Fair Awards Winners Listed by Township and Name
A long list of exhibitors from Morrison and surrounding towns earned firsts and seconds in a Fair Awards event. Names include Roselick Morrison Carmichael Rochelle Mathew Ashton Salzman Morrison Barkema Morrison Crandall Erie Mathew Morrison Hurless Sterling etc. The roll covers poultry and pets, fruits, flowers, and crafts with champions and grand champions noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Roselick
Morrison
L. V. Carmichael
Rochelle
Wallace Mathew
Ralph Salzman
Ashton
Carrie Barkema
Cornelius Barsema
LeRoy Crandall
Erie
Lloyd Mathew
Harry Miller
Duane Valderschanf
Morreon
Kenneth Kennecker
Albany
Hetty Vandermyde
Geo. Pearson
Howard Vaughn
Woodhull
Claude Hurless
Sterling
Everett Benkes
Joe Pessman
Russell Pell
S. Kappeman
Winnebago
Phil van Meir
Sheffield
Harry Greip
DeWitt
Arthur Yates
George Heller
Prophetstown
Willam Merry
Yuba
A. A. Hartwig
Rockford
William Urban
Lowell Egert
Tampico
Roy Anderson
Robert Moody
Cordova
H. C. Hayes
Polo
E. Kupersmith
Warren
Ralph Huggins
Fulton
Miller and
Sheep
F. Merkle
Lena
J. L. Bistline
Aledo
Booth Bros
Ed McGinty
Mt. Carroll
Ed Keim
Wayne Young
Walnut
Stuart Mathew
Stinemats
Smith
Monmouth
W. R. Norton
Neponset
Geo
Carver
A. R. Spargo
Linder
Wis
Jewel and Son
Mineral Point
Ralph Fulton
Myron Meinzer
Dakota
Morrison and Vicinity
County Board authorizes 117000 tax levy for year
The county board approved an appropriation of 61925 for general county expenses and a tax levy of 49000 for the coming fiscal year. Several specific funds were listed with their appropriations and levies, townships passed additional levies for relief and roads, and the clerk was empowered to set rates for townships and municipalities. Blind benefits: Sophia M. Smith denied. Rose Blasko approved. Transient relief bills and other routine business were handled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Woodland
Freedom
Cherry Grove
Shannon
Lima
Rock Creek
Salem
Mt. Carroll
Savanna
York
Fair Haven
Wysox
Elkhorn Grove
Sophia M. Smith
Rose Blasko
Lanark court updates and deeds filed in Savanna area
Sheriff Westfall reports jail population from five to eleven over the past week. Fred Kampmeier pleads guilty to vagrancy and gets one year probation. Jury adjourned to Oct. 14 for M. M Lavin and Roy Hogmire cases. Multiple warranty and quitclaim deeds filed in Savanna, Milledgeville, Wyson, and Rock Creek areas including actions by James M. Hanna and Bernard F. Schunder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Kampmeier
Lanark
Home B. & L. A
Arnulfo C. Torres
Savanna James M. Hanna
Inza R. Teetora
Myer
Milledgeville
James M. Hanna
Ward Hanna
Wyson
Roy Steffa
Myra L. Renner
Rock Creek
Mary S. Kleeman
Clarabelle Schunder
Magdalene S. Handel
Florence S. Murray
Polly Schunder
Marcella S. Pain
Bernard F. Schunder
Savanna
Marcella Hersey
Stransky Leads Savanna Group Meetings as Temporary Chairman
Stransky as temporary chairman announces a Savanna gathering at the library basement next Monday night September 16. Lanark plans an organization meeting Tuesday September 17 with county officials present. Thomson schedules a similar meeting Friday September 20. All interested are invited regardless of party. Lewellyn Ryder, 50, a negro transient, bound over to the grand jury on a larceny charge, jailed with $250 bond after allegedly stealing watermelons from a Thomson patch. fifth melon theft this summer, all by growers guarding patches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savanna
Lanark
Thomson
Lewellyn Ryder
Grand
Ryder
Registration at Shimer to be Sept 14th
Registration for Frances Shimer college students from Chadwick and Thomson will be held Saturday September 14 from 2 to 5 p.m. Miss A Beth Hostetter registrar says fees payable at the business office and the bookstore will be open for textbooks. Both day and special students should register.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chadwick and
Thomson
Frances Shimer College
Mt. Carroll
A. Beth Hostetter
Miss Hostetter
County Deaths Prompt Obituary Notices in Savanna and Thomson
Harold H Harper 41 of Savanna died at home. Services 2:30 p m Thursday at Fuller funeral home with burial in Savanna cemetery. Survived by widow Mary Archie four children father and brother. Sarah Millard 80 of Carroll county died in Thomson. Services 1:30 p m Thursday at home and 2:00 p m York Community church burial Lower York. Joseph Wilt 66 of Thomson died at home. Services 1:30 p m Wednesday at home and 2:00 p m Baptist church burial Lower York. Mattie Hubbel born 1874 Savanna township married Joseph Wilt Oct 18 1804 retired to Thomson 25 years ago survived by husband one son five grandchildren brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold H Harper
Savanna
Harold Henry Harper
Fuller Funeral Home
Savanna Cemetery
Newaygo County
Michigan
Charles Harper
Savanna Ordnance Depot
Quartermaster Corps
Mary Archie
Chicago
Marise
Sylvia
Charles
Byron
Howard
Thomson
Sarah Millard
Carroll County
York Community Church
Harold Dude
Schiel
Lower York
Sarah Jane Switzer
Israel
Ann Hawk Switzer
Norman Millard
Undine Coleman
Rockford
Gladys Cate
Harold St. Ores
Claude
Yates City
Joseph Wilt
Baptist Church
F. A. Sword
Lower York Cemetery
Mattie Mae Hubbel
Savanna Township
James Hubbel
York Township
Virgil
William Hubbel
Obituaries for Mrs Ed Drake Thomson and James M Hanna
Mrs Ed Drake Thomson 60 of Thomson died Wednesday at Jane Lamb hospital Clinton after long illness. Survived by husband Wayne, a brother William Hunter, a sister Mrs Ed Franks Mt Carroll, and a brother Harry Hunter Sterling. James M Hanna 82 retired farmer of Milledgeville died 9 30 Tuesday at daughter Mrs Harry Teeter’s home. Survived by son Ward near Colea four grandchildren and a sister Mrs Wunderlich of St Louis. Inquest verdict of death by hanging given Tuesday. Burial in Coleta cemetery officiated by Rev C W Marlowe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomson
Ed Drake
Jane Lamb Hospital
Clinton
Wayne
William Hunter
Ed Franks
Mt. Carroll
Harry Hunter
Sterling
Milledgeville
James M. Hanna
Harry Teeter
Mayme Woessner
Shannon
Hanna
Teeter
Ward
Colea
Virginia Hanna
John Wunderlich
St. Louis
Chester
Opel Song
C. W. Marlowe
Coleta
Coleta Cemetery
Savanna Woman Found Dead in Gas Asphyxiation Case
Mrs. Savanna Lauretta Finlay Miles, 48, died from gas asphyxiation self administered amid personal crisis. Inquest heard she left notes stating she could not go on relating to her husband’s illness in Watwaga Wis hospital. Survived by husband Laurence H Miles sister Miss Margaret Finlay of Chicago and other relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savanna
Laurence H. Miles
Lother
Hans Greison
George McKay
Savanna Man Found Dead in City Jail
Savanna Iowa 34 year old Savanna man Savanna resident Savanna police chief Henry Truninger found him nervous and lodged in the jail overnight coroner J B Schreiter ruled death a heart attack. Farrell planned to leave for Marion early Saturday but died at six a.m. after lodging. Frederick William Myers 92 Lanark oldest resident died at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savanna
John M. Farrell
Marion
Iowa
Savanna City
J. B. Schreiter
Farrell
Marquette Park
Henry Truninger
Truninger
German-born Lanark man dies after long illness
The death of Mr. Myers at age 96 occurred September 6 at his home of infirmities of old age. Funeral services were held Saturday at Speers funeral chapel with Rev. I. D. Leatherman in charge and burial in Lanark cemetery. Survived by two daughters Mrs. Fulrath and Mrs. Coleman. four sons Charles Henry Frank Otto. five grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hae Onindow
Ahe
Earl Fulrath
Speers Funeral Chapel
I. D. Leatherman
Lanark
Myers
Germany
Elizabeth Baker
United States
Fulrath
Emma Bower 66 of Lanark dies after stroke
Emma Bower of Lanark died at home Sunday after suffering a stroke a week earlier. Funeral services were held Tuesday at the Church of the Brethren with Rev. I D Leatherman officiating and burial in Lanark cemetery. Born Emma Frederick August 17 1874 in Jo Daviess County she married John Bower March 18 1891. Survivors include two children Chester Bower and Mrs John Gardner, three grandchildren, five sisters and one brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lanark
Emma Bower
Church of the Brethren
I. D. Leatherman
Emma Frederick
Jo Daviess County
Andrew
Mary Frederick
John Bower
Local families attend Sunday birthday gathering in Lanark
Chadwick locals Mr and Mrs Fay Reitzel from Mill edgeville Miss Leona Smith Morrison Mr and Mrs Carl Daehler Paul and Harold visited Louis Daehler in Lanark for his birthday. Several relatives joined later at a picnic dinner hosted by Danny Etnyre in Wacker with Holm and Alexander families from Clinton Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fay Reitzel
Milledgeville
Leona Smith
Morrison
Carl Daehler
Paul
Harold
Louis Daehler
Lanark
Orion Alexander
Kyle Turney
Mt. Carroll
Henry Adolph
Clarence Hartman
Virgil Tommans
Maude Alexander
William Hartman
Rudolph Holm
Lavonne
Argo-Fa
Fred Peters
Peter
Tracy Peters
Clinton, Ia
Harold Holm
William Holm
Danny Et« Nyre
Wacker
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Edna Olson
W. E. Bealer
Fenton
Wm. Scharfenberg
John Jansma
Ist
McArps
Henry Wulf
Nels Lind
Ellen Williams
R. Bartz
John Clark
P. J. Buikema
Geo. Bechtel
Leon Reed
W. E. Gould
Carl Haag
Chadwick
Carrie Buikema
Jas. Lawry
Paul Kier
Paul Klimstra
Lawrence Hawthorne
Edw, Smith Jr
F. L. Smith
Amos Meisma
Fruits Walter Capp
Clara Wilkie
Kewanee
Allan Pearson
Betty Vandermyde
Eugene Wood
Carroll
Stuart Mathews
Duane Vanderschaaf
Edna Eastabrooks
M. C. Arp
Darlene Curtis
Ido Curtis
Henry Dykema
John Jaama
Everett Renkes
Cobb
Dick KE
Bush
Corrie Sandrock
Wm. Bos
FP. J. Biukema
Gertie Thompson
Carl Carlson
C. R. Hook
J. H. Bergman
Jennie Merkcle
Roy Marshal
Ethel Lewis
J. A. Wright
L. A. Abbott
W. BE. Gould
E. Eslinger
Morrson
Ernest Young
Dorothy Robertson
Dorothy Mathew
Carmen Crump
Wilma Montgomery
Carol Hammer
Harry Bressler
Jacob Hax
Horace Bressler
Rock Falls
William Scharfenberg
Robert Williams
Joe Still
Sam Mathew
Floyd Kness
J. J. Bressler
Gale Hammer
Floyd Shaw
Lyndon
Amos Burkholder
Wayne Morris
Jane Wyman
John Litel
Jean Parker
Charles Winninger
Richard Carlson
Porky Pig
Crawford
Susan
God
Goldwyn Mayer
Nevus
Ruth Hussey
John Carroll
Rita Hayworth
Nigel Bruce
Bruce Cabot
Rita Quigley
Rose Hobart
Irene
New Carroll
Eve
Lady In Question
FBI
J. Cagney
Chester Morris
Ronald Colman
Ginger Rogers
Lucky Partners” News—Cartoon Novelty
O. K
Ray Westfall
M. M Lavin
Roy Hogmire
Stransky
Sinop
2Nd St
Backer & Wagner
Shimer
Red
Mt. Carroll Exchange
Frances Shimer
Albin C. Bro
Evanston
Illinois
Wisconsin
Weston Bldg
Clinton, Iowa
Skyrider
Dad
W.A. and
O. Stuedemann
Matin Ave
Don MatThew’ Roote
Joe Delp
Mrs
L. H. Miles
Marvin A. Naeve
Bryant
U. S
Ill
Ohio
Sharpe Carroll
Thomson, Ill
S, A
Stewart Warner
Lecht’s Safety Service
S. 2Nd St
John M Farrell
Fulton County
Nut & Stoker
Johnson Coal CO
Morrison, Il
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