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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1940
Page
3
The Thomson YCHS basketball team travels to Fulton Friday evening November 29 for their second game of the season. Thomson opened with a win over Lyndon and aims for a strong year as locals rally support and follow them to other towns. A Fulton junior game precedes the main matchup, marking Thomson reserves first action against a formal opponent this season.
Reports cover Homemaking Class 3 furnishing model home rooms with style and color plans while Freshman class plans a breakfast lab. Home Making 11 studies calories for a high school girl. Luncheons are served by Home Ec girls each Monday. Junior play "The Second Fiddle" set for December 10 with listed cast. Basketball practices and six week tests noted along with various pupil musings.
The Thomson Woman's Club sponsors a benefit card party at the high school gym this Thursday evening starting at 8 o'clock. There will be tables of 500 bridge and bunco with prizes for men and women and door prizes. Light refreshments end the evening as 25 cents covers the entire event to raise funds for Girl Scout organizations. Edson Holland celebrates birthday with family and potluck supper.
The Christian Advocate weekly Methodist journal must be renewed by December 15 to receive the club rate of $1 for 52 issues. January 1 marks the new issue under Dr Pete L Smith. Rev Clarence Ploch offers to arrange subscriptions in Chicago office.
Rev. R. H. Leitner leads 9:30 worship and 10:30 Sunday school. A church fellowship supper is set for next Tuesday at 6:30 in the basement with a round table discussion to follow. Members heard of guests from last Sunday with special music including Arlene St Ores, Mary Gaar, and Mrs Irvin Renner. Ladies Aid met at Mrs Eugene Murray’s. Livewire class met with Thelma and Irene Schick as Thanksgiving theme featured songs prayers and a play Come Back Mr Turkey. The evening closed with bingo and refreshments.
Ida Mae Stumphy five year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Guy B Stumphy of Clinton Indiana and granddaughter of Mrs Ella Stumphy of Thomson suffered a severe head injury and a leg fracture when she dashed into the street and was struck by an eastbound auto driven by W L Boyce of Clinton The car struck the child as a parked car obscured her movements She was visiting a friend and crossing to her parents home at about 12 15 p m and was in critical condition for a few days but is slowly improving
On Sunday November 24 twenty Rock Island riders raced from Rock Island to the Holman camp. Bud Boots won the race and received a turkey prize. Boots has been a constant hunter participant at Holman camp this season.
Saffer of Morrison will receive the Review as a gift from his daughter Mrs Harvey Seim. Mrs Arthur Marshall and Harold and Janet Kenyon spent last weekend in Decord with Mrs Marshall remaining for a visit. The Kenyons returned to their home in Argo.
Announcement of the marriage of Bernice Rice daughter of Mrs. Helen Rice Thomson to Ralph Sherman Savanna took place Friday November 22 at the Clinton Iowa courthouse with Justice Robert A. Martin officiating. Attendants were Mrs. Charles Spencer and Viola R. Rosenberg. The couple will live with the bride's mother for now.
Miss Helen Jane Swits, soon to wed Rev. Clarence E F. Ploch, is honored at a personal shower hosted by Mrs. Mallory Bransford with Kitchen showers by Miss Barbara Jane Winchester and Miss Maurine Huffington. Guests, including Rockford College classmates, attended as preparations for her Albany Methodist parsonage home unfold.
The pony belonging to little Gil bert Marcuccci died one day last week. Gil bert and his pals mourn the loss after many hours of pleasure riding with the pony hitched to a cart around town.
The York Community church ladies sponsor a bazaar and dinner on December 4 in the church annex. Dinner features creamed chicken, biscuits, potatoes, lima beans, corn, salad, pie and coffee with admission set by student level. The Stage family reunion gathered Thanksgiving day at the Baptist church with about fifty attendees and a chicken dinner. next year’s reunion is set for the third Sunday in August at Old Mill park, Savanna.
Catholic 8 a m Mass and morning worship at 11 a m with sermon Prepare Ye the Way the King Cometh. Advent season recognized. Evening service at 7 30 p m Spell ing God with the Wrong Blocks. Thursday choir practice 8 30 p m at Darlene Ash home. Official board meeting Tuesday Dec 3 at 7 30 p m at Murray home.
Ed Drake will hold a closing out sale at his farm on Monday December 9 after selling his farm to Clarence Bielema who now lives on the Adam Heinze farm near Chadwick. Drake and son Wayne plan to move to Thomson once Bielema takes possession. Ken Trietsch of WLS Chicago hunted at the Frank Holmen camp Tuesday.
William A. Wheeler expresses gratitude to friends in Thomson and vicinity for cards letters and support after a five week hospital stay ending November 20. He credits The Review for its kindness and warmth and says he will always remember the generosity.
Jane Kay daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Sikkema of Fulton was released from Jane Lamb hospital Clinton Tuesday evening and taken home. She is improving.
Mr and Mrs Glen Groharing of Morrison welcomed a son at Sterling hospital this Thursday morning. The infant weighed 8 pounds 2 ounces. The birth occurred on the same day as the grandfather Charles Groharing of Thomson celebrated his birthday.
Pastor Paul Farley leads a Thursday prayer meeting at the Bert Nelson home at 7 30 p m and a Sunday school at 10 a m. December 1 10 50 a m features a sacred concert by Dorothy Engel of Sterling and a 15 minute Solovox demonstration followed by an 11 05 a m Foreign Mission Day sermon and missionary offering. Ladies aid meets December 4 with Mrs Charles Spearman host and Mrs Charles Sucher leader.
Mr and Mrs Lionel Soltow of Savanna celebrated their twenty fifth wedding anniversary at their home on Sunday November 24. Relatives and friends from Aurora Moline Thomson Davenport Maywood and Salton called during the day and offered congratulations. The couple, long time Savanna residents, are parents of two living daughters Catherine and Mary Elizabeth and a son Leo Frederick who died in infancy.
Rev Sword leads the C E meeting in Harlan Spangler’s weekly study with Mrs Guy Wilsey presenting a ve il number for the evening service at 7 30.
Rev. J. A. Foard leads morning worship at 9 30 with Sunday school at 10 15. The annual chicken dinner and bazaar by the ladies aid society will be held at the church on Saturday November 30.
Stuart Cleworth minister leads morning worship at 8 45 as York Community shares in devotions. Readers are invited to participate in Scripture, sermon, hymns, faith statements and prayer. December brings a sermon series titled First Works of Jesus with Jesus as the opening topic.
Mr and Mrs Erve Martindale and others visited friends in Dubuque Iowa last Sunday. Edward Kinyon and sons of Burlington are guests today in the home of Will Slayman. Thanksgiving day guests included Bert and Jane Mitchell and Ben Wagner household. Tecqueline McGinty spent weekend with Carroll McGinty in Rockford. John Dimmick and Fred Coden hosted Sunday guests from Morrison and Fulton. Seaman Swett and Edward French hosted visitors from Savanna. Nettie Stamm of Orangeville is visiting sister Matilda Harney.
Darlene Ashby and Beverly Mershall shared a Tuesday night visit and a Wednesday dinner. Stock ton residents Miss Tillie Goodmiller and Arthur Graves visited Carl Robinson. Orangeville guests included Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Switzer and Chas. Allison family, honoring Allison Switzer on his third birthday. Other gatherings featured Mrs. Bertha Holland and Mrs. N D French with Wayne Ashby, Walter Reynolds of Savanna at the Beck home, Chas Beck and Janiebelle with Lyle Williams, and Miss Martha Tolbert of Pekin with H L Rawlins and Herbert Rawlins.
Lee Poorman sits as a patient at Mercy hospital Clinton Indiana. Mrs. Carl Longanecker of Morrison is very ill at home. Mrs. H L Rawlins is ill at her home. TM McNamara has a finger infection on the right hand. Mary Blair daughter of Joe and Mrs. Blair underwent an appendectomy at Jane Lamb hospital last Thursday. William A Wheeler returned home to Morton Michigan after an operation and is improving at home.
The Loyal Helpers Sunday School class of the Methodist church held a 6:30 pot-luck supper in the church basement with fifteen members present. Mr. and Mrs. Chas McGinty were guests and the program included music and readings after a brief business meeting.
The 500 Club meets today at Mrs. Cora Stickell’s home. Chat-a-While club gathers Friday afternoon at Mrs. Lyle Williams’s home. Reading Circle meets Thursday evening at Mrs. Harvey Seim’s home. Argo 500 Club held last Thursday at Mrs. Hor tense Nipe’s home. first prize went to Mrs. Millie Holm, second to Mrs. Leona Holm, third to Mrs. Belle Carpenter. Next meeting will be at Mrs. Nelle Houghton’s home hosted by Mrs. Clara Andring.
Mr and Mrs Virgil Wilt and family were Sunday guests at Chadwick with Mr and Mrs Arthur Hoffman. Wayne Ashby hosted visits from Mr and Mrs George Greeley and son Albert, Mr and Mrs Lyle Greeley and Mrs Helen Wentling.
An adult Homemaking class met at the high school with twenty three attendees. The session covered modern vegetable cookery methods aimed at tender crisp results, flavor, color retention, and nutrient preservation.
Juniors perform the farce Second Fiddle on Tuesday December 10 at 8 00 pm. The plot follows two people secretly married after hours of knowing each other with laughs and occasional serious moments. Minnie Carson and Wilbur the sleep starved butler headline a large cast with student directors and committees listed.
Exhibitors from Thomson and Argo and vicinity at Carroll County Farmer's Institute in Shannon on Friday and Saturday November 22 and 23 earned many prizes. Sandridge school pupils led with posters. Lila Curley won 1st prize, Leona Curley 2nd, Donald Robertson 3rd. Irene Schick placed 2nd in crochet table cloth. Mae Sack topped hooked rug and placed 3rd on crocheted rug and other items. Esther Schmaling won 1st on jelly and multiple 3rd places in canned goods and lard cake. Louis and Ruby Schmaling earned 2nd in jelly and best canned products. George Schmaling led oats. State Fair school report by Blanche Seim read in afternoon session.
Walter Appel of near Chadwick called Monday evening at the home of Mr and Mrs Clarence Appel. Mr and Mrs Walter Reynolds were Saturday night and Sunday guests in the home of Mr and Mrs Lyle Williams. Mr and Mrs Harold Atherton are moving to Maquoketa. This week Mrs Atherton is the former Lena Strubb. Mrs Emma Steele was a Thanksgiving day dinner guest in the home of Mr and Mrs M J Strub. Mr and Mrs Raymond Lombard of Sterling were Sunday guests in the Leaman Swett home.
Mrs. Ella Stumphy resides with her son Guy at 618 7th Avenue South Clinton Ta. Dinner guests at Jerry Wiebenga home include Wiebenga and family from Fulton and nearby areas plus Harvey Fossett. Carl Robinson hosts Eubanks family for Shirley Mae Eubanks fifth birthday celebration.
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