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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1954
Page
3
Thomson’s basketball squad clinched the city title with a clutch win in Clinton. The report notes season averages and next week’s rundown, amid weather, fires, and local happenings including a Labor Day barn fire and a new well drilling project.
Local residents share weekend visits and travels including Thomson to Libertyville plans by Thomson News Me and Mrs James Hook. Brookfield Zoo trip. family visits from Port Byron Chadwick Chicago Maquoketa Clinton Tampico Lanark and Clinton. A drainage district notice warns of annual benefits due by March 10 1955 with potential land sales if unpaid.
Sick John Ashpole returns home from Jane Lamb hospital Clinton Ta. Mrs W A Adams shows gradual improvement after a shoulder injury from a fall. Frank Stiles comes home after surgery at Savanna City hospital. Lillian Kay Daniels sprains ankle at school grounds. Earl Root in Mercy hospital Clinton Ia for x rays last week. Francis Hamm breaks leg after bike fall returning from scout meeting Wednesday.
The Woman's Club held its first meeting of the 1954 55 year in the high school library on September 8 with 26 members and two guests. Mrs Anna Marie Merry resigned as president and Mrs Roy Heitman was elected to lead the year. officers include vice president Kenneth Kemmer secretary Francis Hoff assistant secretary John Carroll and treasurer Thomas Kustus. Carol Williams reported on her Egyptian Music Camp experience and presented two piano solos.
Local social notes record visits and guests from Sterling Fulton Newton and Detroit. The gatherings span Wednesday to Thursday with multiple families including the Badtkes Rahns Schrads Prinses and Beckers noted.
Mass times listed for Fulton at 8 and 10 a m. and St John’s in Savanna at 6 8 and 10 a m. Evening service at 8 30 p m led by pastors Gillespie and Rev William Kendall. Regular Sunday evening worship continues. Cake reference noted.
The York Baptist Church lists 9 30 Sunday School and 10 30 Church Services with James Kendall as speaker. A deacon and deaconess training clinic is set for September 13 at 7 50 pm involving Mt. Carroll and Morrison churches. Rally Day is September 26 1954 with guidance on Christian citizenship and daily living.
Sunday School events feature special music and a rally day program at the Methodist church. The bulletin lists W S C S meetings, bake sale by Ranger and Livewire classes, and multiple area visits and social gatherings across towns including Clinton Mt Carroll Savanna and Rockford with families traveling for visits and Labor Day trips.
Services for Mrs. Anna L. Connell 85 of Sterling who died Sunday night in Dixon Mansion nursing home were held at 1 30 p m CST Wednesday in the Allen funeral home Sterling Rev Paul Bloomquist officiated. Additional services were at the Savanna Methodist church with Rev Lawrence Axelson and Rev A Stanley Beck officiating. Burial was in Savanna cemetery. Surviving are a daughter Miss Margaret Connell a teacher at Lincoln junior high Rockford and a son Sherman of Sterling.
Mr and Mrs Charles Hartman welcomed a daughter born Thursday September 2 at Mercy Hospital in Clinton. Pvt and Mrs Donald Hook welcomed a son born Wednesday September 8 at Savanna City Hospital, the boy weighing seven pounds one ounce. Mr and Mrs Glenn Hammer welcomed a daughter born this week at Morrison Hospital.
Mrs. Marion Wheeler and family attended the annual Ford reunion at the Blodgett farm in Water City with guests from Chadwick Niagara Parkford Aurore and Thomson. A potluck dinner followed with games and prizes. Mrs Wheeler will host next year’s reunion the Sunday before Tabor Day. Louis J. Thompson of Clinton Iowa visited Mt Carroll with the Hawk family Thursday evening.
The Lawrenz reunion met Sunday at Old Mill Park in Savanna with five attendees. The oldest was Mrs Eima Lawrenz of Clinton Iowa and the youngest Clinton Cagle of Racine Wisconsin. Attendees from Racine included Robert Lawrenz and family, Eddie Raddatz, Agnes Lawrenz, Clara Lawrenz, Eddie Meinert and family, and Howard Cagle with son. Afterward thirty visited Richard Bdadtke’s home.
Virgil Strubb of near Portland Oregon, cousin of the late Wm Strubb, is visiting relatives and friends this week. He left 52 years ago at age 14 and has since lived in South Dakota and Montana before settling in Oregon.
Numerous relatives and friends caravanned through Savanna and neighboring towns over the weekend with visits to Griswold Hartman Hoff Metzger and Lokey households. Chicago and Clinton residents joined in dinners picnics and overnight stays across several Elm Grove Phomaren Chadwick and Fulton locales.
Mrs. Harry Bowders and Mrs. Elsworth Hoover hosted a miscellaneous shower Thursday evening at the Legion hall for Miss Jerry Ann Meakins of Morrison. The future bride will wed Donald Ashby in a Sept. 12 ceremony at the Methodist church. Thirty guests attended with Ringo as the evening’s diversion. Gifts for the new home were exchanged. Refreshments were served.
The West Argo Fay PTA held its first meeting of the year at the Grade School with President Harold Fedderson presiding. A new project was approved to contribute 120 dollars for school band uniforms, and committees were appointed for program ways and means hospitality membership magazines radio music publicity and more. A pot luck supper and teacher reception were planned for October 4 at the high school to attract a large turnout of teachers and parents.
A string of social calls and weekend visits highlighted by Lloyd Smith’s Canton stay with the Henthorns, Racine relatives at the Badtke home, and Lawrenz reunion at Old Mill Park in Savannah. Numerous gatherings featured Ashpoles, Athertons, Stearns, Plumleys, and others visiting in Fulton, Shannon, Savanna, Clinton, and Lanark.
A dense list of local visits and gatherings spans Clinton Ta Lanark Savanna Morrison and Toulon. Residents including Mrs Merle Namanee Mr Alice Fitch Mrs Justice Prins Miss Jo Ann Prins and many others share weekend visits funerals fairs and dinners.
Mr and Mrs Willis Sikkema and son Paul of Erie visited the Switzers Tuesday evening. Walter Root and Wayne of St Paul joined Labor Day guests of his parents the Harry Roots. Bud Hackbarth of Rock Falls stayed with Mrs Herman Timmons and Mr Timmons over Labor Day. G A Smith and Glen Goble hosted in Woodstock and attended the Elkhorn fair. William Roberton and family visited their daughter Lynn Carey this week. Ben Koenig of Oak Park joined Rev and Mrs William Leckrone and family for Sunday. Mrs Adeline Groharing hosted visitors including Mrs Marvin Brookstra and Edward Fulton on Tuesday. A bake sale at Starr's Cafe offered weekend baked goods. Clarence Mason Green and Carol of St. Charles and Harold Zenk hosted Orrie Rutherford of South Bend. David Tommy and Ronnie Rutherford, summer visitors, returned home with their father.
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