Old Thomson high site eyed for outdoor education center
The 1918 era Ole York High building in Thomson Illinois faces vacancy since 1961 and a 200000 to 300000 renovation proposal to become the Upper Mississippi Outdoor Education Center. Superintendent Howard L Kennedy backs gutting the interior while preserving exterior walls to serve grades five through eight with dormitories classrooms and a lecture hall amid plans for state federal funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lila J. Atherton
Howard L. Kennedy
Thomson Community Consolidated Unit
Kennedy
Ole York Community High School
Upper Mississippi
Actu
Bradley & Bradley
Rockford
Outdoor ‘Education Center
Thomson
O'd York Community
Northwestern
Illinois
Daylight Saving Time Ends This Weekend
The article reminds readers to set clocks back one hour before bed Saturday night as daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, warning that missing the change could leave you early for church while others sleep in.
Good Turn Day Planned by Ridge District Scouts
Saturday October 25 is Good Turn Day for Boy Scouts and volunteer Scouters in the Ridge district of U S Grant Council. Harold Krupke of Lena chairs the event. Materials should be left on the front porch or curb by 9 a.m.
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Ridge District
U. &. . Grant Council
Boys of America
Harold Krupke
Lena
Corn harvest prospects and county notes from Mt Carroll
Rain delays limit harvest yet yields at Clark VanBuskirk farm reach 133 to 167 bushels per acre across 33 hybrids. Officials will publish full statistics soon. Weather and price guidance, rodent control tips, cost of living comparisons, and upcoming Town and Country events in Carroll County with October calendar entries.
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Clark VanBuskirk Farm
Mt. Carroll
Whitney publishers list Carroll paper details
The item lists publication details for Thomson Illinois newspaper operated by K C and J K Whitney with J K Whitney as editor Lila Atherton news editor and pricing. It notes weekly publication on Thursdays and annual subscription rates four dollars in county areas five dollars elsewhere.
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K. C
J. K. Whitney
Thomson
Illinois
Lila Atherton
Carroll
Birthday Notices Span October to November in Small Town Listings
A long list of names and places marks birthdays and announcements from October 24 to November 1. Residents in Savanna Lanark Polo Milledgeville Thomson Chadwick Shannon Port Byron and nearby areas are named with dates and events such as Home Economics tours and achievement nights.
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Une
Lucille Stransky
Savanna
Jacob Hart
Lamark
John Miller
Lanark
Janet Schmidekamp
Shannon
Vicki Schultz
Lowell Ness
Carrol Steve Atherton
Thomson
Bradley W. Ellinor
Donald Marken
Juliann
Merken
Wm. H. Beattie
Chadwick
Charles Gordon, Jr
Coldwater
Mich
Boyd W. Remrey
Carroll
Grace Isewhart
Melvin Stengel
DuWayne Gerdes
Milledgeville
Charles Finch
Clinton
Iowa
Jane Bowers
Glen. Metz
Mabel Kinkade
Port Byron
Elizabeth Bates
Frank Bowers
Polo
Charles Sucher
Janie Dollinger
Irvin Kness
Merton Loomis
George Damthman
Opal Roy Lanark
Jack M . Thomson
Harold Sehroth
Morrison
Larry Workman
Rhonda Stewant
Frank S. Hutchison, Jr
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Wellon
Lions Club
Ter
Mississippi River
Mississippi Passades State Park
Board of Education
KRAFT
MT. Carrous
Aarold Brinkmeier
Illinois Division of Markets
Urbana
Lincoln Square
George Morgan
Home Economics Extension
Carroll County
White Eagle Pool
Center Hill
Naaman Diehl
Mt. Carroll Community Council
Thomson Review
Thomso
The
Village Echo
Thomson -Broadax
Happy
George Bittner
Carl Lehr
Donavith
Omak
Wash
Kenneth Carbaugh
Warren French
Elgin
C. E. Bowers
Russell Sweitzer
Savan
Paul Fogel
Alma Rahn
Belva Brandt
Pearl City
Sharon Ruble
Leland Diehl
A? Baughman
Milledgereffrey Flickinger
Northbrook
Fenton Haugh
Dele Mayden
Donald Hook
Fulton
Nelle Hardacre
Elsie M. Fulrath
George Stone
Verlin Gean Behrens
Irma Zier
George Jones
Mike Cram
Gilpin Stagg
Kimbro Shake
M2comb
August Pontnack
Donald Dennis
Sara Lee and Lee
Mt. Carroit ‘High School
Hubert Hanna
Anson Metzger, Jr
la €Latre
Lyle Smith
Sterling
Debra Susan Roberts
Clinton Roberts
Curtis Naniga
James Colehour
Pensacola
Reagg
Ruth Traum
Jane Kay Sikkema
Maude Nason Tate
LeRoy Ludwig
John Magill
Douglas Ralph Stearns
Cedar Rapids
Jeannine Katie
Martin
Jo-Dell Janssen
Isabelle Fossett
Connie Hendrick
Dickinson
Clay. ST
Butte
Roger
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