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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1945
Page
3
A Thanksgiving piece extols gratitude after the war, noting rescued POWs at Schick hospital, including Ray who weighed 100 pounds at liberation. It describes injuries, survival stories, and small joys, such as a turkey purchase and a found cat named Midnight, with local anecdotes from Decorah In. and community figures.
The column lists families visiting and planning meals for Thanksgiving. Names include Virgil Herrick Galena. Gordon Montgomery. Claus Bielema Fulton. William Green. Leslie Merrill Wheaton. John Howant. Merle Doden. Harold Atherton. Eva Atherton. Ed Andring. Gene Potter. Wilfred Hazen. Louis Kness. Otto Switzer. Harold Crouse Shannon. Harold Sorenson. Ralph Christiansen Clinton. Also mentions rental of the former Ed McGinty gas station and upcoming repairs.
In Thomson, seventh and eighth graders made 100 navy menu covers for Christmas and shipments reached the naval training depot at Farragut Idaho. Box gifts for Jersey City and 200 Thanksgiving napkins sent to Danville Illinois. Enrollment progress noted. plans for broader hospital donations nationwide.
Miss Maxine Birdsall stayed Tuesday night with the Dan Sack household. John Voss of Chicago and his wife visited the former’s mother Mrs. Garrett Bolhous. Mrs. Hazel Stagg returned from Rochester Minnesota after thyroid surgery. Roy Atherton and Mrs. Ernest LaShelle have been released from Savannah city hospital. Mrs. Charles Kettler attended the Kings Daughters meeting in Fulton. Gale Turney and Mrs. Dorothy Geidd visited Gale Turney in Great Lakes hospital. Richard Robinson of Moline and Mrs. Carl Robinson and Dean visited Kent and Woodbine homes last Sunday.
Arthur Pape has flu and misses work while Donald Bull suffers appendicitis and is under medical care. Fred Miller shows improvement and returns to his barber shop. June Lanning returns to school after a recent illness. Dee St. Ores is under treatment at McCleary clinic in Excel sior Springs Missouri.
Mr and Mrs Paul Wilt and Mrs Robert Carroll entertained 18 Young People's class members at the Wilt home last Wednesday. A short program featured songs, prayer by Mrs Roy Heitman, roll call, a talk by Mrs Heitman, and a poem read by Mrs Bruce Groharing. The class voted to send a box of Christmas gifts to Mather School in Beaufort SC. After a social period lunch was served.
York Community pastor Roy Berg announces worship at 9 45 a m and church school at 10 45 a m. E Kemmer superintendent says the TNT society will meet at the annex next Wednesday.
Reverend Doverspike invites all to a 9:30 a.m. Thanksgiving church service at the Methodist church followed by a 10:30 a.m. church school. Everyone is invited to attend and worship together.
Catholic Mass at 8:00 a m Sunday school at 10:00 a m Church service at 7 30 p m led by pastor Rev Paul Van Zee
The church outlines services for Sunday including worship at 10:00 a.m., study at 11:00 a.m., and serving at 7:30 p.m. Theme notes reference Christians working together, and a Sunday of Sacrifice offering for relief missions. It reports postwar Protestant memberships and costs, citing Benson Landis figures for Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, and Catholics, totaling 44,431,784 Protestants and postwar program costs around 112 million dollars. The Ladies Bible Class meets Nov 28 with a program of prayers, verses, duets, Ruth study, missionary book, and business session.
The Misses Alma and Helen Mertz spent Tuesday in the Fred Miller home in Milledgeville. Weekend guests in the Tousley Bros. home were Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Sutton of Sheldon Wisconsin. They also visited other relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Traum of Lanark and Mr. and Mrs. Edward French and family were dinner guests Sunday of Mrs. Seaman Swett and her husband of Hanover. Joe Hartman and family visited in the George Lanning home. Otto Switzer will be Thanksgiving day guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pecke at Freeport. Bowling team No. 2 took two of three from Merchant's at Savanna alley last Monday. team members listed.
Eugene Bull was honorably discharged from the Navy on Tuesday November 20 at Great Lakes Illinois after 2 years 7 months of service. He enlisted April 15 1943 and trained at Farragut Idaho before serving aboard the aircraft carrier Independence earning 11 battle stars and ribbons for American theater Asiatic Pacific Philippine invasion. He wears the Purple Heart second degree burns from the Independence torpedoing at Tarawa in November 1943 and held the rating of Ships Cook.
Guests of the Woman's Club attended the annual dinner at the high school with a chicken casserole dinner served by the Home Economics committee and high school helpers. A world history class round table on compulsory military training followed, with a 31 to 27 negative vote and four undecided. The program ended with a pantomime the Human Ford and a minstrel show by two groups of ten club members.
Miss Mary Ketelhut hosts a Monday supper guest Mrs Richard Badtke in Clinton Sunday callers visit the Guy Brown home including Mrs Harold Brown and two Savanna h visitors. Aus tin Phillips cared for farm work while in Rochester for treatment. Cecil King family moves back to Clinton after living near Thomson. John Halfman Jr on furlough returns to California. Various local residents host and visit at multiple homes in Clinton Milledgeville Morrison and Chadwick areas.
Mrs Wilbur Geidd and Mrs Gail Turney visited Great Lakes on Saturday with Gail Turney CM32c. S Sgt Glen Turney dined with Ed Turney Friday. Lanark families called on Chas Sack home Sunday. John Faber and Marilyn visited Ralph Hook Thursday. Flight Officer Lauren Mitchell and family arrived from Abilene after discharge to Cecil Mitchells home. Indefinite stay planned. Clyde Groharing and Dick visited Nine Kenyon Sunday. Hook family to spend Thanksgiving with Storms in Wacker.
Lt. Herbert Rawlins arrives from Corpus Christi for a short visit with his mother Hattie Rawlins and relatives. Flight Officer Loren Mitchell has been discharged from the army. Stephen Switzer left a Manila receiving station on November 11 for the United States.
Corporal Robert Tousley was discharged from the army at Camp Shelby Mississippi after two years in Germany and three months as a prisoner of war.
The annual bazaar and chicken dinner will be held at the Argo-Fa church Saturday December 1. Dinner committee includes Ruby Green Edna Carroll Mae Sack Irene Foltz Ruby Schmaling Ella Lathrop Ann Hook and Mayme Mummert. Waitresses listed and sales committee named with Eva Foltz Annie Williams Mary Green and others. Coffee by Hortense Nipe.
Kate Cole Whitney, Thomson village clerk, reports a new supply of Illinois trapping licenses. The original batch sold out last week, leaving several would be trappers unable to obtain licenses.
Social notes report visits and gatherings in Clinton Iowa and nearby areas. People named include Betty Imel at National Tea in Clinton, the Schmitters of Durand Illinois, Ed Roberts and Don Carpenter families, and the Hook, Voss, Ditsworth, Taylor, and Lotz households. Events cover calls, suppers, weekend trips, church activities, a home economics party, corn picking at Earl Voss’s, and hospital recovery notes for Earl Voss.
The season's first snowstorm struck Wednesday just after 8 AM turning ground white within minutes. By forenoon the wet heavy snow clung to windshields hindering drivers and making highways slick. By afternoon temperatures fell and the snow persisted, suggesting a white Thanksgiving.
The T N T club will meet in the church annex next Wednesday November 28 with roll call asking for a practical Christmas gift idea. Be present by 1 pm to complete work for the day and bring bazaar donations and silent auction items. The W C S of the Methodist church also meets at Mrs Charles McGintys home November 28 with officer elections and lunch.
Mrs. Clarence Bolhous will host the Chat-a-While club at her home on Tuesday December 6. Members are asked to bring gifts for the orphanage.
Funeral services were held at York Community church Thomson for Mrs. Irving Hinds 53 of Dubuque Iowa with burial in Lower York cemetery The Rev James W Gillespie officiated She died after a several months illness in Dubuque Survivors include her husband four sons and a daughter plus her mother and a sister The service featured hymns sung by Mrs Paul Smith and Mrs Emil Brach with Mrs Paul Wilt at the organ
Mr and Mrs Arthur Pape visited Hubert Williams in Stockton last weekend and joined friends from Monroe Wisconsin for Sunday dinner at the Fuller Hotel in Winslow.
Mr and Mrs Robert Sikkema welcome a son Bruce Wayne born at Savanna city hospital on November 16 with weight pounds 13 ounces. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Russell Lego of Savanna on an unspecified date.
War fund report shows York township total at 732.20 toward a 1100.00 goal. List includes Argo 194.00 Sandridge 68.00 Vinegar Hill 48.00 Ideal 27.75 and others with several incomplete entries. organizers urge further contributions and expect full solicitor reports by next week.
Mr and Mrs C W Hogg of Thom son Inl attend freshman parents day at the University of Dubuque Dubuque Ia to visit their daughter Jeanne enrolled there The program began with registration in Jacob Conzett Room and morning church services in Dubuque The decline of afternoons tours of college and seminary facilities concluded with a faculty reception and evening vespers led by students
Albert H Morrell of 710 Tenth Avenue South is to receive the Scottish Rite Masonry's 33rd degree in Des Moines in a 2 30 p m ceremony. J H Cowles of Washington DC sovereign grand commander will attend. Morrell traveled to Des Moines with four companions after the announcement last month by the supreme council.
The Tousley Bros. home welcomes C. E. Tousley and sons Neil and Bob of Rock Falls along with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Shanafelt of Morrison and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Tousley and daughter. Norman Powers and others from Oelwein visit relatives including Mrs. Gillespie. Additional guests include the Bolhous, Rozeboom, Sikkema, and Brinkman families from Fulton Prophetstown Morrison and Oelwein.
Austin Phillips thanks friends for messages during his stay at Worrall hospital Rochester Minnesota. He also thanks N C club of Wacker and neighbors who picked his corn and the women who provided and served dinner for the corn pickers. Your kindness will be remembered.
I thank all who sent cards and letters during my stay at Rochester. Your kindness was deeply appreciated and will be remembered.
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