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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1944
Page
3
Local swamp near Thomson shows hundreds of muskrat houses as cool weather shifts color. State Highway 80 cuts through the area where domed homes cluster along the lake bed and beyond the road. Oldtimers note a surge in muskrat numbers and a brisk demand for trapping licenses amid legal trapping distances.
Mr and Mrs Bueford Stadel were honored at a postnuptial shower at the Mt Juliette school house near Stockton. About 100 guests attended as ice cream cake and cookies were served. The couple will reside on a farm near Stockton after December 1.
Soldiers and sailors connected to Savanna and surrounding areas are listed with leave, deployments, and duties. Wounded in New Guinea, furloughs, training moves to Great Lakes and Fort Ord, convoy duty in the Atlantic, and assignments in France are noted for multiple service members including Russell Lego, Eugene Potter, Wilfred Hazen, Arthur Thompson, Bob Cate, Everett Wilt, and Wayne Ashby among others.
Thomson News lists Sunday visits including Miss Mary Dene and Miss Burgsthaler, Emil Brach and Ed Smith of Chicago visiting the Ray Rupple home, Mrs Ray Rupple visiting the Readers, and a social at Argo church annex hosted by the Home Economics club Friday evening. Also noted are travels of Forrest Eslinger and Jaclyn Ann of Lanark, Passavant Hospital visits in Chicago, upcoming Girl Scout paper and grease collection on Saturday November 18, and Mrs J Y Stickell visiting Hobart Holland. a local joke ends the column.
Miss Leona Mae Melendy daughter of Mr and Mrs Kyle Melendy of East Savanna became the bride of J F McGuire Jr son of Mr and Mrs J F McGuire 24 Hill Street Savanna Saturday. The ceremony was at 10 a m in Melbourne Florida. The bride a Thompson native nurse trained at Michael Reese in Chicago will start work in Melbourne hospital. The groom a Savanna native machinist mate third class in the Navy is stationed in Melbourne and in training in Chicago and Minnesota.
Thomson visits Mrs Glenn Goble of Woodstock. Mrs Helen Wentling hosts Monday afternoon guest. Mary Moore sends bittersweet bouquet from woods. Votive discussion notes bittersweet in winter bouquets and local woods. Clara Andring and Lorraine Holland work at the Proving Grounds and live in company barracks. Henry Young hosts Wednesday evening guests Bert and Mrs Roberts Walter Lewis and son from Savannah and Sir Harold Roberts of U S Pacific fleet.
The church bazaar and chicken dinner on Nov 15 drew strong attendance from Savanna Argo-Fa Chadwick and Clinton. Rugs fancy work and rummage were sold at nominal prices, totaling over 150 dollars for the WSCS.unsold items including children garments sweaters and shoes are offered via Mrs Ben Wagner for interested buyers.
Mrs. Clarence Bolhous and daughter Marilyn visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bielema in Fulton. Roy Bielema and Martin Bielema Jr. joined the gathering from Grand Rapids and elsewhere. Lt. Verdayne John and Mrs. John visited N. D. French family before traveling to Milwaukee. Nearby, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McNamara hosted card night at Tim McNamara’s home. Other households hosted Sunday suppers and visits including Rev. Paul Van Zee, Rev. Clarence Ploch, Norman Stickell, and Justice Prins family, plus Miss Mary Wallace and sisters in Mt. Carroll and DeWitt connections.
Mr and Mrs Paul Wilt welcome a daughter born Tuesday at Jane Lamb hospital in Clinton weighing 10 pounds 4 ounces. Evelyn Jean is the baby’s name.
The Girl Scouts plan a paper drive Saturday morning and will go door to door Friday evening to collect paper and grease. They aim for a successful drive and ask for community help.
Sunday activities include Ideal Sunday school at 10 a m and evening services at 7:59 p m led by Rev Hannecker at Argo Methodist and Rev Countryman at Catholic church. The Wayside Pulpit urges everyday deeds over grand deeds. A ladies aid all day meeting is noted with Mrs Harold Tobey and a Sunday school social hosted by Mr and Mrs Ernest Smith with songs readings and games.
W A Adams announces Rally Day on September Sunday December 3 at the church with a morning service speaker planned. Dinner will be served at noon in the annex. The church board met and plans to secure a pastor for at least Sunday evening services.
Dixon hosts Mr and Mrs J A Marshall for weekend, with extended family dining including Mr and Mrs Mervin Marshall and son Fil. Jackie McGinty returns from Rockford after weekend with grandparents Charles and Maud McGinty. Hattie Bowman of Savanna visits cousin Maude McGinty. Carl Peterson joins Bert Johnson for Sunday evening in Argo. Prof Clyde Corn from Minnesota visits E O Hemmer, travels to Indiana with Elgin and Carmen from Tulsa. In Indiana they see Anna Hinke and Eldon Hickey and Alan Kay from Kennewick, visiting Harry J McGinty of Portland Ore.
John Halfman and family express appreciation to neighbors and friends for help and sympathy after their recent fire.
Prof R R Snapp invites Mr and Mrs Ora C Lamb noted breeders of Registered Polled Hereford cattle to the Fourteenth Cattle Breeders Meeting. Morning session 10 00 Beef Cattle Barn inspection of experimental cattle 11 00 Registered Cattle Price Outlook R W Griesser Chicago. 1 00 Stock Pavilion reports of feeding experiments 1 40 Utilizing corn by cattle Prof C C Culbertson Ames Iowa. 2 30 Increasing demand study pedigree work talk by breeders including Mrs Minnie Carter Lamb on history of their herd of 77 head all Double Standards Registered Polled Herefords.
Mr and Mrs Justice Prins of Mt Carroll spent Tuesday with Mr and Mrs Forrest Eslinger of Lanark. Blaine Leavens of Chicago visits his brother Clyde Leavens in Highland Park Savanna. Mrs Luella Gleason weekends in Savanna with her son Nussell and family for Donnies birthday. Mr and Mrs Dan Senneff of Mill Edgeville were Sunday visitors of Mr and Mrs Charles Witt. Mr and Mrs Harold Witt visited Clinton Sunday with his mother Hazel Witt.
Mrs Claude Grim reports that one child in their care at Hlines Childrens Home and Aid Society has been adopted. The new arrival Patsy Lou, a week old, was brought by Viola Van Zee of Milledgeville. Also present is Larry, who marks his second birthday today.
Mary Moore ships the Review to Mee as Fred Mohrman of Pearl City and Mr. and Mrs. John Lohmeier receive the Purple Heart and Silver Star for their son Sgt Blaine Lohmeier wounded in France. He is hospitalized in England and may return by Christmas. Also noted: injured rider Tiesman with a broken leg, Don Hall back from Washington with a trailer, and Sunday guests honor Chris Anderson at the Hemee home near Savanna.
The sixth war loan drive officially opens Monday November 20 with N. D. French as local chairman stating York township’s quota at 65 609 dollars. The school directors plan a meeting Saturday November 25 at 7 50 PM at the high school to organize volunteers.
Monday evening Mr. and Mrs. Charles Deets and Mr. and Mrs. Will Hawk of Chadwick visited Mr. and Mrs. John Halfman. Tuesday morning the group viewed the ruins of the barn that was demolished when lightning struck it.
Twenty two year old Wac Corporal Dot Roberts served as soldier foreman at Savanna New Jersey Ordnance Depot until December 1942 when she enlisted in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. She works as a base motor pool ticket inspector and driver and is unofficially named mascot of the 86th Fighter Squadron. She is single and from Thomson, Illinois. Her post war plans are not yet clear.
On Thanksgiving Day the bank closes for the entire day while the post office runs its regular holiday hours of 8 30 to 10. Volk s Cafe and the Royal Blue Store also close for the holiday.
The Chat-a-While club plans a Nov 24 session with Mrs Ernest Smith hosting and a roll call themed Something to be Thankful For. Royal Neighbors gather Nov 21 with Mrs Marion Smith, and T N T meets Nov 22 at Mrs Charles Wilt's home with hostesses Mrs Wilt, Mrs Leta Johannsen, and Mrs Emma Holland.
Mr and Mrs H A Tobey attended Mrs George Salyer in Clinton Sunday evening. Guests included Mr and Mrs Ralph Olds and son Albert, Mrs Francis Fisher and Mrs Carol Simpson of Clinton. Emma Steele visited from Mt Carroll area. Argo Home Economics club to sponsor a social Friday at the Argo church annex at 8. Jaclyn Ann Lanark and Jo Ann Mt Carroll guests of Justice Prins. Mr and Mrs Bueford Stadel Stockton visited for afternoon and supper.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Yochem of 944 Bowen Street Savanna quietly observed their 47th wedding anniversary on Friday November 10. They wed November 10 1897 in Mt. Carroll and spent 42 years in Savanna. He is a retired car department railroader and they have 10 children with six living and 15 grandchildren.
Mrs. Ralph Olds and family visited Mrs. Anna Jenkins for Sunday dinner. Rev. Fisher plans to join his wife in Clinton after evangelistic meetings. Ken neth Whitney’s Chadwick home hosted Louis Schick and daughter Thelma. Cpl. Walter Schiel of New Jersey stayed with FE Hemmer for Monday supper. Nettie Stam from McConnell Base greeted sister Tillie Harney for winter. Merle Atherton family spent afternoon with sister-in-law Mrs. Wm. Jones. Frank Potter home welcomed Howard McGathy family and Lillian Miller of Clinton.
The column reports Mrs. Ella Stumphy's illness at her son Guy's home in Clinton. George Mort was taken by ambulance to Morrison hospital on Wednesday. Ray Holloway Jr. was discharged from Savanna city hospital after surgery and returned home. Mrs. Frank Kahler of Morrison seeks a specialist in Davenport for a wisdom tooth complication. Wayne Allen Turney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Turney of Clinton, has returned from Jane Lamb hospital after an appendectomy and is a first grade pupil at Irving school.
Miss Sophia Bobinski daughter of Mr and Mrs Michael P Bobinski and Ralph F McNamara son of Mr and Mrs Timothy McNamara exchanged nuptial vows at St Marys Catholic Church Clinton on a Wednesday morning Nov 8 The Rt Rev Megr T F Galligan officiated The ceremony featured bronze and white chrysanthemums and music by local musicians A reception followed at the bride’s home After a short wedding trip the couple will reside at 54 1/2 Ninth Avenue South Clinton Both families hosted out of town guests for the ceremony and reception
Ed Smith and George Jones of Chicago stayed from Thursday night to Sunday afternoon at the Ends Brach home and hunted pheasants without success. Various local families hosted dinners and guests, including the Prach and Haley households, with several social notices and upcoming school events announced. A junior play drew a record crowd at the school gym, praised for its entertainment.
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