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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1939
Page
4
Mr and Mrs Maurice Strukhoff entertained at their home with a birthday dinner on Wednesday honoring Joseph Strukhoff and Gilpin Stage. The event highlighted family ties and local social life.
Chadwick residents welcomed guests including Mr and Mrs George Doden and the Schreiners with LaVonne for Sunday dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs Charles Ris. Other visitors included Dr William Smith and three sons, Clarence staying with Mr and Mrs D F Mackey, and Delmar Smith of Davenport Iowa at the Tfolk residence.
H L Bowman Cattle Company of Maquoketa Iowa will hold a regular auction starting 1 PM rain or shine. Cattle by weight include 80 Hereford steer and heifer calves 950-475 lbs 260 Hereford steers 500-760 lbs 10 Hereford steers 800-940 lbs 60 Shorthorn and mixed cattle 950 lbs with about 400 from Colorado. 40 Poland China hogs vaccinated and wormed. Auctioneers: Hut, Herard, Seeberger & Hads.
The article reports a nationwide poultry industry summit in Baltimore where producers buyers packers and researchers agreed on a consumer education program to expand demand. A proposed funding plan ties contributions to chicken counts and county quotas while advisors from each state would approve final program details. The market remains pressured by high turkey storage and earlier prices but offers optimism for orderly marketing and sustained consumer awareness.
The text argues prices will stay steady if producers keep selling poultry gradually and in an orderly way, warning of a teeter totter effect if everyone holds then floods the market. With a large poultry crop, only orderly selling can prevent a disastrous collapse, and continued eating at current rates is urged.
Mrs May Hawke hosted guests including Mrs Spearman and Mrs Lena Sturmer with others from Chicago and local families. Neal and Jing visited Sunday with John Maring in Morrison. Provants, Kreiders, Metz family, Hartmans and siblings visited or hosted at multiple homes in Milledgeville Plainfield Joliet Waukegan Mt Carroll DeKalb and DeKalb area.
Mrs. James Waters of Polo and Mrs. Ben Stadel hosted a Friday dessert bridge at Stadel’s home. Twenty guests attended with first prize going to Mrs. Riley Temple and second to Mrs. Bess Humbert. Attendees included Mrs. Eugene Murray, Mrs. Burgett Runnels, Miss Alice Swarts, and many others.
Weekend visitors clustered around Sterling Preston and Clinton Iowa. Names include Roy Queckboerner Lois Doty Ronald Hoover Everett Willams Patsy Ann Lawrence Doden William Holm Danny Emnyre and Harry Mohr spouses at Sterling Preston and Dixon areas. Arthur Way Bill Cameron. Ernest Miller visited J D Bray home Clinton. Delia Isenhart home from Northern Illinois State Teachers College DeKalb spent weekend with Isenhart parents. Henry Schleming hosted Christy Geison and daughters Marian Mildred with Rev J W Bucklin. Kenneth Wood Mt Carroll and George Knoess with daughters called on in the evening. Lucinda Sucher dinner with Mary Wilson.
A fragmented social page notes multiple Sunday visits and dinners among Dixon families. Attendees include Brink and son of Amboy plus Ada Husett of Dixon, J Martin with his mother, Schreiner families hosting Livengood Mest Brand Duggert and Dartman, Prowants and Frank Prowant, Geis Shultz Hum bert with Tommy Shultz of Freeport visiting P C Beck Smire at Dixon hospital, and others such as C J Mackey family guests Evan Strauch and daughters Milledgeville, Frank Schreiner Sr and Art Behrens, Alta Rick of Springfield.
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