Harvest Festival and busy Carroll County week
The Morrison American Legion Jig staging Harvest Festival at the Municipal building in Morrison runs Thursday to Saturday with an entertaining program and a breeving event. Snow has fallen, Christmas time nears, and merchants plan decorations as Thanksgiving closes the holiday season. Local sports, politics, and industry notes accompany community updates from Chadwick Savanna and Mt Carroll with county-wide events, school activities, and road work.
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Morrison American Legion
Morrison
Tom
Clinton
al Sky
Carroll County
Towa
Woman's Club
Paul Rath
Am Savatina
Loyal
Star Lodge
Moose Lodge
Ben Nott
Land P. K. Mites
Side note on rural to urban shift and farming decline
A columnist laments the migration from farms to city thoroughfares, noting rising rents, home buying near work, and the decline of farming appeal for young workers. Centralized farming and chain businesses threaten private farms, while credit limits hinder new entrants. social security and planned modernization are discussed alongside local education bids and personal reflections.
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Anosner
Evary
Pagan
Rock Island
Ciies
Public Auction at Sterling Sales Pavilion Thursday
The regular weekly sale of horses cattle toys and sheep will be held Thursday at the Sterling Sales Pavilion. About 1,500 to 2,000 people attend from within about ten miles of Sterling, with stock on hand at all times. Private sales occur daily, and farmers may arrange with D Earle Hollinshead Fulton Rt 1 or Sterling Sales Co Sterling. Since January 1 the ring has sold 952 horses 14 212 cattle 5 347 hogs and 580 sheep.
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Sterling Sales Pavilion
Sterling
Saea
Seles
D. Earle Hollinshead
Fulton
Rt. 1
Sterling Sales Co
Multiple Birthdays and Local Closing Out Sales Aged Ads
Daily birthday listings for Chadwick Thomson Mt Carroll and surrounding areas plus upcoming farm and real estate closings. Notices include Dec 8 closing out sale near Fulton, Dec 11 sale at Chadwick farm of Mrs Kradle, Roy Blower and George J Smith estate auctions, and a partition sale of Wm Frederick estate with Chadwick venue.
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Beary Sites
Chicago
Suedey
Fred Tautz
Mt. Carroll
Frank Warfield
Argo
Stickell
Thomson
George Lohmeier
Peoria
Wayne Ashby
Laurence Halfman
Mary Schneider
Carroll
Henry Sites
Chadwick
Shannon
Bayard T. Cole
Dewey Dykstra
Thomson James Morgan
John Larson, Jr
Henry Bittner
W. J. Schreiner
Spurgeon Harter, Jr
Mary Kradle
Fred
Smith
Chenery
Wm. C. Frederick
Kerch
Thomson Review: The Village Echo dedication to Carroll County
In this 1878 1879 1893 sequence the Thomson publications express pride in Carroll County residents as normal honest citizens. It urges support for churches banks grocers and homes, calls on taxpayers to meet obligations, and dedicates future issues to the community’s backbone.
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Doc Saundert
Village Echo
Thomson Broadax
Thomson
Carroll County
Fatere
Carroll County Platform 1986 Review Summary
A fragmented 1986 Carroll County platform review references local roads, town and county officer elections, and calls for cost reduction. Mentions a Wiliedgerilie bank, Hansen's Corner, and a county highway project. Also notes efforts to promote competitive ports and support for a county patroned highway.
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Carroll County
Platform goals urge safety and constitution in 1936
Fragmentary notes show a 1936 platform stressing safety, constitutionality, and better forms for farmers. Mentions “Must Be Rethered” and “Crime Hever Page” as items, suggesting priorities in governance and public order.
Thanksgiving reflections on 1936 farming year in northwestern Illinois
The Publisher's Column reflects on the 1936 Thanksgiving week as a time to honor a bountiful year. It notes abundant crops, improved hay yields after a dry spring, rains restoring forage, limited grasshopper damage, steady corn and wheat values near a dollar per bushel, and rising farm prosperity. It highlights robust summer work and employment growth in construction and related trades across the region.
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Northwestern
Illinois
United States
Dolar
The Publisher's Thanksgiving Reflections From 1620
The column champions steady work and fair wages, urges broad gratitude, and recalls the 1620 Pilgrims and first Thanksgiving. It emphasizes enduring prosperity, simple blessings, and lessons from history applicable to modern times. The piece ties historical reasons for thanksgiving to present-day appreciation.
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Broad
Jana Fair
United States
Little Minute Prods Moral Reflections in Jumbled Verse
A humorous snippet of reflective maxims on repentance, work ethic, empathy, and self-improvement. It notes how small actions, like offering kindness or avoiding bitterness, shape character and family disputes. The piece also references a community effort to support a pastor, with dialect speech about gathering momentum.
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Thomson Review
Blackhawk Produce Company
George Peters
Northwestern Himeis Utilities Co
Robert Moll
Emery Wales
Petey Wales
Kenneth Whitney
K. W. Senseff
Ralph Ferris
Thankagring
Knights of the Road
Foster L
TAGG
Barber Holland
Checker Field
Lyle Greeley
Savanna
Walter Switzer
Fred Miller
Riley
Ashpole
Johnny Gaar J
CDC
Johnny
Menneto Whitney
Tag Dey
Jim Slyde
Tom Watson
Sharpe
Claude B. Vick
Springfield
Kamp
J. P. Frank
Lchroeppel
B. H. Rogers
Mirror-Democratice
Farm Bureau
Mexico
Yan Oti
Olfen Herme
Ray
Folke
Billy Echlagephour
Alvin. Queckboerner
Clifton Spencer
A. Smith
Dan Sack
Charles Groharing
Kate Dykstra
Ernest Kloepping
Chas. G. Schreiner
Mt. Car
Drury
Albany
Garcen Plain
Sarre
Linds, Duceas
Harizon State Bank
Thomsen
Roy Blower
Collin Paterbaugh
Lanark
George J. Smith
T. J. Lahey
Cottonwood
Crouch School House
C. Burton Hollingshead
Arthur Church
LG. Stagg
Tinos
Thoreder
Office of Publication
Thomson, Illinois
L A Bank
Wiliedgerilie
Hansen's Cornéra Om
Chauwith
Hiledgedilie and
Cerro County
Crime Hever
Chevrolet and
Pontiac
Defee Light Sales & Server
Merchant Bros. Garage
Lanark, Ili
Mobile
Glenn Teeter & Son Auctioneers
Mt. Carroll, Ill
Dixon
Perder
A.C. Morris Cattle Co., Inc
Tlingis
Azay
H.C. Welch
Bath Ave
7Th St Rock
TSLAN
Collin Puterbaugh
Jersey
Joan
Roy Bloyer
Sam
MT. Carroll Sales CO
Harry Kipnis
Mgr
Bey Frits, Gien Teeter
Owen Mie
Cort
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