Thompson News Briefs From Clinton Area Socials
Sheila June Crowe from Jane Lamb hospital visited Shade home Monday night and Tuesday. Sunday visitors at Frank Smiths included Charles Smith Hattie Gehr and Fern Smith. Various families hosted and attended Sunday suppers and oyster suppers across Clinton Morrison Rock Island and Savanna with multiple guests. Names include Potter Rupple Hinricks Demaree Grim Stickell Hoffman and others in community gatherings.
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Sheila June Crowe
Jane Lamb Hospital
Clinton
the Shade
Frank Smith
Charles Smith
Hattie Gehr
Fern Smith
Carroll
Paul Smith
Donald Smith
Blaine
Kyle Melendy
Savanna
Charlie McMann
Cecil George
Morrison
Walter Queckboerner
Chadwick
Katherine Hawk
Mt. Carroll
Forrest Eslinger
Frank Potter
Ray Machael
Albert
Fred Mienke
Howard Donaldson
Dixon
Clyde Wescott
Rock Island
Howard McGathie
Lillian Miller
Lynn Babcock
Sterling
Ray Rupple
George Hinricks
John Hinricks
Rock Falls
E. O. Hemmer
Ruth Demaree
Mary Lou Cate
Paul Heusinkveld
John Heusinkveld
Glenn Demaree
Ruth
Jack
Claude Grim
Justice Prins
Jo Ann
East Savanna
Norman Stickell
Craig Manor
Hanover
Orrie Rutherford
Little Tommy
Arthur Hoffman
Paul Neil
Myrta Groharing
Thomson Briefs on Weekend Visits and Family Ties
Thomson Briefs lists multiple social visits across Clinton and nearby towns. Helen Wentling stayed with her son Ralph Olds while Mrs. Olds traveled to Georgia with Albert, recently injured at Fort Benning. Several families hosted relatives and friends from Fulton, Morrison, Lodi, Savannah, and Rockford, with funeral attendance for Mrs. Alfred Weeden in Clinton and a furlough stay for Norman French in Madison, Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Wentling
Clinton
Ralph Olds
Olds
Georgia
Albert
Fort Benning, Ga
Mortals and Immortals Lesson-Sermon Narrated
Christian Science churches studied the November 14 sermon with Golden Text from Romans and cited Ephesian guidance about walking not in vanity and putting on the new man. The lesson also drew on Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy on spiritual dominion over matter and the indissoluble link to the divine likeness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Churches of Christ
Mary Baker Eddy
Navy Forms Speakeasy Welfare for Enlisted Musicians
The United States Navy creates a new outing for enlisted men with musical talent called Speake as Welfare or Chaplain's assistants. About 150 men organize choirs and orchestras, train at William and Mary, and serve in worship programs. Notable specialists include Gilley at William and Mary and Butler at Annapolis.
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United States Navy
Navy Training School
College of William and Mary
Virginia
Donald C. Gilley
Wesley Methodist Church
Worchester
Mass
William and Mary
Gaylord
Columbia Broadcasting System
Pearl Harbor
William E. Butler
Father Flannigan
Boys’ Town
U. S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
James M. Dobbins
Wheaton College
U. S. Naval Air Station
Glenview
Local social notes include visits and moves
Mrs Paul McGinnis and Mrs Ida Frederick visited with Mrs Calvin Eslinger in Morrison hospital on Sunday and welcomed a new nephew Rodver Lewis Eslinger. Mrs R L Porter hosted Evening Bridge at G H Thompson home. Mrs Paul Lewis left for Adimore Oklahoma to reunite with Mrs Robert Lewis and daughter Sherrie. Katherine Baker and son Lester moved to Howard Wiebenga’s home for winter.
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Thomson News
Paul McGinnis
Ida Frederick
Forrest Eslinger
Jaclyn Ann
Chadwick
Calvin Eslinger
Morrison Hospital
Rod Ver Lewis Eslinger
R. L. Porter
Fulton
Evening Bridge Club
G. H. Thompson
Paul Lewis
Adimore
Okla
Robert Lewis
Sherrie
Thomson
Lewis
Sgt. Lewis
Katherine Baker
Lester
Howard Wiebenga
Town and Farm In Wartime Highlights From War News
War era notices report relief in youngsters footwear rationing with canvas uppers and rubber soles for children under eight, butter price reductions, a revised farm construction limit of 1,000 dollars, and large CCC loans for 1943 wheat. It notes record October aircraft production, wage rule exemptions for small grain elevators, rising pickle prices, a tightened new car quota, the Home Front Pledge campaign surpassing 12 million signers, a first US ceramic stove model, and foreign holdings reporting before December 1 as part of wartime controls.
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OPA
WPB
Commodity Credit Corporation
War Labor Board
WLB
Minnesota
Evansville
Ind
West Virginia
San Francisco
Wenatchee
Wash
U. S
National Bureau of Standards
Farmers to Get Batteries and Fertilizer Shifts in War Year
All B and C gasoline coupons issued after December 1 will be worth five gallons each compared with two in the east and midwest and three in the far west. Farmers will receive more nitrogen but slightly less potash in 1943-44. four tons of nitrogen per three last year. WPB aims to expand 1944-45 potash supplies. About 20 percent of the fourth production of flashlight batteries will go to farmers, ensuring normal rural needs through farm outlets.
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East
Midwest
WPB
Senate
Argo News highlights local visits and church event
Friday evening visitors included Mrs Bittner s brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs Harry Beach of Albany. Ben Neuman couple moving to Havannah Ill where Mrs Neuman will live with her mother. Argo Fa Methodist bazaar and chicken dinner set for Dec 4 with committees listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bittner
Victor Hines
Mt. Carroll
Argo-Fa
Dorothy Johnson
Alice Hockman
Ruby Green
Vera Durward
Cora Kauffman
Evelyn Welch
Grace Moyer
Eva Foltz
Vena Severance
Hortense Nipe
Irene Foltz
Blaine Leavens
Pamela
Oak Park
Nino Kenyon
Helen Tempe
Margaret Bower
Clinton
Willard Welch
John Gaar
Wanted Capable Girl to Live and Help at Home
Help wanted ad seeking a capable girl or woman to live in and assist with house work at Mrs. John Duncan's home, 445 S Second Street, Canton Illinois. Wages offered. Postmarked December 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Duncan
S. Second
Canton
Ill
Giving Thanks We Are Free in Our Thanksgiving Reflections
A nostalgic Thanksgiving column urges gratitude for harvests and freedom. It celebrates American ideals, doctors and hospitals, clean water and food, rationing, and the right to discuss freely, praising the country’s heritage from Mayflower to present. It asks where freedom and policy go from here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Atintic
Fredom
Patterson Bros Public Sale Near Morrison
Patterson Bros will hold a public sale at the farm seven miles northwest of Morrison on Friday November 26. The sale begins at 1 p m and features Poland China boars and bulls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patterson Bros
Morrison
Morrison, Ill
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