin
Anne Bancroft
Frank Sinatra
Sterling Hayden
Sinatra
Lucille Ball
William Holden
Miss Grant
Richmond
Marines Ahoy
George Montgomery
Tab Hunter
Tony Curtis
Frank Lovejoy
Mary Murphy
Mark Stevens
John Hodiak
Barbara Britton
All Sport
Harlem Globe Trotters
Dane Clark
Marlon Brando
Robt. Taylor
Arch Atherton
Argo Fay
Bluff Road
John Deere
Dixie
Krocker
Singer
Oscar
Ruth Pope
R. R
Garret Sternberg
Elgin
Bulova
Hamilton
Gruen
Elliott
Johnson
Clinton, Iowa
Bush
Fulton, Illinois
Olson
Fulton
Patabane ML
Lasceee
Lady Bulova
J. H. Potts & Son
Lyons Shopping
Main Ave
Clinton
Fourth St
Winchip Music Co
Strand Theater Bldg
Clinton, Ia
En Waterers
Boudoir
Choice
Marth
Mr. Farmer
Atherton Service
Thomson, Ill
ATC As
Burlington
Aurora
Great
Midwest
I. D. Morse
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Northwestern Illinois Gas
Neal Dauphin
Ill
Hampshire
Chester
Merchant and Dauphin
Glenn C. Teeter
the Fashion Shop
Main Street
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