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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1944
Page
4
Charles Robbins recounts seven years since Mrs Parsons vanished from Tone Island and details a looming court battle over her bequests that may become one of America's most startling legal contests. The story appears in The American Weekly distributed with next Sunday's Chicago Herald-American.
Chadwick briefed on visits as Mrs Mary Weidman and Mrs Leonard Lantz joined Mrs Grace Hartman of Frenport and Mrs Beulah Hartman Miller and Marilyn Mae of Toledo at the Hartman home. Emmett Zumdahl travels to Miami for two weeks. Don Harrie heads to Chicago on business. Henry and John Hinkel with several others return from funerals in Vairmont Neb for Elizabeth Keil. Local club members attend the fall conference of Women’s clubs in Lanark.
The Scovill Schools in Sterling offer executive secretarial review and brush-up courses in shorthand speedwriting typewriting accounting bookkeeping comptometry dictaphone and civil service preparation starting every Monday. Tuition 10 to 12 cents.
Narrator and companion travel from Niagara Falls to Queenstown by bus and steamer, describing Ontario fruit belts, Toronto’s harbor, landmarks, and institutions. They note Kingston as the Limestone City, the Royal York hotel, Union Depot, and university, with reflections on culture, churches, and wartime Allied enthusiasm. They finish with a 325 mile daylight train journey to Montreal via Kingston.
The traveler describes arriving at Windsor station in Montreal and staying at the Queens Hotel near Dominion Square. They note air conditioned, clean, and roomy trains compared with the United States and plan further exploration the next week in Montreal Quebec.
Mrs Bertha Mest entertained the Philathea class of Hope Evangelical Church Friday afternoon at her home. The program included poems, articles read by members and a vocal solo by Mrs Charles Honberger. The Bible quiz was led by Mrs Lawrence Strauch and the Bible study by Mrs W J Schreiner. The class voted to contribute $10 to the Jewish day fund.
Mission Ridge PTA postpones the October 20 meeting to Friday evening October 27. The event will be a Halloween party at the home of Mr and Mrs Donald Mackay with attendees asked to wear overalls for print dresses.
The local Masonic lodge held the first smoker of the season Monday evening with excellent attendance. A catfish supper was served and the cooks received high praise. Miss Eileen Daehler, daughter of Mr and Mrs Herman Daehler, returned to the University of Illinois to resume her studies there. This marks her second year at the university. Charles and Don Harris of Chadwick and Mr and Mrs L H Boyd of Milledgeville traveled to Chicago on Tuesday to attend an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing on a proposed telephone rate increase for Milledgeville Mutual Telephone Company territory.
W. J. Schreiner traveled to Dixon Tuesday night for a Group 4 session of the Illinois Bankers Association, joining fellow bankers in a regional gathering.
Mrs Rosie Steinman of Monroe Wisconsin returned to her home there on Tuesday after a two week visit with her son and daughter in law Mr and Mrs Robert Steinman.
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