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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1938
Page
2
The Carroll County platform outlines a bank for Milledgeville and road extensions from Hansen's Corners on Route 78 to Chadwick joining Route 40. It calls for electing efficient local officers and cutting expenses, promoting community competitive sports, and labeling Carroll County as the sportsmen's paradise.
Platform statements emphasize tax reduction safety first crime never pays and constitutional fidelity. Calls for better farms and farmers with a focus on agricultural policy and constitutional governance.
A birthday listing from Milledgeville and surrounding towns runs from Friday September 9 through Thursday September 15. The names include Maurice Schaut and Leo Fisher along with residents such as Adele Lee and Olive Smith, spanning Milledgeville Thomson Chadwick Lanark and Freeport with multiple dates and many individuals listed by first and last names.
Carroll County notes a crowded Labor Day with a large day crowd and scattered evening showers. A shooting gallery incident injured a boy. a propeller was damaged by a stalled plane. Car trouble and old cars added to the post event departure drama as residents anticipate Milledgeville’s parade and Sauerkraut Day in Forreston. Lyndon beat Grove 7 to 4 in a Farm Bureau clash.
A new air marker reading Savanna painted atop the gas holder on South Third Street, with a north–south 50 foot line and six foot high letters spanning 40 feet. Athletic staff Massey and Stefani arrive to prepare for the season as Massey leads as athletic director and basketball coach while Stefani serves as assistant director and football coach. The football season begins early this month with practice starting this week, and the Legion band will hold a final concert Sunday at Old Mill Park at 3 PM.
Commercial club directors announced there will be no parade on Doughnut Day September 13 and 14 as many business men prefer cash contributions for entertainment over parade expenses. Local activity mentions Uphoff in jail for vagrancy and Malone charged with intoxicated driving, plus five residents at the Republican state convention in Peoria.
A compact comment on the film world reflecting the volatile fortunes of industry figures and the mixed experiences of theatergoers in crowded cinemas.
The Majestic theatre in Mt Carroll shows The Texana as a glorious frontier drama next Sunday through Tuesday. Harold Lloyd stars in Professor Beware on Wednesday and Thursday September 14 and 15. A return engagement of Treasure Island with Wallace Beery Jackie Cooper and Lionel Barrymore closes the week.
La Nar Theatre Lanark presents Stuart Irwin in Passport Husband a side splitting comedy Thursday Sept 8 plus The Marines Have Landed a heroic and action packed serial. Lewis Hayward stars in Saint in New York an exciting top rated drama. Sunday Monday Tuesday features the Dead End Kids in Little Tough Guy with early seatings urged after last week’s crowd.
Penner stars in a four day engagement with a circus inspired farce set against a wild west ranch. Richard Lane plays a hypnotist ringmaster who schemes to enter Penner in a cowboy horse race for money. Lorraine Krueger leads as the glamorous ranch owner’s granddaughter. Paul Guilfoyle appears as a rival rider.
Oil development in southern Illinois continues to grow with Centralia and Noble fields around three square miles and the Beecher City field in Fayette County expanding to a structure at least 20 square miles. Twenty producing wells mark Beecher City, with potential for many hundreds more as future drilling closes gaps and defines edges.
The narrative recalls river channels and sloughs from Clinton to Albany, noting Cattail Slough as a rafting harbor, and Beaver Island with timber and wildlife. It remembers early families, ferrying rivalries, and a coon hunt, then describes the Meredosia as a shifting waterway, erosion by man, and historic floods that affected Albany including the 1860 tornado and Civil War era rail expansion, ending with a teaser: To Be Continued.
A Bureau of State Promotion survey shows one new soybean processing plant began operation in Illinois this week while another is under construction, planned to open about October 1. Both plants will process state soybeans, with Decatur based Spencer Kellog and Sons operating a new plant and Galesburg preparing the Galesburg Soybean Products Company plant for early fall startup.
Dialogue shows a caller pressing to see the manager who is busy, while the speaker resists, and the caller jokes about a marriage proposal, reflecting everyday street or shopfront chatter. The exchange captures local tone and social interaction without setting.
A prominent public figure argues that the only reliable way to stay out of conflict is to actively work to prevent war from breaking out. The remark emphasizes proactive diplomacy and peacekeeping as essential strategies for national and international safety.
An Englishman boasts that the sun never sets on the British Empire, and an American girl counters with pride in domestic sunsets. The brief exchange highlights differing national sentiments in a light, humorous back and forth.
The fluorspar mining district in Southern Illinois and western Kentucky provides over 90 percent of U S fluorspar. Vast vein deposits form in faults in bedrock and deplete over time, prompting finds of new veins via electrical prospecting.
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