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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1942
Page
5
Area residents are urged to gather scrap metal for steel production and to cut nonessential driving to stretch tires and keep munitions plants operating. The piece notes many households underestimate scrap in sheds and farmyards, and highlights a wartime traffic story stressing civilian cooperation and safety.
State Selective Service head Col Paul G Armstrong denounces as absolute falsehood a circulating rumor that Carroll County Local Board No 1 Mt Carroll has been cited for inefficiency or had members dismissed. He notes Illinois boards are routinely inspected and Mt Carroll remains highly efficient and devoted to the war effort.
Illinois and Iowa fishers must track the Mississippi main channel and fish only in waters on their own state side. Arrests may follow for crossing into the other state without a license. The rule targets Pool 13 west of Thomson, limiting east-side fishing to Illinois licenses and west-side to Iowa licenses.
About 50 Carroll county 4-H members plan to exhibit beef calves at the Quad-County 4-H Baby Beef Show in Clinton Iowa on Sept 18 and 19. Cash prizes total around 500 dollars with a grand champion silver cup. blue red and white ribbon prizes awarded. Edwin Bay of Sangamon County Ill will judge. Entries due by Sept 18 at 4 p.m. in Clinton Colisum. judging Sept 19 at 9 a.m. A banquet for exhibitors is set for 6:30 p.m. Sept 18 at the Lafayette hotel.
Storm last Wednesday produced 5.98 inches on Mt Carroll with James McCray noting heavy torrents flooding streams and ditches. High water overflowed highways, ripped out floodgates, and damaged fences while Savanna saw basement flooding and about 250 dial telephones out of service due to water or lightning.
Carroll County approves a September quota of 97 700 dollars for war bond sales designated Salute to Our Heroes Month. County chairman Atty Charles K E Stuart notes local theatres partner in the drive with Frank Goldquist of Web and Orpheum theatres in Savannah directing the effort.
Carroll County death notices report William P. Isenhart 76 of Mt. Carroll died Sept 7 at Jane Lamb hospital Clinton Ia funeral services held at Frank funeral home Mt. Carroll with Oak Hill cemetery burial. He was born April 2 1866 in Fair Haven township. Survived by widow a brother Frank Isenhart and sister Mrs George Traum. Savanna resident Savanna G A Schneck Sr 74 died Sept 8 at his home. funeral arrangements pending. Born in Wurtemberg Germany May 23 1868, he came to the U S in 1885 and married Rose Davies in Chicago Dec 29 1898. He worked for Milwaukee railroad 29 years and later retired. Survived by widow six children G A Schneck Jr Bryson City NC Phillip Schneck Pensville Mrs John Pappas Chicago Fred Sehneck Mrs John Shaner Mrs Robert Johns, all of Savanna.
Regular and supplemental panels for the November Carroll County grand jury were announced at the board of supervisors September meeting. Members span Washington through Elkhorn Grove and include numerous named individuals with several townships listed. Mrs. Blanche Beck was visiting her father O. W. Hackett in Cleveland.
Jim Poole, noted stock market reporter for WLS, will speak at Stephenson county fair in Taylor Park Freeport from September 10 to 13. He will present at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. each day, in the fair’s third annual event.
Atty John J Perry of Mt Carroll was named rent director for the Savanna Clinton area by John Weigel regional administrator OPA. Perry will oversee rent control in Carroll County and Clinton County Pa, with registrations for landlords starting soon and rents frozen as of March 1 1942.
Twenty six Carroll county men departed Tuesday morning for an army induction center in Chicago for final examinations. Included was Carl J. Zluhan of Savanna, a World War I veteran, who volunteered again and asked for early service. The group, from Thomson Chadwick Lanark Milledgeville and Savanna, signals a larger call soon.
Executive board of the 18th district of the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs will meet in Sterling on Thursday September 24. The district directory for 1942-43 has been issued and plans for winter and spring meetings are listed with dates at Mt. Morris Savannah and Amboy. The 1943 GFWC convention is scheduled for Indianapolis with Illinois federation convention set for Chicago May 25 to 27. Regional conferences will not be held this year.
Navy communique reports the destroyer Blue sunk with few casualties. radioman Everald Foltz, 2d class, served on board and his parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foltz fear for his safety. Navy notes no specific action tied to sinking and promises next of kin notifications as details arrive. Mrs. Ella Orr of Oak Park visits K. B. Carpenter's home with Savanna relatives.
Mrs Lucille Reese Stoll of Savanna married Lieut Roger R Fitzwater of the Savanna ordnance depot on Sept 1 in Camanche Ta They were attended by Mrs Beulah Reed of Clinton Ia and Lieut Barth Viviano The couple left for West Virginia and plan to reside in Savanna after returning The bride is a Savanna native and daughter of Mrs J G Reese employed at the ordnance depot.
Carroll County officials head an intensive scrap metal campaign to back steel mills with a Sept. 12 collection target. Salvage Chairman Ralph Farney led a Mt. Carroll meeting with local officials as speakers urged full commitment.
Circuit Judge Harry B. Wheat will preside in Mt Carroll on Saturday. Marriage licenses issued include Woodrow Curboy and Alice Randecker, Fatil Keelan and Myrtle Burke, Fred Dauphin and Evelyn Krafft. Delinquent tax lists to newspapers around Sept 16. register by Oct 6 for the November election. Various property deeds and transfers across Savanna, Milledgeville, Wysox, and Mt Carroll. Correction note for prior transfer listing error.
L. E. Bruci announces three additional rural schools in Carroll County have secured teachers. Jefferson school will hire George Hopfer, Mosquito Hill will have Mrs Echo Wilcox, and Hazel Green will welcome Miss Grace Wolf. Ideal School cannot fill a position and sends pupils to Yorkhill. Ford tribute visitors included Mrs Paul Dale Joyce and Miss Shirley Anderson.
Carroll county rationing board issued week long certificates for Grade II tires obsolete tires passenger tubes passenger retreads and truck tires and tubes plus two new automobiles. Names include Eugene Davis Thomson Sherman Tipton and Howard Bushman among many others from Lanark Savanna Milledgeville Chadwick Mt. Carroll and nearby towns. Also notes Mr and Mrs Warren Green of Mt. Carroll and Barbara Bonjour of Savanna visiting Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Brown.
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