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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1938
Page
8
A compact note cites Corey Coffee Brewer and a vacuum method, with price 12 cents per unit. The fragment hints at an instruction or advertisement about brewing coffee using a vacuum method, possibly from a 1930s or earlier era catalog.
Mr Ed Dean and La Verne of Morrison visited the Hawk home. Families travel to Macomb Jacksonville Champaign and Camp Point for work school and care. Many townsfolk host relatives with notes on health and education including Betty Cate at a deaf school and Lavanne at Northwestern University.
Conesville Iowa plans a melon day on Saturday featuring free watermelons, about 112 miles of melons consumed, and a one and a half mile display. The event celebrates a 50 year melon industry revival aided by Iowa State College experiments yielding wilt resistant Hawk bury and Kleckley Sweet No 6 melons. Farmers donate melons for the celebration with entertainment by WMT radio announcers and Tama Indians.
Enrollment totals 131 pupils with grades one through eight listed. First and second grades plant seeds and build a farm themed room during language period. New pupils include Walter Conner from Guttenberg and Erwin Price in third grade. Junior Faulkner and Harold Schroth join seventh grade. Reporters LeVona Potter and Arla Brown note classroom interactions and student curiosity.
Mrs Charles Jenkins is ill under a physician care early this week. Mrs Wilbert Wells of Clinton is critically ill at Jane Lamb hospital with a rare infection but showing slight improvement. She became ill two weeks ago and was moved to the hospital last Saturday. Mrs Roggendorf, her mother, visits in the Wells home, while Mrs Roggendorf stays with her in Sand Ridge.
The Royal Neighbors will hold a regular meeting next Tuesday afternoon. The organizing committee is Amy Lewis, Evelyn George, Ida Seim, Lorraine Weatherwax, and Maggie Cochran.
Thomson briefs Mrs H E Janvrin and son of Webster City Iowa visited Thomson relatives. They stayed with Mr and Mrs Allen Witmer and travelled to Sterling and Savanna to visit Mrs Andrews Steinmeyer and Mr and Mrs Elmer Davis. Herman DeVries visited in the home of his brother in law Mr John Nordhoff on Sunday.
Mrs Guy Turney and children visited Mrs Jessie Grohar ing in Savanna. West on Smiths L J Stage Lyle Williams and Mrs Thomson from Thomson and John Smith of Savanna called. Carl Anderson of Chicago spent last weekend with Russell Marth. Theo Storms family joined Walter Storm in Chadwick. Lois Stage visited Theo Storm. Will Holy dined with Jay Stiles near Mt Carroll. Neighbors held a farewell picnic at Old Mill park with over 100 attendees. It marked the Marths 26th wedding anniversary with a silver gift.
Miss Anna Dykstra plans to return to Fulton work next Sunday after a visit with her parents. Several families, including the Housenga, Eis en, Erling, French, Lease, Brown, Lahre, and Sack households, hosted or visited relatives in Ottawa, Savanna, Princeton, Morrison, Rock Island, and Lanark over the weekend. A nurse in training, Beulah Gaar, and relatives gathered with families at various homes, while J W Shay returned from Cedar Springs to Chicago.
Chadwick locals Mr and Mrs Joe Grim and their son Paul were honored at a Sunday dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs Elwood Gipe near Milledgeville for birthdays this week Other Sterling guests included Mr and Mrs Christian Hartman and family and Mrs Lena Eiler Miss Marion Geison returned to Chicago after a week with her parents Merlyn Schreiner joined the trip Mr and Mrs Henry Geldmacher spent the weekend at Elgin with Mr and Mrs Richard Heybeck Mr and Mrs Robert Williams and daughter Mina visited Floyd Tripp at his home Also dinner guests included Mr and Mrs Alvin Schneider and family and Mr and Mrs Frank Williams at Mrs Schneider s parents Mr and Mrs John Schildwahter of Lanark Also dinner at the Haag home included Mr and Mrs Charles Eisfeller Mr and Mrs Carl Haag and children
Mr and Mrs Freece Senneff hosted a Sunday farewell dinner at their Chadwick home for their son Hugh Senneff and Marjorie Farnham of Rockford before they depart for studies at the University of Illinois and Cornell College Mt Vernon Ia Guests included Miss Farnhams parents Mr and Mrs H L Spearman her sister LaDoris and several Farnham and Senneff relatives from Freeport Rockford Elgin and Rock Island
TheMisses Ruth and Kathleen Sheridan of Evanston vacation with parents Mr and Mrs Tom Sheridan. Many local visits occur including Holm Peters families at Argo Fa, Dorothy Holm at Rudolph Holm’s, Grace Beckenkeller from Mt Carroll visiting the Hartman sisters, and various relatives spending weekends in Lanark Manlius and Dixon.
Sunday visitors included Vivian of Dixon Julia Appel and Harold Weatherwax of Sterling. Many locals hosted or visited kin across Mt Carroll Morrison Rockford Downers Grove Racine Eliabeth Prophetstown and Milledgeville with Mrs Ratliffe improving after illness and Fr ancis Weidman of Mt Carroll visiting Elmer Weber home.
A flurry of family and friend visits marked the weekend with dinners, open houses, and trips. Art Behrens hosted a birthday dinner for Art Behrens, Mrs. Alvin Schreiner, and their son Ervin, joined by Schreiner and Strauch families and others. Visitors included the Buskema family, Justin Hoffman, Raymond Vogel, Harold Bast guests from Chicago and Wisconsin, and Miss Edith Adolph who recently started nursing training. Additional calls came from Garfield Watson, Lorraine Mintke, and numerous relatives attending open houses such as John Messmer’s fiftieth anniversary.
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