County Nursing Homes Workshop Preview in Mount Carroll
The second northwestern Illinois public affairs workshop asks Are County Nursing Homes Needed The event Tuesday October 24 at the Farm Bureau Building Mount Carroll features Reynolds Lenz regional IDPA director Norman Paulson IDPH Springfield Robert Cunningham IDPH and Howard Nehlig McHenry County Nursing Home Woodstock with slides on modern operations Free tickets from the Cooperative Extension office Mount Carroll
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Farm Bureau
Mount Carroll
Dorothy Footitt
Harold Brinkmeier
Carroll County
Reynold Lenz
Ilinois Department of Public Aid
Rockford
Norman Paulson
Illinois Department of Public Aid
Springfield
Robert Cunningham
Illinois Department of Public Health
Howard Nehlig
McHenry County Nursing Home
Woodstock
Nehlig
Hot lunch menu for the week
Tuesday offers Sloppy Joe sandwiches with buttered carrots potato chips cookies and milk. Wednesday features Turkey short cake green beans bread and butter peanut butter whipped jello and milk. Thursday serves Ham salad sandwiches scalloped corn orange juice milk and cake. Friday presents Goulash tossed salad bread and butter milk and pudding.
No School Friday and Monday for Students
Notice states no classes on Friday and Monday as teachers attend I E A and visitation day will be observed on Monday.
Thomson's Varsity Band Heads to Plattville Homecoming
Thomson's Band under Earle Mailand travels to Southern Wisconsin University Platteville Wisconsin on Saturday for Homecoming events. The band marches in the parade, competes for trophies and ribbons, attends the football game, and returns that evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomson
Earle Mailand
Southern Wisconsin University
Platteville
Wisconsin
Thomson Recreation Hunting and Fishing Weather Goods
The store offers new and used guns fishing equipment Ball Band rubber footwear to keep feet dry and warm shotgun and rifle ammunition caps gloves pop candy and smokers supplies.
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Thomson Recreation
Rotary Club Announces Study Exchange Plan
Rotary District 642 programs recruit men ages 25 to 35 for a two month exchange to Denmark leaving April 28 1968. Savanna Milledgeville Mor rison Polo Oregon and Freeport clubs may nominate two candidates each with all travel paid by the Rotary Foundation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary
Northwestern
Illinois
Rotary International
Savanna
Milledgeville
Rotary Clubs
Denmark
Rotary Foundation
J. Turner Mills
Jutland
Morrison
Polo
Oregon
Freeport
Walter Helle
Earl H. Reddies
Savanna Rotary Club
Earl L. Woodin
Earn Certificates For Training In Children's Services
Mrs. Mildred Brach librarian Margaret Bensinkveld and Marian McKee of the York Township Public Library have certificates from the Illinois State Library for completing a Children's Services workshop. The program, arranged by the Northern Illinois Library System, was led by Anthony Baldarotta from Rockford Public Library with sessions in Mount Carroll and Crystal Lake. Grace Shope of the University of Illinois conducted the courses on children's library service materials reference and reading programs. The workshop is the first in a series for the 46 libraries in the NILS network.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred Brach
Margaret Bensinkveld
Marian McKee
York Township
Illinois State Library
Northern Illinois Library System
Anthony Baldarotta
Rockford Public Library
Mount Carrol
Crystal Lake
Grace Shope
University of Illinois
Operation Across Mississippi River Modernizes AT&T Cable
The Mississippi River operation nears completion with 22 000 feet of dual 4 ½ inch cables laid under the river bed by Pentzien Inc. of Omaha. Supervisors say the project, begun July 24 1967 and costing about 1.5 million dollars, supports a continental AT&T communication line and will move to Ottawa Iowa after finishing in Thomson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomson
Mississippi River
Pentzien, Inc
Omaha
Nebraska
Mississippi
Illinois
Harry Jurgens
Pentzien
Iowa
Finois
Local Youths Report Injuries and Illness
Debra Brown, daughter of Mr and Mrs Kyle Brown, is confined to bed with a mild rheumatic fever. Dale Eslinger, son of Mr and Mrs Calvin Eslinger, injured his right foot in a Fort Benning accident while working with a tank. He reports crushed bones, a nearly severed big toe, and a four week cast. He was treated at the base hospital and released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Debra Brown
Kyle Brown
Dale Eslinger
Calvin Eslinger
Fort Benning
Georgia
Dale
Card of Thanks for Birth of Baby Daughter
MR. and MRS. MERLE PRINS thank everyone for cards and congratulations on the birth of their daughter. They also thank those who brought food and helped care for the family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merle Prins
Thomson PTA Plans Mardi Gras Halloween Celebration
The Thomson PTA committee led by Mrs Hal Hoy schedules a Halloween carnival Monday October 30 in the school gym starting at 7 pm with costume judging in four age groups and a group-costume category. Prizes, treats, and after events include a Witch Wagon call, registration at the door, and chaperoned dances for teens ending around 10 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomson
Hal Hoy
PTA
John Krahn
Clifford Durward
Richard Atherton
Modern Wood
Men of America
Thomas McKee
Jonathan Whitney
John C. Atherton
Ernest E. Smith 59 of Thomson dies suddenly on farm
Ernest E. Smith 59 died Monday morning of a heart attack while working east of Thomson. Funeral services were held Wednesday at Frank Funeral Home in Mount Carroll with Rev. Peter J. Surrey. Burial in Upper York Cemetery. Survived by Dora Lee Wilson. three children Marjorie Nancy Larry. five grandchildren. two sisters. Smith was a York Community High School 1927 graduate and longtime farmer. former Mount Carroll Mutual Fire Insurance director and Carroll County Farm Bureau member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest E. Smith
Thomson Farmer
Thomson
Frank Funeral Home
Mount Carroll
Peter J. Surrey
Episcopal Church
Savanna
Upper York
Ben Snyder
Marvin Holesinger
Eugene Murray
Hobart Holland
Paul Petersen
Arthur Robbe
Fred E
Grace Baine Smith
Dora Lee Wilson
Kansas City
Kansas
Marjorie
Forest Park
Ilinois
Charles
Nancy) Green
Stockton
Larry
Merle
Ilva) Turney
Wesley Golding
Vienna
West Virginia
York Community High School
Morrison
Smith
Mount
Bull and Bailey couple wed in Clinton Iowa
Steven Bull son of Mr and Mrs Eugene E Bull Savanna and Sandra Kay Bailey daughter of Mr and Mrs Owen W Bailey Clinton were married at 2 pm Saturday October 7 in First Methodist Church A reception followed in church parlors Mrs Bull a Clinton High School graduate and Steven a Savanna High School graduate now stationed with the U S Navy in Norfolk Va the couple will reside in Norfolk The Stevens was a student in Thomson schools when his parents lived here
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steven Bull
Eugene E. Bull
Savanna
Sandra Kay Bailey
Owen W. Bailey
Clinton
Iowa
First Methodist Church
Thomson Schools
Goodwill Truck Pickup Scheduled at Mrs Sippels Home
Announcement says the Goodwill truck will stop at the home of Mrs Donald Sippel on Wednesday November 15. It welcomes donations of used clothing toys electrical appliances and small furniture. Items in need of repair are accepted to provide work for handicapped people. Leave items with Mrs Sippel or call for other arrangements.
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Donald Sippel
Science Club drives Thomson Review subscriptions
The Science Club of Thomson High School reports success in their first subscription drive. They solicited the Village for renewals and new subscriptions totaling about $150, with remaining rural areas to be canvassed this week as the campaign expands into new districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Science Club
Thomson High School
Thomson Review
PTA Enjoys England Slides
The October PTA meeting opened with president Mrs. Paul Green presiding in the school cafeteria. Reports covered the 1967-68 budget and current membership drive by Mrs. Merle Bielema and Mrs. Larry Geerts. David Pease of Geneseo showed slides and narrated his exchange teaching year in England. The attendance banner went to Mrs. Jecklin’s fourth grade, and the November meeting will be an Open House for Education Week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PTA
Paul Green
Merle Bielema
Larry Geerts
Eugene Diephuis
Diephuis
David Pease
Geneseo
England
Jecklin
MacDonald pleads guilty to new charge in court
In a circuit court hearing on Thursday October 19 Assistant Judge Edward J Turnbaugh dismissed arson against Robert MacDonald 22 of Thomson and a new complaint for criminal damage to property was filed. MacDonald pleaded guilty to the new charge and requested probation. A psychiatric examination was ordered and the case continued to November 3 at 1 50 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward J. Turnbaugh
Robert MacDonald
Thomson
William B. Petty
MacDonald
Mrs Murray Wins Two Ribbons at Palisades Art Show
Mrs. Eugene Murray earned a red and a white ribbon for two of her pastel entries in the Palisades Art League exhibit held in Savanna. Her pieces included a twilight farm scene titled Chore Time and a Mississippi contrails scene near River View. The show surpassed prior years with 253 exhibits and crowds estimated at 350 to 400.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Murray
Palisades Art League
Savanna
Mississipi
Riverview
Girl Scout Cadettes Elect Officers for Term
The Girl Scout Cadettes held a meeting on October 13 electing Patrol Leader Louann Bellich Assistant Patrol Leader Cindy Halfman treasurer Sherry McCrudden and secretary Rhonda Brown. They will meet biweekly on Mondays with the next gathering October 23 from 3:30 to 6:00 p.m. at Potters Road for a cookout. The group will provide babysitting at PTA meetings as a service project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louann Bellich
Cindy Halfman
Sherry McCrudden
Rhonda Brown
Potter’s Road
P.T.A
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Katherine Ennis
Ogle County
Rotary Club
Lettermans Club
Call Savann
Thomson — Chadwick
Knuths
McCruddens
Hans
Maguty
America
At&t
County Farm Bureau
Goodwill
Science Club Reports
Cgirl Scoutss
Krahn
Koffee Kup
Chicago & Clinton
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