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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1947
Page
6
Carroll county supervisors set a county tax levy for the year starting Sept 1 1947 totaling 78500 with 43500 for general county purposes and 84000 for county highways An appropriation ordinance was adopted and the notice also corrects a farm sale location for the August Shultz Estate indicating the Polo area details.
Handel Bros construct a 70 by 100 foot cement block barn on North Main, with a clear floor and bowstring truss roof to remove posts. The new building will store Handel’s fleet of trucks as Kenneth Schneider schedules the annual Dureehoe sale there today.
A Christian Workers conference for Sunday school teachers and officers was held at Oak Avenue F E U B church in Freeport last Sunday. Chadwick attendees included Rev T R Moritz, Mr and Mrs Reynold Bloyer, Mr and Mrs Delmar Lang, Mr and Mrs John Sollenberger, Mr and Mrs Everett Spanogle and Jo Ella, Mr and Mrs Harveylock, Robert Spealman, Mrs Charles Spealman, Mrs Freda Schreiner, Charles Harris and Henry Hinkel.
The lesson sermon October 12 centers on whether sin disease and death are real with passages from Acts 17 and Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health asserting God’s impossibility of error and our being in Him. Local social notes recount visits and gatherings of Clinton families across Prophetstown Morrison and Hillsdale with multiple weddings anniversaries and travels.
The Chadwick post of the American Legion will meet this Thursday evening at 7 p m in the town hall. Commander Denton Naniga urges all members to attend as the session is expected to be important.
Chadwick FFA elected officers at a recent meeting with Earl Stewart as president and Vernon Fink as vice president. Other officers named were Max Sturtevant secretary John Janssen treasurer Ned Hartman reporter and Arnold Blakeslee sentinel. Section I officers training was held at Lena on September 29. Dr and Mrs E H Gholson of Savannah visited Elizabeth and Galena with Dr L C Miller.
A birthday observance is planned for Mrs. Morris Mead on November 1. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Imel and remains a patient at Cannitarium in Ottawa with a long road to recovery ahead. Address: Mrs. Morris Mead O T S Ottawa Ill. Also, Mrs. Lena Stagg Mrs. Paul Heusinkveld and Mrs. Hazel Stage left for Bradenton Florida for the winter and plan to return in two weeks after some sightseeing.
Dr and Mrs E H Gholson of Savanna attend a directors meeting at the Leland Hotel in Springfield today. Dr Gholson serves as a director of the Illinois Chiropractic Research Bureau.
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