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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1938
Page
2
The column notes fall events in Carroll County with mentions of World Series viewing, staff layoffs from woodchoppers at Thomson due to high water and Mississippi flooding, a successful Mill Edgeville Community Day despite rain, returning students, and optimistic corn yields while calling for better farm prices.
The 1938 Carroll County platform calls for a Bank at Milledgeville and extending Rt. 171 from Hansen's Corners on Rt. 78 to Chadwick joining with Rt. 40. It urges efficient town village and county officers and reducing expenses while promoting community competitive sports in Carroll County plus declaring Carroll County the sportsmen’s paradise.
Platform statements list core campaign aims including tax reduction safety focus crime deterrence constitutional fidelity and support for farmers and agriculture with emphasis on rural concerns and governance during the 1938 election cycle.
Birthday notices list residents and hometowns including J. T. Eckman Lanark Mrs. Harry Shildwahter Lanark Mrs. F. G. Peters Lanark Sebert Dykstra Thomson William Schryver Milledgeville Thurston Larber Milledgeville Velda Dingman Milledgeville Wm. M. Linker Chadwick Genevieve Carpenter Thomson Nellie Parsons Thomson Harold Barthel Milledgeville Lois Ann Eastabrooks Milledgeville Charles Kness Milledgeville Mrs. Christy Geison Chadwick Samuel Gipe Chadwick Leslie Aude Thomson Mrs. Cecil Frosch Savanna Charles D. Plock Chadwick Miss Bernice Cambman Milledgeville Darlene Shoemaker Thomson Lois Martindale Thomson Mrs. Maud Hawkins Milledgeville Mae Adolph Chadwick Adolph Doden Chadwick Mrs. Ben Wagner Thomson Mrs. Ed McGinty Thomson Bob Demaree Thomson Harry Wenger Milledgeville Russell Klitz Chadwick Ardis Wenzel Lanark Vada May Collins Savanna Mrs. Howard Goble Milledgeville Joe Allison Milledgeville Mrs. W. Hogg Thomson Bessie Schreiner Chadwick Dorothy Ann Burns Milledgeville Delmar Heimbaugh Chadwick Ned Dollinger Lanark Mrs. Will Adams Byron Joyce Lee Hicks Thomson Howard Potter Thomson Jeanne Sweet Thomson D. M. Gleason Anacostia Washington DC.
The piece notes plans to revive Melon Day on Labor Day with optimism that the same Thomson grounds will be usable. It recalls the 1938 event as one of Thomson’s best fall celebrations and mentions local bets on ball game winners by Ben Walling, and Cubs’ pennant fever from Stacy Potter and Bill Strubb. Howard Cunningham visited from Coleta on Tuesday.
Plans are underway for the 13th district convention of the Woman's Relief Corps to be held Saturday September 24 with registration at 9 a.m. at Lincoln school. About 300 people from seven counties are expected. Storm damage affected telephone service and water systems but train operations mostly continued. Local crews cleared gutters and storm drains clogged by gravel. Four men John Grandy Burtis Clikeman John Young and Ronald Currens left Friday for a vacation in northern Minnesota. A farewell testimonial dinner for A J Elder Milwaukee Road supervisor was held Tuesday night at the Lydia T Byram community house.
Supervisor Adam Heinze lost a valuable horse last Wednesday night when struck by lightning during a storm. Other pasture horses were unharmed. Electrical storms have disrupted service several times this week, though outages were brief.
The village board discusses a new type siren two tone guaranteed protected against all weather hazards while investigating several fire truck options. The Townsend organization met Wednesday evening with Roy Webb of Chicago as speaker. Mr and Mrs D F Fogel and son Frank motored to Normal Monday where Frank entered State Teachers college. Miss Mildred Smith of Polo Mr and Mrs Percy Greenawalt and son Lanark were Sunday guests of the Frank Pontnack home. Mr and Mrs Ralph Shiley and daughter Peggy Warsaw Ill were guests of the George Cambman home Sunday. Foster Fletcher of Bloomington visits his mother Mrs Goldie Fletcher. Mrs Harry Kyger and daughter of Rock Falls were guests Sunday with Mrs Celia Petty.
Ed Soper of north of Thomson was fined 50 dollars plus costs by Justice of the Peace R D Bennett after being charged with illegal fishing. He was nabbed by Game Warden Thomas Hand for hoop net use in a government reserve waters.
The narrative recalls Mendota Albany railroad failures that stalled progress, the Chicago and Northwestern use of a bridge charter for Clinton, Iowa, and the town's revival after the Western Union line. It tracks lumber and fruit farming growth led by C B Paddock and others, the 1889 99 harsh winter ending vineyards, and river bluff geography from Cordova to Le Claire with notable river pilots D W Dawley and life along the Illinois bank.
Public notice states the annual drainage and levee benefits for Savanna and York Drainage District in Carroll County Illinois are due by March 10, 1989. If unpaid, lands in the district will be sold to cover the amount due and costs. Dated September 7, 1938. Roy I. Houghton, Treasurer.
George Bitner visited his hospitalized brother in Freeport where doctors diagnose sleeping sickness. The patient improves and moves to his mother's Salem home. Will Moore helps with hay on his uncle’s Fulton farm. Harold Kenyon returns from Clinton hospital after several days. Fred Nipe’s work horse shows sleeping sickness. Glen Bower’s colt struck by lightning in a recent storm. George Hicks took son Robert to Carlinville to enroll at Blackburn College for engineering. Paul Bonjour loses a cow to poison. Heber Appel loses two horses to sleeping sickness. Billy Yates prepares to enter state school in Jacksonville after fever affected his hearing. Mrs. Ida McCullough visits Morrison friends. Guard rails are being built on route 171 curves and at the junction with route 78.
The piece explains that undulant fever, or Bangs disease in animals, originates in infected animals and can reach humans. In humans it is rare to contract through drinking raw milk from infected cattle, but this route is mentioned as a possibility.
Illinois State Medical Society Educational Committee approves warnings on Bang's disease or undulant fever. Elimination of infected animals by slaughter is noted as a practical control, with emphasis on pasteurized milk and testing family cows to prevent human infection. The disease presents with fever, weight loss, chills, and joint pain, may persist weeks or months, and has low mortality.
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