Melon Day Guests At Hattie Brown Home
Local Melon day events brought a long list of visitors to the Hattie Brown home in Thomson. Guests included the Starck and McNeilly families from West Chicago and Clinton, plus Holy, Huggins, Jensen, and Reynolds households from nearby towns. Additional attendance came from Davenport and Morrison families, Freeport visitors, and relatives connected to the Bonjour and Reagan reunions at Apple River Canyon. Labor day weekend saw multiple family visits, dinners, and celebrations across Thomson and surrounding communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hattie Brown
Wm. H. Starck
William
West Chicago
Marie McNeilly
Clinton
Roy T. Collins
Robert
Marilyn
Jake Holy
Lynnda
Harry Holy
Mt. Carroll
Arthur Huggins
Gertrude
Bob
Cedar Creek
Pete Jensen
Jack
Olive
P. M. Starck
Fulton
Roy Stark
Davenport
Gorzney
Morrison
Beulah Gaar
Myrtle Frederick
Freeport
Ida Frederick
Luther Geisinger
John Cooper
Gladys
John Reagan
Savanna
Apple River Canyon
Kenneth Thompson
Battle Creek
Mich
B. R. Lewis
Ralph Olds
Jerry Wentling
Dixon
C. H. Jenkins
Bill Geerts
Albany
Wesley Kness
Mabel Manning
Kness
Harvey Marshall
G. C. Bleyer
Judith Ann
Bernard Conrad
Sheboygan
Wis
Joe Melendy
Argo
Roundup trip after visit. bake sale at Hansen's Cafe
Thomson and Rediske family members return to Roundup Montana after weeks with relatives here. Bake sale at Hansen's Cafe Saturday morning hosted by Methodist ladies' aid with proceeds to be appreciated. Various local visitors noted including Delia Melendy Clinton and George St Ores LeClaire among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond
Dorothy Rediske
Roundup
Mont
Hansen's Cafe
Delia Melendy
Clinton
Arthur Pape
Clifton Bennett
Rockford
River Forest
Hazel Ashpole
Henry Ashpole
Donahue
John Ashpole
Ashpole
Grace Teeter
LeClaire
George St. Ores
H. A. Francke
C. K. Switzer
Albert Miller
Clara Miller
Erie
Kate Francke
Hanover
Martin M. Bielema
Fulton
Clarence Bolhous
Alvin
Grand Rapids
Mich
Charles Ashby
Fairmont
Neb
Mt. Carroll
Mary Gaar
Smith
Methodist Ladies’ Aid
Hansen’s Cafe
F. L. Stagg
Chicago
John Smit
James Mathew
Kalamazoo
Hiram Green
Lyndon
Ely Cochran
Ernest Green
Los Angeles
Calif
Wisconsin
Allen Witmer
Waterworks Park
Morrison
Frances Thomas
Big Rock
Lewis Motor Co
Garrett Bolhous
George Yates
William
Jacksonville
Ill
Ben Rosenberry
Hubert Hoffman
William Bast
Chadwick
Charles Sack
Tibbit
Fred Miller
Ben Martin
Harold
Gerald
Miller
Felix Miller
Fred Richter
L. J. Thompson
Will Hawk Sr
Local Social Roundup At Fulton And Nearby Homes
Numerous visits and dinners mark a busy period as Fulton residents host relatives and friends from Moline Chicago Kalamazoo Lanark and Clinton. Guests include Pollard Nichols Green Mathews Starck Curley Brown Engle and many others with travel from Oak Park Morrison Knoxville and Newport.
Local Girl Eva Mae Schroth Weds Glenn Wurster at Clinton
Announcement of the marriage of Eva Mae Schroth daughter of Mr. and Mrs Roland Schroth to Glenn Wurster son of Mr. and Mrs Charles Wurster Sr of Zion community northwest of Savannah. The wedding occurred last Wednesday August 31 at the Clinton home of Rev Kruger with attendants Gertrude Dykstra and Pearl Evelyn Rawlins. Eva Mae a York Community High School graduate earned top scholastic honors. Mr Wurster is a farmer and their home will be on a Zion farm. Mrs Wilbur Hall of Argo Fa entertains for Mrs Wurster Monday September 12 with members of the class of 1938 and Misses Virginia and June Schroth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva Mae Schroth
Roland Schroth
Glenn Wurster
Charles Wurster
Zion
Savanna
Clinton
Kruger
Gertrude Dykstra
Pearl Evelyn Rawlins
Eva Mae
York Community High School
Wurster
Wilbur Hall
Argo Fa
No Date Set First Parent Teacher Meet
Local Parent-Teacher Association has not fixed a date for its opening meeting and has yet to finalize the season’s program. Officers elected last spring include President William Haas and several vice presidents, secretary Mrs. Harvey Seim, and treasurer Mrs. Wesley Sack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parent-Teacher Association
P.T. A
William Haas
Frances Thomas
Eugene Murray
Ben Wagner
Harvey Seim
Wesley Sack
Community Dinner Guests and Local Visits Near Morrison
Thomson Briers and Mrs Saffer of Morrison hosted dinner at Frank Becker home with Blanche Seim. the Gleason family from Savannah visited Wednesday. Dan Sack and Joyce from Morrison visited George St Ores family over the holiday. Arthur Marshall of Rock Falls called on Ben Stage and Kenneth Kemmer. Robert Merchant of Lanark joined Labor Day gatherings with Leonard Stage and W C Cooper family from Chicago renting the Baptist parsonage. Claude Wiebenga family to move from parsonage to Waite place along the bluff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Saffer
Morrison
Fred Seim
Harvey Seim
Blanche
Frank Becker
Russel Gleason
Savanna
Dan Sack
Joyce
George St. Ores
Arthur Marshall
Rock Falls
Ben Stage
Kenneth Kemmer
Robert Merchant
Lanark
Leonard Stage
W. C. Cooper
Child
Chicago
Claude Wiebenga
Waite Place
Methodist Ladies Aid Bake Sale At Hansen Cafe
The Methodist Ladies Aid sponsors a bake sale Saturday morning at Hansen Cafe formerly Stransdale. The sale begins about 10 o clock and offers a variety of delicious baked goods. Your patronage is solicited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Ladies Aid
Hansen
Mount St. Clare Names Faculty for Coming Year
Mount St. Clare college and academy release the roster of faculty for the next school year. The list covers College Department appointments across Art Biology Education English Composition English Literature French Government History Hygiene Latin Librarian Mathematics Music Religion Psychology Physical Education Sociology Speech and Secretarial duties with names such as Sister Mary Alphonse Sister Margaret Mary Mary Flavian Mary Loyola Mary Aurelia Sister Mary Joseph Mr. John Carlson Reverend James Quinlan Florence Meyer and Sister Cyrilla among others. Academy Faculty shows biology Miss Meyers commercial Sister Mary Cyrilla English and French Sister Mary Aurelia English and History Sister Mary Cortona Geometry Sister Mary Leona Glee Club Sister Mary Louis Latin Sister Mary Paschal Latin and Mathematics Sister Mary Carolita Sewing Sister Mary Lawrence and Sister
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton
Mount St. Clare College and Academy
Mary Alphonse
Margaret Mary
Mary Flavian
Mary Loyola
Mary Aurelia
Mary Joseph
John Carlson
Mary Regis
H. B. Brumer
Mary Cortona
Mary Leona
Mary Louis
Mary Paschal
Mary Carolita
Mary Lawrence
Streamlining Menswear Ends Pockets Decree in Recession
A political or fashion note proclaims removal of pockets to simplify male attire amid lean times. The piece mocks bulky pockets as silly during economic restraint and hints at broader style discipline in hard times.
Community Notes from Chadwick and Morrison Area
Social tidbits list dinners and visits among local families including the Handels, Wiersemas, Georg es, and Stewarts with plans for trips to Yellowstone and Pennsylvan ia. A 30 60 Rumley tractor is offered for sale in Morrison. A drainage district treasurer warns that 1938 drainage and levee benefit payments are due by March 10 1939 or lands will be sold to cover the amount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savanna and
York
Carroll
Illinois
Thomson
A. D
Roy I
Houghton
Sleeping Sickness Cont'd Excerpt Warns of Vaccines and Care
The article discusses an experimental chick embryo vaccine for sleeping sickness in horses, noting mixed early results and urging caution. It describes symptoms such as dullness and stumbling, and prescribes rapid vet involvement, careful cooling, hydration, rest in shade, fly control, and avoiding stimulants. It cites the Horse and Mule Association of America and Wayne Dinsmore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miinoisi
Symptons
iIt
Mankato
Minnesota
Starkey
Kr. Starkey
Horse and Mule Association of America
Wayne Dinsmore
S. Dearborn St
Chicago
Royal Theatre Fulton Film Is Flood Record
Dramatic flood sequences in The river open Sunday at the Royal Theatre. Cameramen in the Mississippi Valley filmed scenes of the 1937 flood as the first complete Federal disaster documentary. Mr and Mrs Harrison Wheeler and Jean of Mt Carroll visited Sunday evening with Mrs Harriett Yates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Theatre Fulton
Royal Theatre
Mississippi Valley
Federal
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Tee Sau ‘Stores
Alaska
Kellogg’s
Pkes
Wellworth
Scott Towels
Lge
Pkg
Pillsbury’s Best Flour
Thomson Locals
Nellie Burns
A. L. Thompson
Lucille
Detroit, Mich
Laura Geisinger
Jessie Green
Donald Bradford
Billy
Joann Johnson
Frederick
Dee Wilt
Clint Wilt
Detroit
Paul Wilt
Harriett Smith
Glen Wilt
Mr. Wilt
Miss Smith
Lockport
Conrad Lillie
Robert Groharing
Prudence
C. W. Atherton
Grace
Rochester
Mary Ellen Warner
Burlington
Marvin Brookstra
Bruce Groharing
Galesburg
John Bruce
Labor Day
Charles Wilt
Bruce
Mrs. Jenkins
Peter Lund
Sterling
Thomson Briefs
Helen Pollard
Dean Nichols
Moline
Earl Green
Harriett Yates
Engle
Otto Engle
Henry Lohmeier
B. C. Sharpe
Harold Allessee
Dayton
Sears-Johannsen
William Starck Sr
William Starck Jr
Lynn Curley
Guy Brown
Harriett
Curley
Harriett Brown
Northwestern University
Otto Switzer
Harold Crouse
Shirley
Shannon
Harl Johnson
Lulu
Henry Engelking
Bobby
David
R. H. Leitner
Betty
Bud
Ella Orr
Oak Park
K. B. Carpenter
M. J. Strukhoff
Thomson Band
Forreston
Andrew Hook
Frank Potter
Ray Machael
Jake DeVries
Ella McCullough
Frank Rush
Brownville
Rush Buren
Kimmie
Indiana Harbor
Ollie Atherton
Ideal
Belle Greenleaf
California
Marian Klimstra
Newton
Claus Prins
Thomas Rush
Mary Prins
Harry Capron
Donald Smith
Duane
Jack Backer
Ema Mae Schroth
Thomson Briers
Bake Sale
Mount St. Clare
Chadwick News
Harlan Handel
Beverly
William Handel
Lloyd Handel and
Gary
Lucy Smith
Clayton Kaul
Boyd Handel and
Virgil
Claus Wiersema
Garden Plain
Peter Haan
Cecil George
Barbara Ann
Anna George
Western States
Charles Stewart
Clarence, Mo
Elizabeth Hughes
Calvin Hughes
Paul Geesey
Hollidaysburg
Rumley
Case Dealer
Bert Fletchie
Francke & Switzer
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